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Hosted by André Daus · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 75 episodes
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Iconoclast Insights challenges conventional thinking in politics, business, and beyond. Hosted by André Daus, this podcast dives deep into the ideas and assumptions that often go unquestioned. Expect raw, unfiltered perspectives that cut through the noise and take on everything from outdated business practices to societal norms. If you're tired of the same old advice and eager for fresh, independent thought, tune in for sharp, thought-provoking episodes that spark change.
André Daus hosts Iconoclast Insights, a society show with 75 episodes published.
Go look at the job postings the next time a German Mittelstand company announces it's "investing in AI." The roles filling fastest aren't implementation or compliance. They're sales — people who can produce the moment wh
A food company once bought an entire manufacturing operation for the secret to an excellent orange flavoring — sampled it, tested it, verified the market wanted it, and closed the deal. Then it turned out nobody they'd j
Four hundred fifty people logged into a webinar last week. Ninety minutes in, the presenter told them the truth: only fifteen would get a seat in what he was selling. Then he spent the rest of the session convincing all
Someone on LinkedIn told me the trick to getting AI to sound like you: let it interview you first, exactly fifteen questions. Not ten. Not twenty. Fifteen. Two people asked why. Twenty people cheered anyway. That's not r
An AI suggested this episode about the dangers of quick answers — and expected me to read its script. Instead: where the line runs between AI as accelerator and AI as thinking substitute, why "solutions" are the easiest
Organizations don't take wrong turns by accident — they build infrastructure to protect them. This episode looks at how metrics, process, and reporting structures quietly turn a bad direction into "the way we do things,"
Neurodiversity was supposed to challenge labeling. Instead it created a new label — one that requires a doctor's signature to access and a medical institution to enforce. In this episode I argue that the concept traded s
The engineers using AI to write code are working more hours than they ever have. Sleep-deprived. Ecstatic. Marc Andreessen called it the AI vampire — developers managing twenty agents in parallel, too afraid to sleep bec
Angela Merkel just received the European Parliament's first Order of Merit — and used the occasion to call for regulation of "lies" on social media. Without defining what a lie is. That missing definition is the entire p
Everyone has heard it. From politicians. From HR directors. From well-meaning colleagues. Be more constructive. Work harder. Adapt. But what if that advice is making the problem worse? In this episode, I argue that telli
You're not going to find an original idea. It doesn't exist. And the time you're spending protecting the ideas you already have? Mostly wasted. In this episode, I dig into why originality is the wrong obsession — and why
"Follow your passion" is one of the most repeated pieces of career advice in existence. It's also one of the least examined. I paid a personal branding agency good money to help me find my direction. Their best output wa
Most people are wrong about what their problem is. Not because they're careless - but because defining a problem is genuinely hard, and almost nobody treats it as the serious intellectual exercise it actually is. In this
Another week, another gravestone on LinkedIn. This time it's n8n. Last week it was something else. Next week it'll be something new. The "Tool X is dead" post has become the laziest genre in content creation — and the mo
Everyone has a take on AI. Hardly anyone has looked at it closely enough to earn one. In this episode I examine the contradiction running through most of the current AI discourse — the web developer putting a "handcrafte
Most apps exist to make organizations look modern — not to solve a real problem. The school app nobody asked for. The community app that's just a website in disguise. The energy meter app that loads slower than a browser
Most organisations aren’t developing leaders. They’re promoting people who get results, giving them a title, and leaving them to figure out the rest. In this episode, André breaks down why this pattern — identified fifty
Unions matter. But not every union, in every industry, using the same blunt instrument, is still serving the people it claims to represent. In this episode I look at what is actually happening when service industry union
There's a reason every YouTuber makes that face. Mouth open, eyes wide, pure theatrical shock, and it's not because they think it looks good. It's because the data told them to. The algorithm rewards it. So the faces get
The loudest person in the room rarely has the best answer. They have the most to lose from being wrong. In this episode, André Daus breaks down why confident-sounding dismissal wins more rooms than careful analysis — and
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