<div class="group relative inline-flex gap-2 bg-bg-300 rounded-xl pl-2.5 py-2.5 break-words text-text-100 transition-all max-w-[75ch] flex-col !px-4 max-w-[85%]"> <div class="flex flex-row gap-2 relative"> <div class="flex-1"> <div class="font-large !font-user-message grid grid-cols-1 gap-2 py-0.5 relative" data-testid="user-message"> <h3 data-start="2223" data-end="2299">Jack Myers has been sharing observations and insights about media longer than some platforms have even existed.</h3> <h4 data-start="2301" data-end="2592">I used to study his &#8220;Jack Myers Report,&#8221; when I started in cable and it was actually the first <em>faxed</em> newsletter. Then fast forward a decade or two and I became the first Managing Editor of Jack&#8217;s next successful communications platform: <a href="https://www.mediavillage.com/the-thought-leaders/?type=latest">Media Village</a>! Its thousands of articles, interviews, and executive insights now serve as a living history of the business. That was where I created my first podcast&#8230;and fast forward another decade and Jack has his own podcast now, too&#8230; and has authored some <a href="https://jackmyersbooks.com/books">seven books</a>! <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-1878" src="https://insiderinterviews.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Jack-Gennexus-282x300.jpg" alt="" width="220" height="234" srcset="https://insiderinterviews.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Jack-Gennexus-282x300.jpg 282w, https://insiderinterviews.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Jack-Gennexus.jpg 624w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px" /></h4> <h4 data-start="2301" data-end="2592">But DON&#8217;T fast forward through this half hour of gems from Jack that will inform and inspire you about how we may not really BE in a &#8220;technology-first era.&#8221;</h4> <p data-start="2301" data-end="2592"><strong>Jack acknowledges he can relate to Don Quixote as some might think he&#8217;s &#8220;tilting at windmills&#8221; in fighting the perception that humanity will prevail in our tech-focused world. Why? Because Jack has seen and understands the through line of it across generational changes&#8230;and as a strategy.</strong></p> <p data-start="2594" data-end="2902"><strong>In this episode &#8212; and in fact in his own show with Tim Spengler, called <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lead-human-with-jack-myers-and-tim-spengler/id1869072682"><em>Lead Human</em></a> &#8212; we talk about what it means to be “human first” in a technology-accelerated era. We topline what empathetic leadership, performance culture, and how organizations are recalibrating as they navigate AI. He and Tim go deep on those topics, so check it out.</strong></p> <p data-start="3205" data-end="3556"><strong><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-1875" src="https://insiderinterviews.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/lead-human-mv.png" alt="Page from Media Village featuring Lead Human Podcast" width="693" height="400" srcset="https://insiderinterviews.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/lead-human-mv.png 2346w, https://insiderinterviews.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/lead-human-mv-300x173.png 300w, https://insiderinterviews.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/lead-human-mv-1024x592.png 1024w, https://insiderinterviews.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/lead-human-mv-768x444.png 768w, https://insiderinterviews.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/lead-human-mv-1536x888.png 1536w, https://insiderinterviews.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/lead-human-mv-2048x1184.png 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px" />In what Jack calls a human-recalibrated era, he’s seeing a shift from “people first” as a cultural slogan to “people first” as a performance strategy — embedded into compensation, collaboration models, and operating systems.</strong></p> <blockquote> <h3 style="text-align: center;" data-start="3558" data-end="3763"><strong>“It’s not about how much content we produce, but how thoughtfully we decide what deserves to exist and be amplified.”</strong></h3> </blockquote> <p data-start="3558" data-end="3763"><strong>But now that we&#8217;re both in podcasting how does this Media Ecologist see it as a business model? He explains the tension between programmatic advertising and authenticity, and why speed — in content, in media, in AI — may be the most overrated metric in the room.</strong></p> <p>&#160;</p> <figure id="attachment_1876" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1876" style="width: 394px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1876" src="https://insiderinterviews.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/advancing-diversity-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="394" height="222" srcset="https://insiderinterviews.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/advancing-diversity-300x169.jpg 300w, https://insiderinterviews.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/advancing-diversity-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://insiderinterviews.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/advancing-diversity-768x432.jpg 768w, https://insiderinterviews.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/advancing-diversity.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1876" class="wp-caption-text">Early podcasting days at MediaVillage</figcaption></figure> <p data-start="3765" data-end="3947"><strong>And yes, we cover his latest reinvention: a historical fiction novel, a forthcoming science fiction trilogy, and what writing fiction reveals about understanding the human condition.</strong></p> <p data-start="3949" data-end="4176"><strong>At the end, I ask Jack what he hopes the media industry embraces more of — and less of — in the years ahead. His answer is less sentimental than you might expect, and more structural than most pundits are willing to articulate.</strong></p> <p data-start="4178" data-end="4316"><strong>This conversation spans decades of media evolution — from fax machines to AI voice replication — but it ultimately comes down to one idea:</strong></p> <p data-start="4318" data-end="4355"><strong>Speed without judgment is just noise.</strong></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h3><strong>Key Highlights:</strong></h3> <p data-start="1693" data-end="1806"><strong>01:34 – What “human first” really means in media.</strong></p> <p data-start="1693" data-end="1806"><strong>02:17 – Just the fax&#8230; the start of tracking generational shifts.</strong></p> <p data-start="1693" data-end="1806"><strong>05:18 – Media Village: The house that Jack built  &#8211; on relationships and thought leadership</strong></p> <p data-start="2168" data-end="2260"><strong>09:44 – How good listening led to a podcast &#8212; first for E.B., now for Jack</strong></p> <p data-start="2262" data-end="2390"><strong>12:02 – Launching a leadership podcast in the AI era and how empathy is a performance strategy </strong></p> <p data-start="2392" data-end="2488"><strong>19:32 – Technology-first or a time for human recalibration.</strong></p> <p data-start="2392" data-end="2488"><strong>23:50 – The future of podcast monetization</strong></p> <p data-start="2392" data-end="2488"><strong>28:32 – His pivot to fiction (or is it?!) in <em>The Kissinger Conspiracy</em></strong></p> <p data-start="2392" data-end="2488"><strong>32:17 – Media’s inflection point. </strong><strong>More responsibility. Less addiction to speed. Think ecosystem — not silos.</strong></p> <h3>Connect with Jack Myers:</h3> <p><strong><a href="https://www.jackmyers.com/">Jack Myers</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.jackmyers.com/themyersreport/">The Jack Myers Report </a></strong></p> <h3>Connect with E.B. 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