In this solo episode, Trisha examines whether the answers from last year’s WEIRD AI episode still hold. A year ago she asked Claude and ChatGPT whether they were WEIRD. This time she put their own words from twelve months earlier back in front of them and asked what had changed.

The world around AI feels different now, and the tools can do far more than they could then. Has anything about the perspective inside them widened? Trisha asks you to listen for how the answers sound as well as what they say.

What does Cultural Intelligence (CQ) ask of anyone who takes advice from these tools?

Make sure you join Trisha in this journey of growth and discovery throughout the year via Substack or LinkedIn.

Resources mentioned:

• “The Weirdest People in the World” (2010 paper) by Joseph Henrich, Steven Heine and Ara Norenzayan
• Claude by Anthropic
• ChatGPT by OpenAI

Referenced in this episode:

• Episode 64: WEIRD AI - Cultural Intelligence Meets Artificial Intelligence

In this episode, Trisha continues her conversation with Tim Oberg, who brought Parkrun to Australia in 2011 and now leads the Healthy Kids Project and its flagship RAD Run Club.

Parkrun has a reputation for changing lives, but some people are still missing from the start line. Trisha and Tim look at who they are, what it takes for an event to reflect its local community, and where Parkrun is reaching people you might not expect. For anyone working across cultures, it raises a practical Cultural Intelligence (CQ) question: what helps people from different backgrounds feel they belong?

The conversation then moves to the school oval, where Tim has rebuilt what he learned at Parkrun for primary school kids.

If you're trying to start something, whether it's a community group or a program inside your organisation, what makes people come back week after week? Tim shares the principles he'd pass on to anyone trying to seed a movement, and why they travel well beyond running.

Connect with Tim Oberg: LinkedIn

• Learn more about his current work at RAD Run Club and the Healthy Kids Project.

Make sure you join Trisha in this journey of growth and discovery throughout the year via Substack or LinkedIn.

Resources mentioned:

• Parkrun - parkrun.com.au
• Rad Run Club - radrun.club
• Situated: Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best by Angela Duckworth
• Grit by Angela Duckworth

Referenced in this episode:

Episode 88: Tim Oberg - Part 1 - Why Parkrun Isn't Just About Running

Episode 86 — Can Sport Build Bridges - Or Burn Them?

In this episode, Trisha interviews Tim Oberg, who brought Parkrun to Australia in 2011 and grew it into one of the country's largest participation movements, and who now leads the Healthy Kids Project and its flagship RAD Run Club.

What did Tim think he was building when he stood on a sandy mound at Main Beach in front of 110 people for that very first event? And how long did it take him to realise it wasn't that at all? In this first of a two-part conversation, Tim traces the accidental origins of a global movement, unpacks the "third space" so many of us are quietly missing, and shares the organisational model — borrowed from an unlikely source — that let one Saturday morning event scale into hundreds.

It's a conversation about what people are really showing up for on a Saturday morning, and why it so rarely has much to do with running pace.

Connect with Tim Oberg: LinkedIn

• Learn more about his current work at RAD Run Club and the Healthy Kids Project.

Make sure you join Trisha in this journey of growth and discovery throughout the year via Substack or LinkedIn.

Resources mentioned:

• Parkrun - parkrun.com.au
• Rad Run Club - radrun.club
• UTS (University of Technology Sydney) social network analysis of two Australian Parkrun communities

Referenced in this episode:

Episode 86 — Can Sport Build Bridges - Or Burn Them?