TECHNICALLY JOYFUL - Building Change Capacity in the Age of AI
Change is coming faster than ever. Joy helps us keep up — and shape what comes next.
Look closely at the people doing hard things extraordinarily well — creating change that lasts, building what didn’t exist before, turning ambitious ideas into reality — and you’ll notice something: joy is often part of the fuel.
They are technically joyful.
Host Gabrielle Kohlmeier has used joy again and again to build with others what seemed impossible — and create outcomes beyond what anyone thought possible. In Technically Joyful, she shares what she’s learned and brings together people doing hard, consequential things differently: leaders, builders, thinkers, and wonderfully curious humans exploring what they’re seeing, what they’re learning, what isn’t obvious yet, and what the rest of us can use.
We’ll tackle the hard questions. We’ll make the invisible work of change visible. We’ll find signal in the noise. And we’ll get practical about what actually helps people and organizations move — from technology, strategy, and systems to judgment, incentives, relationships, courage, and the wonderfully human messiness in between.
Instead of fear as fuel, we use curiosity, connection, usefulness, awe, and the gentle persistence of joy. Joy gives us energy to engage with hard things — to stay curious longer, see more possibilities, connect more dots, and keep going.
Every episode is designed to leave you seeing something differently, understanding something useful, and feeling more capable of acting — at work, in your organization, and in the much bigger experiment we’re all part of as AI reshapes our world.
Expect hard questions, fascinating people, useful ideas, unexpected connections — and to come out stronger than you went in.
Change is a muscle. Joy helps us build it.
Welcome to Technically Joyful.
Some Questions We‘ll Explore:
- Why does being a beginner feel so threatening once you’re successful?
- What happens when the work that disappears was also the training ground?
- Why do some people seem energized by uncertainty while others freeze?
- What are we losing when efficiency becomes the dominant measure of value?
- How do you know when doing nothing is actually the riskier choice?
- What becomes possible when we stop treating curiosity as frivolous?
- What does AI reveal about work that was already broken?
- How do we keep our judgment while changing how we use it?
- What becomes more valuable — not less — as AI gets better?
- Why might joy actually make us better at doing hard things?
TECHNICALLY JOYFUL - Building Change Capacity in the Age of AI
Latest Episodes
Momentum: How One Step Changes What You Can See
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The Joy of the Next Step: Leading Through Fear, Failure & Uncertainty | Alison Levine
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The Task Is Not the Work: Abundance as a Design Choice
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The Joy of Learning Out Loud: How to Help Shape the AI Era | Laura Belmont
What if the biggest barrier to learning, leading, and taking a risk is the permission we haven’t yet given ourselves?Laura Belmont has spent her career asking who a system was built for, who it leaves behind, and how it could work better...