Tara Lemméy
@taralemmey.com
Inventor. Podcast host of Invent w Tara Lemméy on Apple Podcasts. Fast Company Most Creative. Board member. Entrepreneur. CEO LENS. San Francisco. 🌉 Optimist. First Responder. taralemmey.com lensventures.com
#Update: Remember the humanoid robot that flew out of the Bay Area after meeting passengers? Today United Airlines and Delta Airlines banned humanoid robots on aircraft, and in checked luggage. Southwest had banned the ‘bots after this guy flew:
Great film during World Cup weekend. How a Women’s World Cup was invented. And univented.
Two pirates sail to an island, find no treasure, so one bans the letter O — first from speech, then from nearly every word. A 1957 fairy tale about taking words away and the four that win them back. One is freedom. You can’t invent what you can’t name. Happy 4th! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Enter Laughing
Podcast Episode · Invent · June 15 · 7m
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Some of the meanest things I’ve ever said, I said as a grape — in an improv class, where the part let me say what I couldn’t as myself. You can’t build what you can’t name. Humor is how new ideas survive. July 4 episode: pirates who ban a letter. Enter Laughing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
4 years in and the majority of insurers still aren’t reporting what regulators need. Invention requires good data. You can’t build what you can’t see.
Ceres@ceresorg.bsky.social · 2mo ago4 years after the U.S. insurance industry began standardized climate risk reporting, our new report finds that while more companies are reporting climate-related financial risks the majority aren't reporting what regulators, investors, and policyholders want. Free report: https://bit.ly/4uYRseA
Every government should own its own technology stack. Most don’t. It’s not that hard.
The enemy isn’t always what you think it is. Sometimes it’s a nerve agent. Sometimes it’s a peanut. Sometimes it’s the four minutes before help arrives. Same problem. Someone had to see that. Take a listen. Go invent something. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
What's an Enemy, Really?
Podcast Episode · Invent · May 31 · 5m
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We’re seeing a pullback of AI spend. It’s like when VCs underwrote car washes, food delivery services, and dry cleaning delivery. And then they didn’t. Sometimes you can’t get your clothes back.
“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.” — Feste, Twelfth Night Goodnight, Stephen. You were the witty fool we needed.
Highway 101 flooded Jan 3. Google Maps sent cars over the mountain — one-lane roads, blind curves, rain. Their phones knew exactly where they were. They just had no idea what was around them. I turned around because I knew where I was. New Invent podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
The Map Is Not the Territory
Podcast Episode · Invent · May 18 · 8m
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In the episode I said he’d handed off the Glide auction. Looks like he took it back. 🙂 Susie’s idea won’t quit. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Playing Bridge with Warren Buffett
Podcast Episode · Invent · January 7 · 9m
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Cities invent themselves. Nobody in charge. Jane Jacobs figured this out at 3am listening to her street. She called it the sidewalk ballet. The planning profession hated her book. She had no degree. It’s still in print. New episode of Invent. Go invent something podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Jane Jacobs — Witnessing Is Inventing
Podcast Episode · Invent · May 4 · 6m
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Nokia Bell Labs was trying to find where cables break. The cable carrying your internet had been sensing earthquakes and whales for decades. Nobody had read it. New episode of Invent. Go invent something. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
The Cable That Was Already Listening
Podcast Episode · Invent · April 28 · 7m
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I learned to surf in Maui. I was not good at it. For a hundred years, twenty feet was the limit. Not a rule — physics. Human arms can’t match a wave that fast. 1992. A Zodiac. A rope. One said: wait. The ocean didn’t change. The limit did. New episode of Invent 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Jaws
Podcast Episode · Invent · April 14 · 7m
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Way Mo Problems.
Rodney Brooks@rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 4mo agoLearning is a suitcase word (see Marvin Minsky). Learning about stop signs is a suitcase problem--very different for fixed stop signs, hand held stop signs, and stop signs on school buses. Waymo is not learning the latter in Austin at all well. Critical safety issue. www.wired.com/story/a-scho...
China built the solar factory. Then the lithium battery. The pattern is clear. Sodium is different. The materials are everywhere. The factories don’t have to be in one place either. That’s a structural advantage. We just have to use it. New episode of Invent. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
The Salt Window
Podcast Episode · Invent · April 2 · 8m
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What’s a Swamp cooler? Oscar Palmer built one in Phoenix in 1908. The desert heat was the problem. The desert dryness was the solution. Same place. Same moment. New episode of Invent — What Your Environment Already Wants to Do. Go invent something. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
The Swamp Cooler — What Your Environment Already Wants to Do
Podcast Episode · Invent · March 20 · 6m
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What’s a Swamp cooler? Oscar Palmer built one in Phoenix in 1908. The desert heat was the problem. The desert dryness was the solution. Same place. Same moment. New episode of Invent — What Your Environment Already Wants to Do. Go invent something. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
The Swamp Cooler — What Your Environment Already Wants to Do
Podcast Episode · Invent · March 20 · 6m
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Everyone knew that was impossible. He wrote it down anyway. Two years. No collaborator. No grant. Just the pattern. Marshall infected himself. He’d mapped the mechanism. He knew what he was testing. Two antibiotics. Two weeks. Cured. Invent. Apple Podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
The Ulcer — The Answer Was There the Whole Time
Podcast Episode · Invent · March 12 · 8m
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And there was ahoy. Good that Bell lost that one to Edison.
Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5mo ago‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.
You want to run what with it? It took me the better part of an hour and two ai systems to manually extract the unwanted Freddie Kruger like Microsoft auto updater from my MacBook. Just saying.
The referee spoke to me before the game started. Not to the athletes. To me. Keep quiet when the ball is in play. The game breaks without you. New episode of Invent. Link in replies.
Go girls. Go Olympians. Wonderful story Britt.
Britt Ghiroli@brittghiroli.bsky.social · 6mo agoIt’s taken more than a century for women who chipped away at the narrative, who pushed boundaries and held their ground, to obliterate the last inane competitive shackle: starting a family. Milano-Cortina was all about the moms. www.nytimes.com/athletic/705...
Who’s driving the streets of San Francisco without a license ? Thx @brewster.kahle.org and the Wayback.
John Berry@aniccia.bsky.social · 6mo agoIt had been previously reported. Waymo got it taken down very quickly, but not before the Internet Archive got a copy of the text summary: web.archive.org/web/20250703...