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Each episode follows one question about how work, technology, and hiring are changing what human value means — told through the people living it and the evidence behind it. This list updates automatically whenever a new episode is published.
Episode 19 · September 21, 2026 · 47 min
Thinking Slow: A Conversation with Nic Schroeder
What happens when decades of experience, continuous learning, and more than 900 job applications produce only 13 callbacks?
Episode 18 · September 8, 2026 · 1 hr
Beyond Titles: A Conversation with Mariel Sanchez
What happens when your abilities extend far beyond the job title employers use to define you? Mariel Sanchez began her career in psychology before moving into technology as a research assistant at Meta Reality Labs.
Episode 17 · September 1, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min
Collective Purpose: A Conversation with Andrew Baek
What happens when the career you built can still provide an income but no longer reflects what you want your work to contribute? Andrew Baek is a Bay Area writer and filmmaker whose career has spanned educational technology, digital media, and nearly five years producing video at Uber.
Episode 16 · August 24, 2026 · 1 hr
Moving Through: A Conversation with Lauren Blair
What happens when the career you spent decades building is no longer the future you want, but the business waiting on the other side is not yet able to provide the security you need?
Episode 15 · August 18, 2026 · 54 min
Role Call: A Conversation with Laurie Stark
What happens when hiring systems are designed to recognize one kind of candidate? After leaving her role as Director of Strategy and Analytics at Kickstarter, Laurie Stark applied to more than 100 jobs.
Episode 14 · August 10, 2026 · 59 min
Unknown Future: A Conversation with Allison Ryder
What happens when you learn that your job is ending before you know what comes next? After nine years as Program Director for Research at MIT Sloan Management Review, Allison Ryder learned that the publication would be winding down—even though its work remains respected, valuable, and successful.
Episode 12 · August 4, 2026 · 39 min
Collective Power: A Conversation with Simone Robutti — Part 2
What would you say or do differently if you stopped organizing your life around the judgment of a future employer? In Part 2 of Jess’s conversation with former programmer and Tech Workers Coalition organizer Simone Robutti, they examine the fear that keeps many experienced workers silent.
Episode 12 · August 4, 2026 · 38 min
Collective Power: A Conversation with Simone Robutti — Part 1
Tech workers were taught to see themselves as individual innovators—not as workers with shared interests and collective power. In Part 1 of this conversation, Jess speaks with former programmer and Tech Workers Coalition organizer Simone Robutti about why that distinction matters.
Episode 11 · July 28, 2026 · 54 min
Creative Exit: A Conversation with Pal Moore
After more than two decades in motion design and advertising, Pal Moore began asking a difficult question: Why keep trying to return to an industry that never made room for all of who he was?
Episode 10 · July 22, 2026 · 34 min
Bad Interview: A Conversation with Jess Lowry
We've all had interviews we'd rather forget. But sometimes the worst part isn't being rejected—it's beginning to believe the rejection says something about who we are.
Episode 9 · July 13, 2026 · 39 min
Getting Unstuck: A Conversation with Rachael DiGiovine
What happens after the layoff? After nearly two years inside an organization experiencing repeated waves of layoffs, former global HR leader Rachael DiGiovine came to a difficult realization: organizations know how to manage business change, but they often don't know how to support the people living through it.
Episode 8 · July 7, 2026 · 49 min
Human Stories: A Conversation with Ross A. McIntyre
What gives a story its power? In this episode of Deprecated Human, Jess Lowry sits down with strategist and storyteller Ross A. McIntyre to explore why storytelling remains one of our most essential human capabilities in an age increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence.
Episode 7 · June 29, 2026 · 44 min
Effective Immediately: A Conversation with Lindsay Vetell and Angela Anderson
What happens when experienced professionals decide to stop waiting for the job market to tell them what comes next? In this episode of Deprecated Human, Jess Lowry sits down with Lindsay Vetell and Angela Anderson, co-founders of Friend Group and creators of Effective Immediately, a peer-support community for people…
Episode 6 · June 22, 2026 · 45 min
Creative Curiosity: A Conversation with Eve Eden
What happens when organizations stop investing in curiosity? In this episode of The Deprecated Human Podcast, Jess Lowry sits down with UX leader and UX Murder Mystery co-host Eve Eden to explore the role of creativity, research, and human understanding in an era increasingly defined by automation and artificial…
Episode 5 · June 15, 2026 · 50 min
Process Alignment: A Conversation with Brian Crowley
What happens when organizations stop understanding how value is actually created? In this episode of The Deprecated Human Podcast, Jess Lowry sits down with Brian Crowley, a UX design leader and co-host of UX Murder Mystery, to explore a question at the center of today's technology industry.
Episode 3 · June 8, 2026 · 43 min
Professionally Spiraling with Flair: A Conversation with Jody Martin
In this episode, Jess Lowry sits down with Jody Martin, a community organizer, writer, and creator of The Snarky Correspondent , to explore the emotional reality of today's job market.
Episode 3 · June 1, 2026 · 46 min
Designing What's Next: A Conversation with Nic Brill
This episode explores Nic Brill's perspective on navigating uncertainty, career transitions, and the changing nature of work in an era shaped by AI, economic disruption, and rapid technological change.
Episode 2 · May 20, 2026 · 25 min
Navigating Uncertainty: A Conversation with Abby Margolis
This episode explores Abby Margolis’s career journey—from academia to public radio to design, strategy, and consulting—and the thread that connects it all. Trained as an anthropologist, Abby began her career focused on deeply understanding problems.
Episode 1 · May 11, 2026 · 9 min
This is Deprecated Human
Let’s examine what happens when a million people with highly in-demand skills lose their ability to get hired. It’s hard to know the exact number, but from 2022 to May 2026, more than 1 million tech workers have lost their jobs. In software, when something is deprecated, it doesn’t mean it’s broken. It still works.
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