Join husband Travis McElroy and wife Teresa McElroy every Friday and they'll improve your etiquette week by week! Perplexed by thank you notes? Baffled by black tie? Dismayed by dinner parties? Worry no more, Shmanners has your answers!
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Learn how people are using AI at work to collaborate, find focus, and get stuff done—not at some point in the future, but today. Hear founders, researchers, and engineers talk about the problems they’re solving with the help of new and emerging AI tools, and how AI can help you spend more time on the work that matters most.
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Join Teresa and Travis McElroy as they watch and discuss the new season of Great British Bake Off!
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Travis and Teresa McElroy watch and review some of their favorite movies and tv shows and report back to you! Do they hold up? Would someone who's never seen them enjoy them? What is going to become your new old favorite? Check in with The Kind Rewind and find out!
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history of Marie Antoinette's personal village-retreat, Hameau de la Reine, the HAMLET OF THE QUEEN! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history of the single-family household and the etiquette of moving back in with your PARENTS as an adult! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the being a RANGER at a NATIONAL PARK! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Sophia Wang on the new tools helping her find answers in old data
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On our final episode this season of Working Smarter we talk to Sophia Wang, an assistant professor of ophthalmology at Stanford University. Wang leads the school’s ophthalmic informatics and artificial intelligence group, which uses the latest machine learning techniques to analyze electronic health records. In practice, that means looking at dispa…
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history and etiquette of NATIONAL PARKS! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history of MASCULINE FASHION and the revolution around it in the 18th century! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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CEO Drew Houston on solving the biggest problem with modern work
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For our seventh episode of Working Smarter we’re talking to Drew Houston, the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. If you’ve been online long enough, it’s likely Dropbox was your introduction to the cloud. The goal is still more or less the same—give you one organized place for all your stuff—but it’s no longer just about storing and syncing files. A hun…
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Hello Internet! This week's episode is an ASK SHMANNERS full of your questions about backhanded compliments, leaving parties, and more! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about MOLLY PITCHER, the legendary Revolutionary War figure! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Pascal Weinberger on bringing the "superpower" of automation to everyone
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For our sixth episode of Working Smarter we’re talking to Pascal Weinberger, the co-founder and CEO of Bardeen, an AI-powered automation platform. Weinberger wants to help people effortlessly automate repetitive tasks in the apps they already use for work—no code required. His hope is that by removing some of the friction that makes it hard for peo…
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history of the DOWRY! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history of COWPOKES, COW FOLKS, and people in the Old West! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Natalie Kupperman on why we still need humans in the loop
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For our fifth episode of Working Smarter we’re talking to sports scientist Natalie Kupperman. She’s an assistant professor of data science at the University of Virginia where she studies the use of biometrics, wearables, and AI-powered tools for athlete monitoring in sport. Whether it’s a machine learning algorithm trained on video footage from pra…
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history of SURFING and the etiquette and lingo of the sport! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travs & Teresa McElroy
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history of MICHELIN STARS and what goes into rating a restaurant! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Babak Hodjat on building smarter, more helpful AI
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For our fourth episode of Working Smarter we’re talking to Babak Hodjat, the chief technology officer for AI research at Cognizant. If you’ve ever used Apple’s smart assistant Siri, then you’re almost certainly familiar with his work. Hodjat has been doing AI research for nearly four decades, and if there’s one thread that runs through his career, …
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history of WATER BALLOONS and the etiquette of water ballon fights! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Hello internet! This week's episode is rounding out the history of the life of QUEEN VICTORIA! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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For our third episode of Working Smarter we’re talking to May Habib, the co-founder and CEO of Writer, a generative AI platform for businesses. Writer helps streamline the writing parts of people’s workflows, so they can get to the “thinking part” of their jobs more quickly. For Habib, AI isn’t just about automating mundane or repetitive tasks, but…
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Hello internet! This week's episode is the continuation about the life of QUEEN VICTORIA! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the Shmanners quarterback (or mascot), QUEEN VICTORIA! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Abdi Aidid on being your most creative, dynamic self
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For our second episode of Working Smarter, we’re talking to University of Toronto law professor Abdi Aidid about AI, the law, and the “possibility of an intelligent division of labor between human and machine.” Aidid is interested in how AI can help legal professionals be better at their jobs and improve the delivery of legal services. He’s also th…
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history and etiquette of BIRD WATCHING! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history of modern jobs and the etiquette of QUITTING! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Kate Darling on human-machine partnerships
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For our first episode of Working Smarter we’re talking to Kate Darling, a research scientist at MIT’s Media Lab and author of The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots. Darling has spent more than a decade studying human-robot interaction through a social, legal, and ethical lens. She’s interested in how peop…
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Hello internet! This week’s episode continues discussing the history of the 17th century upper-class tradition known as THE GRAND TOUR! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history of the 17th century upper-class tradition known as THE GRAND TOUR! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Welcome to Working Smarter! In this new podcast from Dropbox, learn how people are already using AI at work to collaborate, find focus, and get stuff done—not at some point in the future, but today. Hear founders, researchers, and engineers talk about the problems they’re solving with the help of new and emerging AI tools, and how AI can help you s…
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history and tenets of the LEAVE NO TRACE movement! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Hello Internet! It’s time for another IDIOMS episode, full of phrases about nostagia, birds, and different animal poops! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!By Travis & Teresa McElroy
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