RR019: Season 6 Kick-off with Dave and Rob

Now, the other thing we've decided to do this season, because we actually...

Well, over the summer break, we talk about the show and where it might go and, you know, what might happen.

And one of the things we used to do on the show was talk about a confusing thing each week.

But what we think is that, and hopefully as you'll see throughout this episode, is that things just feel more confusing than ever, don't they?

Oh, 100%.

I mean, the last 18 months have been a whirlwind in the technology and I think the next 18 are going to be even worse.

So I think confusion is on the rise and there's a lot of stuff we have to discuss and unpick.

So it feels like a good timely return of that section.

So it might be a time to think about that as not only an element of the show, but actually a general thread of what we're talking about, which is leading through confusion and ever more tight, complex decision-making that leaders and all of us and engineers and everybody that are involved in this world of tech-driven transformation deal with.

So we will return to that each week.

I have got, to kick us up, Robert...

A confusion.

Really? You're confused.

I'm confused about something.

You're normally very certain.

Normally I look at something and I'm like, I can make sense of it.

I saw something just this week that I'm like, come on.

If that was on a film, you'd think it was a joke, which is, does a toothbrush need a camera? That's the question I'm asking you.

Does a toothbrush need a camera?

Is this like the internet-enabled toaster conversation that has just come to toothbrushes

now? The justification of a camera on a toothbrush is that it can see slash sense or whatever when there is a gap between your teeth and it will burst a jet of water into that gap and therefore floss your teeth as you're brushing your teeth.

And I'm here to say, he's that one step too far, lads.

Well, it's a bit of a double-edged sword.

Because every time you go down the hygienist or the dentist, they say, yeah, it's all right, but you should floss more.

It's that classic.

Now, the other thing we've decided to do this season, because we actually...

Well, over the summer break, we talk about the show and where it might go and, you know, what might happen.

And one of the things we used to do on the show was talk about a confusing thing each week.

But what we think is that, and hopefully as you'll see throughout this episode, is that things just feel more confusing than ever, don't they?

Oh, 100%.

I mean, the last 18 months have been a whirlwind in the technology and I think the next 18 are going to be even worse.

So I think confusion is on the rise and there's a lot of stuff we have to discuss and unpick.

So it feels like a good timely return of that section.

So it might be a time to think about that as not only an element of the show, but actually a general thread of what we're talking about, which is leading through confusion and ever more tight, complex decision-making that leaders and all of us and engineers and everybody that are involved in this world of tech-driven transformation deal with.

So we will return to that each week.

I have got, to kick us up, Robert...

A confusion.

Really? You're confused.

I'm confused about something.

You're normally very certain.

Normally I look at something and I'm like, I can make sense of it.

I saw something just this week that I'm like, come on.

If that was on a film, you'd think it was a joke, which is, does a toothbrush need a camera? That's the question I'm asking you.

Does a toothbrush need a camera?

Is this like the internet-enabled toaster conversation that has just come to toothbrushes

now? The justification of a camera on a toothbrush is that it can see slash sense or whatever when there is a gap between your teeth and it will burst a jet of water into that gap and therefore floss your teeth as you're brushing your teeth.

And I'm here to say, he's that one step too far, lads.

Well, it's a bit of a double-edged sword.

Because every time you go down the hygienist or the dentist, they say, yeah, it's all right, but you should floss more.

It's that classic.