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Tara Lemméy

@taralemmey.com

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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

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Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 21/09/2026

Fire is a climate problem. A resilience problem. And a very expensive problem. There are inventors already solving flood, drought, and fire with one structure — wherever we let them. Right now, a few people are letting them. How to Stop Fire podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... #science #climate

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How to Stop Fire

Podcast Episode · Invent · September 21 · 11m

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 18/09/2026

It’s a good day when you get the email RESOLVED: Mountain Lion ❤️ San Francisco

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Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 11/09/2026

The language of AI news obscures the actual solutions. If you’re working in solutions, add this to your reading.

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 15/09/2026

A desk, a telephone, and until spring to put 4,000,000 people to work. No staff, no system, no plan. A social worker from Iowa figured out how. share.transistor.fm/s/18ca6730

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How to Invent 4 Million Jobs | Invent

A man sits down at a desk in Washington with no staff, no system, and no plan. He has a phone, and until spring to put four million people to work. He starts making calls. Harry Hopkins, the Civil Wo...

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 11/09/2026

The language of AI news obscures the actual solutions. If you’re working in solutions, add this to your reading.

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Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 07/09/2026

I've watched plastic wash up in Lima and in San Francisco and out on the Great Barrier Reef, and every time I thought the same thing everybody thinks. That's permanent now. I was wrong. New season of Invent, out today. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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How to Eat Plastic

Podcast Episode · Invent · September 7 · 6m

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 07/09/2026

I've watched plastic wash up in Lima and in San Francisco and out on the Great Barrier Reef, and every time I thought the same thing everybody thinks. That's permanent now. I was wrong. New season of Invent, out today. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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How to Eat Plastic

Podcast Episode · Invent · September 7 · 6m

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 26/08/2026

Jolene can save a life. It has the CPR count. Thanks for that and well, everything Dolly. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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What's an Enemy, Really?

Podcast Episode · Invent · May 31 · 5m

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Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 02/08/2026

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Scott Budman @scottbudman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

#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:

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Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 11/07/2026

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Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 11/07/2026

Great film during World Cup weekend. How a Women’s World Cup was invented. And univented.

Film link for women’s World Cup COPA 71 - great women’s soccer (football) players images for the games.

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 04/07/2026

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...

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Podcast Episode · Invent · June 15 · 7m

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Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 29/06/2026

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...

A bullhorn on sky blue with the postcard name - Invent.

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 17/06/2026

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.

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 10/06/2026

Every government should own its own technology stack. Most don’t. It’s not that hard.

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 01/06/2026

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...

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What's an Enemy, Really?

Podcast Episode · Invent · May 31 · 5m

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 28/05/2026

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.

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 22/05/2026

“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.” — Feste, Twelfth Night Goodnight, Stephen. You were the witty fool we needed.

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 18/05/2026

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...

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The Map Is Not the Territory

Podcast Episode · Invent · May 18 · 8m

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🌊 🦑 🧪 ⚒️

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 16/05/2026

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...

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Playing Bridge with Warren Buffett

Podcast Episode · Invent · January 7 · 9m

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 04/05/2026

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...

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Jane Jacobs — Witnessing Is Inventing

Podcast Episode · Invent · May 4 · 6m

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 29/04/2026

SF ❤️ engineering #sanfrancisco #technology

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 28/04/2026

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...

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The Cable That Was Already Listening

Podcast Episode · Invent · April 28 · 7m

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 15/04/2026

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...

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Podcast Episode · Invent · April 14 · 7m

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 11/04/2026

Science is awe. #nasa #artemisii

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 04/04/2026

Way Mo Problems.

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 03/04/2026

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...

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The Salt Window

Podcast Episode · Invent · April 2 · 8m

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Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 21/03/2026

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...

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The Swamp Cooler — What Your Environment Already Wants to Do

Podcast Episode · Invent · March 20 · 6m

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 21/03/2026

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...

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The Swamp Cooler — What Your Environment Already Wants to Do

Podcast Episode · Invent · March 20 · 6m

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 13/03/2026

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...

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The Ulcer — The Answer Was There the Whole Time

Podcast Episode · Invent · March 12 · 8m

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 10/03/2026

And there was ahoy. Good that Bell lost that one to Edison.

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Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 10/03/2026

Take a listen, then go invent something . #podcast

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 07/03/2026

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.

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Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 06/03/2026

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.

Sunset with the words Invent. The title of the podcast. New episode: The Silent Stadium. Required. Listen in Apple Podcasts

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 21/02/2026

Go girls. Go Olympians. Wonderful story Britt.

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 06/02/2026

Who’s driving the streets of San Francisco without a license ? Thx @brewster.kahle.org and the Wayback.

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Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 03/02/2026

Super Bowl Sunday. Every mascot exists because in 1974, a guy in a chicken suit figured out what to do during timeouts. Ted Giannoulas made the downtime part of the show. 50 years later: every mascot does what he invented. New Invent: The Chicken Suit podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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The Chicken Suit

Podcast Episode · Invent · 02/02/2026 · 10m

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 30/01/2026

Some words had to be invented. On weeks like this you realize - balderdash - is one of them. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...

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Definition of BALDERDASH

nonsense… See the full definition

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Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 24/01/2026

Go forth to make the world a better place for you can make a difference. The task is daunting – of course, but it is a necessary struggle. Desmond Tutu

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Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 13/01/2026

Great read to get your health on the right track in 2026. #health

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 08/01/2026

Playing Bridge with Warren Buffett- and the invention of a new way to talk to shareholders. Very fun new episode of Invent. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Playing Bridge with Warren Buffett

Podcast Episode · Invent · 01/07/2026 · 9m

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 06/01/2026

Get yourself back. Go remove your data fellow Californians. privacy.ca.gov/drop/

Delete request and opt-out platform (DROP)

Protect your personal information. Data brokers collect, share, and sell your personal information. You can stop that from happening.

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 01/01/2026

In San Francisco, we take pride in ushering in the new. But on New Year’s Eve, we trail the whole world. Happy 2026 to all who are leading the way around the globe! 🎉🌉 #2026

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 26/12/2025

Always talk to the engineers.

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Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 24/12/2025

Watching Japanese legal drama. Judge's office buried in boxes. "Hometown tax." I look it up. Japan lets you redirect taxes for gifts. $6.3B moving. Made it fun instead of forced. New Invent episode on how weird wins. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Japan’s Hometown Tax: Weird Wins

Podcast Episode · Invent · 12/23/2025 · 9m

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 25/12/2025

What’s a wassil anyway? 🎄 www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/u...

Word of the Week: ‘Wassail’ away your winter blues | CNN

Wassail — from a greeting meaning “be in good health” — evokes some kind of ancient holiday tradition. But its particulars, like the spiced beverage, can be cloudy.

Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 24/12/2025

Watching Japanese legal drama. Judge's office buried in boxes. "Hometown tax." I look it up. Japan lets you redirect taxes for gifts. $6.3B moving. Made it fun instead of forced. New Invent episode on how weird wins. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Japan’s Hometown Tax: Weird Wins

Podcast Episode · Invent · 12/23/2025 · 9m

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

There’s a chance of tornadoes in parts of California tonight through Christmas Day. Here’s a map of where tornadoes have hit the state in the past. #CAwx