Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 3hYou captured their potency - it’s surprisingly underestimated. @montepoole.bsky.social 000
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 29/09/2026You rising above Lombard St. vacillates between happy and menacing. 020
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 21/09/2026Fire 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 #climatepodcasts.apple.comHow to Stop FirePodcast Episode · Invent · September 21 · 11m 010
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 18/09/2026It’s a good day when you get the email RESOLVED: Mountain Lion ❤️ San Francisco 020
Reposted by Tara LemméyTara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 11/09/2026The language of AI news obscures the actual solutions. If you’re working in solutions, add this to your reading. 002
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 15/09/2026A 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/18ca6730share.transistor.fmHow to Invent 4 Million Jobs | InventA 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... 001
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 11/09/2026The language of AI news obscures the actual solutions. If you’re working in solutions, add this to your reading. 002
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 11/09/2026Agree. Sci-fi language is no basis for a system of government. 010
Reposted by Tara LemméyTara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 07/09/2026I'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...podcasts.apple.comHow to Eat PlasticPodcast Episode · Invent · September 7 · 6m 003
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 07/09/2026I'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...podcasts.apple.comHow to Eat PlasticPodcast Episode · Invent · September 7 · 6m 003
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 26/08/2026Jolene can save a life. It has the CPR count. Thanks for that and well, everything Dolly. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...podcasts.apple.comWhat's an Enemy, Really?Podcast Episode · Invent · May 31 · 5m 000
Reposted by Tara LemméyScott 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: 151
Reposted by Tara LemméyTara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 11/07/2026www.kanopy.com/video/15027053kanopy.com 001
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 11/07/2026Great film during World Cup weekend. How a Women’s World Cup was invented. And univented. 110
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 09/07/2026And they win in so many different ways. Great team basketball. 020
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 04/07/2026Two 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...podcasts.apple.comEnter LaughingPodcast Episode · Invent · June 15 · 7m 000
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 29/06/2026Some 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... 021
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 17/06/20264 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. 020
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 10/06/2026Every government should own its own technology stack. Most don’t. It’s not that hard. 010
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 01/06/2026The 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...podcasts.apple.comWhat's an Enemy, Really?Podcast Episode · Invent · May 31 · 5m 230
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 28/05/2026We’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. 010
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. 140
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 18/05/2026Highway 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...podcasts.apple.comThe Map Is Not the TerritoryPodcast Episode · Invent · May 18 · 8m 041
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 17/05/2026Clumping secret: add water to chia or flax and let sit to make it a bit of a gel before adding . The stickiness hold the clumps together. 130
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 16/05/2026In 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...podcasts.apple.comPlaying Bridge with Warren BuffettPodcast Episode · Invent · January 7 · 9m 120
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 04/05/2026Cities 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...podcasts.apple.comJane Jacobs — Witnessing Is InventingPodcast Episode · Invent · May 4 · 6m 011
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 29/04/2026Big spaces that hold a lot of people and give each other air are a sign of democracy. In our society they’re mostly football stadiums. 000
Tara Lemméy @taralemmey.com · 28/04/2026Nokia 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...podcasts.apple.comThe Cable That Was Already ListeningPodcast Episode · Invent · April 28 · 7m 011