The Cyb3rSyn Kaleidoscope - Episode 5

Cyb3rSyn Labs Podcast is now on YouTube

Laksh Raghavan
June 22, 2025

The 5th edition of the Cyb3rSyn Kaleidoscope announces the new home for the Cyb3rSyn Labs Podcast. Let’s dive in.

Cyb3rSyn Labs Podcast
Creative Odyssey Podcast
Long-term Viability

Cyb3rSyn Labs Podcast

Cyb3rSyn Labs Podcast has a new home - YouTube.

The first two episodes that were exclusive to subscribers is now open to all…

I’ll upload all the remaining episodes over the next few weeks and link them in the newsletter for easy access. Based on the feedback from community members, all future podcast episodes will be uploaded to YouTube.

Creative Odyssey Podcast

I had a blast conversing with Emil Drud on the Creative Odyssey Podcast!

We discussed a wide variety of topics from multidisciplinary thinking, cybernetics, complexity, mimesis, leadership/management and building more human-centric businesses.

Give it a listen 🎧 and subscribe to Emil’s podcast!

Long-term Viability

During our vacation in Italy, we stumbled upon an old restaurant in Naples as we were strolling through the neighborhood of our hotel. It looked like a ‘hole-in-the-wall’ type of restaurant from the outside. But, I ended up having one of the best pizzas I’ve ever had in my life.

The restaurant was aptly named ‘Lombardi 1892’ denoting the year it was inaugurated. I’m told that it has been a family-owned business since then.

I’ve lived and worked in Japan and am aware that there are many family-owned businesses that have been operational for several decades and even centuries. This reminded me of the following quote from Nassim Taleb.

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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The tenure of even the most successful corporations on prestigious lists like the Fortune 500 has been steadily declining, with the average lifespan of a company on the index shrinking from over 60 years in the mid-20th century to less than 20 years today.

Why is it? How can we improve the odds of long-term viability of businesses?

Please reply to this email with your thoughts (I read all replies) or post a comment below.

The Cyb3rSyn Kaleidoscope - Episode 5

Cyb3rSyn Labs Podcast is now on YouTube

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