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Snafu with Robin Zander
Snafu is a podcast for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and ambitious professionals who need durable skills in an accelerating and chaotic world. Robin sits down with authors and entrepreneurs to talk about a more human approach to influence, persuasion, and work.
Recent Episodes
The Art of Human Connection featuring Adam Rosendahl
In this episode, I’m joined by Adam Rosendahl – facilitator, artist, and founder of Late Nite Art – for a…
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Why Human Experience Still Matters In The Age Of AI featuring Sara Loncka
In this episode, I’m joined by Sara Loncka – experiential learning designer, leadership strategist, and CEO of Experience Institute –…
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Incorruptible: How Great Companies Stay Great featuring Eric Ries
In this episode, I’m joined by Eric Ries – entrepreneur, founder of the Lean Startup movement, and author of The…
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How Cults Work with Ellen Huet
In this episode, I'm joined by Ellen Huet – journalist at Bloomberg and author of Empire of Orgasm – for…
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How to Move People with Lindsey Caplan
In this episode, I’m joined by Lindsey Caplan — organizational psychologist, former Hollywood screenwriter, and upcoming author — for a…
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Founder-Led Sales with Gagan Biyani - Snafu Conference 2026
This conversation between Robin Zander and Gagan Biyani, founder of Maven and early contributor to Udemy, Lyft, and Spread, explores…
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How to Sell Yourself – A Workshop
Robin Zander hosted a Snafu webinar for the Sidebar community on non-sales selling—think self-promotion for career transitions, freelancers, entrepreneurs, and…
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Your Best Meeting Ever with Rebecca Hinds, PhD
In this episode, I’m joined by Rebecca Hinds — organizational behavior expert and founder of the Work AI Institute at…
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Corporating: Navigating Career and Life with Mandy Mooney
In this episode, I’m joined by Mandy Mooney — author, corporate communicator, and performer — for a wide-ranging conversation about…
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Why the Best Leaders are Better Storytellers with Robin P. Zander
Welcome back to Snafu with Robin P. Zander. In this episode, I’m doing something a little different: I step into…
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Investing In People, AI, and the Future of Work with Virginie Raphael
In this episode, I’m joined by Virginie Raphael — investor, entrepreneur, and philosopher of work — for a wide-ranging conversation…
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Recent Articles
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This week, I got a speaking inquiry – and quoted an astronomical figure. Normally, when I quote an...
A week since Responsive Conference
Responsive Conference 2026 was the best event I’ve ever produced. Instead of a fresh article this week, I...
The AI Divide
I reread Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style recently, and I’m increasingly irritated by AI writing. It...
What Tony Hsieh Taught Me About Hospitality
As we enter the final four weeks leading into Responsive Conference 2026, I can’t help but reflect on...
Real Humans on Camera Still Matter
18 months ago, I predicted that our work at Zander Media would have evaporated due to the coming...
The Myth of AI Adoption
My wife works for a frontier AI company. She’s an engineer, working 80-hour weeks, deep in the weeds...
Popular Robin Zander Videos
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About Robin Zander
Robin is a self-experimenter who frequently tackles new and often audacious goals. From fasting to learning to sing, he documents these self-experiments along the way.
He has a lifelong obsession with movement, and has a range of practices ballet to gymnastics, trapeze to capoeira, surfing to Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
Books
Responsive: What it Takes to Create a Thriving Organization
Is Your Organization Built To Thrive?
Responsive isn’t just a business book. It is a choose-your-own adventure guide to the future of work. Best-selling author Robin Zander shares stories ranging from Navy SEALs in Iraq to technology giants experimenting in Silicon Valley,
How To Do A Handstand: Learn To Balance a Fearless Handstand in 20 Days or Less
In How To Learn A Handstand Robin Zander walks the reader through all of the steps necessary to go from novice to expert in 20 days, and teaches the 3 reasons most people never master a fearless handstand.