Entrepreneur | Advisor | Investor. Previously @Google, @Foursquare, @Citymapper, @Streetbees. Business advisor to the @MayorofLondon. Host of @whrshallwemeet
London, England
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Full circle moment to talk to Sam on the podcast!
This week's guest is the one and only Sam Harris. We talk about meditation, morality, free will and much more! whereshallwemeet.xyz/2372295…
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I hadn't done any interviews or talks specifically about #Traversal, despite spending seven years on it, so it was such a pleasure to converse about it with my darling friend @nataschaandsons (who narrated the audiobook so beautifully)... which ended up being a vast conversation about love, loss, our search for truth, our hunger for meaning, and what gives meaning to our mortality podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
This pod with @Plinz is one of my favourites we've done. It's dense, deep and like with most pods Joscha is in you probably need to be quite focused to get the most out of it.
Thanks for coming on and spending time with us!
This week's guest is Joscha Bach @Plinz a cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher. We talk about:
-The dream and the physical world
-Substrate independent consciousness
-Learning about reality by watching YT
-The story of free will
and much more!
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Our guest this week is @jacindaardern who served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2017 to 2023.
We talk about:
-A kinder definition of leadership
-Media’s new incentives
-Changing culture of engagement
-Taking money out of politics
-The dangerous loss of nuance
and more!
It was an honor to talk to Kim Stanley Robinson one of the greatest living science fiction writers and author of some of my favourite books in the genre!
Had such a fun and nourishing conversation about friendship with Alain de Botton. @TheSchoolOfLife
Our guest this week is Alain de Botton, who is a writer, psychotherapist and cofounder of @TheSchoolOfLife.
We talk about:
-2 & 1/2 friends is plenty
-A more rigorous approach to friendship
-Different types of friends
-Platonic sleepovers
-One way friends
and a lot more!
New pod is out. We spoke to the one and only @rutgerbregman. We discuss his most recent book "Moral Ambition" and talk about the school he has co-founded to supercharge changemakers. Very inspiring and fun conversation!
Our guest this week is Rutger Bregman (@rutgerbregman), the author of 'Utopia for Realists', 'Humankind' & 'Moral Ambition'. He is also the Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition. We talk about what moral ambition means and our individual responsibilities as change makers.
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Our guest this week is Howard Covington, who has been the chair of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, The Alan Turing Institute, ClientEarth, and the Scotia Group. We talk to him about technologies of the near future!
Bought a @SonyUK TV XR-64A95L 1 year and 1 month ago for over 3k GBP.
2 days ago they updated the firmware and my TV didn't turn on anymore. Technician today confirmed that the motherboard is fried.
The TV is one month out of warranty and repairing it will cost 1k - for a 1 year old OLED for more than 3k.
I will get a Samsung and make it my life's mission to tell everyone to never buy a @SonyTV again.
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Consumer is having an identity crisis.
So, I asked around for the best people investing in consumer tech at pre-seed and compiled:
📜 The (New) Consumer Manifesto
👼 100 angels who truly get consumer
💰 75 VCs actively writing pre-seed checks
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Our guest this week is Dr Carine Minne who is a Forensic Psychotherapist at England’s High Security Hospital, Broadmoor. We talk about prisons, the humanity of violent criminals, how childhood trauma causes disinhibition and more! whereshallwemeet.xyz
📬 New post. thefullspectrum.blog/p/light…
🌌 We used to look up and see the universe. Now most of us just see streetlights.
🧠 This post explores how light pollution has not only hidden the stars but also subtly inflated our sense of self.
💡 It’s about cosmic perspective, scientific spirituality, and what we lose when we can no longer see the night sky.
If you want to read a great book about consciousness you should pick up Being You by @anilkseth4. Listen to our podcast with the man himself to get a taster!
Our guest today is Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. We discuss what it feels like to be a bat, how we predict ourselves into existence and more! @anilkseth4
#podcast #podcasting #consciousness #neuroscience
It's funny how ideological battle lines are nowadays subtlety drawn along "onsite" versus "hybrid" in job descriptions. It's the 2025 version of "vaxinated" or "he/him".
📬New blog post📬
🚶🏻♂️Human Scale Cities
🏙️How urban design affects the psychology and social fabric of a society
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Thanks for coming on the podcast today @Plinz ! I'm replaying Disco Elysium as we speak.
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This week's guest is Laura Clarke, CEO of ClientEarth an NGO that uses climate legislation against countries and corporations to enforce the protection of the planet. We talk about their amazing work and inspiring court cases. whereshallwemeet.xyz