How To Try New Things

Today we're talking to Belinda Retourné, the mind behind the participatory experience Elysium premiering in Stockholm in November 2025. We dive deep into curiosity - what it means, how to nurture it, and why it matters.

Read more about Elysium: http://elysiumlife.se/

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Connect with Belinda: https://www.linkedin.com/in/belinda-retourn%C3%A9

Read more about Try New Things and what we do: https://trynewthings.fail

Today we're talking to Håkan Lidbo, musician, inventor and creative freethinker. It ended up pretty long, but well. Once now and than is ok, right?

Read more about Håkan Lidbo's Rumtiden:

⁠https://rumtiden.com/

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Today we're talking to Peter Ström, lecturer at Beckmans College of Design, about his curiosity for fashion and the Internet and also some of the stuff he's working on a the moment, like Svensk Webbkonst.

Read more about Peter Ström:

https://peter.stream

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Today we're taking a summer break from the usual format – everyone's off enjoying the season, so we're flipping the script! In this special episode, our AI Threshold Guardian takes the host's chair to interview Adam about his own journey with curiosity.

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Read more about Adam's book: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

https://trynewthings.fail⁠/book⁠⁠

Today we're talking to R.J. Abbott, creative polymath and LinkedIn thinker, about belief architecture and how your point of view is your mote.

Read more about RJ:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjabbott3/

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Today we're talking to Åsa Wikberg-Nilsson, design professor at Luleå University of Technology. We touch on subjects such as the importance of play and reflection, and on how to help people think outside the current paradigm.

Read more about Åsa:

https://www.ltu.se/personal/a/asa-wikberg-nilsson

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Today we're talking to Stefan Lang, a Buddhist dharma teacher in Switzerland, who also leads a short meditation on the topic of curiosity.

Read more about Stefan:

https://www.stefanlang.org/

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Today we're talking to brand strategist and entrepreneur Fredrik Öst about how being curious about yourself and your world view shapes your experience and maybe also your creative output.

Read more about Fredrik:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/snask/

Read more about Snask:

https://snask.com/

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Today we're talking to interaction designer, creative technologist and artist Sarah Ali about quite a lot of things... like bouncing soundwaves of cicadas and being someone who you can say ANYTHING to.

Read more about Sarah Ali here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/saalii

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Today we're talking to Tomas Seo, strategist and thinker, about how to adapt to a possible future of techno feudalism.

Read more about Tomas here:

Substack newsletter⁠ "Detta förändrar ju allt" (Swe)

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