Journalist, author and political commentator Adam Lowenstein discusses business systems and power dynamics.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• What it means to be in the world of corporate and political ‘power’ 
• How to see the best in people and build bigger, more inclusive movements
• How to live by the practice of ‘memento mori’ 
• Adam's experiences of seeing first-hand how American politics operates behind closed doors 
• The small shifts needed to imagine a new system & step forward with true purpose

QUOTES & SNIPPETS:

“Corporations are claiming to be the solution to the problems they have created”

“It has nothing to do with bad people - it has everything to do with incentives and structures & the way human beings operate”

“When do you call someone out and when do you bring them into your movement?”

“There’s no secret formula for achieving power”

"If we’re going to die at some point, we might as well live”

"I’ve seen what's on the other side; and they're just people"

"At the end of the day, it's not going to be the emails I regret or the work I didn't do - it's going to be the walks in the park i didn't take"

REFERENCES:

The Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler 

The Persuaders, Anan Giridharadas

The Long Now Foundation

Lupe Fiasco 

ESG

Reframe the Day, Adam Lowenstein

Memento mori

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