The Lightning Podcast

This week, Zohar Atkins joins Trae Stephens, investor, serial entrepreneur, and faith-based public thinker, to talk about what makes for a good quest, the ethics and theology of doing things that scale and things that don't, political theology, why optimism is rational, and how to make life-altering decisions.

This week, join Zohar Atkins, Anne Dudek, Genevieve Kim, and Cyrus Palizban as we talk about pain. We agree with this week's Meditation: that pain is universal and unavoidable. But how is it tied to our freedom? Is pain a blessing? From the joy of difficulty to the birth of compassion, join us as we have a heartfelt conversation about our own experiences with pain and difficulty.

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This week Zohar joins Rohit Krishnan, investor, blogger at Strange Loop Canon, and author of Building God, to talk about Edge, AI, Sabbaticals, Mastery and Generalism, Investing, Creativity, P-Zombies, Techno-Optimism, Conviction, and Forgetting.

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This week, join Zohar Atkins, Francis Pedraza, Anne Dudek, Genevieve Kim, and Cyrus Palizban as we discuss how art, thought, and passion unite us all. How independent are our thoughts? How unique is our individual expression? Are we just repeating our predecessors through history? Are we part of some great unifying spirit, elevated to it by shared ideas? Sit back, relax, and join us as we explore this conundrum.

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This week, join Zohar Atkins, Nicolas Sarian, Anne Dudek, and Cyrus Palizban as we discuss the nature of creation. Where does it arise from: order or chaos? What is chaos? What is creation, or art for that matter? Get comfortable, because this is a long one!

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This week Zohar is joined by public intellectual Seth Kaplan to discuss his new book Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time. Kaplan takes his analysis of Fragile States and applies the same lens to American neighborhoods. Zohar and Seth talk about what makes for good neighborhoods, why culture can't be reduced to economic or political analysis, the role of religion in community, and whether loneliness and failing neighborhoods are a driver of radicalism.

This week, join Zohar Atkins, Nicolas Sarian, Anne Dudek, Francis Pedraza, and Cyrus Palizban as we try to discuss literally nothing! Today's discussion is about nothingness, or perhaps, emptiness. From Buddhist lessons to luxury notebook prices to the nature venture capital, we attempt to puzzle out the nature of potentiality.

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This week, join Zohar Atkins, Nicolas Sarian, Anne Dudek, Francis Pedraza, and Cyrus Palizban as we try to discuss the meaning and necessity of hope and work. Can you work without hope? To what extent does setting goals help or hinder us? Is there any hope for us to stay on topic this episode? Listen and find out!

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This week, join Zohar Atkins, Nicolas Sarian, Anne Dudek, Francis Pedraza, Geneveive Kim, and Cyrus Palizban as we discuss and debate the conundrum: "What is a friend?" Is there more to it than trust and respect?

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This week, we discuss the "the hitching posts" of life. Be it Nirvana or Enlightenment, what are the guides and rest-stops in our daily lives? Is there a reward at the end of this life, to begin in the next? Or is it to be found here, in this one?

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