The Rhys Show

Sarah Drinkwater is the Director of Responsible Technology at Omidyar Network and has supported an amazing variety of great projects in this space. We chat about movement-building and language in the responsible tech space.

https://twitter.com/sarahdrinkwater/

https://omidyar.com/

https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark

Betsy Cooper is the Director of The Aspen Institute’s Tech Policy Hub, a Y-Combinator for tech policy. We chat about Betsy's work teaching technologists to shape government policy.

Apply to their fellowship by Feb 22: https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/programs/

https://twitter.com/BetsOnTech

https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark

http://rhyslindmark.substack.com/

David Christian is a historian who has helped found the field of Big History. He has written multiple books on the subject, including my favorite, Origin Story. With Bill Gates, he is co-founder of the Big History Project, which has built free on-line high-school courses in big history.

https://www.bighistoryproject.com/

https://bighistory.org/

https://rhyslindmark.substack.com/

https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark

Scott Dikkers was a founding editor of The Onion, and is the publication's longest-serving editor-in-chief. He co-wrote and edited two brilliant Onion books—our Dumb Century (NYT #1 bestseller) and Our Dumb World. He also helped kickstart The Onion’s online presence, including The Onion News Network.

https://twitter.com/ScottDikkers

https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

https://www.patreon.com/rhyslindmark

https://www.rhyslindmark.com/

Martha Minow is a legal scholar and the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University. She served as the Dean of Harvard Law School between 2009 and 2017. Martha has been called "one of the world's leading human rights scholars" and has written nearly 20 books. During the 2008 Presidential campaign, Obama said, "When I was at Harvard Law School I had a teacher who changed my life -- Martha Minow."

We chat about her recent book, When Should Law Forgive?, and apply it to our current moment—pardons, polarization, student debt.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43726510-when-should-law-forgive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Minow

https://rhyslindmark.substack.com/

Eli Pariser is an author, activist, and entrepreneur focused on how to make technology and media serve democracy. He’s had many roles in his past, including the Executive Director of MoveOn.org and the author of a 2011 book, Filter Bubble. He’s now the co-director of New Public: a community of folks building the digital public spaces of the future.

We chat about how to build digital public spaces.

Check out their festival Jan 12-14! https://newpublic.org/festival

https://twitter.com/elipariser

https://twitter.com/WeAreNew_Public

https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2021/01/05/to-thrive-our-democracy-needs-digital-public-infrastructure-455061

Cassie Robinson is the Senior Head of UK Portfolio at the National Lottery Community Fund (the UK lottery), where she leads a £60 Million a year fund including the Climate Action Fund, the Digital Fund and Exploring New Approaches. She’s also a Fellow at the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL with Mariana Mazzucato.

https://twitter.com/CassieRobinson

https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/

https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark

Jill Carlson is a VC at Slow and a co-founder of the Open Money Initiative, a non-profit research organization working to guarantee the right to a free and open financial system. We chat about apolitical organizations and how crypto is being used to combat authoritarianism.

http://twitter.com/jillruthcarlson/

http://twitter.com/RhysLindmark/

Roman Krznaric is a public philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to change society. His latest book, The Good Ancestor, has been described by U2’s The Edge as ‘the book our children’s children will thank us for reading’. It just came out in the US! He’s also a Research Fellow of the Long Now Foundation. Roman and I chat about crafting new language and metaphors for long-termism, and his theory of change for how ideas get manifest in society.

https://twitter.com/romankrznaric

https://www.romankrznaric.com/good-ancestor

https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

Lauren Gawne is a linguistics Lecturer at La Trobe University. She’s a key part of linguistics Twitter and the ongoing study of internet language. We chat about her proposed emojis, her constructed language, and how language signals community on the internet.

https://twitter.com/superlinguo

https://twitter.com/lingthusiasm

https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

https://twitter.com/the_roote