World of Wisdom

World of Wisdom

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World of Wisdom episodes

  • 267. Gustaf Tadaa - Everything is made up, semantics, AI and destructive compression algorithms

    Gustaf Tadaa is a thinker, speaker, artist and entrepreneur. His and his wife Malins last exhibition Andetag (Instagram, website) is exhibiting in Stockholm spring/summer 2025. This is a beautiful conversation around how everything is made up, the traps of language, why we should think about teaching kids semantics. We also talk about how trauma therapy is a creative activity not a discovery. How important stories are to shape the world we live in and we end up talking about taxes why that would be a way to really shit the current state of the world. This conversation is wide ranging, concrete, provoking and really useful. Enjoy!

    1 hr 19 min
  • 266. Erik Fernholm - Meta-crisis, IDGs, burning out to rekindle

    This is a beautiful conversation with Erik Fernholm (linkedIn) co-founder of 29k as well as the IDGs. We speak of emotions, happiness, what it takes to compost, why solutions cannot be perfect. We speak of listening and self-compassion. Why turning towards that which we reject can sometimes be the thing we need to do, even though it's hard. What it is and takes to start ones journey of working with life. Why we are still worthy of love, no matter what. This is a really beautiful one. Both an opening and a scaffold. Enjoy!

    1 hr 16 min
  • 265. Sam Jockel - Reparenting, being with pain and how to get to warmth

    Sam Jockel (LinkedIn) came on the show. The founder of ParentTV and the producer of SEEN the film. Our conversation touched in on what parenting may be, both for yourself and for your kids. How does one become a parent? We speak of trauma as something that didn't happen rather than what happened and we speak of what it takes to recover warmth. How seeing your kids, being with them is what parenting is about rather than what you do. This is a wonderfully deep, personal and concrete conversation. It comes with a strong recommendation to actually see the film. It'll be worth it.

    1 hr 6 min
  • 264. Neil Smyth - Stewardownership, problems (not organisations) at the center and collective action

    Neil Smyth (LinkedIn) founder of Alkemio and I spoke about collective action problems, agency and ownership. Neil is a veteran in the steward ownership space and is also active building the platform Alkemio towards collective action . We speak of the simple but profound transformations that hold the possibility to upend the world we live in. Neil speaks of the start up as a tool for effecting change, we speak of agency as a coordination problem, the principles for how to coordinate and what happens when we center around a problem, not an organisation. Here's the link to Alkemios legal structure. Enjoy!

    1 hr 5 min
  • 263. Adam Widawski - Technology, the state of civilisation and the silent war for our attention

    Adam Widawski (LinkedIn) is an educator and philosopher. Currently working for the think-tank Mindshield. We speak of the immense potential of our times. Why learning is an orientation to life that's served us well. We speak of technology and it's incredible pull as well as the importance of getting inspired by perspectives from the margins. We speak of the silent violence, the obfuscation and fragmentation as well as the possibility our connectivity holds. How do we deal with the demonic pull of technology? How can we combine passionate rebellion with a capacity for finding center and an ableness to direct our attention and retain some agency?

    1 hr 1 min
  • 262. Ola Jönsson - Identities, transformative investments and great decisions

    Ola Jönsson (LinkedIn) founder of Coest among other things came by the podcast. We spoke of profit and company growth as a part of but not the goal of companies. We spoke of identities and how they are important and how they interact. What it takes to start from scarcity - why are people that haven't prove extractive capacity as trustworthy in our society? What are Coests investment principles? Why are so many people driven by money and much more. This is a conversation on how to transform business into what we need it to be in our times. Enjoy!

    1 hr 8 min
  • 261. Michael Haupt - Collapse, systems change and 9 mental models for navigating our times

    Michael Haupt (⁠LinkedIn⁠) recovering corporate technician, regenerative practitioner and father and I had a wonderful conversation. We spoke about why systems change requires a fundamentally different approach than the one most of us currently take. We also touched on the framework he is developing of 9 mental models for navigating the times we are in. We also spoke of collapse and why our times both are and are not unique. We spoke of why much of what's happening now is expected. Why practice is so important and why shifting our behaviour is at the core. This is a rich and tangible conversation that invites useful perspectives. Here are some of the resources Michael mention: ⁠Mental Model⁠s, ⁠Collapsology⁠, ⁠Evolution of Consciousness⁠. Enjoy!

    1 hr 9 min
  • 260. WoW Roundtable (part 2): Evaluation, scaling and amplifying life force in regenerative gatherings

    Audrey Fillion⁠ (⁠EP224⁠), ⁠Ria Baeck⁠ (⁠EP155⁠), ⁠Adrian Wagner⁠ gathered for the second part of the first ever World of Wisdom roundtable. We spoke of evaluation, scaling, micro-moments of empathy and scaling. Beyond scaling up we also need to scale deep and wide. And how we can do that through technology. This deep conversation also touches upon the path dependency of our tools, what it takes to generate healthy soil and most of all what happens when "we take god a bit more seriously than ourselves. Enjoy!

    54 min
  • 259. WoW Roundtable: Gatherings. Measurement, doing and outcomes of regenerative gatherings (Pt 1)

    Audrey Fillion (EP224), Ria Baeck (EP155), Adrian Wagner gathered for the first ever World of Wisdom roundtable. This time we spoke about regenerative gatherings. This conversation is a rich and deep exploration with people that probably have a century of experience of gatherings between them. We speak of attention, action, what can be done and what is 'right action'. We speak of the substrate of gatherings, the importance of pioneers and how relationships are like soil that we can then plant seeds in. There is so much more. Take a listen!

    1 hr 9 min
  • 258. Ruben Daniels - sovereignty, interbeing and systems transformation

    Ruben Daniels (Founder of Allelo) and I had a wonderful conversation about systems transformation, digital sovereignty and what it takes to begin living into a stable state of interbeing. Ruben is a successful IT entrepreneur that has since shifted his focus towards sovereignty- food, economic and digital. We speak especially about the economic and digital aspects of this sovereignty. Ruben is also a co-creator of the Masterminding Eden that Camara Cassin recently spoke of on the podcast. Ruben is a fellow ecosystems weaver and systems thinker and this is a wonderful conversation! Enjoy!

    1 hr 5 min

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A curiosity driven podcast about wisdom, learning and the personal and systemic implications of the transition we are in. Hosted by Amit Paul and Nils von Heijne. For extended shownotes visit:…

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