ZION 2.0

Today my guest is Jamie Wheal.

Jamie is the Executive Director of The Flow Genome Project and leading expert in the neurophysiology of human performance. His work combines a background in expeditionary education, wilderness medicine, and surf rescue, with over a decade of advising high-growth companies on strategy, execution, and leadership. Jamie's coaching ranges from Fortune 500 companies like Cisco, Google, and Nike, to the U.S. Naval War College, and Red Bull. You'll find him speaking on the intersection of science and human potential to diverse, high-performance communities like Young President's Organization, Summit Series, TED, and MaiTai Global. At the Flow Genome Project, he leads a team of the world’s top scientists, athletes, and artists dedicated to mapping the genome of the peak-performance state known as Flow.

We discuss what is most top of mind for Jamie right now: how to build a future that has a chance of success. We talk about the philosophical mistakes we make when constructing our worldviews, Bourgeois Spirituality, Psychedelic Narcissism, and why he is bullish on Mountain Towns.

Today my guest is Matthew Pirkowski.

Matthew writes very smart things on Twitter and Medium generally under the heading of Complexity. He weaves a background in psychology, math, and complexity science together for Very Original Thinking.

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When society fractures, who winds up on The Fringe? Also: what’s happening on The Fringe?

Today I am joined by Rachel Haywire- creator of Trigger Warning. They are:

“a gang of ideological deviants who realize that most other deviants and intellectuals have now lost their ability to see outside the box of political correctness."

Rachel is asking good questions and I’m here for it.

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Today my guest is Daniel Schmachtenberger.

Daniel is a Co-Founder at the Neurohacker Collective and director of Research and Development, where he is focused on developing processes and technologies for advancing medicine and human optimization. He is particularly focused on personalized medicine, adequate approaches to complex illness, and deepening our knowledge of how the human regulatory systems function, how they break down, and how they can be supported to function with greater resilience.

Daniel also runs a blog called Civilization Emerging where he focuses on exploring topics relevant to being human well, individually and collectively. Specifically, thoughts on the future of civilization, the sensitivity and potential of our current situation, and how we might navigate the path ahead.

Daniel and I discuss a number of topics, namely the role aesthetics play in his work, current questions he has around public education, secret societies, and how to build and maintain a personal sovereignty stack.

Buckle up. This one’s a long time coming.

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Amidst all of the big changes and uncertainty we're experiencing in the world today, we can come to all kinds of conclusions about what it all means and how we fit into the picture. One common story we hear from well-intentioned activists fighting against wealth inequality and climate change: the accumulation of wealth is evil. The rich are destroying the planet. The 1% meme has even held some ground since the days of Occupy Wall Street, taken up as a rallying cry by Democratic Socialists. I wonder if there's another story.

Speaking for myself, I have all kinds of twisted narratives around money. I need to be making enough to feel worthy and attract a mate. If I'm not providing, I have no value. Wealth accumulation is for the greedy and I'm not so I'll do my best to avoid it, etc. Today (for my first livestream!) my guest is Jordan Hall. Jordan has made the rounds on various podcasts and YouTube channels discussing a wide range of things, namely the idea of cultivating sovereignty as a necessary step in the path to becoming a more effective agent in the world.

Before he started studying complexity at The Santa Fe Institute and writing posts on Medium about our failing institutions, Jordan was a highly successful tech entrepreneur. Jordan's wealth gave him the freedom to enter rooms and ask questions that would have been unthinkable had he been working a traditional 9-5. What is money? How do we rid ourselves of unhelpful, debilitating stories our wealth? Is it possible to ethically create wealth in the current climate? Join us for what is sure to be a mind-bending, heart-opening conversation.

Part 2 is audio from the YouTube livestream.

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Amidst all of the big changes and uncertainty we're experiencing in the world today, we can come to all kinds of conclusions about what it all means and how we fit into the picture. One common story we hear from well-intentioned activists fighting against wealth inequality and climate change: the accumulation of wealth is evil. The rich are destroying the planet. The 1% meme has even held some ground since the days of Occupy Wall Street, taken up as a rallying cry by Democratic Socialists. I wonder if there's another story.

Speaking for myself, I have all kinds of twisted narratives around money. I need to be making enough to feel worthy and attract a mate. If I'm not providing, I have no value. Wealth accumulation is for the greedy and I'm not so I'll do my best to avoid it, etc. Today (for my first livestream!) my guest is Jordan Hall. Jordan has made the rounds on various podcasts and YouTube channels discussing a wide range of things, namely the idea of cultivating sovereignty as a necessary step in the path to becoming a more effective agent in the world.

Before he started studying complexity at The Santa Fe Institute and writing posts on Medium about our failing institutions, Jordan was a highly successful tech entrepreneur. Jordan's wealth gave him the freedom to enter rooms and ask questions that would have been unthinkable had he been working a traditional 9-5. What is money? How do we rid ourselves of unhelpful, debilitating stories our wealth? Is it possible to ethically create wealth in the current climate? Join us for what is sure to be a mind-bending, heart-opening conversation.

Part 1 is a call Jordan and I had before the livestream. The aim was to find more specificity in the theme and zero in on what we wanted to talk about.

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Today my guest is Venkatesh Rao.

Venkat is a writer and independent management consultant focusing mainly on the “challenges at the intersection of technology, strategy, and organizational development, at midsized or large companies.”

You can find Venkat’s writing on Ribbonfarm, Breaking Smart, and The Art of the Gig.

We cover a wide range of topics in this conversation from The Genius and Shadow of Gen Z, the relative importance of embodiment in the digital age, and Venkat’s diagnosis for the most likely Apocalyptic Scenario.

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Today my guest is Stephen Jenkinson.

Stephen is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time ​yet to come.​

Stephen worked for many years in the “death trade”, helping people come to terms with their illnesses in a culture that has no real relationship with the death and dying process. He is a trained Harvard theologian and writes urgently and eloquently about how to create culture that relates to the cycles of life and death (Die Wise). His latest book, Come of Age, grapples with the paradox of elderhood in North America: “we are awash in the aged and yet somehow lacking in wisdom; we relegate senior citizens to the corner of the house while simultaneously heralding them as sage elders simply by virtue of their age.”

Stephen is currently on the Nights of Grief and Mystery Tour.

Find out if he’s in your town. If so, do yourself a favor.

Today my guest is the profound and salty Jim Rutt.

Jim is a polymath of the highest order: former CEO of Network Solutions, former Chairman of the Santa Fe Institute, one of the leading thinkers behind the highly scalable blockchain architecture BigChainDB, and host of the Jim Rutt Show.

Jim is deeply committed to asking better and more precise questions about the future of humanity. He has written on liquid democracy, “The Fifth Attractor”, and helped start the “Game B” meme along with former ZION 2.0 guest Jordan Hall.

Sit back and enjoy this wide ranging conversation with an exceptional human mind firing on every cylinder.