ZION 2.0

Today my guest is exceptional bad ass Bonnitta Roy.

Bonnitta Roy is an international award winning author, presenter, and trainer. Her work on open participatory organizations (OPO) is key 'source code' for cultivating organizations that are living, natural, and highly motivating.

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She will be leading a masterclass called “On Guildcraft” in San Francisco on June 15-16, 2019 at the Aethos Institute. The master class is a call to create a community of practice around organizing in ways that are adequate to address the complex challenges of our moment. We will focus on your practical questions and highlight local org / community designers projects and learnings.

Over two days, you will gain: practices, guideposts, practical insight, and new and deeper connections for effective emergent organization design.

Click here for more information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/on-guildcraft-tickets-62077963861

Today I am with Dr Zak Stein to talk about the future of education.

Zak studied philosophy and religion at Hampshire College, and then educational neuroscience, human development, and the philosophy of education at Harvard University. While a student at Harvard, he co-founded what would become Lectica, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to the research-based, justice-oriented reform of large-scale standardized testing in K-12, higher-education, and business.

He has published two books. Social Justice and Educational Measurement was based on his dissertation and traces the history of standardized testing and its ethical implications. His second book, Education in a Time Between Worlds, expands the philosophical work to include grappling with the relations between schooling and technology more broadly. He also writes for peer-reviewed academic journals across a range of topics including the philosophy of learning, educational technology, and integral theory. His work has appeared in a variety of journals including, American Psychologist, New Ideas in Psychology, Mind, Brain, and Education, Integral Review, and the Journal of Philosophy of Education.

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This episode is sponsored by The Human Data Commons, a non-profit based in Vancouver, Canada, inspiring the tech sector and everyday citizens towards an equitable and sustainable future for all.

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This week I am with Joe Brewer, modern Renaissance Man and Systems Thinker/Doer.

Joe has dedicated his life to helping humanity navigate global challenges as a complexity researcher, innovation strategist, and transdisciplinary scholar who brings a wealth of expertise to the adoption of sustainable solutions at the cultural scale. He weaves people and knowledge across fields to build capacities for systemic change.

He is a co-founder of the Cultural Evolution Society, a global scientific community dedicated to the study of cultural evolution, has been the culture editor for This View of Life at the Evolution Institute since 2014, is the co-founder of Evonomics Magazine dedicated to the evolution of economics, and has worked with a large variety of nonprofits, social-impact businesses, and government agencies to apply insights from the cognitive, behavioral, and evolutionary sciences to large-scale social problems.

Joe and I discuss the political system, effective spirituality, and why a focus on cultural evolution is our greatest chance for survival.

Show Notes:

Read his work on Medium: https://medium.com/@joe_brewer

Follow Joe on Twitter.

Today my guest is Moritz Bierling.

Moritz is involved in a number of exciting projects: he is the Chief Catalyst at Holo (the distributed P2P hosting platform for Holochain) as well as a Senior Strategist at Exosphere (a revolutionary learning and problem solving community with a new HQ set to launch outside Barcelona, Spain).

I reached out to Moritz because of his story, his mind, and his values. I learned so much from this conversation about working through the Dark Times, aligning with purpose, and developing an insatiable curiosity about the world. This is quite an expansive conversation. I hope you get as much as I did from it. XOXO

Show Notes:

Follow Moritz on Twitter (@bierlingm)

Learn more about Holochain.

Feed your brain with Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Antifragile”

This week, my guest is Peter Limberg. I found Peter on Twitter. Turns out, Twitter is actually a rose garden if you know where to look.

Peter (and co-author Conor Barnes) published a piece on Medium last September called “The Memetic Tribes of Culture War 2.0.” They do an excellent job placing us in this moment of history- where the “Left/Right” binary is far too simplistic in understanding the competing cultural forces at play.

Conor and Peter help distill the reality maps for these different tribes as they would articulate them. This feels like a giant accomplishment in the task of making sense of our current moment. Or at least helps us proceed with a little more empathy?

We talk about the OG Culture War, how it ended, the nature of memetic tribes, and how to approach the daunting task of sitting with Uncertainty. Cheers!

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Show Notes:

Follow Peter and Conor on Twitter - (@peterlimberg) (@Ideopunk)

Read “The Memetic Tribes of Culture War 2.0”

Check out the Toronto Meetup and podcast : Intellectual Explorer’s Club

This week, I am with Misir Mahmudov- a senior finance student at Columbia University.

I reached out to Misir on Twitter because I wanted to have a conversation with someone who had a grasp on the significance of Bitcoin and its potential place in the financial system. Misir studies Bitcoin, Austrian economics, and the history of money.

Enjoy as Misir gives us a run down of how things were, how they are, and how they could be.

Show Notes:

Follow Misir on Twitter (@misir_mahmudov).

Read Misir’s Tweetstorm that caught my attention.

Read Misir’s Bitcoin articles on Medium.