Ingmar Rentzhog, CEO and Founder at We Don’t Have Time
Bursting digital bubbles: how do we connect people who disagree?Ingmar Rentzhog talks to our host Tom Clark about the work he leads bringing the world together to talk about the issues that matter most at the digital platform We Don’t Have Time.
Ingmar describes himself as an entrepreneur for the …
Episode: 106 – [Review] Moral Ambition
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Can ambition be moral?
In this episode, I review Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman—a book arguing that too many of us spend our lives chasing status instead of solving meaningful problems.
We talk about how Bregman builds his case through history and biography, why his arguments are surprisingly c…
EP03: How Can Schools Help Students Find Meaning?
Instead of asking “What do you want to be when you grow up”, should we rather be asking “How would you like to matter? or “How would you like to contribute?”
Students today are growing up in a world shaped by rapid technological change, and rising uncertainty. As parents and educators, we often foc…
Trump on Upholding Constitution: "I Don't Know" | Historian Rutger Bregman
Jon Stewart sorts Trump's latest barrage of bulls**t into the "OK" and "NOT OK" piles, including telling kids to cut down on dolls and pencils, calling for Alcatraz to reopen, posting AI-generated images of himself as the Pope, and shrugging off the Constitution. Historian and best-selling author …
195 – Book Club – The Comfort Crisis
In this episode I'm unpacking Michael Easter's The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self — his argument that modern life has engineered discomfort out of almost everything, and what that's quietly costing us physically and mentally. I'm looking at it through a…
Humankind Part 3
Hi there! In this long-awaited episode, Mellony and Leah spend some time finishing up the book HumanKind by Rutger Bregman
Here's a link to Bregman's Website
Enjoy!
Taj Uppal on risking 6 years in prison for rescuing animals
My guest today is Taj Uppal, an animal rights activist and lawyer. We recorded this conversation while Taj was facing two felony charges and more than six years in prison for rescuing two baby goats from an industrial dairy farm in California. Since recording, a judge has reduced those charges to m…
Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income? (Update)
A lot of jobs in the modern economy don’t pay a living wage, and some of those jobs may be wiped out by new technologies. So what’s to be done? We revisit an episode from 2016 for a potential solution.
SOURCES:
Erik Brynjolfsson, professor of economics at Stanford University.
Evelyn Forget, profe…
Humankind: Are We Good Or Evil? - Rutger Bregman - #181
Rutger Bregman is a historian & an author. It's a common-held view of humanity that humans are adversarial. Shaven chimps competing with each other for resources, held together by a veneer of politeness & society. Rutger disagrees and suggests that deep down humans might actually be quite nice. E…
ReThinking: How you can do more for others with Rutger Bregman
What are you doing to make the world around you better? Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian and the author of the new book Moral Ambition. He joins Adam live in the Authors@Wharton series to discuss how to stop capable people from wasting their talents, lessons from great moral pioneers, and what i…
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