Curious Worldview

Article Attached To This Podcast 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/scott-rank/ Scott Rank is the guest on this episode of the podcast and of course, a historian of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Scott Rank is an author, entrepreneur, academic, and podcaster. He is the author of twelve books. In addition to all of this, and as well many of the topics of this chat. Scott currently hosts the sh...

Article Attached To This Podcast 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/ lachlan-mcgrath-cyber-security / Lachlan McGrath is the Senior Strategy Consultant for CyberCX and the Curious Worldview Podcast's official cyber security expert. Cyber Security forces us to make considerations such as the following.  Why deploy an expensive and costly army when you could rather just cripple your enemy via wif...

Article Attached To This Podcast 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/ john-kaag-nietzsche / John Kaag and his magnificent book, Hiking With Nietzsche, is the subject of this episode of the podcast. The book is a decompression on two journeys, separated by 15 years. John journeyed to Sils Maria - this beautiful mountainous village in Switzerland where Nietzsche published, what some would claim as his...

Article Attached To This Podcast 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/dan-paech/ Dan Peach is the guest on this episode of the podcast and co-owner of the Stockholm based start-up, 100 Point Challenge . Dan is a mate of mine who I met a couple of years ago when I was selling a booking software for tour operators in Europe. Dan owns the business that was at the time companies first Swedish client. I ha...

Article Attached To This Podcast 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/ bradley-hope-project-brazen / Bradley Hope is the co-founder of Project Brazen , a media company that is producing books, podcasts, and even tv shows and movies based off the stranger than fiction real-life stories composed in a narrative journalism style. Bradley Hope is also the co-author of the book, Billion Dollar Whale - the 1...

Article Attached To This Podcast 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/nicholas-shaxson-pandora-papers/ Nicholas Shaxson is a British author, journalist and investigator. He is best known for his investigative books Poisoned Wells and Treasure Islands, both extensive investigations into the corrupt and horrific world of tax evasion, financial secrecy and the rest. Nicholas Shaxson has worked as a part-...

Article Attached To This Podcast 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/ jim-henry-blood-bankers / Jim Henry is the author of Blood Bankers a classic investigative tale of following the money. Jim is a Harvard educated economist and lawyer, one of the famous Nader Raiders, a former chief economist at McKinsey & Co, an investigative journalist, author and as you can imagine much more as well. He is a...

Article Attached To This Podcast Here 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/justin-scheck-blood-and-oil/ The narrative of MBS is relatively straightforward – a monarch who has seen his country thrive of oil wealth, looks into the future and see a world where both fossil fuels and social inequality are a thing of the past. MBS being the visionary with the deep pockets exacts his wealth and influence to...

Article Attached To This Podcast Here 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/christian-busch-serendipity/ Life can be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. How can we predict a future of infinite possibilities based on a finite experience of the past?  An unpredictable future is both exciting as well as daunting however an altogether inescapable fact. There is too much beyond our control...

Article Attached To This Podcast Here 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/arne-andersson-swedish-military/ Arne Andersson was one of the first people I met when I arrived in Sweden. In this podcast, Arne and I speak about his experiences growing up in Sweden, whether conscription is good or bad and as well his extensive experience in Afghanistan. Arne spent three different tours in this nation and ha...

Article Attached To This Podcast Here 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/michael-smith-last-correspondent/ Michael Smith is the China correspondent for the AFR – Australia’s Financial Review. Just a tick over a year ago, he was met at midnight with a thud on the door from China’s secret police. This triggered a diplomatic storm which abruptly ended Michael Smith’s stint as one of Australia’s last fo...

Matthew Dicks is the author of ‘Storyworthy’ and 50-time Moth Storyslam champion and 6-time grand champion.  He wears many hats, all of them in education. A teacher, an author, a performer and a writer. Matthew Dicks book, ‘Storyworthy‘ had an emotional effect on me and furthermore, it was a significant inspiration to producing more work in public. The writing, the podcast, the youtube. Even thoug...

Benjamin David is, among other things , an expert on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. In response to my recent interview with Stephen Hicks , Benjamin reached out and wanted to double down and expand on much of what we covered there. Together, Benjamin takes my superficial understanding of nihilism and other big Nietzsche ideas and really opens them up. In this podcast, you can expect to lea...

Alexander Lee is a biographer of Niccolo Machiavelli with the recently published title – ‘The Life & Times of Niccolo Machiavelli. Alexander is a specialist in the cultural and political history of the Renaissance in Italy making him the perfect person to document the life, influence, legacy and more of this amazing political thinker. - How Machiavelli would have responded to Covid-19. - Why M...

Article Attached To This Podcast Here 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/chris-martinez/ Chris Martinez is the founder of DUDE Agency as well as the author of ' Never Wear Pants Again '. He is a man born in Los Angeles, son of a Mexican father and a Taiwanese mother. His story is one of struggle and pain - but out of it comes a hardened man creating so much in the world. He runs his Digita...

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Article Attached To This Podcast Here 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/ peter-murimi / Peter Murimi is a documentary film maker. He has been heavily involved in some of the social issues that affect Kenya, most notably LGBTQ and mental health. I first heard about Peter during a BBC interview where he documented his coverage of a 'Baby Snatching' catastrophe that was being enabled by spec...

Article Attached To This Podcast Here 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/alex-soojung-kim-pang/ Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is, among other things , the founder of Strategy and Rest. Strategy and Rest is a consultancy firm devoted to helping companies and individuals harness the power of rest to shorten our workdays while staying focused and productive. These themes are published as a series of books. ‘Sh...

Article Attached To This Podcast Here 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/geoffrey-cain-uyghur-catastrophe/ Geoffrey Cain is an award-winning foreign correspondent, author, technologist, and scholar of East and Central Asia. Geoffrey's most recent book, the 'Perfect Police State' documents the truly overwhelming dystopian reality of 2021 China and the Uyghur humanitarian catastrophe wh...

Read As An Article As Well 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/geoff-raby-chinas-grand-strategy/ Geoff Raby is the former Australian Ambassador to China and also of the few true outsiders privies to the insider of China’s institutions. Before Geoff was the Ambassador to China he was head of the Chinese Embassies Economic Division on behalf of Australia’s Department Of Foreign Affairs & Trade. Geo...

Listen To This As A Podcast Instead🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/angelica-oung-china-taiwan/ Angelica Oung brands herself as Taiwan's #1 neo-liberal shill. She is a Taiwanese/American and currently operating as a business and technology journalist out of Taiwan. Read her substack here and follow her on Twitter here. We covered many exciting things in this conversation, episode #35 on the &...

Listen To This As A Podcast Instead🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/stephen-hicks-nietzsche-part-one/ Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the greatest and sharpest philosophers of all time. Nietzsche's ideas, Nietzsche's quotes and Nietzsche's philosophy has proven to be truly Lindy as it is permeated again and again through the culture. In this podcast, I trace the timeline of Nietzsche&...

Visit The Website Where This Is Published🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/mike-salbro-aboriginal-in-sweden/ Big Mike Salbro is one of the last people forcibly taken from their mother’s arms as a member of the stolen generation. Mike’s story is full of twists, turns, tragedies and inspiration. He was adopted at just a few months old from a lovely Swedish woman and shortly after moved to Stockholm....

Listen To This Interview As A Podcast Instead🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/interview-special-economic-zones/ Both Preston & Aleksa work for the Special Economic Zone consultancy firm, The Adrianople Group , of which Preston is a co-founder. We covered so much in this chat – most notably, what are special economic zones? I wrote an article explaining, in brief, an introduction to these pheno...

Listen To This Interview As A Podcast Instead🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/tim-marshall-power-of-geography/ Tim Marshall returns to the podcast! To continue along with the international theme and enormous popularity of ‘ Prisoners Of Geography ‘, Tim Marshall recently published the natural follow-on to this wonderfully geopolitical lens through which to measure the world… ‘ The Power Of Geograp...