Anders Bolling

Mind the Shift

Society EN ↓ 155 episodes

For the first time in history, all of humanity is interconnected. Imagine the impact of that. This is a podcast for social geeks and seekers who watch the news with a gnawing feeling of emptiness. It is an attempt to find answers to the most ridiculously big questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? Pretentious? You bet. For full experience: youtube.com/c/MindtheShiftSupport:Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=46828009Paypal https://paypal.me/andersbolling?country.x=SE&locale.x=sv_SE

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Anders Bolling

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5. Doing good better – Stefan Schubert 22.07.2020 1:12:37

Why our charity is so ineffective. Why (just possibly) there is reason for optimism. And why we should plan for an extremely long-term future. Hear this Oxford psychology/philosophy researcher and Effective Altruism advocate answer mega-questions.

4. Some say failure is blessing in disguise – James Finney 22.07.2020 1:03:58

”If life is a game, then the barriers are the game. If you wanna play big you need big barriers, if not you want smaller barriers. The mechanism is the same.” This brit calls himself an expert on failures, but listen to his gems of wisdom.

3. The silence around certain COVID-19 facts – Sunetra Gupta 22.07.2020 44:23

”A lot of things have just not been discussed openly. We were met with an avalanche of harsh comments. They accused us of being irresponsible.” The lockdowns are more harmful than the coronavirus itself, says this professor of epidemiology .

2. The reports of Democracy’s death are greatly exaggerated – Max Rånge & Mikael Sandberg 22.07.2020 1:14:40

No, democracy isn’t dying. Setbacks in qualified democracies are offset by gains in autocracies, explain the men behind the world’s largest and most reliable dataset on regime types. Check out their work here . 

1. My mission and my vision 09.07.2020 3:57

My name is Anders Bolling, and I’m your host. Who am I, and why am I starting this podcast? In this intro I talk about my background, my viewpoint, some pivotal happenings in my life and my driving forces.