The Coronavirus Effect

How humans stopped relying on evolution and became the controllers of their own destiny. In this episode of 'How to Change the World,' Sam Webster Harris discusses the profound impact of fire on the evolution and societal development of humanity. From transforming our bodies and brains to influencing gender roles and social structures, fire has fundamentally reshaped our way of life. Harris delves...

Is Brexit more important than Bitcoin? How do we rank Buddhism vs TikTok? The world changes, technology advances, but what really matters and how much? Sam explains the Innovation Richter Scale, a framework for understanding impact at every level of technology and what it means to society. --- If you enjoy the episode and want more, Sam has launched his new show - " How to Change the World: The Hi...

Timeless lessons from the Stone Age and how to build innovation into our systems and solve global problems. For 97% of human history, we barely had any technology. Innovation moved at a snail's pace because of 5 invisible forces shaping our world. Learn about how these forces still exist and what really drives world change --- If you enjoy the episode and want more, Sam has launched his new show -...

As we peer into the future, sometimes the best strategy is to look back into the past. The further and deeper we look, the more comprehensive our understanding of how technology and invention can shape the future. --- If you enjoy the episode and want more, Sam has launched his new show - " How to Change the World: The History of Innovation ". Chronologically studying every world-changing event in...

Sam is launching a new show - How to Change the World: The History of Innovation Starting from the dawn of civilization. Each series will cover an era of humanity and each episode will cover an individual innovation and / or innovator telling their story and impact on society. In between episodes, we will have a shorter masterclass episode on an individual topic, mental model, or idea relating to...

Charles Armitage Charles Armitage is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Florence. Florence is a marketplace that connects care homes to nurses and care workers looking for extra shifts. Having started his career in the NHS, Charles entered the world of tech to help tackle some of the failures he witnessed. Charles loves sharing lessons from the frontline of building a platform business. Discu...

James Townsend, the co-founder of Mobilise, is on a mission to transform the way the UK's growing number of informal carers access support. James has over ten years of experience setting up and leading socially impactful organisations. He was formerly Teach First President, and set up the Church of England Foundation for Educational Leadership, facilitating 135,000 teachers, leaders and support st...

Eamonn Carey is the Managing Director of Techstars London. He's been an entrepreneur for most of his adult life - starting several companies in Europe and the Middle East - two successfully, others, less so. He's been an active angel investor in Europe, the US and Asia for the last five years - investing in everything from AI to food tech and from messaging to co-working spaces. He ran the Techsta...

I am an adventuraholic. As such being confined to one space is an unusual place to find myself. I am embracing my curious spirit and invite listeners to explore their minds and body and have their own personal journeys of adventure inside. When You Can't Go Outside, Go Inside We are used to being able to jump on a plane and appear in a new culture and immerse ourselves in adventures. But now we ar...

About Dame Stephanie Shirley is one of Britain's leading philanthropists and has used her life to drive positive change in the world. Shirley empowered a generation of women in technology, giving them unheard of freedom to choose their own hours and manage their own workloads. She started her business in the sixties working from home with no computer or email. Writing machine code in her kitchen....

Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips is an author and technology researcher. We dive into her findings around human interaction online and how we lose empathy and cause each other extra stress. We talk about solutions for this and how we can control ourselves better to avoid being led down dangerous rabbit holes of thinking and keep positive. I can highly reccomend her book " The Future Of Feeling: Building Em...

About The 'Black Swan' is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It demonstrates that unexpected events have the biggest impact on shaping the world. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan The book explains how can we prepare for these evens. How to build a more resilient strategies. How to get stronger from such events instead of being beaten Want more book discussions? This podcast...

After stores across the world first started running out of toilet paper, this quickly spread to empty shelves and epic queues as people rush to stock up before armageddon hits. This has resulted in a lot of further panic and strong emotions and angry words from those impacted. Still no one knows why toilet paper is needed.... In this episode we dive into some of the reasons behind the buying. We d...

An short episode introducing the podcast, the aims and topics to discuss and what you can expect to be hearing over the coming episodes. Sam gives a brief overview of the opportunity we have to reflect and the importance of focussing on the positive amongst all the terrible news. We also learn about the host's background in science, business, adventure and near death experiences and why he's takin...