DecafQuest

The Philosophical Mindset

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Hi, I'm Mahmoud Rasmi, host of The Philosophical Mindset podcast. I think a philosophical mindset helps us ask better questions, move through uncertainty with ease, and explore life's tensions by shifting perspectives. Philosophical exercise is an ongoing process. It’s an activity we engage in, not just an end goal. The challenge is finding balance between extremes and contradictions. Therein lies the quest. A laidback, not-too-serious, not-too-flippant exploration at the intersection of philosophy, culture, business.

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Sep 27, 2025

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The Philosophical Mindset #2 | Jordan B. Goldstein 27.09.2025

Cross-posted with Jordan B. Goldstein’s podcast The Athletic Philosopher: A Chat with Jordan B. Goldstein on Virtues and the Philosophical Mindset in Sports. Jordan B. Goldstein holds a Ph. D. in Sports History and has over seven years of experience teaching sports philosophy, sociology, and history. After leaving academia, he founded Phya Academy, a coaching and consulting practice dedicated to e...

Sports, Virtues, & the Philosophical Mindset | Jordan B. Goldstein 06.09.2025

A chat with Jordan B. Goldstein on virtues and the philosophical mindset in sports. Jordan B. Goldstein holds a Ph. D. in Sports History and has over seven years of experience teaching sports philosophy, sociology, and history. After leaving academia, he founded Phya Academy, a coaching and consulting practice dedicated to exploring the connections between sport, philosophy, and human flourishing....

Rise of the Reader | Nick Hutchison 13.10.2023

Bio: Nick Hutchison is the visionary force behind BookThinkers, a thriving 7-figure marketing agency bridging authors and readers. In just over 7 years, he has cultivated a platform reaching over 1,000,000 people monthly and hosts the top 2% global podcast, "BookThinkers: Life-Changing Books," featuring interviews with renowned authors like Grant Cardone and Lewis Howes. Nick's platf...

Philosophy in the Marketplace | Johannes A. Niederhauser 09.09.2023

Bio: Johannes is founder and leader of the Halkyon Thinkers Guild. The Guild invites all those who seek along the path towards new realms of thought. Find Johannes: Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohannesAchill Website: https://www.halkyonguild.org/ YouTube: @JohannesNiederhauser Relevant links: Website: https://mahmoudrasmi.com/ Philosophy for Professionals: https://philosophyforprofessionals.com T...

Building a Portfolio of Small Bets | Daniel Vassallo 26.08.2023

Bio: Daniel Vassallo is bad for the economy. His main business plan is to avoid returning to work from an office. Ever since he quit his cushy job at Amazon (sometime around 2018), he has dabbled in so many things and launched several products, including an AWS ebook, an online course on how to grow your Twitter audience, cutting boards (yes, I swear), and most recently a community to support peop...

Unamuno's Spain: An Intellectual Landscape | Leslie J. Harkema 06.08.2023

Bio: Leslie J. Harkema is Associate Professor of Spanish and director of the Division of Spanish and Portuguese in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Baylor University. She is the author of Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth: From Miguel de Unamuno to La Joven Literatura (Toronto Iberic, 2017), and her writing on various aspects of literary and cultural modernity in the Ibe...

Navigating the Corporate World: An Existential Journey | Megan Preston Meyer 16.07.2023

Bio: Like Currant, Megan has an MBA. She spent more than 10 years working in supply chain and analytics; now she focuses on the stories that data doesn’t tell. She's the creator of the Supply Jane & Fifo Adventures, picture books that teach supply chain and operations management concepts to kids, as well as the Corporate Elements Mysteries, cozy mysteries for millennials that balance life...

Philosophy in the Marketplace | Gregory Sadler 02.07.2023

Bio: After a career as a fairly traditional academic teaching and publishing in Philosophy, Religious Studies, Literature, and Critical Thinking, Gregory Sadler transitioned into entrepreneurial, public, and client-focused work. After completing APPA certification in 2014, he has engaged in philosophical counseling, executive coaching, and ethics and organizational consulting through his business...

The Power of the 2-Hour Cocktail Party | Nick Gray 14.06.2023

Bio: Nick Gray is an entrepreneur and best-selling author living in Austin, Texas. He started and sold two successful companies: Flight Display Systems and Museum Hack. Nick is the author of The 2-Hour Cocktail Party, a step-by-step handbook that teaches you how to build big relationships by hosting small gatherings. Over 75,000 people have watched his TEDx talk about why he hates most museums. He...

Building Assets on the Internet | Louis Pereira 30.05.2023

Bio: Louis Pereira lives a dual life. During the day, he works with his family to run a traditional, offline first business in Goa, India. At night, he's a creator on the internet where he builds web apps and publishes the occasional article. Currently, he's tinkering around with AI (as is pretty much everyone else) and trying to figure out how to use it to build things that are useful. Fi...

What Is Illusionism? | Keith Frankish 16.05.2023

Bio: Keith Frankish is Honorary Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, UK, Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University, UK, and Adjunct Professor with the Brain and Mind Programme in Neurosciences at the University of Crete, Greece. He is the author of Mind and Supermind (2004) and Consciousness (2005), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters....

Digital Entrepreneurship | Jordan O'Connor 02.05.2023

Bio: Jordan O'Connor is an engineer by trade and a self-taught digital marketer. He is founder of Closet Tools, a Poshmark automation tool. He builds intuitive and performant products, provides SEO services and courses, and shares his ideas and thoughts through his blog and Twitter to help & inspire others on their digital entrepreneurship journey. Find Jordan: • Website: https://jdnoc.com...

Building a Portfolio of Side Hustles | Hassan Osman 18.04.2023

Bio: Hassan Osman is a creator on the side. His full-time job is as a Senior Vice President at NWN Carousel (views are his own) where he leads the organization’s Professional Services team. He also writes short books for busy managers. He is the author of several Amazon Bestsellers, including “Influencing Virtual Teams,” “Don’t Reply All,” and most recently, “ChatGPT for Nonfiction Authors.” Hassa...

Cultivating a Freelance Mindset | Joy Batra 04.04.2023

Bio: Joy Batra is founder of Quartz Consulting, a freelance consulting firm that has advised start-ups, venture capital firms, and Fortune 500 companies. She previously worked at Goldman Sachs, Gunderson Dettmer, JioSaavn, briefly as a Bollywood actress (long story), and most recently as Head of Legal at Syndicate Protocol. Joy has lived or worked in India, Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand, the UA...

How Social Media Changed the Way We Work | Utkarsh Amitabh 14.03.2023

The Marketplace Discussions podcast is an attempt to bridge the gap between disciplines. Bio: Utkarsh Amitabh is the chief executive officer of Network Capital and the chief marketing officer of http://5ire.org, a blockchain unicorn valued at $1.5 billion. http://5ire.org acquired a stake in his company Network Capital (http://networkcapital.tv), one of the world's largest mentorship platforms tha...

Are NFTs Dead? | Peter Noble 28.02.2023

This event is part of the Marketplace Discussions series in an attempt to bridge the gap between disciplines. Summary: Are NFTs dead? In this marketplace discussion, Pete Noble will discuss the hype that surrounded the NFT market. He will be exploring whether or not they will have any relevance, and will cover some potential use cases NFTs might still have. He will also be addressing questions and...

Colin Gorrie - The Joy of Dead Languages 24.02.2023

​This event is part of the Marketplace Discussions series in an attempt to bridge the gap between disciplines. ​Summary: In this marketplace discussion, Colin Gorrie will introduce you to a few of his favourite dead languages, explain how we know anything about languages spoken before the days of the tape recorder, and offer some advice for anyone crazy enough to want to learn one. ​Bio: Colin Gor...

The Ugly Reality of Innovation in Consumer Goods | Costas Papaikonomou 08.02.2023

​This event is part of the Marketplace Discussions series in an attempt to bridge the gap between disciplines. ​Summary: In this marketplace discussion, the main discussion will center around innovation in consumer goods: where all those new products in your supermarket and drugstore come from. How big corporations try to figure out what you'll be willing to buy, and usually fail to get it right....

Residuality Theory: Philosophy & Practice | Barry O'Reilly 24.01.2023

This event is part of the Marketplace Discussions series in an attempt to bridge the gap between disciplines. ​Summary: Residuality provides a new theory of software engineering through applied complexity science. This session will introduce the idea by comparing and contrasting the philosophical differences between residuality and the accidental philosophy that software engineers have inherited f...

Crypto: Is It Really Worse than a Philosophy Ponzi? | Prab Randhawa 29.11.2022

This event is part of the Marketplace Discussions series in an attempt to bridge the gap between disciplines. ​Summary: In this marketplace discussion, Prab Randhawa sheds light on how cryptography-enabled technologies are transforming digital identity, altering the concept of ownership, and reshaping financial markets. ​Bio: Prab spent a decade working at Apple and Shell on a variety of interdisc...

The Nature of Sports: Morality & Virtue | Jordan B. Goldstein 02.11.2022

This talk is part of the Marketplace Discussions series in an attempt to bridge the gap between academia and industry.  In this marketplace discussion, Jordan B. Goldstein takes us on a quest about how philosophy can help us live a good life not only intellectually, but also through exerting our bodies physically. Jordan Goldstein has a Ph. D. in Sports History and 7+ years teaching sports ph...

Why Creativity Trumps IQ | Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy 10.05.2021

This talk is part of the Marketplace Lecture Series in an attempt to bridge the gap between academia and industry.  Support the channel: https://gumroad.com/l/decaphilo Bio: Trishank is an amateur computer scientist, RWRI alumnus & instructor, physical culturist. Website: https://www.trishank.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/trishankkarthik Relevant links: online philosophy courses: http...

[Sample Class] Introduction to Philosophy - Stoicism - Lecture 3 07.03.2021

This is a sample of what my online philosophy classes are like.   More info: https://decafquest.com/  https://decafquest.com/shop/  https://twitter.com/Decafquest e-book: https://gumroad.com/l/ohYop

Is There Such a Thing as Ethical and Socially Responsible Investment? | Dr. Ghassan Chammas 26.02.2021

This talk is part of the Marketplace Lecture Series in an attempt to bridge the gap between academia and industry. Talk #9: Ethical and Socially Responsible Investment: Is there such a thing?  Bio: Dr. Ghassan Chammas is a founding partner and manager of Orion Financial Solutions, an international financial consulting firm specialized in Credit Analysis, Corporate Debt restructuring and Corpo...

Power Sector: Where Do We Go From Here? | Jessica G. Obeid 13.02.2021

This talk is part of the Marketplace Lecture Series in an attempt to bridge the gap between academia and industry. Talk #8: Power Sector: Where Do We Go From Here? Bio: Jessica Obeid is an independent energy policy consultant focusing on electricity and energy transition. She also serves as Senior Global Advisor for London-based consultancy Azure Strategy, formerly Castlereagh Associates. She is A...

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