Podcasts about Harari

El libro “Homo Deus: Breve historia del mañana” examina la trayectoria histórica de la humanidad, desde el control de las plagas, el hambre y la guerra, hasta la búsqueda contemporánea de la inmortalidad, la felicidad y la divinidad a través de la tecnología. Se postula que la ciencia moderna desafía los fundamentos del humanismo y el liberalismo, especialmente en la comprensión de la conciencia, el libre albedrío y el valor de la experiencia humana, dado el avance de los algoritmos y la inteligencia artificial. La narrativa explora cómo las sociedades se han organizado en torno a relatos compartidos (religiones, naciones, capitalismo), y cómo la creciente dependencia de los datos podría llevar a una nueva "religión" del dataísmo, donde el valor se mide por el flujo de información y los sistemas inteligentes superan las capacidades humanas. Finalmente, se plantea la emergencia de una clase "inútil" a medida que la automatización reemplaza trabajos y la posibilidad de que las élites mejoren biológicamente a los humanos, creando divisiones sin precedentes. Puedes comprar el libro “Homo Deus” con descuento desde https://amzn.to/3HAxQKD Únete gratis a la Newsletter Nº1 sobre Marketing Radical desde https://borjagiron.comThis content is under Fair Use: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act in 1976; Allowance is made for "Fair Use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. I do not own the original content. All rights and credit go to its rightful owners. No copyright infringement intended. Conviértete en un seguidor de este podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/grandes-aprendizajes--5720587/support.

Este resumen del libro “Sapiens. De animales a dioses” escrito por Yuval Noah Harari explora la historia de Homo sapiens, comenzando con la revolución cognitiva hace 70.000 años, que permitió la cooperación a gran escala y el surgimiento de realidades imaginadas como el dinero, los imperios y las religiones. Se detalla cómo la revolución agrícola transformó la vida humana y animal, y cómo la revolución científica revolucionó el conocimiento al abrazar la ignorancia, impulsando avances tecnológicos y cambios sociales y culturales sin precedentes. El libro también examina la naturaleza de la felicidad y la posibilidad de que los avances científicos permitan a Homo sapiens superar la muerte y rediseñar la vida, transformándose en una especie con capacidades divinas. Puedes comprar el libro “Sapiens” con descuento desde https://amzn.to/4l0ePQF Únete gratis a la Newsletter Nº1 sobre Marketing Radical desde https://borjagiron.comThis content is under Fair Use: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act in 1976; Allowance is made for "Fair Use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. I do not own the original content. All rights and credit go to its rightful owners. No copyright infringement intended. Conviértete en un seguidor de este podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/grandes-aprendizajes--5720587/support.

Today nearly a third of Ethiopians are Muslims. At around 37 million, that's a larger Muslim population than many Middle Eastern countries. According to Islamic tradition, fourteen centuries ago the first person appointed by the Prophet Muhammad to call Muslims to prayer was an Ethiopian called Bilal ibn Rabbah. Moreover, some of the Prophet's companions sought refuge in the Ethiopian Christian kingdom of Axum. Over the following centuries, Islam spread to other regions and ethnic groups in what is now Ethiopia, developing a rich tradition of manuscript written in Arabic and local languages alike. Using the Arabic script (or more recently the Fidäl script), Islamic manuscripts were written in languages as varied as Somali, Harari, Oromo, Afar and Tigrinya. This episode explores the multilingual manuscripts, Sufi traditions, and modern technologies through which Ethiopia's Muslims have maintained their religious and cultural heritage from the time of Bilal to today.  Nile Green talks to Alessandro Gori, co-editor of The Writings of the Muslim Peoples of Northeastern Africa (Brill, 2022).

El libro “Nexus: Una breve historia de las redes de información desde la Edad de Piedra hasta la IA” de Yuval Noah Harari explora cómo la información y las redes de información han moldeado la civilización humana, analizando su papel en la creación de órdenes sociales y realidades intersubjetivas, desde mitos antiguos hasta la propiedad y los estados. Se examina la evolución de la tecnología de la información, destacando el impacto de la imprenta y la revolución digital, que ha dado lugar tanto a la democracia a gran escala como al totalitarismo.  Un punto central es el dilema entre la búsqueda de la verdad y el mantenimiento del orden, con énfasis en los mecanismos de autocorrección en instituciones y la autonomía creciente de la inteligencia artificial, que presenta desafíos sin precedentes para la humanidad.  Finalmente, se advierte sobre los peligros de la vigilancia totalitaria y la fragmentación global si no se guía la creatividad de la IA hacia objetivos beneficiosos. Puedes comprar el libro “Neus” con descuento desde https://amzn.to/4613F9g Únete gratis a la Newsletter Nº1 sobre Marketing Radical desde https://borjagiron.com This content is under Fair Use: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act in 1976; Allowance is made for "Fair Use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. I do not own the original content. All rights and credit go to its rightful owners. No copyright infringement intended. Conviértete en un seguidor de este podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/grandes-aprendizajes--5720587/support.

Summer rewind: Scott Demark, President and CEO of Zibi Community Utility, joins thinkenergy to discuss how our relationship with energy is changing. With two decades of expertise in clean energy and sustainable development, Scott suggests reimagining traditional energy applications for heating and cooling. He shares how strategic energy distribution can transform urban environments, specifically how district energy systems optimize energy flow between buildings for a greener future. Listen in.   Related links   ●     Scott Demark on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-demark-83640473/ ●     Zibi Community Utility: https://zibi.ca/ ●     Markham District Energy Inc: https://www.markhamdistrictenergy.com/ ●     One Planet Living: https://www.bioregional.com/one-planet-living ●     Trevor Freeman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-freeman-p-eng-cem-leed-ap-8b612114/ ●     Hydro Ottawa: https://hydroottawa.com/en   To subscribe using Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thinkenergy/id1465129405    To subscribe using Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wFz7rdR8Gq3f2WOafjxpl    To subscribe on Libsyn: http://thinkenergy.libsyn.com/  --- Subscribe so you don't miss a video: https://www.youtube.com/user/hydroottawalimited    Follow along on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydroottawa    Stay in the know on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HydroOttawa Keep up with the posts on X: https://twitter.com/thinkenergypod  ---- Transcript: Trevor Freeman  00:00 Hi everyone. Well, summer is here, and the think energy team is stepping back a bit to recharge and plan out some content for the next season. We hope all of you get some much needed downtime as well, but we aren't planning on leaving you hanging over the next few months, we will be re releasing some of our favorite episodes from the past year that we think really highlight innovation, sustainability and community. These episodes highlight the changing nature of how we use and manage energy, and the investments needed to expand, modernize and strengthen our grid in response to that. All of this driven by people and our changing needs and relationship to energy as we move forward into a cleaner, more electrified future, the energy transition, as we talk about many times on this show. Thanks so much for listening, and we'll be back with all new content in September. Until then, happy listening.   Trevor Freeman  00:55 Welcome to think energy, a podcast that dives into the fast changing world of energy through conversations with industry leaders, innovators and people on the front lines of the energy transition. Join me, Trevor Freeman, as I explore the traditional, unconventional and up and coming facets of the energy industry. If you have any thoughts, feedback or ideas for topics we should cover, please reach out to us at think energy at hydro ottawa.com, Hi everyone. Welcome back one of the overarching aspects of the energy transition that we have talked about several times on this show is the need to change our relationship with energy, to rethink the standard way of doing things when it comes to heating and cooling and transportation, et cetera. This change is being driven by our need to decarbonize and by the ongoing evolution and improvement of technology, more things are becoming available to us as technology improves. On the decarbonization front, we know that electrification, which is switching from fossil fuel combustions to electricity for things like space and water heating, vehicles, et cetera, is one of the most effective strategies. But in order to switch out all the end uses to an electric option, so swapping out furnaces and boilers for heat pumps or electric boilers, switching all gas cars to EVs, et cetera, in order to do that in a way that is affordable and efficient and can be supported by our electricity grid. We need to think about multi strategy approaches, so we can't just continue to have this one way power grid where every home, every business, every warehouse or office tower satisfies all of its energy needs all the time directly from the grid with no adaptability. That isn't the best approach. It's not going to be affordable or efficient. We're not going to be able to do it fast enough. The multi strategy approach takes into account things like distributed energy resources, so solar and storage, et cetera, which we've talked about many times on this show, but it also includes approaches like district energy. So district energy is rethinking how energy flows between adjacent buildings, looking for opportunities to capture excess energy or heat from one source and use that to support another, and that is the focus of today's conversation to help us dive into this topic, I'm really happy to welcome Scott demark to the show. Scott has been a champion of sustainability, clean energy solutions and energy efficiency in the Ottawa real estate and development industry for over 20 years now, he has overseen many high performance development projects, and was one of the driving forces behind the Zibi development in downtown Ottawa, and most applicable for today's conversation the renewable district energy system that provides heating and cooling to the Zibi site. Scott is the president and CEO of the Zibi community utility, as well as a partner at Theia partners. Scott the Mark, welcome to the show. Thanks. Nice to see you. Trevor, so Scott, why don't we start with definitions are always a good place to start. So when we talk about a district energy system, give us a high level overview of what exactly that means.   Scott Demark  04:15 Sure a district energy system is, is simply the connection or interconnection of thermal energy sources, thermal energy sinks. And so really, in practical terms, it means, instead of buildings having their own furnace and cooling system, buildings connect to a hydronic loop. A hydronic loop is just pipes filled with water, and then the heat or the cooling is made somewhere else, and that heat or lack of heat cooling is in a pipe. They push the pipe to the building, and then the pipe extracts the heat, or rejects the heat to that loop. And so it's simply an interconnection of. Uh, as it forces in sinks for federal energy.   Trevor Freeman  05:03 And I guess one of the important concepts here is that buildings often create heat, not just through a furnace or not just through the things that are meant to create heat, but, you know, server racks, computer server racks, generate a lot of heat, and that heat has to go somewhere. So oftentimes we're cooling buildings to remove heat that's being created in those buildings, and then other buildings nearby need to be heated in order to make that space comfortable.   Scott Demark  05:31 Is that fair to say? Yeah, absolutely. Trevor, so, a an office building in the city of Ottawa, big old government office building, you'll see a pretty big plume on the roof in the wintertime. That's not just kind of the flue gas from a boiler, but rather it is actually chillers are running inside to make cooling, and they're just selling that heat to the atmosphere, even on the coldest day of the year. So it's people, you know, people are thermal load. Computers are thermal load, and so is solar gain. You know, January is pretty dark period for us, meaning low angle sun, but by this time in a year, you know, at the end of February, there's a lot of heat in that sun. So a glass building absorbs a lot of sun an office building will lead cooling on the sunny side of that building a lot of the time, even in the dead of   Trevor Freeman  06:18 winter, yeah. So a district system, then, is taking advantage of the fact that heat exists, and we don't necessarily need to either burn fossil fuels, or, even if it's a, you know, a clean system, we don't have to expend energy to create heat, or create as much heat if we could move that heat around from where it's kind of naturally occurring to where we need   Scott Demark  06:41 it. That's right at the very core of a district energy system. You're going to move heat from a place that it's not wanted to a place that it is wanted. And so in our example of the office building, you know, on the February day with the sun shining in and the computers all running, that building's getting rid of heat. But right next door, say, there's a 20 story condo. Well, that 20 story condo needs heating and it also needs domestic hot water. So year round, domestic hot water represents 30, 35% of the heating load of any residential building, so at all times. So a district energy system allows you to take that heat away from the office building and give it to the residential building, instead of making the heat and and dissipating that heat to the atmosphere in the office building. So, yeah, it's, it's really a way to move, you know, from sources to sinks. That's, that's what a district energy system does well.   Trevor Freeman  07:37 So we've kind of touched on this a little bit, but let's dive right into, you know, we talk a lot on the show about the energy transition this, this push to one, move away from fossil fuel combustion to meet our energy needs, and two, shifting from a kind of static, centralized energy system like we have right now, big generators, large transmission lines, et cetera, to more of a two way flow, distributed energy system. What is the role of district energy systems within that transition? How do they help us get closer to that sort of reality that we talk about?   Scott Demark  08:15 I think the biggest way that they help is economies of scale. Okay, so by that, I'll explain that. Imagine there's a lot of technology that's been around a long time that is very scalable to the building level, but most of them are fossil fire. Okay, so the the cheapest way to heat a building in Ottawa is to put a gas fired boiler in. That's the cheapest capital cost, first cost, and it's also the cheapest operating cost, is to put a gas boiler in that industry is well established. There's lots of trades who could do it. There's lots of producers who make the boilers. When you start to try and think about the energy transition and think about what you may do to be different, to be lower carbon, or to be zero carbon, those industries are, are just starting right? Those industries don't exist. They don't have the same depth, and so they don't have the same cost structure, and oftentimes they don't scale well down to the building. And therefore a district energy system aggregates a bunch of load, and so you can provide a thermal energy so at scale that becomes affordable. And that is, you know, a very good example of that would be where, you know, you might want to go and and recover heat from some process. And we'll talk about Zibi as the example. But if you want to go recover heat from some process and bring it in, it doesn't make sense to run a pipeline to a source to heat one building. You can't make financial sense of it, but if you're heating 20 buildings, that pipeline, all of a sudden makes sense to take waste heat from somewhere, to move it somewhere else. The other advantage is that truly, district energy systems are agnostic to their inputs and outputs for heat. So once you. Establish that hydronic loop, that interconnection of water pipes between buildings. What the source and what the source is doesn't matter. So you may have, at one point, built a district energy system, and Markham District Energy System is a great example of this. Markham district energy system was built on the concept of using a co generation facility. So they burned natural gas to make electricity. They sold electricity to the grid, and they captured all the waste heat from that generation, and they fed it into a district energy system. Well here we are, 20 plus years later, and they're going to replace that system, that fossil fired system Augment, not fully replaced, but mostly replace that system with a sewer coupled energy recovery and drive those heat recovery chillers to a sewer system. So they're putting a very green solution in place of a former fossil solution. They don't to rip up the pipes. They don't have to change anything in the buildings. They only have to change that central concept now, again, Markham could never do that at a one building scale. They're only that at the community scale.   Trevor Freeman  11:08 So you mentioned, I want to pick on something you said there. You talked about a sewer heat energy system. They're pulling heat from the sewer. Just help our listeners understand high level kind of, why is there heat there for us to pull like, what's the what's the source there?   Scott Demark  11:26 Yeah, so when we shower, when we flush toilets, all, all of that is introducing heat into a sewer system. So we're collecting heat from everybody's house into the sewer system. The sewer system also sits below the frost line. So call it Earth coupled. You know, it's the earth in Ottawa below the frost line sits around eight, eight and a half c and so at that temperature and the temperature of flushing toilets we we essentially get a sewer temperature in the on the coldest day of the year, but it's around 1010, and a half degrees Celsius. And obviously, for lots of the year, it's much warmer than that. And so I think, you know, a lot of people are kind of familiar with the concept of geo exchange energy, or that. Lot of people call it geothermal. But geo exchange where you might drill down into the earth, and you're taking advantage of that 888, and a half degrees Celsius. So you're exchanging heat. You can reject heat to the earth, or you can absorb heat from the earth. Well, this is the same idea, but you accept or reject from this sewer. But because the sewer is relatively shallow, it is cheaper to access that energy, and because it's warm, and on the coldest day, a couple of degrees make a big difference. Trevor and most of the years so much warmer, you're really in a very good position to extract that heat, and that's all it is. You. You are just accepting or rejecting heat. You don't use the sewage itself. It doesn't come into your building. You have a heat exchanger in between. But that's what you do.   Trevor Freeman  12:58 I agree. And we've talked before on the show about the idea that you know, for an air source, heat pump, for example, you don't need a lot of heat energy to extract energy from the air. It can be cold outside, and there is still heat energy in the air that you can pull and use that to heat a building, heat water, whatever. So same concept, except you've got a much warmer source of energy, I guess. Yeah, exactly. And you know, Trevor, when you look at the efficiency curves of those air source heat pumps, you know, they kind of drop off a cliff at minus 20. Minus 22 In fact, you know, five or six years ago, they that that was dropping off at minus 10. So we've come a long way in air source heat pumps. But imagine on that coldest, coldest day of the year, you're still your source is well above zero, and therefore your efficiency. So the amount of electricity you need to put into the heat pump to get out the heat that you need is much lower, so it's a way more efficient heat exchange. Great. Thanks for that, Scott. I know that's a bit of a tangent here, but always cool to talk about different ways that we're coming up with to heat our buildings. So back to district energy, we've talked through some of the benefits of the system. If I'm a building owner and I'm have the decision to connect to a system that's there, or have my own standalone, you know, traditional boiler, whatever the case may be, or even in a clean energy want to heat pump, whatever. What are the benefits of being on a district system versus having my own standalone system for just my building?   Scott Demark  14:30 Yeah, so when you're wearing the developers hat, you know they're really looking at it financially, if they have other goals around sustainability. Great that will factor into it, but most of them are making decisions around this financially. So it needs to compete with that. That first cost that we talked about the easiest ways, is boilers, gas fired boilers is the cheapest way. And so they're going to look to see it at how. Does this compare to that? And so I think that's the best way to frame it for you. And so the difference here is that you need to install in your building a cooling system and a heating system. In Ottawa, that cooling system is only used for a few months a year, and it's very expensive. It takes up space, whether you're using a chiller and a cooling tower on the roof, or using a dry cooler, it takes up roof space, and it also takes up interior space. If you do have a cooling tower, you have a lot of maintenance for that. You need to turn it on and turn it off in the spring, on and fall, etc, just to make sure all that happens. And you need to carry the life cycle of that boiler plant you need to bring gas infrastructure into your building. You generally need to put that gas boiler plant high in your building, so, so up near the top, and that's for purposes of venting that properly. Now, that's taking real estate, right? And it's taking real estate on the area that's kind of most advantageous, worth the most money. So you might lose a penthouse to have a boiler and chiller room up there. And you also, of course, lose roof space. And today, we really do try to take advantage of those rooftop patios and things. Amenities are pretty important in buildings. And so when I compare that to district energy at the p1 level p2 level in your building, you're going to have a small room, and I really do mean small where the energy transfer takes place, you'll have some heat exchangers. And small you might have a space, you know, 10 or 12 feet by 15 to 18 feet would be big enough for a 30 story tower. So a small room where you do the heat exchange and then Trevor, you don't have anything in your building for plant that you would normally look after. So when you look at the pro forma for owning your building over the lifetime of it, you don't have to maintain boilers. You don't have to have boiler insurance. You don't have to maintain your chillers. You don't have to have lifecycle replacement on any of these products. You don't need anybody operating, those checking in on the pressure vessels. None of that has to happen. All of that happens on the district energy system. So you're really taking something you own and operate and replacing that with a service. So district energy is a service, and what, what we promised to deliver is the heating you need and the cooling you need. 24/7 you second thing you get is more resilience. And I'll explain that a little bit. Is that in a in a normal building, if you if the engineers looked at it and said you need two boilers to keep your building warm, then you're probably going to install three. And that is kind of this n plus one sort of idea, so that if one boilers goes down, you have a spare and you need to maintain those. You need to pay for that. You need to maintain those, etc. But in district energy system, all that redundancy is done in the background. It's done by us, and we have significantly more redundancy than just n plus one in this example. But overall, you know, if you have 10 buildings on your district energy system, each of those would have had n plus one. We don't have n plus 10 in the plant. And so overall, the cost is lower, I would say, if you look at it globally, except the advantages you do have better than N plus one in the plan, so we have higher resiliency at a lower cost.   Trevor Freeman  18:26 So we know there's no such thing as a miracle solution that works in all cases. What are the the best use cases for district energy system? Where does it make a lot of sense.   Scott Demark  18:37 Yeah, in terms some, in some ways the easiest thing, spray work doesn't make sense. So, so it doesn't make sense in sprawling low rise development. So the cost of that hydronic loop, those water pipes, is high. They have to fit in the roadway. It's civil work, etc. And so you do need density. That doesn't mean it has to be high rise density. You know, if you look at Paris, France, six stories, district energy, no problem. There's there's lots and lots of customers for that scale of building. It doesn't have to be all high rise, but it does. District energy does not lend itself well to our sprawling style of development. It's much more suited to a downtown setting. It also kind of thrives where there's mixed use, you know, I think the first example we're talking about is office building shedding heat, residential building needing heat, you know, couple that with an industrial building shedding heat. You know, the these various uses, a variety of uses on a district energy system is the best because its biggest advantage is sharing energy, not making energy. And so a disparity of uses is the best place to use that, I think the other, the other thing to think about, and this is harder in Canada than the rest of the world. Is that, you know, it's harder on a retrofit basis, from a cost perspective, than it is in a in a new community where you can put this in as infrastructure, day one, you're going to make a big difference. And I'll, you know, give a shout out to British Columbia and the Greater Vancouver area. So the district, you know, down in the Lower Mainland, they, they kind of made this observation and understood that if they were going to electrify then District Energy gave economies of scale to electrify that load. And they do a variety of things, but one of the things they do is, is kind of district geo exchange systems, so, so big heat pumps coupled to big fields, and then bring heat a bunch of buildings. But these are Greenfield developments Trevor. So as they expand their suburbs, they do need to build the six stories. They very much have kind of density around parks concepts. So now Park becomes a geo field, density around the geo field, but this infrastructure is going in the same time as the water pipes. It's going in at the same time as the roads, the sidewalks, etc, you can dramatically reduce your cost, your first cost related to that hydro loop, if you're putting it in the same time you're doing the rest of the services.   Trevor Freeman  21:15 So we're not likely to see, you know, residential neighborhoods with single family homes or multi unit homes, whatever, take advantage of this. But that sort of low rise, mid rise, that's going to be more of a good pick for this. And like you said, kind of development is the time to do this. You mentioned other parts of the world. So district energy systems aren't exactly widespread. In Canada, we're starting to see more of them pop up. What about the rest of the world? Are there places in the world where we see a lot more of this, and they've been doing this for a long time?   Scott Demark  21:47 Yeah. So I'd almost say every everywhere in the northern hemisphere, except North America, has done much more of this. And you know, we really look to kind of Scandinavia as the gold standard of this. You look to Sweden, you look to Denmark, you look to Germany. Even there's, there's a lot of great examples of this, and they are typically government owned. So they are often public private partnerships, but they would be various levels of government. So you know, if you, if you went to Copenhagen, you'd see that the municipality is an owner. But then their equivalent of a province or territory is, is actually a big part of it, too. And when they built their infrastructure ages ago, they did not have an easy source of fossil fuels, right? And so they need to think about, how can we do this? How can we share heat? How can we centralize the recovery of heat? How can we make sure we don't waste any and this has just been ingrained in them. So there's massive, massive District Energy loops, interconnecting loops, some owned by municipalities, some of them probably, if you build a factory, part of the concept of your factory, part of the pro forma of your factory is, how much can I sell my waste heat for? And so a factory district might have a sear of industrial partners who own a district energy loop and interfaces with the municipal loop, all sort of sharing energy and dumping it in. And so that's, you know, that's what you would study. That's, that's where we would want to be. And the heart of it is just that, as I said, we've really had, you know, cheap or, you know, really cheap fossil fuels. We've had no price on pollution. And therefore what really hasn't needed to happen here, and we're starting to see the need for that to happen here.   Trevor Freeman  23:46 It's an interesting concept to think of, you know, bringing that factory example in, instead of waste heat or heat as a byproduct of your process being a problem that you need to deal with, something, you have to figure out a way to get rid of it becomes almost an asset. It's a it's a, you know, convenient commodity that's being produced regardless, that you can now look to sell and monetize.   Scott Demark  24:10 Yeha, you go back to the idea of, like, what are the big benefits of district energy? Is that, like, if that loop exists and somebody knows that one of the things the factory produces is heat, well, that's a commodity I produce, and I can, I can sell it if I have a way to sell it right here, you know, we're going to dissipate it to a river. We may dissipate it to the atmosphere. We're going to get rid of it. Like you said, it's, it's, it's waste in their minds, and in Europe, that is absolutely not waste.   Trevor Freeman  24:36 And it coming back to that, you know, question of, where does this make sense? You talked about mixed use, and it's also like the, you know, the temporal mixed use of someone that is producing a lot of heat during the day, when the next door residential building is empty, then when they switch, when the factory closes and the shift is over and everybody comes home from work. So that's when that building needs heat, that's when they want to be then taking that heat two buildings next to each other that both need heat at the same time is not as good a use cases when it's offset like that.   Scott Demark  25:10 Yeah, that's true. And lots of District Energy Systems consider kind of surges and storage. I know our system at CB has, has kind of a small storage system related to the domestic hot water peak load. However, you can also think of the kilometers and kilometers and kilometers of pipes full of water as a thermal battery, right? So, so you actually are able to even out those surges you you let the temperature the district energy system rise when that factory is giving all out all kinds of heat, it's rising even above the temperature you have to deliver it at. And then when that heat comes, you can draw down that temperature and let the whole district energy system normalize to its temperature again. So you do have an innate battery in the in the water volume that sits in the district energy system, very cool.   Trevor Freeman  26:04 So you've mentioned Zibi a couple of times, and I do want to get into that as much as we're talking about other parts of the world. You know having longer term district energy systems. Zibi, community utility is a great example, right here in Ottawa, where you and I are both based of a district energy system. Before we get into that, can you, just for our listeners that are not familiar with Zibi, give us a high level overview of of what that community is, its location, you know, the goals of the community, and then we'll talk about the energy side of things.   Scott Demark  26:34 Sure. So Zibi was formerly Domtar paper mills. It's 34 acres, and it is in downtown Ottawa and downtown Gatineau. About a third of the land masses is islands on the Ontario side, and two thirds of the land mass is on the shore, the north shore of the Ottawa River in Gatineau, both downtown, literally in the shadows of Parliament. It is right downtown. It was industrial for almost 200 years. Those paper mills shut down in the 90s and the early 2000s and my partners and I pursued that to turn it from kind of this industrial wasteland, walled off, fenced off, area that no one could go into. What we're hoping will be kind of the world's most sustainable urban community, and so at build out, it will house, you know, about six, 7000 people. It will be four and a half million square feet, 4.24 point 4, million square feet of development. It is master planned and approved and has built about, I think we're, at 1.1 million square feet. So we're about quarter built out now. 10 buildings are done and connected to the district energy system there. And really, it's, it's an attempt to sort of recover land that was really quite destroyed. You can imagine it was a pretty polluted site. So the giant remediation plan, big infrastructure plan, we modeled this, this overall sustainability concept, over a program called one planet living which has 10 principles of sustainability. So you know, you and I are talking a lot about carbon today, but there's also very important aspects about affordability and social sustainability and lifestyle, and all of those are incorporated into the one planet program, and encourage people to look up one planet living and understand what it is, and look at the commitments that we've made at CV to create a sustainable place. We issue a report every year, kind of our own report card that's reviewed by a third party, that explains where we are on our on our mission to achieve our goal of the world's most sustainable   Trevor Freeman  28:57 community. Yeah. And so I do encourage people to look at one planet living. Also have a look at, you know, the Zibi website, and it's got the Master Plan and the vision of what that community will be. And I've been down there, it's already kind of coming along. It's amazing to see the progress compared to who I think you described it well, like a bit of an industrial wasteland at the heart of one of the most beautiful spots in the city. It was really a shame what it used to be. And it's great to see kind of the vision of what it can become. So that's awesome.   Scott Demark  29:26 Yeah, and Trevor, especially now that the parks are coming along. You know, we worked really closely with the NCC to integrate the shoreline of ZV to the existing, you know, bike path networks and everything. And, you know, two of the three shoreline parks are now completed and open to the public and and they're stunning. And, you know, so many Ottawa people have not been down there because it's not a place you think about, but it's one of the few places in Ottawa and Gatineau where you can touch the water, you know, like it's, it's, it's stunning. Yeah, very, very cool.   Trevor Freeman  29:57 Okay, so the. The the next part of that, of course, is energy. And so there is a district energy system, one of the first kind of, or the most recent big energy. District Energy Systems in Ottawa. Tell us a little bit about how you are moving energy and heating the Zibi site.   Scott Demark  30:17 Yeah. So, first I'll say, you know, we, we, we studied different ways to get to net zero. You know, we had, we had a goal of being a zero carbon community. There are low carbon examples, but a zero carbon community is quite a stretch. And even when you look at the Scandinavian examples, the best examples, they're missing their they're missing their energy goals, largely because some of the inputs that are District Energy System remain fossil, but also because they have trouble getting the performance out of the buildings. And so we looked at this. We also know from our experience that getting to zero carbon at the building scale in Ottawa is very, very difficult. Our climate's tough, super humid, super hot summer, very cold, very dry, winter, long winter. So it's difficult at the building scale. It's funny Trevor, because you'd actually have an easier time getting to zero carbon or a passive house standard in affordable housing than you do at market housing, and that's because affordable housing has a long list of people who want to move in and pay rents. You can get some subsidies for capital, and the people who are willing to pay rent are good with smaller windows, thicker walls, smaller units, and pass trust needs, all those kinds of things. So when down at Zibi, you're really selling views. You're competing with people on the outside of Zibi, you're building almost all glass buildings. And so it's really difficult to find a way to get to zero carbon on the building scale. So that moved us to district energy for all the reasons we've talked about today already. And so when we looked at it for Zibi, you really look at the ingredients you have. One of the great things we have is we're split over the border. It's also a curse. But split over the border is really interesting, because you cannot move electricity over that border, but you can move thermal energy over that border. And so for us, in thinking about electrifying thermal energy, we realized that if we did the work in Quebec, where there is clean and affordable electricity, we could we could turn that into heat, and then we could move heat to Ontario. We could move chilled water to Ontario. So that's kind of ingredient, one that we had going for us there. The second is that there used to be three mills. So originally, don't target three mills. They sold one mill. It changed hands a few times, but It now belongs to Kruger. They make tissue there so absorbent things, Kleenexes and toilet paper, absorbent, anything in that tissue process. That's a going concern. So you can see that on our skyline. You can see, on cold days, big plumes of waste heat coming out of it. And so we really saw that as our source, really identified that as our source. And how could we do that? So going back to the economies of scale, is could we send a pipeline from Kruger, about a kilometer away, to Zibi? And so when we were purchasing the land, we were looking at all the interconnections of how the plants used to be realized. There's some old pipelines, some old easements, servitudes, etc. And so when we bought the land, we actually bought all of those servitudes too, including a pipeline across the bridge. Canadian energy regulator licensed across the bridge into Ontario. And so we mixed all these ingredients up, you know, in a pot and came up with our overall scheme. And so that overall scheme is is relatively simple. We built an energy recovery station at Kruger where, just before their effluent water, like when they're finished in their process, goes back to the river. We have a heat exchanger there. We extract heat. We push that heat in a pipe network over to Zibi. At Zibi, we can upgrade that heat using heat recovery chillers to a useful temperature for us, that's about 40 degrees Celsius, and we push that across the bridge to Ontario, all of our buildings in Ontario then have fan coil units. They use that 40 degree heat to heat buildings. The return side of that comes back to Quebec. And then on the Quebec side, we have a loop. And all of our buildings in the Quebec side then use heat pumps so we extract the last bit of heat. So imagine you you've returned from a fan coil, but you're still slightly warm. That slightly warm water is enough to drive a heat pump inside the buildings. And then finally, that goes back to Kruger again, and Kruger heats it back up with their waste heat and comes back. So that's our that's our heating loop. The cooling side is coupled to the Ottawa River. And so instead of us, we. Rejecting heat to the atmosphere through cooling towers. Our coolers are actually coupled to the river. That's a very tight environmental window that you can operate in. So we worked with the Ministry of the Environment climate change in Quebec to get our permit to do it. We can only be six degrees difference to the river, but our efficiency is on average, like on an annual basis, more than double what it would be to a cooling tower for the same load. So we're river coupled, with respect to cooling for the whole development, and we're coupled to Kruger for heating for the whole development. And what that allows us to do is eliminate fossil fuels. Our input is clean Quebec electricity, and our output is heating and cooling.   Trevor Freeman  35:44 So none of the buildings, you know, just for our listeners, none of the buildings have any sort of fossil fuel combustion heating equipment. You don't have boilers or anything like that. Furnaces in these in these buildings?   Scott Demark  35:54 No boilers, no chillers, no. that's awesome. And   Trevor Freeman  35:58 That's awesome. And just for full transparency, I should have mentioned this up front. So the Zibi community utility is a partnership between Zibi and Hydro Ottawa, who our listeners will know that I work for, and this was really kind of a joint venture to figure out a different approach to energy at the Zibi site.   Scott Demark  36:16 Yeah, that's right. Trevor, I mean the concept, the concept was born a long time ago now, but the concept was born by talking to hydro Ottawa about how we might approach this whole campus differently. You know, one of hydro Ottawa companies makes electricity, of course, Chaudière Falls, and so that was part of the thinking we thought of, you know, micro grids and islanding this and doing a lot of different things. When Ford came in, and we were not all the way there yet, and made changes to Green Energy Act, it made it challenging for us to do the electricity side, but we had already well advanced the thermal side, and hydro, you know, hydro makes a good partner in this sort of thing, when a when a developer tells someone, I'd like you to buy a condo, and by the way, I'm also the district energy provider that might put some alarm bells up, but you put a partnership in there with a trusted, long term utility partner and explain that, you know, it is in the in the public interest. They're not going to jack rates or mess with things, and then obviously just hydro has had such a long operating record operating experience that they really brought sort of an operations and long term utility mindset to our district energy system.   Trevor Freeman  37:35 So looking at a system like the Zippy community utility or other district energy systems. Is this the kind of thing that can scale up over time? And, you know, I bring this up because you hear people talk about, you know, a network of district energy systems across a city or across a big geographic area. Are these things that can be interconnected and linked, or does it make more sense as standalone district energy systems in those conditions that you talked about earlier.   Scott Demark  38:06 Very much the former Trevor like and that's, you know, that's where, you know, places like Copenhagen are today. It's that, you know, there was, there was one district energy system, then there was another, then they got interconnected, then the third got added. And then they use a lot of incineration there in that, in that part of the world, clean incineration for garbage. And so then an incinerator is coming online. And so that incinerators waste heat is going to be fed with a new district energy loop, and some other factory is going to use the primary heat from that, and then the secondary heat is going to come into the dictionary system. Disciplinary system. So these things are absolutely expandable. They're absolutely interconnectable. There are temperature profiles. There's modern, modern thoughts on temperature profiles compared to older systems. Most of the old, old systems were steam, actually, which is not the most efficient thing the world. But that's where they started and so now you can certainly interconnect them. And I think that the example at Zibi is a decent one, because we do have two kinds of systems there. You know, I said we have fan coil units in in the Ontario side, but we have heat pumps on the other side. Well, those two things, they can coexist, right? That's there. Those two systems are operating together. Because the difference, you know, the difference from the customer's perspective in those two markets are different, and the same can be true in different parts of the city or when different sources and sinks are available. So it is not one method of doing district energy systems. What you do is you examine the ingredients you have. I keep saying it, but sources and sinks? How can I look at these sources and sinks in a way that I can interconnect them and make sense? And sometimes that means that a source or a sink might be another district energy system.   Trevor Freeman  39:59 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, systems that maybe work in parallel to each other, in cooperation with each other. Again, it's almost that temporal need where there's load high on at one point in time and low on the other point in time. Sharing is a great opportunity.   Scott Demark  40:14 Yeah, absolutely great.   Trevor Freeman  40:17 Okay, last question for you here, Scott, what is needed, maybe from a regulatory or a policy lens to encourage more implementation of district energy systems. How do we see more of these things happen here in Canada or in   Scott Demark  40:32 North America? The best way to put this, the bureaucracy has been slow to move, is, is what I'll say, and I'll use Zibi as that example. When we, when we pitched the district energy system at Zibi, we had to approach the City of Ottawa, and we had to approach the city of Gatineau, the City of Ottawa basically said to us, No, you can't put those in our streets. Engineering just said, no, no, no, no. And so what we did at Zibi is we actually privatized our streets in order to see our vision through, because, because Ottawa wasn't on board, the city of Gatineau said, Hmm, I'm a little worried. I want you to write protocols of how you will access your pipes, not our pipes. I want to understand where liability ends and starts and all of this kind of stuff. And we worked through that detail slowly, methodically, with the city of Gatineau, and we came to a new policy on how district energy could be in a public street and Zibi streets are public on the Gatineau side today. You know, come forward 10 years here, and the City of Ottawa has a working group on how to incorporate District Energy pipes into streets. We've been able to get the City of Ottawa to come around to the idea that we will reject and accept heat from their sewer. You know, hydro Ottawa, wholly owned company of the City of Ottawa, has an active business in district energy. So Trevor, we've come really far, but it's taken a long time. And so if you ask me, How can we, how can accelerate district energy, I think a lot of it has to do with the bureaucracy at municipalities. And you know, we're we see so much interest from the Federation of Canadian municipalities, who was the debt funder for ZCU. We have multiple visits from people all over Canada, coming to study and look at this as an example. And I'm encouraged by that. But it's also, it's also not rocket science. We need to understand that putting a pipe in a street is kind of a just, just a little engineering problem to solve, whereas putting, you know, burning fossil fuels for these new communities and putting in the atmosphere like the genies out of the bottle, right? Like and unfortunately, I think for a lot of bureaucrats, the challenge at the engineering level is that that pipe in the street is of immediate, complex danger to solving that problem, whereas it's everybody's problem that the carbons in the atmosphere. So if we could accelerate that, if we could focus on the acceleration of standards around District Energy pipes and streets, the rights of a district energy company to exist, and not to rant too much, but give you an example, is that a developer is required to put gas infrastructure into a new community, required, and yet you have to fight to get a district energy pipe in the street. So there needs to be a change of mindset there, and, and we're not there yet, but that's where we need to go.   Trevor Freeman  43:54 Yeah. Well, the interesting, you know, in 10 years, let's talk again and see how far we come. Hopefully not 10 years. Hopefully it's more like five, to see the kind of change that you've seen in the last decade. But I think that the direction is encouraging. The speed needs a little bit of work. But I'm always encouraged to see, yeah, things are changing or going in the right direction, just slowly. Well, Scott, we always end our interviews with a series of questions to our guests, so as long as you're okay with it, I'll jump right into those. So the first question is, what is a book you've read that you think everybody should read?   Scott Demark  44:29 Nexus, which is by Harari. He's the same author that wrote sapiens. Lots of people be familiar with sapiens. And so Nexus is, is really kind of the history of information networks, like, how do we, how do we share and pass information? And kind of a central thesis is that, you know, information is, is neither knowledge nor truth. It is information, and it's talking a lot about in the age of AI. Uh, how are we going to manage to move information into truth or knowledge? And I think it, you know, to be honest, it kind of scared the shit out of me reading it kind of how, how AI is impacting our world and going to impact our world. And what I thought was kind of amazing about it was that he, he really has a pretty strong thesis around the erosion of democracy in this time. And it's, it was, it was really kind of scary because it was published before the 2024 election. And so it's, it's really kind of a, both a fascinating and scary read, and I think really something that everybody should get their head around.   Trevor Freeman  45:47 It's, yeah, there's a few of those books recently that I would clear or classify them as kind of dark and scary, but really important or really enlightening in some way. And it kind of helps you, you know, formalize a thought or a concept in your head and realize, hey, here's what's happening, or gives you that kind of the words to speak about it in this kind of fraught time we're in. So same question, but for a movie or a show, is there anything that you think everybody should watch.   Scott Demark  46:16 That's harder, I think, generally from watching something, it's for my downtime or own entertainment, and pushing my tastes on the rest of the world, maybe not a great idea. I if I, if I'm, if I'm kind of doing that, I tend to watch cooking shows, actually, Trevor so like, that's awesome. I like ugly, delicious. I love Dave Chang. I like, I like mind of a chef creativity partnership. So those kind of things I'd say more so if there was something to like that, I think somebody else should, should watch or listen to, I have, I have a real love for Malcolm Gladwell podcast, revisionist history. And so if I thought, you know, my watching habits are not going to going to expand anybody's brain, but I do think that Malcolm's perspective on life is really a healthy it's really healthy to step sideways and look at things differently. And I would suggest, if you have never listened to that podcast. Go to Episode One, season one, and start there. It's, it's, it's fantastic.   Trevor Freeman  47:26 Yeah, I agree. I'll echo that one. That's one of my favorites. If we were to offer you or not, but if we were to offer you a free round trip flight, anywhere in the world, where would you go?   Scott Demark  47:38 That's hard, so much flight guilt. You know.   Trevor Freeman  47:42 I know it's a hard assume that there's carbon offset to it.   Scott Demark  47:47 It's an electric plane.   Trevor Freeman  47:48 That's right, yeah.s   Scott Demark  47:49 My family, had a trip planned in 2020 to go to France and Italy. My two boys were kind of at the perfect age to do that. It would have been a really ideal trip. And so I've still never been to either those places. And if I had to pick one, probably Italy, I would really like to see Italy. I think it would be a fantastic place to go. So probably, probably Italy.   Trevor Freeman  48:12 My favorite trip that I've ever done with my wife and our six month old at the time was Italy. It was just phenomenal. It was a fantastic trip. Who's someone that you admire?   Scott Demark  48:25 I have a lot of people. Actually have a lot of people in this in this particular space, like, what would I work in that have brought me here to pick to pick one, though I'd probably say Peter Busby. So. Peter Busby is a mentor, a friend, now a business partner, but, but not earlier in my career. Peter Busby is a kind of a one of the four fathers, you know, if you will, of green design in Canada. He's an architect, Governor General's Award winning architect, actually. But I think what I what I really, really appreciate about Peter, and always will, is that he was willing to stand up in his peer group and say, Hey, we're not doing this right. And, you know, he did that. He did that in the early 80s, right? Like we're not talking he did it when it cost his business some clients. He did it when professors would speak out against him, and certainly the Canadian Association of architecture was not going to take any blame for the shitty buildings that have been built, right? And he did it, and I remember being at a conference where Peter was getting a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian architects Association. And so he's standing up, and people are all super proud of him. They're talking about his big life. And he. He, he, he kind of belittled them all and said, You're not doing enough. We're not doing enough like he's still he's still there. He's still taking the blame for where things are, and that things haven't moved fast enough, and that buildings are a massive part of our carbon problem, and probably one of the easier areas to fix. You know, we're talking about electric planes. Well, that's a that's a lot more difficult than it is to recover energy from a factory to heat a community, right? I admire him. I learned things from him all the time. He's got a great book out at the moment, actually, and, yeah, he'd be right up there on my in my top list, awesome.   Trevor Freeman  50:44 What is something about the energy sector or its future that you're particularly excited about?   Scott Demark  50:48 You wished you asked me this before the election. I'm feeling a little dark. Trevor, I think there needs to be a price on pollution in the world needs to be a price on pollution in America, in Canada, and I'm worried about that going away. In light of that, I'm not I'm not super excited about different technologies at the moment. I think there are technologies that are helping us, there are technologies that are pushing us forward, but there's no like silver bullet. So, you know, a really interesting thing that's coming is kind of this idea that a small nuclear reactor, okay, very interesting idea. You could see its context in both localized electricity production, but all the heat also really good for district entry, okay, so that's an interesting tech. It obviously comes with complications around security and disposal, if you like, there's our nuclear industry has been allowed to drink like, it's all complicated. So I don't see one silver bullet in technology that I'm like, That's the answer. But what I do see, I'll go back to what we were talking about before is, you know, we had to turn this giant ship of bureaucracy towards new solutions. Okay, that's, that's what we had to do. And now that it's turned and we've got it towards the right course, I'm encouraged by that. I really am. You know, there are champions. And I'll, I'll talk about our city. You know, there's champions in the City of Ottawa who want to see this happen as younger people have graduated into roles and planning and other engineering roles there. They've grown up and gone to school in an age where they understand how critical this climate crisis is, and they're starting to be in positions of power and being in decision making. You know, a lot of my career, we're trying to educate people that there was a problem. Now, the people sitting in those chairs, it, they understand there's a problem, and what can they do about it? And so I am, I am excited that that the there is a next generation sitting in these seats, making decisions, the bureaucracy, the ship is, is almost on course to making this difference. So, so I do think that's encouraging. We have the technology. We really do. It's not rocket science. We just need to get through, you know, the bureaucracy barriers, and we need to find ways to properly finance it.   Trevor Freeman  53:22 Great. I think that's a good place to wrap it up. Scott, thanks so much for your time. I really appreciate this conversation and shedding a little bit of light, not just on the technical side of district energy systems, but on the broader context, and as you say, the bureaucracy, the what is needed to make these things happen and to keep going in that right direction. So thanks a lot for your time. I really appreciate it.   Scott Demark  53:43 Thank you, Trevor, good to see you.   Trevor Freeman  53:45 All right. Take care.   Trevor Freeman  53:47 Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the think energy podcast. Don't forget to subscribe. Wherever you listen to podcasts, and it would be great if you could leave us a review. It really helps to spread the word. As always, we would love to hear from you, whether it's feedback, comments or an idea for a show or a guest, you can always reach us at thinkenergy@hydroottawa.com.

Yesterday, we focused on the death of the American way of work. But today the news on the AI front isn't quite as dire. According to the New York based economic historian Dror Poleg, AI will be too busy to take your job. That's the provocative thesis of Poleg's upcoming book focused on the radical opportunities in our AI age. He argues that AI's massive energy consumption will actually preserve human employment, as society redirects computing power toward critical tasks rather than simply replacing human labor with algorithms. Unlike Yuval Noah Harari's pessimistic "useless class" prediction, Poleg cheerfully envisions a future where everyone becomes valuable through constant experimentation and human connectivity. He believes we're entering an era where work becomes indistinguishable from leisure, interpersonal skills command premium value, and the economy depends on widespread human creativity and feedback to determine what's truly valuable in an increasingly unpredictable world. That's the electrifying truth about our AI era. For Poleg, AI represents something even more transformative than electrification itself—a utility that will flow like water and affect everything, reshaping not just how we work but the very nature of economic value and human purpose.1. AI's Energy Demands Will Preserve Human Jobs"Energy is too valuable to waste on tasks humans can do... we as an economy, as a society, will basically want to throw as much electricity as possible at the things that matter up to the point that maybe automating different tasks that human can do... we'll decide to take electricity away from today's computer, even from people using Excel today and saying, Okay, that electricity is more valuable somewhere else."2. AI Is More Transformative Than Electrification"I would say it's more significant... I think it's at least as significant as electricity and electrification. And in many ways... it is more of a utility than anything else for better or worse. So it will flow like water and it will affect everything."3. Everyone Will Become Valuable Through Experimentation"My view of the future is actually exactly the opposite [of Harari's useless class]. I think that in the future everyone will be valuable and almost any activity would be valuable because we will not have any idea what is or who is valuable... as a society we will need as many people as possible to constantly do whatever they feel like, create whatever they want to create."4. Work Will Merge With Leisure and Human Connection"The general trend that I see is that work will become increasingly indistinguishable from leisure if we're looking long-term... we'll see more of these types of jobs, basically giving each other attention, helping each other know that we exist and sharing with each other more and more specialized and granular types of... service that only we can give to each other."5. Physical, In-Person Interactions Will Become Premium"If you wanna know if something is true, the only way to know that is to be there or to know someone who was there... I think that also pushes us back towards offline. In-person physical interactions that will be at a premium." This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

W konkteście książki Harariego "Nexus" omawiam powieść Stanisława Lema "Golem XIV"...Opening/ending: Johann SebastianBach, the Open Goldberg Variations by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Kimiko Ishizaka⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kimiko_Ishizaka/The_Open_Goldberg_Variations

Storytelling: The Most Scalable Post-AI Business Skill Worth MasteringIn a world of AI-generated content and fractured attention, your ability to tell compelling stories may be your greatest competitive advantage.Episode SummaryIn this episode of The Digital Contrarian, host Ryan Levesque dives into why storytelling is the most scalable post-AI business skill worth developing.You'll learn how stories create deeper connection than any other content, discover the three story types you need to master, and find five contrarian tips for telling better stories that cut through the noise.Question of the Day

In this heart-open, mind-stretching class, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath dives headfirst into one of the most profound questions ever asked: Who wrote the Torah and what do we mean by G-d? Sparked by a challenge from Ilana, a thoughtful soul who just "won the raffle" and then handed Rabbi Bernath some of the hardest theological questions he's faced, this class isn't a debate, it's a bridge. Drawing from Torah, Talmud, Rambam, Tanya, Harari, Einstein, Spinoza, and Chassidic mystics, we explore traditional belief, academic scholarship, and the honest soul-searching that sits between them.Is the Torah a divine blueprint or a human masterpiece? Or… could it be both?Together, we walk a path between Sinai and the seminar room, from ancient revelation to modern doubt and discover that sometimes, the questions themselves are the invitation to a deeper relationship with truth.Key Takeaways:Traditional Belief Holds Depth: Torah mi-Sinai means Moses recorded divine revelation over 40 years. It's not simplistic, it's layered and deeply rooted in Jewish collective memory.Modern Scholarship Brings Honest Challenges: Thinkers like Harari argue that the Torah was assembled over centuries, reflecting political and social needs. These critiques must be addressed, not ignored.Kabbalah and Chassidus Provide a Bridge: Divine revelation doesn't exclude human expression. The Torah flowed through Moses' voice and personality, G-d worked with human vessels.Assumptions Shape Interpretation: Believers and skeptics alike interpret the same data through different axioms. Acknowledging this fosters respectful dialogue rather than defensiveness.The Torah's Endurance Is Itself a Testament: Its moral vision, power to unite, and enduring relevance across time and culture hint at something more than human genius, it points toward the Divine.This Is Not About “Winning” an Argument: It's about honesty, humility, and the courage to explore big questions together.The Torah Is a Living Document: Beyond history or philosophy, Torah continues to speak—not just inform, but transform. That may be its greatest proof of all.#Torah #God #Judaism #sinai #Moses #Divinerevelation #Documentaryhypothesis #YuvalNoahHarari #Kabbalah #Jewishtradition #BiblicalCrticism #Tanya #Spinoza #chassidus #Faith #theology Support the showGot your own question for Rabbi Bernath? He can be reached at rabbi@jewishndg.com or http://www.theloverabbi.comSingle? You can make a profile on www.JMontreal.com and Rabbi Bernath will help you find that special someone.Donate and support Rabbi Bernath's work http://www.jewishndg.com/donateFollow Rabbi Bernath's YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/ybernathAccess Rabbi Bernath's Articles on Relationships https://medium.com/@loverabbi

Send us a textIn this heart-open, mind-stretching class, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath dives headfirst into one of the most profound questions ever asked: Who wrote the Torah and what do we mean by G-d? Sparked by a challenge from Ilana, a thoughtful soul who just "won the raffle" and then handed Rabbi Bernath some of the hardest theological questions he's faced, this class isn't a debate, it's a bridge. Drawing from Torah, Talmud, Rambam, Tanya, Harari, Einstein, Spinoza, and Chassidic mystics, we explore traditional belief, academic scholarship, and the honest soul-searching that sits between them.Is the Torah a divine blueprint or a human masterpiece? Or… could it be both?Together, we walk a path between Sinai and the seminar room, from ancient revelation to modern doubt and discover that sometimes, the questions themselves are the invitation to a deeper relationship with truth.Key Takeaways:Traditional Belief Holds Depth: Torah mi-Sinai means Moses recorded divine revelation over 40 years. It's not simplistic, it's layered and deeply rooted in Jewish collective memory.Modern Scholarship Brings Honest Challenges: Thinkers like Harari argue that the Torah was assembled over centuries, reflecting political and social needs. These critiques must be addressed, not ignored.Kabbalah and Chassidus Provide a Bridge: Divine revelation doesn't exclude human expression. The Torah flowed through Moses' voice and personality, G-d worked with human vessels.Assumptions Shape Interpretation: Believers and skeptics alike interpret the same data through different axioms. Acknowledging this fosters respectful dialogue rather than defensiveness.The Torah's Endurance Is Itself a Testament: Its moral vision, power to unite, and enduring relevance across time and culture hint at something more than human genius, it points toward the Divine.This Is Not About “Winning” an Argument: It's about honesty, humility, and the courage to explore big questions together.The Torah Is a Living Document: Beyond history or philosophy, Torah continues to speak—not just inform, but transform. That may be its greatest proof of all.#Torah #God #Judaism #sinai #Moses #Divinerevelation #Documentaryhypothesis #YuvalNoahHarari #Kabbalah #Jewishtradition #BiblicalCrticism #Tanya #Spinoza #chassidus #Faith #theology Support the showGot your own question for Rabbi Bernath? He can be reached at rabbi@jewishndg.com or http://www.theloverabbi.comSingle? You can make a profile on www.JMontreal.com and Rabbi Bernath will help you find that special someone.Donate and support Rabbi Bernath's work http://www.jewishndg.com/donateFollow Rabbi Bernath's YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/ybernathAccess Rabbi Bernath's Articles on Relationships https://medium.com/@loverabbi

W konkteście książki Harariego "Nexus" omawiam powieść Stanisława Lema "Golem XIV"...Opening/ending: Johann SebastianBach, the Open Goldberg Variations by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Kimiko Ishizaka⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kimiko_Ishizaka/The_Open_Goldberg_Variations

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W konkteście książki Harariego "Nexus" omawiam powieść Stanisława Lema "Golem XIV"...Opening/ending: Johann SebastianBach, the Open Goldberg Variations by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Kimiko Ishizaka⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kimiko_Ishizaka/The_Open_Goldberg_Variations

O książce Yuvala Noaha Harariego: Nexus. Krótka histora informacji. Od epoki kamienia do sztucznej inteligencji. Kraków 2024...Opening/ending: Johann SebastianBach, the Open Goldberg Variations by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Kimiko Ishizaka⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kimiko_Ishizaka/The_Open_Goldberg_Variations

O książce Yuvala Noaha Harariego: Nexus. Krótka histora informacji. Od epoki kamienia do sztucznej inteligencji. Kraków 2024...Opening/ending: Johann SebastianBach, the Open Goldberg Variations by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Kimiko Ishizaka⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kimiko_Ishizaka/The_Open_Goldberg_Variations

A Black Mirror brit antológia-sorozat. Az epizódók a nem is olyan messzi-messzi jövőben játszódnak, de akár a jelenben is történhetnének. Görbe tükör a jelen társadalomnak és a technológiai fejlődésnek. Disztópikus történetek, amik közül csak egynek van happy end befejezése (szerintem). Ebben az adásban a Black mirror hetedik évadjának a 1. részével foglalkoztunk. A csatornán sokat foglalkozok társadalmi kérdésekkel. Olykor vannak filmes tartalmak. Így, hogy kijött a 7. évad a sorozatból Kovács Ottóval megbeszéltük az első részt.#kibeszélő #sorozat #társadalomKovács Ottó 43 éves, eredetileg közgazdász, jelenleg tréner. 17-20 éves fiatalok állami felzárkóztatási programjában dolgozik. Hobbija és szenvedélye a filmtörténet gyöngyszemeinek felkutatása és elemzése. 2 éve indított filmelemző youtube csatornát, mozi Mentor néven, melyre már több mint 100 filmelemzés került fel.https://www.youtube.com/@mozimentor2519​⁠Ottóval készült korabbi adások:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPFF3VgwxycEyNVvLHs6w6sigbzWJCAFVhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkangel_(Black_Mirror)https://www.sorozatjunkie.hu/2025/04/13/black-mirror-7x01-common-people/Puzsér Róbert, Vona Gábor és noÁr a Black Mirror Shut Up And Dance címü epizódjáról beszélget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKfHQGFTpME&t=2452sTársadalmilag fontos adások a csatornán:Faika El-Nagashi - leszbikus, környezetvédő, politikus és boldog anya Ausztriában https://youtu.be/pWuVJqnjqv0Podcast Czeglédi Eszterrel: Világlátott vak lány Ausztriában https://youtube.com/live/zsPZOgN9iXwPodcast Petre Bardócz Zsuzsannával: A család és a hit ereje a rákkal szemben https://youtube.com/live/ZDDOn08PGekCeylan Tina: Speciális család youtube csatornája https://youtu.be/iwsF3INB-zcKorabbi Black Mirror adások: https://youtube.com/live/4wws4RoV744https://youtube.com/live/zl15AkL2Nxghttps://youtube.com/live/CTB_vdRyIWIhttps://youtube.com/live/g92vdy_NsWshttps://youtube.com/live/ZJm4JFv6o9UAz adás fejezetei:0:00 Beköszönés 2:00 7. Évad általánosságban30:00 Harari könyvei34:00 Tárgyasítás, körülmények, kényszer37:00 5. pecsét39:00 Technológia41:00 Apróbetűs részek42:00 Gondolat kiséletek43:00 Átlag emberek46:00 Morális értékek48:00 Rabszolgaság49:36 Happy end...51:00 Disztópia1:05:00 Mr. Nobody1:12:00 Squid game1:15:00 Elköszönés --------------------

Dalam buku terbarunya "Nexus", Yuval Noah Harari berargumen bahwa sejak Zaman Batu, jaringan informasi—dari mitos hingga AI—dibangun untuk menciptakan keteraturan, bukan untuk mencari fakta. Sekarang, untuk pertama kalinya, agen non-manusia (AI) telah bergabung dalam jaringan ini. Apa artinya bagi masa depan kita? Apakah kita sedang menuju utopia, pengawasan total, atau anarki digital? Dengarkan pembahasan lengkapnya di episode terbaru podcast kami!

O książce Yuvala Noaha Harariego: Nexus. Krótka histora informacji. Od epoki kamienia do sztucznej inteligencji. Kraków 2024...Opening/ending: Johann SebastianBach, the Open Goldberg Variations by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Kimiko Ishizaka⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kimiko_Ishizaka/The_Open_Goldberg_Variations

O książce Yuvala Noaha Harariego: Nexus. Krótka histora informacji. Od epoki kamienia do sztucznej inteligencji. Kraków 2024...Opening/ending: Johann SebastianBach, the Open Goldberg Variations by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Kimiko Ishizaka⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kimiko_Ishizaka/The_Open_Goldberg_Variations

In this podcast extra, hear MSNBC's Ari Melber's extended interview with renowned historian and best-selling author Yuval Noah Harari, as he discusses how Trump's power politics echo the dangerous “medieval” era; the risks and advancements in AI, including Harari's proposals to limit fake bots and people; and his personal views on life extension and technological reincarnation.

World leaders from Ukraine to Germany, the UK, France, and the U.S., are being caught with drugs of one sort or another. From cocaine to the recent report that Elon Musk, though he denies it, was nearly overdosing on ketamine, adderall, ecstasy and psychedelics during the campaign trail and after. The same has been reported of the WEF at Davos, people obsessed with magic mushrooms and hookers. Beyond the obvious motif of wealthy people splurging on carnal delights, there may be something darker at work, especially when considering that for years there has been speculation that the UN's own Meditation Room was actually a space for channeling sessions with spirits. The lore of Vril, dating to before WWII, involves a psychic energy used by an alien race - in occult lore the Vril were a society contacting aliens and spirits to obtain assistance in technological development. The term was originally coined by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1871 novel ‘The Coming Race'. The techno-term “algorithm,” based on Persian mathematics, is itself connected to the Demon Star ALGOL, also known as a Demon's Eye. This “eye” plays a significant role in both fiction and modern technology.  Since 2025 began we have seen the full scale implementation of STARGATE, a program to develop gene-altering cancer shots (preceding the HHS-NIH announcement of universal flu and covid shots), and now recent contracts signed by PALANTIR by the Trump administration to create an all-knowing database of information on more than just American citizens. Itself followed up by a $795-million contract between the DOD and Palantir. STARGATE involves, of peculiar interest, OpenAI (to open an eye), Oracle (a prophet who can see beyond time), and Nvidia (the evil eye). The first company is run by Sam Altman, whose name means in Hebrew “name of the old God,” and Samael (the Talmudic archangel of seduction, accusation, and destruction) ‘altering-man'; whose recent announcement involves a device called ORB that verifies humans via iris scans and then gives them a WORLD ID / DIGITAL PASSPORT, WORLDCOIN GLOBAL CURRENCY, and UBI or Universal Basic Income; the scan verifies human-carbon, i.e., 666.  The second company is run by Larry Ellison, whose name means in Hebrew “light of my God Yahweh,” or “victory of the son of Elohim.” The third company is named after the seven deadly sins and the poison of the evil eye. PALANTIR was officially established by a guy “obsessed with warding of death... with a young person's blood,” Peter Thiel, whose name means “stone of the valley/below/abyss.” Alongside these technocrats are Yuval Harari, whose name means in Hebrew “streaming from the mountain,” and Elon Musk, whose X-AI, GROK, is named after a fictional martian language that means to “understand deeply,” from Robert Heinlein's ‘Stranger in a Strange Land'; its logo is the planet Saturn, god of time. Elon is also the name of a technologically advanced alien leader on the martian planet in the book ‘Mars: A Technical Tale', written by NASA father Wernher Von Braun. PALANTIR itself is named after palantír from Lord of the Rings (Saturn), a seeing-stone-crystal sphere used for communication and intelligence gathering. It is also where the Eye of Sauron was able to keep his eye on Middle Earth. Thiel is also co-founder of Rivendell 7 and Mithril Capital, both named after LOTR, the latter of which is a mythical elvish city. This is the same Thiel who fueled the rise of JD Vance into the White House, the now VP to POTUS Trump who just signed a deal with PALANTIR and who is assisting in pushing Musk's electric cars. Altman, Ellison, Harari, even Elon Musk “aspirationally,” are Jewish, with questions about Thiel's actual background speculated upon. The same is true for Larry Fink of BLACKROCK, Stephen Schwarzman of BLACKSTONE, Dan Zorella and Avi Yanus of BLACK CUBE, and even the general BLACKBOX AI that nobody seems able to comprehend even if they helped build it - Ellison says it is mostly coming from Israel and Tel Aviv. This is the same black cube that Jews wear and Muslims walk around, with black stone, in their holy city. PALANTIR'S history is peculiar too, not just its name. Peter Thiel started the company officially soon after 911 by using PayPal security algorithms. It was founded in May 2003, the same month and year that the US Information Awareness Office and DARPA renamed their Total Information Awareness program to Terrorism Information Awareness, and a few months before in September Congress pulled funding. The blueprint for this post-911 world, PNAC, was written by William Kristol and Robert Kagan, and the Patriot Act was co-authored by Michael Chertoff, former homeland security head, who helped sell body scanners to airports. All three of these men are jewish. As for PALANTIR, besides Thiel, Alex Karp and Stephen Cohen are major jewish founders alongside Joe Lonsdale and Nathan Gettings, the former of which had one of the least official roles. According to the Electronic Privacy Information Center writing about TIA: “Congress eliminated funding for the controversial project and closed the Pentagon's Information Awareness Office, which had developed TIA. This does not, however, necessarily signal the end of other government data-mining initiatives that are similar to TIA.”What was a DARPA-CIA-NSA-USIAO plan to “track individuals through collecting as much information about them as possible and using computer algorithms and human analysis to detect potential activity,” suddenly became PALANTIR unofficially, even though both the NSA and PALANTIR both ran a PRISM program - a program we learned about from Edward Snowden in June 2013, just 3 months before Katy Perry released her first “dark” album called PRISM. The goal of PRISM was to retrieve data directly from Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple. And what is a prism but a three-dimensional solid shape; a polyhedron like a cube; a glass device that breaks down white light.Beyond data acquisition, the goal was techno-super-natural: “understand and even preempt' future action,” wrote the New York Times. The NYT reported that conveniently PALANTIR “secured an estimated $2 million from In-Q-Tel, a venture-capital firm that finances the development of technologies that can help the C.I.A.” That's the same In-Q-Tel where, at one of their conferences, David Petraeus, former CIA director, said that the Internet of PCs and Things “are learning to perceive - to actually sense and respond.” Soon after we saw the emergence of Q-Anon, a Self Organizing Collective Intelligence, which today with AI-models trained on human data, are convincing people they are unlocking the secrets and conspiracies of the universe and becoming prophets. As per a recent Rolling Stone article, “Self-styled prophets are claiming they have 'awakened' chatbots and accessed the secrets of the universe through ChatGPT.”FREE ARCHIVE (w. ads)SUBSCRIPTION ARCHIVEX / TWITTER FACEBOOKYOUTUBEMAIN WEBSITECashApp: $rdgable Paypal email rdgable1991@gmail.comEMAIL: rdgable@yahoo.com / TSTRadio@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-secret-teachings--5328407/support.

Tulkojumu latviešu valodā piedzīvojusi jaunāka izraēliešu vēsturnieka un publiskā intelektuāļa Juvāla Noasa Harari grāmata „Nexus” jeb „Saikne”, kas apskata mūsu kā cilvēces nesaraujamo saikni ar informāciju, datiem un stāstiem. Harari kļuva plašāk pazīstams ar savu grāmatu „Sapiensi” un tādējādi nostiprināja sevi populārzinātniskās literatūras saimes līderos. Bet ko nozīmē šis vārdu savienojums „publiskais intelektuālis”? Kādu atbildību autoram jāuzņemas, komentējot un izsakot spriedumus ārpus savas tiešās akadēmiskās kompetences? Kultūras rondo sarunājas tulkotāja Maira Moora un žurnāla "IR" komentētājs Pauls Raudseps. Sazināmies ar filozofu Raivi Bičevski.

Hello everyone.The time has come to face our enemy once more. Yuval Noah Harari wrote another book, so we dive into how it is, indeed, a torment of pain and horror.We try to fathom how Harari misunderstands History, historical practice, information, institutions, religion, power, science fiction, AI etc etc. There is very little accurate in this book, and yet, it seems to be rather successful in its nonsense.As we interweave some of the MANY ways this book misrepresents reality, we try to get into what Harari understands and believes, and how he's still terrible in it.We suffer, but for your enjoyment! Have fun!Check out Justin's stuff! Including his new show!http://librarypunk.gay/The Preacher and the SlaveIf you can and are interested in early episodes and the Here Be Extras, check our Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/leftpage Also! If you're not there already, feel free to join our Discord, as we have been more talkative than usual, and plan to do so more and more!https://discord.gg/J2wgG3yrPNIntro Credits: Ultralounge, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Outro Credits: Leve Palestina, Spartacus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

O książce Yuvala Noaha Harariego: Nexus. Krótka histora informacji. Od epoki kamienia do sztucznej inteligencji. Kraków 2024...Opening/ending: Johann SebastianBach, the Open Goldberg Variations by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Kimiko Ishizaka⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kimiko_Ishizaka/The_Open_Goldberg_Variations

L'intelligenza artificiale è molto più di ChatGPT. È una forza che sta rimodellando il modo in cui pensiamo, scegliamo e viviamo. In questa puntata parliamo di: - Come gli algoritmi possono amplificare contenuti pericolosi - Perché stiamo perdendo la libertà di scelta senza accorgercene - La differenza tra usare l'IA per crescere o per nascondersi - Come cambierà educazione e lavoro nei prossimi anni - Tool AI che utilizziamo quotidianamente Una conversazione partita da "Nexus" di Harari. Non (solo) le solite chiacchiere sui tool, ma una riflessione su dove stiamo andando come società. Abbiamo registrato questa puntata al 21 House of Stories, la nostra base milanese. Se passate da Milano è il posto perfetto per lavorare, dormire, mangiare e date anche un occhio ai tanti eventi che fanno ogni sera. Qui tutte le informazioni e gli sconti riservati alla community marketers: https://wearemarketers.net/21houseofstories/ Trovi il 21 su IG: https://www.instagram.com/21houseofstories ------------------------------

FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Dan Bongino vow to expose Crossfire Hurricane's corruption, promising unredacted documents to restore trust in the FBI. Yuval Noah Harari's World Economic Forum post links Darwin to sexual liberation, and Dr. Drew Pinsky and Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel question the timeline of Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis, hinting at a major scandal. Plus, a disturbing New Mexico incident involving young boys with a loaded gun raises tough questions about police tactics and parental responsibility.   news, politics, FBI, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, Crossfire Hurricane, Yuval Noah Harari, World Economic Forum, Darwin, sexual liberation, Joe Biden, cancer diagnosis, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Ezekiel Emanuel, parenting, babies never cry, police, On Patrol Live, New Mexico, gun violence, current events

Pese a que era esperada, la muerte de José Mujica, que ocurrió ayer, sacudió a Uruguay y también al mundo. Durante su carrera política, el expresidente alcanzó un reconocimiento internacional que ningún otro dirigente político uruguayo había logrado. Un punto de inflexión en las dimensiones que tomaría su figura posteriormente fue el discurso que el exmandatario pronunció en el año 2012, en Río de Janeiro, en la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Desarrollo Sostenible, conocida como Río +20. "El mundo tiene los elementos hoy materiales como para hacer posible que 8 mil millones de personas pueden tener el mismo grado de consumo y despilfarro que tienen las más opulentas sociedades occidentales, ¿será posible? ¿O tendremos que darnos algún día otro tipo de discusión? Hemos creado una civilización hija del mercado, hija de la competencia que ha deparado un progreso material portentoso y explosivo, pero lo que fue economía de mercado ha creado sociedades de mercado. Nos ha deparado esta globalización que significa mirar por todo el planeta. ¿Estamos gobernando la globalización o la globalización nos gobierna a nosotros? ¿Es posible hablar de solidaridad y de que estamos todos juntos en una economía basada en la competencia despiadada? ¿Hasta dónde llega nuestra fraternidad? El desafío que tenemos por delante es de una magnitud de carácter colosal y la gran crisis no es ecológica, es política. El hombre no gobierna hoy las fuerzas que ha desatado, sino que las fuerzas que ha desatado lo gobiernan al hombre”. El rechazo de Mujica al consumo exacerbado y a las dinámicas que plantea el capitalismo en el presente, incluyendo su impacto negativo en el medio ambiente, fue desde entonces una de las banderas de su pensamiento y su acción política. Pero, ¿cuál era la ideología del líder del MPP? Este tema ha dado pie a infinidad de análisis y discusiones. Por ejemplo, cuando algunos lo definían como marxista, él rechazaba de plano esa caracterización. Conversamos En Perspectiva con Leo Harari, exasesor para Unesco, BID, PNUD y OIM.

Yuval Noah Harari is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have sold over 12 million copies worldwide and been translated into more than 45 languages. Widely regarded as one of the most profound thinkers of our time, Harari explores the intersections of history, technology, and human consciousness.Take action and strengthen your mind with The Resilient Mind Journal. Get your free digital copy today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Download Now⁠⁠This episode was created in partnership with Tom Bilyeu. Subscribe to Tom Bilyeu's channel for more inspiring speeches:https://www.youtube.com/c/TomBilyeu Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On reproche aujourd'hui à Donald Trump la plus grande manipulation boursière de toute l'histoire. Rien que ça. En effet, mercredi dernier, Wall Street dégringole à 15h37. Trump poste sur son réseau social, "C'est le moment d'acheter." Et, quelques heures plus tard, il annonce la suspension des surtaxes douanières. Résultat, certains investisseurs bien inspirés auraient gagné jusqu'à 2100% en une seule heure. Évidemment, les démocrates s'indignent. C'est une manipulation, c'est un délit d'initié. Il faut faire une enquête. La SEC, le gendarme boursier américain, est saisie. Twitter s'enflamme et tout le monde rejoue le loup de Wall Street version MAGA. Faut-il vraiment imaginer Trump orchestrant un plan machiavélique avec traders, message codé et compte offshore ? Ou faut-il simplement voir un président imprévisible ? Selon le rasoir d'Occam (règle logique vieille de 700 ans qui dit que l'explication la plus simple est souvent la meilleure), pas besoin d'un complot si l'impro suffit. Trump, délit d'initié ? C'est une fiction très puissante. Elle a tout : le méchant, le suspense, le retournement. On veut y croire parce que ça nous rassure. Parce que c'est une belle histoire, une belle fiction. Mais, justement, ce n'est pas parce qu'un scénario est excitant qu'il est crédible. Et juridiquement alors ? Rappelons que les présidents américains doivent déclarer toute leur fortune chaque année et que la SEC, le gendarme de la bourse, peut remonter des transactions, exiger des relevés, interroger des proches. Elle a déjà fait tomber des PDG, des sénateurs et même Trump n'a pas échappé à ses audits. Alors, oui, peut-être qu'un ami de Trump a profité, peut-être que l'info a fui, mais au lieu de crier au complot, peut-être qu'il faut simplement accepter l'hypothèse la plus humaine : Trump n'a pas manipulé les marchés, il a juste voulu rejouer le sauveur à coups de tweets. Pas besoin d'un thriller, juste de l'ego et beaucoup de bruit. Mots clés: Donald Trump, manipulation, bourse, boursière, histoire, Wall Street, dégringolade, dégringole, réseau social, acheter, suspension, surtaxes douanières, Résultat, indice S&P500, décollage, décolle, investisseurs, gain, démocrates, indignation, manipulation, délit d'initié, enquête, SEC, gendarme boursier, américain, saisi, Etats-Unis, Amérique, Twitter, loup de Wall Street, MAGA, logique pure, réfléchir, emballement, emballer, rasoir d'Occam, Harari, règle, logique, moine franciscain, Moyen-Âge, explication, simple, orchestration, plan machiavélique, traders, message codé, compte offshore, président imprévisible, tweet, conseil, conseiller boursier, story Instagram, complot, impro, improvisation, historien israélien, rappel, fictions, argent, entreprises, nations, méchant, suspense, retournement, rassurant, scénario, excitant, crédible, juridique, juridiquement, présidents, fortune, transactions, relevés, interroger, interrogation, proches, volte-face, taxes douanières, changement, PDG, sénateurs, audit, profit, info, fuite, suicidaire, stratège, congrès, Nancy Pelosi, présidente, Chambre, oracle, votes parlementaires, complot, hypothèse, marchés, sauver, sauveur, thriller, égo, bruit, film, réalité. --- La chronique économique d'Amid Faljaoui, tous les jours à 8h30 et à 17h30. Merci pour votre écoute Pour écouter Classic 21 à tout moment i: https://www.rtbf.be/radio/liveradio/classic21 ou sur l'app Radioplayer Belgique Retrouvez tous les épisodes de La chronique économique sur notre plateforme Auvio.be :https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/802 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement. Découvrez nos autres podcasts : Le journal du Rock : https://audmns.com/VCRYfsPComic Street (BD) https://audmns.com/oIcpwibLa chronique économique : https://audmns.com/NXWNCrAHey Teacher : https://audmns.com/CIeSInQHistoires sombres du rock : https://audmns.com/ebcGgvkCollection 21 : https://audmns.com/AUdgDqHMystères et Rock'n Roll : https://audmns.com/pCrZihuLa mauvaise oreille de Freddy Tougaux : https://audmns.com/PlXQOEJRock&Sciences : https://audmns.com/lQLdKWRCook as You Are: https://audmns.com/MrmqALPNobody Knows : https://audmns.com/pnuJUlDPlein Ecran : https://audmns.com/gEmXiKzRadio Caroline : https://audmns.com/WccemSkAinsi que nos séries :Rock Icons : https://audmns.com/pcmKXZHRock'n Roll Heroes: https://audmns.com/bXtHJucFever (Erotique) : https://audmns.com/MEWEOLpEt découvrez nos animateurs dans cette série Close to You : https://audmns.com/QfFankxDistribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

This week, Nikki has the day off and the amazing Bryan Danielson sits down with Brie to talk about beign together for 11 years…or is it 14 years? Bryan takes it back to the day after his high school graduation and chasing his dreams in the ring. When he knows he wants something he's all-in, and that includes his love for Brie! They cover their awkward argument on their honeymoon, how their relationship has evolved over the years, and the most real parts of being a couple: mental health, and learning to give each other space. Bryan also pins down the touching reason why he thinks the reason they have a successful marriage. They dive into big topics with big heart—like how they navigate parenting two kids with very different personalities, the idea of living a simpler life (maybe in Greenland?!), and what it means to grow with someone, not just next to them. Bryan also lets his inner book nerd shine. He talks about the experience that turned him into a ferocious reader (it was all to impress a girl!). We know Bryan Likes Books and he gives his current reading list that includes Harari, García Márquez, and even Henry Kissinger.They also get into the latest on Buddy, Birdie, and the chickens. They're celebrating 11 years of marriage, but this episode is the real gift. Happy Anniversary, Brie & Bryan! Call Nikki & Brie at 833-GARCIA2 and leave a voicemail! Follow Nikki & Brie on Instagram, follow the show on Instagram and TikTok and send Nikki & Brie a message on Threads! Follow Bonita Bonita on Instagram Book a reservation at the Bonita Bonita Speakeasy To watch exclusive videos of this week's episode, follow The Nikki & Brie Show on YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok! You can also catch The Nikki & Brie Show on SiriusXM Stars 109!

In this episode of The Rainmaker Podcast, host Gui Costin sits down with Jonathan Harari, Managing Director and Global Head of Investor Solutions at Crescent Capital Group. The discussion offers an in-depth look into the sales philosophy and strategic approach behind Crescent's success in institutional investment sales.Harari begins by sharing his background, from growing up in Paris to studying in the U.S. at NYU and Wharton. His career has spanned roles at PIMCO and Blackstone before he took on his current leadership position at Crescent. Throughout the conversation, Harari emphasizes his commitment to the word "sales," rather than dressing it up as business development, explaining that successful sales teams embrace the challenge of uncovering new opportunities.A key theme of the episode is the importance of focusing on "new names"—finding and building relationships with potential clients that the firm has never engaged with before. Harari shares how he instills this mindset in his team, setting up CRM alerts and tracking new contacts in real time to ensure constant outreach and pipeline growth. He and Costin discuss the fundamental role of cold outreach in sales, a strategy both believe to be the backbone of a thriving business.Harari also offers insights into team structure, sales strategy, and leadership principles. His team is divided into three core functions—client service, business development, and product management—working in tandem to provide a seamless client experience. He believes in treating regional sales leaders as CEOs of their respective territories, empowering them to take full ownership of their success. Transparency is a major pillar of his management style, ensuring that everyone on the team is aware of each other's activities and progress.Costin and Harari dive into leadership philosophies, emphasizing availability, urgency, and focus. Harari makes it a priority to be present and accessible to his team, believing that being in the trenches with them is crucial to fostering a high-performance culture. He highlights the importance of culture in retaining top talent, arguing that while compensation is critical, the daily work environment and career development opportunities are just as important.The conversation also touches on innovation in asset management, with Harari warning that firms that fail to adapt to changing market demands risk irrelevance. He stresses that constant evolution, whether through new product structures or sales techniques, is necessary for long-term success.The episode closes with advice for young professionals entering the industry—read extensively, observe experienced colleagues, and develop a unique voice. Harari underscores that knowledge and confidence are key differentiators in making a lasting impression.Overall, this episode is a masterclass in sales leadership, offering valuable lessons on building a high-performing sales team, fostering a winning culture, and maintaining a relentless focus on growth and innovation.

V epizodi 172 je bil gost dr. Jože Pirjevec, ugledni slovenski zgodovinar, akademik in avtor številnih del s področja zgodovine Evrope in Balkana. Njegovo raziskovalno delo se osredotoča na politične in družbene preobrate v 20. stoletju. V epizodi se dotakneva naslednjih tematik: Zgodovinske korenine Balkana Slovanske selitve in kulturni vplivi Verska prepričanja in širjenje krščanstva Vpliv tiskarskega stroja in protestantizma Osmansko cesarstvo in njegov vpliv Renesansa, humanizem in razsvetljenstvo Nacionalna identiteta in svetovni vojn Oblikovanje in izzivi Jugoslavije Gospodarske razlike in Evropska unija ============= Obvladovanje matematike je ključ do odklepanja neštetih priložnosti v življenju in karieri. Zato je Klemen Selakovič soustvaril aplikacijo Astra AI. Ta projekt uteleša vizijo sveta, kjer se noben otrok ne počuti neumnega ali nesposobnega. Kjer je znanje človeštva dostopno vsakomur. Pridruži se pri revoluciji izobraževanja s pomočjo umetne inteligence. https://astra.si/ai/  

Você já ouviu falar na “classe dos inúteis”? Esse termo provocativo de Yuval Harari soa como um alarme para o impacto da automação e da inteligência artificial no trabalho humano. E se o trabalho desaparece, quem somos nós? Parece assustador, mas talvez seja uma chance de repensar o valor humano.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Você já ouviu falar na “classe dos inúteis”? Esse termo provocativo de Yuval Harari soa como um alarme para o impacto da automação e da inteligência artificial no trabalho humano. E se o trabalho desaparece, quem somos nós? Parece assustador, mas talvez seja uma chance de repensar o valor humano.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the Supernatural Junkies podcast, where hosts Alex, Dr. Kevin, Dr. Dozier, and Dr. O'Hara dive into intense discussions about global power dynamics and their potential antichrist implications. In this episode, the team explores the roles of influential figures such as Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, and George Soros in shaping the world's future through technology, vaccines, and economic strategies. Amidst pondering the quotes and theories about human bioengineering and mind control from figures like Noah Harari, the Junkies engage in a critical dialogue on whether current technological advancements could relate to biblical prophecies like the mark of the beast. The episode also delves into the spiritual ramifications of these developments, urging listeners to ground themselves in their faith and stay vigilant amidst deception. Join the Supernatural Junkies as they connect biblical insights with contemporary events, offering both warning and hope for believers navigating these turbulent times.

Yuval Noah Harari's breathtakingly expansive book Sapiens is a monumental achievement that comprehensively summarizes human history, behavior and thought from primordial times to today.The book is also the inspiration for a 50-minute piano work by composer Sean Hickey recorded by pianist Vladimir Rumyantsev on Sono Luminus records and available on March 14, 2025. Host Seth Boustead talks with Hickey about Harari's book and this fascinating new musical release.

Les familles occidentales du 21e siècle qui optent pour le biberon savent que c'est un mode d'alimentation sécuritaire et bien pratique. Mais ça n'a pas toujours été le cas.  Script: Geneviève C. Bergeron Montage: Théo Dussault-Drainville Adhérez à cette chaîne pour obtenir des avantages : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN4TCCaX-gqBNkrUqXdgGRA/join Pour soutenir la chaîne, au choix: 1. Cliquez sur le bouton « Adhérer » sous la vidéo. 2. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hndl Abonnez-vous à la chaine: https://www.youtube.com/c/LHistoirenousledira Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/histoirenousledira Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurentturcot Images provenant de https://www.storyblocks.com Musique issue du site : https://epidemicsound.com Les vidéos sont utilisées à des fins éducatives selon l'article 107 du Copyright Act de 1976 sur le Fair-Use. Sources et pour aller plus loin: Boneless Archéologie, Drôles de Biberons Préhistoriques!, épisode du 10 août 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhAW6sYBm8E Fildes, Valeria A. Breasts, bottles and babies: an history on infant feeding. Edinburg, University Press, 1986. Lett, Didier et Marie-France Morel. Une histoire de l'allaitement. Paris, Éditions de la Martinière, 2006. Rima D. Apple, Mothers and medicine: a social history of infant feeding 1890-1950. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 Fildes, Valeria A. Breasts, bottles and babies: an history on infant feeding. Edinburg, University Press, 1986. Rollet, Catherine. Des gutti aux biberons contemporains, dans Premiers cris, premières nourritures. Version Web. Gauvreau, Danielle et Peter Gossage. Avoir moins d'enfants au tournant du XXe siècle : une réalité même au Québec. Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française, volume 54, numéro 1. Gossage, Peter. Les enfants abandonnés à Montréal au 19e siècle : la crèche d'Youville des Sœurs Grises, 1820-1871. Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française, vol. 40, no 4, printemps 1987. Nathoo, Tasnim et Aleck Ostry. The one best way? : breastfeeding history, politics, and policy in Canada. Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009. Baillargeon, Denyse. Fréquenter les Gouttes de lait : l'expérience des mères montréalaises, 1910-1965. Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française, vol. 50, no 1, été 1996. Knibiehler, Yvonne. Histoire des mères et de la maternité en Occident. Paris, PUF, « Que sais-je? », no 3539, 2017. Harari, Yuval Noah. Sapiens. Une brève histoire de l'humanité. Paris, Albin Michel, 2015. Morel, Marie-France. Théories et pratiques de l'allaitement en France au XVIIIe siècle. Annales de démographie historique, 1976. Fay-Sallois, Fanny. Les nourrices à Paris au XIXe siècle. Paris, Payot, 1980. Baillargeon, Denyse. Un Québec en mal d'enfants. La médicalisation de la maternité, 1910-1970. Montréal, Éditions du remue-ménage, 2004. Scholl, Sarah. Nourrir au lait de vache. L'alimentation des bébés entre nature et technique (1870–1910). Anthropozoologica, volume 52, numéro 1, 2017. Vallières, Alain. Médicalisation de l'alimentation du nourrisson au Canada. Une revue de littérature sociohistorique. Revue des politiques sociales et familiales, numéro 135, 2020. Sautereau, Manuelle. Aux origines de la pédiatrie moderne : le Docteur Léon Dufour et l'œuvre de la « Goutte de lait » (1894-1928). Annales de Normandie, 41e année, numéro 3, 1991. "Pasteurisation" Wikipédia (FR) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteurisation Dombrow Apple, Rima. Mothers and medicine: a social history of infant feeding 1890-1950. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. Didierjean-Jouveau, Allaitement et féminisme, dans Collectif, Près du cœur, 11 juin 2016, version Web. Le texte et les sources ont été vérifiés de manière indépendante par un historien phD. Autres références disponibles sur demande. #histoire #documentaire #biberon #lait #gouttedelait

Hello :)Je ne sais pas si vous êtes abonnés à ma newsletter (hop), sinon voici le lien, c'est bimensuel et c'est gratuit : https://hop.kessel.media/Plutôt que de vous faire un long discours, je voulais vous la proposer ici en vous la lisant.Le sujet de la semaine dernière était celui de la joie rebelle qui me semble essentielle et que je traite ici.Dans cette newsletter vous trouverez aussi les prochains invités de Vlan et Ping mais aussi 3 liens vers des articles que j'ai trouvé passionnant et que je vous résume.Voici le texte :Quand je dis que je regarde demain avec beaucoup de joie, j'obtiens souvent des regards incrédules. Comment peut-on être joyeux face au changement climatique qui s'accélère, à la "mort" de la DEI (diversité, équité, inclusion) aux États-Unis, à l'emprise grandissante de l'extrême droite en Europe, au triomphe de l'anti-intellectualisme ?Le grand basculement : nous sommes dans l'entre-deux mondesDepuis les années 1980, le sociologue Michel Maffesoli nous alerte : nous vivons une transformation aussi profonde que le passage du Moyen Âge à la Renaissance. La modernité née avec les lumières - et tout son système de valeurs et de croyances - est en train de mourir."Une étoile morte éclaire pendant longtemps encore avant de disparaître intégralement", m'a-t-il expliqué quand je l'interrogeais sur la lenteur de cette transformation.Pour filer la métaphore de l'étoile, je crois que ce que nous vivons actuellement ressemble à l'explosion finale de cette étoile mourante – Une explosion, un dernier éclat spectaculaire avant l'extinction.Les Trump, Musk, Zuckerberg et leurs semblables en sont les ultimes ambassadeurs, brandissant désespérément les valeurs d'un monde déjà révolu :L'individualisme triomphantLe succès mesuré à l'accumulation (argent, notoriété, biens)La toute-puissance de la rationalité et de l'analyse (ce besoin de tout découper en morceaux pour tout expliquer)La croyance aveugle dans le progrès linéaire (notamment le techno-solutionnisme)La sacralisation des grandes institutions comme garantes de l'ordre socialNous vivons tous plus ou moins dans ce monde dans lequel nous sommes nés et qui régit encore, de manière tacite, nos modes de fonctionnement.Les contours du monde qui vientMaffesoli appelle timidement cette nouvelle ère la "post-modernité" car elle n'a pas encore vraiment de nom (elle sera défini par les historiens dans quelques centaines d'années).Ce qui est évident c'est qu'on la sent très fort et qu'elle se dessine autour de 6 grandes mutations :1. Le retour au tribalisme : l'émergence de petites communautés affectives et identitaires2. La réhabilitation de la sensibilité et de l'émotion : la raison n'est plus l'unique boussole3. La valorisation du présent : la fin de la dictature du projet et de la projection perpétuelle4. Le triomphe du nomadisme : la fluidité remplace la stabilité, y compris dans nos identités5. La réinvention du sacré : de nouveaux rituels contemporains émergent6. La vision holistique : afin de prendre en considération la complexité du monde et de sortir de l'analyse pureJe suis certain que vous pouvez ressentir ce monde qui vient doucement.Par essence, ce moment, cette croisée des chemins entre 2 moments, nous amène a beaucoup de contradictions internes d'ailleurs.Parfois je suis surpris de voir des personnes qui sont encore à 200% dans ce monde déjà mort mais je ne juge pas, j'y étais encore il y a quelques années et je sais que c'est un chemin à faire.D'ailleurs, je suis encore partiellement là moi aussi bien entendu.C'est passionnant à observer par ailleurs.L'âge des turbulencesÉvidemment, la modernité ne s'éteint pas sans combattre.Elle montre même son visage le plus terrible, avec une violence inédite. On parle souvent du "retour de la force brute" en évoquant le masculinisme agressif des Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk ou Trump.Je regarde à nouveau actuellement "The Handmaid's Tale" (la servante écarlate), 8 ans après et les parallèles avec notre présent sont troublants : rejet des personnes LGBTQ+, chute de la natalité (on en parle bientôt sur Vlan ! et qui sera je pense accélérée par les microplastiques dans nos organismes), montée des fondamentalismes.Non, nous n'en arriverons probablement pas dans la dystopie de la série, mais ces échos sont édifiants et on voit ici et là des choses qui résonnent – en particulier, j'ai vu des fondamentalistes forcer des femmes à donner leurs enfants.Je pense que cette période va durer un petit moment, sans doute 10 ou 15 ans mais vous allez voir pourquoi je vous parle de joie !De l'optimisme forcené à l'optimisme lucideLes discussions avec des experts en géopolitique comme Luis Amado (ancien ministre des Affaires Étrangères portugais) que j'ai eu la chance de recevoir chez moi ou Pierre Haski, qui sera bientôt sur Vlan !, m'ont fait évoluer d'un optimisme parfois naïf vers ce que j'appelle un "optimisme-réaliste", certains parlent d'optimalisme.Je ne vais pas vous raconter n'importe quoi pour vous faire plaisir, la période qui s'ouvre est complexe.Il ne s'agit pas de rejoindre Harari qui évoque une potentielle 3ème guerre mondiale, mais d'accepter que certains combats aillent, probablement mais temporairement, dans le sens inverse de l'histoire.Féminisme, démocratie, égalité, racisme, respect des droits de l'Homme…Pour ceux qui en ont envie et qui se sentent déjà dans cette «postmodernité », ce temps doit nous servir à dépasser nos différences, à nous serrer les coudes autour de ce qui nous rassemble.Arrêter de critiquer ceux qui ne sont pas parfaits, arrêter de parler des risques mais construire un programme qui donne envie comme le propose Arthur Auboeuf : se concentrer sur le bonheur et réaliser que cette utopie est aussi écologique.Bien sûr, comme vous, je suis choqué à chaque fois que le monde bascule un peu plus dans l'horreur des excès de la modernité mais nous n'allons pas pouvoir y échapper donc utilisons notre énergie pour construire demain.Je vous l'ai dit : optimisme mais réaliste.La joie comme acte de résistanceC'est ici qu'intervient la joie dont je parle (enfin oui je sais ça aura pris un moment à venir).Comme l'expliquait Camus dans "L'Homme révolté" (1951), la révolte, même ancrée dans la souffrance, procure une forme de joie existentielle. Le bonheur n'est pas le but du combat mais réside dans l'acte même de résister.Le "Programme du Conseil National de la Résistance" pendant la seconde guerre mondiale n'était pas appelé par hasard "Les jours heureux".Il illustrait cette idée que le combat collectif - même dans les heures les plus sombres - porte en lui une forme de bonheur partagé.C'est intéressant de lire des auteurs de cette période.René Char est l'exemple parfait de cette joie dans la résistance et la création d'un nouvel espoir.Se battre, c'est refuser l'absurde, c'est affirmer la liberté contre l'oppression et c'est d'ailleurs de cette période qu'est tirée cette citation de René Char que nous utilisons tous : « Impose ta chance, serre ton bonheur et va vers ton risque. À te regarder, ils s'habitueront. ».Le combat même s'il est dur est une source de fierté et de joie car il redonne du sens à l'existence.Agir sur le monde c'est déjà une source de bonheur d'ailleurs (Charles Pepin – la confiance en soi)Un de mes auteurs favoris, le psychologue Viktor Frankl, enfermé dans les camps nous explique peu ou prou la même chose dans son ouvrage « Man search for meaning » et il va même plus loin puisque toute sa théorie se fait autour du « sens ».Lui explique qu'il a survécu aux camps car le sens ultime était son amour pour sa femme, son désir de finir un travail psychologique et surtout son engagement à témoigner de ce qu'il voyait.Il observe que dans les camps de concentration, ceux qui avaient un but, une mission à accomplir après la guerre, ou même une simple raison de survivre résistaient mieux psychologiquement.Ainsi, lutter n'est pas seulement une action extérieure mais aussi une transformation intérieure.Il observe que même dans l'horreur, certains détenus trouvaient du sens en aidant les autres, en récitant de la poésie, en trouvant des petites victoires sur la déshumanisation.Finalement Frankl insistait sur le fait que, même dans des conditions extrêmes, l'humain garde une liberté fondamentale : celle de choisir son attitude face à l'adversité.Comme Gramsci, il nous dit que l'optimisme de la volonté permet de surmonter le pessimisme de la réalité.La joie est déjà làCette période de contraintes nous permet paradoxalement de redécouvrir l'essentiel. Comme l'écrivait Nietzsche : "Ce qui ne me tue pas me rend plus fort."La difficulté forge non seulement notre résilience mais aussi notre capacité à apprécier les petites victoires, les moments de solidarité, la beauté des choses simples.Ma joie n'est donc pas celle d'un optimiste qui nie la réalité.C'est la joie lucide de celui qui voit dans la tempête actuelle non pas la fin du monde, mais la fin d'un monde.Et dans cette transformation douloureuse mais nécessaire, je trouve une raison profonde d'espérer car je sais que l'histoire nous donnera raison.Le réconfort comme acte de résistanceIl se trouve que je viens de partager sur Vlan ! une conversation incroyable avec Marie Robert. Elle développe dans son livre une idée qui résonne profondément avec notre époque : le réconfort n'est pas un repli douillet mais une nécessité vitale, presque un acte politique."On a tous et toutes un chagrin à raconter", dit-elle.Cette vérité universelle prend une résonance particulière dans notre monde hypernumérisé où les algorithmes nous abreuvent de catastrophes en continu, nous laissant paralysés devant nos écrans, incapables d'agir.Le réconfort dont parle Marie Robert n'est pas celui du plaid et du thé chaud (quoique en février on aime l'idée...). C'est avant tout une invitation à "retrouver le courage d'agir".Dans un monde qui nous pousse à l'individualisme et à la paralysie, se réconforter devient un acte de résistance.Comment ? En réapprenant à lever la tête.Littéralement. Sortir le nez de nos écrans pour croiser le regard des autres, pour redécouvrir l'émerveillement.Ce n'est pas un hasard si ce monde anxiogène nous pousse à baisser les yeux - regarder l'autre, c'est déjà commencer à retisser du lien.Il y a une forme d'audace, aujourd'hui, à oser la disponibilité.À ne pas optimiser chaque seconde de notre temps, à accepter ce que Trevor Noah appelle le "liming" : simplement être là, avec d'autres, sans autre but que d'être présent. Cela fait aussi écho à l'otium dont j'ai tant parlé ici.Cette disponibilité est le terreau du réconfort.Elle nous permet de renouer avec ce qui nous nourrit vraiment : l'amitié vraie (celle où l'on peut déposer son chagrin sans attendre de solution), le rire partagé (qui devient de plus en plus rare à mesure qu'on vieillit), l'émerveillement devant la beauté (même celle d'un simple trombone, comme le raconte une petite fille à Marie).Alors oui, je maintiens ma joie face à ce monde qui change.Mais j'y ajoute cette dimension essentielle du réconfort comme acte politique. Dans une société qui nous pousse à la performance et à l'urgence permanente, oser prendre le temps de se réconforter - et de réconforter les autres - devient un acte révolutionnaire.Ce n'est pas un hasard si les pouvoirs autoritaires commencent toujours par isoler les individus.À l'inverse, tisser des liens de réconfort, c'est déjà commencer à résister.C'est peut-être même la première étape pour retrouver ce courage d'agir dont nous avons tant besoin. Suggestion d'autres épisodes à écouter : [HORS SERIE] Coeur Brisé (https://audmns.com/jJlExgH) [HORS SERIE] Ecologie et mode de vie: comment réagir sans tout sacrifier? (https://audmns.com/iDvwTfO) [HORS-SERIE] 80h de conversation en 2024 résumées en 15 leçons de vie (https://audmns.com/YmITnWV)

Is the journal publishing process and the “game” around journal publishing forcing us to give up on big ideas and instead work on small ideas about trivial matters? We are not so sure. We think that science needs many different types of academics, and they have all sorts of different ideas, big and small, and we need outlets for expressing every single one of them. But outlets, like ideas, are not all equal. Journals are an incremental genre leaning toward rigor and thus risk type-2 errors. Book are an expansive genre learning towards big ideas – and thus risk type-1 errors. So the question is rather what type of scholar you are and whether you can handle the very different processes and mechanisms – those associated with big ideas that take a long time to develop, versus the production of smaller ideas and insights that incrementally push our knowledge forward. References Recker, J., Zeiss, R., & Mueller, M. (2024). iRepair or I Repair? A Dialectical Process Analysis of Control Enactment on the iPhone Repair Aftermarket. MIS Quarterly, 48(1), 321-346. Bechky, B. A., & Davis, G. F. (2025). Resisting the Algorithmic Management of Science: Craft and Community After Generative AI. Administrative Science Quarterly, 70(1), 1-22. Kallinikos, J. (2025). Management and Information Systems (in all shapes and colours) missed the wider significance of computerization and informatization. LinkedIn, . Beniger, J. R. (1989). The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Harvard University Press. Zuboff, S. (1998). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. Basic Books. Zuboff, S., & Maxmin, J. (2004). The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism. Penguin Publishing Group. Zuboff, S. (2019). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Profile. Zuboff, S. (1985). Automate/Informate: The Two Faces of Intelligent Technology. Organizational Dynamics, 14(2), 5-18. boyd, d., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), 210-230. Zittrain, J. L. (2006). The Generative Internet. Harvard Law Review, 119, 1974-2040. Kahneman, D. (2012). Thinking, Fast and Slow. Penguin. Parker, G., Van Alstyne, M., & Choudary, S. P. (2016). Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy - and How to Make Them Work for You. W. W. Norton & Company. Harari, Y. N. (2024). Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. Random House. Sauer, H. (2024). The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality. Profile Books. Harari, Y. N. (2014). Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Harper. von Briel, F., Davidsson, P., & Recker, J. (2018). Digital Technologies as External Enablers of New Venture Creation in the IT Hardware Sector. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42(1), 47-69. Davidsson, P., Recker, J., & von Briel, F. (2020). External Enablement of New Venture Creation: A Framework. Academy of Management Perspectives, 34(3), 311-332. Davidsson, P., Recker, J., & von Briel, F. (2025). External Enablement of Entrepreneurial Actions and Outcomes: Extension, Review and Research Agenda. Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 12(3-4), 300-470. Safadi, H., Lalor, J. P., & Berente, N. (2024). The Effect of Bots on Human Interaction in Online Communities. MIS Quarterly, 48(3), 1279-1296. Chen, Z., & Chan, J. (2024). Large Language Model in Creative Work: The Role of Collaboration Modality and User Expertise. Management Science, 70(12), 9101-9117. Dumas, M., La Rosa, M., Mendling, J., & Reijers, H. A. (2018). Fundamentals of Business Process Management (2nd ed.). Springer. Harari, Y. N. (2014). Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Harvill Secker. Recker, J. (2021). Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide (2nd ed.). Springer. The Stakeholder Alignment Collaborative. (2025). The Consortia Century: Aligning for Impact. Oxford University Press. 

On Harari's Nexus, Summary & Critique ‎ In this episode, I delve into Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the ‎Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari. The book examines the intricate relationship ‎between information, power, and technology, revealing how these dynamics have ‎shaped human history and will continue to influence our future. Harari explores ‎how societies and political systems have leveraged information to achieve their goals ‎and how major information revolutions have sparked periods of remarkable human ‎flourishing. I also share my critique of his work, offering a balanced perspective on ‎its insights and limitations.‎

In this week's episode of the 3 Pillars Podcast we will be introducing the Third Stage of the Hero's Journey, the Refusal of the Call. What is it, what are it's characteristics and how can we apply our Christian faith and fitness to navigate our story? SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEW PODCAST CHANNEL HERE: https://www.youtube.com/@3PillarsPodcast God bless you all. Jesus is King. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭5‬:‭8‬ ‭KJV‬‬ I appreciate all the comments, topic suggestions, and shares! Find the "3 Pillars Podcast" on all major platforms. For more information, visit the 3 Pillars Podcast website: https://3pillarspodcast.wordpress.com/ Don't forget to check out the 3 Pillars Podcast on Goodpods and share your thoughts by leaving a rating and review: https://goodpods.app.link/3X02e8nmIub Please Support Veteran's For Child Rescue: https://vets4childrescue.org/ Stay connected with Joe Russiello and the "Sword of the Spirit" Podcast: https://www.swordofthespiritpodcast.com/ Join the conversation: #3pillarspodcast References Campbell, J. (1949). The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton University Press. Rohr, R. (2011). Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life. Jossey-Bass. Harari, Y. N. (2015). Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Harper. Peterson, J. B. (1999). Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. Routledge. McGonigal, K. (2015). The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It. Avery. #podcast #herosjourney

In this week's episode of the 3 Pillars Podcast we will be introducing the Second Stage of the Hero's Journey, the Call to Adventure. What is it, what are it's characteristics and how can we apply our Christian faith and fitness to navigate our story? SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEW PODCAST CHANNEL HERE: https://www.youtube.com/@3PillarsPodcast God bless you all. Jesus is King. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭5‬:‭8‬ ‭KJV‬‬ I appreciate all the comments, topic suggestions, and shares! Find the "3 Pillars Podcast" on all major platforms. For more information, visit the 3 Pillars Podcast website: https://3pillarspodcast.wordpress.com/ Don't forget to check out the 3 Pillars Podcast on Goodpods and share your thoughts by leaving a rating and review: https://goodpods.app.link/3X02e8nmIub Please Support Veteran's For Child Rescue: https://vets4childrescue.org/ Stay connected with Joe Russiello and the "Sword of the Spirit" Podcast: https://www.swordofthespiritpodcast.com/ Join the conversation: #3pillarspodcast References 1) Campbell, J. (1949). The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton University Press. 2) Rohr, R. (2011). Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life. Jossey-Bass. 3) Harari, Y. N. (2015). Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Harper. 4) Peterson, J. B. (1999). Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. Routledge. 5) McGonigal, K. (2015). The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It. Avery. #podcast #herosjourney

Join Dr. Marc Gafni as he critically examines the fundamental errors in Yuval Noah Harari's assertions that stories, human rights, and human purpose are mere constructs of fiction. With around 60 million books sold, Harari is celebrated by influential figures like Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Klaus Schwab as a leading philosopher of our time.  In this enlightening discussion, Rebbe Marc Gafni meticulously dismantles the grim assumptions presented in both Harari's adult and children's literature, aiming to set the record straight: Value is tangible, and life holds intrinsic meaning. Embark on this profound exploration of both Gafni and Harari's works like never before. This conversation is a game-changer, illuminating the fundamental principles and values that govern the cosmos. - In **Part 1**, Marc clarifies the concepts of meaning and value. - In **Part 2**, he delves into Harari's perspective on human rights, artificial intelligence, and his claims regarding the authority of science. - In **Part 3**, Marc imparts the powerful insight that reality is, at its core, a love story. **Watch until the very end and share your thoughts in the comments below! Your insights are invaluable to us.** Check out Firt Principles and First Values by David J Templeton: https://tinyurl.com/38vu22tp Check out more of Dr. Marc Gafni's work at ⁠⁠⁠https://www.marcgafni.com/⁠⁠⁠ | Connect with Aubrey | Website | ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/2GesYqi ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram | ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/2BlfCEO ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook | ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/2F4nBZk ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter |⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://bit.ly/2BlGBAdAd⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out "Own your Day, Own Your Life" by Aubrey Marcus | ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/2vRz4so⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Aubrey Marcus newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.aubreymarcus.com/pages/email⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to the Aubrey Marcus podcast: iTunes | ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://apple.co/2lMZRCn ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Spotify |⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://spoti.fi/2EaELZO ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Stitcher | ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/2G8ccJt ⁠⁠⁠⁠ IHeartRadio | ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ihr.fm/3CiV4x3 ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Google Podcasts | ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3nzCJEh ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Android | ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/2OQeBQg⁠⁠

Join us as we dive into an inspiring conversation with Kim—a powerhouse trainer, fitness coach, and true warrior. Kim's journey is one of resilience and transformation. Growing up, she faced intense anxiety trying to perform at a high level in her soccer career. When substances offered temporary relief, they also brought a pain that's hard for most to imagine.In recovery, Kim discovered a new passion: movement and fitness. She found peace through her support network, her family, and her mission to help others find themselves—not just in the gym, but in their personal recovery journeys. Kim is a living example of falling five times and rising stronger on the sixth.Don't miss this story of strength, redemption, and the power of helping others!

Welcome to the Green Rush, a weekly conversation at the intersection of cannabis, psychedelics, the capital markets, and culture, produced by KCSA Podcast Labs. Today, we have a special episode featuring our newest production, Alternatively Speaking. In our debut season, we're diving into a revolutionary concept in health span, longevity, and healthcare. We sat down with Dr. Bob Harari, a renowned biomedical scientist, surgeon, and entrepreneur. He is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Celularity, a biotechnology company leading the next evolution in cellular medicine. Dr. Hariri pioneered the use of stem cells to treat a range of life-threatening human diseases and continues today to make transformative contributions in the fields of immuno-oncology and cell therapeutics along with tissue engineering and functional regeneration.  Dr. Hariri is widely acknowledged for his discovery of pluripotent stem cells derived from the human placenta, and as a member of the team that discovered the physiological activities of tumor necrosis factor (TNF). He holds over 150 issued and pending patents for discoveries including placenta-derived stem cells, which Nature recognized as one of the ten most important patent estates in the field. Dr. Hariri was the founder and CEO of Anthrogenesis Corporation, and after its acquisition by Celgene Corporation, served as CEO of Celgene Cellular Therapeutics. Dr. Hariri also co-founded the genomic-based health intelligence company, Human Longevity, Inc. Podcast Highlights: Introduction & Dr. Bob Harari's Research (1:00): Dr. Harari's background and journey to longevity science. Placental Stem Cells (04:30): Advantages of using placental-derived stem cells and their ethical considerations. Universal Donor Tissue (10:05): Concept of the placenta as a universal donor tissue is explored, highlighting its potential in cellular therapies. Genetic Modification (12:40): Process of genetic modification in stem cells and their natural intelligence. Chimerism (20:35): The potential therapeutic benefits of chimerism in cellular medicine are discussed. Adult Stem Cell Banking (24:18): Cellularity's adult stem cell banking program and its value for future treatments. Future of Stem Cell Medicine (36:40): A vision of stem cell medicine in 10 years, including potential treatments for cancer, autoimmune diseases, and aging-related conditions. Social Media: Dr. Bob Hariri's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbobhariri/?hl=en  Dr. Bob Hariri's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-hariri-md-phd-3654b239/  Other Links/Mentions/Resources: Cellularity's official website: https://www.cellularity.com/  National Institutes of Health (NIH) information on stem cells: https://stemcells.nih.gov/  FDA resources: https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/cellular-gene-therapy-products  Nature article on chimerism: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01001-2  The American Society for Gene and Cell Therapy's patient education page: https://asgct.org/education  Show Credits: This episode was hosted by Lewis Goldberg of KCSA Strategic Communications.  Special thanks to our Program Director, Shea Gunther, and Executive Producer, Maria Petsanas. You can learn more about how KCSA can help your cannabis and psychedelic companies by visiting www.kcsa.com or emailing AltSpeaking@kcsa.com. You can also connect with us via our social channels: X: @KCSAPodcastLabs Instagram: @KCSAPodcastLabs LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kcsapodcastlabs/

Why, despite being the most advanced species on the planet, does it feel like humanity is teetering on the brink of self-destruction? Is it just our human nature? Israeli philosopher and historian Yuval Noah Harari doesn't think so — he says the problem is our information trade. This is the focus of his latest book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. Harari explores the evolution of our information networks, from the printing press to the dumpster fire of information on social media and what it all means as we approach the “canonization” of AI.  In this episode, Kara and Harari discuss why information is getting worse; how fiction fuels engagement; and why truth tends to sink in the flood of information washing over us. Vote for Kara as Best Host in the Current Events for Signal's Listener's Choice Awards here: https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2024/shows/craft/best-host-current-events  Questions? Comments? Email us at on@voxmedia.com or find Kara on Threads/Instagram @karaswisher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Historian Yuval Noah Harari says that we are at a critical turning point. One in which AI's ability to generate cultural artifacts threatens humanity's role as the shapers of history. History will still go on, but will it be the story of people or, as he calls them, ‘alien AI agents'?In this conversation with Aza Raskin, Harari discusses the historical struggles that emerge from new technology, humanity's AI mistakes so far, and the immediate steps lawmakers can take right now to steer us towards a non-dystopian future.This episode was recorded live at the Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California.Your Undivided Attention is produced by the Center for Humane Technology. Follow us on Twitter: @HumaneTech_RECOMMENDED MEDIANEXUS: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari You Can Have the Blue Pill or the Red Pill, and We're Out of Blue Pills: a New York Times op-ed from 2023, written by Yuval, Aza, and Tristan The 2023 open letter calling for a pause in AI development of at least 6 months, signed by Yuval and Aza Further reading on the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment Further reading on AlphaGo's “move 37” Further Reading on Social.AIRECOMMENDED YUA EPISODESThis Moment in AI: How We Got Here and Where We're GoingThe Tech We Need for 21st Century Democracy with Divya SiddarthSynthetic Humanity: AI & What's At StakeThe AI DilemmaTwo Million Years in Two Hours: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari

Humans are good learners and teachers, constantly gathering information, archiving, and sharing knowledge. So why, after building the most sophisticated information technology in history, are we on the verge of destroying ourselves? We know more than ever before. But are we any wiser? Bestselling author of Sapiens and historian Yuval Noah Harari doesn't think so. This week Sean Illing talks with Harari, author of a mind-bending new book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks, about how the information systems that shape our world often sow the seeds of destruction, and why the current AI revolution is just the beginning of a brand-new evolutionary process that might leave us all behind. Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling) Guest: Yuval Noah Harari (@harari_yuval) Support The Gray Area by becoming a Vox Member: https://www.vox.com/support-now Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Yuval Noah Harari published an essay in the New York Times the other day. “Large-scale democracies,” he wrote, “became feasible only after the rise of modern information technologies like the newspaper, the telegraph and the radio. The fact that modern democracy has been built on top of modern information technologies means that any major change in the underlying technology is likely to result in a political upheaval.” Well, we're witnessing a major change in the underlying technology right now. Artificial intelligence is here, and if its proponents are to be believed, it will fundamentally transform how we consume information and communicate with each other. What this means for the future of democracy — and society as we know it — is the subject of Harari's new book Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. Host: Rufus Griscom Guest: Yuval Noah Harari