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In 2014, the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks stood on the AJC Global Forum stage and delivered a powerful call to action: “We have to celebrate our Judaism. We have to have less oy and more joy… We never defined ourselves as victims. We never lost our sense of humor. Our ancestors were sometimes hated by gentiles, but they defined themselves as the people loved by God.” Over a decade later, at AJC Global Forum 2025, AJC's Director of Jewish Communal Partnerships, Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman, revisits that message in a special crossover episode between People of the Pod and Books and Beyond, the podcast of the Rabbi Sacks Legacy. She speaks with Dr. Tanya White, one of the inaugural Sacks Scholars and host of Books and Beyond, and Joanna Benarroch, Global Chief Executive of the Legacy, about Rabbi Sacks's enduring wisdom and what it means for the Jewish future. Resources: The State of the Jewish World Address: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks The Inaugural Sacks Conversation with Tony Blair Listen – AJC Podcasts: The Forgotten Exodus: Untold stories of Jews who left or were driven from Arab nations and Iran People of the Pod:  Latest Episodes:  “They Were Bridge Builders”: Remembering Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky AJC's CEO Ted Deutch: Messages That Moved Me After the D.C. Tragedy Follow People of the Pod on your favorite podcast app, and learn more at AJC.org/PeopleofthePod You can reach us at: peopleofthepod@ajc.org If you've appreciated this episode, please be sure to tell your friends, and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Transcript of the Interview: Manya Brachear Pashman: On this week 16 years ago, the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks published Future Tense, a powerful vision of the future of Judaism, Jewish life, and the state of Israel in the 21st Century. Five years later, he delivered a progress report on that future to AJC Global Forum.  On the sidelines of this year's Global Forum, my colleague Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman spoke with two guests from the Rabbi Sacks Legacy, which was established after his death in 2020 to preserve and teach his timeless and universal wisdom. Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman:   In 2014, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks addressed our Global Forum stage to offer the state of the Jewish world. Modeled after the US President's State of the Union speech given every year before Congress and the American people, this address was intended to offer an overview of what the Jewish people were experiencing, and to look towards our future. The full video is available on AJC's website as well as the Sacks Legacy website. For today's episode, we are holding a crossover between AJC's People of the Pod podcast and Books and Beyond, the Rabbi Sacks podcast. On Books and Beyond, each episode features experts reflecting on particular works from Rabbi Sacks. Channeling that model, we'll be reflecting on Rabbi Sacks' State of the Jewish World here at AJC's 2025 Global Forum in New York. AJC has long taken inspiration from Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and today, AJC and the Rabbi Sacks legacy have developed a close partnership. To help us understand his insights, I am joined by two esteemed guests. Dr. Tanya White is one of the inaugural Sacks Scholars and the founder and host of the podcast Books and Beyond, the Rabbi Sacks podcast. Joanna Benarroch is the Global Chief Executive of the Rabbi Sacks legacy. And prior to that, worked closely with Rabbi Sacks for over two decades in the Office of the Chief Rabbi.  Joanna, Tanya, thank you for being with us here at AJC's Global Forum.  Tanya White:   It's wonderful to be with you, Meggie. Joanna Benarroch:   Thank you so much, Meggie.  Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman:   I want to get to the State of the Jewish World. I vividly remember that address. I was with thousands of people in the room, Jews from different walks of life, Jews from around the globe, as well as a number of non-Jewish leaders and dignitaries. And what was so special is that each of them held onto every single word.  He identifies these three areas of concern: a resurgence of antisemitism in Europe, delegitimization of Israel on the global stage, and the Iranian regime's use of terror and terror proxies towards Israel.  This was 2014, so with exception of, I would say today, needing to broaden, unfortunately, antisemitism far beyond Europe, to the skyrocketing rates we're living through today, it's really remarkable the foresight and the relevance that these areas he identified hold.  What do you think allowed Rabbi Sacks to see and understand these challenges so early, before many in the mainstream did? And how is his framing of antisemitism and its associated threats different from others? And I'll let  Tanya jump in and start. Tanya White:  So firstly, I think there was something very unique about Rabbi Sacks. You know, very often, since he passed, we keep asking the question, how was it that he managed to reach such a broad and diverse audience, from non Jews and even in the Jewish world, you will find Rabbi Sacks his books in a Chabad yeshiva, even a Haredi yeshiva, perhaps, and you will find them in a very left, liberal Jewish institution. There's something about his works, his writing, that somehow fills a space that many Jews of many denominations and many people, not just Jews, are searching for. And I think this unique synthesis of his knowledge, he was clearly a religious leader, but he wasn't just uniquely a religious leader.  He was a scholar of history, of philosophy, of political thought, and the ability to, I think, be able to not just read and have the knowledge, but to integrate the knowledge with what's going on at this moment is something that takes extreme prowess and a very deep sense of moral clarity that Rabbi Sacks had. And I would say more than moral clarity, is a moral imagination. I think it was actually Tony Blair. He spoke about the fact that Rabbi Sacks had this ability, this kind of, I think he even used the term moral imagination, that he was able to see something that other people just couldn't see.  Professor Berman from University of Bar Ilan, Joshua Berman, a brilliant Bible scholar. So he was very close to Rabbi Sacks, and he wrote an article in Israeli, actually, an Israeli newspaper, and he was very bold in calling Rabbi Sacks a modern day prophet.  What is a prophet? A prophet is someone who is able to see a big picture and is able to warn us when we're veering in the wrong direction. And that's what you see in the AJC address, and it's quite incredible, because it was 11 years ago, 2014. And he could have stood up today and said exactly the same thing. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks:  But there is nonetheless a new antisemitism. Unlike the old it isn't hatred of Jews for being a religion. It isn't hatred of Jews as a race. It is hatred of Jews as a sovereign nation in their own land, but it has taken and recycled all the old myths. From the blood libel to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.  Though I have to confess, as I said to the young leaders this morning, I have a very soft spot for antisemites, because they say the nicest things about Jews. I just love the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Because, according to this, Jews control the banks, Jews control the media, Jews control the world. Little though they know, we can't even control a shul board meeting. Tanya White:  So what's fascinating is, if you look at his book Future Tense, which was penned in 2009.The book itself is actually a book about antisemitism, and you'll note its title is very optimistic, Future Tense, because Rabbi Sacks truly, deeply believed, even though he understood exactly what antisemitism was, he believed that antisemitism shouldn't define us. Because if antisemitism defines who we are, we'll become the victims of external circumstances, rather than the agents of change in the future.  But he was very precise in his description of antisemitism, and the way in which he describes it has actually become a prism through which many people use today. Some people don't even quote him. We were discussing it yesterday, Joanna, he called it a mutating virus, and he speaks about the idea that antisemitism is not new, and in every generation, it comes in different forms. But what it does is like a virus. It attacks the immune system by mutating according to how the system is at the time.  So for example, today, people say, I'm not antisemitic, I'm just anti-Zionist. But what Rabbi Sacks said is that throughout history, when people sought to justify their antisemitism, they did it by recourse to the highest source of authority within that culture. So for example, in the Middle Ages, the highest recourse of authority was religion. So obviously we know the Christian pogroms and things that happen were this recourse the fact, well, the Jews are not Christians, and therefore we're justified in killing them.  In the Enlightenment period, it was science. So we have the and the Scientific Study of Race, right and Social Darwinism, which was used to predicate the Nazi ideology. Today, the highest value is, as we all know, human rights.  And so the virus of antisemitism has mutated itself in order to look like a justification of human rights. If we don't challenge that, we are going to end up on the wrong side of history. And unfortunately, his prediction we are seeing come very much to light today. Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman:  I want to turn to a different topic, and this actually transitioned well, because Tanya, you raised Prime Minister Tony Blair. Joanna, for our listeners who may have less familiarity with Rabbi Sacks, I would love for you to fill in a larger picture of Rabbi Sacks as one of the strongest global Jewish advocates of our time. He was a chief rabbi, his torah knowledge, his philosophical works make him truly a religious and intellectual leader of our generation.  At the same time, he was also counsel to the royal family, to secular thought leaders, world leaders, and in his remarks here at Global Forum, he actually raised addressing leading governing bodies at the European Union at that time, including Chancellor Merkel. These are not the halls that rabbis usually find themselves in. So I would love for you to explain to our audience, help us understand this part of Rabbi Sacks' life and what made him so effective in it.  Joanna Benarroch:  Thanks, Meggie. Over the last couple of weeks, I spent quite a bit of time with people who have been interested in learning more about Rabbi Sacks and looking at his archive, which we've just housed at the National Library in Israel. Then I spent quite a significant amount of time with one of our Sacks Scholars who's doing a project on exactly this.  How did he live that Judaism, engaged with the world that he wrote so eloquently about when he stepped down as chief rabbi. And a couple of days ago, I got an email, actually sent to the Sacks Scholar that I spent time with, from the gifted archivist who's working on cataloging Rabbi Sacks' archive. She brought our attention to a video that's on our website.  Rabbi Sacks was asked by a young woman who was a student at Harvard doing a business leadership course, and she asked Rabbi Sacks for his help with her assignment. So he answered several questions, but the question that I wanted to bring to your attention was: what difference have you sought to make in the world?  The difference that he sought to make in the world, and this is what he said, “is to make Judaism speak to people who are in the world, because it's quite easy being religious in a house of worship, in a synagogue or church, or even actually at home or in the school. But when you're out there in the marketplace, how do you retain those strong values?  And secondly, the challenge came from University. I was studying philosophy at a time when there were virtually no philosophers who were religious believers, or at least, none who were prepared to publicly confess to that. So the intellectual challenges were real. So how do you make Judaism speak to people in those worlds, the world of academic life, the world of economy?  And in the end, I realized that to do that credibly, I actually had to go into the world myself, whether it was broadcasting for the BBC or writing for The Times, and getting a little street cred in the world itself, which actually then broadened the mission. And I found myself being asked by politicians and people like that to advise them on their issues, which forced me to widen my boundaries.” So from the very beginning, I was reminded that John–he wrote a piece. I don't know if you recall, but I think it was in 2005, maybe a little bit earlier. He wrote a piece for The Times about the two teenagers killed a young boy, Jamie Bulger, and he wrote a piece in The Times. And on the back of that, John Major, the prime minister at the time, called him in and asked him for his advice.  Following that, he realized that he had something to offer, and what he would do is he would host dinners at home where he would bring key members of either the parliament or others in high positions to meet with members of the Jewish community. He would have one on one meetings with the Prime Minister of the time and others who would actually come and seek his advice and guidance.  As Tanya reflected, he was extremely well read, but these were books that he read to help him gain a better understanding into the world that we're living in. He took his time around general elections to ring and make contact with those members of parliament that had got in to office, from across the spectrum. So he wasn't party political. He spoke to everybody, and he built up. He worked really hard on those relationships.  People would call him and say so and so had a baby or a life cycle event, and he would make a point of calling and making contact with them. And you and I have discussed the personal effect that he has on people, making those building those relationships. So he didn't just do that within the Jewish community, but he really built up those relationships and broaden the horizons, making him a sought after advisor to many.  And we came across letters from the current king, from Prince Charles at the time, asking his guidance on a speech, or asking Gordon Brown, inviting him to give him serious advice on how to craft a good speech, how long he should speak for? And Gordon Brown actually gave the inaugural annual lecture, Memorial Lecture for Rabbi Sacks last in 2023 and he said, I hope my mentor will be proud of me.  And that gave us, I mean, it's emotional talking about it, but he really, really worked on himself. He realized he had something to offer, but also worked on himself in making his ideas accessible to a broad audience. So many people could write and can speak. He had the ability to do both, but he worked on himself from quite a young age on making his speeches accessible. In the early days, they were academic and not accessible. Why have a good message if you can't share it with a broad audience? Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman:  What I also am thinking about, we're speaking, of course, here at an advocacy conference. And on the one hand, part of what you're describing are the foundations of being an excellent Jewish educator, having things be deeply accessible.  But the other part that feels very relevant is being an excellent global Jewish advocate is engaging with people on all sides and understanding that we need to engage with whomever is currently in power or may who may be in power in four years. And it again, speaks to his foresight.  Joanna Benarroch:  You know, to your point about being prophetic, he was always looking 10, 15, 20 years ahead. He was never looking at tomorrow or next week. He was always, what are we doing now that can affect our future? How do I need to work to protect our Jewish community? He was focused whilst he was chief rabbi, obviously on the UK, but he was thinking about the global issues that were going to impact the Jewish community worldwide. Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman:  Yes. I want to turn to the antidote that Rabbi Sacks proposed when he spoke here at Global Forum. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks:  I will tell you the single most important thing we have to do, more important than all the others. We have to celebrate our Judaism. We have to have less oy and more joy.  Do you know why Judaism survived? I'll tell you. Because we never defined ourselves as victims. Because we never lost our sense of humor. Because never in all the centuries did we internalize the disdain of the world. Yes, our ancestors were sometimes hated by gentiles, but they defined themselves as the people loved by God. Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman:  So he highlights the need to proudly embrace the particularism of Judaism, which really in today's world, feels somewhat at odds with the very heavy reliance we have on universalism in Western society. And underpinning this, Rabbi Sacks calls on us to embrace the joy of Judaism, simchatah, Chaim, or, as he so fittingly puts it, less oy and more joy. How did both of these shape Rabbi Sacks's wider philosophy and advocacy, and what do they mean for us today? Tanya White:  Rabbi Sacks speaks about the idea of human beings having a first and second language. On a metaphorical level, a second language is our particularities. It's the people, it's the family we're born. We're born into. It's where we learn who we are. It's what we would call today in sociology, our thick identity. Okay, it's who, who I am, what I believe in, where I'm going to what my story is. But all of us as human beings also have a first language. And that first language can be, it can manifest itself in many different ways. First language can be a specific society, a specific nation, and it can also be a global my global humanity, my first language, though, has to, I have to be able to speak my first language, but to speak my first language, meaning my universal identity, what we will call today, thin identity. It won't work if I don't have a solid foundation in my thick identity, in my second language. I have nothing to offer my first language if I don't have a thick, particular identity.  And Rabbi Sacks says even more than that. As Jews, we are here to teach the world the dignity of difference. And this was one of Rabbi Sacks' greatest messages. He has a book called The Dignity of Difference, which he wrote on the heels of 9/11. And he said that Judaism comes and you have the whole story of Babel in the Bible, where the people try to create a society that is homogenous, right? The narrative begins, they were of one people and one language, you know, and what, and a oneness of things. Everyone was the same. And Rabbi Sacks says that God imposes diversity on them. And then sees, can they still be unified, even in their diversity? And they can't.  So Rabbi Sacks answers that the kind of antidote to that is Abraham. Who is Abraham? Abraham the Ivri. Ivri is m'ever, the other. Abraham cut this legacy. The story of Abraham is to teach the world the dignity of difference.  And one of the reasons we see antisemitism when it rears its head is when there is no tolerance for the other in society. There is no tolerance for the particular story. For my second language. For the way in which I am different to other people. There's no real space for diversity, even when we may use hashtags, okay, or even when we may, you know, proclaim that we are a very diverse society. When there is no space for the Jew, that's not true dignifying of difference. And so I think for Rabbi Sacks, he told someone once that one of his greatest, he believed, that one of his greatest novelties he brought into the world was the idea of Torah and chochma, which is torah and wisdom, universal wisdom. And Rabbi Sacks says that we need both.  We need to have the particularity of our identity, of our language, of our literacy, of where we came from, of our belief system. But at the same time, we also need to have universal wisdom, and we have to constantly be oscillating and be kind of trying to navigate the space between these two things. And that's exactly what Rabbi Sacks did.  And so I would say, I'll actually just finish with a beautiful story that he used to always tell. He would tell the story, and he heard this story from the late Lubavitcher, Menachem Schneerson, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, who was a very big influence on Rabbi Sacks and the leader of the Chabad movement.  So in the story, there's two people that are schlepping rocks up a mountain, two workers, and one of them just sees his bags that are full of rocks and just sees no meaning or purpose in his work. The other understands that he's carrying diamonds in his bag.  And one day they get a different bag, and in that bag there's rubies, and the person who carries the rocks sees the rubies as rocks, again, sees that as a burden. But the person who's carrying the rubies and understands their value, even though they may not be diamonds, understands the values of the stones, will see them in a different way.  The Lubavitcher Rebbe said, if we see our identity, our Judaism, as stones to carry as a burden that we have to just schlep up a mountain, then we won't see anyone else's particular religion or particular belief system or particularity as anything to be dignified or to be valued.  But if we see our religion as diamonds, we'll understand that other people's religions, though for me, they may be rubies, they're still of value. You have to understand that your religion is diamonds, and you have to know what your religion is, understand what it is. You have to embrace your particularity. You have to engage with it, value it, and then go out into the world and advocate for it. And that, to me, was exactly what Rabbi Sacks did. Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman:  So much of what you're outlining is the underpinning of being a successful engager in interfaith and inter religious work. And Rabbi Sacks, of course, was such a leader there. At  AJC, we have taken inspiration from Rabbi Sacks and have long engaged in interfaith and inter-religious work, that's exactly a linchpin of it, of preaching one's own faith in order to engage with others. Tanya White:  That's the oy and the joy. For Rabbi Sacks, it's exactly that, if I see it as the oy, which is schlepping it up the mountain, well, I'm not going to be a very good advocate, but if I see it as the joy, then my advocacy, it's like it shines through. Joanna Benarroch:  It's very interesting, because he was interviewed by Christian Amanpour on CNN in 2014 just after he stepped down, as she she quoted the phrase “less oy and more joy” back to him, referring to his description of the Jewish community. When he came into office in 1991 he was worried about rising assimilation and out-marriage. And she said: How did you turn it around?  He said, “We've done the book of Lamentations for many centuries. There's been a lot of antisemitism and a lot of negativity to Jewish identity. And if you think of yourself, exactly as you're describing, as the people who get hated by others, or you've got something too heavy to carry, you're not going to want to hand that on to your children.  If you've got a very open society, the question is, why should I be anything in particular? Being Jewish is a very particular kind of Jewish identity, but I do feel that our great religious traditions in Judaism is the classic instance of this.  We have enormous gifts to offer in the 21st century, a very strong sense of community, very supportive families, a dedicated approach to education. And we do well with our children. We're a community that believes in giving. We are great givers, charitably and in other ways.  So I think when you stay firm in an identity, it helps you locate yourself in a world that sometimes otherwise can be seen to be changing very fast and make people very anxious. I think when you're rooted in a people that comes through everything that fate and history can throw at it, and has kept surviving and kept being strong and kept going, there's a huge thing for young people to carry with them.” And then he adds, to finish this interview, he said, “I think that by being what we uniquely are, we contribute to humanity what only we can give.” What Rabbi Sacks had was a deep sense of hope. He wore a yellow tie to give people hope and to make them smile. That's why he wore a yellow tie on major occasions. You know, sunshine, bringing hope and a smile to people's faces. And he had hope in humanity and in the Jewish people.  And he was always looking to find good in people and things. And when we talk about less oy and more joy. He took pleasure in the simple things in life. Bringing music into the community as a way to uplift and bring the community together.  We just spent a lovely Shabbat together with AJC, at the AJC Shabbaton with the students. And he would have loved nothing more than being in shul, in synagogue with the community and joining in.  Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman:  Thank you Joanna, and that's beautiful. I want to end our conversation by channeling how Rabbi Sacks concluded his 2014 address. He speaks about the need for Jewish unity at that time. Let's take a listen.  Rabbi Jonathan Sacks:  We must learn to overcome our differences and our divisions as Jews and work together as a global people. Friends, consider this extraordinary historical fact: Jews in history have been attacked by some of the greatest empires the world has ever known, empires that bestrode the narrow world like a colossus. That seemed invulnerable in their time. Egypt of the pharaohs, Assyria, Babylonia, the Alexandrian Empire, the Roman Empire, the medieval empires of Christianity and Islam, all the way up to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. Each one of those, seemingly invulnerable, has been consigned to history, while our tiny people can still stand and sing Am Yisrael Chai. Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman:  In Rabbi Sacks' A Letter in the Scroll, he talks about the seminal moment in his life when he most deeply understood Jewish peoplehood and unity. And that was 1967, the Six Day War, when the Jewish people, of course, witnessed the State of Israel on the brink of existential threat. To our AJC audience, this may ring particularly familiar because it was evoked in a piece by Mijal Bitton, herself a Sacks Scholar, a guest on our podcast, a guest Tanya on your podcast, who wrote a piece about a month after 10/7 titled "That Pain You're Feeling is Peoplehood'.  And that piece went viral in the Jewish world. And she draws this parallel between the moment that Rabbi Sacks highlights in 1967 and 10, seven, I should note, Tanya, of course, is referenced in that article that Mijal wrote. For our audiences, help us understand the centrality of peoplehood and unity to Rabbi Sacks' vision of Judaism. And as we now approach a year and a half past 10/7 and have seen the resurgence of certain communal fractures, what moral clarity can we take from Rabbi Sacks in this moment? Tanya White:  Okay, so it's interesting you talked about Mijal, because I remember straight after 7/10 we were in constant conversation–how it was impacting us, each of us in our own arenas, in different ways. And one of the things I said to her, which I found really comforting, was her constant ability to be in touch. And I think like this, you know, I like to call it after the name of a book that I read to my kid, The Invisible String. This idea that there are these invisible strings. In the book, the mother tells the child that all the people we love have invisible strings that connect us. And when we pull on the string, they feel it the other side.  1967 was the moment Rabbi Sacks felt that invisible pull on the string. They have a very similar trajectory. The seventh of October was the moment in which many, many Jews, who were perhaps disengaged, maybe a little bit ambivalent about their Jewish identity, they felt the tug of that invisible string. And then the question is, what do we do in order to maintain that connection? And I think for Rabbi Sacks, that was really the question. He speaks about 1967 being the moment in which he says, I realized at that moment every, you know, in Cambridge, and everything was about choice. And, you know, 1960s philosophy and enlightenment philosophy says, at that moment, I realized I hadn't chosen Judaism. Judaism had chosen me.  And from that moment forth, Rabbi Sacks feels as if he had been chosen. Judaism had chosen him for a reason. He was a Jew for a reason. And I think today, many, many Jews are coming back to that question. What does it mean that I felt that pull of the string on the seventh of October?  Rabbi Sacks' answer to that question of, where do we go from here? I think very simply, would be to go back to the analogy. You need to work out why Judaism is a diamond. And once you understand why Judaism is a diamond and isn't a burden to carry on my back, everything else will fall into place.  Because you will want to advocate for that particularity and what that particularity brings to the world. In his book, Future Tense, which, again, was a book about antisemitism, there was a picture of a lighthouse at the front of the book. That's how Rabbi Sacks saw the antidote for antisemitism, right? Is that we need to be the lighthouse. Because that's our role, globally, to be able to be the light that directs the rest of the world when they don't know where they're going. And we are living in a time of dizziness at the moment, on every level, morally, sociologically, psychologically, people are dizzy. And Judaism has, and I believe this is exactly what Rabbi Sacks advocated for, Judaism has a way to take us out of that maze that we found ourselves in. And so I think today, more than ever, in response to you, yes, it is peoplehood that we feel. And then the question is, how do we take that feeling of peoplehood and use it towards really building what we need to do in this world. The advocacy that Judaism needs to bring into the world. Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman:  We all have a role, a reason, a purpose. When Rabbi Sacks spoke to us a decade ago, more than a decade ago, at this point, those who were in the room felt the moral imperative to stand up to advocate and why, as Jews, we had that unique role.  I am so honored that today, now with Rabbi Sacks not here, you continue to give us that inspiration of why we are a letter in the scroll, why we must stand up and advocate. So thank you, Tanya and Joanna, for joining us at Global Forum and for this enlightening conversation. Tanya White:  Thank you so much for having us. Thank you. Joanna Benarroch:  Thank you so much.  Manya Brachear Pashman: If you missed last week's episode, please be sure to listen as two AJC colleagues pay tribute to their friends Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky who were brutally murdered outside the Capital Jewish Museum in May.   

On Books, Kids & Creations host Tracy Blom sits down with Australian hip-hop journalist Simone Jordan to discuss her journey as an author and her love for hip-hop, which started at a very young age. Her journalism career spans decades and includes exclusive interviews with hip-hop legends-- at a time when, believe it or not, people were passing on those interviews. Her new memoir, Tell Her She's Dreamin', is packed with passion and shows the ups and downs that led to her becoming Australia's most successful hip-hop journalist, with a career spanning print, radio, TV, and digital media. More about Simone At 23, she founded Urban Hitz, the country's highest-selling rap and R&B publication. Later, in New York City, she served as the content director of The Source, the iconic ‘Hip-Hop Bible' that inspired her reporting and social consciousness. Simone is a passionate advocate for equity and inclusion, dedicating her career to mentoring young women and guiding the next generation of talent through her consulting agency, The Dream Collective, and her work with Media Diversity Australia and Diversity Arts Australia. Her debut book, Tell Her She's Dreamin', won the 2021 Richell Prize. Buy the book here https://www.amazon.com/Tell-Her-Shes-Dreamin-ambitious/dp/0733649750

On Books, Kids & Creations host Tracy Blom sits down with Australian hip-hop journalist Simone Jordan to discuss her journey as an author and her love for hip-hop, which started at a very young age. Her journalism career spans decades and includes exclusive interviews with hip-hop legends-- at a time when, believe it or not, people were passing on those interviews. Her new memoir, Tell Her She's Dreamin', is packed with passion and shows the ups and downs that led to her becoming Australia's most successful hip-hop journalist, with a career spanning print, radio, TV, and digital media. More about Simone At 23, she founded Urban Hitz, the country's highest-selling rap and R&B publication. Later, in New York City, she served as the content director of The Source, the iconic ‘Hip-Hop Bible' that inspired her reporting and social consciousness. Simone is a passionate advocate for equity and inclusion, dedicating her career to mentoring young women and guiding the next generation of talent through her consulting agency, The Dream Collective, and her work with Media Diversity Australia and Diversity Arts Australia. Her debut book, Tell Her She's Dreamin', won the 2021 Richell Prize. Buy the book here https://www.amazon.com/Tell-Her-Shes-Dreamin-ambitious/dp/0733649750

“It wasn't about being better than others, it was being ourselves, and true to our ideals in our work.” That's just one of many gems from today's guest, Birch Coffee co-founder Paul Schlader, who says, “I don't accept anything less than absolute excellence.” In this conversation we talk about how he stands out in the New York City noise by hiring for kindness; getting bought out when the Gershwin Hotel closed and thereby ending the lease on their first location, then parlaying those funds into two new stores (and the growing pains that followed); and the moment he had to tell his entire team they were furloughed indefinitely when New York City delivered the shut-down order; losing four stores but bouncing back to 14 (when so many other coffee shops closed down). More About Paul: Paul Schlader co-founded Birch Coffee, a New York City-based coffee company, in 2009. Since then, the company has grown to fourteen locations and is doing 10x the revenue by the end of year three. Paul and his business partner Jeremy have been focused on bettering the industry through their work in coffee and service over the past fifteen years. Paul's work directly focuses on quality of product. As a licensed Q grader, he manages all of Birch's green coffee purchases, and oversees their roasting, wholesale program, and espresso training. Though the coffee side is important, leadership is where Paul spends most of his time, building teams and working to teach their leaders to follow the mission, "Serve our customers every need, every time, knowing every moment counts.”

On The Alfred Daily Today: Public Can Swim at Coombe House Pool Again; Park Run Unlikely Until '24 Now Planners Told Stone Cutting and Quarrying at Cann Is Over Award-Winning Britain's Got Talent Magician Plans Shaftesbury Show Blackmore Vale Arts Trail Is Back and Is Bigger Shaftesbury What's On Books for Architecture Lovers on Sale at Shaftesbury's Oxfam Bargains from Shaftesbury's Cancer Research Shop – One of the Busiest in the South West Shaftesbury Road Closure View from the Hill: Couple from Felixstowe Film Society Launches Autumn Programme with 'Aftersun' Shaftesbury Sociable Netball Returns to Shaftesbury School After COVID Pause

The best systems aren't cumbersome sources of frustration collecting dust in the cloud—they save you so much time, that creating even more streamlined solutions becomes a personal passion. That's the case for me and today's returning guest, Karen Allen. We're going behind-the-business, swapping ideas for client-facing pages, client tracking databases, course resources pages, personal journaling, and more. Although we are talking specifically about Notion (this isn't #sponcon, I swear!), any software that has similar functionality can work :) More About Karen: Karen is a super-mom, healthy eater, and keynote speaker. After experiencing the tragedy of losing her husband, she picked herself up and set out to thrive for her son's sake. She is the founder of the 100% Human movement, helping others develop a mindset of joy and abundance through her community. She also hosts the In the Details podcast, and be sure to check out our previous conversation in episode 191: Structuring Free Time as a Single Parent While Grieving and Rebuilding.

No matter how many times you have heard it, the story of Jallianwala Bagh is terrifying. But when most of us first heard the story of the massacre, we weren't mature enough to absorb the significance of what we were reading.As schoolboys we were only allowed a casual and dinky relationship with our history text books. Jallianwala Bagh could pass as another tale of woe in chapter after chapter of bloody wars.And it wasn't until we were older and for many—let's tell the truth here—watching the movie Gandhi—did the horror of it all come home.My guest today is Navtej Sarna, author of Crimson Spring—in essence a book about the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh, but one that is more history than novel. It is a literary work that describes a historical tragedy through the emotions of its protagonists.  While reading his book, it struck me that we don't preserve and portray the horrors of history in any tangible form, say, like the holocaust museums; Auschwitz and other locations. And then it occurred to me that the broad dissemination of Indian history is principally among school children. And that includes mythology. Even ones that include mature themes, such as the Mahabharata.No wonder then that the authors who have given us history—whether as history or as novels of historical fiction—have become bestsellers. Think William Dalrymple with over a million Twitter followers, Ram Guha, Chitra Divakaruni, Navtej Sarna, and so many others.There is a hunger for history. And no better time than the 75th year of Indian independence to tell these tales.Crimson Spring is but another in an impressive list of books authored by Sarna. And among them the most compelling for me is his book on his literary travels: Second Thoughts subtitled, On Books, Authors and The Writerly Life.Through trying to find the origins and the final resting places of the great writers, Sarna introduces us to that wonderful world. And packages the most important works of literature in an easily digestible form.He is a diplomat—former Ambassador to the United States, Israel and former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. And he joins us today from his home in New Delhi.I am privileged to welcome Navtej Sarna to The Literary City.ABOUT NAVTEJ SARNANavtej Sarna was India's Ambassador to the United States, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, and Ambassador to Israel. He has also served as Secretary to the Government of India and as the Foreign Office Spokesperson. His earlier diplomatic assignments were in Moscow, Warsaw, Thimphu, Tehran, Geneva, and Washington DC. His literary work includes the novels The Exile and We Weren't Lovers Like That, the short story collection Winter Evenings, non-fiction works The Book of Nanak, Second Thoughts, and Indians at Herod's Gate, as well as two translations, Zafarnama and Savage Harvest. He is a prolific columnist and commentator on foreign policy and literary matters, contributing regularly to media platforms in India and abroad. His latest book is Crimson Spring, on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.Buy Crimson Spring: https://amzn.to/3BUjMqtBuy Second Thoughts: On Books, Authors and the Writerly Life: https://amzn.to/3JBqTpoWHAT'S THAT WORD?!Co-host Pranati "Pea" Madhav joins Ramjee Chandran in the segment "What's That Word?", where they discuss the phrase "Out damn spot!"WANT TO BE ON THE SHOW?Reach us by mail: theliterarycity@explocity.com or simply, tlc@explocity.com.Or here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theliterarycity.Or here:  https://www.instagram.com/explocityblr/

In this episode we are in conversation with the former chairman of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) Shyam saran about his new book, How China sees India and the world and the authoritative view of India-China relationship. Two years after the Galwan clashes on June 15-16, 2020, in which at least 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese soldiers were killed, the government says it has still not ascertained why China amassed its troops in such large numbers at the border. In this episode, author Shyam Saran lists a number of reasons while also delving deep into the historic relationships between the two countries. With dates, events and personality, this book sums up volumes of Chinese history, giving it a very comprehensive and uniquely Indian perspective as well. In this episode of the On Books podcast, we discuss some of the history but most importantly talk about what we can learn from China that will help up deal with this challenge today and in the future. 

Falling in love is undoubtedly one of the best feelings in the world. It makes our heart flutter and the butterflies in our stomachs dance in joy. No matter the age, love is something we all feel, may it be fleeting or long-term. But not all the people we love feel the same way for us and vice versa. Feelings don't always get reciprocated no matter how much we work on them. In this case, what is the proper response for the person on the receiving end of a love confession?In this episode, Rosie and Tessa talk about the overarching theme of love. They answer a question from a listener on how to respond to someone they don't feel the same way romantically. Furthermore, they talked about when to say "I love you." They highlight the importance of setting boundaries in avoiding asymmetrical relationships. Tessa then shares the details of her love story at the end of the podcast!This episode was brought to you by: Prosewww.prose.com/loved for your FREE in-depth hair consultation and 15% OFF your supplements!SugarBreakVisit www.sugarbreak.com/rosie and use code ROSIE for 15% off your entire order! Oral EssentialsGet 15% OFF your order by going to www.lumineuxhealth.com/loved Native Deowww.nativedeo.com/loved 20% OFF your first purchase Promo code: LOVEDAre you stuck at the end of receiving a love confession from someone you don't see the same way? Tune in and learn how to handle this situation with honesty and kindness!Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:1.Discover the power of manifestation.2.Find out how soon is too soon to say “I love you.”3.Learn an honest and kind way to respond to a person's confession when you don't feel the same way.Resources●Episode: The Path To Finding Meaning With Sheri Salata●Episode 324: What It Takes To Be In A Healthy Relationship With Torry Pendergrass●The Beautiful No by Sheri Salata●OkCupid: The Future of Dating 2020 Data●Stay updated on my upcoming book launch and 2022 international retreats by subscribing to the newsletter! ●Check out Rosie's YouTube channel for the upcoming episodes of Wisdom Wednesday.●We'd love to get a listener on board for #WisdomWednesdays! Send us an email at info@radicallyloved.com with the subject “Wisdom Wednesday Guest” and tell us your name, where you're from, how you heard of the podcast, your favorite episode, and what you'd like to discuss. ●Create a daily meditation ritual in just seven days! Download BUILD YOUR DAILY MEDITATION RITUAL and other freebies on the Radically Loved website!●FREE Action Guide! Apply the lessons you learn from this episode as you listen! Sign up at RadicallyLoved.com, and I'll send it right away!Episode HighlightsEarly New Year Greeting●All the episodes for this season are pre-recorded.●Rosie's book will be on sale starting the 22nd of January 2022.To Radically Loved's Listeners●2022 will be your year.●Rosie reads every single listener email that comes into Radically Loved's email. She's grateful for the community's continued support.●Rosie started doing the podcast on her house's dining table using an H4 Zoom recorder and headphones. She used to do interviews over the phone.●The podcast has come a long way from its beginning in 2016.Tessa and Rosie's Relationship●Tessa and Rosie have known each other since 2015. Tessa was Rosie's student.●Tessa and Kristina Coco are the two people certified to teach Rosie's 200-hour level teacher training.On Books and Manifestation●Tessa can't wait to get her hands on Rosie's book.●Talking about books always induces a cozy atmosphere.●Rosie will be recording her audiobook in the second week of January. ●Writing a book seemed only a far-fetched dream for Rosie before. She will be recording an audiobook exactly ten years from that little seedling of thought.●Manifestation works, and dreams do come true.You Can Do Anything●We often look at other people who have something we want with a lens of curiosity and willingness to learn.●If others have done it, you can do it too.●This conversation stemmed from Rosie's podcast interview with Sheri Salata.●Tessa always thinks back to the four locks and keys in Yoga Sutra when talking about this topic.●Comparison can either be a source of inspiration or something that can stop us in our tracks.How Soon is Too Soon to Say “I Love You”●The main topic for this episode is the overarching theme of falling in love●A question from a listener: How do you respond to someone wholeheartedly saying they love you when you don't feel the same way romantically?●OkCupid surveyed 6000 people on the question of how soon is too soon to say "I love you."●62% think you should say it as soon as you feel it. 22% say you should wait several months, while 3% say you should wait at least a year.●The typical range is about three months.How to Respond to a Confession When You Don't Feel the Same Way●Tessa has never had the situation happen to her. She thinks it's best to approach it like a compliment and say thank you.●Rosie has experienced this situation before. A friend confessed to her wanting to be in a romantic relationship, but she didn't feel the same way.●That friend tried to push the idea to Rosie, even with Torry in the picture. She turned him down on several occasions and created space between them.●A spiritual counselor asked Rosie if she was keeping that friend as a way of ego feeding.●Rosie suggests being honest and creating a clear boundary.Creating an Asymmetrical Relationship●It's hard to maintain a deep friendship with someone in love with you. ●It's a selfish endeavor not to create boundaries with someone you don't feel the same way romantically. It creates an asymmetrical relationship.●An asymmetrical friendship is when only one person gets the buck of energy fill.How to Come from a Place of Honesty and Kindness●Laying down romantic feelings and the vulnerability that comes with it is a sensitive subject.●It's not easy to turn someone down in a way that remains kind and loving.●Tessa: Have the other person clarify what they mean by their "I love you." Acknowledge it, give appreciation, and explain you don't feel the same kind of love.●Rosie is more of the type to close the door immediately. She doesn't want to lead anybody on.Tessa's Puppy Love Experience●Tessa was in a long-term monogamous relationship for six years when she was 16. ●Her parents were worried about it and had a serious talk with her. Tune in to the full episode to hear more about her parents' reaction to her puppy love.Tessa's Love Story●Tessa and her current partner Jorge have been together for over a decade. They met in college in Oregon.●Tessa swooned over aura when he served her and her friend at the restaurant he worked at. He was from Mexico and still had a thick accent when they first met.●They ended up meeting on campus again and started seeing each other more often and going Salsa dancing together. But they were with other people at the time.●Tessa found out he was living with his girlfriend's parents at the time. They were his host family as an exchange student, so Tessa didn't want to compromise.●Jorge would say Tessa was just his English tutor, but his actions said otherwise. They eventually got together after the other people in the picture fell away.Love in a Long-Term Adult Relationship●Tessa said they said "I love you" within the three to the six-month mark of their relationship.●Energy and excitement always fill Tessa every time she retells their love story.●Tessa realized over the years that she chose a good partner. They have had ups and downs, but she couldn't pick a better partner.●Rosie agrees that Tessa and Jorge complement each other very well.●Meanwhile, Rosie shares her love story at length in her book. She says she must have done something right in the past life to deserve Torry.Powerful Quotes“I would do my best to say something along the lines of, I care a lot about you. You mean a lot to me. I don't feel ready to say ‘I love you' yet, at least not in that the way that I think you mean it.”“I think there's a difference here. And this is very much under the umbrella of falling in love the difference between being an adult relationship and puppy love.”“If you're not corresponding, it's almost once the relationship crosses that threshold unless there are very, very clear boundaries, it's kind of hard to go back. And then at that point, subconsciously, the mind is just wanting to keep that person around, to sort of feed that part of you that likes that attention.”

Falling in love is undoubtedly one of the best feelings in the world. It makes our heart flutter and the butterflies in our stomachs dance in joy. No matter the age, love is something we all feel, may it be fleeting or long-term. But not all the people we love feel the same way for us and vice versa. Feelings don't always get reciprocated no matter how much we work on them. In this case, what is the proper response for the person on the receiving end of a love confession?In this episode, Rosie and Tessa talk about the overarching theme of love. They answer a question from a listener on how to respond to someone they don't feel the same way romantically. Furthermore, they talked about when to say "I love you." They highlight the importance of setting boundaries in avoiding asymmetrical relationships. Tessa then shares the details of her love story at the end of the podcast!This episode was brought to you by: Prosewww.prose.com/loved for your FREE in-depth hair consultation and 15% OFF your supplements!SugarBreakVisit www.sugarbreak.com/rosie and use code ROSIE for 15% off your entire order! Oral EssentialsGet 15% OFF your order by going to www.lumineuxhealth.com/loved Native Deowww.nativedeo.com/loved 20% OFF your first purchase Promo code: LOVEDAre you stuck at the end of receiving a love confession from someone you don't see the same way? Tune in and learn how to handle this situation with honesty and kindness!Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:1.Discover the power of manifestation.2.Find out how soon is too soon to say “I love you.”3.Learn an honest and kind way to respond to a person's confession when you don't feel the same way.Resources●Episode: The Path To Finding Meaning With Sheri Salata●Episode 324: What It Takes To Be In A Healthy Relationship With Torry Pendergrass●The Beautiful No by Sheri Salata●OkCupid: The Future of Dating 2020 Data●Stay updated on my upcoming book launch and 2022 international retreats by subscribing to the newsletter! ●Check out Rosie's YouTube channel for the upcoming episodes of Wisdom Wednesday.●We'd love to get a listener on board for #WisdomWednesdays! Send us an email at info@radicallyloved.com with the subject “Wisdom Wednesday Guest” and tell us your name, where you're from, how you heard of the podcast, your favorite episode, and what you'd like to discuss. ●Create a daily meditation ritual in just seven days! Download BUILD YOUR DAILY MEDITATION RITUAL and other freebies on the Radically Loved website!●FREE Action Guide! Apply the lessons you learn from this episode as you listen! Sign up at RadicallyLoved.com, and I'll send it right away!Episode HighlightsEarly New Year Greeting●All the episodes for this season are pre-recorded.●Rosie's book will be on sale starting the 22nd of January 2022.To Radically Loved's Listeners●2022 will be your year.●Rosie reads every single listener email that comes into Radically Loved's email. She's grateful for the community's continued support.●Rosie started doing the podcast on her house's dining table using an H4 Zoom recorder and headphones. She used to do interviews over the phone.●The podcast has come a long way from its beginning in 2016.Tessa and Rosie's Relationship●Tessa and Rosie have known each other since 2015. Tessa was Rosie's student.●Tessa and Kristina Coco are the two people certified to teach Rosie's 200-hour level teacher training.On Books and Manifestation●Tessa can't wait to get her hands on Rosie's book.●Talking about books always induces a cozy atmosphere.●Rosie will be recording her audiobook in the second week of January. ●Writing a book seemed only a far-fetched dream for Rosie before. She will be recording an audiobook exactly ten years from that little seedling of thought.●Manifestation works, and dreams do come true.You Can Do Anything●We often look at other people who have something we want with a lens of curiosity and willingness to learn.●If others have done it, you can do it too.●This conversation stemmed from Rosie's podcast interview with Sheri Salata.●Tessa always thinks back to the four locks and keys in Yoga Sutra when talking about this topic.●Comparison can either be a source of inspiration or something that can stop us in our tracks.How Soon is Too Soon to Say “I Love You”●The main topic for this episode is the overarching theme of falling in love●A question from a listener: How do you respond to someone wholeheartedly saying they love you when you don't feel the same way romantically?●OkCupid surveyed 6000 people on the question of how soon is too soon to say "I love you."●62% think you should say it as soon as you feel it. 22% say you should wait several months, while 3% say you should wait at least a year.●The typical range is about three months.How to Respond to a Confession When You Don't Feel the Same Way●Tessa has never had the situation happen to her. She thinks it's best to approach it like a compliment and say thank you.●Rosie has experienced this situation before. A friend confessed to her wanting to be in a romantic relationship, but she didn't feel the same way.●That friend tried to push the idea to Rosie, even with Torry in the picture. She turned him down on several occasions and created space between them.●A spiritual counselor asked Rosie if she was keeping that friend as a way of ego feeding.●Rosie suggests being honest and creating a clear boundary.Creating an Asymmetrical Relationship●It's hard to maintain a deep friendship with someone in love with you. ●It's a selfish endeavor not to create boundaries with someone you don't feel the same way romantically. It creates an asymmetrical relationship.●An asymmetrical friendship is when only one person gets the buck of energy fill.How to Come from a Place of Honesty and Kindness●Laying down romantic feelings and the vulnerability that comes with it is a sensitive subject.●It's not easy to turn someone down in a way that remains kind and loving.●Tessa: Have the other person clarify what they mean by their "I love you." Acknowledge it, give appreciation, and explain you don't feel the same kind of love.●Rosie is more of the type to close the door immediately. She doesn't want to lead anybody on.Tessa's Puppy Love Experience●Tessa was in a long-term monogamous relationship for six years when she was 16. ●Her parents were worried about it and had a serious talk with her. Tune in to the full episode to hear more about her parents' reaction to her puppy love.Tessa's Love Story●Tessa and her current partner Jorge have been together for over a decade. They met in college in Oregon.●Tessa swooned over aura when he served her and her friend at the restaurant he worked at. He was from Mexico and still had a thick accent when they first met.●They ended up meeting on campus again and started seeing each other more often and going Salsa dancing together. But they were with other people at the time.●Tessa found out he was living with his girlfriend's parents at the time. They were his host family as an exchange student, so Tessa didn't want to compromise.●Jorge would say Tessa was just his English tutor, but his actions said otherwise. They eventually got together after the other people in the picture fell away.Love in a Long-Term Adult Relationship●Tessa said they said "I love you" within the three to the six-month mark of their relationship.●Energy and excitement always fill Tessa every time she retells their love story.●Tessa realized over the years that she chose a good partner. They have had ups and downs, but she couldn't pick a better partner.●Rosie agrees that Tessa and Jorge complement each other very well.●Meanwhile, Rosie shares her love story at length in her book. She says she must have done something right in the past life to deserve Torry.Powerful Quotes“I would do my best to say something along the lines of, I care a lot about you. You mean a lot to me. I don't feel ready to say ‘I love you' yet, at least not in that the way that I think you mean it.”“I think there's a difference here. And this is very much under the umbrella of falling in love the difference between being an adult relationship and puppy love.”“If you're not corresponding, it's almost once the relationship crosses that threshold unless there are very, very clear boundaries, it's kind of hard to go back. And then at that point, subconsciously, the mind is just wanting to keep that person around, to sort of feed that part of you that likes that attention.”

On Books, on "Dune, " on Uncle Buck and Marcella! After a few weeks apart, the Halls reunite to talk books, TV series, and the new movie "Dune." And being us, we manage to squeeze in all sorts of intriguing tidbits, from the inspiration for the movie "Home Alone" to the fact we're "famous by proxy." We discuss:Books:"Ghosts of New York," by Jim Lewis.  A novel that suspends the laws of time and space follows four characters in the Big Apple."The Silver Arrow," by Lev Grossman. The author of the adult-themed "Magicians" series writes a fun children's yarn involving a magical train and saving the world."How Music Works," by David Byrne. The Talking Heads frontman explains how the making of music stems from context (time, place, the technology available) and looks at his own musical history. Highly recommended."A Mind Spread Out on the Ground," by Alicia Elliott. This raw memoir explores the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas on Native people.Streaming/Theaters:"Dune": Denis Villeneuve ("Blade Runner 2049," "Arrival") directs an engrossing, visually stunning adaptation of Frank Herbert's complex 1965 sci-fi novel of otherworldly adventure, political intrigue, and giant sandworms."Marcella",  a Netflix drama with a London detective (Anna Friel) coping with marital woes, her struggles as a mom, and a tragic loss—while she excels at catching killers."Uncle Buck," a lesser but still enjoyable John Hughes movie with John Candy as a bachelor slob babysitting his brother's kids in suburban Chicago, to their chagrin."In the Dark": The third season finds our hot mess blind girl (Perry Mattfield) and her friends on the lam while searching for her abducted pal Jess. And having lots of sex.

Jofish Kaye is a computer scientist who aligns design, data, and qualitative exploration for human-centered product innovation.His superb track record as a scholar includes more than 100 publications and affiliations with MIT, Cornell, and Microsoft Research. Surprisingly, his career has been in corporations: following stints at Nokia, Yahoo, and Mozilla, he is now a director of AI and UX at Anthem.I have been a fan of his work for many years – he is a brilliant research writer whose takes are as entertaining as they are rigorous and instructive. In the longest episode of Design Disciplin to date, we had a massively wide-ranging conversation on pretty much all of our mutual interests: research, philosophy, social sciences, leadership, and more.https://designdisciplin.com/jofish-kaye# Books, Links, and Resources- Jofish Kaye on the Changing Academic Life Podcast by Geraldine Fitzpatrick: http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2019/2/2/jofish-kaye- The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers by Daniel F. Chambliss: https://academics.hamilton.edu/documents/themundanityofexcellence.pdf- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn: https://geni.us/structure-of-sci- Undisciplined disciples: everything you always wanted to know about ethnomethodology but were afraid to ask Yoda by Alan F. Blackwell, Mark Blythe, and Jofish Kaye: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-017-0999-z# Connect with Design Disciplin- Website: http://designdisciplin.com​​- Podcast: http://podcast.designdisciplin.com​​- Instagram: http://instagram.com/designdisciplin/​​- Twitter: http://twitter.com/designdisciplin/​​- YouTube: http://youtube.com/channel/UCtXM3JdnE...​- Bookstore: http://designdisciplin.com​/bookstore​# Connect with Jofish Kaye- Personal Website: http://jofish.com/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/jofish- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jofish# Episode Bookmarks00:00:00​ What does Jofish mean?00:02:00 Being a Scientist in Design00:06:05 Methods for Understanding Users00:10:17 Ethnomethodology00:13:04 Epistemology00:16:00 On Books and Papers00:18:53 On Videos, Documents, and Slide Decks00:25:52 Tactical Design00:28:13 New Job as Director of UX and AI00:33:49 Studying at MIT and Cornell00:38:00 Academia vs. Corporations, and the HCI Research Community00:43:32 Being a Scientist at a Corporation00:46:49 Productivity, Priorities, and Balance00:58:30 Publishing Research, at Corporations01:06:27 The Meaning of Design01:07:27 Places and Tools for Work01:08:33 Life Outside Work01:09:44 Closing

In this episode I interview Chris Castiglione. He is the Faculty at Columbia University where he teaches Digital Literacy for Decision Makers.He is also currently writing a book about how the internet broke democracy, and what we can do to fix it. Co-founder and teacher at One Month, Host of the On Books podcast, Learn to Code Podcast and Co-creator of the RISK! PodcastIn this episode we talk about Web 3.0US riotsInternet and democracyCentralization vs de-centerlizationGME - WSB vs Hedge fundsCryptoStock marketPolitics, social mediaAnd much more...Connect with Chris Castig:-http://www.castig.org/https://www.linkedin.com/in/castig/https://twitter.com/castighttps://www.onemonth.com/https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-books/id1010519905https://learn.onemonth.com/learn-to-code-podcast/https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/risk/id334724074If you enjoyed this episode then please subscribe, I will be interviewing other successful founders and investors to provide you a shortcut to success.Follow instagram:- https://www.instagram.com/wantmoneygotmoney/Follow Tiktok: 

In this episode of On Books and People, we flip the script with Jason Liller (Liller Creative) interviews host Mark Matteson and discusses his career, advice for speakers and writers, and the introduction of their new joint venture – Stone Soup Group – and online community which works with speakers and writers from novice to seasoned […] The post Ep.30 – Stone Soup Group appeared first on Mark Matteson.

Happy Valley is one of Fiona's favourite stores in her hometown of Melbourne, for its curated collection of items, for the experience it offers and the community it has cultivated around it. In today's episode, she interviews Happy Valley owner, Chris Couch. Listen as they discuss how Chris has successfully managed different kinds of businesses (including Polyester Records, Candle Records and the Tramway Pub), and how he is coping as a small business owner during a pandemic. Chris also goes into detail in how he was able to create a community around his business and also the practicalities of how long it's taken him to get the business to a place that he's really comfortable with and he's happy with. Topics discussed in this episode: Introduction [1:20]About Chris Crouch and Happy Valley [1:57]Checking in with Chris [6:05]Describing Happy Valley [7:41]History [10:22]Chris' Upbringing [12:19]The Challenges in the Business [13:43]On Staying Motivated [16:34]Choosing The Stock [20:06]On Brands Featured on The Store [24:19]On Markets [27:47]On Having A 9-5 Job [32:03]Time Management [34:53]On Boundaries [38:58]On Saying no [40:07]The Business During COVID [42:07]On Books [48:42]On Doing The Business Differently [51:59]Tech Tools For The Business [57:44]On Happy Valley's Achievements [1:03:02]Connecting With Happy Valley [1:04:27]Conclusion [1:07:32] Resources mentioned in this episode: Happy ValleyShopifyXero Episode transcript: For a full transcript of this episode go to mydailybusinesscoach.com/podcast/30

Habit - a decision you made at some point. And then stopped making, but continue acting upon. In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg brings us scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter at The New York Times, where he writes for the business section. You can follow him on Twitter @cduhigg. For more on The Power of Habit, and On Books... visit @ www.on-books.com

Today on the EdTech Startup Show, I talk to Chris Castiglione (@castig). Chris is the Dean of One Month, an adjunct professor at the business school at Columbia University, and the host of his own podcast, On Books. (Note: One reason to start your own company - you get to give yourself an awesome title like "Dean.") In simple terms, Chris is a twenty-first-century teacher. His company One Month is an online education platform teaching people technical skills like coding and project management through real-world projects in just 30 days. The company started when Chris and his co-founder Mattan began traveling around the world teaching people how to code. The problem was clear: they couldn't clone themselves, and there was a flood of students who wanted to learn from them. One Month was born. I first connected with Chris and his company in 2013. Having just sparked my own curiosity in learning to code, I dove into the course, which was one of the first Chris and Mattan offered on their site. I eventually wrote about the experience for Edutopia here. In just a few short lessons, probably under an hour, I had downloaded a new programming language onto my computer and created the basics of an app that was a clone of Pinterest. Just contrast that with the way a typical in-person course syllabus plays out. How long until students work on an exciting project? Days? Weeks? These satisfying wins, or "gold coin moments" as Chris calls them, are at the heart of great learning experiences, both online and in-person. Chris knows a thing or two about the power of lifelong learning. We discuss: - How in-person teaching experience led Chris to start his online education company - "Gold Coin Moments" and the difference between an online course and college class - The History of the Internet, an inspiring new writing project - Why knowing the mindset folks bring to your educational content is a difference maker - Motivating students in online education - And more Fun links from this episode: As a listener to the Edtech Startup Show, you can get 10% off coding courses at One Month. The History of The Internet: https://hackernoon.com/the-history-of-the-internet-cdb844ff460c Syllabus for Digital Literacy for Decision Makers: https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/courses/mba/2018/fall/b8125-001 On Books podcast: https://castig.org/on-books/ And more Like the show? Please give it a rating on iTunes and don't forget to subscribe. You can also give me your feedback by tweeting @GerardDawson3 with the hashtag #EdTechStartupShow – thanks for listening!

Educated is the memoir about a girl who went from being homeschooled in rural Idaho, to receive her Ph.D. from Cambridge University. Along the way she confronts poverty, ignorance, violence, and a host of other challenges. It's the remarkable, true story of Westover's journey to find an education. Educated was on the top of Bill Gate's Book list of 2018, as well as Barak Obama, Oprah, and the New York Times. And now it's on the top of my list! This week I chat with Allison Goldberg (Blogologues) in this very special 2-person bookclub episode of the On Books podcast. For more information and to see the links please visit: www.on-books.com This episode is sponsored by One Month where you can Learn to Code in 30 days. Learn HTML, JavaScript, Python and more. 

I love this book because while the subject of is "buildings," it's really about time. What happens to the objects we create over time? Buildings inevitably change with time, but what makes some get better, while others get worse? To answer that question, Stewart Brand has organized hundreds of photos, and written a poetic narrative linking together decades of lessons learned from I. M. Pei's Media Lab, George Washington's Mount Vernon home, Greenwich Village brownstones, and many more examples. In the end, it turns out that buildings can learn a lot from humans, and that humans can learn a lot from buildings. Subscribe to On Books on iTunes. Learn more @ www.on-books.com

He was a City Councilman, a magazine publisher and he developed a fine arts community in his central Maine community. One day his addiction to pornography and internet chat rooms cost him everything. Josh Shea is speaking out about what happened to him. Pornography is a problem that pervades all societies but only in America is it used as a weapon against the people. On Books in Heinessight, we let Joshua Shea tell his story so that others might understand the dangers of addiction in America's hypocritical and lawyer based society. THE ADDICTION NOBODY WILL TALK ABOUT KINDLE https://amzn.to/2SmjO03 THE ADDICTION NOBODY WILL TALK ABOUT PRINT https://amzn.to/2QwbZYv LISTEN TO THE HIT BOOKS IN HEINESSIGHT PODCAST AMAZING AUTHORS AND BOOKS AUTHOR MATTHEW HEINES WEBSITE https://www.heinessight.com BOOKS IN HEINESSIGHT PODCAST https://www.booksinheinessight.com SPONSOR US ON PATREON https://www.patreon.com/Heinessight YOUTUBE https://goo.gl/YG81X7 iHEART Radio https://goo.gl/T5ECTM STITCHER https://goo.gl/J5z7vQ ITUNES https://goo.gl/3AbjVP SPOTIFY https://goo.gl/h1Auwd GOOGLE PLAY https://goo.gl/iidhAX EQUIPMENT I AM USING AND LINKS: LOGITECH BRIO https://amzn.to/2QvpMP9 AUDIO TECHNICA AT2020 CONDENSER STUDIO MICROPHONE BUNDLE WITH POP FILTER and XLR CABLE https://amzn.to/2R2t8q1 BEHRINGER U-PHORIA UMC202HD AMPLIFIER https://amzn.to/2OeSEKm GIFT IDEAS FOR THE LADIES AT WORK GIFTSFORWOMENATWORK.COM https://goo.gl/8w6Y6j

50 Ways to Get a Job is a career book with fifty proven exercises you can use to find meaningful work. Last week I met with Dev Aujla to discuss his favorite takeaways from the book. One thing I have concluded after my chat with Dev: Resumes alone don’t work. How do most people apply for a job? Most people make a resume, apply to job boards, and then wait around hoping that someone, somewhere, will call, all the while becoming the most depressing person in history to hang out with.Dev Aujla spent over three years reading every career book since the 1970s. In that time he tested his methods on over 400,000 people! What he learned is that this old “resume & wait” game is over. In his book, he has proposed 50 tested ways to land your dream job. In our interview Dev answers the questions: * If resumes don’t work, what works in 2018? * What are your favorite takeaways from the book? * What’s the best cover letter? * How do you land a technical job or a job in a startup? I hope you enjoy my interview with Dev Aujla, author of 50 Ways to Get a Job. On Books is available on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube. **Please give On Books a 5 Star Rating on iTunes! It helps a lot. Thanks!**

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig von Mises had a profound effect on Charles Koch when he read it for the first time. Described as his “magnum opus,” this 900-page, 1949 treatise details a comprehensive, economics-based worldview on how people can live and work together peacefully – including what motivates us to act and […]Join the conversation and comment on this podcast episode: https://ricochet.com/podcast/on-books/human-action-treatise-economics/.Now become a Ricochet member for only $5.00 a month! Join and see what you’ve been missing: https://ricochet.com/membership/.Subscribe to On Books in Apple Podcasts (and leave a 5-star review, please!), or by RSS feed. For all our podcasts in one place, subscribe to the Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed in Apple Podcasts or by RSS feed.

Charles G. Koch explains what makes Tom Wolfe compelling reading. Originally published as a 27-part serial in Rolling Stone, then heavily revised for novelization, this 1987 tome set in New York City is considered by many to be the quintessential novel of the 1980s – receiving both widespread critical acclaim and weeks on best-seller lists. […]Join the conversation and comment on this podcast episode: https://ricochet.com/podcast/on-books/bonfire-of-the-vanities-by-tom-wolfe/.Now become a Ricochet member for only $5.00 a month! Join and see what you’ve been missing: https://ricochet.com/membership/.Subscribe to On Books in Apple Podcasts (and leave a 5-star review, please!), or by RSS feed. For all our podcasts in one place, subscribe to the Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed in Apple Podcasts or by RSS feed.

Charles discusses Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy by Michael Polyani and the profound influence the book had on his business. When it was published in 1958, “Personal Knowledge” challenged a prevailing philosophical idea – that all knowledge is objective, absolute and independent of individual experience. By reframing it as a personal discipline, Polanyi reclaims knowledge […]Join the conversation and comment on this podcast episode: https://ricochet.com/podcast/on-books/personal-knowledge-towards-a-post-critical-philosophy/.Now become a Ricochet member for only $5.00 a month! Join and see what you’ve been missing: https://ricochet.com/membership/.Subscribe to On Books in Apple Podcasts (and leave a 5-star review, please!), or by RSS feed. For all our podcasts in one place, subscribe to the Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed in Apple Podcasts or by RSS feed.

Charles G. Koch reads a passage and explores his affinity for the author. About the book: This 1988 book by a renown political scientist revisits the framers’ vision for good public policy inherent in the Declaration of Independence – and makes a compelling case for why it still is the best possible option for pursuing and […]Join the conversation and comment on this podcast episode: https://ricochet.com/podcast/on-books/in-pursuit-of-happiness-and-good-government-by-charles-murray/.Now become a Ricochet member for only $5.00 a month! Join and see what you’ve been missing: https://ricochet.com/membership/.Subscribe to On Books in Apple Podcasts (and leave a 5-star review, please!), or by RSS feed. For all our podcasts in one place, subscribe to the Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed in Apple Podcasts or by RSS feed.

Many of us insist the main impediment to a full, successful life is the outside world. In fact, the most common enemy lies within: our ego. Early in our careers, it impedes learning and the cultivation of talent. With success, it can blind us to our faults and sow future problems. In failure, it magnifies each blow and makes recovery more difficult. At every stage, ego holds us back.   In this episode of On Books, I'll read the introduction to Ego is the Enemy, as well as share my top 3 takeaways from the book. 

In Zero Waste Home, Bea Johnson shares the story of how she simplified her life by reducing her waste. The book is a how-to guide for reducing as much waste as possible from your life. In this episode of On Books, I interview Bea and discuss about how to reduce waste. 

Peter Singer is a well known Australian philosopher and author. In 2005 Time magazine named Singer one of the top 100 most influential people of the year. His latest two books The Life You Can Save (2009), and The Most Good You Can Do (2015) explore how you can be a vehicle for change in the world - right now, and without giving up much. Both of which we’ve covered in previous episodes of On Books! In this episode we discuss: * What does it mean to do “the most good"? * Are startups improving the world? * Why did you write The Life You Can Save? * What was it like being one of the first people to petition for animal rights back in the 1970s? My hope is that these three episodes of On Books will inspire you to unleash more good in the world - not only for others, but as you’ll see, for your own happiness and well being. After spending time with Singer, he has opened my eyes to the idea that giving just a little money ($5.00) to the right causes (thelifeyoucansave.org) can be enough to save a human life. Now that I know what’s possible - it feels like I’ve had superpowers all along and just didn’t know it. Email the show: chris @ on-books.com 

In this episode of On Books, I discuss The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, by Kevin Kelly.  The Inevitable is driven by the idea that the technological trends of the next 30 years can be predicted. Over 336 pages the book breaks down the Top 12 technological forces at work such as: "Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and Beginning." The names themselves don't really tell you much about these trends, and so I'll break down in this shorter 25 minute episode of On Books the first three trends: Becoming, Cognifying and Flowing so that by the end of the podcast you'll have a pretty good sense of how to use these in your everyday work. And you'll have enough of the kernel of the concept of what "inevitable" means so that you can decide if this book is right for you! Who better to speak on this subject than Kevin Kelly (co-founder of Wired Magazine, co-founder of The Quantified Self Movement, his accolades go on and on and on). Kelly's early writing in Out of Control (1994), and New Rules for the New Economy (1998) were highly influential in the shaping the past 20 years of the web, and his predictions here will no doubt be influential in shaping the next 20+ years. I hope you enjoy this episode! If you'd like to learn more about the book and Kevin Kelly please check out the previous episode of On Books (Episode #39) to hear my conversation with Kevin Kelly on 60s counterculture, How to Read Better and of course The Inevitable.

In this episode of On Books, we discuss The Life You Can Save, by Peter Singer.  Books notes available at: http://www.on-books.com

In this episode of On Books, we discuss The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically, by Peter Singer.  Books notes available at: http://www.on-books.com

How do you build something that will last 10,000 years? In this episode of On Books, we discuss The Clock of the Long Now by Stewart Brand. This is the third episode in the series, but feel free to listen to them in any order you like. Books notes available at: http://www.on-books.com

How does social change happen over time? What is more powerful nature or commerce? In this episode of On Books, we discuss The Clock of the Long Now by Stewart Brand. This is the second episode in the series, but feel free to listen to them in any order you like. Books notes available at: http://www.on-books.com

In this episode of On Books, we discuss The Clock of the Long Now by Stewart Brand. Books notes available at:http://www.on-books.com 

In this episode of On Books, we discuss an idea I've been consumed by. This discussion will help set the stage for the next series of books coming up. This episode is called, "To Leave the World a Better Place Than How I Found it." Books notes available at: http://www.on-books.com Subscribe on iTunes! And follow On Books: Twitter: @onbooksshow (http://www.twitter.com/onbooksshow) Facebook: /onbooksshow (http://www.facebook.com/onbooksshow) Instagram: @castig (https://www.instagram.com/castig)

In this episode of On Books, we discuss Part 2 of Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country. Books notes available at: http://www.on-books.com Subscribe on iTunes! And follow On Books: Twitter: @onbooksshow (http://www.twitter.com/onbooksshow) Facebook: /onbooksshow (http://www.facebook.com/onbooksshow) Instagram: @castig (https://www.instagram.com/castig)

This episode of On Books brings you a reading from A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut. This is part 1 of a 2 part episode on this book. Books notes available at: http://www.on-books.com Subscribe on iTunes! And follow On Books: Twitter: @onbooksshow (http://www.twitter.com/onbooksshow) Facebook: /onbooksshow (http://www.facebook.com/onbooksshow) Instagram: @castig (https://www.instagram.com/castig)

In this episode of On Books, Chris brings you So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport Books notes available at: http://www.on-books.com Subscribe on iTunes! And follow On Books: Twitter: @onbooksshow (http://www.twitter.com/onbooksshow) Facebook: /onbooksshow (http://www.facebook.com/onbooksshow) Instagram: @castig (https://www.instagram.com/castig)

In this episode of On Books, Chris Castiglione shares lessons learned about quitting from The Dip by Seth Godin. You can find the complete interview, and show notes available @ http://www.on-books.com Subscribe on iTunes! And follow On Books: Twitter: @onbooksshow (http://www.twitter.com/onbooksshow) Facebook: /onbooksshow (http://www.facebook.com/onbooksshow) Instagram: @castig (https://www.instagram.com/castig) Music: The Smiths, Broken Social Scene, Birdstar

In this episode of On Books, I bring you The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo. Visit www.on-books.com for book notes! Subscribe on iTunes! Twitter: @onbooksshow (http://www.twitter.com/onbooksshow) Facebook: /onbooksshow (http://www.facebook.com/onbooksshow) Instagram: @castig (https://www.instagram.com/castig)

In this episode of On Books, I take on Aziz Ansari's Modern Romance. It's a book about online dating, love, psychology and the cultural impacts of texting as a medium. It's going to be a great episode! So get ready, and I'll share with you stories of how Aziz's book (and standup) inspired me to take some action in my life. Enjoy! -Chris Visit www.on-books.com for book notes! Subscribe on iTunes!  Twitter: @onbooksshow (http://www.twitter.com/onbooksshow) Facebook: /onbooksshow (http://www.facebook.com/onbooksshow) Instagram: @castig (https://www.instagram.com/castig)  

In this episode of On Books, Chris Castiglione chat about Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman. Books notes are online @ http://www.on-books.com Subscribe on iTunes! And follow On Books: Twitter: @onbooksshow (http://www.twitter.com/onbooksshow)Facebook: /onbooksshow (http://www.facebook.com/onbooksshow)Instagram: @castig (https://www.instagram.com/castig)

Email me: chris@on-books.com! Let me know: On a scale of 1 to 10 would you recommend the On Books podcast to a friend? Put the number 1-10 (in the subject), and WHY you gave that number (in the body). Thanks for listening!  Subscribe on iTunes! And follow On Books:   Website: http://www..on-books.com Twitter: @onbooksshow (http://www.twitter.com/onbooksshow) Facebook: /onbooksshow  (http://www.facebook.com/onbooksshow) Instagram: @castig (https://www.instagram.com/castig)  

In this episode of On Books, I'll ask, "Is Love an Art?". You learn about the book: The Art of Loving by Eric Fromm, and much more.  Subscribe on iTunes! And follow On Books: Website: www.on-books.com Twitter: @onbooksshow (http://www.twitter.com/onbooksshow) Facebook: /onbooksshow  (http://www.facebook.com/onbooksshow) Instagram: @castig (https://www.instagram.com/castig)

In this episode of On Books, Chris Castiglione brings you his take on The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. You can find his complete notes and thoughts over at http://www..on-books.com Subscribe on iTunes! And follow On Books: Twitter: @onbooksshow (http://www.twitter.com/onbooksshow) Facebook: /onbooksshow  (http://www.facebook.com/onbooksshow) Instagram: @castig (https://www.instagram.com/castig) Blog: http://www..on-books.com

In this episode of On Books, Chris Castiglione chats with Neil Strauss about his latest book The Truth. You can find the complete interview, and show notes available @ www.on-books.com Subscribe on iTunes! And follow On Books:  Twitter: @onbooksshow Facebook: www.facebook.com/onbooksshow Instagram: @castig

This episode of On Books is dedicated to David Bowie. I'll read a piece from Sara Benincasa called "Thank You, David Bowie, From The Weird Kid", as well as share some highlights from David Bowie's Top 100 Books.  

In this episode of On Books, we’ll chat about creating goals and resolutions. We discuss my recent article on resolutions in the Huffington Post, and the details of the NPR interview. Read the book notes @ www.on-books.com

In this episode of On Books, we’ll chat about New Year's Resolutions, and the concept of Growth vs. Fixed mindset from the book Mindset by Carol Dweck.  Read the book notes @ www.on-books.com

In this episode of On Books, I chat with John Keegan (NYC Dating Coach) about the art of connection, dating in New York City, and The Power of Now.  Find the book notes @ www.on-books.com

In this episode of On Books, we’ll chat about The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.  Read the book notes @ www.on-books.com

In this episode of On Books, we’ll chat about The First 20 Hours by Josh Kaufman.   Read the book notes @ www.on-books.com