Thought Club with Percy Grunwald
6 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago -Percy uses his 25+ years of experience talking with other humans to find out what is going on in the world/elsewhere.
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#5 - Nathan Shaw [Euro Crisis, EU, NATO]
November 23, 2018 04:07 - 2 hours - 129 MBNathan Shaw is is a foreign policy and international relations expert and one of my favorite people in the world to talk to. Nathan hosts the Envoy podcast on which he rounds up and dives deep into world events from a foreign policy and international relations perspective. Nathan has always been my primary source of world news and I could literally talk to him indefinitely, asking more and more questions about what’s going on in the world. Like my previous guests, Nathan is one of those peo...
#4 - Ronan O'Neill [Genetics, Biotechnology, GMO]
November 13, 2018 12:03 - 1 hour - 95.7 MBG’day and welcome to episode 4 of Thought Club. Do you know about genes? Are you curious how genetic services like “23 and Me” work? Maybe you’ve heard the terms epigenetics, GMO and CRISPR, but actually have no idea what they mean. Well, you’re in luck, because my guest today is my good friend, neighbor and all-round boney man: Ronan O’Neill. About Ronan Ronan is a biotechnologist, science communicator and budding medtech entrepreneur who I am lucky enough to have around to answer all my...
#3 - Barnaby Nichols [Rewilding, Philosophy]
November 06, 2018 02:19 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBToday’s episode is a conversation I had with my good friend Barnaby Nichols. I’m not really sure how to describe Barnaby in a way that will do him justice, but if pressed, I’d say he’s an author, artist, philosopher and rewilding expert. Really enjoyed this one and hope you will too! Glossary Rewilding: “Rewilding is an attempt to bring back what ancestral ways of living you can within the modern context, for example more natural exercise, primitive skills, hunting and foraging” MovNat: ...
#2 - Julien Klepatch [Software, Entrepreneurship]
October 21, 2018 02:06 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBThis episode is a conversation with my good friend Julien Klepatch. Julien is a French developer living in Taipei and currently working for an English blockchain startup called LendingBlock. Julien also has a YouTube channel and website called EatTheBlocks, which teaches blockchain development with a focus on Ethereum and the Ethereum programming language Solidity. Julien is also currently working on a learning course focusing on Blockchain for the well-known tech publisher Manning. I met ...
#1 - Chris Bellew [Software, Entrepreneurship]
September 09, 2018 16:29 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBIn this episode I have a discussion with my very good friend Chris Bellew. Chris is a software engineer, originally from England, but now living in Perth, Western Australia. Chris is the person who inspired me to become a programmer many years ago. We start by discussing how we both started down the path of software and what our goals were originally. The conversation moves into talking about Chris’s first entrepreneurial venture and his most recent, looking at the commonalities and potenti...
#0 - Percy Grunwald [Intro]
August 17, 2018 16:29 - 4 minutes - 3.87 MBHi everyone! In this zeroth episode of Thought Club I give you a quick introduction to me and the podcast. You’ll hear a little bit about the podcasts that I’m inspired by and what we’ll be talking about in upcoming podcasts. The second half of this episode is a short dive into the principal of “ignoramus” and why I think it’s valuable. If everything works as expected with the various podcast aggregators around the internet, you’ll see more episodes appear very soon. Thanks for listening...