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Ahmed Kabil — Long term thinking starts from the here and now

Release Date: 05/27/2020

Scott Shigeoka — I saw it from both sides in one day

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Scott Shigeoka is a storyteller, designer, and artist. He traveled across the United States in his '06 Prius for a year to find out how to bridge the social and political divides in the country, uncovering ideas in the most unexepected of places—Trump rallies, Evangelical Christian pastors, hunters, and farmers. His forthcoming book is focused on crossing the generational divides in America.

Ahmed Kabil — Long term thinking starts from the here and now

Inside a Pandemic

Ahmed Kabil—writer, speaker, multimedia storyteller—joins us to have a discussion about both long term thinking (he's a writer for The Long Now Foundation) and about mindfulness. This conversation was recorded on April 4th.

Alice Barbe — We were not raised to change the world

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We are joined by Alice Barbe—social entrepreneur, mother, Obama Fellow, Forbes' 30 under 30, the list goes one. She is CEO and co-founder of SINGA, a global community of migrants, refugees and local people who are meeting and building the future together.

Alex and Zak — How long have we been inside?

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Alex and Zak are alone this episode looking back on the pandemic—what they thought it would be, what it's been, and they try to make predictions about what it might be going forward.

Euphemia Russel — Sex and social distancing

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Bay Area-based pleasure educator Euphemia, founder of Iwishyouknew.com, joins Alex and Zak to discuss staying close to people we're isolated from, keeping in touch with people we're isolated with, and new ways to experience pleasure and what teledildonics means.

Jenni Marsh — Reporting live from pandemia

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Jenni Marsh, features editor for CNN in Hong Kong, joins Zak and Alex to discuss reporting in a pandemic and what it's like to be a new mom during a global crisis. Zak wonders if he's given himself Stockholm's syndrome and Alex contemplates making a break for the United States.

Genevieve and Paul — Love in a time of Coronavirus

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Genevieve and Paul call in from the Berkeley, California and Cusco, Peru to talk about being separated by the Coronavirus. They are a couple living in the Bay Area, but Paul is stuck in Cusco, Peru where he was working when flights were cut off leaving him stranded; meanwhile Genevieve low-key had COVID-19 and had to isolate.

Rachel Weinrib — None of this travel is gonna happen

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Epidemiologist Rachel Weinrib calls in to talk to Alex and Zak about how she's staying healthy and informed. Alex wants to go swimming; and Alex and Zak try to get back in touch with themselves through mindfulness meditation and getting stuff done.

Nick O'Brien — You gotta put on your pants

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Alex and Zak are joined by Barcelona resident Nick O'Brien. Alex talks about the need to remain positive (by putting your pants on every day). Nick discusses building a local balcony community, and playing guitar with a saxophonist across the street.

Tell me what "pandemic" means to you

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Alex and Zak discuss what it's like to expect an oncoming pandemic. We get the start date of the Barcelona "lock down" wrong, and try to work out what exactly a "pandemic" means to us.

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Ahmed Kabil—writer, speaker, multimedia storyteller—joins us to have a discussion about both long-term thinking (he's a writer for The Long Now Foundation) while being in the moment. This conversation was recorded on April 4th.

Ahmed's background is in digital media, journalism, and the humanities. Currently, he is an Editor at The Long Now Foundation, a nonprofit fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years; and writes about counterculture, technology and mysticism.

As a multimedia storyteller, Ahmed helped launch three award-winning digital media apps and platforms: Zeega, GoPop (acquired by BuzzFeed), and Timeline. He has pioneered new forms of social and news storytelling that have since become ubiquitous on the web. At Timeline, he founded a video team that achieved 100+ million video views. His multimedia storytelling work has been shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Tribeca Film Institute.

Ahmed has spoken about interactive storytelling, technology, and counterculture at Harvard, MIT, UC-Berkeley, the Poynter Institute, ZebraCon, Makers of Barcelona, and more. His written work has appeared in the Museum of Old and New Art's book Eat The Problem, The Integral Review, OneZero, Gen, Level, and Timeline; and his projects have been noted in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and more. He was a Fellow at metaLAB (at) Harvard, and is an alum of Reed College.

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