The Rhys Show

David Christian is a historian who has helped found the field of Big History. He has written multiple books on the subject, including my favorite, Origin Story. With Bill Gates, he is co-founder of the Big History Project, which has built free on-line high-school courses in big history. https://www.bighistoryproject.com/ https://bighistory.org/ https://rhyslindmark.substack.com/ https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark

Scott Dikkers was a founding editor of The Onion, and is the publication's longest-serving editor-in-chief. He co-wrote and edited two brilliant Onion books—our Dumb Century (NYT #1 bestseller) and Our Dumb World. He also helped kickstart The Onion’s online presence, including The Onion News Network. https://twitter.com/ScottDikkers https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark https://www.patreon.com/rhyslindmark https://www.rhyslindmark.com/

Martha Minow is a legal scholar and the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University. She served as the Dean of Harvard Law School between 2009 and 2017. Martha has been called "one of the world's leading human rights scholars" and has written nearly 20 books. During the 2008 Presidential campaign, Obama said, "When I was at Harvard Law School I had a teacher who changed my life -- Martha Minow." We chat about her recent book, When Should Law Forgive?, and apply it to our current moment—pardons, polarization, student debt. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43726510-when-should-law-forgive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Minow https://rhyslindmark.substack.com/

Eli Pariser is an author, activist, and entrepreneur focused on how to make technology and media serve democracy. He’s had many roles in his past, including the Executive Director of MoveOn.org and the author of a 2011 book, Filter Bubble. He’s now the co-director of New Public: a community of folks building the digital public spaces of the future. We chat about how to build digital public spaces. Check out their festival Jan 12-14! https://newpublic.org/festival https://twitter.com/elipariser https://twitter.com/WeAreNew_Public https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2021/01/05/to-thrive-our-democracy-needs-digital-public-infrastructure-455061

Cassie Robinson is the Senior Head of UK Portfolio at the National Lottery Community Fund (the UK lottery), where she leads a £60 Million a year fund including the Climate Action Fund, the Digital Fund and Exploring New Approaches. She’s also a Fellow at the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL with Mariana Mazzucato. https://twitter.com/CassieRobinson https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/ https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark

Jill Carlson is a VC at Slow and a co-founder of the Open Money Initiative, a non-profit research organization working to guarantee the right to a free and open financial system. We chat about apolitical organizations and how crypto is being used to combat authoritarianism. http://twitter.com/jillruthcarlson/ http://twitter.com/RhysLindmark/

Roman Krznaric is a public philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to change society. His latest book, The Good Ancestor, has been described by U2’s The Edge as ‘the book our children’s children will thank us for reading’. It just came out in the US! He’s also a Research Fellow of the Long Now Foundation. Roman and I chat about crafting new language and metaphors for long-termism, and his theory of change for how ideas get manifest in society. https://twitter.com/romankrznaric https://www.romankrznaric.com/good-ancestor https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

Lauren Gawne is a linguistics Lecturer at La Trobe University. She’s a key part of linguistics Twitter and the ongoing study of internet language. We chat about her proposed emojis, her constructed language, and how language signals community on the internet. https://twitter.com/superlinguo https://twitter.com/lingthusiasm https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark https://twitter.com/the_roote

Lydia Laurenson is the founder and editor-in-chief of the New Modality, a wide-ranging magazine on counterculture. We chat about the chilling effects of cancel culture norms and her plans for the next issue of NewMo. https://twitter.com/lydialaurenson http://thenewmodality.com/ https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark https://www.roote.co/

Yele Bademosi is the CEO of Bundle Africa, a social payments app, and a founding partner of Microtraction, which funds African tech. He was previously a director at Binance. We chat about building tech infrastructure for Africa and the current #EndSARS protests in Nigeria. https://twitter.com/YeleBademosi Donate to https://twitter.com/feminist_co EndSARS List: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1315885436129218560 https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark https://roote.co