

Chiwi Journal
Camellia Yang
Conversations between global citizens on culture observation, identity and self-actualisation.
Host Camellia Yang, a Chinese New Zealander, interviews people she met on her digital nomad journey who are on a unique path to creating a better future and shares the lessons and tips they learned.
Season One (1 - 111 episodes) is in Chinese.
Season Two (112 episodes - current) is in English.
Host Camellia Yang, a Chinese New Zealander, interviews people she met on her digital nomad journey who are on a unique path to creating a better future and shares the lessons and tips they learned.
Season One (1 - 111 episodes) is in Chinese.
Season Two (112 episodes - current) is in English.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Aug 8, 2021 • 57min
#117: Revolution, Ideology, Cyber Anarchism and Nation/Network State with Nick Lee
Kia Ora, Nihao and hello! Welcome to the Chiwi Journal Podcast. I’m your host Camellia Yang.
My guest today is Nick Lee. He is a university instructor of Sociology and Humanities and Co-Host of the Revolution and Ideology program.
We discussed:
Nick’s combined background of finance, technology, sociology and phycology
Brief introduction of the Revolution and Ideology podcast
How do we judge whether a revolution is successful or not?
What’s Cyber Anarchism? What’re the responses to Balaji’s Network State/Union essays on 1729.com?
Are we conditioned to be settlers or nomads?
What’s the definition of a state? What’s the rule of violence?
How do ideologies and -isms affect people’s life and behaviour? Can we escape from ideologies?
What misunderstanding from the mass about anarchism?
How can we challenge the status quo and build the Network State?
What are technology debt and ideology debt?
Is China a real Communism country? What about Russia?
Books and links mentioned in this episode:
Revolution and Ideology podcast
French Revolution
American Revolution
Cyber Anarchism
Network State/Union by Balaji Srinivasan
1729.com
The Art of Not Being Governed by James C. Scott
Max Weber's definition on Nation State
Rogers M. Smith
Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony
Cultural Revolution
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
Werner Herzog's films
Anarchism as a philosophy
Lenin’s Conception of Socialism
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Aug 2, 2021 • 52min
#116: Artistic journey, Self-realisation and Life philosophy with Monica Tong
Kia ora, Nihao and hello! Welcome to the Chiwi Journal Podcast. I’m your host Camellia Yang.
My guest today is Monica Tong. Monica was born in Nanjing, China, and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. She spent eight years in the finance industry in New Zealand and Australia before she turned to her passion for art and design. She studied and practised as a multi-media artist in Los Angeles and currently lives in London.
We talked about:
What's Chiwi (Chiwi Kiwi)? And What traits of Chiwi have?
What’s so good about New Zealand’s working-life balance environment and career break policy?
The journey of giving up a highly paid banking job to pursue a passion in the art world.
How does work with clay can bring a time-travelling experience?
Why does making ceramics artworks can bring you mindfulness and joy?
How to deal with self-doubt that and gain back confidence while shifting your career path?
How to cope with peer pressures and traditional Chinese family’s values when choosing to be an artist?
Brief intro about egg-frozen experience and women in 30s dilemma
Success means have a single impact on individual life and let the ripple effect brings on positive changes.
Bring ceramics to elders and children to see the world through different lenses.
Books and Links Mentioned:
Wabi-sabi philosophy
Dao De Jing
The Third Cultural Adults
Ralph Waldo Emerson - To laugh often and much; to win respect; to earn appreciation; to find the beauty in others; to leave the world better; one life has breathed easier because you lived here.
Get in touch with Monica
Instagram: @momo_production @studio.m.ceramics
Monica's website
Royal Colleague of Arts profile
Thanks for listening to this episode. Remember that you can join my monthly newsletter email list at camelliayang.com, where I spend 140+ hours digging valuable insights from books, articles and podcasts and share them in a 6-min easy-to-read email.
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Jul 16, 2021 • 1h 12min
#114 Linguistics History, Latin America, Sino-U.S. Relations, and Global Mindsets with Jim
Kia Ora, Nihao and hello! Welcome to the Chiwi Journal Podcast. I’m your host Camellia Yang.
On the show, I interview global citizens who follow a unique path to build a better future and share stories and tips they learned along the way.
Our conversations are focus on cultural observations, technology trends, career development and philosophy.
My guest today is Jim. He is an experienced digital nomad and worked in consulting, strategy & marketing, agribusiness and education. Jim is a 1.5 generation Chinese-American who has studied, lived and worked across four continents and speaks multiple languages. I hope you enjoy this episode.
We discussed:
Jim's early childhood memory of moving to America as a young kid and growing up experiencing three different cultures (Latino, American and Chinese cultures)
Comparing three different languages (Chinese, English and Spanish) and giving a brief history of the Chinese language
Why do modern Chinese speak Mandarin?
What is the professional and social life like in Brazil for a North American Asian?
The stories of the Japanese diaspora in Brazil and the Chinese diaspora in Panama
Perspectives on melting pots as well as Chinese, Asian and Asian American experiences in America
How to define one's identity as a Third Culture Kid?
Jim's three points on the current state of Sino-U.S. relations
How to cultivate a global mindset?
1729ers community, tech progressives, and network unions
What get Jim most excited about the future?
Books and links mentioned in this episode:
Classic Chinese Novels
Zi Zhi Tong Jian
What Old Chinese may have sound like (around time of Confucius)
What Middle Chinese (around 6th - 13th centuries) sounded like based on rhyme tables
What Ming Dynasty early Mandarin (circa 16th - early 17th century) sounded like based on Jesuit missionaries’ recordings
Exclusive video of Emperor Puyi's Testimoy At The Tokyo Trials
Japanese Brazilians
German Oktoberfest of Blumenau, Brazil
Third Culture Kids and Third Culture Adults
1729.com
1729ers Community
Shownotes web version
Thanks for listening to this episode of “Chiwi Journal”. Remember that you can join my monthly newsletter email list at camelliayang.com, where I spend 140+ hours digging valuable insights from books, articles and podcasts and share them in a 6-min easy-to-read email.

Jul 4, 2021 • 37min
#113: E-residency Program, SDZ Alliance, China-US Relation, Chartered Cities with Joel Burke
Kia Ora, Nihao and hello! Welcome to the Chiwi Journal Podcast. I’m your host Camellia Yang.
On the show, I interview global citizens who follow a unique path to build a better future and share stories and tips they learned along the way.
Our conversations are focus on cultural observations, technology trends, career development and philosophy.
My guest today is Joel Burke. He is the partner at Tribe AI, MA Candidate at Georgetown’sGeorgetown’s International Business & Policy program. He leads the e-Residency program at the Republic of Estonia and has been a mentor to a startup accelerator focused on defence solutions in the US. He has been to over 50 countries, lived and worked on 3.5 continents and helped with many remote work visa and city-building projects.
We discussed:
How Joel started his career and showed interest in the intersection between tech and policy?
A summary of the E-residency program at Estonia that Balaji mentioned @1729.com
What the advantages for small countries leveraging digitalisation?
What’s the opportunity for startups in the public service sector?
Share some other initiatives, e.g. Columbia remote work visa and SDZ Alliance (Ethiopia city-building project)
Response on the “Cloud-first, Land second” concept of building the future.
A thought experiment on uploading minds online and downloading on any form of a body.
With the increasing tense between China and the US, what Joel’s views on current geopolitics based on his experiences?
China has tremendously invested in Africa’s infrastructure. What local people’s perspective towards China?
Among all 50 countries Joel travelled and lived in, what’s the most interesting culture shock?
Top three tips for people who choose to live a nomadic lifestyle and do remote works in the future
What gets Joel most excited about the future?
A brief overview of chartered cities
Books and Links Mentioned:
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
E-residency Estonia
SDZ ALLIANCE
1729.com
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin.
Connect with Joel on LinkedIn
Remember that you can join my monthly newsletter email list at camelliayang.com, where I spend 140+ hours digging valuable insights from books, articles and podcasts and share them in a 6-min easy-to-read email.
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Jun 28, 2021 • 47min
#112: Digital Nomad, Community Building and 1729 Discord Community with Chance Taken
Kia Ora, Nihao and hello! Welcome to the Chiwi Journal Podcast. I’m your host Camellia Yang. On the show, I interview global citizens who follow a unique path to build a better future and share stories and tips they learned along the way. Our conversations are focus on cultural observations, technology trends, career development and philosophy.
My guest today is Chance Taken. Chance is currently remote-working @On Deck. He is also a co-founder @Chingu.
We discussed:
Chance's digital nomad lifestyle
How to cope with loneliness?
What tools to use while relocating?
Will remote working dominate the employment market?
What's Chingu, and what problem is it going to solve?
What's On Deck? Will the cohort model be the future?
When people from all over the world working together, how do you create an environment for a nice cross-cultural?
What's the motivation to create the 1729 Discord Community (note: it's not an official 1729 community)?
What's the purpose of the 1729 Discord Community?
Why 1729 encourage people to build up a decentralised media platform?
How to deal with the reverse culture shock as a global citizen when back to your motherland?
The technology and infrastructure progress of Asian countries
What's advice for becoming a digital nomad and adapt to remote working?
Top three tips for community building
Linked mentioned from this episode:
meetup.com
https://chingu.io/
https://beondeck.com/
https://1729.com/
Balaji Srinivasan on Tim Ferriss Show
1729 Discord Community
The Start Of Startup Cities
The Pseudonymous Economy - Balaji Srinivasan
Badass: making users awesome by Kathy Sierra
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Jun 1, 2021 • 51min
#111: 再见,是为了更好的相见
理想屯播客今天迎来了大结局!从2017年堵车无聊时突发奇想开通了这档聊天节目,到现在身居地球两地,这档节目已经走过了四个年头。主播们在成长,陪我们一路走来的你,又经历了哪些变化呢?本期播客并没有什么寻常,还是我和LJ@李谐说 的一次远程电话沟通,你将听到:
- 从开始到现在,我们的录播客感悟
- 你想为世界留下点什么?你会选择永生吗?
- 对元宇宙的探索,物质世界 vs 虚拟世界;理性 vs 动物性
- Memes或者表情包会如何影响我们的文化?语言 vs memes
- 印象最深刻的播客单集, 发现对方有了哪些变化?(好像大家还是最喜欢前任聊天的单集哈哈)
- 聊点创作者经济和未来趋势
- 吐槽资本主义这打不死的小强
- “如果再也不能见到你,祝你早安,午安,晚安。”
Twitter:@camelliayang
微博:@翊瑄Camellia
公众号:理想屯
Website: https://www.camelliayang.com/

Apr 22, 2021 • 1h 14min
#110: 48小时说拜拜!欧超联赛的前世今生
有着「两日维新」的欧超联赛最近占据了国内外各大体育媒体的头版头条,本期节目球姐请来了两位文娱产业观察者,同时也是资深球迷的@安若谷 @柏亚舟 老师,和大家分享一下我们对于现代足球改革的一些看法。
什么是欧超联赛?为什么豪门集体选择在此时推出欧超联赛?
评析欧超涉及的利益相关方(国际足联、欧足联和英超等)
从产业角度、足球运动角度、和球迷身份角度分析欧超的核心争议在哪里?
欧洲足球社区模式 vs 美国运动商业联盟模式
传统产业面临全球化和数字化冲击时,难免需要与时俱进做出改变
本土和海外球迷、球队本身和ZF官方对于欧超的反应和态度
英超诞生的历史背景,为什么相似的强强对决概念在当时能顺利通过?
震惊足坛的「海塞尔球场」惨案对英国足球产生的影响
从欧冠的诞生过程,以及当年的G14,看当代足坛利益竞争的历史重演
你如何定义足球俱乐部?是属于球迷的胜地,还是金主眼中的赚钱机器?
聊聊切尔西、阿森纳、曼联、曼城和利物浦背后的老板们
体育产业三大版块:赛事、平台和版权。赛事改变牵一发而动全身
两位阿森纳球迷对温格早年采访时预测未来的分析,以及吐槽克伦克
展望中国足球发展,以及中国球迷对于欧超的看法
(备注:节目中所述具体数字和具体人物名称可进一步查询确认)
👋🏻 理想屯是一档聚焦海外文化和哲学思考的播客节目。主播们生活在英国和新西兰,通过一手生活体验和观察,展现留学生和新移民的生活,也会不定期邀请有海外生活背景的嘉宾,和大家分享学术见解和海外求职创业经验。
Twitter:@camelliayang
Instagram:@camelliayang
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Apr 14, 2021 • 1h 31min
#109:对话孙小社 | 子时极阴则转阳,给社会点时间和耐心吧
本期节目请来了@新西兰冷百科孙小社 做客理想屯,和大家分享他在海外生活的经历,从社会学的角度探讨年轻人的内卷生活和生活变革,以及小社在新西兰的育儿经验。你将听到:
1. 全网通行的「孙小社」名称大起底
2. 当年新西兰留学圈熟知的「文聚合」的前世今生
3. 每个人都有「文艺时刻」,有没有一个平台和社区能让我们畅所欲言治愈孤独?
4. 留学潮时代下诞生的「新西兰青年联合会」
5. 为什么当代年轻人总是被上一代吐槽说「你们不行」,背后的社会学原因是什么?
6. 「邓巴数目」解释当今「社恐」的普遍存在性
7. 为什么我们既害怕孤独又害怕打破孤独主动交流
8. 因兴趣结缘的社交关系为何如此脆弱?
9. 你会怀念当年热情的邻里文化吗?我们要社会效率还是要人情味?
10. 小社对孩子的五项价值观培养:知宇宙之浩渺,知自然之繁盛,知生死之坦然,知科学之无垠,知历史之可鉴。
11. 让球姐目瞪口呆的「科学早恋」和「鸡娃」概念
12. 「直升机式家长」真的是开明的吗?孩子也需要理解父母的「降级焦虑」
13. 新西兰的毛利文化如何促进新西兰的民族融合性?
14. 从「电梯问题」讲起,我们为什么应该对人类社会发展充满信心
15. 「崔杼弑其君」的故事启发我们树立宏大的宇宙观,摆脱生活小问题的困扰
🎙️ 收听方式:可在其他各大播客平台/app搜索「理想屯」或者「The CJ Show」进行收听。
如果你喜欢我们的节目,别忘了在苹果播客给我们五星好评哟!
👋🏻 理想屯是一档聚焦海外文化和哲学思考的播客节目。主播们生活在英国和新西兰,通过一手生活体验和观察,展现留学生和新移民的生活,也会不定期邀请有海外生活背景的嘉宾,和大家分享学术见解和海外求职创业经验。
Twitter:@camelliayang
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Apr 5, 2021 • 42min
#108:对话Joan| 两个十几年社交媒体从业人的漫谈
本期节目球姐请来了新西兰旅游局全球社交媒体负责人Joan Zhang,和大家聊聊她的留学和海外求职经历,你将听到:
1. 疫情下的新西兰如何通过社交媒体推动旅游
2. 你知道新西兰旅游局在Spotify出过专辑吗?全球第一家哟!
3. 分享几个有意思的新西兰社交媒体营销活动
4. 两个从事社交媒体十几年的人因战胜算法沾沾自喜
5. Joan从欧洲到新西兰的留学移民之路分享
6. Joan非洲义工经历
7. 初来乍到新西兰时,我们遇到的文化冲击
8. 在新西兰找工作最重要的事情!
9. 新西兰航空靠自黑本国口音,在圣诞营销中脱颖而出
10. 留学生们经常被问到的问题:请问你是哪里口音?你从哪里来?
11. 如何看待亚裔和女性在职场上的身份问题
12. 浅谈如今火热的Creator Economy
13. 为什么社交媒体从业人士本身的粉丝都不多?
14. 我们对海明威和伍尔夫选择自杀的好奇
嘉宾推荐阅读:
- Anthony Bourdain旅游美食节目
- 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫作品
理想屯是一档聚焦海外文化和哲学思考的播客节目。主播们生活在英国和新西兰,通过一手生活体验和观察,展现留学生和新移民的生活,也会不定期邀请有海外生活背景的嘉宾,和大家分享学术见解和海外求职创业经验。
Twitter:@camelliayang
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Mar 23, 2021 • 55min
#107:活得久一点,人人都是哲学家;活得再久一点,看AI一统天下
【理想屯播客】本期节目球姐和LJ继续闲聊,你将听到:
1. LJ拍摄南极光之旅
2. 新富们纷纷逃离城市建自己的农场,数字革命之后的大城市还会那么有吸引力吗?
3. 创作者经济了解一下呀
4. Sam Altman《万物摩尔定律》:人工智能取代机械劳动力后的社会什么样?
5. 还记着软件游戏都是放在盒子里邮寄到家的日子吗?
6. 现在很火的NTF会成为下一个风口吗?
7. Elon Musk引领NTF套娃拍卖,后悔当年玩网游的我们怎么没靠卖皮肤和装备发家
8. 什么是真实?虚拟现实(VR)真的是虚假的吗?
9. 人类社会的进步离不开好的故事
10. 一个幻化出80多个身份的作家:费尔南多·佩索阿《不安之书》
11. Enneagram Type人格测试,了解不同维度的自我
12. 你用身份和头衔定义自己,当有一天它们都离你而去,那你是谁呢?
14. 斯多葛派的人生教义:人固有一死
15. 球姐自创的Flowism哲学,加会员吗?
👋🏻 理想屯是一档聚焦海外文化和哲学思考的播客节目。主播们生活在英国和新西兰,通过一手生活体验和观察,展现留学生和新移民的生活,也会不定期邀请有海外生活背景的嘉宾,和大家分享学术见解和海外求职创业经验。
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微博:@翊瑄Camellia
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