Unfinished Business: About Humanity: Recent Episodes
Roham Hosseini
"Unfinished Business" is a podcast about humanity.
Topics range from philosophy to science, engineering and politics. I'm Roham, your host, and I like to have long conversations with people I find interesting.
This is my conversation with Stephanie Schwab. She is the founder & CEO of Crackerjack Marketing, a pioneering social media agency, based in Chicago.
It was a pleasure to discuss a range of topics from tech to politics with Stephanie, and I hope you enjoy it too.
Connect with Stephanie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanieschwab/
Special Thanks to my amazing supporters on Patreon for helping keep this project going!
Georg Blücher
Jonathan Harel
Hossein Yousefi
Stephanie Schwab
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rohamhosseini
Hosted by Roham Hosseini Twitter: twitter.com/RohamHosseini80
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/roham-hosseini
Timeline:
0:00 - Introduction
2:28 - Is Social Media Hurting Society?
8:07 - How Do We Fix the Social Dilemma?
10:52 - How Did Tech Giants Become So Huge?
15:40 - Internet is becoming less anonymous
21:18 - How much should we care about privacy?
23:17 - The rise of Trump and the danger of governments
27:20 - Trump vs. Biden 33:10 - How can the US remain the leading country in the world?
37:17 - Advice for young people moving to the US
42:42 - Should we worry about cancel culture?
50:00 - Polarization in th US
52:00 - Should companies get involved in politics?
55:29 - Raising children in the internet age
1:01:02 - What’s it like to have a child?
1:02:03 - What's the meaning of life?
1:06:23 - Are Marketing and Business people good for the world?
1:16:38 - Book Recommendations
This is my conversation with Michal Rozynek. He has spent the last 10 years in financial services and payments & holds a PhD in Political Theory from the University of Edinburgh, as well as an MBA from the University of Oxford —having published on topics ranging from nationalism to financial inclusion.
This is one of my favourite conversations ever. I hope you enjoy it too.
Connect with Michal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrozynek/
Special Thanks to my amazing supporters on Patreon for helping keep this project going!
Georg Blücher
Jonathan Harel
Hossein Yousefi
Stephanie Schwab
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rohamhosseini
Hosted by Roham Hosseini
Twitter: twitter.com/RohamHosseini80
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/roham-hosseini
Timeline:
0:00 - Intro
2:49 - Future of nationalism in the 2020s
6:10 - The rise of cosmopolitanism and “citizens of the world”
9:10 - The resurgence of state power in the 21st century
10:45 - Should we worry about WW3?
14:50 - The US-China cold war
16:20 - Data privacy and trust in institutions
19:05 - “The new iron curtains” (internet censorship)
25:15 - AI Superpowers - the AI race
27:55 - Is AI becoming too intrusive?
30:15 - Will life quality decrease with automation?
37:20 - Life after automation & hyper-realistic simulations
44:05 - Where is Crypto headed?
This is my conversation with my dear friend, Nazareno Clemente. Naza is in a way my mentor, co-thinker, and co-worker.
We had a chat about investing as students, the financial world during COVID, the creator economy and our financial futures. This is not financial advice :))
Special Thanks to my amazing supporters on Patreon for helping keep this project going!
Georg Blücher
Jonathan Harel
Hossein Yousefi
Stephanie Schwab
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rohamhosseini
Hosted by Roham Hosseini
Twitter: twitter.com/RohamHosseini80
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/roham-hosseini
Timeline:
00:00 - Digital Assets vs Physical assets
7:45 - DogeCoin & Cryptocurrency Talk
25:42 - Future Jobs & Projects
32:39 - Offensive Jokes & Cancel culture
46:35 - Making Content
This is my conversation with my dear friend, Nazmi Shehi. Nazmi is a brilliant thinker and Founder of "Stics", "Not a social media for kids".
I really enjoyed this conversation, although we kept getting interrupted and I was quite nervous. Still getting used to all this :))
Connect with Nazmi: linkedin.com/in/nazmi-shehi-265990170
Special Thanks to my amazing supporters on Patreon for helping keep this project going!
Georg Blücher
Jonathan Harel
Hossein Yousefi
Stephanie Schwab
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rohamhosseini
Hosted by Roham Hosseini
Twitter: twitter.com/RohamHosseini80
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/roham-hosseini
Timeline:
00:00 - Quitting Professional Football
9:10 - Day to day of living alone Turkey (with no phone)
15:11 - Dealing with change & the meaning of life
24:00 - Simulation theory
29:00 - Immortality & Living Forever
35:00 - Most social media is negative for humanity
38:00 - Boomers & the education system
48:42 - Book recommendations
This is my conversation with my dear friend, Jonathan Harel. He is an incredible data scientist and creator of uhmmm.app
I really enjoyed this conversation and I wish him luck on his journey!
Connect with Jonathan: linkedin.com/in/jonathan-harel
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Special Thanks to my amazing supporters on Patreon for helping keep this project going!
Georg Blücher
Jonathan Harel
Hossein Yousefi
Stephanie Schwab
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rohamhosseini
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Hosted by Roham Hosseini
Twitter: twitter.com/RohamHosseini80
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/roham-hosseini
Timeline:
0:45 - The meaning of memes
9:11 - Living in communities
16:45 - Building a company
22:19 - Ambitions and goals
31:00 -Struggles of speaking two languages
34:48 - Data Science
40:29 - Life advice for young people
51:35 - Cultural diversity
1:00:40 - Covid & financial consequences
1:05:34 - AI dangers
1:19:14 - Tech giants & our data
1:24:30 - What’s next for Jonathan?
This is my conversation with my friend and mentor, Hossein Yousefi. Hossein is a software engineer and co-founder and CTO at Identi
We talked about privacy, open-source software, free will, the nature of reality, quantum computers, and Identi's quest of re-tuning social media.
learn more about identi here: https://identi.app/
connect with Hossein: hossein@identi.app
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Special Thanks to my amazing supporters on Patreon for helping keep this project going!
Georg Blücher
Jonathan Harel
Hossein Yousefi
Stephanie Schwab
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rohamhosseini
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Hosted by Roham Hosseini
Twitter: twitter.com/RohamHosseini80
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/roham-hosseini
This is my conversation, with my favourite mentor and teacher, Hannes S. Chopra.
I enjoyed this conversation, and it was a big accomplishment for me. Hope you enjoy it too.
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Hosted by Roham Hosseini
Twitter: twitter.com/RohamHosseini80
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/roham-hosseini
Special Thanks to my amazing supporters on Patreon for helping keep this project going!
Georg Blücher
Jonathan Harel
Hossein Yousefi
Stephanie Schwab
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rohamhosseini
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Timeline
0:00 - Intro
1:37 - Who is Hannes Chopra?
5:37 - Limitless Human Becoming
8:23 - Duty vs Happiness
25:03 - Becoming aware of awareness
32:31 - Becoming a parent
40:11 - Why the education system is broken
51:26 - What's happening in Russia?
1:00:06 - the future of the EU
1:25:08 - The future of nation-states
1:32:40 - What is Love
1:34:12 - Book recommendations