Entangled World

About Entangled World

Welcome to Entangled World, where we explore our interrelated, existential social, economic, ecological, and technological challenges, their underlying drivers, and how a more beautiful world might emerge. I’m your host, Najia Shaukat Lupson. I’m a daughter of Pakistani Muslim immigrants, a mom, and an inter-systems thinker. entangled world will feature conversations with artists and academics, philosophers and philanthropists, spiritual seekers and scientists, technologists and thinkers. Join me on a journey to discover what is uniquely and meaningfully ours to do at this pivotal moment in time, in service to the sacredness of life. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHHOojhNjIUodEYGbJjiEYg najialupson.substack.com (https://najialupson.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Najia Shaukat Lupson

Category

science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Sept 2023

Latest episode

14 Feb 2025

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Feb 2025

   Confronting Education | Homa Tavangar & Will Richardson

   Watch now on YouTube (https://youtu.be/cfCNXt1Ot_Q). Entangled World explores the interrelated, existential social, economic, ecological, and technological risks we face, their underlying drivers, and how a more beautiful world might emerge. In this episode, I’m joined by Homa Tavanga (https://www.linkedin.com/in/homatavangar/)r and Will Richardson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/willrichardson1/). Homa is a best-selling author of Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World and Global Kids. Homa advises and trains K-12 schools and Boards around the world. She was born in Iran, has lived on four continents, speaks four languages, and has heritage in four world religions. Will Richardson has spent over 40 years in education, the last 20 of which have focused on sparking global conversations around educational change in response to the growing challenges and opportunities that our complex times present. He is the author of six books, and most recently published "Confronting Education in a Time of Chaos, Complexity and Collapse." (https://futureserious.school/manifestoedu/) Together, Homa & Will co-founded the Big Questions Institute (BQI), which challenges educators to develop personal and institutional capacity for addressing the confounding problems of our time. It aims to help educators of all stripes build their capacity to see and accept this unique moment for what it is and to peer into the future with skill, grounding that work in "fearless inquiry," a disposition of deep questioning and truth-telling. Homa and Will explore what it means to truly educate children in a rapidly changing world, focusing on the importance of relationships, connection, and the sacred elements of learning. The conversation delves into the roles of community, power dynamics in schools, while also highlighting the beacons of light in small, startup schools, many of them nature based, that are doing things radically different from mainstream education. We discuss the community-and-child-empowering frameworks that can help bring about desperately needed shifts in our education system by beginning with asking, “What is sacred?” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit najialupson.substack.com (https://najialupson.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

2. 

   12 Dec 2024

   Encore Episode: The Human Predicament | Samantha Sweetwater

   Samantha Sweetwater, author and thought leader, explores the human predicament and envisions a future of conscious reunion and co-harmonization with the Earth.

3. 

   14 Nov 2024

   Reimagining Progress | Alex Randall

   Watch now on YouTube (https://youtu.be/4-jrNx-dhSE). Entangled World explores the interrelated, existential social, economic, ecological, and technological risks we face, their underlying drivers, and how a more beautiful world might emerge. In this episode, I’m joined by Alex Randall from the Civilization Research Institute to discuss Development in Progress (https://consilienceproject.org/development-in-progress/), a recent paper released by The Consilience Project, an initiative of the Civilization Research Institute. I highly recommend taking the time to read it—this paper sheds new light on the widely accepted progress narrative, the idea that technological innovation, markets, and institutions have unambiguously improved our quality of life. While modernity has undeniably brought many benefits, such as medical advancements and technologies that connect us globally, this paper challenges us to question the costs of progress as we define it today. It argues that the overlooked side effects of our pursuit of progress have accumulated to a point where they now pose existential risks to life on our planet. The good news is that there are relatively simple ways we can start making changes that reduce these downsides. Alex emphasizes that progress itself isn’t inherently harmful, but by expanding our view of what progress encompasses, we can better recognize and address its unintended consequences. We delve into some innovative frameworks developed by the Civilization Research Institute, like prudent problem-solving and yellow teaming—approaches that can immediately enhance how we take meaningful action in both our organizations and our personal lives. For those of you who understand the metacrisis and are eager to know how you can make a difference, this episode is especially exciting! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit najialupson.substack.com (https://najialupson.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

50,092

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

23 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

60

Social presence

0

YouTube

85

Engagement

85

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