Unfinished Business: About Humanity

About Unfinished Business: About Humanity

"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.

Publisher

Roham Hosseini

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Feb 2021

Latest episode

10 May 2021

Latest episodes

7 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 May 2021

   Social Media, Cancel Culture & America's Future | Stephanie Schwab

   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

2. 

   29 Apr 2021

   Nationalism Post-Trump, Cold War 2 & Life After Jobs | Michal Rozynek | #006

   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?

3. 

   20 Apr 2021

   Investing As Students, Creator Economy & Gen Z's Financial Future | Nazareno Clemente

   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

4. 

   19 Apr 2021

   Dreams, Immortality, Leaving Home & Education | Nazmi Shehi | Unfinished Business #004

   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

5. 

   9 Apr 2021

   Memes, AI & Finding Meaning | Jonathan Harel | Unfinished Business #003

   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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 0:45 - 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?

6. 

   9 Apr 2021

   Simulation Theory, Quantum Computing, Open Source | Hossein Yousefi | Unfinished Business #002

   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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

7. 

   24 Feb 2021

   Future of Governments, Vaccines & Education | Hannes Chopra | Unfinished Business #001

   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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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