What Could Possibly Go Right?

#106 Douglas Rushkoff: Tolerating Ambiguity and Choosing Communal Over Isolation

Vicki Robin Season 1 Episode 106

Douglas Rushkoff makes another appearance on our podcast, sharing his latest thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right?  Listen to his previous interviews in episodes 52, 84, and 97.

Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, his twenty books include Team Human, based on his podcast.

Enjoy this casual chat between Douglas and Vicki, including themes of:

  • Re-socialization and finding connection for well-being
  • Putting the soul back into our interactions
  • Questioning our social constructs and triggering our agency to create change
  • How experiences of awe can have profound impacts

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