Jim Rogers is an investor and financial commentator based in Singapore. Jim is the author of eight books including the bestselling Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip.
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In this episode of he Judgment Call Podcast Jonny Price and I talk about:
00:03:38 Why Crowdfunding is so hot right now? Why was the ban on ‘consumer financing’ in place for almost 100 years?
00:11:02 What is the rate of return (IRR) for WeFunder investments? How can you hedge your bets with Crowdfunding?
00:24:11 Have we missed out on innovations during the last 20 years because Crowdfunding wasn’t available? Will it raise the amount of entrepreneurial activity?
00:29:30 Are we in a ‘seed stage’ accelerator bubble? How does WeFunder compete with startup accelerators? Does Crowdfunding only work if you spend heavily on marketing?
00:44:08 Why was kiva.org so successful and why did it stop growing eventually?
00:56:08 Why kiva.org re-invented a Business Credit Score and why it withdrew from general interest marketing?
01:07:36 How does WeFunder get rid of ‘bad actors’?
Jonny Price is the Director of Fundraising at Wefunder, which helps startups and small businesses raise capital through investment crowdfunding. Before that Jonny worked at kiva.org.
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In this episode of the Judgment Call Podcast Steven B. Smith and I talk about:
00:02:01 How Steven’s latest book about the Virtue of Patriotism has been received? What does patriotism actually mean? Is patriotism just an emotion? Does patriotism imply a sense of superiority?
00:16:34 Should we start our own customized virtual countries? Is the nation state outdated and too many assumptions are ‘baked into the cake’ of the existing nation state?
00:33:29 Do we live in the best possible ‘political regime’?
00:37:23 Is Jean-Jacques Rousseau the original ‘father of socialism’? What are the advantages of his thought process and the direct democracy?
00:43:23 An origin story of the ‘two sides’ of the US political system? Are we wasting too many resources in a ‘repetitive debate’?
00:50:43 Why are we drawn to so many false dichotomies and narratives – especially on a federal level? Are we in a crisis of representative democracy?
00:59:10 Is the uptick in the rate of change the reason for the return to authoritarianism? Is an authoritarian regime the ‘Venture Capital’ of political regimes? Does democracy need more competition?
01:11:43 Why has there not been a revolution in the US since 1776?
01:18:41 Is the ‘falling out with god’ the root cause of what happened in the 20th century in Europe? What was the role of Germany during the time?
01:25:43 How the approach to (political) philosophy in Germany and East Asia so different.
01:31:11 Why WWI changed European politics forever?
00:07:34 The surprising story how modern capitalism emerged from religion.
00:09:35 Is the scientific revolution real? Was is just part of a much bigger ongoing process? Was there a specific event that spawned the ‘cult of technology’?
00:16:42 Why science is less influenced by certain geniuses but byt a group of individuals making similar discoveries.
00:20:06 What is the right confluences between science and religion? Should science innovate in moral terms?
00:25:31 Does technology and science follow morals or is it the other way around? Is it ‘expensive’ to apply ‘higher morals’ or is it actually making society more productive?
00:34:07 Are we really living in the best time ever?
00:39:12 Will the age of the Polymath return?
00:45:09 How should we structure Basic Research?
00:50:53 What did Patrica find when researching Isaac Newton’s last 30 years of his life?
00:53:45 Is a ‘tough childhood’ a necessary ingredient for success? What motivates us to take actual risks?
01:02:00 Why Isaac Newton diverged from the majority opinion on the ‘Holy Trinity’?
01:07:01 What will most likely be fields of scientific breakthroughs? Where will they likely happen?
01:13:41 Is there an Intelligent Design for life on earth? Is suffering necessary to improve human behavior?
01:16:33 How Patricia became the President of the Antiquarian Horological Society. What role does time play and how that changed over time?
In this episode of the Judgment Call Podcast Arnaud Collery and I talk about:
00:01:47 How Arnaud already had (full) careers as a leadership coach, inspirational speaker, actor, comedian, investment banker and philosopher at his young age.
00:10:26 Why ‘walking between worlds’ is such a cumbersome endeavor.
00:17:01 Why Europeans treat risk taking so much different than the US?
00:21:14 How Arnauld defines happiness?
00:28:32 Do we need traumatic experiences in our life to find our purpose?
00:36:01 Why some of most the most dangerous and violent regions of the world also bring out the most joy in people?
00:42:45 Is there a ‘happiness gene’?
00:49:01 Why we all want to be in ‘harmony with nature’? How society deals with a much newly customized ways of life and role models.
01:00:01 How Arnauld has hacked Hollywood.
01:25:01 How to spark motivation in people? How should we motivate our children?
01:36:29 What Arnauld thinks about extreme sports.
Arnaud Collery has spent ‘many lives’ as an investment banker, army lieutenant, actor, motivational speaker and stand-up comedian all around the world. He currently builds Humanava.
In this episode of the Judgment Call Podcast George Dyson and I talk about:
00:01:45 The Genesis story of George’s writing about the history of technology and science.
00:07:10 The amazing story of the Orion spacecraft.
00:14:50 Is the Big Stagnation real? Are we just measuring our success incorrectly?
00:21:30 How much did von Neumann and his contemporaries know about ‘giving birth’ to intelligent machines at their time?
00:26:40 Why is humanity so interested in technology? Are we already doomed?
00:36:10 The case for ethical machines. Will machines adopt ethics and religion?
00:43:45 How religions deal with limits to technology.
00:47:33 Can we all just get along without being innovative? Will we run the risk of an innovative power to sweep us away? Are we in a post-conflict society?
00:52:30 Is the hypothesis that we live in a simulation correct?
01:11:10 How we are motivated by our fathers and how we emulate them.
01:14:52 The history of the allied attacks on German cities of Hamburg and Dresden in WWII.
In this episode of the Judgment Call Podcast Charles Veley and I talk about:
00:06:43 Is our desire to travel a product of ‘Hollywood manipulation’ like Indiana Jones and James Bond?
00:13:36 Is he desire to travel rooted in escapism?
00:18:43 How slow should you travel? How rewarding is country collecting compared to slow travel?
00:27:10 How mosttraveledpeople.com counts the places to go to in the world?
00:36:33 Why Charles left for a long sea voyage despite a newborn child at home.
00:42:21 Charles’ philosophy to show children the world.
00:47:31 Charles’ list of countries that positively surprised him.
00:55:29 How expectations change your perception of travel? And why it is so subtle to notice.
01:05:29 Is travel burn-out unavoidable? How can we keep the joy alive? Does the motivation to travel have an impact? Do fellow travelers influence us?
01:22:10 Has Costa Rica solved the ‘dark side’ of tourism? How can we solve overcrowding globally?
In this episode of the Judgment Call Podcast Noel Bagwell and I talk about:
00:01:41 Where do political topics and memes come from? How does ‘the crowd’ select and rank them? Are we being intentionally mis-directed politically?
00:10:55 When did the Internet get ‘corrupted’ from its ideals? What happened to Social Media companies?
00:15:30 An ode to psychopaths and sociopaths…
00:21:15 The short history of the emphasis on individual freedom in ‘the South’.
00:26:01 Is the current mental health crisis a product of unrealistic expectations?
00:31:20 Are we missing out by not teaching children enough about philosophy and economics?
00:35:03 Why is the US politically so much ‘on fire’ now?
00:48:16 Why libertarianism is misguided?
00:57:20 What is the new role of religion? How it has changed over time especially in America.
01:20:22 How are wisdom and knowledge related?
01:32:22 Will working with AI look like following GPS directions?
In this episode of the Judgment Call Podcast Jane Chen and I talk about:
00:02:04 The origin story of Embrace and how many babies have been saved by Jane’s work.
00:09:35 How much of a role played the sales strategy in starting Embrace? How did that influence the company structure and funding?
00:15:35 Why selling in the developing world (and especially India) is so hard for Silicon Valley companies.
00:21:19 The challenges of moving and living in India. Why India is such a culture shock.
00:31:33 Why you can see so much joy despite the despair in many poor countries and neighborhoods just like India. Where does true happiness come from?
00:35:08 Is frustration necessary for learning?
00:40:10 How customized should a curriculum be?
00:43:11 Will the Singularity come to the Healthcare industry?
Jane Chen is the co-founder of Embrace, a social enterprise startup that aims to help the 15 million premature and low birth-weight babies born every year, through a low-cost infant warmer.
Jane is also a TED speaker and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
