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Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 2, Episodes 9-16.
For all Humanity 8.0 episodes to date, please go to: https://humanity8.com/.
Season Two of Humanity 8.0 closes with an 8-episode drop of 4 interviews with four remarkable people:
• Eileen Reavey, National Grassroots Director at “The National Popular Vote” (NPV);
• Adam Davidson, Chief Executive Officer at Story As, author of The Passion Economy, and Contributing Author at The New Yorker;
• Michael P. Gibson, Founder and General Partner at the 1517 Fund and author of Paper Belt on Fire (2022), and;
• Professor Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick and author of Back to the University’s Future (2023).
❧ Season 2, Episode 9: “On the National Popular Vote—A Conversation with Eileen Reavey, Part I.” https://youtu.be/PKoUkN4h0lo.
❧ Season 2, Episode 10: “On the National Popular Vote—A Conversation with Eileen Reavey, Part II.” https://youtu.be/TpP05beTTLY.
❧ Season 2, Episode 11: “On The Passion Economy—A Conversation with Adam Davidson, Part I.” https://youtu.be/wI3iD-d4cd4.
❧ Season 2, Episode 12: “On The Passion Economy—A Conversation with Adam Davidson, Part II.” https://youtu.be/lKISEpftTOc.
❧ Season 2, Episode 13: “On The Future of Academia—A Conversation with Michael Gibson, Part I.” https://youtu.be/lomEIchSE7U.
❧ Season 2, Episode 14: “On The Future of Academia—A Conversation with Michael Gibson, Part II.” https://youtu.be/PCMOUUbGEUI.
❧ Season 2, Episode 15: “On the Future of Academia—A Conversation with Steve Fuller and Michael Gibson, Part I.” https://youtu.be/mA-DD3wX4AI.
❧ Season 2, Episode 16: “On the Future of Academia—A Conversation with Steve Fuller and Michael Gibson, Part II.” https://youtu.be/Y2snm_39fgw.
❧ Season 2, Episode 9: “On the National Popular Vote—A Conversation with Eileen Reavey, Part I.” https://youtu.be/PKoUkN4h0lo.
❧ Season 2, Episode 10: “On the National Popular Vote—A Conversation with Eileen Reavey, Part II.” https://youtu.be/TpP05beTTLY.
Eileen Reavey, National Grassroots Director at The National Popular Vote (NPV) discusses NPV’s push to effectively do away with the US Electoral College through the creative strategy of establishing The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. This compact would bind participating states to follow National Popular Vote statutes passed by state legislative bodies.
As of now, statutes have been enacted by16 states and the District of Columbia, including 4 small states (DE, HI, RI, VT), 9 medium-sized states (CO, CT, MD, MA, MN, NJ, NM, OR, WA), and 3 big states (CA, IL, NY). These jurisdictions have 205 of the 270 electoral votes needed to activate the law which would “take effect when enacted by states with a majority of the electoral votes (270 of 538),” at which point, “the presidential candidate receiving the most popular votes in all 50 states and DC will get all the electoral votes from all of the enacting states. That is, the candidate receiving the most popular votes nationwide will be guaranteed enough electoral votes to become President.”
For a brief explanation, please read: https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/sites/default/files/202305/1-pager-npv-v227-2023-5-25.pdf.
Main Topics: US Politics, Democracy, The Electoral College, Grassroots advocacy.
Links:
• Main websites: https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/; https://abolishtheelectoralcollegepac.org/.
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eileenreavey/.
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/EileenReavey; https://twitter.com/AbolishEC.
❧ Season 2, Episode 11: “On The Passion Economy—A Conversation with Adam Davidson, Part I.” https://youtu.be/wI3iD-d4cd4.
❧ Season 2, Episode 12: “On The Passion Economy—A Conversation with Adam Davidson, Part II.” https://youtu.be/lKISEpftTOc.
Adam Davidson, Chief Executive Officer at Story As … , Contributing Author at The New Yorker, and author of The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century (Random House, 2020).
Main Topics: The Passion Economy, The Gig Economy, Work, Labor, Web 3.0.
Links:
• Main website: https://www.story.as/.
• The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century: https://www.amazon.com/Passion-Economy-Thriving-Twenty-First-Century/dp/0804172773/.
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjdavidson/.
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamdavidson.
❧ Season 2, Episode 13: “On The Future of Academia—A Conversation with Michael Gibson, Part I.” https://youtu.be/lomEIchSE7U.
❧ Season 2, Episode 14: “On The Future of Academia—A Conversation with Michael Gibson, Part II.” https://youtu.be/PCMOUUbGEUI.
Michael P. Gibson, Founder and General Partner at the 1517 Fund, and author of Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University (Encounter Books, 2022).
Main Topics: The University, Academia, Education, Innovation, The Reformation, Martin Luther.
Links:
• Main website: https://athousandnations.com/.
• Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Belt-Fire-Fight-Progress/dp/164177245X.
• 1517 Fund: https://www.1517fund.com/.
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-patrick-gibson-56b6973/.
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/William_Blake.
❧ Season 2, Episode 15: “On the Future of Academia—A Conversation with Steve Fuller and Michael Gibson, Part I.” https://youtu.be/mA-DD3wX4AI.
❧ Season 2, Episode 16: “On the Future of Academia—A Conversation with Steve Fuller and Michael Gibson, Part II.” https://youtu.be/Y2snm_39fgw.
Professor Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology Department of Sociology University of Warwick, and Michael P. Gibson, Founder and General Partner at the 1517 Fund. We discuss their perspectives on how to reform Academia through their respective latest books—Fuller’s Back to the University’s Future (2023) and Gibson’s Paper Belt on Fire (2022).
Main Topics: The University, Academia, Education, Innovation, The Reformation, Erasmus, Martin Luther
Links:
Steve Fuller:
• Website: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/sfuller/.
• Back to the University’s Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-36327-6.
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProfSteveFuller
Michael Gibson:
• Main website: https://athousandnations.com/.
• Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Belt-Fire-Fight-Progress/dp/164177245X.
• 1517 Fund: https://www.1517fund.com/.
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-patrick-gibson-56b6973/.
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/William_Blake.
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