The Coronavirus Effect

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This show was launched at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. We discussed the unprecedented changes caused by the coronavirus with various thought leaders and industry insiders. The show helped us understand and navigate the changes going on around us.

Key elements for the direction of my new show - "How to Change the World" - The history and future of Innovation.

It tells the chronological history of innovation:

The world's greatest technology breakthroughs and their innovators.
The frameworks, mental models and forces that create global disruption.

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The host Samuel Webster Harris is a UK-born Biologist, Psychologist and entrepreneur. He is not related to the US-based philosopher Samuel Benjamin Harris and does not claim to be.

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Episodes

A New Approach To Understanding How to Change The World

As we peer into the future, sometimes the best strategy is to look back into the past. The further and deeper we look, the more comprehensive our understanding of how technology and invention can shape the future. Sam is launching a new show - "How to Change the World: The History of Innovation". Chronologically studying every world-changing event in order and how they build upon themselves up to today. Available on all podcast players: SPOTIFY - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/1Fj3eFj...

Jun 30, 2025•25 min

UPDATE - How To Change The World: The history of innovation

Sam is launching a new show - "How to Change the World - The History of Innovation" Starting from the dawn of civilization. Each series will cover an era of humanity and each episode will cover an individual innovation and / or innovator telling their story and impact on society. In between episodes, we will have a shorter masterclass episode on an individual topic, mental model, or idea relating to the grand goal of changing the world. First season is out now: Spotify - ⁠⁠https://open.spotify.c...

Mar 17, 2025•3 min

9. National Care Force

Charles Armitage Charles Armitage is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Florence. Florence is a marketplace that connects care homes to nurses and care workers looking for extra shifts. Having started his career in the NHS, Charles entered the world of tech to help tackle some of the failures he witnessed. Charles loves sharing lessons from the frontline of building a platform business. Discussion Other than Florence, Charles and his partners developed National Care Force - a nationwide net...

May 21, 2020•17 min

8. The Care Industry

James Townsend, the co-founder of Mobilise, is on a mission to transform the way the UK's growing number of informal carers access support. James has over ten years of experience setting up and leading socially impactful organisations. He was formerly Teach First President, and set up the Church of England Foundation for Educational Leadership, facilitating 135,000 teachers, leaders and support staff into a learning community. Discussion In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Mobilise is an onlin...

May 08, 2020•37 min

7. Where Is Technology Heading

Eamonn Carey is the Managing Director of Techstars London. He's been an entrepreneur for most of his adult life - starting several companies in Europe and the Middle East - two successfully, others, less so. He's been an active angel investor in Europe, the US and Asia for the last five years - investing in everything from AI to food tech and from messaging to co-working spaces. He ran the Techstars Connection program in New York, works with the Zeroth AI accelerator in Hong Kong and sits on sev...

Apr 26, 2020•47 min

6. How Do We Have Adventures?

I am an adventuraholic. As such being confined to one space is an unusual place to find myself. I am embracing my curious spirit and invite listeners to explore their minds and body and have their own personal journeys of adventure inside. When You Can't Go Outside, Go Inside We are used to being able to jump on a plane and appear in a new culture and immerse ourselves in adventures. But now we are all stuck at home. The future may have limited travel for a while as we maintain social distancing...

Apr 19, 2020•16 min

5. When Life Gives You Lemons

About Dame Stephanie Shirley is one of Britain's leading philanthropists and has used her life to drive positive change in the world. Shirley empowered a generation of women in technology, giving them unheard of freedom to choose their own hours and manage their own workloads. She started her business in the sixties working from home with no computer or email. Writing machine code in her kitchen. It went on to become a business worth over £3billion and she is perhaps the most important person in...

Apr 12, 2020•28 min

4. Maintaining Empathy at a Distance

Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips is an author and technology researcher. We dive into her findings around human interaction online and how we lose empathy and cause each other extra stress. We talk about solutions for this and how we can control ourselves better to avoid being led down dangerous rabbit holes of thinking and keep positive. I can highly reccomend her book " The Future Of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech Obsessed World " for a masterclass in becoming a wiser particapant in online convers...

Apr 11, 2020•18 min

3. Black Swan - The High Impact of the Highly Unexpected

About The 'Black Swan' is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It demonstrates that unexpected events have the biggest impact on shaping the world. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan The book explains how can we prepare for these evens. How to build a more resilient strategies. How to get stronger from such events instead of being beaten Want more book discussions? This podcast episode was originally recorded for the "Wiser than Yesterday" podcast. See www.wiserpod.com Sam dis...

Apr 04, 2020•45 min

2. What Is All The Panic (buying) About?

After stores across the world first started running out of toilet paper, this quickly spread to empty shelves and epic queues as people rush to stock up before armageddon hits. This has resulted in a lot of further panic and strong emotions and angry words from those impacted. Still no one knows why toilet paper is needed.... In this episode we dive into some of the reasons behind the buying. We discuss supply chain shifts, game theory, psychology, fear, and economics to discover how it works. A...

Mar 26, 2020•24 min

1. An Introduction

An short episode introducing the podcast, the aims and topics to discuss and what you can expect to be hearing over the coming episodes. Sam gives a brief overview of the opportunity we have to reflect and the importance of focussing on the positive amongst all the terrible news. We also learn about the host's background in science, business, adventure and near death experiences and why he's taking on the project, Don't Forget to leave a comment on this episode See podvine.com/privacy-policy for...

Mar 20, 2020•13 min

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