Today we're talking to Belinda Retourné, the mind behind the participatory experience Elysium premiering in Stockholm in November 2025. We dive deep into curiosity - what it means, how to nurture it, and why it matters.
Read more about Elysium: http://elysiumlife.se/
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Connect with Belinda: https://www.linkedin.com/in/belinda-retourn%C3%A9
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Today we're talking to Håkan Lidbo, musician, inventor and creative freethinker. It ended up pretty long, but well. Once now and than is ok, right?
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Today we're talking to Peter Ström, lecturer at Beckmans College of Design, about his curiosity for fashion and the Internet and also some of the stuff he's working on a the moment, like Svensk Webbkonst.
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Today we're taking a summer break from the usual format – everyone's off enjoying the season, so we're flipping the script! In this special episode, our AI Threshold Guardian takes the host's chair to interview Adam about his own journey with curiosity.
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Today we're talking to R.J. Abbott, creative polymath and LinkedIn thinker, about belief architecture and how your point of view is your mote.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjabbott3/
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Today we're talking to Åsa Wikberg-Nilsson, design professor at Luleå University of Technology. We touch on subjects such as the importance of play and reflection, and on how to help people think outside the current paradigm.
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https://www.ltu.se/personal/a/asa-wikberg-nilsson
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Today we're talking to Stefan Lang, a Buddhist dharma teacher in Switzerland, who also leads a short meditation on the topic of curiosity.
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Today we're talking to brand strategist and entrepreneur Fredrik Öst about how being curious about yourself and your world view shapes your experience and maybe also your creative output.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/snask/
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Today we're talking to interaction designer, creative technologist and artist Sarah Ali about quite a lot of things... like bouncing soundwaves of cicadas and being someone who you can say ANYTHING to.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/saalii
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Today we're talking to Tomas Seo, strategist and thinker, about how to adapt to a possible future of techno feudalism.
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Substack newsletter "Detta förändrar ju allt" (Swe)
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Today we're talking to Emma Lindahl, head of IcaX, about a recent epiphany of hers.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmalindahl/
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Today we're talking to Josh Baillon, an entrepreneur who is making an "Imaginatorium", a product that aims to spark creativity and play.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-baillon/
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Today we're talking to Henrik Werdelin, an serial dog entrepenaur, about the importance of authenticity when creating a business.
Read more about his stuff here:
Bark Air - an airline for dogs
BarkBox - dog toy subscription service
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Today we're talking to Kristoffer Tjalve about the opposite of clickbait, microcopy and data-driven ecommerce — The Poetic Internet.
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Naive yearly, the poetic internet conference
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Today, in this extra long episode, we're talking to professor and and Ted Talk-er Dan Cable about the science around the trying of new things.
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Today we're talking to artist and musician Jenny Wilson, who has a long career primarily focused on thematic pop music. Now she has written her first opera, which 1) sounds incredible and 2) definitely qualifies as trying a new thing.
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and/or buy tickets to the Opera:
norrlandsoperan.se/forestallningar/alskarinnorna
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Today we're talking to Evrim Kurç, a dutch chef who decided to move to Sweden recently. Which qualifies in itself as trying new things, we think.
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Adam finds himself talking to himself, about his take on trying new things, his book "Some Experiments In Fun Having" and some other stuff.
Buy the book here or listen to the audio book here
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Adam talks to Lisa Lönner, who runs a restaurant in her home and is trying to start a ketchup factory.
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Today we're talking to experimental music maker Andreas Tilliander about finding inspiration by tricking yourself.
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Listen to Andreas radio show Elektroniskt i P2 (in Swedish)
https://sverigesradio.se/elektronisktip2
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