Hosted by Daniel Kazandjian · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 53 episodes
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Practical philosophy for playing with life. themetagame.substack.com
Daniel Kazandjian hosts The Metagame, a society show with 53 episodes published.
Kati Devaney is a neuroscientist and meditation teacher with over 25 years of practice. She earned her PhD in 2018 using fMRI to study attention and prediction updating in experienced Vipassana meditators and completed a
Elena Lake is a bodyworker and former mathematician. After studying math, CS, and physics at MIT and two years doing ML at Meta, she left tech to study touch. When her early massage sessions started producing results she
Alex Olshonsky is a coach, somatic therapist, and writer. After a polysubstance addiction nearly killed him during his Silicon Valley years at Twitter, Salesforce, and Slack, he found freedom in somatic psychology and co
Richard Ngo is one of a handful of people who've worked on AGI safety at both DeepMind and OpenAI. After three years as a futurist on OpenAI's Governance team, he left to pursue independent research on coalitions, virtue
"Nothing human makes it out of the near future." - Nick Land Matt Southey is a leading expert on the philosophy of Nick Land with a PhD in Religion from Rice University. He is also the founding editor of The Latecomer, a
Michael “Valentine” Smith is a co-founder of CFAR (the Center for Applied Rationality) and the author of influential LessWrong essays including The Hostile Telepaths Problem, Kenshō, and The Intelligent Social Web. He’s
Jake Orthwein is the creator of Frame Problems, a video essay channel on science, art, philosophy, politics, and culture. In this episode, Jake talks about his upcoming film for Sam Harris‘s mindfulness app Waking Up. We
Alex Zhu is a math olympian and researcher exploring the convergence of analytical rationality and religion. He’s also the co-founder of AlphaSheets. He’s currently working on a rigorous framework for bridging AI alignme
Pranab Sachi is the co-founder of Attention Copilot, a service that blends meditation and therapy techniques with real-time productivity support. He applies non-dual teachings, IFS, somatic awareness, and emotional proce
Max Shen is a pain researcher with a background in computational cognitive science and degrees from MIT. After developing severe RSI in grad school, he devoted himself to understanding pain from the inside out. Remarkabl
Connirae Andreas is a living legend in the world of personal development and NLP. She’s best known for creating Core Transformation, a parts-work modality that follows troubling feelings to discover what they ultimately
Michael Stroe (@Plus3Happiness) is a phenomenologist and “happiness concierge.” Through a combination of the Buddhist Fetters & somatic practices, he’s allegedly reduced his suffering by ~90%. He claims to consistently l
Alex Zhu is a math olympian and researcher exploring the convergence of analytical rationality and religion. He’s also the co-founder of AlphaSheets. He’s currently working on a rigorous framework for bridging AI alignme
Justin is the Chief Quant & Director of Analytics at MathAcademy.com (the best way to learn math). He optimizes learning efficiency in students’ brains with cutting edge cognitive psychology. He’s written extensively and
Ever met someone whose presence is so clean and luminous it changes the energy of the room? That’s today’s guest. Jeff Lieberman is an artist, musician, MIT-trained scientist, and former host of Time Warp on Discovery Ch
This is the first in person Metagame episode! Be sure to check out the video. Jonny Miller is a writer, nervous system coach and podcaster. We met at Edge Esmerelda where he facilitated a surprisingly psychoactive breath
Chris Barber is an entrepreneur/researcher. He co-founded an executive coaching marketplace for startups, and a place for engineers to discover good startups to join. His primary focus is AI preparation & emotional regul
Dr. Tucker Peck is a meditation teacher, clinical psychologist, and bestselling author. He studied meditation with Sharon Salzberg and Upasaka Culadasa (John Yates). Tucker’s first book, Sanity and Sainthood, debuted as
Daniel Thorson spent 5 years in residential training at The Monastic Academy with 2 years in cumulative silent retreat. He has decades of deep engagement with contemplative practice, systems theory, and transformative wo
Rich Bartlett helps people grow high-trust communities & decentralized organizations. He’s the co-founder the community building network Microsolidarity, and non-hierarchical management consultancy The Hum. He also co-ru
Nick Land
1 appearance on this show
Jeff Lieberman
SATAN'S LITTLE HELPER
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Chris Barber
Trombonist/bandleader · Southwest Baptist University
1 appearance on this show
Tucker Peck
clinical psychologist, meditation teacher, author
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Richard Bartlett
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Michael Johnson
Melbourne hip-hop artist, singer, amateur producer, street performer · Moonlit Sanctuary Wildlife Conservation Park
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Dr. Marc Gafni
visionary thinker, social activist and passionate philosopher · Center for World Philosophy and Religion
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Malcolm Ocean
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Howard Bloom
Author of The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong
1 appearance on this show
Khe Hy
contributing editor · BlackRock
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Daniele Bolelli
Author/Professor/Podcaster
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David Allen
Best-Selling Author and Creator of the Getting Things Done (GTD) Methodology · Drug & Alcohol Solutions Australia
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