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About Ideapod
The place for ideas and inspiration
Our core mission is to provide education and learning platforms where ideas are explored through dialogue and turned into action. In an age of echo chambers and filter bubbles, we encourage the pursuit of truth by raising provocative questions and eschewing groupthink. We value open mindedness, critical analysis and people thinking for themselves.
Our main site is a digital media platform where we provide commentary on the ideas shaping our lives – and our future. We publish creative and intelligent journalism, helping our readers to understand the ideas that shape their worldview — and where we’re headed. Our articles are quite provocative and thoughtful, and now have an audience of between 3 and 5 million monthly readers.
Exploring the big ideas
Opinions and analysis on the most important issues in science, politics and culture
* In order to understand what I’m talking about, you have to the watch the full Munk Debates. Link at the end of this article. I belong to the smallest race in The United States of America. Cambodians make up only 0.1% (300,000) of the American population according to the…
Boonn HemJune 15, 2018
“People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your…
Rezzan HusseyJune 15, 2018
It’s so easy to be incorrect about whether you’re extroverted or introverted, given the amount of misinformation out there. “Hasn’t the whole introversion/extroversion thing been debunked?”, I hear you ask. Prior to learning about personality types, I’d ask the same question. But the categorization has stood the test of time.…
Rezzan HusseyMay 26, 2018
As I write this article, I’m listening to Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. If you have headphones nearby, I encourage you to click the play button below and listen along with me. The reason for this is that Australia’s oldest scientist, David Goodall, chose to end his life last week at…
Justin BrownMay 25, 2018
In 20th-century popular culture, journalists were portrayed as needy hacks desperate to write the Great American Novel. Journalism was the means to an end that few achieved. But Tom Wolfe, who died May 14 at age 88, helped change that in the 1960s. He was one of the New Journalists,…
The Power of IdeasMay 17, 2018
In the world I live in, intentions mean very little. Your actions do, though. This seems obvious. We’re living during a time of constant propaganda and lies, so it makes sense to judge people based on what they do rather than what they say or intend to do. We could…
Justin BrownMay 9, 2018
The people bringing you Ideapod
Meet the Ideapod team members and regular contributors
Justin is the CEO and co-founder of Ideapod, a platform for people to connect around ideas. He created the first version of Ideapod as a social network while doing a PhD in international political economy. Since then, he has quit the PhD and Ideapod has evolved into an independent digital media company.
Justin is passionate about people thinking for themselves, especially in an age of information overload.
Lachlan is Ideapod's editor-in-chief and was pivotal to our transition into a digital media company. He runs our content strategy and has a passion for making things practical and accessible.
Rudá is a shaman and business coach. He works with Ideapod as our inspiration adviser and is the co-creator of Out of the Box, a worldwide movement helping people to break free from societal and educational conditioning.
Rudá is the founder of Primal Source and works as a personal development coach for private clients and corporate teams to overcome self-limiting beliefs and harness creativity, personal power and mindfulness.
Gosia Kurowska was born in Poland and has lived in Belgium before moving to Thailand recently. She has worked for the EU institutions as a speechwriter and press officer for several years. She now launched her own blog on handmade fashion and jewelry from Thailand/Asia, treasurista.com.