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Nate_Frankly_99Frankly#99 | The 10 Core Myths Still Taught in Business Schools

Economics departments around the world teach a narrow boundary story of the way our world works. A narrative of infinite growth driven by consumption and money, which has dominated our culture and unknowingly shaped the way we live. But does this story really reflect our biophysical reality – or the full scope of humanity’s role within it?

Watch nowJun 20, 2025
The Seeds of New Cultural MitochondriaFrankly#98 | 10 Qualities That Could Change the Future: The Seeds of New Cultural Mitochondria

Living in a period increasingly fraught by various crises and risks, it is more necessary than ever to be able to metabolize anxiety into something useful.

Watch nowJun 6, 2025
Why the World Feels Like It’s Falling ApartNate Hagens 10Frankly#97 | Why the World Feels Like It’s Falling Apart: The Superorganism Explained in 7 Minutes

In a world grappling with converging crises, we often look outward – for new tech, new markets, new distractions.

Watch nowMay 30, 2025
The 8 Faces of AINate Hagens 9Frankly#96 | The 8 Faces of AI: Who Will You Become As AI Accelerates?

In a world increasingly mediated by machines, the boundaries between human identity and artificial intelligence are beginning to blur.

Watch nowMay 23, 2025
The Parent and the PendulumNate HagensFrankly#95 | The Parent and the Pendulum

In a culture driven by achievement, autonomy, and digital distraction, our sense of identity is often shaped by performance and external validation.

Watch nowMay 16, 2025
Social Overshoot?Nate HagensFrankly#94 | Social Overshoot? Dunbar’s Number, Real Relationships, and Musical Chairs

With more people on the planet than ever before – with most having constant digital access to one another

Watch nowMay 9, 2025
Information Burnout- Are We Past Peak Sensemaking?Nate HagensFrankly#93 | Information Burnout: Are We Past Peak Sensemaking?

Each morning, people around the world wake up to more troubling headlines

Watch nowMay 2, 2025
Artificial Intelligence - In Service of Life?Nate HagensFrankly#92 | Artificial Intelligence – In Service of Life?

In this special Earth Week edition of Frankly, Nate delves into what it truly means for a technology or project to be “in service of Life,”

Watch nowApr 25, 2025
Unintended Consequences in a Complex WorldNate HagensFrankly#91 | Unintended Consequences in a Complex World

Unintended Consequences in a Complex World

Watch nowApr 18, 2025
Net Zero and Other DelusionsNate HagensFrankly#90 | Net Zero and Other Delusions: What Can’t, Won’t and Might Happen

Language is one of humanity’s most unique and powerful tools.

Watch nowApr 4, 2025
Thinking and FeelingNate HagensFrankly#89 | Thinking and Feeling

The human brain has proven to be particularly good at breaking down all sorts of things into categories and dichotomies

Watch nowMar 21, 2025
Snow, The Singularity, and Rocks in the RiverNate HagensFrankly#88 | Snow, The Singularity, and Rocks in the River

Snow, The Singularity, and Rocks in the River

Watch nowMar 7, 2025

That’s very understandable because with left hemisphere thinking, one of the problems is that you see everything as a series of problems that must have solutions. Iain McGilchrist Neuroscientist and Philosopher

What we’re seeing is probably the largest mass movement of marine life, at least in the last 10,000 years, towards the poles. Malin Pinsky Associate Professor

The worst thing you can do to people is make them feel that whatever they do, it doesn’t matter. What we call in psychology “helplessness” — or even stronger, learned helplessness. Maren Urner Professor, Sustainable Transformation

We can’t have hundreds and hundreds of real relationships that are healthy because that requires time and effort and full attention and awareness of being in real relationship and conversation with the other human. Nate Hagens Executive Director ISEOF

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