MetaLearn Podcast
The MetaLearn Podcast gives you the knowledge and skills needed to understand yourself and the world around you so you can thrive in the 21st century. Host Nasos Papadopoulos interviews the world's top experts in every field, extracting the principles needed learn faster, think smarter and live better.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 203
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
ML122: Steve O'Hear on How To Ask Great Questions and the State of Global Tech
Steve O’Hear is a leading technology journalist for Techcrunch where he focuses on European startups, companies and products. Steve has written for some of the world’s top publications and has also …
ML121: Venkatesh Rao on Leveraging the Power of Dialectic and Lessons from the Creative Process
Venkatesh Rao is an author, consultant and the founder of the hugely popular blogs Ribbon Farm and Breaking Smart. Ribbonfarm is a multidisciplinary blog focused on strategy and decision-making, whil…
ML120: Azeem Azhar on The Exponential Impact of Technology and the Future of Work
Azeem Azhar is a strategist, product entrepreneur and analyst, currently working as the Senior Advisor for AI to the CTO of Accenture. He is also the creator of the Exponential View newsletter and po…
ML119: Richard Bowdler on Mastering Your Memory, Reinventing Yourself and Learning from Different Environments
Richard Bowdler is the founder of StoryThis, a company that develops bespoke learning solutions for companies who want to maximise their investment in learning & development and he’s also building a …
ML118: Uri Bram on Learning Digital Skills for a High Value Career and The Benefits of Project Based Education
Uri Bram is the bestselling author of Thinking Statistically and the CTO of Umuzi, an educational organisation that supports talented young people to develop the skills needed to access high-value ca…
ML117: Fritjof Capra on The Systems View of Life and Learning from Leonardo Da Vinci
Fritjof Capra is a scientist, educator and author, best known for his groundbreaking work in the fields of Physics and Systems Thinking.
Capra first became widely known for his book, The Tao of Physi…
ML116: Alex Beard on Korean Exam Factories, Silicon Valley Superschools and the Finnish Education Phenomenon
Alex Beard is an author, speaker and the Senior Director of the Global Learning Lab at Teach for All network of independent organizations working to help all children fulfill their potential.
After s…
ML115: Barbara Oakley on Becoming a Thought Leader without Selling Out and Teaching Kids How To Learn
Barbara Oakley is an educator and writer who’s empowering people all over the world to learn more effectively.
For those of who you who are long time listeners you’ll remember Barb from Episode 46 of…
ML114: Andreas M Antonopoulos on Understanding Cryptocurrencies and The Future of the Global Economy
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a best-selling author, speaker, educator and one of the world’s top bitcoin and open blockchain experts.
You’d have to be living on a planet far, far away to not have heard…
ML113: 5 Lessons To Level Up In Your Career
I recently turned 26 and this summer will be 5 years since I graduated from university, which means I’ve been making my way in the world of work for half a decade. I’ve definitely learned a lot over…
ML112: Alex Dunsdon on Linky Learning, Investing in Cult Leaders and Corporate Innovation That Works
Alex Dunsdon is an entrepreneur and investor who thrives on connecting people and ideas.
He’s the Co-Founder of the Bakery an innovation agency which transforms big companies by connecting them up to…
ML111: Charles Fadel on Four Dimensional Education, Developing 21st Century Skills and The Challenges of Measuring MetaLearning
Charles Fadel is the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign, an institution focused on making education more relevant and answering the question: “What should we learn in the 21st…
ML110: Aubrey de Grey on Ending Aging, the Art of Multidisciplinary Research and How To Spread Important Messages
Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist, and the Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation, a California based non-profit charity dedicated to combating the aging process.
Through his wo…
ML109: Equations That Changed The World - Kalid Azad on Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity
This episode is another special one on equations that changed the world. Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity is widely known as the world’s most famous equation created by history’s most famous…
ML108: How To Present Powerfully Online and Offline
What I've found from experience is that presenting on and off camera is both a science and an art. As an academic tutor and university lecturer I’ve spent plenty of time standing up and presenting t…
ML107: James Bidwell on Innovating in the Disruption Economy, Dealing with Information Overload and Marketing Effectively in a Noisy World
James Bidwell is the owner of Springwise, an innovation portal, which crowd sources innovation ideas from all over the world and publishes the top 3 every day. He is also the co-founder of RE_SET, a…
ML106: What I Learned from Authoring an Online Course
The process of authoring and producing my first course, Make Me A MetaLearner, was a great learning experience for me. It taught me a lot about the skills of research and writing and the importance …
ML105: Tom Stafford on Learning Insights from Cognitive Science, The Exploration-Exploitation Trade-Off and The Key To Effective Teaching
Tom Stafford is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Cognitive Science at the University of Sheffield. He’s also the author of the book Mindhacks, a book featuring 100 DIY mind experiments you can tr…
ML104: How To Learn by Podcasting
Finding great teachers is a big part of learning anything. But for most people, the top experts are off limits. They’re only available to the few who can afford to fork out for their services, or …
ML103: Tim Urban on The Future of the Brain, Learning from Elon Musk and What Human SuperIntelligence Means for You
Tim Urban is the founder of the blog WaitButWhy and is one of the Internet’s most popular writers. With brilliant stick-figure illustrations and epic analysis on everything from artificial intellige…