ThinkWORKS: Because Thinking Is The Hardest Work There Is.
🎙️ Welcome to ThinkWORKS! 🚀 Get ready to dive into mind-blowing convos that introduce everything from the mysterious to the downright practical for everyone ranging from the curious, the explorer and the business owner/manager.
🌌 Explore the universe's secrets, question life's essence, and geek out over AI and robot rights. We're talking conspiracy theories, time travel, aliens, philosophical inquiries into life, the universe & everything, and all the wild stuff that keeps your brain buzzing.
💡 But hey, we're also keeping it real with tips on crushing time management, team motivation, and business hacks. We're all about the future—how tech's gonna flip our world, from biz to schools, and even our place in the cosmic puzzle.
🔍 We're breaking down crime prevention, championing some cool business practices for the entrepreneurs among us, dissecting education, and using science to level up our dreams.
🎧 Tune in to ThinkWORKS for a mix of brainy vibes and real-world insights that'll leave you inspired and ready to take on the world!
🌌 Explore the universe's secrets, question life's essence, and geek out over AI and robot rights. We're talking conspiracy theories, time travel, aliens, philosophical inquiries into life, the universe & everything, and all the wild stuff that keeps your brain buzzing.
💡 But hey, we're also keeping it real with tips on crushing time management, team motivation, and business hacks. We're all about the future—how tech's gonna flip our world, from biz to schools, and even our place in the cosmic puzzle.
🔍 We're breaking down crime prevention, championing some cool business practices for the entrepreneurs among us, dissecting education, and using science to level up our dreams.
🎧 Tune in to ThinkWORKS for a mix of brainy vibes and real-world insights that'll leave you inspired and ready to take on the world!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 75
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
35: ThinkWORKS Episode 35 Conspiracy Theories 101 Part 1 Why We Want To Believe
The first of several episodes that look at conspiracy theories examines why they hold such sway in the human psyche. Join your host Darren Smithson with guest Steve Lowe as they look at the psycholog…
00:58:13 |
Mon 25 Nov 2024
34: ThinkWORKS Episode 34 The Holographic Universe - Peering Beyond Reality's Illusion
Are we just holograms created by a boundary universe or even living inside a future version of The Sims? This episode we delve into the fascination world of M branes, N space and de Sitter universes!…
00:16:06 |
Mon 18 Nov 2024
33: ThinkWORKS Episode 33 Suspend Your Disbelief!
In this episode I discuss how a 'trick' we do when we go see a blockbuster movie (i.e. suspending our disbelief at how man in bare feet can single-handledly defeat a well trained army of terrorists) …
00:21:49 |
Mon 11 Nov 2024
32: ThinkWORKS Episode 32 Bridging the Gap Between Dependency and Understanding
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science & technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science & technology."- Carl Sagan
This week's ThinkWORKS discusses the meaning of Ca…
00:37:04 |
Mon 04 Nov 2024
31: ThinkWORKS Episode 31 Carl Sagan A Stellar Legacy in Science and Culture
One of my heroes, and the man who started me on my journey into the world of science, and in particular, Space Exploration, is Carl Sagan, the man behind the TV series 'Cosmos'. What many people prob…
00:29:23 |
Mon 28 Oct 2024
30: ThinkWORKS Episode 30 The Future of Healthcare Technology
As healthcare technology embraces new frontiers, we look at what we can expect and what ethical and regulatory considerations need to be made as a drive toward the digitalisation of services pushes a…
00:28:36 |
Mon 21 Oct 2024
29: ThinkWORKS Episode 29 Emergency Recording on It's Time to Bring IT Companies to Heel
Well, a so-called update from Microsoft ruined my planned episode for this week, so I am borrowing from a feature I do on my 'The Wednesday Supplement' radio show, called NewsRant. But there's a seri…
00:14:34 |
Mon 14 Oct 2024
28: ThinkWORKS Episode 28 Tackling Presentation Fear- Hacks for Unforgettable Talks!
Fear of public speaking regularly tops even death in Top Fears surveys, but sooner or later, we're all going to need to present in some form or another. Here's some tips, hacks and strategies for han…
00:36:55 |
Mon 07 Oct 2024
27: ThinkWORKS Episode 27 Thinks to Come
As we reach 6 months of ThinkWORKS, we pause and take a look at upcoming episodes and give a flavour of concepts and ideas arising from my upcoming book 'You 2.0: Build Yourself Better', as well as s…
00:17:30 |
Mon 30 Sep 2024
26: ThinkWORKS Episode 26 The Magic of Six
Across science, business, religion, spirituality, art and nature, the number 6 keeps turning up with ubiquitous significance. In this episode we run through just some of the ways the number is import…
00:16:33 |
Mon 23 Sep 2024
25: ThinkWORKS Episode 25 The Paralysis of Analysis!
We've all been there. There's a job that needs doing, but what's the best way? Lots of options, each with benefits and each with compromises. So what do we do, we do some more research... just in cas…
00:22:50 |
Mon 16 Sep 2024
24: ThinkWORKS Episode 24 Philosophy 101 Part 3 The Meaning of Life in an Age of AI and Artificial Consciousness
In the third and final part* of our Philosophy 101 discussions, we look at the meaning of life, and bring the question right up to date as we also consider what it means in an age of AI and the whole…
00:35:47 |
Mon 09 Sep 2024
23: ThinkWORKS Episode 23 Philosophy 101 Part 2
Continuing our look at some of the most famous Western philosophy tracts (a special episode on Eastern & Asian philosophy is being planned) as this week we look at Utilitarianism and the Runaway Trol…
00:18:51 |
Mon 02 Sep 2024
22: ThinkWORKS Episode 22 Philosophy 101 Part 1
In the first part of our 3 part Philosophy 101, we discuss The Ship of Theseus, The Prisoners in a Cave, and 'Cognito, Ergo Sum' (I Think Therefore I Am), tackling as they do themes of identity, rea…
00:25:00 |
Mon 26 Aug 2024
21: ThinkWORKS Episode 21 Why Having a Hobby is Good for Business
What hobby do you have, or would like to have, that you feel really passionate about?
How could you relate that to your business or work? This episode explores how something you are passionate about …
00:17:59 |
Mon 19 Aug 2024
20: ThinkWORKS Episode 20 The Enduring Legacy of Frankenstein
For this episode we're going to look at the significance of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', with a focus on the history of the novel, its impact on popular culture, and offer an exploration of fear ps…
00:27:21 |
Mon 12 Aug 2024
19: ThinkWORKS Episode 19 Switch It Off!
In the 1970s, a typical citizen might expect to encounter an 500 adverts per day. Today, it is over 5000 per day! And that's just adverts. Not news alerts, social media notifications, email notificat…
00:22:38 |
Mon 05 Aug 2024
18: ThinkWORKS Episode 18 Football and Tribalism
Join Darren and guest Steve Lowe as they discuss the enduring popularity of football (soccer to our American 7 Australian cousins) and how it provides a vehicle for the instinctive need to part of a …
00:39:49 |
Mon 29 Jul 2024
17: ThinkWORKS Episode 17 The Curse of Imposter Syndrome
So, do you ever have that nagging feeling that you may have bitten off more than you can chew, that maybe that you're not as competent as you thought you were, or worse, that others think you are? Do…
00:23:46 |
Mon 22 Jul 2024
16: ThinkWORKS Episode 16 The Lasting Legacy of Star Trek.
In this episode we look at the enduring impact of Star Trek on popular culture and its influence on various aspects of society, culture and the hope of a future in which humanity has grown up. Yes, I…
00:32:58 |
Mon 15 Jul 2024
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