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Digital Dreams
by Nilormi Das
This podcast is about bringing business and communities together through learning and development
Episodes
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S2 Episode 106 | Discussion with Samuel Nicholls Co-Founder of TipStart and Diplomat @ UK Foreign Office | Social Enterprise and Theory of Change | Politics and Books
Today my guest is Samuel Nicholls who is a Diplomat working at the UK Foreign Office. He also co-founded and run a social enterprise called TipStart. His mission is to harness the motivation and social responsibility of graduates to disrupt privilege in employment. TipStart is a for-profit social...
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S2 Episode 105 | Discussion with Rael Bicker on Business Excellence , Corporate Culture , Entrepreneurship | Navigating twists, turns and loops to achieve excellence
Mr Rael Bicker deliver custom designed keynotes, workshops, mentoring and coaching that all fall under the umbrella of “Business Excellence”. We all recognize that perfection is not possible, and that excellence is being the best we can be with the resources we have. Rael works with people who…
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S2 Episode 104 | Discussion with Online piano coach, best selling author Mark Deeks | Music , Mindset and Mental Wellbeing
“If music be the food of love, play on.” – William Shakespeare Today I am hosting Mark Deeks who is the best selling author of “NOT Another Piano Book: How Everything That Stopped You Playing Like a Piano Legend So Far… Shouldn’t!” He has spent more than 20 years working as a musical director,...
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S2 Episode 103 | Discussion with Professor of Marketing Jaideep Prabhu on Innovation and Cross national business ecosystems |Cambridge Ecosystem | Books
Today's guest Professor Jaideep Prabhu is from Cambridge Judge Business School. His research interests includes : marketing, strategy and innovation. Specific area of his interests: cross-national issues concerning the antecedents and consequences of radical innovation in high-technology contexts...
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S2 Episode 102 | Discussion with International Marketing , Digital Marketing Expert Magdalena Albinska| Creating and exploring life and marketing
Magda is a Digital Marketing and Social Media Manager with 10+ years of experience in international marketing projects. Instagram Evangelist by passion, believer in the power of community and influencer marketing. Early adopter of new platforms, always asking questions, learning and seeking to...
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S2 Episode 101 | Discussion with Jem Henderson (she/they) on Technology, Entrepreneurs, Start Ups, Tech Nation and being one's true self
Jem Henderson (she/they) Entrepreneur Engagement Manager, Yorkshire at Tech Nation It had been incredible fun episode to record as the conversation flew seamlessly. She is adept tech community manager, engagement manager and content creator/commissioner with lots of stakeholder engagement...
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Episode 100 | Hedgehog or Fox ?
Are you a hedgehog or a fox? In Isaiah Berlin's famous essay “The Hedgehog and the Fox,” Isaiah Berlin divided the world into hedgehogs and foxes, based upon an ancient Greek parable: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” However keep in mind Digital Dreamers : “We…
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Episode 99 |Reflecting on Toastmaster International journey | Dynamic Leadership
Musonius Rufus "For I believe a good king is from the outset and by necessity a philosopher, and the philosopher is from the outset a kingly person.” Now let's replace the word king with the word leader and the quote becomes- For I believe a good leader is from outset and by necessity a...
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Episode 98 |Stress can make us happy too !
Beat stress by thinking it as a challenge and fuel for growth. As promised during the show : Here is the link to https://hbr.org/2012/01/positive-intelligence (Positive Intelligence by Shawn Achor) Shawn’s TED talk, The Happy Secret to Better Work, has over 16 million views. The happy secret to...
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Episode 97 |Kickstarter creativity and AI projects
“To understand the future of technology we must begin with one fundamental truth. Technology is natural and nature is technological. It is the voice of the cosmos. From the Saturn hexagon to African fractals to the Fibonacci sequence found in the growth patterns of every plant on Earth, we are...
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Episode 96 |Tech Consciousness
As promised during the show sharing the link to the Cambridge paper: There is a wonderful paper by Cambridge on digital anthropology https://www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/digital-anthropology Ask relevant questions and understand technology . Work on understanding that evolving is core to…
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Episode 95 |Critical thinking | Socrates
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” – Socrates. As promised during show: "https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/a-brief-history-of-the-idea-of-critical-thinking/408 There is an wonderful webpage 35...
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Episode 94 | Palace of Versailles
"You make sexiness strong by balancing it out: something familiar with something unfamiliar, something masculine with something feminine, something streamlined with something rococo. It's a Yin and Yang. Women are made of layers, your mood shifts, no one is neither one extreme nor the other."...
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Episode 93 | Air
“Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has. John Lubbock ( an English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath) So get some fresh air today and try to listen what...
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Episode 92 | Health , Fitness , Mindset and Business landscape discussion with coach Kasey Marie Jennings
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change " - Stephen Hawking and my guest today remind me of that. Kasey is a Personal Trainer who has been working in the health and fitness industry for the past 9 years. Prior to this Kasey studied sport and physical education and went on to complete a...
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Episode 91 |Net Zero Carbon Conscious Companies | Conscious Technology Part 1
"We are the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last generation who can do something about it.” Barack Obama, Former US President Space programs are fascinating and shows the vigour of science but we also have one planet and we need to take responsibility towards…
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Episode 90 |The weight of gold | Reflecting on this documentary
We are all going through fear, uncertainty, disruption, isolation through out this pandemic and it's not over yet. But I truly believe it will get better eventually. One of the key realisation for me through the time was the importance of human connection and support network for me. I talk a lot...
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Episode 89 | Brain | Part 1
"The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know."- Isaac Asimov In meditation, scientific research papers and various books I am reading in past few years about brain and brain waves, it get mentioned at various discussion to relax our minds . It's extremely...
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Episode 88 |Power posture | Egoscue Method
Super hero pose and science behind it. And changing one states through movements matters As promised during the show sharing the resources, go ahead and check it out Resource of Peak state : https://www.tonyrobbins.com/stories/unleash-the-power/discover-your-peak-state/ Harvard research by Amy...
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Episode 87 |Osgood-Schlatter and Life ?
“Men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold; but one doesn’t go into the mine looking for dirt—one goes in looking for the gold.” ― Andrew Carnegie. What gold are you mining for digital dreamers from your life ? Be...
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Episode 86 |Sri Aurobindo | Philosopher | Yogi | Political leader
The central theme of Sri Aurobindo's vision is the evolution of life into a "life divine". In his own words: "Man is a transitional being. He is not final. The step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth evolution. It is inevitable because it is at once the…
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Episode 85 | Minimalism
Minimalism is a lifestyle for many. “Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art.” —Richard Holloway Minimalism makes things achievable , as mentioned before how my feeling of overwhelm with too...
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Episode 84 | Memory Palace
“We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.” ― Mira Bartok, The Memory Palace Our brain is fascinating and to make one's memory work like magic, ever thought of it that anyone can do it! Like...
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Episode 83 | Why art ?
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”― Pablo Picasso. When I grew up I was taught to appreciate art but not being an artist. Hence as an adult I am trying to cultivate it again. I love science and technology but art makes life beautiful. We all don't...
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Episode 82 |Copper | Vedic Science | Water
"Do not be led by others, awaken your own mind, amass your own experience, and decide for yourself your own path.” ― Veda As promised during the show sharing the resources I have referred to for making this episode: WHO paper https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/copper.pdf...
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Episode 81 |Homage to Thinkers and Philosophers | Part 1
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde. What's your philosophy to live digital dreamers ? Reason to exist ? Giving a little introduction to these 4 amazing philosophers of diverse background. Go ahead and check them out ! ( the order of their…
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Episode 80 | Makar Sankranti
Makar Sankranti - It marks a beginning of a new cycle.Appreciation of life and gratitude towards community However this year as every festival it also has restrictions. Wish you all happiness , peace and prosperity.
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Episode 79 |Computers and it's micro history
The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day. Eric Schmidt (Google's CEO from 2001 to 2011; prior to that he had stints as CEO of Novell and chief technology...
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Episode 78 |Process mining
https://bit.ly/35x7C5y 'Process mining is an analytical discipline for discovering, monitoring, and improving processes as they actually are (not as you think they might be), by extracting knowledge from event logs readily available in today’s information systems." An amazing book on Process…
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Episode 77 |Mythic Automata |Pondering similarities between Pandora and Skynet
“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the...
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Episode 76 |Digital Ecosystem |Anthropology | Ethnography
Listen , learn and enjoy ! Visual communication is a new way of communication through our various techs. Storytelling is integral for humans and there are ways and means of them. A beginning, middle and end always comes across and let the viewer comes to their own conclusions.Example: Danger sign…
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Episode 75 |Macroeconomics and Pandemic
Listen, learn and enjoy this podcast on Macroeconomics ! As promised during show sharing the research done my Oxford and Stanford. Link to Oxford research simulation https://academic.oup.com/oxrep/article/36/Supplement_1/S297/5899018 Link to Macroeconomic and COVID 19 outcomes"...
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Episode 74 | Ethics and Technology
As promised during the show here are the links to Nature Article and EU and UK governing committees on ethics, innovation and technology https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03611-8. ( Neural Information Processing Systems ) EGE members are appointed for their expertise in the fields of…
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Episode 73 |Intrigue of being foolish
"In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others." (--Vinod Khosla, venture capitalist and cofounder of...
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Episode 72 |Beauty and Mathematics
“Wherever there is number, there is beauty.” -Proclus Listen, learn, enjoy and ask questions!
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Episode 71 |Aristotle and his theories on virtues |Philosophy Eudaimonia
Want a glimpse of Eudaimonia ? What about the concept of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics ? Listen to this podcast on virtues and ancient Greek philosophies who had transcended time and culture . Over 2400 years old but still relevant Listen, learn and enjoy digital dreamers !
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Episode 70 |How to handle stress of Zeigarnik Effect | Deep Work| Cal Newport
“Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.”― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Amazon Link to deep work book: https://amzn.to/35dyBD4 I first hard about Zeigarnik Effect in the book Deep Work by Cal Newport and…
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Episode 69 | Amor Fati
Adapting to situation can be powerful.Year 2020 had been a practise for that ."Pain plus reflections equals to progress" Ray Dalio. Let's understand the concept of Amor Fati and move forward . Listen, learn and enjoy!
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Episode 68|A little history of Entrepreneurship | Social Impact
The word “entrepreneur” originates from a thirteenth-century French verb, entreprendre, meaning “to do something” or “to undertake.” By the sixteenth century, the noun form, entrepreneur, was being used to refer to someone who undertakes a business venture As promised during show here is the link...
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Episode 67 |Law Tech in UK's Digital economy
As promised during show: This landmark statement seeks to address legal uncertainty by recognising cryptoassets as tradable property and smart contracts as enforceable agreements under English law. "PDF https://bit.ly/351paqn Bank of England article on crypto asset...
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Episode 66 | Bid adieu year 2020
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.―Marcus Aurelius Cheers to finding our strength. Listen, learn and enjoy!
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Episode 65 |Journal review | Learning from year 2020 | Live Intentionally | Part 2
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."- Buddha What's your focus on last year ? if you know the answer it's great. Share it with me! If not pretty and handsome please start contemplating what can be your intentional living look like in the coming year ? As promised during podcast...
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Episode 64 |Journal Review | Learnings from year 2020| Part 1
Journal review is a new habit I am trying to incorporate so that I retail my learnings. Sharing few in this podcast . Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch...
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Episode 63 |Cultivating creative and innovative thinking process
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” Albert Einstein Creativity and innovation is an ongoing process and need cultivating daily. Listen, learn and enjoy!
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Episode 62 | History of Boxing day
On the Occassion of boxing day this year a little about the origin story and the traditions. Listen, learn and enjoy Digital dreamers ! Boxing Day 2020 Quotes: "I pray that this boxing day comes with a promise of lifelong happiness for you and leaves an everlasting smile on your face. Happy…
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Episode 61| Dr. Kiran Pedada- Talking about academia, marketing strategies, philosophies , growth mindset, how to create one's life narrative
In today's episode I am hosting Dr. Kiran Pedada.ISB Faculty | Marketing Strategy Researcher | Emerging Markets Strategist You can find him at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiran-pedada-181299a/ Kiran Pedada is an Assistant Professor of Marketing and a BAT Research Fellow at the Indian...
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Episode 60| A little Christmas History
Merry Christmas digital dreamers . “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol...
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Episode 59 |How we can learn to challenge status quo from Seth Godin
I love talking about marketing and challenging the status quo. As promised in the podcast sharing kickstarted website https://bit.ly/3hhc7pI. link for The Icarus Deception project. Whenever I go to listen to Seth Godin's work over web/book/podcast always get value and he makes our life richer by...
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Episode 58| Hallmark| Holiday Spirit
It's all about family , friends and love this holiday season. Holiday season is here and my go to comfort movies are Hallmark movies, especially during Christmas. It's like the comfortable mittens or PJs wants like to wear to feel home and cosy. Hallmark cards had been big part of my holiday...
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Episode 57 | TED Talk review by Anne Lamott, author of book Bird by Bird| Managing life and overwhelm
TED Talk bio for Anne Lamott states "A few days before she turned 61, writer Anne Lamott decided to write down everything she knew for sure. She dives into the nuances of being a human who lives in a confusing, beautiful, emotional world, offering her characteristic life-affirming wisdom and…
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