Danu is a writer, thinker, and enthusiast of human systems who delights in facilitating others towards flourishing. He brings these threads together as a social entrepreneur and founder of Grokkist.
In this solo episode, Danu reflects on caring and uncaring teaching, how we live out what the world teaches us and why an ethical imagination is the beating heart of education.
Kathryn is a hydrogeologist with a wealth of experience in the private energy sector. We talk about how she fell into hydrogeology and how she combines her love of the environment, adventure, science and emotional connection to make a difference in her community.
Peter Gilderdale is a freelance writer and calligrapher and recently retired lecturer in Design History at Auckland University of Technology. We talk about the difference between education that gets people creative and excited vs turning out people who just want to tick boxes.
Gail develops and runs leadership programs in organisations to help people increase their self insight and become better leaders. We discuss why people can be really intellectually smart, but if they're not aware of the emotional impact they're having on others, then they won't be very effective.
Carl is a games producer and podcaster. We talk about how learning to make short gameplay montages of Call of Duty 4 during high school set him on a squiggly path from film to social media content creation, and eventually into the games industry.
✍🏼 "Are we still having fun?" - editorial by Danu 🎙 Still Curious Podcast - announcing a major quality-of-life update 🪧 Community Corner - Shout-outs and shareables from fellow grokkists 🍬 Snackables - assorted awesome links
Eleanor is a tertiary librarian working in researcher development. We talk care, cardigans and why librarians risk becoming invisible ghosts. We also discuss how academics get lost in the system and whether curiosity has any place in the world of academic research.
Myles shares his wisdom and experience in using human connection to navigate people problems.
Why do a podcast about curiosity? Because genuine curiosity is a precious and a fragile thing. It's the very first episode! Usually there are guests but in this introduction I explain what the podcast is about and what I hope to achieve with it.