My guest today is Pieter Levels. Pieter is a serial founder of multiple products, such as NomadList.com, remoteOK.com and rebase.co. In this episode, we discussed: 1. How did Pieter start his digital nomad life and create 12 startups in 12 months? 2. The original story of the birth of Nomadlist.com 3. What are the common traits of digital nomads based on the 2022 State of Digital Nomads that might surprise people? 4. Why do people need to switch their stereotypes about remote working and adapt to the new way of living? 5. Why has Portugal becomes the indie hacker/nomad / remote worker/entrepreneur hub? What is so good about moving here? 6. The story behind Immigration as a service product: Rebase.co 7. How to overcome depression and anxiety as a serial founder? 8. Why find a therapist speaking a language different from your native language that can work better in therapy sessions? 9. Cliche question: how to balance time and energy as a serial founder? 10. What does it feel like to be a niche famous, and why should people be unreachable? 11. The story about Pieter’s early music career on YouTube channel. 12. What are the future trends of remote working and nomad lifestyles? 13. What’s the current dating market for digital nomads? Books/links mentioned in this episode: * Nomadlist.com * 2022 State of Digital Nomads * RemoteOk.com * I'm Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months * How is Making Friends Changing? * Moving to Portugal with Rebase * Cognitive behavioural therapy * Why I'm unreachable and maybe you should be too * The next frontier after remote work is async * How to optimise your 24 hours? * Fans and Haters * 11 Reasons Not to Become Famous (or “A Few Lessons Learned Since 2007”)

My guest today is Tom Morgan. Tom is the Director of Communications & Content at The KCP Group and writes a newsletter called The Attention Span. Tom has spent the last 16 years on Wall Street in research and data sales and focuses on consuming content and tries to extract actionable insights for busy people. In this episode, we discussed: 1. What’s a trend of modernist holism? What’s the global phase change? 2. What’s Morphic Resonance? Do we have a solid explanation about coincidence and luck? 3. How to avoid falling into your echo chamber and be a mindful reader/listener in today’s world? 4. What do Joseph Cambell and Carl Jung’s mean about ‘follow your bliss’ or ‘follow your interests? How do we calculate our own hero journey? 5. The three stages of life on ego and surrender. 6. Jordan B. Peterson’s transition from books to books and the hemispheric breakdown from his book Maps of Meanings. 7. Why does ‘Hero Journey’ grips our attention all the time? When you revisit fairy tales as a grow-up, there is always a new meaning behind them. 8. What’s the symbolic meaning behind horned god? 9. The concept of the dragon as a symbol in western and eastern society 10. The hidden meanings behind Pinocchio 11. Why is it so important to calculate the emotional granularity for educating the next generation? 12. What’s the one thing that didn’t make sense to you before, but when you look back and it all connected? Books & links mentioned in this episode * The Matter With Things by Iain McGilchrist * Infinite Loop Podcast | Curation in the Age of Information Abundance (EP.61) All you Need is Love? (EP.74) * Insights from “The Matter with Things.” | KCP * Morphic Resonance - Rupert Sheldrake * Does Nature Have A Hidden Memory? - Rupert Sheldrake | Modern Wisdom Podcast 379 * The World’s Hidden Harmony * This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) * Joseph Campbell -- Follow Your Bliss * Marie-Louise von Franz * The Dragon as a symbol finally explained - Jordan Peterson * Beyond Order: Twelve More Rules for Life * Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief * Biblical Series II: Genesis 1: Chaos & Order * Nu Wa, Chinese Mythology Figure * Emotional granularity * The Midlife Unraveling by Brené Brown

My guest today is Will Mannon 马晓伟. Will is the Course Director of Write of Passage and passionate about online education. In his free time, Will enjoys exploring language, literature, history, and philosophy. He lived in China for six months and is a comfortable Mandarin speaker. We discussed: 1. The motivation behind learning Chinese and how to learn a foreign language in adult year 2. The difference between the Chinese and American education system 3. What's the uncommon fire that motivates you to keep going? 4. A brief introduction of Write of Passage and how writing online can accelerate personal and career development? 5. What's the future of online learning? Three advantages of building up the cohort-based online course 6. Four common traits and challenges from online writing 7. How to find your online writing process? 8. How to navigate in the age of information abundance? 9. How to form a reading habit and some book recommendations? 10. How does reading biography permit us to pursue our bliss? 11. Chat about Fernando Pessoa and Ralph Waldo Emerson 12. What is the wisdom you learned from your favourite writers? Books and links mentioned in this episode: * Will Learns Chinese * The National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao, 高考) * itakie: 1-on-1 lessons in more than 150 languages * An Uncommon Fire * Mimetic theory by René Girard * Write of Passage – An online course by David Perell * Building a Second Brain * Paul Graham * The Man with 73 Masks * The Social Dilemma * Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan * Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson * I. Asimov: A Memoir by Isaac Asimov * Founders Podcast * Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke * The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa * 读书会分享 | 葡萄牙作家费尔南多·佩索阿 * Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre * The The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus * The Stranger by Albert Camus * Flowism: My Philosophy of Living Follow Will Mannon on Twitter and check out his website

Kia Ora, Nihao and hello! Welcome to the Chiwi Journal Podcast. My guest today is Xuan. Xuan's footprints covered from a small village in China to the capital city Beijing then moved to DC and NYC and now settled in LDN. She studied English lit, Linguistics and Philosophy at university, trained herself in programming, and currently works as a software engineer. We discussed: 1. How does exchanging poetry every day help us find beauty and truth during a lockdown? 2. The encounter of divided brain theory and how we have become enslaved to an account of things dominated by the brain’s left hemisphere? 3. The journey from studying human language and philosophy to computer language and machine learning 4. Will get rid of emotion help us to deliver information in a more accurate way like computer code? 5. The relationship between time and language 6. Have you ever used your rational mind to structure your intuitional decision? 7. Are humans doomed to be misunderstood due to the nature of language and communications? 8. How does writing online generate the serendipity for people to meet IRL? 9. How have women in tech evolved in those years? How can an individual do to help get more girls into technology? 10. How to prepare for a job interview? A story of finding a tech job without any working experience during lockdown Books and links mentioned in this episode: * A Paradise of Poems * Infinite Loop Podcast with Tom Morgan — All you Need is Love? (EP.74) * The Matter With Things by Iain McGilchrist * Responsive Web Design * Neuralink * San Pedro Retreat * Self Authoring * Flowism * Yi Jing (易经） * Dao De Jing (道德经）

Welcome to the special episode of the Chiwi Journal Podcast. I'm sitting with two artists in Aveiro, Portugal to record this episode. * Hugo Branco, musician and artistic director of VIC // Aveiro Arts House * Jorge Loura, musician and guitarist from Troll's Toy We share the behind-scene stories of the 1st Unclassifiable Music Festival of Aveiro and introduce the difficult labelled artists who will perform on 26th and 27th November at VAGA Festival! Come and join us if you can! We talked about: * Portuguese treasure artist Vasco Branco and his residence Vic Art House in a glance * VIC NIC, a sanctuary for wild artists, thinkers and technicians, aiming to stimulate togetherness, experimentation and co-creation via sound, visual and literary works. * The story of music band Troll's Toy * The new trend of undefined music * VAGA Music Festival 2021 * The artist way of living * There is much beauty and inspiration everywhere in life. * The vision of VIC NIC and the digital transformation facing musicians * What's #ATERELINCHAS * Introduction of the featured artists 【BGM】 Troll's Toy (Rock | Jazz | Improvisation | Exploratory) 【Troll's Toy - Inibicao Da Ira】 Azia (Psychedelic Rap | Hip Pop) 【Azia - Foque-o! (ft. DEL)】 LÄGRIMA (Folk | Exploratory | Visual Art) 【Lägrima - live at VIC Aveiro Arts House】 Santi Lesca (Exploratory | Electronica | Rock | World) 【Santi Lesca - Simultaneidad】 Skier and Yeti (Original | Humor | Electronica) 【Skier_and_Yeti】 DJ: OMLET JD & FREIMATIC DJS JOIN US FOR THE FIRST-EVER UNCLASSIFIED MUSIC FESTIVAL IN AVEIRO！ https://lifeisavicnic.com/vaga2021/

My guest today is Christin Chong. She is a neuroscientist at heart and enjoys investigating consciousness through the Buddhist lens. Christin's work history continues to evolve—from research in the lab to biotech marketing, to creating a delicious self-care tea for physical + mental health, to establish a community for accelerator compassion. In today's episode, we discussed: 1. Our experience with Write of Passage Cohort 7 online writing course led by David Perell. 2. What's it feel like to be the Third Culture Kids/Adults? 3. How to deal with a multi-culture identity crisis? 4. The journey of moving to the US and a serendipitous chance to study neuroscience under a strict apprenticeship model 5. How does intuition help us make decisions? What's your hero's journey? 6. What's the difference between western and eastern Buddhism? What's the connection between Buddhism and neuroscience? 7. What's Alliance for Bhikkhunis? And what's Theravadan Buddhist tradition (e.g. four noble truths and noble eightfold path)? 8. The San Pedro psychedelic experience. How does psychedelic help us to have different perspectives about the world and clarify life purpose? 9. Why is meditation not the cure for every your problems? 10. What's the future of online courses to build the community? 11. Introduction to Compassion Accelerator and Honeyritual Tea Books/Links mentioned in this episode: * Write of Passage * Third culture kid * Third Culture Adult Book * American Born Chinese (ABC) * Trainspotting * Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright * Buddha's Brain by Rick Hanson * Jiro Dreams of Sushi * Antonio Damasio * The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work * Infinite Loops Podcast: Tom Morgan — All you Need is Love? (EP.74) * Theravada 南传佛教 * Four Noble Truths * Noble Eightfold Path * The San Pedro psychedelic retreat experience * Flowism: My Philosophy of Living Connect with Christin: * Christin's website * Christin's Twitter * Compassion Accelerator * Honeyritual Tea - CHIWI20 for 20% off (US customers only)

My guest today is Zach Caceres. He is an experienced software engineer and focuses on modern web technologies. He is interested in education and ##StartupCities and initiated a couple of cool projects in the relevant areas. In today's episode, we discussed: * Zach's unschooling experiences at a young age and his way of learning. * Why choose to go back to university later on? * Hilarious stories on the arbitrary bureaucracy of our modern education * What's the essence of education? * Case study of innovating education from within Guatemala's top university * Sneak peek of The Intuitive Programmer project, learning how to learn * What's community technology? What's Startup City? * Stories on informal entrepreneurs and almost dead experience in Africa and South America. * How does technology power up the city building and enhance people's living conditions? * Brief introduction of Benjamin Blooms's two sigma problems * What's 'The Great Fact' raised by Deirdre McCloskey * What get you most excited about the future? Books and links mentioned in this episode: 1. Zach's super cool website 2. Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential 3. Innovating Education from Within Guatemala's Top University 4. Professor Barbara Oakley 5. Polymath Michael Polanyi 6. The Intuitive Programmer: Learning How to Learn Programming 7. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) 8. Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley | TEDxOaklandUniversity 9. Focused vs. diffuse thinking: which is better for learning? 10. Pathological Altruism 11. The Start Of Startup Cities 12. Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US! 13. CityDAO: Blockchain Cities IRL 14. Informal Entrepreneurship 15. Stealth of Nations by Robert Neuwirth 16. City of God movie 17. Amazing video shows 10-story high-rise built in a day 18. Maybe the Coronavirus Was Lower-Hanging Fruit 19. Benjamin Blooms's two sigma problems 20. Khan Academy 21. Duolingo 22. Ad Astra Academy 23. The Great Fact- the humongous increase in humans' standard of living that began about 200 years ago.

My guest today is Bridget Romanes. She is the Founder of Mobile Relocation Ltd, helping Kiwis returning to work and live at homeland, assisting migrants and expats relocating to New Zealand, and offering a tailored program for businesses to recruit and retain international talent throughout Aotearoa. We discussed: * From expat herself to founding the company to help expats, Bridget's cross-culture career journey * The motivation behind starting a business solving talents relocation challenges. * What are the top three struggles facing returning home Kiwis? * How to overcome the reverse culture shock and mentally prepare well for returning home? * How will children get affected by moving around? What's The Third Culture Kid (TCK)? * What's the MIQ system? How can we better assist global talent to relocate to New Zealand? * Thoughts on future work. Will remote working become mainstream in New Zealand? * What's unique about the Kiwi working culture? * What's the top three factors of NZ that will appeal to global talent to come? * How to deal with the negative attitudes from locals toward migrants? * If you could change one policy that will make your job easier, what would that be? * What do you get most excited about future? Books and links mentioned in the episode: * Bridget Romanes LinkedIn * Free Move to NZ Checklist * Tall poppy syndrome * 30 Kiwi Slang Terms you need to know before you visit * Third culture kids (TCK) * The Third Culture Adult Book * New Zealand MIQ System * Are we returning to the office? Or is the future remote? * Christchurch mosque shootings * New Zealand Offers One-Off Resident Visa to 165,000 Migrants * Mobile Relocation— Impacts of Reverse Culture Shock for Returning Kiwis (mobile-relocation.com)

My guest today is Allison Wang. She is a founder of a yoga brand, Awake. She is currently living a digital nomad life and writing a blog, and running a podcast channel. Allison and I used to be online friends, but we finally met in Madeira and recorded this podcast sitting in front of the Atlantic Ocean. The sound quality might not be perfect, but you’ll be able to hear the sound of waves and feel the zen vibes while we were talking about meditation, self-realisation and love. We discussed: 1. Our random meetup in Madeira and some highlights at this digital nomad village. 2. How to support yourself while living a digital nomad life? 3. The journey of becoming a content creator 4. Why the late 20s is the most painful period for the majority of people? 5. Why do people never get satisfied even though they’ve achieved so-called successful life? 6. Which four parts contribute to Self-actualization? 7. Brief intro of Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi and Daoism 8. What Chinese writer Su Shi taught us about life? 9. How did early Chinese education on reciting poetry help us understand life better? 10. The experience of egoless, can we hold this status forever? 11. Why is love inconsistent, and how do you know he/she is your soulmate? 12. Is there a cure for our modern loneliness? Books and links mentioned in this episode: * Digital Nomads Madeira Islands * Tim Ferriss 4-Hour Workweek * Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu * 煽风点火 Shan Feng Dian Huo Podcast * Rumi * American neuroendocrinology researcher and author Robert Morris Sapolsky * Yoga With Adriene * Transcendental Meditation * Zen Buddhism 101 - The Power of Zen Meditation * Henry Shukman — Zen, Tools for Awakening, Ayahuasca vs Meditation, Intro to Koans, and Using Wounds as the Doorway * "Memento Mori": The Reminder We All Desperately Need * Ryan Holiday * Seneca * Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi * Chinese writer Su Shi * Zhuangzi loses his wife * Prelude to Water Melody by Su Shi * Qingyuan Weixin three stages of life

My guest today is Jay Yow. Jay is a recording and mixing engineer and a gamer. He was born in Malaysia and immigrated to America in his adults year. Jay is currently the producer of one of my favourite podcasts James Altucher Show. We discussed: 1. What's it like to be a bilingual writer producing two newsletters to two different audiences? 2. How James Altucher adopted Jay and trained him to be his sound engineer? 3. What are the top three lessons learnt from James Altucher Show that interviewed 700+ guests? 4. How does playing games teach us about life and learn a new language and business strategy? 5. What's the traditional Chinese education role in the Malaysian education system? 6. What's the origin story of famous Chinese festivals such as the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-autumn Festival? 7. Who are the most famous poets in ancient China? 8. Why there are so many different versions of history? What's the TRUTH? 9. What's the fundamental difference between Chinese philosophy and western philosophy? 10. Share some four-character idioms that are valuable: Wo Xin Chang Dan and Sai Weng Shi Ma Books/Links mentioned in this episodes: * David Perell Write of Passage * Jesse Itzler: The $160,000 Lesson * How to connect with the greatest network in the world with AJ Jacobs * How to Have Impossible Conversations when facts don't matter with Peter Boghossian * How to start a conversation with Strangers? with Joe Keohane * Fantasy Premier League 20/21 Review * One Hundred Thousand Whys * A story of Sima Guang * Three Character Classic * China’s Shakespeare - Du Fu * Li Bai and Du Fu * Dragon Boat Festival * Mid-Autumn Festival * Dynasties in Chinese history * Qin Shi Huang * Burning of books and burying of scholars * Legalism (Chinese philosophy) * Opium Wars * Journey to the West * Black Myth: Wukong Full version

Kia Ora, Nihao and hello! Welcome to the Chiwi Journal Podcast. I’m your host Camellia Yang. My guest today is Doug Antin. He is the Founder and Author of TSI Global Media, a company covering the Digital Age and how the current digital transformation creates a new class of people. Doug is also writing The Sovereign Individual Weekly Newsletter, providing insights, analysis, and actionable advice helping you become a Sovereign Individual and make the most of the digital transformation. We discussed: 1. What’s the definition of the Sovereign Individual? Why should you care? 2. How does a book written 20 years ago perfectly predict our current world? 3. What digital trends support sovereign individual lifestyles? 4. How do we deal with information abundance as a content creator? 5. What role does blockchain and bitcoin play in this Sovereign Individual movement? 6. Is there a conflict between becoming a sovereign individual vs be part of the community? 7. Why should you have multiple citizenships? 8. What stops people from becoming sovereign individuals? What’s the reason behind that? 9. How to cultivate multiple income streams? 10. If you can live and work anywhere, where would you go, and what criteria to consider? 11. What’s the difference between a sovereign individual and an anarchist? 12. How to build the system to run a weekly newsletter? 13. Which three books to read when consider being a sovereign individual? Books and links mentioned in this episode: * The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg * How to Start a New Country by Balaji Srinivasan * Neo-medievalism * The Sovereign Individual Weekly * Important Things About the Digital Age * Future Shock by Alvin Toffler * Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely * Night as Frontier: Colonizing the World After Dark by Murray Melbin Thanks for listening to this episode. Remember that you can join my monthly newsletter email list at camelliayang.com, where I spend 140+ hours digging valuable insights from books, articles and podcasts and share them in a 6-min easy-to-read email. Please rate or leave a review on Apple Podcasts to help others discover this podcast if you like the show.

Kia Ora, Nihao and hello! Welcome to the Chiwi Journal Podcast. I’m your host Camellia Yang. My guest today is Royal Reed. Royal has 20 years of experience in the NZ legal profession. She is also well respected in the Chinese community as a TV and Radio presenter and for her legal education programs for the community. Her legal practice and excellent cross-cultural dispute resolution have received recognition in New Zealand and Greater China. We discussed: * What’s it like of being a girl born in a traditional Chinese family that parents favour boys over girls? What’s the bias that the old generation hold of giving birth to a girl? * The decision making process behind picking up a career and move abroad. * Why do Chinese people consider the National College Entrance examination as the only way to lead to a bright future? Does it contribute to many competitive Chinese students? * What’s the difference between the New Zealand education system and the Chinese education system? * How many stereotypes have Asian women received overseas? * What’s bamboo plus glass ceiling facing Asian migrants in career? * How to skin in the game and achieve a career breakthrough? * Does local working experience still matter that much in today’s digital world? * What internal and external factors drive Royal to start her own business? * How to cultivate business culture as a female migrant leader? * A brief introduction about On Being Bold organisation? Books and links mentioned in this episode * Qingming Festival * One-child policy * The National College Entrance Examination (aka Gaokao) * Empowering Women | On Being Bold Conference * Bamboo ceiling * Royal's interview on OBB （*Correct: The year I attended Gaokao was with 10 million people, not 20 million）