by Minter Dial | Oct 13, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Avatar Trap, Health, Minter Dialogue, Podcast, Psychedelics
Minter Dialogue with Fabrice Grinda In this episode, I welcome back Fabrice Grinda, a seasoned tech entrepreneur and investor. Fabrice shares his journey from his early days in France to building tech companies and investing in over 1100 startups through FJ Labs. We...
by Minter Dial | Feb 7, 2024 | Avatar Trap, Ethics, Meaningfulness, Mental Health, Politics, Responsibility
The quest for safety is about something bigger “Have a safe flight!” people will often say to me before I fly off. But safety on board a commercial flight is far from any concern of mine. As reported by the Dutch consultancy To70, the rate of fatalities...
by Minter Dial | Jan 16, 2024 | Avatar Trap, Health, Meaningfulness, Mental Health, Psychedelics
The power of psychedelics There is a lot of exciting news flowing from various prestigious universities and research centres (such as Imperial College, UCL and King’s College London in the UK, Harvard, Yale, UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins in the US), about how...
by Minter Dial | Jan 5, 2024 | Avatar Trap, Ethics, Genomics, Health, Meaningfulness, Mental Health, Psychedelics
Watching time pass by? I don’t know about you, but I inevitably think of time passing when we chime in the New Year. That said, I’m definitely not one who musters up new year’s resolutions. But changing a digit of the year, i.e. when I have to fill...
by Minter Dial | Aug 27, 2023 | Avatar Trap, Health, Mental Health, Minter Dialogue, Podcast, Psychedelics
Minter Dialogue with Petra Velzeboer Petra Velzeboer is a renowned author, psychotherapist, TEDx speaker and CEO of Mental Health Consultancy PVL. Born into a notorious cult, Petra was raised in a strict environment where individuality and self expression were...
by Minter Dial | May 16, 2023 | Avatar Trap, Health, Mental Health, Responsibility
In search of meaning There are several thought leaders who I follow, such as John Vervaeke and Jamie Wheal, who’ve also been writing that, as a society, we are experiencing a crisis of meaning. Many people either feel that their life is missing meaningfulness or...