Neil Thanedar - Positive Politics, Ambitious Optimists and Scientist CEOs

About this episode

Neil Thanedar discusses his journey in entrepreneurship and the core ideas behind his book Positive Politics.

Today’s Interintellect host is Neil Thanedar , author of Positive Politics. We spoke about his journey in entrepreneurship, from working with his father to build a testing lab to co-founding Laboor, and why he believes the future belongs to scientist-CEOs. Naturally, we also dug into the core ideas behind Positive Politics. Neil is currently leading a four-part series on Interintellect where he explores the book and offers a reframing of our relationship with politics. In our conversation, we discussed his plans for the remaining sessions, the role of writing and activism in getting started in politics, the real barriers to entry for political engagement, and why he believes we are all called to make a difference. You can sign up for the remaining two sessions of his series here: https://interintellect.com/salons/session-3-positive-politics-what

People in this episode

Host: Interintellect

Guest: Neil Thanedar

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• politics
• activism
• scientist CEOs
• writing
• engagement

Keywords

• entrepreneurship
• Positive Politics
• scientist CEOs
• political engagement
• activism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Laboor

Books & works: Positive Politics

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