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Conversations that multiply.

Two podcasts, one habit: start with a real question and refuse the easy answer. Philosophy Talks is three colleagues arguing in a Maastricht staff lounge. ReNew is a thinking framework for AI and finance.

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The shows

Two podcasts, one habit.

Philosophy Talks cover: Kimon, Cedric and Jean, painted
SHOW 01 · PHILOSOPHY · ENGLISH

Philosophy Talks from the Staff Lounge

Three Maastricht academics, one open question at a time. It started over coffee in a staff lounge in late 2024 and kept going: perception, character, success, wealth, power and tolerance. The minutes are becoming a book, and every episode has its own page so the conversation continues after you finish listening.

6 episodes★ 4.8 on SpotifyNew episode every Tuesday
Kimon Ivanov · Cedric Bost · Jean-Maurice Henkel
ReNew podcast cover
SHOW 02 · AI × FINANCE · GERMAN

ReNew rethink, reshape, challenge

For those who refuse to accept the status quo. ReNew is a thinking framework disguised as a podcast: it looks at how AI and finance can fund and build new ideas, and rejects easy answers. Every episode starts from one question and follows five steps.

  • RRecognise what we haven't registered yet
  • EExplore the problem and its options
  • NNurture what we can use
  • EEnhance it into practice
  • WWalk through what it would look like
1 episodeEpisode 1 in GermanJean-Maurice Henkel & Rod, with guests
How we think

Questions first, answers later.

PHILOSOPHY TALKS · THE LOUNGE METHOD

Every episode, seven layers deep

  1. The question and a 60-second answer that hands it back to you
  2. The questions: sub-questions, questions for you, questions to discuss
  3. The positions we argued, and where the talk turned
  4. Key ideas and the thinkers behind them
  5. Try it: a five-minute exercise for your week
  6. Still open: what we couldn't close, and your answers
  7. Go deeper: reading list and connected episodes
RENEW · THE R-E-N-E-W FORMULA

One question, five steps

  1. Recognise: separate what we see from what we haven't registered yet
  2. Explore: widen the problem, its consequences and options
  3. Nurture: find what we can actually use
  4. Enhance: lift it to a practical, high level
  5. Walk through: picture how the solution feels and what it changes

"Are you a heart person or a mind person?"

Each week Philosophy Talks asks one question and reads some of your answers in the next episode. One of our episodes already started as a listener's question. Yours could be next.

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