A roundup of previous seasons and a sneak peak into Season 5 planning
After summer holidays, sunshine and lollipops, we’re getting back into the groove. This includes some thinking and planning around Tao of WAO Season 5.
The Tao of WAO is a podcast about the intersection of technology, society, and internet culture — with a dash of philosophy and art for good measure. We announced the podcast in May 2021, and since then we’ve been pumping out season after season. We haven’t summed up the previous seasons, ever, so this is a quick post to do that and talk about what we’re planning for Season 5. Don’t want to read about it? Then just go give it a listen!
Season 1
When we started the Tao of WAO, we weren’t sure what kind of format we wanted to have. We kicked off the podcast talking about cooperatism because, well, we’re a co-op. Over the course of the season we talked about being geriatric millennials, doing digital detoxes and had our first guest, John Evans from Code Operative.
Season 2
We started to hit our stride in Season 2. We kicked off the season with a trailer, and then had great conversations with Jess Klein on Ethical Design and Kudzayi Ngwerume on Creativity and Movement Building. We also chatted about working remotely, unframeworks and keeping badges weird.
Season 3
Our first episode of Season 3 had all the We Are Open Co-op folks on. We talked about some of our internal policies around dormancy in the co-op. This was also the season we talked to Kerri Lemoie about Verifiable Credentials, Alex Worrad Andrews about Networks of Networks, and Adam Procter about Social Impact Games. When we weren’t interviewing these amazing people, we recorded an episode on Misinformation and used our final episode of the season a somewhat random conversation about stuff we’d been working on and newsletters we like to read.
Season 4
Again in Season 4, we managed to have amazing guests. We talked to Kayleigh Walsh about Restorative Justice, Heather Leson about Opening Up Social Impact Organisations and Bryan Alexander about Futurism. In between our guest focused episodes, Doug and I talked about participation in Civic Society, Self-hosting IT and Reentering Events after Covid.
Season 5 (coming soon!)
You can probably tell from this short summary that we cover a wide variety of social, cultural and techie issues. In the new season, we’re planning to talk about edtech, communities of practice, feminism and more. We’ll have more book recommendations from our guests and more laughs coming soon to wherever you listen to your podcasts.
Get in touch!
We’re always looking for interesting folks with interesting things to say, so if you’d like to be a guest on the Tao of WAO, let us know. We are also extremely grateful when listeners get in touch to give feedback! You can support this podcast and other We Are Open Co-op projects and products at Open Collective.