Show notes
Get all links mentioned in the episode here: https://www.neuralle.com/blog/posts/073-mining-for-ideas-bernard-wheelahan-am Skip through the episode:02:23 - Introduction05:43 - Where and how he learnt to drive08:36 - Earliest memories, his father11:15 - Lesson learnt from his parents and family15:18 - The hunter/gatherer shift & indigenous culture18:04 - First job, customer service21:34 - His career and working for Shell25:21 - Being an industrial chemist to the President26:59 - High school, patrolling no man’s land28:52 - Mining & resource potential in Australia34:25 - Stock market, Pacific Hydro38:11 - Venezuela, dictatorship, economy and politics47:39 - Democracy, current & future of Venezuela51:54 - Australia & Latin America relations57:13 - Language experiences01:00:52 - Oil and mining leaders he respects01:03:33 - Renewables, global warming skepticism01:05:43 - What is never changing?01:06:22 - Daily routine01:08:37 - Jordan Peterson01:10:44 - Best purchase under $20001:11:09 - Most influential book01:11:31 - A book he would gift01:13:19 - What is difficult to find middle-ground on?01:13:41 - If he could have a billboard anywhere



