Podcast Episodes

1632 || allergic to wondering

We love answers. We love conclusions. We tend to steer clear of open ended problems and tasks, because of this.

But there are so many things that leave us with open ended problems that we will never …

Published on 11 hours ago

1631 || are you becoming the morality police?

have been trying to stop thinking of every single decision I make as some deep moral test. Every time I stay in the shower a little too long, or support a shitty company, or buy a product wrapped in …

Published on 1 day, 11 hours ago

1630 || the swiss cheese method

I have complex feelings about our personal responsibility. As we know the richest 1% cause more climate damage than over half of humanity. 57 companies are linked to 80% of greenhouse emissions, but …

Published on 2 days, 11 hours ago

1629 || shifting from apathy to agency

We can actually build a better world, but we have to break the cycle of cynicism, first.

THE CYCLE OF CYNICISM

1. Finding out about a problem

2. Wanting to do something to help

3. Not seeing how you can …

Published on 3 days, 11 hours ago

1628 || shifting from a cycle of cynicism to a cycle of hope

We can actually build a better world, but we have to break the cycle of cynicism, first.

THE CYCLE OF CYNICISM

1. Finding out about a problem

2. Wanting to do something to help

3. Not seeing how you can …

Published on 4 days, 11 hours ago

1627 || but we're all so cynical

We can actually build a better world, but we have to break the cycle of cynicism, first.

Read the Inner Self Article on How to Make the World a Better Place.

Watch a video about Kinesin (motor prote…

Published on 5 days, 11 hours ago

1626 || time worship

The invention of the modern clock has turned time into a commodity. It's something you can spend, save, waste, lose, or trade for money directly.

Clocks should be a tool, not a box. Yet we have curat…

Published on 6 days, 11 hours ago

1625 || one must imagine sisyphus happy

“Do you think that the trees grow tired every winter of having to shed their leaves and think to themselves, I don’t want to go through another bitter winter? And when it comes time to regrow them in…

Published on 1 week ago

1624 || longtermism

A society grows great when old men plant trees under whose shade they know they’ll never sit.

Yesterday we discussed the difficult task of creating Long-term nuclear waste warning messages, today I wa…

Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

1623 || what to talk about, after the arguing (the nuclear waste problem)

If you need a conversation starter to break the awkward lulls and post-fight silences at your Thanksgiving dinner, I HIGHLY suggest looking up the wikipedia page for Long-term nuclear waste warning m…

Published on 1 week, 2 days ago