Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEric Ries: Incorruptible by Design
What if we redefined “profit” as maximizing human flourishing? Eric Ries has seen the corrosive effects of shareholder primacy at every company he’s …
1 day, 16 hours ago
Melody Jue: Ocean Memory
The ocean is not empty. It is a vast storage facility of memory agents. Ocean bodies use the chemical signatures of seawater for memory and intellige…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Stefan Sagmeister: Finally, something good.
"The world is terrible, and the world is better," Stefan Sagmeister said. "Both can be true." It all depends on perspective. In his Long Now Talk, Fi…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Indy Johar: Civilizational Optioneering
Indy Johar pointed to the first photographs of the whole Earth taken from space. “This was the moment the planet became self-aware." This planetary c…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Kate Crawford: Mapping Empires
Kate Crawford’s Long Now Talk traces an historical arc from Renaissance perspective to AI image models, illustrating how shifts in representational p…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Lynn Rothschild: Nature’s Hardware Store
What if the solutions to humanity’s greatest challenges — on Earth and beyond — have already been invented by nature? In this forward-looking talk, e…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence?
Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s talk took us on a journey through What is Intelligence?, his groundbreaking new work connecting the evolutionary dots between…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Kim Carson: Inspired by Intelligence
**Kim Carson's new book [_Inspired by Intelligence: From Burnout to Becoming_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJGYQHN6?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_GRXNCC…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Sara Imari Walker: An Informational Theory of Life
“What is life?” In her Long Now Talk, astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker explores the many dimensions of that seemingly simpl…
11 months ago
Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson: Abundance
As they look upon the United States of America in 02025, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson see a country wrought by a half-century of failed governance. …
11 months, 2 weeks ago