Podcast Episodes

Second-Order Thinking: How to Stop Your Decisions From Creating Bigger Problems

In August 2025, Polish researchers tested something nobody had thought to check: what happens to doctors' skills after they rely on AI assistance? The AI worked perfectly—catching problems during col…

Published on 2 hours ago

How To Make Better Decisions When Nothing Is Certain

You're frozen. The deadline's approaching. You don't have all the data. Everyone wants certainty. You can't give it. Sound familiar?

Maybe it's a hiring decision with three qualified candidates and …

Published on 1 week ago

You Think in Analogies Every Day (And You’re Doing It Wrong)

Try to go through a day without using an analogy. I guarantee you'll fail within an hour. Your morning coffee tastes like yesterday's batch. Traffic is moving like molasses. Your boss sounds like a b…

Published on 2 weeks ago

How To Master Causal Thinking

$37 billion. That's how much gets wasted annually on marketing budgets because of poor attribution and misunderstanding of what actually drives results. Companies' credit campaigns that didn't work. …

Published on 3 weeks ago

How To Improve Your Logical Reasoning Skills

You see a headline: “Study Shows Coffee Drinkers Live Longer.” You share it in 3 seconds flat. But here's what just happened—you confused correlation with causation, inductive observation with deduct…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Why Thinking Skills Matter Now More Than Ever

The Crisis We're Not Talking About

We're living through the greatest thinking crisis in human history—and most people don't even realize it's happening.

Right now, AI generates your answers before y…

Published on 1 month ago

How to Build Innovation Thinking Skills Through Daily Journaling

Most innovation leaders are performing someone else's version of innovation thinking.

I've spent decades in this field. Worked with Fortune 100 companies. And here's what I see happening everywhere.…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

The WSJ Got Quarterly Reporting Wrong

Michael Dell and his investors spent twenty-five billion dollars to buy back Dell Technologies. But they weren't really buying a company. They were buying freedom from quarterly earnings pressure.

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

How to Get Smarter by Arguing with People Who Disagree with You

What if I told you that the people who disagree with you are actually your secret weapon for better thinking? 

Just last month, my wife and I had a heated argument about studio changes I wanted to m…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

How to See Opportunities Others Miss

In 2005, I had a ten-minute conversation at San Jose Airport that generated billions in revenue for HP. But here's what's fascinating: three other HP executives heard the exact same conversation and …

Published on 2 months ago