Podcast Episodes
Back to Search27. Daniel Kahneman on Why Our Judgment is Flawed — and What to Do About It
Episode 27
Nobel laureate, best-selling author, and groundbreaking psychologist Daniel Kahneman is also a friend and former business partner of Steve’s. In disc…
1 day, 2 hours ago
26. Memory Champion Nelson Dellis Helps Steve Train His Brain
Episode 26
He’s one of the world’s leading competitors, having won four U.S. memory tournaments and holding the record for most names memorized in 15 minutes (2…
1 week, 1 day ago
25. Sam Harris: “Spirituality Is a Loaded Term.”
Episode 25
He’s a cognitive neuroscientist and philosopher who has written five best-selling books. Sam Harris also hosts the Making Sense podcast and helps peo…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
24. Are We Under Threat from a New Kind of Terror? (Replay Ep. 24)
Episode 24
Amaryllis Fox is a former C.I.A. operative and host of the Netflix show The Business of Drugs. She explains why intelligence work requires empathy, a…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
23. Greg Norman & Mark Broadie: Why Golf Beats an Orgasm and Why Data Beats Everything
Episode 23
Steve Levitt is obsessed with golf — and he’s pretty good at it too. As a thinly-veiled ploy to improve his own game, Steve talks to two titans of th…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
22. Sal Khan: “If It Works for 15 Cousins, It Could Work for a Billion People.”
Episode 22
Khan Academy grew out of Sal Khan’s online math tutorials for his extended family. It’s now a platform used by more than 115 million people in 190 co…
1 month ago
21. Pete Docter: “What If Monsters Really Do Exist?”
Episode 21
He’s the chief creative officer of Pixar, and the Academy Award-winning director of Soul, Inside Out, Up, and Monsters, Inc. Pete Docter and Steve ta…
1 month, 1 week ago
20. John Donohue: “I'm Frequently Called a Treasonous Enemy of the Constitution.”
Episode 20
He’s a law professor with a Ph.D. in economics and a tendency for getting into fervid academic debates. Over 20 years ago, he and Steve began studyin…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
19. Marina Nitze: “If You Googled ‘Business Efficiency Consultant,’ I Was the Only Result.”
Episode 19
At 27— and without a college degree — she was named chief technology officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Today, Marina Nitze is trying to …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
18. Robert Sapolsky: “I Don’t Think We Have Any Free Will Whatsoever.”
Episode 18
He’s one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, with a focus on the physiological effects of stress. (For years, he spent his summers in Kenya, alon…
2 months ago