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Not seeing your face as a first step to enlightenment? (with Richard Lang)
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What is The Headless Way? What are we like before we accept the names, roles, and narratives given to us by other…
3 years, 1 month ago
Is giving people a sense of agency better than giving them cash? (with Richard Sedlmayr)
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Can giving people a sense of agency and dignity be better than giving them access to food, shelter, clothing, or …
3 years, 1 month ago
Are you working on the most important problem in your field? Why not? (with Rohit Krishnan)
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How are curiosity and innovation connected? What's the most important problem in your field? And are you working …
3 years, 1 month ago
How huge a deal is climate change, really? (with Diana Ürge-Vorsatz and Misha Glouberman)
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How huge a deal is climate change, really? What's the right metric for determining how bad climate change effects…
3 years, 1 month ago
Becoming a policy entrepreneur (with Tom Kalil)
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What is a "policy entrepreneur"? Can people become policy entrepreneurs if they're not already a political office…
3 years, 2 months ago
How to build your second brain (with Tiago Forte)
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What is a "commonplace book"? What traits are desirable in "second brain" tools? What are some common mistakes pe…
3 years, 2 months ago
Does every language have a word for depression? (with Sean Mayberry)
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Why is depression on the rise globally? We've all heard that social media is a big cause of depression, but what …
3 years, 2 months ago
What things in life *shouldn't* we optimize? (with Christie Aschwanden)
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Why should we not optimize some things in life? Should some things (e.g., interpersonal relationships) be "off-li…
3 years, 2 months ago
How can we make science more trustworthy? (with Stuart Ritchie)
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How can we make science more trustworthy? When scientists break into factions around a particular topic, whom sho…
3 years, 2 months ago
Living a life of service to others (with Tasshin Fogleman)
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What is a "quasi-monk"? How hard is it to govern one's own speech and thoughts? What is "maximum deep benefit"? A…
3 years, 3 months ago