Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Self, the Crowd, and Social Contagion (with Luke Burgis)
Episode 1053
Finding community can be difficult. But author Luke Burgis thinks the real challenge begins once we've found it and we're subject to social pressures…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Making Your 80,000 Hours Count (with Benjamin Todd)
Episode 1052
If you want to change the world, how you spend your 80,000 working hours may be the most important decision you can make. Benjamin Todd, founder of 8…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Facing Death (with Sebastian Junger)
Episode 1051
What does a lifelong atheist do when his dead father appears above him in the emergency room? Author and war reporter Sebastian Junger nearly bled to…
5 months ago
Tom Cruise's Body of Work (with Aled Maclean-Jones)
Episode 1050
What can Tom Cruise's last impossible mission teach us about usefulness in the digital age? Aled Maclean-Jones argues that dangling from cargo planes…
5 months, 1 week ago
Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein)
Episode 1049
What do the inventor of the periodic table, the novelist Isabel Allende, and the almost-creators of the iPhone have in common? Join author David Epst…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Golfing Alone (with Gary Belsky)
Episode 1048
No rush, no noise, no one else on the golf course: solo golf is an entirely different game, offering physical, mental, and spiritual benefits that pl…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Claude, War, and the State of the Republic (with Dean Ball)
Episode 1047
The Department of War wanted to deploy Anthropic's Claude for "all lawful use." What begins as a policy dispute between a tech company and the Depart…
6 months ago
Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)
Episode 1046
What can Adam Smith teach us today? In this conversation between Ross Levine of Stanford's Hoover Institution and EconTalk's Russ Roberts, Smith emer…
6 months, 1 week ago
The Man Who Built NVIDIA (with Stephen Witt)
Episode 1045
He arrived in America as a child with no English. He was mistakenly sent to a school for juvenile delinquents. He faced rampant prejudice--yet Jensen…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Unseen Work: Stewart Brand on Maintenance and Civilization
Episode 1044
What does a lone sailor circling the globe have to do with the fall of empires, the Model T, and the rise of AI? Everything--because maintenance, the…
6 months, 3 weeks ago