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Episode 2239: Good Morning America! AI, Trump and the Silicon Valley Future
Might November 5 mark a new dawn for both Silicon Valley and America? Palo Alto based serial entrepreneur Keith Teare is ambivalent. In his That Was …
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 2238: Juliana Tafur on how to put Humpty Dumpty (America) back to together again
The election is over and, is spite of Trump’s clear victory, America remains as divided as ever. So how to put the country together again? Juliana Ta…
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 2237: Vanessa Resier on Narcissistic Abuse - the disease that captures the spirit of our toxic times
If there’s a disease that captures the toxic spirit of our times, it’s what the therapist, Vanessa Resier, in her new book, calls Narcissistic Abuse.…
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 2236: Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff on How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
War is never pretty, but its privatized high tech future dominated by companies like Palintir and SpaceX is particularly chilling. In Unit X, their F…
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 2235: John Driscoll on why Kamala Harris lost
I did this interview with John Driscoll, co-author of Pay the People! Why Fair Pay is Good for Business and Great for America, earlier this week, ass…
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 2234: Lauren Oyler on 2024 as America's first post internet election
Lauren Oyler’s “Revenge Plot”, a literary diary of her trip to this year’s Republican convention in Milwaukee, is the cover story of this month’s Har…
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 2233: Paul Greenberg predicts a George Washington vs Donald Trump election in 2028
The good news is that the interminable 2024 election is almost done. The bad news is that the 2028 Presidential campaign - sure to be described as th…
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 2242: Should anyone in Silicon Valley really care who wins the election?
This was the week of Techcrunch Disrupt, one of San Francisco’s biggest technology events of the year. That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare attend…
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 2241: Daniel Susskind exposes the messy truth about the benefits of economic growth
Yesterday, we featured a conversation with the British pro-market Conservative, Jon Moynihan, who is unambiguously in favor of economic growth. But D…
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 2240: Jon Moynihan on how to fix the economy and create long term growth
Not everyone believes in the promise of economic growth. We’ve done KEEN ON shows in the past with “degrowth” advocates like Tim Jackson and Jason Hi…
1 year, 11 months ago