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Justin Baer - House of Fidelity
Season 4 Episode 440
How did one family build Fidelity into one of the most powerful forces in American investing, and what allowed it to endure across three generations?…
4 months, 1 week ago
Andrew Seth Meyer: To Rule All Under Heaven
Season 4 Episode 439
What makes a civilization endure, and how did a Chinese empire that conquered everything fall apart in 15 years?
In the latest episode of A Book with …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Gaurav Suri - The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines
Season 4 Episode 438
What in the subconscious mind informs our actions, and what are our neural networks capable of that distinguishes them from machines such as LLMs?
Gau…
5 months, 1 week ago
Jason Bardi - The Great Math War: How Three Brilliant Minds Fought for the Foundations of Mathematics
Season 4 Episode 437
What happens when brilliant minds disagree not just on answers, but on the very rules of how answers can be found? These questions are addressed in t…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Smead Book List - Spring Book List
Season 4 Episode 436
What is the Smead Capital Management team reading, and what’s up next?
In this new quarterly ‘book list’ episode, value investors Bill and Cole Smead …
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Kathryn Paige Harden - Original Sin: On The Genetics of Vice, The Problem of Blame, And the Future of Forgiveness
Season 4 Episode 435
How much of our temperament and behavior is passed through DNA, and how do we punish those whose behavior may be shaped by genetic forces outside of …
6 months, 1 week ago
Tom Griffiths - Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
Season 4 Episode 434
What is the divine, and what can the distinctions between AI learning and human cognition reveal about it?
These concepts are explored in the latest e…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Amy Gamerman - The Crazies
Season 4 Episode 433
How much trouble could a wind farm cause? Turns out, a lot. When Rick Jarrett decided to capitalize on strong gusts around his land in Big Timber, Mo…
7 months, 1 week ago
Tim Wu - The Age of Extraction
Season 4 Episode 432
Smead Capital Management Chairman and CIO Bill Smead and CEO and Portfolio Manager Cole Smead sat down with author and Columbia Law School professor …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Kenneth R. Rosen - Polar War
Season 4 Episode 431
In this episode, learn how today’s geopolitics, climate change, and key happenings in the Arctic affect people and countries around the globe. The Ar…
8 months, 1 week ago