Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Ghost of Dopamine Past | Frankly 103
In this week's Frankly, Nate reflects on a moment of unexpected insight during a morning bike ride, which catalyzed a larger meditation on the modern…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Nothing Can Stop This Train: Our Financial Predicament From a Systems Perspective with Lyn Alden
Money, debt, and finance shape the lives of everyone globally, including through the policies and actions of national central banks – yet even those …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Towards Individual Wisdom & Restraint
In this Earth Day presentation, recorded earlier this year, Nate offers nine broad paths for individuals to cultivate resilience in an increasingly u…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Packaging Revolution: Industry's Responsibility & the Innovations That Could Mitigate the Waste Crisis with Wes Carter
Episode 186
Packaging is an unavoidable feature of modern life. It's so embedded in our products and systems that even the most environmentally-minded consumers …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
This Week's Learnings: Corn Sweat, Coral Bleaching, and the Climate Credit Crunch | Frankly 102
In this week's Frankly, Nate shares a handful of things he's learned in the past few days that have implications for the Great Simplification. Nate c…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
The Myths Shaping Our Economies: The Disconnect between Economic Theory and Reality with Josh Farley
Economic theory has come to wield outsized influence over our societal goals, decisions, and policies – often relying on models that claim to optimiz…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
What I Want to Want for the Future | Frankly 101
In today's Frankly, Nate imagines that he's looking back from an unspecified point in the future (even from beyond his lifetime), and ponders the cor…
9 months ago
Moving from Apathy to Action: How Facing Grief Can Help Us Navigate a World in Crisis | Reality Roundtable #17
When facing the realities of our world, the urge to drown in grief or shut down into apathy is becoming more and more common. As we are flooded with …
9 months ago
Ask Nate Anything 2025 | Frankly 100
In today's Frankly, Nate reads and responds to questions from viewers of the channel, offering reflections on a wide range of topics from current eve…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Algorithmic Cancer: Why AI Development Is Not What You Think with Connor Leahy
Recently, the risks about Artificial Intelligence and the need for 'alignment' have been flooding our cultural discourse – with Artificial Super Inte…
9 months, 3 weeks ago