Podcast Episodes

Brené Brown on courageous leadership (from ReThinking with Adam Grant)

Brené Brown is a researcher, storyteller, and author who hosts the podcast Dare to Lead and has given some of the most popular TED Talks of all time.…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Walter Isaacson on The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

What is the greatest sentence ever written? According to Walter Isaacson — former editor of Time, ex-CEO of CNN, and the acclaimed biographer of Elon…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Best Of: Decoding Elon Musk

When Walter Isaacson, the legendary biographer of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci, started shadowing Elon Musk,…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Andrew Ross Sorkin: What the Crash of 1929 Says About Today

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation, is an eye-opening account of the…

2 months ago

Atlantic CEO Nick Thompson on What Running Can Teach Us

Nick Thompson is the CEO of The Atlantic. But he moonlights as a damn good runner.

At 44, he ran a marathon in 2 hours and 29 minutes, making him one…

2 months, 1 week ago

COMMON KNOWLEDGE: Steven Pinker on Awkward Dates, Cancel Culture and the Necessity of Norms

As promised, today we’re bringing you a full-length interview with Steven Pinker about his new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: C…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

A Food Crisis Is Brewing. Are We Ready?

Caleb is joined by Sam Kass, former senior food policy advisor to President Obama and the chef who cooked dinner for the first family most nights. No…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Future Is Going to Be Great

Dave Blundin has co-founded 23 companies, co-hosts the Moonshots podcast, runs the VC firm Link Ventures, teaches at MIT, and has been building neura…

3 months ago

PRIMAL INTELLIGENCE: You’re Smarter Than You Realize

Angus Fletcher has a PhD in literature from Yale and teaches English at Ohio State. He’s passionate about Shakespeare. He probably owns a tweed jacke…

3 months, 1 week ago

STEVEN PINKER: How Common Knowledge and Rationality Make the World Go Round

Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker shares five key insights from his brand new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. He reveals how “common …

3 months, 2 weeks ago