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12. Sue Bird: “You Have to Pay the Superstars.”
Episode 12
She is one of the best basketball players ever. She’s won multiple championships, including four Olympic gold medals and four W.N.B.A. titles — the m…
5 years, 5 months ago
11. Paul Romer: “I Figured Out How to Get Myself Fired From the World Bank.”
Episode 11
For many economists — Steve Levitt included — there is perhaps no greater inspiration than Paul Romer, the now-Nobel laureate who at a young age rede…
5 years, 5 months ago
10. Suzanne Gluck: “I'm a Person Who Can Convince Other People to Do Things”
Episode 10
She might not be a household name, but Suzanne Gluck is one of the most powerful people in the book industry. Her slush pile is a key entry point to …
5 years, 5 months ago
9. Moncef Slaoui: "It’s Unfortunate That It Takes a Crisis for This to Happen"
Episode 9
Born in Morocco and raised mostly by a single mother, Moncef Slaoui is now one of the world’s most influential scientists. As the head of Operation W…
5 years, 6 months ago
8. Peter Attia: “I Definitely Lost a Lot of IQ Points That Day”
Episode 8
He’s been an engineer, a surgeon, a management consultant, and even a boxer. Now he’s a physician focused on the science of longevity. Peter Attia ta…
5 years, 6 months ago
7. Caverly Morgan: "I Am Not This Voice. I Am Not This Narrative."
Episode 7
She showed up late and confused to her first silent retreat, but Caverly Morgan eventually trained for eight years in silence at a Zen monastery. Now…
5 years, 7 months ago
6. Nathan Myhrvold: “I Am Interested in Lots of Things, and That's Actually a Bad Strategy”
Episode 6
He graduated high school at 14, and by 23 had several graduate degrees and was a research assistant with Stephen Hawking. He became the first chief t…
5 years, 7 months ago
5. Susan Wojcicki: “Hey, Let’s Go Buy YouTube!”
Episode 5
She was the sixteenth employee at Google — a company once based in her garage — and now she's the C.E.O. of its best-known subsidiary, YouTube. But d…
5 years, 8 months ago
Steve Levitt: “I’m Not as Childlike as I’d Like to Be”
Steve Levitt has so far occupied the interviewer chair on this show, but in a special live event — recorded over Zoom and presented by WNYC and the G…
5 years, 8 months ago
4. Ken Jennings: “Don’t Neglect the Thing That Makes You Weird”
Episode 4
It was only in his late twenties that America’s favorite brainiac began to seriously embrace his love of trivia. Now he holds the “Greatest of All Ti…
5 years, 8 months ago