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289 - Hack Your Bureaucracy - Marina Nitze (rebroadcast)
Marina Nitze is a professional fixer of broken systems – a hacker, not of computers and technology, but of the social phenomena that tend to emerge w…
1 year, 11 months ago
288 - Fluke - Brian Klaas
In this episode we sit down with Brian Klaas, author of Fluke, to get into the existential lessons and grander meaning for a life well-lived once on…
1 year, 11 months ago
287 - The Complexity of Genius - David Krakauer and Dean Simonton
In this episode, we are exploring the complexity of the concept of "genius" with two experts on the topic. First you’ll hear from David Krakauer, th…
1 year, 11 months ago
286 - Notes on Complexity - Neil Theise
In this episode we sit down with professor Neil Theise, the author of Notes on Complexity, to get an introduction to complexity theory, the science …
2 years ago
285 - What Do You Mean? - Celeste Kidd (rebroadcast)
Is a hotdog a sandwich?
Well, that depends on your definition of a sandwich (and a hotdog), and according to the most recent research in cognitive sci…
2 years ago
284 - Awe - Dacher Keltner (rebroadcast)
In this episode we sit down with psychologist Dacher Keltner, one of the world’s leading experts on the science of emotion, the man Pixar hired to he…
2 years, 1 month ago
283 - Cultures of Growth - Mary C. Murphy
In this episode we welcome psychologist Mary C. Murphy, author of Cultures of Growth, who tells us how to create institutions, businesses, and other …
2 years, 1 month ago
282 - They Thought We Were Ridiculous - Andy Luttrell
In 1974, two psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, as the New Yorker once put it, "changed the way we think about the way we think." The p…
2 years, 2 months ago
281 - More Chat, Less Bot - Jeremy Utley, Kian Gohar, Henrik Werdelin
Jeremy Utley, Kian Gohar, and Henrik Werdelin sit down to discuss the surprising results of a new study into what happens when groups of people work …
2 years, 2 months ago
280 - Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg
Our guest in this episode is Charles Duhigg, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer for the New Yorker Magazine who is also the New York Time…
2 years, 3 months ago