Scott Adams: Avoiding Loserthink

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish | 26 November 2019 | 0h 58m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Dilbert creator and author Scott Adams sharing cognitive tools and tricks we can use to think better, expand our perspective, and avoid slumping into “loserthink.” Draws on ideas from his book Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America.

Conflict: How to Have More Productive Disagreements

The Next Big Idea | 12 November 2019 | 0h 44m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Buster Benson about his book Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive Disagreement. Outlines his framework for arguing productively, including how to have hard conversations in your relationships, engage people with different political viewpoints, and disagree with dignity.

Tech and Progress with Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen

Tech & Society with Mark Zuckerberg | 25 November 2019 | 1h 08m | Listen Later | iTunes
Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen on the case for Progress Studies to better understand and capture the opportunities for technological and economic progress.

Speeches That Changed the World

How To Academy | 25 November 2019 | 1h 19m | Listen Later | iTunes
Simon Sebag Montefiore introduces a selection of history’s greatest speeches from his book Speeches that Changed the World. Actors reenact speeches from Elizabeth I, Genghis Khan, Muhammad Ali, Winston Churchill, Greta Thunberg, Martin Luther King and more. Prepare to be moved.

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger – How to Build a Great Product

Invest Like the Best | 19 November 2019 | 1h 33m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of Instagram. Insights on startups, product development, the jobs-to-be-done framework, management, and machine learning. Interesting also to observe how these successful partners relate to each other in conversation.

Christian Rudder: Dataclysm

Digital Mindfulness | 25 March 2017 | 0h 27m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Christian Rudder, co-founder of OK Cupid, and author of Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity – What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves. Explores the sociological inferences that can be drawn from the data generated by dating and social media websites.

The Founder

Reply All | 14 February 2019 | 0h 52m | Listen Later | iTunes
Tells the story of Paul Le Roux, who parlayed encryption expertise into a huge criminal enterprise built on retailing painkillers. Based on the book The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.

The Truth About the Vaping Crisis

Freakonomics Radio | 21 November 2019 | 0h 44m | Listen Later | iTunes
Contrasts the successful regulation of vaping in the UK, motivated by harm reduction, with the deaths and high teen uptake as the US attempts to ban vaping.