AI 2027: What If Superhuman AI Is Right Around the Corner?
Could AI take over in the next few years? Daniel Kokotajlo thinks so. Here’s why. 💿 Check out this Spotify playlist of our other episodes about AI 📩 Want to transform your day in just 10 minutes? ...
1 Touko 20251h 36min
THE ART OF EDITING: Graydon Carter on the Golden Age of Magazines
Remember magazines? Piled high on coffee tables or tucked into seatback pockets. Savored beneath beach umbrellas or skimmed anxiously in dental waiting rooms. Glorious, glossy magazines. Graydon Carte...
24 Huhti 202558min
FAMILY DYNAMICS: Unraveling the Mystery of Sibling Success
You know those families where the kids all grow up to be remarkably successful? New York Times journalist Susan Dominus has spent the last few years getting to know some of them, looking for parenting...
17 Huhti 202552min
ABUNDANCE: Derek Thompson on How to Actually Rebuild the American Dream
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is probably the most talked-about book in the country right now. And the most hotly debated. It’s a book about how we got here — here being a country without...
10 Huhti 20251h 12min
WHY GIVERS WIN: Adam Grant Revisits 'Give and Take'
We’re often told that success comes down to talent, hard work, and luck. But Adam Grant's research suggests that view is missing something crucial. In today’s installment of Next Big Idea Classics, Ad...
3 Huhti 20251h 7min
BITCOIN: A 15-Year Quest to Unmask the Mysterious Inventor of Crypto
In 2008, a mysterious figure created Bitcoin — a digital currency without banks or borders that sparked a global financial movement. And then he disappeared without a trace. Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? W...
27 Maalis 202557min
YOU, BUT BETTER: The Science and Promise of Personality Change
Can you change who you are? When reporter Olga Khazan decided she was tired of being a “high-strung misanthrope” (her words), she turned to science for answers. What she discovered about personality —...
20 Maalis 202550min
CARL ZIMMER: The Untold Story of the Air We Breathe
Every day you inhale 2,000 gallons of air. What’s in there? 📕 Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe by Carl Zimmer 📩 Want to transform your day in just 10 minutes? Sign up for our Boo...
13 Maalis 202555min
