The Psychopathic Selection Hypothesis: The Rules of the Game Keep Us Trapped with Greg Elliott | TGS 231
Modern companies, markets, and institutions routinely behave in ways that would be diagnosed as pathological in a person: emotional detachment, strategic deception, grandiosity, and the treatment of p...
26 Aug 1h 41min
An Antidote to Despair: What Dogs Reveal About the Metacrisis | Frankly 156
This week, Nate turns a late-night emergency vet visit for one of his dogs into a broader reflection on the extraordinary relationship between dogs and humans. While dogs have been human companions fo...
21 Aug 18min
Material World: The Key Resources Underpinning Modern Economies with Ed Conway | Archive TGS 127
Current geopolitical events continue to expose just how complex and fragile our global economic system is. As such, The Great Simplification team is re-releasing this episode with Ed Conway, which cov...
19 Aug 1h 49min
The Villains We Choose and the Work They Give Us | Frankly 155
How can humans – at least those with access to the internet – ingest the same facts and data, yet arrive at radically different worldviews? That's the question Nate explores in this week's Frankly, wh...
14 Aug 29min
Your Anxiety Is Normal: A New Psychology for a World in Crisis with Richard Schwartz & Steffi Bednarek
Most of us were taught to treat emotions like distress, numbness, and burnout as private failings to manage and move past, rather than normal responses to living within a world full of crises. The uni...
12 Aug 1h 40min
Unordinary Interventions: How to Plant Seeds for a Better Future | Frankly 154
What can one person actually do about the metacrisis? In this week's Frankly, Nate explicitly outlines just a few of the countless actions we can take to actually change what's coming, rather than jus...
7 Aug 30min
The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile with Olivier Hamant
For decades, modern civilization has treated efficiency as an unquestioned good: the leaner, faster, and more optimized anything is – from supply chains to your morning routine – the better. But emerg...
5 Aug 1h 24min
When Truth Becomes Hazardous: Navigating Information Through the Metacrisis | Frankly 153
This week, Nate takes on a tension he has been navigating for years, at the heart of communicating about the metacrisis: the hazards that arise from sharing true information with a global audience. Bu...
31 Jul 24min
