266 - Project Alpha - Brian Brushwood
We sit down with Brian Brushwood to discuss how he put together this most recent season of The World's Greatest Con, his podcast about incredible scams. This season is all about how two teenagers pull...
6 Aug 20231h 6min
265 - Chess Queens - Jennifer Shahade (rebroadcast)
In this episode we sit down with Jennifer Shahade, a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, author, speaker, and professional poker player whose new book, Chess Queens, is the true story of the greates...
23 Jul 202358min
264 - Nobody's Fool - Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris
In an era in which we have more information available to us than ever before, when claims of “fake news” might themselves be, in fact, fake news, Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, authors of The ...
11 Jul 202348min
263 - The Truth Wins - Tom Stafford (rebroadcast)
Deliberation. Debate. Conversation. Though it can feel like that’s what we are doing online as we trade arguments back and forth, most of the places where we currently gather make it much easier to pr...
9 Jul 202345min
262 - If It Sounds Like a Quack - Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
At the peak of COVID-19, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling set out to write a book about the widespread pushback against masks and vaccines as away to discuss the rise of the medical freedom movement in Americ...
25 Jun 202349min
261 - Hack Your Bureaucracy - Marina Nitze
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 when people get together and form organizations, ins...
11 Jun 202342min
260 - The Science of Stuck - Britt Frank (rebroadcast)
Feeling stuck? Can't build momentum to escape all the loops keeping you from moving forward? Our guest in this episode is professor, author, therapist, and speaker Britt Frank, a trauma specialist who...
28 Mai 202349min
259 - Think Again - Adam Grant (rebroadcast)
How to manage procrastination according to Margaret Atwood, how to work around your first-instinct fallacy, the upsides of imposter syndrome, the best way to avoid falling prey to the Dunning-Kruger e...
13 Mai 202355min
