Shower Thoughts That Actually Make Sense
Warning: these thoughts will make perfect sense and absolutely no sense at the same time.These are shower thoughts. The strange, random, accidentally brilliant ideas that only show up when your brain ...
26 Sep 202312min
How Crypto Scammed The World
Someone invented a currency worth trillions of dollars. Then they vanished without a trace.In October 2008, a paper appeared online that would change the world. "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cas...
5 Sep 202318min
Shower Thoughts That Make Me Question Everything
Thoughts that keep me up at night. 🔔 Subscribe to Aperture for episodes that range from deeply philosophical to beautifully absurd.💬 Share this with someone and watch them stare at a wall for ten mi...
29 Aug 202311min
Algorithms are Destroying Society
An algorithm told them what to do. They did it. Someone's life was destroyed.We trust algorithms every day without thinking twice. They tell us what to watch, what to buy, where to drive, who to date....
22 Aug 202313min
BlackRock: the Company That Controls* the World's Governments
You haven't been awake for an hour and you've already interacted with BlackRock six times without knowing it.Your iPhone alarm. Your Amazon delivery. Your Johnson & Johnson medicine. Your Microsoft la...
15 Aug 202313min
Dating Apps Are More Dangerous Than You Think
Meeting people in real life is hard, maybe harder these days than ever before. When you meet someone in real life and want to ask them on a date, you’re taking a big risk. And we’re all hyper-aware of...
4 Jul 202310min
Marcus Aurelius and the Guiding Principles of Stoicism
Aurelius was a philosopher before anything else. Regarded as the last of the Five Good Emperors of Ancient Rome, a term coined by Niccolo Machiavelli in the 15th century, it was his Stoic philosophy t...
27 Jun 202312min
How AI Is Saving Humanity
"The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make." This statement was made by mathematician Irving John Good in 1965. He was envisioning a machine smarter than any hum...
20 Jun 202312min
