Gillian Tett | an Anthropologist's Field Guide to Wall Street and Silicon Valley
In Episode 53 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Gillian Tett, Managing Editor of the Financial Times US about her experience at the paper and how her background in anthropology has helped ...
23 Jul 201845min
Simon Winchester | a History of Precision Engineering and the Making of the Modern World
In Episode 52 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Simon Winchester about the value of precision (and imperfection) in the modern age. Few things are as responsible for the making of the mode...
16 Jul 201856min
Mind-Body Philosophy: Solving the Hard Problem of Consciousness | Patrick Grim
In Episode 51 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Patrick Grim, a world-renowned philosopher, and bestselling author, about the roots of human consciousness. Recent advances in science and t...
9 Jul 20181h 2min
The Hard Problem of Currency: Are Stablecoins Possible? | Nevin Freeman
In Episode 50 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Nevin Freeman, the founder of a new stable-value cryptocurrency project, about the hard problem of currency. 2018 is the year of the stablec...
2 Jul 201851min
Vitalik Buterin and Vlad Zamfir | The Ethereum Roadmap and Solving the Blockchain Scalability Problem
In Episode 49 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Vitalik Buterin and Vlad Zamfir about the future roadmap for Ethereum. If contracts are the foundation of modern civilization, then our reco...
25 Jun 201855min
Annie Duke | Making a Sure Bet: Optionality, Decision Making, and How to Embrace Uncertainty
In Episode 48 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Annie Duke and about how we can make smart decisions and ensure our long-term success. We make millions of decisions over the course of our ...
18 Jun 20181h 1min
Claude Shannon: The Story of How One Man Created the Information Age | Jimmy Soni
In Episode 47 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jimmy Soni about the father of Information Theory, Claude Shannon, and Shannon's foundational work, A Mathematical Theory of Communication. ...
11 Jun 201857min
The Quest for the Nobel: Cosmology, Physics, and the Search for the Origins of the Universe | Brian Keating
In Episode 46 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Brian Keating, astrophysicist and author of Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Hon...
4 Jun 20181h 12min
