How to Stay Happy in a Collapsing World
What if the answer to our late-stage collapse isn’t grim sacrifice, but a more joyful, humane way to live? Today, we hear from Elizabeth Dunn and Jiaying Zhao, authors of Leave the Lights On: How Joyf...
23 Jul 23min
Stop Waiting for Permission
What if the thing holding you back isn’t the world saying no—it’s the voice in your head asking, Are you sure you’re allowed to do this? Today, we’re exploring two books about moving through hesitatio...
22 Jul 22min
The Hidden Price of Getting Better
What does it actually take to get better—and keep getting better—once talent has taken you as far as it can? Today, we’re exploring two books about the disciplined, sometimes uncomfortable work of gro...
21 Jul 28min
Life at the Speed of Play
What does it take to launch something people actually love—and then keep it lovable as it grows? Today, Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga, shares lessons from Life at the Speed of Play: Launch Products Pe...
20 Jul 27min
Flip Thinking: New Approaches to Solving Problems
What if some problems aren’t meant to be solved head-on—and others should’ve been prevented long before they became emergencies? Berthold Gunster, author of Flip Thinking: The Life-Changing Art of Tur...
17 Jul 32min
How Courage Becomes Contagious
What happens when ordinary people decide not to look away? In this episode, Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer’s On Courage and Elie Honig’s Untouchable explore two sides of the same question: how powe...
16 Jul 29min
How to Keep Trying
What do you do after things fall apart—and what do you do in the split second before you make the same choice again? In this episode, Steve Kamb’s How to Try Again and Jonathan Rhodes and Joanna Grove...
15 Jul 26min
Raising Kids in the Age of AI
As AI tutors our children and algorithms reshape classrooms, two urgent questions are emerging: What does human connection have to do with raising a child—and how do we harness these new tools without...
14 Jul 25min
