Life Is a Game. Here's How to Play It.
“Life is a game. There’s no way to understand the human world without first understanding this. Everyone alive is playing a game whose hidden rules are built into us and that silently directs our thou...
10 Okt 20241h 31min
REVENGE OF THE TIPPING POINT: Malcolm Gladwell Revisits the Science of Social Contagion
Twenty-five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell was not Malcolm Gladwell. Well, sure, ontologically speaking he was, but he would not have registered on the Celeb-O-Meter the way he does today. So what happen...
3 Okt 20241h 20min
The Future of Storytelling, According to Malcolm Gladwell
Next week, Malcolm Gladwell will be on the show to discuss his new book "Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering." In anticipation of that convers...
26 Sep 202459min
NEXUS (Part 2): Yuval Noah Harari on How to Safeguard Humanity in the Age of AI
Is AI all bad, or could it be so good that we might one day want to merge with it? This is just one of the questions Rufus poses in part two of his conversation with historian and mega-bestselling aut...
19 Sep 202435min
NEXUS (Part 1): Can Democracy Survive the AI Revolution? (with Yuval Noah Harari)
Yuval Noah Harari published an essay in the New York Times the other day. “Large-scale democracies,” he wrote, “became feasible only after the rise of modern information technologies like the newspape...
16 Sep 202459min
Can We End Poverty by Just Giving People Cash?
Extreme poverty, defined as living on less than $2.15 a day, has long been seen as an intractable problem. But what if the solution is simple? What if you could eradicate extreme poverty by just givin...
12 Sep 20241h 2min
GOING INFINITE: Michael Lewis Wants to Change Your Mind About Sam Bankman-Fried
In March, when Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of FTX, was sentenced to 25 years behind bars for stealing $8 billion from customers, many people saw it as just punishment for a two-faced pose...
5 Sep 20241h 11min
SUPERCONVERGENCE: Biotechnology Is About to Transform the World. Are We Ready?
Sturgeon caviar harvested in a lab. Skyscrapers made out of living materials that grow from the ground up. Computers that run on DNA. These might sound like science fiction fantasies, but our guest to...
29 Aug 202457min
