ANXIOUS ACHIEVER: How You Can Turn Anxiety Into a Superpower
What are some words you would use to describe a leader? Bold, driven, steadfast. How about … anxious? You may not equate leadership with anxiety, but Morra Aarons-Mele — a writer, podcaster, and self-...
22 Aug 20241h
ON THE EDGE (Part 2): How to Get Ahead by Thinking Probabilistically
Today, Nate Silver explains why most people should take bigger risks, reveals the big thing everyone misunderstands about Sam Bankman-Fried, and makes the case that there’s anywhere from a 2 to 20 per...
15 Aug 202443min
ON THE EDGE (Part 1): Nate Silver on Politics, Poker, and Risk-Taking
You probably know Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight, as the statistician with an uncanny knack for predicting election results. What you may not know is that Nate has never been comfortable ...
12 Aug 202442min
The Case for Effective Altruism
Effective altruism — the brand of philanthropy where you try to do the most good for the greatest number of people with the resources you have — has gotten a bad rap lately due to its association with...
8 Aug 20241h 12min
Laziness Does Not Exist
Today, social psychologist Devon Price makes the intriguing and ultimately hopeful case that laziness is a myth, a lie, a pernicious trap with no other purpose than to make us feel lousy for not doing...
1 Aug 20241h 6min
ALCOHOL: The Good, the Bad, and the Bubbly
Humans have been imbibing for thousands of years. What has drinking contributed to society? What is it doing to our health? Guests: Edward Slingerland (”Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our ...
25 Jul 202459min
Living for Pleasure
Over 2,000 years ago, Epicurus, a Greek philosopher, made a simple yet bold claim. The key to the good life, he said, is to pursue pleasure and avoid pain. Is it really that easy? To answer that quest...
22 Jul 20241h 14min
PROBABILITY: How a 250-Year-Old Theorem Still Explains the World
Back in the 1700s, in a spa town outside of London, Thomas Bayes, a Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician, invented a formula that lets you figure out how likely something is to happen based...
18 Jul 202451min
