How Metrics Make Us Miserable
The modern world swims in numbers: work metrics, fitness metrics, health metrics, social media metrics. Sometimes the quantification of life can make things better. But very often, I think they force ...
27 Feb 1h 3min
The Future of GLP-1 Drugs and AI Medicine, With Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks
The GLP-1 drug revolution has taken the medicine world by storm. I’ve done several episodes on the science of GLP-1s. But we’ve never done an episode like this before, where we talk to one of the most...
24 Feb 1h 7min
The Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs. Now What?
Donald Trump suffered a huge blow Friday when the Supreme Court struck down the centerpiece of his economic policy: his vast system of tariffs. So, what happens now? Harvard’s Jason Furman explains th...
21 Feb 41min
The Media Theory That Explains “99% of Everything”
In the mid-20th century, a group of media and communications scholars proposed that the shift from spoken to written language—from orality to literacy—transformed our politics, our media, our social r...
17 Feb 1h 3min
"America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs"
In his epic cover story for The Atlantic this month, staff writer Josh Tyrangiel spoke to dozens of economists, workers, tech CEOs, and AI experts about the danger that artificial intelligence might p...
13 Feb 1h 6min
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News
Hello! I’m back from paternity leave just in time to talk about the biggest media earthquake of the year (so far): the Washington Post meltdown. For decades, the Post was a journalistic gem with super...
11 Feb 1h 11min
Plain English BEST OF: What’s the Matter With America’s Food?
Throughout December and January, we’ve been re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond, and today's episode marks the end of our "best of" series for this year! This list incl...
3 Feb 52min
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst
Throughout December and January, we’re going to be re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond. This list includes interviews that really stuck with me and some others that you...
27 Jan 59min
