E162: He Built a Billion-View Empire: Now He Warns Social Media Rewires Your Brain - Richard Ryan
How a tech insider who helped build billion-view machines explains the attention economy’s playbook—and how to guard your mind (and data) against it.Guest bio:Richard Ryan is a software developer, med...
22 Okt 20251h 12min
E161: From Rome to Right Now: What History Gets Wrong About Collapse - Dr. Luke Kemp
Dr. Luke Kemp, an Existential Risk Researcher at the University of Cambridge shows how today’s plutocracy and tech-fueled surveillance imperil society—and what we can do to build resilience.Guest bio:...
15 Okt 20251h 17min
E160: How North Korea’s Dictatorship Endures: Historian Fyodor Tertitskiy Explains
A deep dive with historian Dr. Fyodor Tertitskiy on how North Korea’s dynasty survives—through isolation, terror, and nukes—and why collapse or unification is far from inevitable.Guest bio:Fyodor Tert...
11 Okt 202558min
E159: Laziness Is a Myth: How Hustle Culture Hijacked Your Life
Dr. Devon Price unpacks “the laziness lie,” how AI and “bullshit jobs” distort work and higher ed, and why centering human needs—not output—leads to saner lives.Guest bio: Devon Price, PhD, is a Clini...
4 Okt 202559min
E158: Post-Plagiarism University: Replacing Humans with AI—Belonging Dips, GPAs Slide, Integrity Erodes
Dr. Joseph Crawford unpacks how AI is reshaping higher education - eroding student belonging, redefining assessment in a post-plagiarism era, and raising the stakes for soft skills.Guest bioDr. Joseph...
27 Sep 20251h 19min
E157: Have We Got Happiness Wrong? Eric Weiner on Bliss in Age of AI
Author Eric Weiner argues that happiness depends less on wealth or location than on relationships, meaning, trust, and realistic expectations—while tech and social media often push the other way.Guest...
24 Sep 202554min
E156: Former CIA Analyst Exposes the Weaponization of Loneliness
A conversation with Stella Morabito on how the weaponization of loneliness—from Soviet propaganda to modern social media—threatens free speech, family, and community.👤 Guest BioStella Morabito – Writ...
10 Sep 202540min
E155: Special Ops Tactics for Breakthrough Creativity - Dr. Angus Fletcher Explains
Neuroscientist explains why school crushes creativity—and how to fix it—teaching “primal intelligence” and special-operations tactics you can use at work, at home, and in the classroom to think and in...
3 Sep 202559min
