248 - Visual Thinking - Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin was born in 1947 at a time when words like neurodivergent and neurotypical had yet to enter the lexicon, at a time when autism was not well understood, and since she didn’t develop spee...
11 Dec 202247min
247 - Narcissism (rebroadcast)
In this episode we explore what narcissism is (and what is most-definitely is not). There is a form of narcissism which has been, up until now, confused with psychopathy. But a new paper, the result o...
27 Nov 202256min
246 - Ideaflow - Jeremy Utley
In this episode we sit down with Jeremy Utley of the Stanford d.school to discuss his new book, Ideaflow, which is all about how to create a practice for producing and trading ideas in massive quantit...
13 Nov 20221h 11min
245 - The Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind - Tim Harford
Here’s a special bonus episode featuring my recent conversation with Tim Harford, author, economic journalist, and host of the Cautionary Tales podcast. We discussed a story from my new book, How Mind...
28 Okt 202244min
244 - Quit - Annie Duke
I recently sat down for a live event and Q&A with the great Annie Duke to discuss her new book, Quit: The power of knowing when to walk away. This episode is the audio from that event. Quit is all abo...
16 Okt 202257min
243 - Psychological Tweetathon with Jay Van Bavel
In this episode we sit down with NYU psychologist Jay Van Bavel who is very good at Twitter. His feed is always overflowing with the absolute latest and greatest research from psychology with links to...
3 Okt 20221h 8min
242 - Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff
In this episode we sit down with Douglas Rushkoff, a media scholar, journalist, and professor of digital economics who has a new fire in his belly when it comes to the world of billionaire preppers, w...
18 Sep 20221h 1min
241 - The Status Game - Will Storr
In this episode we welcome back author Will Storr whose new book, The Status Game, feels like required reading for anyone confused, curious, or worried about how politics, cults, conspiracy theories c...
4 Sep 20221h 17min
