All Episodes

Be Calm, and Blunt

Be Really Good at One "Useless" Thing

Stop Expecting Things

Humans Passing as Machines

Get Yourself Distracted

You Don’t Need Cliches to Fix Your Life

Stop Caring How Long Things Take

Don't Educate the Mouth, Educate the Mind

Always be in the Zone

Protect Your Growth: How Not to Betray Your Own Evolution

Learn by Exposure: Immersing Yourself into Real Environments

Spend Before You’re Rich

Finding Peace in the How, Not the What

Essence Generates Abundance

Relentlessness is the Mother of all Skills

Chase Patterns, Not Your Reasons for Them

Stop Prioritizing

Doing It All in a Day: Nature’s Way

Balance is the Decision

Reading as Mental Training, and More

Build Your Life, Literally

Let the Environment Build You

Throw it In and See what Sticks: The New Engineering

When the Ink Fades; Why (and How) We are Now the Media

AI, Creativity, and the Benefit of Being Chased by the Machine

Dynamics are Truer than Facts: How to "Win" Debates

Life Goes Better with Guarantees

Stop Offloading Your Memory to the Machine

Infinite Palaces: The True Potential of the Mind

Hover and Wait: It Eventually Works

Be Niche, and Grow

You Should Be Reading at the Speed of Thought

You Only Need the Title to Make the Rest Work

Work, Play, One Life

You Should Probably be Caring Less

You Have to Pick Up the Sword

What You Read Doesn't Matter

Diversity Works if You Don't Force It

Is Music Only for Dumb People?

What Does "Smart" Look Like?

You Can't Learn from Scratch

The Difference Between Real and Polished

Is Death Irrational?

Nature is not Magic, Just Different: Why AI Shouldn't Surprise You

Round and Round We Go: The Circularity of IQ

Low Dimensional Thinking

Protecting Your Reputation is a Tragedy

People Who Understand Beethoven Don’t Play Beethoven

Bet What You Know

Get Yourself Triggered

Stop Trying to Be Your Hero

Don’t Let Schooling Turn You Into an Idiot

Nothing Happens Without Critical Mass

To Be Brutally Honest

You Need More Bad Ideas

The Danger of Being Disconnected

Finding Stability in Change

Channel the Mystery

The Worst Time to Learn What You “Learned” in School Was When you Were in School

The Detriment of Passion: Why the Best Time to Work is When We’re Not in the Mood

Choose Your Thoughts, Or They’ll Choose You

Our Brains Know More Than We Do: Trusting our Mind’s Ability to Learn Automatically

Do A Lot, By Doing Less

Find the Slowness that Moves You

Look for Conversations, Not Answers

How to Choose a Hero

Make Life the Meditation

It Takes a Logical Mind to Listen to Emotions

Building a Better World from Within

Your Real Audience Isn't Born Yet

Contentment is Better than Happiness

Capturing Ideas the Moment they Arrive

Seeing Past Narratives

Nipping Temptations in the Bud

Collaborating Doesn't Mean Being Nice

Most Barriers are Imagined: Turning Intention into Lifestyle

Do Many Things to be Good at Any One Thing

The Wise Don’t Silence Their Opponents

Rewarding Dumbness: How Modern Society Filters Away Intelligence

Turning Truth into Technique

"Discipline" is Really Just One's Environment

Missing What Matters: How Today's Books Lack Authenticity

Bewitched by AI: Showing is Not Creating

Creativity Demands Less Options: How Structure Compels Originality

Neuro-Nonsense: The Folly in Trying to Find the Location of Behavior

Contributing Without Compromising: How to Meet Expectations, Our Way

The Structure of Intuition: Recognizing the Cost of Precision

Let Nature Choose Your Deadlines: How Focusing on Structure Beats Focusing on Time

Thinking Before Eating: A More Rigorous Heuristic

Symbols, Connections and the Role Knowledge Plays in Intelligence

The Real versus True You: How Constraints Lead to Freedom

The Dose Makes the Poison

Season 4: Announcement

Looking for Time in All the Wrong Places

Not Just Another Pretty Face: AI, Trust, and the Necessity of Error

Shifting Up: How Victors Let Nature Coordinate the Win

Dodging Economic Reality: How Today's Economists Conveniently Misunderstand our World

You Can't Save America by Being an Informed Citizen: BONUS TALK

You Can't Save America by Being an Informed Citizen

Wealth, the Middle Class and the Shape of Networks: BONUS TALK

Wealth, the Middle Class and the Shape of Networks

Imprecise Destinations: The Continual Redefining of Democracy PART 2

Imprecise Destinations: The Continual Redefining of Democracy PART 1

The Tractability of Calmness: How Uncompromising Leaders Fail

Things Only Look Crazy When You Stand Too Close

The Immortal Library: Information, Resilience and the Benefit of Turmoil

The Tyranny of Explanation

A Return to Magic: The Illogical Roots of Progress

Technology is Humanity

Foreseeable Catastrophe: WeWork and The Growth-Survivability Threshold

Season 3: Announcement

Science is Saying More, But Explaining Less

Snowballs, Free Speech and the Edge of Chaos

If You Want a Clean House, Invite People Over

The Best Preparation is No Preparation

If You Want to Learn, Ignore the Details

The Pattern is Not the Path

The Rich Don't Penny Pinch

There Were No Giants, Only Shoulders

Facts and Logic: When They Work and When They Don't (PART 2)

Facts and Logic: When They Work and When They Don't (PART 1)

We Can't Create the Way We Consume

To Specialize or Generalize? That is Not the Question.

Skill is Not What You Think it Is