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The Daniel Stih Podcast — 198 episodes
What Does "Ceasefire" Actually Mean?
What Problem Are We Solving? The Roundup Case and the Risk We Assume
Why the Media Uses the Word 'War' (And What It Actually Means)
Are AI Models Trying to Avoid Shutdown? What Research Might Be Missing
Why Data Centers Use So Much Water — And What Everyone Gets Wrong
This Is Not About Beer: How Smart Sounding Arguments Go Wrong
What's Broken in Commodity Markets and Why the Supreme Court Is Involved - Noah Healy
Why America Feels Divided (It's Not What You Think)
Applied Sensemaking: Why America is Divided — A Systems Explanation
Behind the Thinking: Why Battery Fire Safety on Airplanes Is Backwards
Applied Sensemaking: Why Battery Fire Safety on Airplanes Is Backwards
When Style Outpaces Function
When Doing the "Right Thing" Backfires: Incentives and Hidden Risk
Applied Sensemaking: Greenland and the Limits of Peaceful Competition
How Money Is Created & The Federal Reserve - Steve Keen
Behind the Thinking: Venezuela and Why Simple Explanations Fail
Applied Sensemaking: Venezuela — Why Simple Explanations Fail
If the Economy Is Strong, Why Is Everyone Struggling?
Why "Healthy Eating" Falls Short — Rethinking Nutrition with James Barry
Geoengineering and Chemtrails - Facts, Myths, and Real Concerns
Remember Who You Are: Archons, Fear, and the Path to Freedom — with Steve Noack
Public Trust — How It Breaks (and What It Takes to Rebuild It)
Decentralization — What It Promises (and What Actually Changes) (Roberto Capodieci)
The Health Care Gap No One Explains—Until You're $20K Out of Pocket
Viruses — Why Some Think They Don't Exist (and What's Behind It)
Immigration Isn't the Problem — How to Think About Solutions That Work (Andy Semotiuk)
AI Is Making You Smarter… and Dumber
Was the Moon Landing Faked? A Critical Look at Both Sides
New World Order" — How to Think About Power, Coordination, and Control
How This War Ends - Daniel's Solution to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Russia's Endgame, The Truth About the War in Ukraine - Nikola Mikovic
What's Real? — How We Evaluate Claims in a World of Conflicting Narratives (John Abrons)
How War Timelines Get Rewritten (And Why It Matters)
The Questions That End Careers: Rethinking the Middle East Conversation
When Information Can't Be Trusted: Algorithms, Power, What We Know - Hrvoje Morić
AI and Truth — How Systems Decide What's "Accurate" (and What They Miss)
Content Moderation — How Platforms Decide What Stays (and What Doesn't) (Ryan Hartwig)
Climate Change — How to Evaluate the Claims (and What People Miss) (Lynne Balzer)
Mission Not for Sale: Plant-based, Green Goo Founder on Building a Purpose-Driven Family Business
Thinking Tool: Think From What You Know — Reframing Limiting Language
How to Give Good Advice — And Read Between the Lines When You Don't Get It Back
How to Respect Other People's Opinions Without Losing Your Voice — Talking About What Matters Without Anger or Fear
(OK TO USE) Feeling "Behind" in Life — Where That Idea Comes From (and How to Think About It)
Sustainable Landscaping — What Actually Works (and What Doesn't) (Matthieu Mehuys)
Modern Dating — What Apps Get Wrong (and How to Meet Real People) with Matt Cook
Thinking Tool: Thought Entrapment — Why "What Do You Think?" Is a Trap
Belief Analysis: Why Adam Grant Might be Wrong About Astrology
National Security — How to Think About Strategy, Conflict, and Space Defense (Col. Jonathan Lockwood)
Do EMFs Affect Mold Growth? — Results from a Simple Experiment
Thinking Tool: Words to Delete - Writing Lessons from The Elements of Style
When the Diagnosis Isn't the Whole Story (Dr. Jill Carnahan)
Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Exposure and Silver Scrubs for Healthcare Workers with Dr. Douglas Estrada
Say It Better: 3 Language Tweaks to Remove Confusion and Inspire Action
Data Privacy — What "We Don't Store Your Data" Actually Means
How I Think: Discover the Process, Not Just the Structure
Rethinking Success — What Matters (and Why It's Not Obvious) (Alex Kain)
Mold Exposure — What Actually Affects Health (and What People Miss)
AI and Networking — What Actually Works on LinkedIn (and What Doesn't) (Al Kushner)
Venting — When It Helps (and When It Makes Things Worse) - Courtney Stanfield
How I Think: Recovery Questions for Clarity and Insight. Using Language to Reveal Hidden Truths
Health Claims — How to Think About Them (and What to Trust) (Matt Cook)
Brain-Computer Interfaces — What They Enable (and What They Can't Replace) (Alex Kim)
Letting the Process Lead (No Click Track): The story behind the Reggae song "It Is What It Is"
You Are the Microprocessor: Why Thinking Matters More in the Age of AI
Solving problems when the ground beneath you is uncertain
Mold Removal — What Works (and What People Get Wrong)
Thinking Tool: Using Identity to Stabilize Decisions Under Fear
AI and Coding — Why Knowing Less Matters More (The Hacker Mindset)
Leadership — When It's More Than Execution (and What That Means) (Charles Spinosa)
Living with Uncertainty — Climate, Collapse, and What Matters (Guy McPherson)
Grounding and Electromagnetic Field EMF Protection Products - Grounded or Misinformed ?
How Great Thinkers Solve Problems — Patterns from Da Vinci, Tesla, and Einstein
When Technology Stops Being a Safety Net
How to Stay Informed in an Always-On News Cycle
Mold, mycotoxins, mold testing, AMEA: Guest Andrea Hembroff on environmental illness and testing for mold
Mold Prevention — What Actually Stops Mold (and What Doesn't)
Smart Cities: How Tradeoffs Get Hidden in "Progress" Narratives
Health Optimization — Evaluating IV Therapy, Peptides, and Functional Medicine (Kimberley Verbeke)
Higher Education — Who Pays, Who Benefits, and What Doesn't Add Up
Public Lands — Who Controls Access (and Why It Costs More Today)
How This Song Was Built — When You Don't Know the Final Form
UFO Investigations — What Counts as Evidence When Clarity Is Limited (Rick Warner)
Scaling a Business — What Changes at $1M/Month (and What Breaks) (Jake Setterlun)
Goals Create Motion. Vision Creates Direction
Climate Change — An Alternative Perspective (and What It Focuses On) (Creative Society)
Lasers in the Sky — Questioning Claims About Weather Control and Weapons
How You Know When to Stop Changing It — A Creative Case Study
CIRS and Mold Illness: What I Learned From Testing, Environment, and the Mind–Body Connection
Why Humans Struggle to Set Boundaries (Sheryl Green)
Climate Solutions — What They Target and What They Miss
Change the Frame — When the Rules Don't Work
Music Interpretation — What Changes When a Song Becomes Classical Guitar (Jonathan Taylor)
Alcohol and Behavior Change — Why It's Hard to Quit (and What Actually Helps) (Andy Smith)
Networking — Why It Feels Broken (and What Creates Connection) (Brandon Moses)
Self-Esteem: What Actually Builds Confidence? (Dame Clarissa Burt)
Walking — What Problem Is It Actually Solving? (Frank Ring)
Blueprints, Not Formulas: The Path to Purpose and Success
Space Force: Defense Against UFOs & Alien Invasion?
Fentanyl Crisis: How New Tech Could Save Lives — with VeriChem CEO Jay Letendre
Core Values — Do They Actually Lead to Success? (Brant Menswar)
Mind Power — What Can It Actually Change? (Testing the Claim) (Brent Webb)
Thinking Tool: How to Slow Down a "Should I Quit?" Decision
Daylight Saving Time — What Problem Is It Actually Solving?
Freemasonry — What's True, What's Assumed, and What's Misunderstood (Austin Shifrin)
When to Wait — How Timing Changes the Outcome
Music, Identity, and Peace — What Creativity Actually Changes (Rick DellaRatta)
Holistic Healing — What It Treats (and How to Evaluate It)
Education Policy — What the Department Does (and What It Doesn't Solve)
Contrails and "Chemtrails" — How to Evaluate What You're Seeing in the Sky
UFOs, UAPs, and the Socorro Case — Investigator Ben Moss
Food Prices — What Drives the Cost (and Where It Adds Up)
Vaccines — How to Evaluate Safety, Effectiveness, and Risk
Mold Testing — The Wrong Question Leads to the Wrong Test
Healthy Relationships — What Actually Creates Connection (and What Doesn't)
Solar Panels: Clean Energy Promise or Toxic Problem - Gary Ehlenberger
Greenwashing — What Actually Matters (and What Doesn't)
Flat Earth with David Weiss and Why the Earth Is Round
History and Faith — How to Think About the Origins of Belief (Glyn Thomas)
How Progress Happens When There's No Playbook
When the Answer Arrives Fully Formed — A Creative Case Study
Maui Fires — How to Evaluate Claims About "Energy Weapons" (Steve Favis)
How People Make Sense of Extraordinary Experiences (Katherine Gillette)
Fluoride — What's in Drinking Water (and What It Does)
Your Bedroom Is Affecting Your Sleep—Here's How to Fix It
AI and Coaching — What It Changes (and What It Doesn't) (Dr. Hebenstreit)
Are We Already in 5th Generation Warfare? — Technology, Claims, and What to Trust (Steve Favis)
Sit With It — How Clarity Develops Over Time
What Games Reveal About How We Think and Grow (Ryan Jones)
Political Division and Peace — What Works (and What Doesn't) (Danielle Reiff)
Wildfire Recovery — What Actually Matters for Health (and What People Get Wrong)
Loneliness — What It Is, What It Signals, and What Actually Helps (Sukhvinder Kaur)
Creative Careers — How They Actually Take Shape (Shannon Malone de Benedictis)
How Living Your Purpose Can Change the World Around You
When You Become the Work — A Creative Case Study
Plant-Based Living at 82 — How to Think About Health, Claims, and Longevity (Michael Dorfman)
Fearless Under Pressure: Gina Casazza's SEAL Training and Kidnapping Experience
Is It Ever OK to Quit? — When Persistence Becomes the Problem (Gina Casazza)
Are We Solving the Right Problem? — How People Approach Complex Issues (Mitch Francis)
Creating Something in an Unexpected Environment: It's Just a Scramble
Creative Work — How Ideas Become Real (When the Path Isn't Obvious) (Corissa Grant)
Career and Leadership — How to Make Decisions When the Path Isn't Clear (Dr. Benjamin Ritter)
Relationships — How to Understand What's Actually Happening (Michelle Hoffmann)
Age Isn't the Problem. The Number Is.
Ukraine and Russia — How to Understand a Conflict When Narratives Compete (Alex Craiu)
Public Speaking — What Makes a Talk Work (and What Doesn't) (Lauri Smith)
Technology and Humanity — How to Think About Change in an AI-Driven World (J.J. Jerome)
Catch Lightning in a Bottle: 7 Tips for Innovating and Breaking New Ground
No Map, Multiple Paths — How You Decide Where to Go
Invisible Variables Inside Your Environment - Your Environment Affects More Than You Think
Trauma and Relationships — How Patterns Form (and How They Change) (Tammy Cox)
Authenticity and Branding — What Actually Connects (and What Doesn't) (KINGSLEY)
What's in Your Water? How to Test It—and Choose the Right Filter
Brand Differentiation — What Actually Makes a Brand Stand Out (and What Doesn't) (Barry LaBov)
Climate Data — What You Can See for Yourself (Using Python)
Designing a "Perfect Life"—What Actually Makes It Work? (John Novello)
Free Speech and Book Bans — How to Think About Libraries, Access, and Censorship (John Chrastka)
Your Book, Your Voice : Episode 1
Peace and Aid — What Actually Works in Unstable Systems (Jeff Hardy)
Building Products — Why Some Succeed (and Why Others Don't) (David Fradin)
Truth or Trickery: How to Spot Misinformation and Disinformation
Throw It Away — How Breakthroughs Actually Happen
Creative Expression as Emotional Communication (Dr. Diane Kaufman)
How to Reinvent Yourself and Live the Life You're Meant to Live at Any Age
Insomnia — What Works and Why It's Hard to Fix (Tracy Hannigan)
Communication — Why Some Messages Land (and Others Don't) (Darius Wallace)
Retirement — How to Think About "Enough" (and What People Get Wrong) (Dalene Higgins)
Following Your Dream — What It Actually Takes (and Why Most Don't) with Bill Robertson
Travel Photography — How to See a Place, Not Just Visit It (Ralph Velasco)
Menopause and Nutrition — What Actually Helps (and What to Question) (Alison Bladh)
Why Diets Don't Work — A Different Way to Think About Food and Health (Oliver Mankondo)
Life After Death — How to Evaluate the Evidence (Liz Entin)
Sexual Assault — Recovery, Boundaries, and Rebuilding Trust (Marie McKenzie)
How to Navigate a New Environment — Language, Culture, Hidden Rules - Australia (Adriana Cefala)
Leaving Everything Behind — What It Actually Takes (Solo RV Life with Jenell Jones)
From "Most Likely to Fail" to the NFL — What Actually Changes (Shawn Harper)
Why Things Cost So Much—and How to Fix It (With Noah Healy)
Intuition — What It Is (and How to Evaluate It) with Corbie Mitleid
Depression Treatments — How to Evaluate Options When Outcomes Aren't Certain (Dr. Rebecca Allen)
Photography — How You See Shapes What You Create (Molly Schlachter)
When a Near-Death Experience Doesn't Fit the Model (Kathy McDaniel)
Why Most People Struggle to Get Hired — And What Actually Works (Josef Stetter)
Minimalism — What It Actually Changes (and What People Get Wrong) (Stephen Warley)
Why People Use Systems Like Astrology to Make Decisions (Dolly Manghat)
Are Your Clothes Toxic? — How to Think About Risk and Claims (Jeff Garner)
How to Build a Career When the Path Isn't Clear (David Fox)
Voting Systems — How They Work (and Where They Break) (Amy Widestrom)
Divorce and Custody — How to Make Better Decisions When Stakes Are High (Rachel King)
Designing a Life You Love With Paisley Gamble
College and Career Decisions — How to Choose a Path (and Avoid Costly Mistakes) (Kelly MacLean)
PTSD Treatment — How to Evaluate Emerging Therapies Like MDMA (Jill Sitnick)
Writing a Book — How Ideas Become Something Real (and What Gets in the Way) (Maggie Mills)
AI in Healthcare — Who Should Make Life-and-Death Decisions? (Dr. Christian Yeasted)
Retirement — How to Think About "Enough" (and Why It's Not Obvious) (Jeb Jarrell)
AI Myths, Truths, and the Future of Work — Industry Leader Manas Talukdar
Suicide Prevention — How to Recognize Risk and Respond (Frank King)
The Beatles — What We Think We Know vs What Actually Happened (David Bedford)
Career Decisions — When to Stay, When to Leave, and What Most People Miss (Stephen Short)
Fear — What It Is (and What Actually Changes Behavior) with Dave Albin