All Episodes

Visual Thinking and Spatial Cognition with Barbara Tversky

Recoding America: Understanding Government Failure in the Digital Age with Jennifer Pahlka

Power and Progress: Does technology lead to progress or inequality with Daron Acemoglu

Unraveling the Mysteries of Alien Technology and Objects in Space with Avi Loeb

Animal Liberation Now: Exploring the Ethics of Animal Rights with Peter Singer

Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building with Claire Hughes Johnson

How can you actually make money while closing the tech gap? with Freada Kapor Klein

Becoming Better Ancestors: Wisdom for Progressing in Life with Kevin Kelly

How to Leverage Collective Intelligence for Transformative Tech Governance with Saffron Huang

How Hypergrowth Startups are Built by Human Connection with Elizabeth Weil

The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Impacts the US Economy with Christopher Leonard

Neuroscientist Konrad Kording reveals shocking truth about machine learning and the brain

Immigration, Innovation, and the Future of Human Agency: A Conversation with Minn Kim

How Psychedelics and AI Are Unveiling the Secrets of Consciousness with Andrés Gómez Emilsson

Venture Capital in the Next 20 Years with Vedika Jain

Operators: The Future of Startups with Mallun Yen

Democratizing Venture Capital with Steph Mui

Learning About Tech in India With Pankaj Jain

How to Address Humanity’s Most Important Challenges and Opportunities With Pooja Shah

NeuroAI: The Intersection of AI and the Brain with Patrick Mineault

How Life Evolves From an Electrical Gradient Perspective With Nick Lane

How to Build More and Better Housing With Jessica Trounstine & Omar Wasow

How Data Is Being Used to Generate Insights for Humanity With Shruti Gandhi

The Massive Rise of Yimby Movement With Sonja Trauss

How to Do Good Easier With Kat Woods

How to Decrease Polarization and Run Mega Studies With Jan Voelkel

How to build the future of crypto with Kinjal Shah

How to Bring the World Back Together With Anthea Roberts

Revealing Our Human Evolution Mystery Through Ancient Fossils With Chris Stringer

Understanding Machine & Human Minds with Kanjun Qiu

Fossils, Mothers & Babies Revealing the Way Human Brains Have Evolved With Dean Falk

Boosting Cooperative Thoughts for a More Thrivable World With Jean M. Russell

The Unknown Power of AI to Maximize Your Creativity With Gene Kogan

Changing Education From a Student-Centered Perspective With Danielle Strachman

How to Make Crucial Knowledge Accessible & Understandable for Us All With Saloni Dattani

How to Contribute to the Public Commons in a Positive Way With Jerry Michalski

How Precedents Forge Your Path With Hollis Robbins

How to Prepare for Uncertain Futures with David Christian

How to Create Abundant Housing With Annie Fryman

Wisdom Age and the Evolution of Society: Rhys Lindmark at The Index Show

Achieving Growth Through Long Term Aspirations With Esther Dyson

The Free Energy Principle in Our Daily Life With Karl Friston

How to Protect Your Future Baby From Inheriting Genetic Susceptibility to Disease With Noor Siddiqui

This Is How Science Will Cure Diseases and End Hunger With Melinda Kliegman

Dr. Joshua Bongard & Dr. Michael Levin on All You Need to Know About Coexisting With Living Robots

Genetic Screening to Rewrite Future Generations with Stephen Hsu

#94 Alta Charo: Utopia and Dystopia of Genetic Engineering

#93 Alan Durning: Making Housing Abundant Again

#92 Tamim Ansary: Understanding The US Exit from Afghanistan from an Islamic Worldview

#91 Susan Blackmore: How Memes Gave Rise To The Third Replicator

#90 César Hidalgo: How To Understand Sociotechnical Systems

#89 Grace Lindsay: Your Brain Is Math

#88 Andy Clark: How Brains Model The World

#87 Casper ter Kuile: How Religion Is Changing

#86 Solo: Cultural Progress Studies and Predictive Processing

#85 Isabella Garcia-Camargo: Information Counterwarfare

#84 adrienne maree brown: Decentralized Organizing and Emergent Strategy

#83 Kevin Kelly: Vanishing Asia and The Technium

#82 Sarah Drinkwater, Omidyar: Building a Movement for Responsible Technology

#81 Betsy Cooper: How Technologists Can Craft Policy

#80 David Christian: How Big History Helps Us Understand Our Long Now

#79 Scott Dikkers, The Onion: How Fake News and Polarization Have Changed Satire

#78 Martha Minow: When Should Law Forgive?

#77 Eli Pariser: Creating Digital Public Spaces

#76 Cassie Robinson: Allocating £60M with a Systems Lens

#75 Jill Carlson, Slow Ventures: Apolitical Orgs and Crypto as a Tool to Combat Authoritarianism

#74 Roman Krznaric: Metaphors to Be a Good Ancestor By

#73 Lauren Gawne: Internet Linguistics, New Emojis, and ConLangs

#72 Lydia Laurenson, The New Modality: Chilling Effects in our Media Ecosystem

#71 Yele Bademosi: #EndSARS and The Rise of Nigerian Tech

#70 Benjamin Bratton: Social Theories for Planetary-Scale Computation

#69 Rebecca Henderson: Reimagining Capitalism

#68 Yancey Strickler: Bentoism and Paradigm Change

#15 Marshall Ganz, Harvard: The Power of Narrative and How Tech Has Changed Organizing

#14 Devon Zuegel: GitHub Sponsors and Open Source

#13 Kelsey Piper, Vox: Effective Altruist News,Memetic Immunity,Questions Social Justice Can Answer

Grey Mirror #12 Caitlin Long: Libra vs. Bitcoin vs. Fiat

#11 Larry Lessig, Harvard: #POTUS1 to "Fix Democracy First"

#10 Rob Reich, Stanford: Political Theory of Philanthropy + Stanford Center for Human-Compatible AI

#9 Tim Hwang, Harvard + MIT: The Politics and Theater of AI Ethics

#8 Kate Darling, MIT: A Systemic View on Regulation and Gender Roles in Tech

#7 Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, The Daily Embodiment of Ethical Principles

#6 Glen Weyl: Funding Civil Society with Liberal Radicalism

#5 Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: Should Billionaires Even Exist?

#4 Joi Ito: Applying a Systems Paradigm to Cryptocurrency

#3 Renee DiResta: Russia Disinformation Campaign and Our Weaponized Information Ecosystem

Nadia Eghbal, Protocol Labs: Why Give Away Money and How to Fund Digital Infrastructure

#1 Tadge Dryja, Digital Currency Initiative: uTreeXO and Bootstrapping Bitcoin Upgrades

#52 Arthur Brock, Holochain: Verbing the World Through an Agent-Centric Blockchain

#51 Daniel Schmachtenberger: Meta Existential Risk

#50 Soona Amhaz, Token Daily: Curating a Trusted Signal in a World of Distributed Noise

#49 Jeremy Heimans, New Power: How Crowds and Memes are Changing Society

#48 Joe Lubin, ConsenSys: Building the Institutions and Myths of Web 3.0

#47 Richard Burton, Balance: Wallet Standards, ETH Ecosystem Fails, and Escaping Scarcity

#46 Liv Boeree, REG-Charity: Fermi Paradox, Consequentialism, Thinking Probabilistically

#45 Lawrence Lundy, Outlier Ventures: Convergence Theory and An Evolutionary Perspective on Capital

#44 Ethan Zuckerman, MIT: Crypto Social Networks and The Co-Evolution of Information and Governance

#43 Cheryl Yeoh and Wendy Xiao Schadeck: #MovingForward in Crypto

#42 Eric Meltzer, INBlockchain: Chinese Crypto Memes and Newsletters as #GLUE

#41 Taylor Pearson: The Blockchain Individual and (No Longer) Seeing Like a State