Episodios

  • #156 – Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things | Dan Ariely
    Mar 31 2026
    You probably have someone in your life who, seven years ago, you’d have said sees the world the way you do. Now you look at them and something has fundamentally shifted. The question is: what...
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    54 m
  • #155 – The Attention Crisis That Could End Human Progress | Maria Konnikova
    Mar 25 2026
    What if the biggest threat to your company isn’t competition, a down round, or a bad hire but the slow erosion of your ability to think clearly? Maria Konnikova is a psychologist, three-time New York...
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    40 m
  • #154 – Why Objectives Are the Enemy of Greatness | Kenneth Stanley
    Mar 19 2026
    What if the surest way to fail at something ambitious is to have a clear plan to achieve it? What if a robot that doesn’t know it’s trying to walk learns faster than one explicitly...
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    1 h y 10 m
  • #153 – Your Brain Is a Detective Minimizing Surprise | Karl Friston
    Feb 10 2026
    What if anxiety, bad habits, and even curiosity can all be explained by a single mathematical principle? What if your brain isn’t processing information—it’s actively constructing fantasies to explain the world? Professor Karl Friston is...
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    57 m
  • #152 – Building the Impossible: Moonshots, AI, and Zero to One | Sebastian Thrun
    Jan 24 2026
    What separates founders who dream from founders who build category-defining companies? How do you take something considered science fiction and make it inevitable? Dr. Sebastian Thrun is the founder of Google X, Waymo, and Udacity—the...
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    42 m
  • #151 – The Education System Isn’t Broken—It’s Obsolete | Sugata Mitra
    Dec 3 2025
    What if everything we believe about teaching and learning is based on a system designed for empires that no longer exist—and children can teach themselves advanced biochemistry without a single qualified teacher? In 1999, Professor...
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    56 m
  • #150 – Your Future Self Is a Stranger | Hal Hershfield
    Nov 20 2025
    What if you procrastinate, avoid saving money, and make decisions you later regret not because of willpower—but because your brain treats your future self as a different person? Professor Hal Hershfield from UCLA’s Anderson School...
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    43 m
  • #149 – The Case Against AI Consciousness | Anil Seth
    Oct 27 2025
    In a world racing toward artificial general intelligence, one of the world’s leading consciousness researchers argues we’re chasing the wrong goal entirely. What if the brain isn’t a computer at all—and consciousness requires something silicon...
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    39 m