On: Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests. Episode: 85 Date: January 2020 Background: Internet entrepreneur (PayPal, LinkedIn), venture capitalist and author. Key Subjects: System thinking and change. Archimedean levers: how to most effectively change the system. Multiple means: ideas, incentives, culture,
On: Stubborn Attachment. Episode: 84 Date: December 2019 Background: Philosopher. Key Subjects: Liberal democratic capitalism is ill equipped to handle major complex challenges. Ecology (climate change), immigration, digital control (mass surveillance, etc.) Unlikely things will be fixed through marginal improvements
On: The Divided Brain and the Master and His Emissary. Episode: N/A Date: April 2018 Background: Psychiatrist and author of “The Master and His Emissary”. Key Subjects: Our brain is divided into two different hemispheres because every living thing has
On: Gut Feelings. Episode: N/A Date: December 2019 Background: Psychologist and author of “Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious”. Key Subjects: Gut feelings or intuitions guide many decisions. Suggestions on how to act that arise rapidly from your unconscious
On: Omega-3 fatty acids Episode: 83 Date: December 2019 Key Subjects: Phd in human nutrition, expert on omega-3 fatty acids, CEO of OmegaQuant Basics of fatty acid biochemistry (see also “Fatty Acids”). Key markers of omega-3 and -6 typically within
On: Freedom from the Known Episode: 127 Date: May 2018 Key Subjects: Author of “How to Change Your Mind”. Largely a discussion around the key topics of Pollan’s book: The resurgence of interest in psychedelics, psychedelic therapy and related research.
On:Psychedelic Science Episode: 177 Date: December 2019 Key Subjects: Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Discussion of current state of therapeutic and neuro-scientific research into psychedelics. Covers the history and
On: The creation, scheduling, toxicity, therapeutic use, and changing public opinion of what is possibly the single most important synthetic molecule ever created by our species Episode: 65 Date: August 2019 Key Subjects: Founder and executive director of MAPS The
On: Alchemy. Episode: N/A Date: November 2019 Background: Advertising executive and author of “Alchemy”. Key Subjects: Markets are inventive, not necessarily efficient. Markets allow for trial and error, testing ideas, discovery. Leads to finding more than one solution for one
On: Waldenponding. Episode: N/A Date: November 2019 Background: Writer and management consultant. Key Subjects: Waldenponding: Various levels of retreating from technology. (Thoreau: virtues of retreating from social contact, leading a quieter life at Walden Pond.) Historically common response to emerging