Episodes
1. Introduction - The Big Plan
A short episode about the podcast and the show hosts if you want to know more about the show
2. The Elephant in the Brain - Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson
A summary of the key ways human beings lie to themselves and others without even realising. There are so many hidden ways we conc…
9. The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The book focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events — and the human tendency to find simplistic expla…
3. Why Buddhism is True - Robert Wright
The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
4. The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists - Niel …
Investigative reporter Neil Strauss chronicles his journey and encounters in the seduction community. An interesting tale into ho…
5. Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
The gender bias that is in the world around us and affects our daily lives. A brilliant look at the data that shows the facts we …
6. Finite and Infinite Games - James P. Carse
There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of…
7. Do You Talk Funny? - David Nihil
This book shows how the key principles of stand-up comedy can be applied to your speaking engagements and presentations to make y…
8. Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets is a book that deals with the fallibility of human kno…
10. The Bed of Procrustes - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
11. Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Things that Gain from Disorder. We discuss the concepts of things that thrive and grow when exposed to volatility.
12. Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life. Having a measurable risk when taking a major decision -- is necessary for fairness, commercial …
Hope in the Dark - Rebecca Solnit
Radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always im…
Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race - Rene Eddo-Lodge
The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link betwee…
White fragility - Robin DiAngelo
Learn why discussing racism is so taboo and difficult
How to be an antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
How to Be an Antiracist is a 2019 non-fiction book by American author and historian Ibram X. Kendi. The book discusses concepts o…
Discrimination and Disparities - Thomas Sowell
A searching re-examination of the assumptions, and the evidence for and against, current approaches to issues of economic and oth…
Nonviolent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg
An approach to nonviolent living
Season Recap: Racism and Inequality
We look back at our discoveries reading a range of different books on racism and inequality
The final days of Socrates - Plato
Describes the trial and death of Socrates in 403 BC.
The Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo
The book Confessions was the first autobiographical work written around 400 A.D. during Saint Augustine's early 40's. Augustine d…
Enchiridion by Epictetus
Epictetus was born as a slave around 50 AD. After gaining his freedom he decided to dedicate his life to philosophy, even opening…
Epicurus
Happiness is the main goal in life, we can achieve this by pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain. But also by taming our desires an…
The Republic - Plato
The republic is an examination of justice in an individual and justice in a city. To Plato, justice is an appropriate balance bet…