Want a More Meaningful Life? Embrace Your Limitations.
In his mega-bestseller “Four Thousand Weeks,” Oliver Burkeman showed that the shortness of life “isn’t a reason for unremitting despair, or for living in an anxiety-fueled panic about making the most ...
31 Okt 20241h 20min
THE WORK OF ART: How Something Comes From Nothing
Making art is hard work, as Adam Moss, the revered former editor of New York magazine, reveals in his illuminating new book, "The Work of Art." The book is a collection of interviews with painters, po...
24 Okt 202456min
ANXIOUS GENERATION (Part 2): How to Raise Resilient Kids in the Digital Age
Earlier this week, Jonathan Haidt joined us to discuss the crisis in youth mental health caused by smartphones and social media. Now he’s back to talk solutions. ✉️ We launched a Substack! Check it ou...
17 Okt 202436min
ANXIOUS GENERATION (Part 1): What Social Media Is Doing to Our Kids
It’s rare these days for a book to go viral, but that’s exactly what happened with “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” by Jonathan Ha...
14 Okt 202454min
Life Is a Game. Here's How to Play It.
“Life is a game. There’s no way to understand the human world without first understanding this. Everyone alive is playing a game whose hidden rules are built into us and that silently directs our thou...
10 Okt 20241h 31min
REVENGE OF THE TIPPING POINT: Malcolm Gladwell Revisits the Science of Social Contagion
Twenty-five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell was not Malcolm Gladwell. Well, sure, ontologically speaking he was, but he would not have registered on the Celeb-O-Meter the way he does today. So what happen...
3 Okt 20241h 20min
The Future of Storytelling, According to Malcolm Gladwell
Next week, Malcolm Gladwell will be on the show to discuss his new book "Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering." In anticipation of that convers...
26 Sep 202459min
NEXUS (Part 2): Yuval Noah Harari on How to Safeguard Humanity in the Age of AI
Is AI all bad, or could it be so good that we might one day want to merge with it? This is just one of the questions Rufus poses in part two of his conversation with historian and mega-bestselling aut...
19 Sep 202435min
