FRICTION: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier (with Adam Grant & Bob Sutton)
Today, Adam Grant and Bob Sutton, two legends of organizational psychology, discuss Bob’s new book, “The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder.” ...
20 Jun 202441min
INFERNAL MACHINE: Dynamite, Anarchy and the Future of Creativity
Steven Johnson returns! He's with us today to talk about his new book, "The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective," and his new day job helping Googl...
13 Jun 20241h 9min
UNCERTAINTY: The Surprising Power of Being Unsure
Could embracing uncertainty be the key to thriving in our age of unpredictability? That's the premise of Maggie Jackson's new book, "Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure," which was chosen...
6 Jun 202445min
SAL KHAN: How AI Will Revolutionize the Way We Learn
AI is coming for education. According to our guest today, Sal Khan, that's a good thing. Sal is the founder of Khan Academy, which has provided free education to more than 140 million learners, and th...
30 Mai 20241h 7min
AFTERLIFE: Sebastian Junger’s Journey to the Edge and Back
On a June night several years ago, Sebastian Junger, bestselling author of "The Perfect Storm" and co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary "Restrepo," lay on an operating table, dying. An undia...
23 Mai 20241h 3min
FUNNER: How Language Evolves and Why It Matters
You may think the English language is static, solid, set in its ways. But the language of Shakespeare has changed quite a bit since the Bard's day. Some rules have been bent, others broken. Old words ...
16 Mai 20241h 8min
DEMON OF UNREST: Why the Civil War Matters Today (with Erik Larson)
Erik Larson is probably the most successful popular historian working today. His books, which include “The Devil in the White City” and “The Splendid and the Vile,” have sold a staggering 12 million c...
9 Mai 202453min
ALGEBRA OF WEALTH: Scott Galloway’s Formula for Financial Success
Scott Galloway is a podcaster, bestselling author, and professor of marketing at NYU. He's irreverent, cocky, brutally honest, and surprisingly humble. He's also wildly successful — and he doesn't car...
2 Mai 202453min
