SURVIVAL OF THE RICHEST: How Tech Billionaires Are Preparing for Doomsday
Have you ever found yourself sitting around a table at a luxury resort with five mega-rich strangers who want to know where you think they should build their doomsday bunkers? Absurd as it may sound, ...
15 Sep 20221h 2min
HAPPINESS: Arthur C. Brooks Shares His Roadmap for Finding Purpose, Meaning, and Success
Arthur C. Brooks used to run a prominent think tank where he was paid handsomely to influence public policy. Did all that success make him happy? Nope. So Arthur quit his job and set out to transform ...
8 Sep 20221h 9min
DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on the future of AI (from The TED Interview)
Demis Hassabis is one of tech's most brilliant minds. A chess-playing child prodigy turned researcher and founder of headline-making AI company DeepMind, Demis is thinking through some of the most rev...
1 Sep 202252min
Summer Getaway #4: The Making of ‘Bull Durham’ (with Ron Shelton)
Ron Shelton is an Academy Award–nominated writer and director, former shortstop for the Bluefield Baby Birds, and author of a humdinger of a new memoir called "The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bu...
26 Aug 202231min
Summer Getaway #3: The 12-Hour Walk (with Colin O’Brady)
What happens when you put your phone in airplane mode, walk out your front door, and don’t come home for 12 hours? Our producer Caleb finds out, with help from adventurer Colin O’Brady. » To learn mo...
19 Aug 202258min
Summer Getaway #2: An American Odyssey (with Ben McGrath)
The Ohio, Hudson, Mississippi, and Yellowstone — Dick Conant canoed them all. And then he disappeared. In his riveting new book, “Riverman,” journalist Ben McGrath tries to track down the man who may...
11 Aug 202259min
Summer Getaway #1: The Beach (with Sarah Stodola)
Close your eyes and picture paradise. What do you see? For many people, it’s a turquoise ocean crashing into a white-sand beach. Where did this fantasy come from? Sarah Stodola, author of “The Last Re...
4 Aug 202251min
Finding Stillness With Ryan Holiday
Here’s another episode from our archives that we love: Rufus’s 2020 interview with Ryan Holiday, the author of “Stillness Is the Key,” who shared his tips for slowing down, calming your mind, and acce...
28 Jul 202242min
