In 1963, Julio Cortázar wrote a novel that isn't read — it's played. Hopscotch opens with a board of instructions offering different reading paths, and none of them is the right one. More than sixty years later it remains the most experimental and fasc...
In 2006, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins published a book that split the world in two: those who called it a masterpiece of rational thinking and those who called it an unnecessary attack. The God Delusion applies the same rigor to the God hypot...
The Republic explores what justice is, how a just society should be organized, and the role of knowledge and education. Through a series of dialogues, Plato puts forward the myth of the cave, the ideal city, and the figure of the philosopher-king.
What would happen if the world's most productive minds suddenly decided to stop working? Ayn Rand asked that question in 1957 and built a novel over a thousand pages long that still sparks passionate debate decades later. Atlas Shrugged is radical capi...
A guy gets hit in the face with a baseball bat at his high school field. He falls into a coma, suffers multiple skull fractures, temporarily loses sight in one eye. The doctors tell his family that if he survives, he'll likely have serious cognitive pr...
Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and one of Facebook's earliest investors, has an uncomfortable theory: competition is for losers. In this episode we unpack the ideas of one of Silicon Valley's most polarizing thinkers, who argues that real progress d...
Celeste Headlee is a journalist who has spent more than twenty years interviewing people for a living. What she discovered in that time is unsettling: almost nobody knows how to have a real conversation. In this episode we explore the ten rules she pro...
Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, says copying what already exists is easy. What's hard is creating something entirely new. Zero to One: how to build monopolies that change the world, why competition is for losers, and what secrets nobody else can see.
Description: Discover the 10 essential rules for better conversations according to Celeste Headlee, a journalist with 20 years of experience interviewing thousands of people. Learn why truly listening is so hard and how technology is destroying our abi...
