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summaries
9 Jul 2021
#255 — The Future of Intelligence
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Key Quote
"It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence."
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25 Jun 2021
#254 — The Mating Strategies of Earthlings
"Treating different things the same can generate as much inequality as treating the same things differently."
17 Jun 2021
#253 — Corporate Courage
"What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan."
10 Jun 2021
#252 — Are We Alone in the Universe?
"It's not only enough to know & speak the truth, you have to know & do what's effective."
26 May 2021
#251 — Corporate Cowardice
"Company culture is what goes without saying, not what's being stated."
21 May 2021
#250 — Broken Conversations
"The reforms that ask the least of us, are often the ones that are most likely to go viral"
14 May 2021
#249 — Distance & Arrival
"Maturity is the ability to live fully and equally across the past, the present, and the future all at once."
30 Apr 2021
#248 — Order & Freedom
"So much of who we are comes from the culture around us. If we don't know much about culture, then we're unlikely to know much about ourselves."
24 Apr 2021
Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse
"COVID-19 is a dress rehearsal for potentially much worse and more dangerous viruses that will eventually happen in the future"
22 Apr 2021
#247 — Constructing Minds
"Reflecting on your past, for the purposes of bettering your future, which will become your present."
12 Mar 2021
#241 — Final Thoughts on Free Will
"We aren't free to want what you don't in fact want or to want what you want more than you want it"
7 Mar 2021
#240 — The Boundaries of Self
"Friendship is a product of a willingness to be vulnerable & advances along the access of your mutual vulnerability"