The Daily

Steven Spielberg on the Real Life Evidence That Inspired 'Disclosure Day'

The thing that we need to preserve in our society more than anything else, which is something which I believe is as fragile as democracy, is empathy.

The New York Times

How the World Cup’s Most Famous Voice Gets Ready for “GOOOAL!”

It is incredible how many times I've been stopped and recognized as the man that made people cry, which is really moving.

Fresh Air

'Daily Show' comic Josh Johnson

One of the most connected attributes of the human condition ... is just being flawed. We really connect with people on their faults.

TED

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED

I could see myself becoming that Hari Krishna, wanting to testify about the greatest love in my life, which is reading. So great is my need to share this love that it outweighs my significant need for privacy.

Diet TBPN

WWDC Kicks Off, Jobs Up, Tech Down, VC Horror Stories Go Viral | Diet TBPN

Your PR team will have many heart attacks uh because you're not in the world of deterministic outputs anymore. So that's going to be a big cultural shift for Apple I think in this uh non-deterministic stochastic uh AI era.

The Business of Tech

From Uber to Exaba: AJ Tills takes on Big Tech storage

I mean, you know, if I reverse engineering my career, it's really been about normalizing disruptive technologies to make them more understood and to drive that mass adoption.

TED

How to Give Feedback That Lands | Renee St Jacques | TED

Correction without connection feels like rejection. Connection is what separates our work from our worth. It's about valuing people not just for what they do, but who they are.

Fresh Air

Richard Pryor’s daughter Elizabeth is a scholar of the N-word

The word has two distinct pronunciations, she says, which signal entirely different meanings. The hard 'er' ending, she says, has historically been used as a weapon — a way of saying you are less than human. The soft 'a' ending, she says, is used within the Black community as a term of familiarity and even affection.

Book of the Day

Ben Crump says 'Worse Than a Lie' is a legal thriller wrapped in Black culture

My grandmother, when I was a little boy, she would say, "What's worse than a lie?" And that is to tell the truth and nobody believe you.

Hidden Brain

Unleashing Your Creativity

We worry so much about the blank page or the blank canvas. But research suggests that placing too high a premium on originality can actually be a creativity killer. When we feel we have to be original, we become self-conscious, and self-consciousness is the enemy of creativity.

Fresh Air

Richard Pryor’s daughter Elizabeth is a scholar of the N-word

The word is doing a tremendous amount of work in American culture and society, and it's a problem that causes real harm to people. And one of the ways that we can actually address that problem with more than hand-wringing or more than shock is to actually understand how it works.

Book of the Day

ABC News' Martha Raddatz on 'The Hero Next Door,' her collection of veterans’ stories

I have always considered myself kind of a bridge. I can help those people who do not understand the military, who don't understand that these are the guys next door who four days before they were in a war zone were in a minivan taking their kids to school.

Hidden Brain

The Cowboy Philosopher

Will Rogers had a way of saying things that made people laugh, and then think. He understood that humor could be a Trojan horse — a way of sneaking past people's defenses to deliver an uncomfortable truth.

TED

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED

I can't teach you if I don't have your attention. But if I can get your attention with something remarkable, well, now I suddenly have something to attach the learning to.

Hidden Brain

The Cowboy Philosopher

Will Rogers was perhaps the most beloved public figure of his time. His radio show reached tens of millions of listeners. He was the highest-paid Hollywood star of the 1930s. He was so popular that there were serious efforts to draft him as a presidential candidate — efforts he had to publicly reject.

Hidden Brain

The Cowboy Philosopher

Will Rogers was born in 1879 in what is now Oklahoma, to a prominent Cherokee family. He grew up roping cattle, learned to do tricks with a lasso, and eventually turned his cowboy skills into a stage act. But it was his folksy observations about politics and society that made him one of the most beloved figures in America.

Semafor

Leading Through Transformation with BCG & Lumen Technologies at Semafor World Economy

Calm is when you get radical clarity around the mission and the vision and you get everybody lined up and bought in and have them help build that vision.

The CEO Signal

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins On AI Transformation, Hard Decisions, & Leading At Speed | The CEO Signal

The one thing that is like death in an organization is passive aggressive behavior.

Semafor

Essential Leadership Traits for the Future with BCG's Christine Barton at Semafor World Economy

Real optimists are not cynics. You want critics in the organization, you don't want cynics because cynics don't trust you. Critics want to challenge the logic, they want to challenge the thinking, they want to interrogate, but it's not distrustful.

TBPN

SpaceX IPO Date, ChatGPT x Personal Finance, Sanders & AOC vs. Data Centers | Diet TBPN

My May 2026 approach to prompting is I've completely I've completely given up on like yelling at AI. And I'm like good now. Yeah. I do more like cognitive behavioral therapy with with AI now. Like I do more CBT. I try to like reassure the AI.

TBPN

SpaceX IPO Date, ChatGPT x Personal Finance, Sanders & AOC vs. Data Centers | Diet TBPN

My May 2026 approach to prompting is I've completely I've completely given up on like yelling at AI. Like just freaking do this. I've stopped doing that. And I'm like good now.

Compound Interest

Mark Cuban's Dallas Mavericks Sale Regrets

I was working under some assumptions that I thought were part of the deal, and they turned out not to be.

The New York Times

The 3 Songwriters Behind Kacey Musgraves, Morgan Wallen, Miranda Lambert & More

It is a fragile environment in the writing room. And if you can make everybody comfortable enough, that's why like the three of us, we we write together so much. There's nothing I would be uncomfortable saying in front of either one of them.

Fresh Air

Scottish novelist Douglas Stuart on the isolation of secret-keeping

It's hard to tell people about grief. It's hard to talk to people about poverty... and so I'd got very used to the silence in my own life, and my writing is the only thing that allows me to connect with myself.

It's Been a Minute

Inside the Michael Jackson legacy industrial complex | It's Been a Minute

We are actively as a society trying to avoid friction at all costs. It's not just in our art, but it's also in the way we move about the world. It's about the way we interact with our loved ones. It's the way we avoid having tough conversations and calling things out as they are.

The New York Times

The Cast of ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Reflects on The Original

If Miranda Priestly were Michael Priestly, there would be no movie, the first movie. Everything she does is sort of slightly horrible, but would be kind of adorable if a man said it. But there's a special tinge of mercury around that kind of remark from a woman. It just hurts more.

The New York Times

What Inspired Meryl Streep in ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’

And the teacher said, 'No, no, the way you convey power is how everyone else in the room behaves when you enter it. You just act naturally. You just behave.' But the molecules around you — so that was the direction, that you gave me, that everybody was afraid of me.

The Origins Podcast

What's New in Science, Sabine Hossenfelder & Lawrence Krauss:

I think there's a lot of confusion about you know just you know quantum what what can quantum actually do and so I thought it would it's a good example to explain just what's reality and what's fiction.

The Business of Tech

Why big companies kill good ideas – and how to save them

When people have to pitch a story, not a fifty page business case, and justify why their ideas deserve another few million dollars, they suddenly start thinking like founders instead of managers.

Fresh Air

A veteran diplomat breaks down the Iran war

To have a successful negotiation, you really need three elements. You need two parties who are willing and able and are prepared to use diplomacy, not to browbeat or to issue demands for each side, but to actually create some sort of balance of interest. Number two, you need a shared sense of urgency. And finally, you need an end product, some agreement, some deal, text.

TED

4 Relationship Traps That Lead to Burnout | Eric Quintane | TED

We've learned that there are two typical network structures that particularly matter... Meet Kelly. Kelly is in what we call a cohesive network structure. That means Kelly has strong relationships with her colleagues, but also all of her colleagues know each other, they trust each other, they talk with each other frequently.

Pivot

Rahm Emanuel: “Nobody Believes Our President” on Iran | Pivot

I'm not going to tell you what you want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I think you need to know and we're in this together rather than trying to fight each other all the time.

How to Be a Better Human

How to Confront Your Inner Critic (W/ Anu Gupta) | How to Be a Better Human | TED

I realized people aren't seeing me. I don't want to live in a world where we live in ideas of one another. I want to live in a world where we live in the presence of one another, the real people.

Fresh Air

Comic Jeff Ross on roasting, loss and his epic bar mitzvah

I would ride my moped on the turning lane of this highway 12 months a year to go to my family-owned catering hall where these lavish affairs would happen. So I saw human nature, people at their most nervous, brides, grooms, mother of the bride, father of the groom, like you saw people at their most intense.

Fresh Air

Arsenio Hall

You're going to take money out of my wallet and food off my family's plate in the middle of my job here when you don't know what you're talking about. You're going to blame me for something that is absolutely not true. And I think I was sick of being criticized by everyone because everyone wanted it to be something else.

TED

How a Viral Choreographer Makes His Moves | Sean Bankhead | TED

I always love having at least one move or one groove that my mama can do, in a video. But I think it allows dancers and non-dancers alike to feel like, "Oh, I like that move. I can do that whenever the song comes on."

TED

How a Viral Choreographer Makes His Moves | Sean Bankhead | TED

I always put 1,000 percent of my heart and time and energy into anything I create. And people can feel heart, they can feel passion. And I think it translates through the screen.

TBPN

OpenAI Acquires TBPN

The standard communications playbook just doesn't apply to us. We're not a typical company. We're driving a really big technological shift and the mission of bringing AGI to the world comes a responsibility to help create a space for real constructive conversation about the changes AI creates with builders and people using the technology at the center.

Hidden Brain

When It's Okay to Lie

Should you tell a harsh truth if it will only cause pain? Or is it sometimes kinder to keep someone in the dark?

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach | WWDTM

Actual data showing that young children sometimes feel more comfortable being read to or reading to a robot than a human being. It's less stressful for them.

Fresh Air

Remembering Action Hero Chuck Norris

If you can show it on the screen visually rather than verbally, it's much better.

Fresh Air

Remembering Action Hero Chuck Norris

When there's something to say, say it. If it isn't important, then keep your mouth shut.

Book of the Day

In the novel ‘Black Bag,’ a classroom experiment invites questions about masculinity

We often regard people as black bags, don't we? Filling in the blanks for suppositions we make without really knowing

TED

What Makes an Idea Stick? | Singapore | TED Idea Search

Having conversations around money takes the power away from the people up top and gives it back to us.

TBPN

Hill & Valley Gigastream, The Fastest Companies, Apple's Next CEO, OpenAI's Non-Profit

I do think interjecting with a ton of factchecking during the debate would be disruptive. I'm not a fan of that. I sort of just like having one person like the guest, the debater fact check the other person because if they know the fact and the other person who they're debating against drops something that's not factual, that's their opportunity to come in and say, "No, that's not accurate."

It's Been a Minute

Many women don't want kids. And for good reason. | It's Been A Minute

You know, it is like the millennial generation I feel that has said openly, I don't want to have children, but also finding that conversation difficult to have with their parents who expected to be a grandparent.

Code Switch

What Trump's language has in common with cult language

Language can be used to build a following, how words can be used to divide people into an us versus them mindset, and actually shape people's perception of reality

TED Radio Hour

How does your brain perceive the world?

It puts us into confrontation with the fact that two minds can perceive the same reality entirely differently.

Prof G Conversations

NYT CEO: 'We're Not Pulling Our Punches” | Prof G Conversations

Reporters go out into the world. They bear witness to important things that are happening that the public should know about. And then they translate that with sensitivity and judgment in a way that's meant to get people to understanding.