Fresh Air

Actor Oscar Isaac is ‘a vulture’ of his own life

With Victor Frankenstein, he had no doubts. The whole movie, he has very little doubt, which was a very freeing thing to play up until the moment of creation. And then after that, it's kind of all doubt. And that's when he kind of goes in within himself and ossifies. But Josh is very different. Josh is mostly doubt and mostly reactionary.

TED Radio Hour

Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

What he, if you read his speeches, he didn't want to tell people exactly how they should live their lives, but he wanted to help them realize that they had options that they were not even considering.

Radiolab

The Resistance of a Cow

What could cause a previously thriving herd of majestic dairy cattle to stop drinking water and start drinking … urine?

TED Radio Hour

Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

Socrates, by asking them questions, by teaching them philosophy, helped them realize they had a lot more options than they might have believed they had based on who was in power.

The Business of Tech

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

Boult's core advice is to treat every significant new idea as if it were a venture‑backed startup inside your organisation. That means giving it a dedicated budget, a finite runway, clear deliverables, and hard stage gates where the project must "earn" the right to continue.

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.

TED

Is Luck Random — or Can You Cultivate It? | Christian Busch | TED

Zemblanity is when something unlucky, unwanted or undesired happens by design because it's already built in. It seems unexpected and like bad luck, but in hindsight it was to be expected and avoidable.

TED

What to Do When You’re Told There’s Nothing Left to Try | David Fajgenbaum, Kiah Williams | TED

Sometimes motivation follows motion. Not the other way around. And so I think sometimes literally just by putting one foot in front of the other, you don't have to have 100 percent of the answer.

Mixed Signals

Joanna Stern On Quitting The Wall Street Journal And Building a Media Business With AI

There were so many things I loved about working at the Wall Street Journal and there were so many things that I thought I'm never going to be able to leave this. But then there were so many things that I also saw happening in media, you know, places like you guys uh included that I was jealous of.

Prof G Markets

Trump’s Iran Ultimatum — What Comes After the Deadline | Prof G Markets

If you're Iran, this is even before the deadline. I understand that Israel is the one doing the bombing, not the United States. But from Iran's perspective, those bombs kind of feel the same, right?

Compound Interest

Why Oura’s CEO Is Embracing Washington Regulation

I think peak subscription refers to subscriptions that don't deliver a lot of value because it's so easy I think to sign up for an app or you know a service and then maybe even forget about it and then six months later you look at say I haven't been using this or I haven't been consuming it.

TBPN

FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor

What I realized what she was doing was she was kind of testing my conviction, right? And she probably got a lot of calls from people who said, "Oh, I want to do this. I want to do that." And she's like, "Well, if you have the conviction in yourself to move out with no job, that shows you really kind of want it."

Pivot

Anthony Scaramucci: Trump Is Waging War With "A 12-Year-Old's Mentality" | Pivot

I have a 12-year-old's mentality. Uh, and when I'm moving stuff into the region, guess what, guys? I'm not using that as a leverage point. I'm using the stuff.

Prof G Markets

What War Does to an Economy on Edge | Prof G Markets

It's hard to see through fog. It's hard to measure an economy of the size and scope of the United States. It's even harder when we're in the middle of so much change.

TED

Is Luck Random — or Can You Cultivate It? | Christian Busch | TED

Serendipity is the active luck that depends on how we engage with the unexpected. Blind luck happens to us, and active luck, serendipity, can be cultivated.

Hidden Brain

The Debt Trap

We like to think that good financial decisions come down to discipline and basic math. But the psychology of money turns out to be deeply complicated.

Semafor

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on the NFL's Streaming Push, Iran Coverage, and Media M&A

You're trying to see where is the market going rather than taking a very static snapshot of where it is today.

Mixed Signals

Joanna Stern On Quitting The Wall Street Journal And Building a Media Business With AI

I've been thinking about it for a long time and it's hard. It's really hard to make this decision and I did not know for a long time if I would make this decision.

Prof G Markets

Brutal Quarter Ends With a Rally — But Risks Are Rising | Prof G Markets

When you're really kind of starving for accurate information uh you know out of out of both sides in terms of what is the condition of the straight of Hormuz uh how is it you know what what is the traffic look like? What is the potential for that to get back online? what is the the knock-on effect going to be for the global economy? all of these, you know, unanswered questions. Um, I think that just makes markets, uh, you know, a little bit more aggressive and volatile when you get any snippet of good news

Semafor

'Lobbyists Weren't Created in 2025,' Says DOJ Antitrust Chief

Lobbyists weren't created in 2025. They've been around for a long time. Um, and I think when you're I think the position, I don't speak for Andrew, but the position we try to take is we'll meet with anybody. If you want to come and discuss your matter, deal on the criminal side, whatever it is, we'll always give you an audience, but that doesn't entitle you to anything and certainly not entitled to outcomes.

It's Been a Minute

"Girl Math" does not add up to financial freedom | It's Been A Minute

At a certain point, we have to hold ourselves accountable as women and say, "It's barely been 50 years that we can even have a credit card, that we can own property, that we can do things in our own name." to be so eager to give up all of that and to go back into this place of voluntary helplessness and voluntary ignorance in service of a very specific kind of love to me is we just can't allow ourselves to do that.

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?

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.

Pivot

Are Insiders Cashing In on Trump’s Iran Talk? | Pivot

It's really amazing that he doesn't want other inputs like that may vary from his rich friends. It's just I find it it's just not good policy not to have people who doubt each other and debate it.

Fresh Air

America's first AI-fueled war is unfolding. How'd we get here?

Any system, particularly one that uses AI, will only ever be as good as the data that feeds it. And if they are drawing on a database that is old, the AI, if it's set up that way, can't do anything about that.

The Business of Tech

How AI is transforming the classroom, with Nadim Nsouli

I had suffered a personal tragedy in my life which made me reexamine what I wanted to do, and I decided that I wanted to try and build a school group.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Mitchell Green - Lessons from Cold Calling 10,000 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.464]

Unlike most firms chasing power law outcomes, Lead Edge is designed to deliver consistent returns by talking to thousands of companies a year, applying a rigorous eight-point criteria to filter down to a handful of investments.

TBPN

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

Against I would be worried about unknown unknowns. Pro. While there isn't much human data, the anecdotal evidence is pretty strong. Against anecdotes are not enough for me. Pro. Fair. It is for me.

TED

What Would Your “Deathbed Self” Tell You Today? | Lauren Deeley | TED

Our deathbed selves are so attuned to our core values that when we really take the time to envision and relate to who we will be in that moment when the veil between this life and the next gets thin, we act according to what really matters to our soul.

Throughline

The Ojibwe Nation

Because of this persistent migration pattern over a long period of time, if someone got too bossy or even just got too much influence, someone else was usually moving down the river and saying, "They're not my chief." So, Ojibwe culture tended to be very tolerant of cultural variation, but very intolerant of being told what to do.

TED

What You Know That AI Doesn’t | Priyanka Vergadia | TED

AI is excelling at identifying patterns. It understands data. We humans excel at understanding what these patterns actually mean in this beautifully chaotic world of human behavior.

It's Been a Minute

Don't get got by big MILK | It's Been A Minute

What I think this whole milk craze really boils down to is this philosophical belief that what is natural is best... the push for drinking whole milk is tied to this much broader view that the Trump administration espouses, which is that America can be great again if we can go back to this imagined historical era where the cows were roaming in the pastures.

Prof G Markets

The 35% Recession Warning Markets Are Ignoring | Prof G Markets

I realized I was walking around walking around sort of alone. It was either like I need to go deep in the pain and get drunk and get a lot more social or I need to go home.

Prof G Markets

The 35% Recession Warning Markets Are Ignoring | Prof G Markets

I realized I was walking around sort of alone. It was either like I need to go deep in the pain and get drunk and get a lot more social or I need to go home. And I just had sensory I was just overstimulated and decided to pull the rip cord and actually went home fairly early.

Fresh Air

Jill Scott is in her ‘auntie’ era

You're not even choosing what you actually like. There's always disturbed me, quite frankly, that you're not even choosing what you actually like.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web's homepage

It's basically impossible to sum up Yahoo's story over the last 25 years, but the short version is that once upon a time, Yahoo paid Google to run the search box on its website, and everything immediately went sideways.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web's homepage

Yahoo paid Google to run the search box on its website, and everything immediately went sideways. Jim calls it Yahoo's original sin.

It's Been a Minute

Is tech making us too obsessed with our bodies?

Having a lot of data about your health can, first of all, make you kind of obsess over that data. A lot of these companies give you numbers like you'll get a sleep score or you'll get like a readiness score or a strain score and it's like a game.

Compound Interest

Bilt’s Ankur Jain On Solving The ‘Four-Banana Problem’ And Gamifying How, And Where, We Live

Housing is your single biggest expense. Housing is the single biggest decision you make. And it's the center of your life.

Pivot

Scott Galloway Predicts a $10 Trillion Market Wipeout | Pivot

When you're handling a crisis, and this is a crisis, the death of civilians, especially children, is obviously pretty ugly. You acknowledge the issue, you take responsibility, and you try and overcorrect.

The Knowledge Project

[Outliers] J.W. Marriott: Building an Empire Without a Master Plan

his refusal to rely on forces he couldn't control allowed him to expand during the Great Depression while his competitors folded

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

Tell me is the biggest question you can ask, and it is the most powerful first question in any negotiation, at work or at home.

The Business of Tech

Australia's new unicorn and its digital twins

So what if you could build a living, breathing, physics based model of the entire grid, every pole line and transformer and watch how it actually behaves in a storm or when you plug in a wind farm or aluminum smelter sized data center.

It's Been a Minute

The end of the Civil Rights "superhero" | It's Been A Minute

We need group centered leadership. We need people centered leadership. And I think that's a much harder effort to thwart than it is when you just have one individual who has to represent all interests of all people.

The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

The $2 Trillion Risk Investors Can’t See | Prof G Markets

I think people are probably just beginning to realize that this is not going to be a two-day affair. It should be a two-day affair because if if Iran was run by a normal government that had the interests of its own people at heart, they'd have surrendered 24 hours ago or 48 hours ago because there's there's no way that they can win.

TED

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED

The history of technological progress and its accompanying regulatory frameworks teach us that our future with AI and robotics won't only be decided by these large, sweeping philosophical discussions, but through practicality, through the answering of thousands of practical questions that arise from the simple minutia of sharing everyday life.

The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

Scott's Early Career Advice, and Are Dating Apps Making Us Lonelier? | Office Hours

your 20s sort of dictate your trajectory into your 30s and 40s, and your ability to kind of get to the right positions in your 30s and 40s to really then aggregate influence and economic security are somewhat a function of the trajectory or the scale or the velocity you establish in your 20s.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

Tell me is the biggest question you can ask, and it is the most powerful first question in any negotiation at work or at home.

TED

“Stripped of the emotional component, fear is simply information” @MichelleKhare #TEDTalks

Stripped of the emotional component, fear is simply information. It tells us exactly what we need to know in order to progress.