Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Seven Stages of Robot Replacement
27 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Kelly outlines 7 stages of robots/AI replacing human jobs
Caste and Class
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the differences between caste and class?
The Origin of Caste
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the origins of caste in US and in India?
What is Caste?
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the definition of “Caste”?
The Happiness Advantage
20 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are you willing to be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big lake?
The Practice
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the practice for content creators and knowledge workers?
Apocalypse Never
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is environmental alarmism? Why it has been taken too far?
Common Sense Investing
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Who is John Bogle. What is common sense investing?
The Magic of Thinking BIG
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why attitudes and thinking big is important in this day and age
Drunk Tank Pink
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the hidden forces in life that we tend to overlook? Let us start with an example of “Drun...
When Smart People are Bad Employee
13 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We talked a lot about talent density a while back. What about when the opposite happen?
The Hidden Life of Trees
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the secrets for trees!!!
Half Life of Facts
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keven reads “Half Life of Facts”. What are the limits on knowledge? How can we promote life-long...
10% Happier
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can meditation make us happier? More than 10% happier?
Exercise and the Brain
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What impacts can exercise have on the brain?
The Four Common Emotional Hooks
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the hooks that we need to be aware of so that we can avoid jumping into the “emotional ho...
Alpha Fold
05 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
LET US TALK ABOUT THE LATEST BREAKTHROUGH IN AI!!!!
Emotional Agility
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is emotional agility ?
On Attachment
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are we programmed with in our lives? The fist step to happiness is realizing your attachments
The Way to Happiness
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Another Anthony de Mello’s masterpiece
How to Create Business Culture
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ohhh, the classic topic. What does Ben say differently in this book?
How to Do Nothing
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How to resist the attention economy? What value we put on our attention?
Neuroplasticity and Autism
29 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the environmental factors that affect both the brain development and Brain aging?
The Case Against Gift
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Does gifting makes sense in an economic sense?
The Moral Limits of Market
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are markets really inert? Is everything for sale?
Keto Flex 12/3
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the preferred diet and lifestyle that can prevent or reverse Alzheimer’s’?
The End of Alzheimer’s
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the latest research on preventing and reversing Alzheimer’s disease?
A Life Without Debt
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We first touch on inflation and what would a world be like if we try to paid down our deficit?
Government Regulations on Deficits
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How does the US government regulates deficit? Do they really work?
Four Reasons for Taxation
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From government spending perspective, why is taxation important?
The Deficit Myth
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the common misconception we have about deficits. How can we utilize deficit as a tool to im...
The Definition of a Start-Up Company
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Thiel is well positioned to talk about the startup cultures. What is major take away from the ...
Marketing in a Post-TV World
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a post-TV world, what is the best way to persuade marketing effects?
Purple Cow Marketing
15 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How to find the “remarkable” in the ocean of “ordinary”? How to be the purple cow?
Why Buddhism is True?
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean? What are the similarities between Buddhism and modern psychology
Remote: The Trend of Working From Home
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What has it been like working from home for the last seven month? What would the future looks like f...
The Root of Inflammation
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I share why I have decided not to try out the carnivore diet?
The Carnivore Code
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s talk about the carnivore diet. Some biological evidence and also evolutionary proofs.
Introspection Does Not Lead to Insight
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the primary differences between introspection and insight? Why are introspection not helping...
The Three Blindspots of Self-Awareness
08 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the three common blindspots that we all should avoid in judging self-awareness
I matter ...
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On the topic of self awareness, I talked about the journal entry I did today “I matter ...”
How to Develop Self Awareness
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the ways we can do use to develop self awareness, how we can check if we are on the right p...
Introduction to Self- Awareness
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Quick introduction to self-awareness, why it is important in business ventures and personal developm...
What Would National Popular Vote Looks Like?
01 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What will it look like when we have national popular vote? How is that going to change our political...
What to do about the Electoral College?
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the best work-around for the electoral college?
Different Views on the Electoral College
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are some of the leading views on the electoral college?
The Origin of the Electoral College
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From now until the Election Day, we will talk about the electoral college. Today , we start with the...
The Drawdown Plan
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do we efficiently reduce or reverse global warming with drawing down the CO2 from the atmosphere...
AI and Jobs
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does Thomas think might happen to the job market when AI got more powerful?
Think Like a Rocket Scientist
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What can we take away the most from a rocket scientist’ s mindsets. From problem solving, motivati...
Five Rules for Using Narcissism as a Tool
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are some ways we can utilize narcissistic tendencies. Although there is a big red flag we need...
Narcissism in Relationship and Leadership
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do narcissistic people behave in a relationship or in leadership position? What are the upsides ...
Donald Trump and Narcissistic Personality DIsorder
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the criteria for NPD diagnosis? We dive in to them and talk about the case study for Donald...
How to Study Narcissism
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How should we study narcissism? What parameters should we set in the realm of evaluating people?
Narcissism By Definition
18 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are the clinical definition for “Narcissim”. What is the difference between a narcissistic pe...
Marks Memo: Fed’s Action
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Continue this conversation with Marks Memo. What actions have been done by the Fed’s and what are ...
Marks Memo: Coming into Focus
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Deep dive into latest Howard Marks’ memo. What has been the market behavior for the last two month...
Two Functions of Taxation
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the primary function of taxation? How should we approach tax reform?
Taxes and Ownership
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From a political philosophy perspective, how should we put more thoughts into taxes and ownership?
Practical Values and Stories
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We wrap up the series with the last two principles for contagiousness . Practical values and stores ...
Emotional and Public Factors
11 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the emotional and public factors in promoting “word of mouth” marketing
Triggers
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the essential qualities of triggers. What types of triggers drive “word of mouth” the m...
Social Currency
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is social currency, in what ways we can engineer Social currency to products and ideas. We have...
Six Principles of Contagiousess
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the main principles for spreading “word of mouth” marketing?
Why Things Catch on?
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the fundamental nature of “things gone viral”? How important is word of mouth marketing?...
The Early Life of Medical Insurance
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the origin stories of medical s insurance?
Being Wealthy vs. Getting Rich
04 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the difference between “rich” and “wealthy”? Why our society focus so much on presen...
Getting Wealthy vs, Staying Wealthy
03 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the importance mindsets that distinguish between “gathering wealth” and “staying weal...
The Psychology of Money
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do we rethink the field of “finance’. What are some of the better approaches to money?
October Challenge: 1x Speed
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keven explains his October challenge. Why he is switching back from 2.6x speed to 1x speed when list...
September Paper Book Challenge Wrap Up
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keven talks about his challenge in the past month? What does he feel like when only reading paper bo...
The Art of Persuasion?
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are some of the cultural shortcuts can help us better convincing others?
Evaluating Performances and Giving Feedbacks
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are some of the indexes of culture we can use to tweak our communication styles.
Working With Different Cultural Contexts
27 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do we adjust when we are working with high/low cultural context? What are the best way to manage...
150 Pages/Hour Trial 2
26 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keven talks about his latest 150 pages an hour challenge. Did he improve?
High Context and Low Context Communiation
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the key characteristics of high or low context communication? What are some of the key coun...
The Culture Map
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is culture map? What are the key differences between cultures are important to know for busines...
The Default Network
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is our brain’s default network? What are the benefits of it ?
The Idle Brain
20 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the benefit of an idle brain?
The Keeper’s Test
19 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does the keeper’s test mean within Netflix. How does Reed think of this “hot button issue”...
Dispersed Decision Making System
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why Netflix adopted dispersed decision making system. Why CEO is not doing their job right when they...
The 4A Feedback System
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Netflix is known for their radical transparency, and their feedback system. Here is the break down. ...
Talent Density
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why Reed cares so much about talent in his organization. Is this the secret to Netflix’s success?
Healthy Mindsets Toward Stress
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are some of the healthy mindsets toward stress? So we know we are on the right track?
Meaningful LIfe=Stressful Life?
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the relationship between a stressful life vs. meaningful life.
The Belief of Stress
12 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is actually more harmful? The actual stress ? Or the belief of stress?
Hot Hand Analysis
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Does the Hot Hand really exists, from an evolutionary biology or behavioral economics perspective?
Shakespeare’s Hot Hand Period in 1606
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1606, Shakespeare caught the hot hand. What were the hidden forces and circumstances that lead to...
The Hot Hand
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Does the hot hand really exist? Is there a pattern?
Understanding Your Dog
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dog behaviors are totally ignored by dog owners. How Keven came to a realization with his dog Hank.
The Effects of Digital Reading
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the effects of digital reading? What does negative Neuroplasticity mean?
Analogy and Inferences
06 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How does deep reading help us in making sense of the world?
Building a Reading Brain
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From neuroscience’s perspective, what happens to our brain when we are trained to read?
How to Teach Math
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Russell thinks Math should be taught right. How to approach it then?
A Philosopher’s Emotional Training
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does Russell think is necessary to build a philosopher’ s mindset?
A Philosopher’s Intellectual Training
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What counts as “intellectual” training for Russell?
To Become a Philosopher
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to become a philosopher? What does Bertrand Russell think “rational conjecture”...
September Book Challenge
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keven is going to take on a paper book challenge for the month of September. Does reading paper book...
Pixar’s Terrible Contract with Disney
30 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this final episode of the Pixar series. We take a look at Disney’s contract with Pixar. And how...
Pixar’s Commercials and Short Films
29 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What about Pixar’s commercials and short films in the early 1990s. Can they generate revenue or Pi...