Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Episodes
Psychedelics and Comedy (with Sarah Rose Siskind)
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Read the full transcript here. What are the pros and cons of taking psychedelics? What goes into creating a good setting for psychedelic use? How...
Comfort Languages and Nuanced Thinking (with Kat Woods)
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Read the full transcript here. What's the best way to help someone who's going through a difficult situation? What are the four states of distres...
Meditation and Enlightenment (with Jeremy Stevenson)
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Read the full transcript here. What's a good definition of meditation that cuts through all the dogma and differing methodology? What are the tec...
Life Experiments and Philosophical Thinking (with Arden Koehler)
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Read the full transcript here. What is 80,000 Hours? What sorts of people should become entrepreneurs? How can you run cheap experiments on yours...
Death and Story-Telling (with A.J. Jacobs)
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Read the full transcript here. Are there more meaningful and ethical ways of honoring the dead than our traditional rituals? Why is it useful to ...
Aesthetics and Polyamory (with Sam Rosen)
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Read the full transcript here. How can we improve art museums? Does aesthetics need something equivalent to the effective altruism movement? What...
Education and Charity (with Uri Bram)
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Read the full transcript here. Are universities a cult? Do charitable interventions like de-worming work? How much should we trust the conclusion...
Negotiation and Psychological Immune Systems (with Julie Kheyfets)
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Read the full transcript here. How can we move beyond zero-sum, adversarial negotiations? What are some tools we can use to overcome physical and...
THINKERS Workshop (with Spencer Greenberg)
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Read the full transcript here. Why is it important to learn about cognitive biases? What are the various modes of nuanced thinking? What kind of ...
Lines of Retreat and Incomplete Maps (with Anna Salamon)
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Read the full transcript here. What does it mean to leave lines of retreat in social contexts? How can we make sense of the current state of the ...
Forgiveness and E-Prime (with Josh Castle)
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Read the full transcript here. What is the goal of this podcast? How does a person become a polymath? What are the conceptual difficulties surrou...
Learning and Goal-Setting (with Michael Simmons)
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Read the full transcript here. How much time should we set aside for learning? What are the most effective ways of portraying and communicating i...