Solutions with Henry Blodget
Episodes
Most Americans Support Legal Immigration. Why Can't We Enact Clear Policy?
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest issues in the last few elections has been… immigration. And yet: most Americans support legal immigration and a path to citizensh...
The Jagged Frontier: How AI Will Transform Your Job, According to Wharton's Ethan Mollick
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor and author of the Substack One Useful Thing, describes today’s AI systems as a “jagged frontier," where AI outp...
Can AI Digital Twins Help Us Grieve?
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What’s it like to talk to a “digital twin” of a relative who died before you were born? How will the increasingly lifelike digital representatio...
Reasons to be an AI Jobs Optimist
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
More than three years into the AI era, the predictions of an AI job apocalypse are still coming fast and furious. Here are reasons to be more optimist...
Why Elon Musk's AI Robots Will Look "Silly" In 20 Years
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk says humanoid robots represent the biggest business opportunity in the history of the world. But what problems do these robots actually solv...
Could AI Doctors Be Better Than Humans? This Physician Thinks It’s Possible.
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Robert Wachter has been a physician for decades, and he thinks that in the future, you might prefer an AI doctor over him (at least sometimes). ...
China Is Winning. How Can the U.S. Catch Up?
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. is falling behind in its economic competition with China. One potential solution? An expansion of executive power. That’s according to inve...
The Future of Mind-Controlled Computers, According to Neuralink’s Rival
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Elon Musk started Neuralink in 2016, he tapped leading neurosurgeon Ben Rapoport to join as a co-founder. But two years later, citing safety and ...
Solving the College AI Crisis
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Selingo is not impressed with how colleges are responding to AI. Selingo has spent decades covering higher education and work, and recently spoke...
Legendary VC Bill Gurley: How to Thrive in Your Career
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Gurley is a legendary venture capitalist known for backing Uber, Zillow, GrubHub, and many others. But when he started his career, he thought he ...
Why OpenAI Won’t Survive an AI Crash
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Venture capitalist, writer, and researcher Paul Kedrosky thinks it's likely that in the near future, an AI crash will cause widespread damage to the e...
How to Stop a Global Economic “Doom Loop”
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Economist Eswar Prasad believes the world’s economic order is stuck in a doom loop. While globalization has increased global prosperity, it’s also...
Your Devices Are Already Tracking Your Brain Waves. Should You Be Worried?
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Your devices could soon be decoding your most intimate thoughts. It’s just a matter of time, according to neurotechnology expert Nita Farahany. Ther...
Lessons from the Crash of 1929 for the AI Bubble
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
If we're truly in an AI bubble close to bursting, how do we avoid economic catastrophe? That's a question we bring to Andrew Ross Sorkin this week, wh...
Why Companies Should Embrace Remote Work
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The data is in: remote work is better for everyone. At least when it’s done right. Stanford Economics Professor Nicholas Bloom has been studying hyb...
Scott Galloway Says Men Should “Protect, Provide, and Procreate”
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Best-selling author, podcaster, and professor Scott Galloway is worried about men. He sees them falling behind and he thinks the left, especially, is ...
How AI Data Centers are Raising Your Electric Bill
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Electricity prices in the US are skyrocketing. What’s going on? We asked Vox correspondent Umair Irfan, who covers energy policy, to explain. Plus, ...
Business Insider Embraced AI. How’s It Going?
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Business Insider recently told its reporters they could use AI to write first drafts of their stories. It was a notable decision by editor-in-chief Ja...
How Can American Politics Recover from Trump?
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Harris, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Politico, is a short-term pessimist and long-term optimist. In this episode, we appeal to his optim...
It’s Time for Medicare for All
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1990s, Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler did something her colleagues at Harvard called “crazy:” she decided to work with a senator named Bernie Sa...
Kids Should Have a Driver's License Before a Smartphone
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have smartphones destroyed a generation? That was the title of a viral essay by Dr. Jean Twenge in The Atlantic in 2017, which first catapulted her w...
The New Digg Wants to Bring Back a Peaceful Internet
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Roughly 20 years ago, Digg was known as the homepage of the internet. The social and news platform was so big that Alexis Ohanian, the founder of Redd...
You Can (And Should) Change Your Personality
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Certain personality traits can determine how happy you are, sometimes more than income and IQ. That’s according to author and journalist Olga Khazan...
The U.S. Needs a Democracy Movement
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Applebaum is an award-winning historian and journalist who studies democracy and dictatorship. Her latest book, Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Wh...
How Mark Cuban Wants to Fix Healthcare
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban has set out to fix the broken U.S. healthcare system, and he’s starting with drug prices. In 2022, Cuban launched th...
How to Worry Less & Find Meaning with Happiness Expert Arthur Brooks
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Arthur Brooks has spent years studying the exact components of a happy life. And now, the bestselling author and Harvard professor has collected his t...
How to Actually Be Healthier
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jessica Knurick is a rare kind of academic: she's also very good at social media, and has recently gone viral for her criticisms of the MAHA movem...
How to Stop Russian Ops from Exploiting AI
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
According to a recent report from data collected in August, when prompted on divisive topics in the news, the top 10 AI chatbots spread false informat...
How to Turbo Charge Your Career (And Not Give A...) with Kara Swisher
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Confidence comes easy for Kara Swisher. It’s one of the reasons she walked out of class in second grade (she knew everything), and later built a car...
How This Company is Building Flying Taxis
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When will it be relatively normal to request a ride from a flying taxi? Within the next decade, at least according to our guests today: Stuart Simpson...
How to AI-Proof Your Job
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Harvard economist and researcher David Deming studies technology and the future of work. Lately, he’s been doing a lot of research about AI: he’s ...
How Paul Krugman Would Fix The Economy
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What would an actually good tariff policy look like? Can the U.S. ever bring back manufacturing jobs, and should it? How bad is the deficit and what c...
Introducing Solutions with Henry Blodget
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It feels like we’re drowning in problems right now. But for every one of our problems, there are smart, enterprising people working hard to solve th...