3 Takeaways™

Can Anyone Stop a President From Starting a War? (#318)

What if the president can act before Congress has time to stop him? As former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, former General Counsel of the Department of Defense, a

Angela Duckworth: Grit Isn't Enough (#317)

What if trying harder is sometimes exactly the wrong thing to do? Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania psychologist, MacArthur Fellow, and author of the #1 New Y

Why Doing the “Right Thing” Can Make Everything Worse (#316)

What can we do when doing the morally “right” thing produces worse outcomes? And what if some of society’s strongest moral instincts are preventing us from solving probl

The Hidden Weakness in America's AI Lead (#315)

Could America build the world’s best AI and still lose the AI race? What if the biggest threat to America’s lead isn’t China’s technology, but our own fear of using it?

Your Brain Is Hiding the Truth From You (#314)

What if your brain isn’t showing you the world as it truly is? Journalist, professor, and author of "A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness" Michael Pollan explor

Putin’s Real Enemy Isn’t Ukraine (#313)

Why would the world’s largest country risk everything to destroy a smaller neighbor? What is it about Ukraine that poses a greater threat to Vladimir Putin than any army

The Wild True Stories Behind History's Greatest Art Thefts (#312)

How does someone steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre and simply walk away?  And how did an even more brazen crew rob the same museum in broad daylight last year with jus

Alphabet (Google) Chairman John Hennessy on The Future of AI, Human Intelligence, and Leadership (#311)

Artificial intelligence could change almost everything. John Hennessy thinks we're still asking the wrong questions. As Chairman of Alphabet and one of the pioneer

How Charisma Really Works (#310)

Why do some people instantly draw us in? Olivia Fox Cabane reveals that charisma is not a gift. It is a skill - and most of us misunderstand what creates it. In this ep

Beyond Silicon Valley: Where the Next Breakthroughs Will Come From (#309)

Everyone knows where the last generation of great technology companies came from. The more interesting question is where the next generation will. Mehran Gul spent year

The Psychology of Influence with Robert Cialdini (#308)

Dr. Robert Cialdini, author of Influence - 5 million copies sold, and one of the most important books Warren Buffett says he's ever read - has spent decades studying

Mark Cuban: The Hidden Companies Controlling Healthcare, the Future of AI, and Why Not Me? (Part 2) (#307)

Most people think healthcare is broken by accident. Mark Cuban says it isn't. In part two of our conversation, he explains the hidden companies who really control

Mark Cuban: The NBA Thought It Was in the Basketball Business. It Was Wrong. (Part 1 of 2) (#306)

The NBA thought it was selling basketball. Mark Cuban thought it was selling something else. That insight shaped how he has built companies, evaluated opportunities, an

Once Upon a Stranger: Can Small Talk Lead to a Bigger Life? (#305)

What if those brief conversations - with a barista, a neighbor, or someone sitting next to us - matter far more than we realize? Gillian Sandstrom, a University of Susse

Former Secretary of Energy - Why Clean Energy Alone Won’t Keep the Lights On (#304)

The wind stops blowing. The sun goes down. What happens next? Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz explains why the transition to clean energy may be far more co

The Religious Cult Behind North Korea’s Power (#303)

We think of North Korea as a communist dictatorship. But Jonathan Cheng, the Wall Street Journal’s China Bureau Chief and former Korea Bureau Chief, says that misses the

Why America May Not Be Ready for the Wars of the Future (#302)

When people think about war, they picture missiles and mushroom clouds. But what if the greatest threats today are the ones most people never see coming? Christine Worm

The Global Power Shift No One Is Talking About – And Who’s Driving It (#301)

Most people see the world as the U.S. vs. China.But the real power shift is happening elsewhere. Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security and a fo

AI, Inflation, and the Dollar: The Hidden Forces Shaping the Economy Right Now (#300)

Inflation, interest rates, AI, tariffs, the dollar… Most people treat them as separate stories but actually, they’re not. Former Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jaso

Did Apple Accidentally Help Build China’s Manufacturing Empire? (#299)

“We trained a whole country.” It sounds like an exaggeration. It’s not - according to Patrick McGee, author of Apple in China. So what actually happened in China?