Big Questions with Cal Fussman

How Not to Be Stupid

Igor Sibaldi is one of Italy's most original minds. He is a philosopher and scholar of religion who has translated War and Peace from the Russian and the Gospel of John,

Who Would You Break Bread With?

This is one of Cal's favorite interview questions over the years. Marc Champagne and Kelly Noonan Gores have used AI to take it to a whole new level with their book: You'

Take On the World in the Age of AI

When Cal first heard PTTOW! described as the Dalai Lama + Coca-Cola + will.i.am + General Electric + Elon Musk, he didn't quite know what it meant but he thought: That ce

The Psychology of Leadership Meets AI

In all of Cal's years of interviewing, no guest has come in prepared quite like Sébastien Page, Chief Investment Officer of T. Rowe Price. With the help of AI, Sébastien

Let's Go Vs. Whoa Whoa Whoa . . .

Larry Cheng on AI's Unlimited Upside Last week, the call was for regulation to keep AI from going too far. This week, the other side of the tug of war. Larry Cheng, co-fo

Gollum Goes to Silicon Valley: How SNL Framed AI

When a CEO who most of America wouldn't recognize on the street gets impersonated by Saturday Night Live, he stops being an expert on the news. He becomes a character in

What? Relationships Outperform Algorithms?

Cal becomes curious when he hears about a book that proves just that. He learns from The New Social Code that the most successful people aren't the ones who get the most

Mentors In The Age Of AI

Cal's ongoing look at how humans can get the best out of AI while avoiding the worst goes to an unanticipated place: Mentorship. In the time of a loneliness crisis, will

The Trip That Beats The Bonus

Three young girls leave the United States for the first time and head to Paris on a trip that has been awarded to their mother for extraordinary work. It lands them in a

Building New Muscles With AI

Cal goes to the heartland to talk with a man who's spent decades teaching kids how to build strength the right way for a conversation on how his training approach overlap

Tower 2 Fell On His Head: 25 Years Later

As the 25th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Cal replays one of the most powerful conversations in Big Questions' archive: his interview with Michael Wright, a survivor wh

The Future, Interrupted by a Tornado

Mike Bechtel doesn't just study the future — he makes a living seeing it before the rest of us. As a historian, futurist, and professor at the University of Notre Dame, h

Seeing the Path

Lachi is a blind musician who has produced GRAMMY nominated projects. She's also a GRAMMY trustee. And the voice behind Diseducation — a song built on the idea that the w

From A Chicken To Infinite

"If you want to know what life's like when you're not the apex of intelligence, ask a chicken."That's the line that Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning "Godfather of

Be Happy, Kevin's Here!

Everybody's telling you that AI is coming for your job. Kevin Surace is here to tell you what they're not telling you. Kevin's the father of the artificial assistant. A C

Can't Automate What She Did Next

A patient kept showing up in the Emergency Room. Most insurance reps would approve or decline each claim and move on. One customer service representative at Devoted Healt

Decoding The World

Cal has a suspicion that the little-known K Economy explains more about where the world is headed than most of what you hear on the news. So he reaches out to one of the

AI Takes Jobs. Byron Builds Them.

We've all heard how AI has been eliminating entry level jobs. Byron V. Garrett has a different story to tell. He's a Time Magazine Visionary Honoree and CEO of Genesys Wo

Welcome To Authentic AI

For the first time, you can ask Cal what you want to know about asking better questions. About your next podcast. A business move. A personal situation. Cal will get back

You Are Stronger Than Steel

The change in front of all of us right now may be the most radical humans have ever faced. Who do you want guiding you through it? Courtney Harrison would be an intriguin