NonTrivial
By Sean McClure
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NonTrivial is a podcast about the patterns that exist at the intersection of science, philosophy and complexity, and how these speak to universal principles related to skills, growth and life.
The longer you listen, the more you’ll internalize these universal principles and see how they inform your work, your ideas, and the way you shape the world around you.
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Stop Expecting Things
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May 03, 2026 |
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Humans Passing as Machines
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Get Yourself Distracted
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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You Don’t Need Cliches to Fix Your Life
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Stop Caring How Long Things Take
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Don't Educate the Mouth, Educate the Mind
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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Always be in the Zone
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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Protect Your Growth: How Not to Betray Your Own Evolution
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Learn by Exposure: Immersing Yourself into Real Environments
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Spend Before You’re Rich
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Finding Peace in the How, Not the What
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Essence Generates Abundance
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Relentlessness is the Mother of all Skills
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Chase Patterns, Not Your Reasons for Them
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Stop Prioritizing
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Doing It All in a Day: Nature’s Way
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Balance is the Decision
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Reading as Mental Training, and More
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May 23, 2025 |
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Build Your Life, Literally
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Let the Environment Build You
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Throw it In and See what Sticks: The New Engineering
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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When the Ink Fades; Why (and How) We are Now the Media
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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AI, Creativity, and the Benefit of Being Chased by the Machine
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Dynamics are Truer than Facts: How to "Win" Debates
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Life Goes Better with Guarantees
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Stop Offloading Your Memory to the Machine
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Infinite Palaces: The True Potential of the Mind
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Hover and Wait: It Eventually Works
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Be Niche, and Grow
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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You Should Be Reading at the Speed of Thought
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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You Only Need the Title to Make the Rest Work
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Work, Play, One Life
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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You Should Probably be Caring Less
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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You Have to Pick Up the Sword
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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What You Read Doesn't Matter
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Diversity Works if You Don't Force It
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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Is Music Only for Dumb People?
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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What Does "Smart" Look Like?
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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You Can't Learn from Scratch
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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The Difference Between Real and Polished
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May 28, 2024 |
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Is Death Irrational?
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May 21, 2024 |
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Nature is not Magic, Just Different: Why AI Shouldn't Surprise You
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May 16, 2024 |
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Round and Round We Go: The Circularity of IQ
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May 12, 2024 |
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Low Dimensional Thinking
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May 07, 2024 |
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Protecting Your Reputation is a Tragedy
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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People Who Understand Beethoven Don’t Play Beethoven
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Bet What You Know
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Get Yourself Triggered
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Stop Trying to Be Your Hero
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Don’t Let Schooling Turn You Into an Idiot
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Nothing Happens Without Critical Mass
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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To Be Brutally Honest
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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You Need More Bad Ideas
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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The Danger of Being Disconnected
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Finding Stability in Change
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Channel the Mystery
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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The Worst Time to Learn What You “Learned” in School Was When you Were in School
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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The Detriment of Passion: Why the Best Time to Work is When We’re Not in the Mood
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Choose Your Thoughts, Or They’ll Choose You
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Our Brains Know More Than We Do: Trusting our Mind’s Ability to Learn Automatically
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Do A Lot, By Doing Less
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Find the Slowness that Moves You
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Look for Conversations, Not Answers
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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How to Choose a Hero
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Make Life the Meditation
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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It Takes a Logical Mind to Listen to Emotions
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Building a Better World from Within
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Your Real Audience Isn't Born Yet
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Contentment is Better than Happiness
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Capturing Ideas the Moment they Arrive
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Seeing Past Narratives
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Nipping Temptations in the Bud
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Collaborating Doesn't Mean Being Nice
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Most Barriers are Imagined: Turning Intention into Lifestyle
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Do Many Things to be Good at Any One Thing
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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The Wise Don’t Silence Their Opponents
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Rewarding Dumbness: How Modern Society Filters Away Intelligence
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Turning Truth into Technique
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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"Discipline" is Really Just One's Environment
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Missing What Matters: How Today's Books Lack Authenticity
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Bewitched by AI: Showing is Not Creating
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Creativity Demands Less Options: How Structure Compels Originality
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Neuro-Nonsense: The Folly in Trying to Find the Location of Behavior
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Contributing Without Compromising: How to Meet Expectations, Our Way
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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The Structure of Intuition: Recognizing the Cost of Precision
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May 30, 2023 |
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Let Nature Choose Your Deadlines: How Focusing on Structure Beats Focusing on Time
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May 12, 2023 |
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Thinking Before Eating: A More Rigorous Heuristic
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Symbols, Connections and the Role Knowledge Plays in Intelligence
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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The Real versus True You: How Constraints Lead to Freedom
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Season 4: Announcement
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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The Dose Makes the Poison
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Looking for Time in All the Wrong Places
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Not Just Another Pretty Face: AI, Trust, and the Necessity of Error
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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Shifting Up: How Victors Let Nature Coordinate the Win
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Dodging Economic Reality: How Today's Economists Conveniently Misunderstand our World
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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You Can't Save America by Being an Informed Citizen: BONUS TALK
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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You Can't Save America by Being an Informed Citizen
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Wealth, the Middle Class and the Shape of Networks: BONUS TALK
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Wealth, the Middle Class and the Shape of Networks
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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Imprecise Destinations: The Continual Redefining of Democracy PART 2
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Imprecise Destinations: The Continual Redefining of Democracy PART 1
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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The Tractability of Calmness: How Uncompromising Leaders Fail
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Things Only Look Crazy When You Stand Too Close
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May 30, 2022 |
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The Immortal Library: Information, Resilience and the Benefit of Turmoil
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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The Tyranny of Explanation
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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A Return to Magic: The Illogical Roots of Progress
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Technology is Humanity
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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Foreseeable Catastrophe: WeWork and The Growth-Survivability Threshold
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Season 3: Announcement
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Science is Saying More, But Explaining Less
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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Snowballs, Free Speech and the Edge of Chaos
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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If You Want a Clean House, Invite People Over
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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The Best Preparation is No Preparation
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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If You Want to Learn, Ignore the Details
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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The Pattern is Not the Path
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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The Rich Don't Penny Pinch
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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There Were No Giants, Only Shoulders
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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Facts and Logic: When They Work and When They Don't (PART 2)
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Facts and Logic: When They Work and When They Don't (PART 1)
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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We Can't Create the Way We Consume
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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To Specialize or Generalize? That is Not the Question.
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Skill is Not What You Think it Is
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Jun 09, 2020 |