The Daniel Stih Podcast

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Solve the right problem. So the right answer becomes clear. I'm Daniel Stih—an engineer and first-ascent mountaineer. This podcast is about thinking clearly in a noisy world. Through conversations with experts and practitioners, I explore assumptions, test narratives, and examine how conclusions are formed—especially in problems where the obvious answer may not be the right one. Solo episodes focus on thinking perspectives. Guest episodes are conversations as research into how people think. Each centers on a simple question: What problem are we actually trying to solve? Across science, health, technology, and society, the goal isn't to tell you what to think— it's to show how clear thinking leads to better solutions. I also work with teams and individuals to make sure they're solving the right problem before committing serious time and money. If that resonates, connect with me at danielstih.com or on LinkedIn. Website: https://www.danielstih.com

Episode Date
Why Did My Human-Written Article Get Classified as 63% AI-Generated?
Nov 03, 2026
AI Writing: What's the Problem? And What's the Solution?
Oct 29, 2026
When Does AI Learning Become Copyright Infringement?
Oct 16, 2026
Where Did AI Companies Get the Music Used to Train Their Models?
Oct 14, 2026
Why Google's AI Can't be Trusted
Sep 28, 2026
Shared Experience ≠ Shared Meaning
Aug 10, 2026
Why Political Conversations Become Unproductive - Before They Even Begin
Aug 07, 2026
Are We Asking the Wrong Questions About Data Centers?
 With Jennifer Pelton
Aug 01, 2026
When Algorithms Reinforce the First Question
Jul 07, 2026
What Does "Taking a Break" Mean?
Jul 05, 2026
AI Music, Stolen Songs, and the Problem Nobody Seems to Be Solving
Jul 03, 2026
What Problem Does Air Testing Solve? (Jason Earle)
Jul 02, 2026
Data Centers, AI in Space & How Narratives Shape Our Future
Jun 28, 2026
What Happens When We Put Principles on Walls?
Jun 10, 2026
What Problem Does a State Believe It's Solving? Israel, Survival, and the Logic of the State
Jun 04, 2026
What Problem Is the Israel - Iran Conflict War Solving?
May 28, 2026
Communication ≠ Connection
May 14, 2026
What Does "Ceasefire" Actually Mean?
May 10, 2026
What Problem Are We Solving? The Roundup Case and the Risk We Assume
May 07, 2026
Why the Media Uses the Word 'War' (And What It Actually Means)
May 03, 2026
Are AI Models Trying to Avoid Shutdown? What Research Might Be Missing
Apr 20, 2026
Why Data Centers Use So Much Water — And What Everyone Gets Wrong
Mar 30, 2026
This Is Not About Beer: How Smart Sounding Arguments Go Wrong
Mar 21, 2026
What's Broken in Commodity Markets and Why the Supreme Court Is Involved - Noah Healy
Feb 08, 2026
Why America Feels Divided (It's Not What You Think)
Feb 02, 2026
Applied Sensemaking: Why America is Divided — A Systems Explanation
Jan 31, 2026
Behind the Thinking: Why Battery Fire Safety on Airplanes Is Backwards
Jan 29, 2026
Applied Sensemaking: Why Battery Fire Safety on Airplanes Is Backwards
Jan 28, 2026
When Style Outpaces Function
Jan 23, 2026
When Doing the "Right Thing" Backfires: Incentives and Hidden Risk
Jan 21, 2026
Greenland: Are We Solving the Right Problem?
Jan 14, 2026
How Money Is Created & The Federal Reserve - Steve Keen
Jan 07, 2026
Behind the Thinking: Venezuela and Why Simple Explanations Fail
Jan 05, 2026
Applied Sensemaking: Venezuela — Why Simple Explanations Fail
Jan 04, 2026
If the Economy Is Strong, Why Is Everyone Struggling?
Jan 01, 2026
Why "Healthy Eating" Falls Short — Rethinking Nutrition with James Barry
Dec 23, 2025
Geoengineering and Chemtrails - Facts, Myths, and Real Concerns
Dec 03, 2025
Remember Who You Are: Archons, Fear, and the Path to Freedom — with Steve Noack
Nov 25, 2025
Public Trust — How It Breaks (and What It Takes to Rebuild It)
Nov 21, 2025
Decentralization — What It Promises (and What Actually Changes) (Roberto Capodieci)
Nov 17, 2025
The Health Care Gap No One Explains—Until You're $20K Out of Pocket
Nov 16, 2025
Viruses — Why Some Think They Don't Exist (and What's Behind It)
Nov 12, 2025
Immigration Isn't the Problem — How to Think About Solutions That Work (Andy Semotiuk)
Nov 07, 2025
AI Is Making You Smarter… and Dumber
Nov 05, 2025
Was the Moon Landing Faked? A Critical Look at Both Sides
Oct 30, 2025
New World Order" — How to Think About Power, Coordination, and Control
Oct 26, 2025
How This War Ends - Daniel's Solution to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Oct 24, 2025
Russia's Endgame, The Truth About the War in Ukraine - Nikola Mikovic
Oct 23, 2025
Correlation ≠ Cause: The Problem With Mycotoxin Testing
Oct 22, 2025
What's Real? — How We Evaluate Claims in a World of Conflicting Narratives (John Abrons)
Oct 21, 2025
How War Timelines Get Rewritten (And Why It Matters)
Oct 20, 2025
The Questions That End Careers: Rethinking the Middle East Conversation
Oct 18, 2025
When Information Can't Be Trusted: Algorithms, Power, What We Know - Hrvoje Morić
Oct 14, 2025
AI and Truth — How Systems Decide What's "Accurate" (and What They Miss)
Oct 07, 2025
Content Moderation — How Platforms Decide What Stays (and What Doesn't) (Ryan Hartwig)
Oct 01, 2025
Climate Change — How to Evaluate the Claims (and What People Miss) (Lynne Balzer)
Sep 21, 2025
E - Evolve — Step 7 of The WHISTLE Method
Sep 01, 2025
L - Live It — Step 6 of The WHISTLE Method
Aug 30, 2025
T - Touch It — Step 5 of The WHISTLE Method
Aug 29, 2025
S - Start— Step 4 of The WHISTLE Method
Aug 28, 2025
I - Initiate Intention— Step 3 of The WHISTLE Method
Aug 27, 2025
H - What's Holding You Back? — Step 2 of The WHISTLE Method
Aug 26, 2025
W is for What Do You Want? — Step 1 of The WHISTLE Method
Aug 25, 2025
Mission Not for Sale: Plant-based, Green Goo Founder on Building a Purpose-Driven Family Business
Aug 24, 2025
Thinking Tool: Think From What You Know — Reframing Limiting Language
Aug 23, 2025
How to Give Good Advice — And Read Between the Lines When You Don't Get It Back
Aug 22, 2025
How to Respect Other People's Opinions Without Losing Your Voice — Talking About What Matters Without Anger or Fear
Aug 21, 2025
(OK TO USE) Feeling "Behind" in Life — Where That Idea Comes From (and How to Think About It)
Aug 19, 2025
Sustainable Landscaping — What Actually Works (and What Doesn't) (Matthieu Mehuys)
Aug 16, 2025
Modern Dating — What Apps Get Wrong (and How to Meet Real People) with Matt Cook
Aug 15, 2025
Thinking Tool: Thought Entrapment — Why "What Do You Think?" Is a Trap
Aug 13, 2025
Belief Analysis: Why Adam Grant Might be Wrong About Astrology
Aug 11, 2025
National Security — How to Think About Strategy, Conflict, and Space Defense (Col. Jonathan Lockwood)
Aug 08, 2025
Do EMFs Affect Mold Growth? — Results from a Simple Experiment
Aug 07, 2025
Thinking Tool: Words to Delete - Writing Lessons from The Elements of Style
Aug 05, 2025
When the Diagnosis Isn't the Whole Story (Dr. Jill Carnahan)
Aug 04, 2025
Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Exposure and Silver Scrubs for Healthcare Workers with Dr. Douglas Estrada
Jul 29, 2025
Say It Better: 3 Language Tweaks to Remove Confusion and Inspire Action
Jul 28, 2025
Data Privacy — What "We Don't Store Your Data" Actually Means
Jul 27, 2025
How I Think: Discover the Process, Not Just the Structure
Jul 26, 2025
Rethinking Success — What Matters (and Why It's Not Obvious) (Alex Kain)
Jul 25, 2025
Mold Exposure — What Actually Affects Health (and What People Miss)
Jul 24, 2025
AI and Networking — What Actually Works on LinkedIn (and What Doesn't) (Al Kushner)
Jul 22, 2025
Venting — When It Helps (and When It Makes Things Worse) - Courtney Stanfield
Jul 21, 2025
How I Think: Recovery Questions for Clarity and Insight. Using Language to Reveal Hidden Truths
Jul 21, 2025
Health Claims — How to Think About Them (and What to Trust) (Matt Cook)
Jul 16, 2025
Brain-Computer Interfaces — What They Enable (and What They Can't Replace) (Alex Kim)
Jul 09, 2025
Letting the Process Lead (No Click Track): The story behind the Reggae song "It Is What It Is"
Jul 08, 2025
You Are the Microprocessor: Why Thinking Matters More in the Age of AI
Jul 02, 2025
Solving problems when the ground beneath you is uncertain
Jul 01, 2025
Mold Remediation and Mold Removal: How to Get It Done Right
Jun 27, 2025
Thinking Tool: Using Identity to Stabilize Decisions Under Fear
Jun 24, 2025
AI and Coding — Why Knowing Less Matters More (The Hacker Mindset)
Jun 17, 2025
Leadership — When It's More Than Execution (and What That Means) (Charles Spinosa)
Jun 10, 2025
Achieve Any Goal in 4 Simple Steps
May 20, 2025
Living with Uncertainty — Climate, Collapse, and What Matters (Guy McPherson)
May 19, 2025
Grounding and Electromagnetic Field EMF Protection Products - Grounded or Misinformed ?
May 15, 2025
How Great Thinkers Solve Problems — Patterns from Da Vinci, Tesla, and Einstein
May 13, 2025
When Technology Stops Being a Safety Net
May 09, 2025
How to Stay Informed in an Always-On News Cycle
May 08, 2025
Mold, mycotoxins, mold testing, AMEA: Guest Andrea Hembroff on environmental illness and testing for mold
May 07, 2025
Mold Prevention — What Actually Stops Mold (and What Doesn't)
May 02, 2025
Smart Cities: How Tradeoffs Get Hidden in "Progress" Narratives
May 01, 2025
Health Optimization — Evaluating IV Therapy, Peptides, and Functional Medicine (Kimberley Verbeke)
Apr 30, 2025
Higher Education — Who Pays, Who Benefits, and What Doesn't Add Up
Apr 28, 2025
Public Lands — Who Controls Access (and Why It Costs More Today)
Apr 26, 2025
How This Song Was Built — When You Don't Know the Final Form
Apr 25, 2025
UFO Investigations — What Counts as Evidence When Clarity Is Limited (Rick Warner)
Apr 24, 2025
Scaling a Business — What Changes at $1M/Month (and What Breaks) (Jake Setterlun)
Apr 23, 2025
Goals Create Motion. Vision Creates Direction
Apr 22, 2025
Climate Change — An Alternative Perspective (and What It Focuses On) (Creative Society)
Apr 21, 2025
Lasers in the Sky — Questioning Claims About Weather Control and Weapons
Apr 19, 2025
How You Know When to Stop Changing It — A Creative Case Study
Apr 18, 2025
CIRS and Mold Illness: What I Learned From Testing, Environment, and the Mind–Body Connection
Apr 17, 2025
What Problem Is Sustainability Solving? (with Liz Entin)
Apr 16, 2025
Why Humans Struggle to Set Boundaries (Sheryl Green)
Apr 15, 2025
Climate Solutions — What They Target and What They Miss
Apr 12, 2025
Change the Frame — When the Rules Don't Work
Apr 11, 2025
Music Interpretation — What Changes When a Song Becomes Classical Guitar (Jonathan Taylor)
Apr 10, 2025
Alcohol and Behavior Change — Why It's Hard to Quit (and What Actually Helps) (Andy Smith)
Apr 09, 2025
Are Tiny Houses Solving the Wrong Problem?
Apr 05, 2025
Networking — Why It Feels Broken (and What Creates Connection) (Brandon Moses)
Apr 04, 2025
Self-Esteem: What Actually Builds Confidence? (Dame Clarissa Burt)
Apr 03, 2025
Walking — What Problem Is It Actually Solving? (Frank Ring)
Apr 02, 2025
Blueprints, Not Formulas: The Path to Purpose and Success
Apr 01, 2025
When the Symptom Persists, the Problem Isn't Solved
Mar 30, 2025
Space Force: Defense Against UFOs & Alien Invasion?
Mar 29, 2025
Fentanyl Crisis: How New Tech Could Save Lives — with VeriChem CEO Jay Letendre
Mar 28, 2025
Core Values — Do They Actually Lead to Success? (Brant Menswar)
Mar 27, 2025
Mind Power — What Can It Actually Change? (Testing the Claim) (Brent Webb)
Mar 26, 2025
Thinking Tool: How to Slow Down a "Should I Quit?" Decision
Mar 25, 2025
Daylight Saving Time — What Problem Is It Actually Solving?
Mar 23, 2025
Freemasonry — What's True, What's Assumed, and What's Misunderstood (Austin Shifrin)
Mar 22, 2025
When to Wait — How Timing Changes the Outcome
Mar 21, 2025
Music, Identity, and Peace — What Creativity Actually Changes (Rick DellaRatta)
Mar 20, 2025
Holistic Healing — What It Treats (and How to Evaluate It)
Mar 19, 2025
Education Policy — What the Department Does (and What It Doesn't Solve)
Mar 18, 2025
Contrails and "Chemtrails" — How to Evaluate What You're Seeing in the Sky
Mar 13, 2025
UFOs, UAPs, and the Socorro Case — Investigator Ben Moss
Mar 12, 2025
Food Prices — What Drives the Cost (and Where It Adds Up)
Mar 11, 2025
Vaccines — How to Evaluate Safety, Effectiveness, and Risk
Mar 08, 2025
Mold Testing: What You Need to Know Before You Test for Mold
Mar 07, 2025
NAFTA, Free Trade, and Tariffs: Problems with Canada and Mexico — and Solutions
Mar 05, 2025
Healthy Relationships — What Actually Creates Connection (and What Doesn't)
Mar 05, 2025
Solar Panels: Clean Energy Promise or Toxic Problem - Gary Ehlenberger
Mar 05, 2025
How to Stop Caring What Other People Think About You
Mar 04, 2025
Greenwashing — What Actually Matters (and What Doesn't)
Mar 01, 2025
Flat Earth with David Weiss and Why the Earth Is Round
Feb 27, 2025
History and Faith — How to Think About the Origins of Belief (Glyn Thomas)
Feb 26, 2025
How Progress Happens When There's No Playbook
Feb 25, 2025
When the Answer Arrives Fully Formed — A Creative Case Study
Feb 21, 2025
Maui Fires — How to Evaluate Claims About "Energy Weapons" (Steve Favis)
Feb 20, 2025
How People Make Sense of Extraordinary Experiences (Katherine Gillette)
Feb 19, 2025
Fluoride — What's in Drinking Water (and What It Does)
Feb 18, 2025
Your Bedroom Is Affecting Your Sleep—Here's How to Fix It
Feb 13, 2025
AI and Coaching — What It Changes (and What It Doesn't) (Dr. Hebenstreit)
Feb 12, 2025
Are We Already in 5th Generation Warfare? — Technology, Claims, and What to Trust (Steve Favis)
Feb 08, 2025
Sit With It — How Clarity Develops Over Time
Feb 07, 2025
What Games Reveal About How We Think and Grow (Ryan Jones)
Feb 06, 2025
Political Division and Peace — What Works (and What Doesn't) (Danielle Reiff)
Feb 04, 2025
Should We Ban TikTok? Smarter Solutions for Privacy and Social Media
Feb 02, 2025
Wildfire Recovery — What Actually Matters for Health (and What People Get Wrong)
Feb 01, 2025
Loneliness — What It Is, What It Signals, and What Actually Helps (Sukhvinder Kaur)
Jan 31, 2025
Creative Careers — How They Actually Take Shape (Shannon Malone de Benedictis)
Jan 29, 2025
How Living Your Purpose Can Change the World Around You
Jan 28, 2025
When You Become the Work — A Creative Case Study
Jan 24, 2025
Plant-Based Living at 82 — How to Think About Health, Claims, and Longevity (Michael Dorfman)
Jan 23, 2025
Fearless Under Pressure: Gina Casazza's SEAL Training and Kidnapping Experience
Jan 21, 2025
Is It Ever OK to Quit? — When Persistence Becomes the Problem (Gina Casazza)
Jan 20, 2025
Health Care for All: Solving the Right Problem
Jan 16, 2025
Are We Solving the Right Problem? — How People Approach Complex Issues (Mitch Francis)
Jan 14, 2025
Creating Something in an Unexpected Environment: It's Just a Scramble
Jan 10, 2025
Creative Work — How Ideas Become Real (When the Path Isn't Obvious) (Corissa Grant)
Jan 07, 2025
Career and Leadership — How to Make Decisions When the Path Isn't Clear (Dr. Benjamin Ritter)
Jan 01, 2025
Relationships — How to Understand What's Actually Happening (Michelle Hoffmann)
Dec 29, 2024
Age Isn't the Problem. The Number Is.
Dec 26, 2024
Ukraine and Russia — How to Understand a Conflict When Narratives Compete (Alex Craiu)
Dec 21, 2024
Public Speaking — What Makes a Talk Work (and What Doesn't) (Lauri Smith)
Dec 19, 2024
Technology and Humanity — How to Think About Change in an AI-Driven World (J.J. Jerome)
Dec 17, 2024
Catch Lightning in a Bottle: 7 Tips for Innovating and Breaking New Ground
Dec 16, 2024
Rethinking War: Ukraine, Nuclear Threats, and the Path to Peace
Dec 14, 2024
No Map, Multiple Paths — How You Decide Where to Go
Dec 13, 2024
Invisible Variables Inside Your Environment - Your Environment Affects More Than You Think
Dec 12, 2024
Trauma and Relationships — How Patterns Form (and How They Change) (Tammy Cox)
Dec 11, 2024
Authenticity and Branding — What Actually Connects (and What Doesn't) (KINGSLEY)
Dec 07, 2024
What's in Your Water? How to Test It—and Choose the Right Filter
Dec 05, 2024
Brand Differentiation — What Actually Makes a Brand Stand Out (and What Doesn't) (Barry LaBov)
Dec 04, 2024
Climate Data — What You Can See for Yourself (Using Python)
Nov 30, 2024
Designing a "Perfect Life"—What Actually Makes It Work? (John Novello)
Nov 28, 2024
Free Speech and Book Bans — How to Think About Libraries, Access, and Censorship (John Chrastka)
Nov 26, 2024
Your Book, Your Voice : Episode 1
Nov 24, 2024
Peace and Aid — What Actually Works in Unstable Systems (Jeff Hardy)
Nov 24, 2024
Building Products — Why Some Succeed (and Why Others Don't) (David Fradin)
Nov 23, 2024
Truth or Trickery: How to Spot Misinformation and Disinformation
Nov 22, 2024
Throw It Away — How Breakthroughs Actually Happen
Nov 22, 2024
Creative Expression as Emotional Communication (Dr. Diane Kaufman)
Nov 21, 2024
How to Reinvent Yourself and Live the Life You're Meant to Live at Any Age
Nov 20, 2024
Insomnia — What Works and Why It's Hard to Fix (Tracy Hannigan)
Nov 19, 2024
Communication — Why Some Messages Land (and Others Don't) (Darius Wallace)
Nov 17, 2024
Retirement — How to Think About "Enough" (and What People Get Wrong) (Dalene Higgins)
Nov 16, 2024
Following Your Dream — What It Actually Takes (and Why Most Don't) with Bill Robertson
Nov 12, 2024
Travel Photography — How to See a Place, Not Just Visit It (Ralph Velasco)
Nov 10, 2024
Menopause and Nutrition — What Actually Helps (and What to Question) (Alison Bladh)
Nov 07, 2024
Why Diets Don't Work — A Different Way to Think About Food and Health (Oliver Mankondo)
Nov 05, 2024
Life After Death — How to Evaluate the Evidence (Liz Entin)
Nov 03, 2024
Sexual Assault — Recovery, Boundaries, and Rebuilding Trust (Marie McKenzie)
Oct 31, 2024
How to Navigate a New Environment — Language, Culture, Hidden Rules - Australia (Adriana Cefala)
Oct 28, 2024
Leaving Everything Behind — What It Actually Takes (Solo RV Life with Jenell Jones)
Oct 27, 2024
From "Most Likely to Fail" to the NFL — What Actually Changes (Shawn Harper)
Oct 24, 2024
Why Things Cost So Much—and How to Fix It (With Noah Healy)
Oct 22, 2024
Intuition — What It Is (and How to Evaluate It) with Corbie Mitleid
Oct 20, 2024
Depression Treatments — How to Evaluate Options When Outcomes Aren't Certain (Dr. Rebecca Allen)
Oct 17, 2024
Photography — How You See Shapes What You Create (Molly Schlachter)
Oct 15, 2024
When a Near-Death Experience Doesn't Fit the Model (Kathy McDaniel)
Oct 13, 2024
Why Most People Struggle to Get Hired — And What Actually Works (Josef Stetter)
Oct 10, 2024
Minimalism — What It Actually Changes (and What People Get Wrong) (Stephen Warley)
Oct 08, 2024
Why People Use Systems Like Astrology to Make Decisions (Dolly Manghat)
Oct 06, 2024
Are Your Clothes Toxic? — How to Think About Risk and Claims (Jeff Garner)
Sep 28, 2024
How to Build a Career When the Path Isn't Clear (David Fox)
Sep 21, 2024
Voting Systems — How They Work (and Where They Break) (Amy Widestrom)
Sep 19, 2024
Divorce and Custody — How to Make Better Decisions When Stakes Are High (Rachel King)
Sep 17, 2024
Designing a Life You Love With Paisley Gamble
Sep 12, 2024
College and Career Decisions — How to Choose a Path (and Avoid Costly Mistakes) (Kelly MacLean)
Sep 08, 2024
PTSD Treatment — How to Evaluate Emerging Therapies Like MDMA (Jill Sitnick)
Sep 04, 2024
Writing a Book — How Ideas Become Something Real (and What Gets in the Way) (Maggie Mills)
Sep 01, 2024
AI in Healthcare — Who Should Make Life-and-Death Decisions? (Dr. Christian Yeasted)
Aug 25, 2024
Mold in Your HVAC Air Conditioning System & Air Ducts: Myths, Facts, How to Fix It
Aug 23, 2024
Retirement — How to Think About "Enough" (and Why It's Not Obvious) (Jeb Jarrell)
Aug 18, 2024
AI Myths, Truths, and the Future of Work — Industry Leader Manas Talukdar
Aug 11, 2024
Suicide Prevention — How to Recognize Risk and Respond (Frank King)
Aug 04, 2024
The Beatles — What We Think We Know vs What Actually Happened (David Bedford)
Jul 28, 2024
Career Decisions — When to Stay, When to Leave, and What Most People Miss (Stephen Short)
Jul 28, 2024
Fear — What It Is (and What Actually Changes Behavior) with Dave Albin
Jul 26, 2024