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Why is modern sci-fi so dystopian? Our guest Chen Qiufan explains...

Chen Qiufan (AKA Stanley Chan) is an award-winning science fiction writer, screenwriter, creative producer, and columnist. He is the president of the World Chinese Science Fiction Association and the founder of the content development studio Thema Mundi. Chen joins the show to discuss his latest novel, AI 2041: Ten Visions…

“The subconscious is very persuasive…it’s afraid of change, and it likes to keep us consistent with what we’ve been doing.” — Todd Goodwin of Goodwin Hypnosis

“Hypnosis is not sleep, it’s not any form of mind control. No one who’s hypnotized by a hypnotist can be made to do anything against their will.” Here’s Todd Goodwin of Goodwin Hypnosis on what the movies get wrong about hypnosis...

“The mind is the core place where the problem and solution is." Here’s Todd Goodwin of Goodwin Hypnosis on symptoms vs. root causes.

Did you know that you enter a hypnotic state pretty much every day? 😵‍💫 😵‍💫 Todd Goodwin of Goodwin Hypnosis explains why...

Todd Goodwin is the founder of Goodwin Hypnosis, a hypnosis center based in North Carolina. He is a Board Certified Fellow of the National Guild of Hypnotists, a designation earned by only one in every 500 hypnotists. As well as working with thousands of clients since opening Goodwin Hypnosis in…

“Kids want to survive. They want to thrive. They want to learn….if you let kids have that freedom, they will find their own unique path that corresponds to their interests and their strengths.” — Nat & Martha Sharpe

“So that to me is the essence of solutionism…you might be calling out a very dire problem in stark and even alarmist sounding terms, and yet, at the same time…you’re looking for the best way to move forward with progress and growth.” — Jason Crawford

Nat & Martha Sharpe have been a creative team for over a decade. Nat was a film school graduate and Martha a storytelling enthusiast. They fell in love while filming a musical parody of "Beowulf" with their friends. After another comedy and two documentaries, they started having children. Focus shifted…

“Everyone can be fantastically wealthy in the future by the standards of today…And that’s the future that we should be aiming for.” -- Jason Crawford

“It’s just so easy to take all the progress in the modern world for granted.” Here’s Jason Crawford on how progress is “a gift from our ancestors.”

“Short story is that in the 20th century, people started to really question the very idea of progress.” Here’s Jason Crawford on why we need to study progress.

Jason Crawford is the founder & president of The Roots of Progress, a nonprofit dedicated to establishing a new philosophy of progress for the 21st century. Jason has written well over 100 essays on the history of technology and the philosophy of progress, and given numerous talks and interviews on…

“As soon as something becomes widely recognized as a status symbol, everyone tries to distance themselves from it because they don’t want to be seen as a status seeker.” Here’s David Pinsof on the volatile nature of our status symbols...

Here’s David Pinsof on why “happiness is bullshit.”

🌶️ 🌶️ “The way that people think about morality is very wrongheaded.”🌶️🌶️ Here’s David Pinsof on why morality is bullshit.

Here’s David Pinsof on why bullshitting is less reputationally damaging than lying...

David Pinsof is an evolutionary social scientist and a co-creator of the game Cards Against Humanity. He holds a PhD in Psychology from UCLA, where he studied the [evolutionary origins of political bullshit](https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1nk0c3dc), and has written a handful of academic papers, [one of which](http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/haselton/unify_uploads/files/Psychological%20Science-2016-Pinsof-0956797615621719.pdf) has been cited 152 times and…

Ever wondered why academic writing is always so boring? Here’s Dylan O'Sullivan's take...

Dylan O’Sullivan is a writer and media specialist based in Cork, Ireland. Dylan’s work has been published in magazines such as The Spectator and Areo. He is also the creator of Essayful, a Substack dedicated to becoming “a new home for writing.” Following his participation in David Perell’s Write of…

Here’s our guest, John Sills, on why senior figures in organizations often “don’t really want to hear the inconvenient truths” about how customers are engaging with their businesses...

Here’s John Sills on why businesses should empower their employees to be their “natural, creative, curious” selves...

“we’ve kind of gone from ‘customer is always right’ to ‘no, the customer’s probably wrong, and they’re probably trying to pull a fast one on us, and we need to be as defensive as possible.’” —John Sills