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BJ Campbell has a wide-ranging talk with Jim about article, “Social Justice is a Crowdsourced Religion“, reflects on the future of wokeism, and much more…
Continue reading Currents 024: BJ Campbell on the Woke Religion
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Michael Stevens talks to Jim about some of the ideas & stories in his book, The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science…
Continue reading EP106 Michael Strevens on the Irrational History of Science
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Christof Koch & Jim have a wide-ranging conversation about the science of consciousness and his book, The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread But Can’t Be Computed…
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Joe Henrich talks to Jim about some of the key insights from his book, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar & Particularly Prosperous.
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Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief, Terry Gainer talks to Jim about his views on the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol…
Continue reading Currents 023: Terry Gainer on the January 6th Riot
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Jim talks to Curtis Yarvin about his recent article, “2020, the year of everything fake”: presentism, history, COVID-19 response failures, and much more…
Continue reading Currents 022: Curtis Yarvin on Institutional Failure
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John Robb talks to Jim about the Jan 6th events at the US Capitol: intel & ops failures, opensource insurgency, social media, Trump, and much more…
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James Ehrlich talks to Jim about ReGen Villages: community types, de-urbanization & rural living, materialism, agriculture, and much more…
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Debora Spar & Jim have a wide-ranging chat on some of the insights in her book, Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny.
Continue reading EP102 Debora Spar on Technological Impacts on Culture
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Clayton Banks talks to Jim about essential tools & digital literacy, why & how he started Silicon Harlem, community dev, the FCC, and much more…