Philosophy

Philosophy

Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.

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AI researcher and author Ken Stanley wonders how our rear-view perspective on success fits into a serendipitous mode of innovation.
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Carving out time for useful reflection is among the most valuable of leadership disciplines, explains “questionologist” Warren Berger.
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"Business Adventures" by John Brooks was first published in 1969 and remains a must-read for all CEOs.
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Chip Conley — founder and CEO of JDV Hospitality and Airbnb’s former Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy — maps out an inclusive path from hindsight to wisdom.
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Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.
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Josh Kaufman — best-selling author of entrepreneurial classic "The Personal MBA" — explores an essential truth about all decision-making.
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Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
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In the 1970s, James Lovelock proposed that the biosphere was not just green scruff quivering on Earth's surface. Instead, it managed to take over the geospheres.
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7mins
90’s kids know him from All That, Kenan & Kel, and Good Burger. This is Kel Mitchell, who sat down with us to share how he persevered through some of the hardest moments of his life.
Unlikely Collaborators
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“The brain is never the same from one moment to the next throughout life. Never ever.”
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What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
A person in traditional attire works meticulously on a sculpture at a small table in a workshop filled with various art pieces and tools, drawing from deep geido knowledge to perfect each detail.
You will need determination, humility, and courage if you are to master anything.
A pencil fills in the first answer bubble on a multiple-choice test sheet, option "1" for question 90.
1mins
Testing is an attempt to measure intelligence. But is intelligence really what’s getting measured? A neuroscientist weighs in:
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1mins
In the series, guests read aloud questions that pop out from a gumball machine [literally!]. The questions, like “who would you be if you stripped away all of your identities?”, […]
Unlikely Collaborators
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From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity's journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.
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We must get happiness right — even when the world around us gets it wrong.
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“Not only does Mother Nature not care about your happiness, she knows that we need lots of negative emotions to keep us alive.” Harvard happiness professor on why suffering IS necessary:
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Can AI-powered “answer engines” replace the 10 blue links model?