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#82 – Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game

Posted March 21, 2020 • 00:38:16

Simon Sinek is an author of several books including Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and his latest The Infinite Game. He is one of the best communicators...

#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering

Posted March 19, 2020 • 01:39:01

Anca Dragan is a professor at Berkeley, working on human-robot interaction — algorithms that look beyond the robot’s function in isolation, and...

#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money

Posted March 16, 2020 • 01:35:31

Vitalik Buterin is co-creator of Ethereum and ether, which is a cryptocurrency that is currently the second-largest digital currency after bitcoin....

#79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution

Posted March 7, 2020 • 01:10:19

Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist, co-inventor of loop quantum gravity, and a contributor of many interesting ideas to cosmology, quantum field...

#78 – Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science

Posted March 5, 2020 • 01:09:40

Ann Druyan is the writer, producer, director, and one of the most important and impactful communicators of science in our time. She co-wrote the 1980...