Podcast episodes for a long work session
Long-form, steady, and not so gripping that you stop working.
Species of conversation
Talk Easy x Search Engine
Questionus Respondi
André Bormanis and Emily Lakdawalla on Life, the Universe and Everything
The Fact of the Matter
Samuel Andreyev
Pause
How to Have Hard Conversations with Celeste Headlee
Episode 91: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
Three Skills for Staying Calm, Sane, and Open in a Chaotic World | Krista Tippett
Our Favorite Ordinary Objects!
The Art and Science of Moderating Discussions
Good radio
No Such Thing As Internal Eyebrows
So much news this week and more to come next week
From the archive: The octopus and the android
Turbulence Ahead
No pivot!
EP 10: A thought-provoking chat with an actuary and TEDx speaker
"This great unresolved tension of modern life" - Monica Murphy & Bill Wasik - Sentientism 214
93 | Rae Wynn-Grant on Bears, Humans, and Other Predators
Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism
Let’s Talk About Balance
It’s not Complicated: The 230th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
What to look for
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Why episodes, not shows
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