Podcast Episodes featuring Steven Johnson

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Interview With Steven Johnson and Tony From Berglund & Johnson

Live From LA - December 21, 2019 05:59 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratings
Today's Issues from a Christian Perspective on Live From LA - Weekdays from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm on 99.5 KKLA.

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12/19/19 - Interview With Steven Johnson and Tony From Berglund & Johnson

Live From LA - December 21, 2019 05:59 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratings
Today's Issues from a Christian Perspective on Live From LA - Weekdays from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm on 99.5 KKLA.

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Steven Johnson on Making Long-Term Decisions You Won't Regret [Ep. 4]

Airplane Mode - June 10, 2019 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 126 ratings
Steven Johnson's made a career of cracking complicated topics, having written 11 (!) books that unpack everything from neuroscience to the origins of good ideas. In this episode, he and Clay dig into Johnson's most recent, Farsighted, which deep-dives into the secrets of making long-ter...

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Steven Johnson on the Importance of Play and the Decisions We Make

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - April 02, 2019 01:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.3K ratings
How do we come up with ideas? How do we make decisions? And how can we do both better? Steven Johnson has explored this question and written a dozen books about it. In this playful, thoughtful episode, Steven has some fascinating stories, like how Darwin made the decision to get married — or how...

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Amanpour: Ehud Olmert, Yonit Levi, Steven Johnson and Joel Simon

Amanpour - March 04, 2019 21:27 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratings
Ehud Olmert, the former Israeli Prime Minister joins Christiane Amanpour to talk about the elections and the charges of corruption against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Journalist Yonit Levi discusses the wider context of what all this means for Israel moving forward. Our Walter Isaacson tal...

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CM 115: Steven Johnson on Making Decisions that Matter the Most

Curious Minds at Work - October 06, 2018 19:01 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 439 ratings
What if you could make better decisions? Even with the biggest, life-altering choices, such as where to live, who to marry, or whether to start a company? Steven Johnson, author of the book, Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions that Matter the Most, thinks we often face decisions like this with...

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Steven Johnson | Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World

Free Library Podcast - July 16, 2018 12:05 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
Watch the video here. Exploring the intersection of science, technology, and experience, Steven Johnson is the author of the bestselling Where Good Ideas Come From, Everything Bad Is Good for You, and How We Got to Now, which he adapted into a popular PBS and BBC series. Johnson is also the cre...

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History Through Innovation | Interview with Steven Johnson | 1

American History Tellers - May 10, 2018 07:05 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratings
The phone in your hand is more powerful than all of the computers that put a man on the moon, combined. In the age of supercomputers, driverless cars, and mail-order DNA testing it’s easy to forget that the journey to these incredible innovations was a lot of surprising moments. We’re f...

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Demystifying Innovation: A Conversation with Steven Johnson and Scott Barry Kaufman

OPEN MINDS Podcast - January 10, 2018 17:11 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Innovation is not just for start-ups. It’s a discipline, like marketing, like finance—and like those other disciplines, innovation needs structures that support it. In this conversation, psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman and bestselling author Steven Johnson dive deep into the inner workings of i...

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30 : Conversation with Steven Johnson and Tom Malone

Joi's Conversations Podcast - January 28, 2017 23:04 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 4 ratings
Conversation with Steven Johnson and Tom Malone about Emergence and Collective Intelligence. A longer conversation as part of an experimental Facebook Live stream using Soapbox.tv for my new Facebook group for Whiplash. A few technical problems, but interesting conversation so I left it all in...

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Steven Johnson: How We Got to Now

Stuff To Blow Your Mind - October 21, 2014 15:31 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 5.4K ratings
Glass, Cold, Sound, Clean, Time and Light. Just a random collection of items in the physical world, right? Not in the hands of science journalist Steven Johnson, who weaves a revelatory tale of technological wonders in his new book and PBS series, "How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made th...

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56 Steven Johnson - Innovations That Made the Modern World

Inquiring Minds - October 17, 2014 01:14 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 821 ratings
On the show this week we talk to Steven Johnson, author of the new book How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World. In it, Johnson argues that seemingly mundane scientific breakthroughs have changed our world in profound ways—impacting everything from life expectancy to women'...

Books written by Steven Johnson

Everything Bad is Good for You
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254 pages - ★★★ - 3.94K ratings