Through Conversations
96 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 12 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAbout the show:
Exploring The Truth Through Conversations With The Most Brilliant Minds - a podcast where we explore the world's most pressing questions through in-depth conversations with the brightest minds on the planet. Each week, I bring on leading experts from a variety of fields to discuss everything from politics to science to philosophy.
My goal is to uncover the truth and provide my listeners with a deeper understanding of the world around us.
Join me on our journey to discover the truth through conversations with the world's leading thinkers.
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Noam Chomsky: On The Russia-Ukraine War
April 16, 2022 16:57 - 40 minutes - 32.6 MBNoam Chomsky joins me to discuss the Russia-Ukraine War. It is the second time he joins me on the show. This conversation heavily focuses on Chomsky's perspective on the Russia-Ukraine war, what needs to be done to end it, the likelihood of the conflict becoming World War III, and more. Given time constrains and the context in which we are currently living in, I was unable to ask him deeper questions on self-reliance, his definition of wisdom, linguistics, and government. If you're intere...
Annie Murphy Paul: Thinking Outside the Brain
February 28, 2022 17:01 - 38 minutes - 31.2 MBAnnie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, and The Best American Science Writing, among many other publications. She is the author of Origins, The Cult of Personality, and now The Extended Mind. Get The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain now Highlights: 1:00 Why is The Extended Mind a Great Read? 3:50 The role of intuition in our decision making process. 6:30 Antonio Demasio's Mind-Blowing Gamb...
Amitai Etzioni: The New Golden Rule
February 12, 2022 13:33 - 25 minutes - 20.7 MBProfessor Amitai Etzioni, 93 years old, is the founder and curator of Civil Dialogues. Professor Etzioni taught at Columbia, Harvard, and Berkeley, and was a Senior Advisor to the Carter White House. His books include The Spirit of Community and Reclaiming Patriotism. Join Amitai on civildialogues.org. Civil Dialogues was launched by the Communitarian Network, a non-profit corporation dedicated to finding constructive solutions to social problems through morally informed policy analysis an...
Rebecca Schwarzlose: The Maps Within Our Brain
January 27, 2022 18:58 - 37 minutes - 29.7 MBRebecca Schwarzlose is a cognitive neuroscientist researching the developing brain at Washington University in St. Louis. She received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from M.I.T. and has served as chief editor of the scholarly journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Her work on Brainscapes was supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology. More information about the author, her work, and her writing is available at www.gardenofthem...
David Buss: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault.
January 02, 2022 18:34 - 52 minutes - 42.2 MBDavid Michael Buss (born April 14, 1953) is an American evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, researching human sex differences in mate selection. He is considered one of the founders of evolutionary psychology. Buss earned his PhD in psychology at University of California, Berkeley in 1981. David's Website: https://labs.la.utexas.edu/buss/david-buss/ Highlights: 0:00 David's Bio 1:20 David's Trajectory Into Studying Evolutionary Psychology 4:00 Mating From an ...
Sarah Martins Da Silva: The Infertility Crisis.
December 12, 2021 18:29 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBSarah Martins da Silva is a fertility specialist working at the Assisted Conception Unit (IVF clinic), Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. She is also a Senior Lecturer in Reproductive Medicine at University of Dundee and runs a translational research programme focussed around male infertility, sperm biology and drug discovery. She was recognised for her research in 2019 and named as one of the most inspiring and influential women from around the world by BBC 100 women. Follow Dr. da Silva on Twitt...
Roman Krznaric: One Year Ago
November 11, 2021 17:45 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBIn this conversation we discussed the many ways in which we can be Good Ancestors, from redesigning our political systems so they can take into account the long-term, how can individuals, such as you and me, live a lifestyle that makes us a Good Ancestor, we discuss six types of long-term thinking, and much more. --- Website - www.romankrznaric.com Buy the book here with a 20% discount. Twitter - @romankrznaric Watch Roman's newest TED Talk here — Highlights — (5:56) The Good Ancestor...
Jacob Lund Fisker: Early Retirement Extreme
November 01, 2021 15:18 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBWebsite - http://earlyretirementextreme.com Twitter - @ExtremeJacob --- Highlights — 0:35 "Independence is not something one has but rather is something one is" - Jacob Lund Fisker 5:31 Re-Educating Ourselves to Be More Resilient. 7:34 How to stop living on a consumer lifestyle. 12:00 The ingredients to becoming free. 16:05 How do you answer the question of "who are you"? 23:45 What is the natural state of a human? 24:20 Primitive Humanity vs. Modern Humanity. 29:02 How can we coll...
Anil Seth: Being You, Identity, and Our Brain's Best Guess of What's Out There.
September 20, 2021 23:01 - 35 minutes - 28.5 MBAnil Seth's mission is to advance the science of consciousness, and to use its insights for the benefit of medicine, technology, and society. Anil is a Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. His new book, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness is a Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller and Guardian Book of the Week. Anil's 2017 main-stage TED talk has more than 12 million views and is one of TED’s most popular science talks. His 2018 conversation with...
John Vervaeke: The Self, Truth, and Zombies.
August 30, 2021 02:23 - 1 hour - 51 MBThis is my second interview with Professor John Vervaeke. We discuss deep ideas related to the self and ones interaction with the world. Professor Vervaeke is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. He currently teaches courses in the Psychology department on thinking and reasoning with an emphasis on insight problem solving, cognitive development with an emphasis on the dynamical nature of development, and higher cognitive processes with an emphasis on intelligence, rationality...
Tony Ewing: How To Conquer Risk.
July 03, 2021 20:15 - 28 minutes - 23 MBTony Ewing is a Princeton-trained, Behavioral Consultant, Trainer & Motivational Speaker who leads a team of behavioral science consultants dedicated to helping professionals and their companies build resilience, acquire mentally tough leadership and overcome crises and competitive challenges. Tony has worked in over 50 countries across 4 continents with top leaders from over 500 organizations, including Google, Apple, Goldman Sachs, and many others. Tony is a former PhD student of Nobel La...
Nicholas Christakis: Pandemics, Human Nature, and Our Evolutionary Biology.
June 01, 2021 01:04 - 45 minutes - 36.2 MBToday I am joined by Nicholas Christakis. Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. His work is in the fields of network science, biosocial science, and behavior genetics. He directs the Human Nature Lab and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. Website -https://humannaturelab.net/christakis Buy His Newest Book Here: Apollo's Arrow Buy Blueprint Here --- Highlights --- (3:50) Apollos' Arrow:...
Alexander Rose: Adversity Breeds Longevity
May 07, 2021 18:45 - 38 minutes - 30.8 MBAlexander Rose is an industrial designer and has been working with The Long Now Foundation and computer scientist Danny Hillis since 01997 to build a monument scale, all mechanical 10,000 Year Clock. Alexander speaks about the work of The Long Now Foundation all over the world at venues ranging from the TED conference to corporations and government agencies. For more information on Alexander Rose and The Long Now Foundation, visit https://longnow.org — Highlights — (0:01:40) What will peo...
Noam Chomsky: Knowing Oneself, Rethinking Governance, and Improving The World.
April 19, 2021 04:00 - 30 minutes - 24.9 MB“Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the humanities―and is the only writer among them still alive.” ―The Guardian Professor Chomsky does not need any introduction. I am very grateful with him for joining me in discussion on deep issues, such as what it means to know oneself in this reality, is reality shaped by language, can we engage with truth in today's reality, how to rethink governance, and more! Hope you enjoy it! --- Highligh...
Philip Goff: Panpsychism, Multiple Personalities, and Consciousness.
April 02, 2021 20:37 - 57 minutes - 47.1 MBDr Philip Goff is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Durham University. His research focuses on how to integrate consciousness into our scientific world view. He has authored an academic book with Oxford University Press – Consciousness and Fundamental Reality – and a book aimed at a general audience – Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness. --- Website - https://www.philipgoffphilosophy.com Twitter - @Philip_Goff Book - Galileo's Error: Foundations for a Ne...
Ashley Mears: Very Important People, Aspirational Dating, and Potlatches.
March 15, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBAshley Mears works primarily at the intersections of economic, gender, and cultural sociology. She studies how societies value people and things. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, and featured in outlets like the New York Times, The BBC, The Economist, NPR, and Chinese Cosmo. In this conversation we discuss her newest book, Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit and the implications of it f...
Jim O'Shaughnessy - The Tao of Jim, The Matrix, and The Stock Market
March 01, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBJim O’Shaughnessy is the Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM). Thanks Stewart Alsop III for connecting me with Jim. Having the chance to talk with Jim has been truly enlightening as we covered deep ideas regarding the realness of reality, Jed Mckenna's influence on how Jim sees the world, how to shift from a mindset built around beliefs to one empowered by mental models, how does the stock market function as a metaphor for life itself, and much m...
Lorcan Finnegan - Vivarium, Modern Society, and The Cycle of Life
February 11, 2021 18:49 - 45 minutes - 37.2 MBToday Lorcan Finnegan Joins me. Lorcan is a Director and a writer. His new film VIVARIUM premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2019 in competition at Critic’s Week and won The Gan Foundation Distribution Award. Vivarium has been described as one of the best sci-fi, psychological drama movies by many viewers. Vivarium explores many ideas surrounding the human cycle of life, modernity and the disconnection with nature, and how outside expectations influence our decisions which in turn shape ...
Matias Del Campo - Design, Architecture, and Artificial Intelligence
January 27, 2021 00:20 - 50 minutes - 40.1 MBMatias del Campo is a registered architect, designer and educator. He is Associate Professor at Taubman College for Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan. --- Website - https://span-arch.org & https://www.digitalfutures.world --- Highlights — 2:36 Matias' Trajectory 7:20 What exactly is Artificial Intelligence? 9:20 The impact of Artificial Intelligence on Architecture. 11:15 Will Artificial Intelligence become a new species? 13:01 Autopoiesis and Artificial Intelli...
David Sax - The Soul of An Entrepreneur
January 13, 2021 03:24 - 52 minutes - 44.9 MBDavid Sax is a writer and reporter who specializes in business and culture. His previous book,The Revenge of Analog, was a #1 Washington Post bestseller, was selected as one of Michiko Kakutani's top ten books of 2016 for the New York Times, and has been translated into six languages. He also won a James Beard award for his first book, Save the Deli. He lives in Toronto. In this conversation we discuss his newest book, The Soul of An Entrepreneur, a "rich, searching story about the reality ...
Mayor Francis Suarez — Miami: The City of The Future
January 05, 2021 05:00 - 13 minutes - 10.6 MBFrancis X. Suarez is the 33rd Mayor of Miami. As the first Miami-born mayor, he is committed to building a Miami that lasts forever and that welcomes everyone. --- Website - https://www.miamigov.com/Home --- Highlights — 1:57 Mayor Suarez' trajectory. 2:59 Insights the Mayor has had during his trajectory that he'd wish everybody knew. 5:27 What are the main values the Mayor has learned from Miami's community? 6:39 Why is it essential for Miami to foster an entrepreneurial, innovative...
Awakening From The Matrix - Stewart Alsop III
December 29, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 53.2 MBStewart Alsop III joins me. He is the host of Crazy Wisdom Podcast. Instead of asking people what they do, he asks people why they do it. --- Twitter - @StewartalsopIII Podcast - Crazy Wisdom Podcast --- Highlights — 3:30 Stewart's approach to interviews 6:00 How should we use Twitter? 7:30 Are we curious by nature? 8:34 "Question asking is one of the most courageous things we can do" - WOW 10:00 Are we able to cope with uncertainty? 13:19 The best thing we can do is to awaken. 15...
The Genome Factor
December 16, 2020 14:25 - 56 minutes - 45.8 MBDalton Conley is the Henry Putnam University Professor in Sociology and a faculty affiliate at the Office of Population Research and the Center for Health and Wellbeing. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and in a pro bono capacity he serves as Dean of Health Sciences for the University of the People, a tuition-free, accredited, online college committed to expanding access to higher education. Conley’s scholarship has primarily dealt with ...
The Return of Race Science
December 02, 2020 03:25 - 56 minutes - 45.2 MBAngela Saini is an award-winning British science journalist and broadcaster. She presents science programmes on the BBC, and her writing has appeared in New Scientist, The Sunday Times, National Geographic and Wired. Her latest book, Superior: the Return of Race Science, was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and named a book of the year by The Telegraph, Nature and Financial Times. Her previous book, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, has been translated into thirteen languages. Ang...
The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
November 18, 2020 01:43 - 43 minutes - 35.1 MBCharles Murray is a New York Times bestseller, political researcher and scholar, and the F.A. Hayek Emeritus Chair in Culture Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. In his latest book, “Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class”, he describes recent developments in genetics and neuroscience that are transforming the social sciences. In this conversation, we discuss his newest book, “Human Diversity” in which he argues that advances in genetics and neuroscience are over...
How to Think Long-Term in a Short-Term World.
November 03, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBRoman Krznaric is a public philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to change society. His books, including Empathy, The Wonderbox and Carpe Diem Regained, have been published in more than 20 languages. His new book, The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World, has been described by U2’s The Edge as ‘the book our children’s children will thank us for reading’. Think about it for a second, you and I are living in the one and only planet we currently know for sure t...
Upgrading Your Life With Chris Williamson
October 22, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 52.1 MBToday Chris Williamson joins me. Chris hosts a podcast called Modern Wisdom, owns an events company in the UK and coaches people to get more out of life. He thinks a lot about how to live a good life, finding one's purpose, maximizing human performance, productivity, fitness and psychology. In this conversation we dive deep into what makes Modern Wisdom such a unique podcast. We also discuss his newest ebook named The Ultimate Life Hacks List where Chris has compiled over 200 ways of upgrad...
Explaining Postmodernism
October 06, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBStephen R. C. Hicks is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois, USA, Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and Senior Scholar at The Atlas Society. Dr. Hicks received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Guelph, Canada, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. He has published five books: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Nietzsche and the Nazis. Th...
Daring to Feel
September 22, 2020 04:00 - 48 minutes - 39.1 MBShoshana Berger is senior editorial director at IDEO, where she has worked on projects ranging from the end of life to modern Judaism to school lunch. She led the launch of IDEO’s publishing platform and of Blueprint, its first large-scale conference. Before IDEO, Shoshana was a senior editor at WIRED, and wrote for the New York Times, Fast Company, TIME, WIRED, and Quartz. In her 20s, she cofounded the DIY design magazine, ReadyMade, later turning it into a book, Ready Made: How to Make (Al...
Living Architecture - Part Two
September 10, 2020 04:00 - 43 minutes - 35.3 MBRachel Armstrong is Professor of Experimental Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, United Kingdom and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent, KU Leuven, Belgium. Her career is characterised by design thinking as a fusion element for interdisciplinary expertise. She creates multi-disciplinary research teams to address strategic and even “wicked” real world problems through conceptually pioneering design prototy...
Living Architecture - Part One
September 03, 2020 04:00 - 42 minutes - 34.8 MBRachel Armstrong is Professor of Experimental Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, United Kingdom and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent, KU Leuven, Belgium. Her career is characterised by design thinking as a fusion element for interdisciplinary expertise. She creates multi-disciplinary research teams to address strategic and even “wicked” real world problems through conceptually pioneering design prototy...
Leaders of Nature
August 20, 2020 04:00 - 51 minutes - 41.6 MBWhere do we come from, what makes us human? What does it really mean to be a social animal? Isabel Behncke is a scientist, a field ethologist who studies the social behavior of animals, including humans. She has a PhD from Oxford, a Masters from Cambridge and two more degrees from University College London. Originally from Chile, Isabel was the first South American following great apes in the wild, she walked more than 3,000 km in the Congo jungle studying a community of wild bonobos, our ...
Climate Change: Creeping Normality
August 06, 2020 10:30 - 28 minutes - 23.7 MBSteve Oldham is Chief Executive Officer of Carbon Engineering Ltd. (CE), a Canadian-based clean energy company. CE is focused on the deployment of groundbreaking Direct Air Capture technology that captures carbon dioxide directly out of the atmosphere so it can be stored deep underground or turned into clean transportation fuels. Steve brings more than 20 years of executive experience to CE’s team, stemming from previous positions in technology, robotics, and aerospace sectors. He has playe...
Redesigning Sports
May 01, 2020 00:44 - 56 minutes - 45.5 MBDavid Samson spent 18 seasons in Major League Baseball and 16 as President of the Miami Marlins. In 2017, he was the second-longest tenured team President in MLB and was one of only seven current Presidents to have presided over a World Series champion. In 2017, Samson completed the negotiation to sell the Miami Marlins to a group led by Derek Jeter and Bruce Sherman for $1.2B. Samson acted as Chief Negotiator in the process. In 2019, Nothing Personal with David Samson made it...
Impossible Conversations During Lockdown - Part Two
April 15, 2020 14:00 - 45 minutes - 36.8 MBDr. Peter Boghossian is a full time faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Portland State University, an Affiliated Assistant Professor at Oregon Health Science University in the Department of General Internal Medicine, and a visiting fellow at Reason Foundation think tank. He’s an international speaker for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason and the Center for Inquiry, and has an extensive publication record across multiple domains of thought. His popular pieces...
Impossible Conversations During Lockdown - Part One
March 26, 2020 01:32 - 57 minutes - 46.7 MBDr. Peter Boghossian is a full time faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Portland State University, an Affiliated Assistant Professor at Oregon Health Science University in the Department of General Internal Medicine, and a visiting fellow at Reason Foundation think tank. He’s an international speaker for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason and the Center for Inquiry, and has an extensive publication record across multiple domains of thought. His popular pieces...
Building The Future
March 18, 2020 16:32 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBIn this episode, Andrew Maynard joins us. He is a scientist, author, and one of the nation’s leading thinkers on socially responsible and ethical innovation. His work involves exploring the socially responsible and responsive development of emerging and converging technologies, including synthetic biology and gene editing, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence. As Director of the ASU Risk Innovation Lab, he is pushing the boundaries of how we think about risk and learn to succeed as...
Migrating To Prison
February 20, 2020 13:34 - 56 minutes - 52 MBCésar Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is a professor of law at the University of Denver and an immigration lawyer. He runs the blog Crimmigration.com and regularly speaks on immigration issues. He has appeared in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, the BBC, and many other media outlets. A native of McAllen, TX, a city at the heart of the American immigration debate, he now lives in Denver. He is also the writer of the book Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up ...
The Sacredness Of Meaning
February 04, 2020 01:50 - 1 hour - 82.2 MBThrough Conversations Podcast welcomes 2020 with an epic dialogue with Professor John Vervaeke. Professor Vervaeke is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. He currently teaches courses in the Psychology department on thinking and reasoning. He also teaches courses in the Cognitive Science program. Professor Vervaeke has published articles on relevance realization, general intelligence, mindfulness, flow, metaphor, and wisdom. He is first author of the book Zombies in Western C...
The Rise of Hate Speech
December 20, 2019 15:29 - 50 minutes - 40.4 MBHey everyone! I am super excited to bring you this edition of Through Conversations Podcast, featuring the impressive Professor Katharine Gelber. Professor Gelber is Head of the School of Political Science and International Studies, and Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her expertise is in freedom of speech and speech regulation. Her most recent book is called Free Speech in the Digital Age where she analyzes from a range of disciplinary pers...
Dehumanization And How to Resist it
December 11, 2019 02:39 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBWelcome to this edition of Through Conversations Podcast. This episode featured David Livingstone Smith. He is a philosopher who investigates the dark side of human nature. David is a professor of philosophy at the University of New England. He has published many books, including Freud's Philosophy of the Unconscious, Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind, The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War, and Less Than Human: Why We Demean, E...
Everybody Lies: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
December 03, 2019 19:20 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBWelcome back to another edition of Through Conversations Podcast. This time Seth Stephens-Davidowitz joins us. Seth is an author, data scientist, and speaker who studies what we can learn about people from new, internet data sources. His 2017 book Everybody Lies was a New York Times bestseller and an Economist Book of the Year. Seth is a contributing op-ed writer for the New York Times and has worked as a visiting lecturer at the Wharton School and a data scientist at Google. He received his...
Douglas Rushkoff Leads Team Human
November 25, 2019 22:52 - 53 minutes - 43.8 MBHey everyone! This episode was a very, very awesome experience. I had a lot of fun talking with Douglas Rushkoff. He has been named by MIT as one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals". He is an author and documentarian, studying human autonomy in the digital age. He has published twenty books including the just-published Team Human, based on his podcast, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Vir...
1: The Square and The Tower
November 15, 2019 18:41 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBHey everyone, today’s episode is with Niall Ferguson: Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and a senior fellow of the Center for European Studies, Harvard. He has written fifteen books, including: The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook; The House of Rothschild I and II;The Ascent of Money and, The Great Degeneration. We had a very interesting conversation, we touched on many relevant topics, including his thoughts 3 ...
Niall Ferguson
November 15, 2019 18:41 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBHey everyone, today’s episode is with Niall Ferguson: Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and a senior fellow of the Center for European Studies, Harvard. He has written fifteen books, including: The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook; The House of Rothschild I and II;The Ascent of Money and, The Great Degeneration. We had a very interesting conversation, we touched on many relevant topics, including his thoughts 3 ...
Introduction Season 1
November 15, 2019 17:10 - 58 seconds - 790 KBHate Speech, Big Data, Philosophy, Evolution, Politics and much more. This season features the impressive Professor Katharine Gelber, the quirky and intellectual Douglas Rushkoff, thought-provoking Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, deep philosopher David Livingstone Smith, distinguished historian and thinker Niall Ferguson and many more brilliant minds. Objectivity could be constituted by a sum of subjectivities. Through conversations, listening actively to others and rigorously studying cultural, ...