That's the topic of this conversation with Chris Anderson -- Chris has run TED (of the famous TED talks) for the last twenty years, and recently wrote a book called "Infectious Generosity", which seeks to understand the nature of human kindness, and find ways to make it spread in the digital age. A crucial issue in these divisive times!

Expect lots of evolutionary psychology, a dissection of why the media is broken, some deep internet history, and how to improve (and win at!) the attention game.

Chapters:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:20 - Infectious Generosity

00:13:09 - How the Internet Has Changed

00:30:50 - Role of News Media

00:37:08 - Evolution of Generosity

00:50:04 - Effective Giving

00:53:28 - Intent vs Consequence

01:01:30 - Religion and Generosity

01:08:59 - The Audacious Project

01:22:41 - Giving What You Can Pledge

01:26:54 - Is Chris Competitive?

01:36:35 - Future of TED

Links

♾️ Infectious Generosity by Chris Anderson

https://www.infectiousgenerosity.org/

♾️ Thinking Fast and Slow

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

♾️ Media Moloch Youtube Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRz54...

♾️ The Mystery Experiment - a Study of Generosity

https://bigthink.com/the-present/gene...

♾️ Against Empathy by Paul Bloom

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

♾️ Atheism 2.0 by Alain de Botton TED Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oe6H...

♾️ The Audacious Project

https://www.audaciousproject.org/

♾️ Project Vesta

https://www.vesta.earth/

♾️ Liv's TED talk - The Dark Side of Competition in AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX_vN...

♾️ The Giving Pledge - http://givingwhatwecan.org/winwin

Credits

♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree

♾️ Produced & Edited by Raymond Wei

♾️ Audio Mix by Keir Schmidt

The Win-Win Podcast:

Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.