Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon discuss different ways our thinking might have to change in order to be ready for the future.

How The Future Is Really Built

The path to our modern world was not a straight one, but a tangled mess of intersecting threads. Where we would expect to see an organized chain of lone geniuses working quietly in isolation, we inevitably find a crisscross of interactions...

Kaizen!

In the 1980′s and early 90′s, many American companies discovered and began implementing Japanese management practices in an effort to become competitive...

In 2017, Pursue Meaning Instead of Happiness

The distinction between happiness and meaningfulness has a long history in philosophy, which for thousands of years has recognized two forms of well-being — hedonia, or the ancient Greek word for what behavioral scientists often call happiness, and eudaimonia, or what they call meaningfulness. The happy life is defined by seeking pleasure and enjoyment, whereas the meaningful life is bigger...

 

OTHER GEEK

Inception: Dollhouse and cookie edition

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