Crisis in Perception

Crisis in Perception

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Crisis in Perception episodes

  • Now What?: A Guide to Figuring Out How to Move Forward — Why Disagreement Becomes Breakdown

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers

    This episode explores Now What?: A Guide to Figuring Out How to Move Forward by Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers as a systems-level analysis of how consumer logic and media systems influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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    34 min
  • Five Ideas to Fight For — Why rights need constraints beyond majority rule

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Anthony Lester

    This episode explores Five Ideas to Fight For by Anthony Lester as a systems-level analysis of how parliamentary sovereignty, rights protections, and media incentives influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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    👉 https://youtu.be/8qGSF7uQJ0k

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    28 min
  • Play like a Feminist — The hidden politics of leisure and play

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Shira Chess

    This episode explores Play like a Feminist by Shira Chess as a systems-level analysis of how the unequal distribution of leisure influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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    👉 https://youtu.be/QUvr1j4Odzc

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    32 min
  • Born to Create — Why organizations demand creativity but reward conformity

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Anne Jacoby

    This episode explores Born to Create by Anne Jacoby as a systems-level analysis of how workplace design influences creativity, leadership, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or workplace slogans, the episode shows why many organizations now depend on creativity while still preserving management systems built for predictability, control, and measurable repetition.

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    👉 https://youtu.be/stqp45g_R8s

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    36 min
  • The First of Everything — Why Human Invention Is Never Really First

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Stewart Ross

    This episode explores The First of Everything by Stewart Ross as a systems-level analysis of how cumulative invention influences survival, perception, and civilizational outcomes.

    By focusing on structural inheritance rather than isolated inventors or events, the episode shows why technological systems persist — and how they connect to larger biological, cultural, and institutional networks.

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    👉 https://youtu.be/LGuvhAgy570

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    46 min
  • The Little Book of Aliens — Why Advanced Life May Be Easiest to Find Through Its Waste

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Adam Frank

    This episode explores The Little Book of Aliens by Adam Frank as a systems-level analysis of how standards of evidence, planetary thermodynamics, and scientific institutions influence belief, inquiry, and the search for extraterrestrial life.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than sightings, personalities, or spectacle, the episode shows why alien debates changed from ancient philosophy to modern science — and how biosignatures, technosignatures, and Fermi’s Paradox now connect the question to larger scientific, cultural, and planetary systems.

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    44 min
  • Why We Sleep — When productivity turns biological limits into public risk

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Matthew Walker

    This episode explores Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker as a systems-level analysis of how biological sleep regulation influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, public health, and cultural structures.

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    40 min
  • Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves — The Interface Problem

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: James Nestor

    This episode explores Deep by James Nestor as a systems-level analysis of how technological mediation influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or adventure stories, the episode shows why dominant exploration models persist — and how they connect to larger scientific and cultural structures.

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    40 min
  • Seven Brief Lessons on Physics — What modern physics actually reveals

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Carlo Rovelli

    This episode explores Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli as a systems-level analysis of how modern physics transforms perception, reality, and human understanding.

    By focusing on structural change rather than isolated discoveries, the episode shows why relativity, quantum mechanics, and cosmology continue to unsettle everyday intuition — and how they connect to larger scientific, cultural, and informational systems.

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    26 min
  • The Dark Net: Hidden Digital Underworlds — What Anonymity Reveals Without Consequences

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Jamie Bartlett

    This episode explores The Dark Net by Jamie Bartlett as a systems-level analysis of how anonymous digital architecture influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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    48 min

About Crisis in Perception

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Crisis in Perception is a long-form educational podcast examining how we misunderstand the world around us. Using books as entry points, each episode explores history, psychology, economics, science, and power structures to reveal how systems actually work—and why our perceptions so often fail. Clear, evidence-based, and non-tribal.