Hand Curated Episodes for learning by OwlTail

Published on 06 May 2019. Tristan Harris, the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the latest problem he and his peers are trying to solve: "Human downgrading."In this episode: Harris’ background as a design ethicist Google; how his previous movement, Time Well Spent, was co-opted by the tech industry; how are Apple and Google's "digital well-being" features doing?; the utopian promise of tech; why Harris shifted to focus on “downgrading”; what the Center for Humane Technology does; has Harris gotten through to tech's leaders?; why Facebook and YouTube are worse than Shell and Exxon; digital platforms as cities; what we need to do now; techlash; the (sort of) good news; are CEOs just hoping this goes away on its own?; and why removing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is "critical." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published on 30 Dec 2017. You use it every day to overcome your lower self (which wants you to eat cake until your vision blurs) in pursuit of the goals of your higher self (which wants you to not develop Type-II diabetes). Yet it was only in the 1990s that researchers began to understand what makes our willpower and how it behaves. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Published on 30 Dec 2017. You use it every day to overcome your lower self (which wants you to eat cake until your vision blurs) in pursuit of the goals of your higher self (which wants you to not develop Type-II diabetes). Yet it was only in the 1990s that researchers began to understand what makes our willpower and how it behaves. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Published on 04 Jul 2018. WWI helped a homeless vagabond named Adolf Hitler become the dictator of the German Reich

Published on 04 Jul 2018. WWI helped a homeless vagabond named Adolf Hitler become the dictator of the German Reich

Published on 10 Jun 2019. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles? Come see us: Intelligent Speech Conference

Published on 10 Jun 2019. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles? Come see us: Intelligent Speech Conference

Published on 24 Jan 2019. Join head of TED Chris Anderson for a very special conversation with legendary inventor and computer scientist Ray Kurzweil, recorded live onstage at TED2018. Listen in to hear what the man who makes a living from predicting the future arc of technology thinks is coming our way next -- including a specific prediction of when he thinks technology will finally gain human levels of language understanding.

Published on 24 Jan 2019. Join head of TED Chris Anderson for a very special conversation with legendary inventor and computer scientist Ray Kurzweil, recorded live onstage at TED2018. Listen in to hear what the man who makes a living from predicting the future arc of technology thinks is coming our way next -- including a specific prediction of when he thinks technology will finally gain human levels of language understanding.

Published on 12 Mar 2018. Can you train your brain to be more grateful? Todd Zwillich of The Takeaway takes on the challenge.