Program Life | Productivity & Mental Health

The Program Life podcast is where we want our listeners guests and myself to learn something new. Every two weeks I bring in a world class expert on a topic related to productivity or mental health and Our guest on this episode Today is Edward Tenner. Edward is an independent writer, speaker and editor who analyzes the cultural aspects of technological change. He is the author of Our Own Devices and Why Things Bite Back. In this episode we discuss about His new book, The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do. If you want my key takeaways on this episode and the show notes just head over to programlife.info and you can also sign up for my exclusive email list, you can also follow me on Instagram yogeshprabhu2 and Twitter @yogeshprabhu03 that's enough plugging for me So sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

Our guest on this episode Today is Massimo Pigliucci. Massimo Pigliucci is Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York, formerly co-host of the Rationally Speaking Podcast. He is an outspoken critic of pseudoscience and creationism, and an advocate for secularism and science education. He is also the author of his latest book A Field Guide to a Happy Life: 53 Brief Lessons for Living. I'm really excited for you guys to listen to this because in this episode we cover stoicism which is one of my favourite life philosophies and one that I follow and believe in. If you want my key takeaways on this episode and the show notes just head over to programlife.info and you can also sign up for my exclusive email list, you can also follow me on Instagram yogeshprabhu2 and Twitter @yogeshprabhu03 that's enough plugging for me So sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

Moran Cerf is a French-Israeli neuroscientist, business professor, investor, and former hacker. In his work, Prof. Cerf helps individuals and businesses harness the current knowledge of the brain to improve thinking and understanding of customers and business decisions. He is the founder of Think-Alike and B-Cube and the host and curator of PopTech, one of the top 5 leading conferences in the world. Cerf is also the president and co-founder of the Human Single Neuron society. In this episode, we cover a variety of topics some of which are applications of neuroscience in business, what our future will look like, philosophy, and free will, and we also look into the game Cyberpunk 2077. If you want my key takeaways on this episode and the show notes just head over to programlife.info and you can also sign up for my exclusive email list, you can also follow me on Instagram yogeshprabhu2 and Twitter @yogeshprabhu03 that's enough plugging for me So sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

Our guest on this episode Today is Dr. Chris Winter. one of the most respected experts on sleep he is a sleep researcher, board-certified neurologist double board-certified sleep specialist and he has helped over more than 10,000 patients rest better at night including countless professional athletes he's also been a consultant to many professional sports teams from the MLB to the NFL NHL and MBA he recently came out with a book called the sleep solution why your sleep is broken and how to fix it. If you want my key takeaways on this episode and the show notes make sure you head over to programlife.info and you can also sign up for my exclusive email list, you can also follow me on Instagram yogeshprabhu2 and Twitter @yogeshprabhu03.

Our guest on this episode Today is Sandra Matz. Sandra is the Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School in New York. As a computational social scientist, she studies human behavior and preferences using a combination of Big Data analytics and traditional experimental methods. Her research aims at understanding how psychological characteristics influence real-life outcomes in a number of business-related domains with the goal of helping businesses and individuals to make better decisions. This is a 2 part episode where you are listening to the second part and we will be discussing about life and happiness, do go check out and listen to the first part if you haven't already where we discussed about psychological targeting and AI. So sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

Our guest on this episode Today is Sandra Matz. Sandra is the Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School in New York. As a computational social scientist, she studies human behavior and preferences using a combination of Big Data analytics and traditional experimental methods. Her research aims at understanding how psychological characteristics influence real-life outcomes in a number of business-related domains with the goal of helping businesses and individuals to make better decisions. This is a 2 part episode where you are listening to the first part and we will be discussing about psychological targeting and AI, in the second part we will be discussing about life and happiness. 

Robin Dale Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. In this episode, Yogesh will be discussing with him about his book "The Elephant in The Brain" where he shares how he formulated his theories and elaborates on why we are all intrinsically selfish. 

Dr. Judith Grisel is a professor of Psychology at Bucknell University. She has a special interest in addiction and is a behavioral neuroscientist. In this episode, Yogesh will be discussing with Judith about her book “Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction” where she shares her personal experience of overcoming addiction as well as her passion for research into the neuroscience of addiction.