THUNK

“Organization” is a technology, and as with many technologies, it embodies a set of values.

Video: http://youtu.be/VTcqt51Io4M

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2024/08/08/253.-Organizing-Systems.html

Generations are used to explain everything from the state of the economy to attitudes about sexuality, but do they really explain anything?

Video: http://youtu.be/ot5xdqdho4Y

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2024/06/20/252.-The-Theory-of-Generations.html

Scaremongers drive many to search frantically for something, anything that will make them feel safe, but safety isn’t a thing you can buy - it’s a feeling you have to build for yourself.

Video: http://youtu.be/ob7XTCtZn6U

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2024/05/13/251.-Safety-and-Risk-Management.html

Angkor Wat & the thousand stone temples surrounding it are some of the most impressive structures humanity has produced - what happened to the society that built them?

Video: http://youtu.be/mYu-BBoW9g8

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2024/04/15/250.-Angkor-Wat-and-Collapse.html

Why is there something, rather than nothing?

Video: http://youtu.be/-Z9qi41lrK0

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2024/03/06/249.-Information-Overload.html

Trying to understand something in terms of its parts is natural…but when is it justified?

Video: http://youtu.be/YHkS4upFy_4

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2024/02/13/248.-Reductionism.html

Gretchen, stop trying to make Vactrains happen! It’s not going to happen!

Video: http://youtu.be/dp2r1C9LDJQ

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2024/01/21/247.-Zombie-Sci-Fi-Technologies.html

“Worldbuilding” has become a necessity for authors of genre fiction, but sci-fi author M. John Harrison thinks it’s crippling both writers & their audiences.

Video: http://youtu.be/QJHR2NB7Wt4

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2023/12/30/246.-Against-Worldbuilding.html

The 2023 tech sector layoffs have claimed a quarter of a million jobs to date, but this hasn’t seemed to make a dent in the enthusiasm for getting more kids into STEM - what’s going on here?

Video: http://youtu.be/BraS-fMgB5A

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2023/11/16/245.-The-STEM-Shortage.html

Many assume that, when a game’s over, there’s nothing more to reflect on besides the fun. Positive psychology’s theory of “Flow” prompts a similar stance. But what if games and Flow are both saying more than we might suppose at first glance?

Video: http://youtu.be/GEl5cbzkD6M

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2023/10/02/244.-The-Meaning-of-Games-and-Flow.html