Professor, Mathematician and Writer J.A. Paulos joins the show to discuss math education, the power of puzzles, cognitive biases, and MUCH more! Important Links: - John’s Website - https://math.temple.edu/~paulos/ - John’s Twitter - https://x.com/JohnAllenPaulos Show Notes: 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:51 Main podcast 0:02:02 Why do People Hate Math? 0:09:15 The Power…
"Two sequences would all of a sudden... the meaning of them would magnify just by putting them up against each other or a theme would start to build that you didn't even necessarily foresee..." ~ Chris Wilcha on bringing Flipside to life in the editing room… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OUIr2KvpjA
"I feel like also audiences are so sophisticated that they can watch these things and they understand that this is not trying to be literal journalism, that the more visual invention can make the movie even more true.” ~ Chris Wilcha on the evolving form of documentary film... Full episode:…
"I want to run toward the things that are interesting - the topics, the subjects, the events that are happening that are worth documenting - not really necessarily worry about if anyone's going to pay for it right away." ~ Chris Wilcha Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OUIr2KvpjA
"There was this unexpected self-help kind of throughline [...] It really seems to awaken in people that feeling of 'there's a thing I always wanted to do or make or a business I wanted to start…'" Here's Chris Wilcha on the reaction to Flipside at the Toronto International Film Festival……
Chris Wilcha is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and commercial director. His latest film, Flipside, which is co-executive produced by Jim and presented in association with Infinite Films (among others), opens in select US theaters tomorrow (May 31st, 2024). An ode to creative failure, abandoned projects, and rekindled passion, Flipside premiered…
"I think that this is your role as someone who's doing comedy. It's not to punch up or punch down or speak truth to power. That's all part of it, but really it's...🐠" --Bridget Phetasy Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuPmDepZ8iQ
"...can jokes go too far? Yes. Should you be allowed to make whatever joke you want? Yes. You can't really find the edge of humor. Carlin used to say, 'Your job is to kind of find the edge and go past it.' So you can't do that if you can't…
"The shared experience of America is that we're drowning. We have kids, we're trying not to look at screen so much, and we all want to lose weight. That is the fucking shared American experience right now..." --Bridget Phetasy letting the truth bombs fly😅 Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuPmDepZ8iQ
"Life is somewhat absurd, and you have to be able to laugh at it and yourself..." -- Bridget Phetasy on the inter-generational capacity for self-deprecation Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuPmDepZ8iQ
“PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company. We just want to make you laugh while the world burns.” Bridget Phetasy is an entrepreneur, writer, podcast host, political commentator, burgeoning media mogul, and standup comedian. Over the past few years, her media company - Phetasy - has become an outlet…
"[I]f you want to remain in this network, you have to be an active & engaged individual [...] So if you're in the clubhouse & you see another member, our expectation is that you go up & you introduce yourself." Here’s Porter Braswell on how 2045 establishes trust within its…
"You understand communication, you understand what it means to be a team player. You understand execution, you're competitive, you can multitask, you stick it through..." Porter Braswell shares the advice Magic Johnson gave him on approaching business with an athlete's mindset… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd16c_hKB7s
“[F]or the time that you're in the clubhouse, you escape reality to some degree because you are not the only. And so all of the commentary and feedback that we get is that people feel safe. They feel like they can be their authentic self.” Here’s 2045 Studio founder Porter…
"2045, the year, represents the year of a majority racially diverse United States. And we believe that in order for companies and brands to remain relevant, they have to have a workforce that's reflective of these changing demographics..." -- Porter Braswell Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd16c_hKB7s
Porter Braswell is the Founder and CEO of 2045 Studio, an exclusive network for accomplished professionals of color. Porter is also the Co-founder and Executive Chairman of the career advancement platform Jopwell, the host of the Harvard Business Review podcast Race at Work, and the author of two books, including…
“If you tell the world, "I don't really know what I want to do. Can you help me? Can you tell me?" No one really gets behind that. You might get a mentor or two, but resources are not going to start flooding your way.” — Grant Mitchell on having…
“When [we] first started thinking about Castleman disease and whether we could solve it or not, … we first said, well, surely “they” must be working on this?” But there was no “they”. “Don't assume that they's out there in a little factory tinkering…You can be they. So get up…
“COVID was the greatest drug-repurposing effort ever globally…so there's just a ton of noise in an effort like that.” How to deal with such noise? “do your best to uncover objective reality with the proper scientific research tools that we have” — Grant Mitchell on the Corona Project… Full episode:…
“You [can] use AI not only to digest and understand medical literature, but use it to generate its own hypotheses…combine that with robotics and automated labs….and repeat until it actually advances science on its own.” — Grant Mitchell on the near-future of AI testing out its own hypotheses… Full episode:…
Grant Mitchell is a seasoned entrepreneur, operator, and investor in the areas of health, technology, and machine learning. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Every Cure, where he uses AI to research rare diseases and conduct drug repurposing. Grant joins the show to discuss the use of AI…
“At some point in their lives [geniuses] thought they were gigantic imposters, and some of them still do, and they still do it anyway.” — Jimmy Soni on how even geniuses suffered from impostor syndrome… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ynxoEjMaSA
“There are editors at a big publisher that have wanted to really take a chance on a project, but they just weren't able to because of economic incentives or internal dissension…” — Jimmy Soni on taking chances on risky media ideas… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ynxoEjMaSA
“Talk about the courage. You have Nike contracts. The world is watching you. People admire you, literally the entire planet thinks of you as an icon and you're like, “I’m going to go play baseball”. It blows my mind.” — Jimmy Soni on on taking creative risks… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ynxoEjMaSA