Modest Conversations - The Information
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- Website
- http://www.theinformation.com
- Description
- The Information presents Modest Conversations hosted by Sam Lessin, who writes the site's regular 'Modest Conversations' column. Modest Conversations are short conversations with interesting people about technology, culture, politics, and whatever else strikes our fancy.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2021-06-25 02:49
- last episode published
- 2019-02-10 12:01
- publication frequency
- 22.8 days
- Contributors
- Dockercast
- Owner
- Sam Lessin
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 32
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Technology
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2019-02-10 | Sam and Erik discuss ISAs / and the future of equity investing in people / personal income vs. debt financing. |
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| 2017-11-19 |
30 - Runaway Objective Functions & Human Agency - Tim O’Reilly Tim and I discuss some of the thinking around his new book WTF - What’s The Future and Why It’s Up To Us. We talk in particular about our world of runaway objective functions, and the role human agency must play to manage to a future we want vs. one w... |
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| 2017-11-05 |
29 - Attention and Addiction & What To Actually Do About It - Tristan Harris Fmr. Google Tristan and I talk about his viewpoint and mission around the attention economy and addition. We also debate ideas on what to practically do about it. |
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| 2017-10-30 |
28 - Lines - Waiting For Work To Be Done & Work To Do - Andrew Kortina co-founder Fin & Venmo Kortina and I discuss how much of modern life is about lines. As consumers we wait on line for restaurants, takeoff windows, and countless other experiences. As producers many of us - not just ER doctors - spend a good percentage of our 'working' t... |
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| 2017-10-15 |
27 - The Human Side of Tech & Growth Mindset - Blake Barnes Director of Product at Instagram Blake joins to discuss the human side of technology - growth mindset, failure, and success. How do the people who build technology, and the ways they collaborate on teams, and the culture of tech companies define the products that come out? |
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| 2017-10-08 |
26 - Homo Deus in Short - Erik Torenberg, ProductHunt & co-founder Village Global VC Erik and I discuss the ins-and-outs of Homo Deus, which has become extremely popular in Silicon Valley. What is the thesis? What is the appeal? What makes sense and what is a stretch? |
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| 2017-10-01 |
25 - Making of the Tree of Ténéré at Burning Man - Zach Smith, Founder of The Project Zach Smith joins for a Modest Conversation on the making of the Tree of Ténéré at Burning Man. Where the project came from, trials and travails of getting it done, and thoughts on doing large scale art projects at Burning Man |
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| 2017-09-18 |
24 - The Golden Age of Oncology - Racquel Bracken of Venrock Racquel joins to talk about all that is changing in the world of oncology, and why she things we are entering the golden age of oncology. |
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| 2017-09-10 | Alyssa joins for a modest conversation about technology is changing how we relate to nature, the environment, climate change, extinction, and more. |
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| 2017-08-06 |
22 - On Bitcoin Cash & New Ways Crypto-Projects Move Forward - Alexia Bonatsos - Fmr Techcrunch Alexia and I discuss the last week in Crypto and Bitcoin Cash. What does it look like when there is a pattern for faster innovation without 'consensus' in the cyrpto world? How does it change the power and importance of exchanges? |
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