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Fundamentals in Science
Talk by: Paul Davies
Information Theory and The Origins Of Life
based on
The Demon in the Machine (2018)
Talk by: Steven Wolfram
A New Kind of Science
based on
A New Kind of Science (2002)
Talk by: Karl Popper
How Science works
based on
The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959)
Talk by: Donella Meadows
A Philosophical Look at System Dynamics
based on
Thinking in Systems: A primer (2008)
Talk by: Richard Dawkins
How genes are the core building blocks of evolution
based on
The Selfish Gene (1976)
Talk by: Jeff Hawkins
On novel AI approaches
based on
On Intelligence (2005)
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Think like an Investor
Talk by: Mihir A. Desai
Finance Analogues In Our Lives
based on
The Wisdom in Finance (2017)
Talk by: David Graeber
The History of Debt
based on
Debt: The First 5000 years (2011)
Talk by: Chris Voss
How to negotiate effectively
based on
Never Split the Difference (2016)
Talk by: Nicolas Colin
Building a safety net in the digital age
based on
Hedge (2018)
Talk by: Kate Raworth
What current economic thinking ignores
based on
Doughnut Economics (2017)
Talk by: Annie Duke
Thinking in Bets
based on
Thinking in Bets (2019)
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Timeline
04
Mar
'21
Talk by: Sean Gerrish
The Inner workings of AI
based on
How Smart Machines Think (2018)
29
Aug
'19
Talk by: Albert-László Barabási
The Science of Networks
based on
Linked: The New Science of Networks (2002)
24
Sep
'20
Talk by: Eric Posner
Radical Markets
based on
Radical Markets (2018)
17
Sep
'20
Talk by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Things That Gain from Disorder
based on
Antifragile (2012)
13
Aug
'20
Talk by: Rutger Bregman
Are Humans Fundamentally Good?
based on
Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020)
06
Aug
'20
Talk by: Terrence Sejnowski
Learning how to learn
based on
Learning how to learn (2018)
30
Jul
'20
Talk by: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
A Tour of the Modern Human Psyche
based on
Everybody Lies (2017)
23
Jul
'20
Talk by: Rory Sutherland
When Illogical Ideas Win
based on
Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense (2019)
16
Jul
'20
Talk by: Michael Mauboussin
Differentiating between Skill and Luck
based on
The Success Equation (2012)
29
Jun
'20
Talk by: Nate Silver
The Nature of Predictions
based on
The Signal and the Noise (2012)
22
Jun
'20
Talk by: Steven Pinker
Why Violence Has Declined
based on
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2011)
15
Jun
'20
Talk by: Nicholas Christakis
The Evolutionary Origins of Good Society
based on
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of Good Society (2019)
08
Jun
'20
Talk by: Duncan J. Watts
How Common Sense Fails Us
based on
Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us (2011)
01
Jun
'20
Talk by: David Foster Wallace
Living a Compassionate Life
based on
This is Water (2009)
18
May
'20
Talk by: Robert Sapolsky
The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
based on
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (2017)
20
Apr
'20
Talk by: William MacAskill
Doing Good Better
based on
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices about Giving Back (2018)
15
Apr
'20
Talk by: Paul Davies
Information Theory and The Origins Of Life
based on
The Demon in the Machine (2018)
13
Apr
'20
Talk by: Mihir A. Desai
Finance Analogues In Our Lives
based on
The Wisdom in Finance (2017)
09
Apr
'20
Talk by: Garry Kasparov
How Life Imitates Chess
based on
How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
06
Apr
'20
Talk by: Thomas Piketty
Wealth and Income Distribution in Today's World
based on
Capital in the 21st Century (2013)
02
Apr
'20
Talk by: David Graeber
The History of Debt
based on
Debt: The First 5000 years (2011)
30
Mar
'20
Talk by: Malcolm Gladwell
What makes people outperform others
based on
Outliers (2008)
26
Mar
'20
Talk by: Peter Frankopan
A New History of the World
based on
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015)
23
Mar
'20
Talk by: Eric Schmidt
Key management lessons from Google
based on
How Google Works (2014)
19
Mar
'20
Talk by: Chris Voss
How to negotiate effectively
based on
Never Split the Difference (2016)
16
Mar
'20
Talk by: Steven Wolfram
A New Kind of Science
based on
A New Kind of Science (2002)
12
Mar
'20
Talk by: Karl Popper
How Science works
based on
The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959)
12
Mar
'20
Talk by: Douglas Hofstadter
The Limits of Logic
based on
Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979)
09
Mar
'20
Talk by: Donella Meadows
A Philosophical Look at System Dynamics
based on
Thinking in Systems: A primer (2008)
05
Mar
'20
Talk by: Yuval Noah Harari
The journey of humans through history
based on
Sapiens (2018)
02
Mar
'20
Talk by: Jake Knapp
How to Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
based on
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (2016)
27
Feb
'20
Talk by: Richard Dawkins
How genes are the core building blocks of evolution
based on
The Selfish Gene (1976)
24
Feb
'20
Talk by: Jeff Hawkins
On novel AI approaches
based on
On Intelligence (2005)
20
Feb
'20
Talk by: Patrick Lencioni
How to build a thriving team
based on
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (2002)
17
Feb
'20
Talk by: Nicolas Colin
Building a safety net in the digital age
based on
Hedge (2018)
13
Feb
'20
Talk by: Daniel Kahneman
Your Fast And Slow Brain
based on
Thinking Fast and Slow (2011)
10
Feb
'20
Talk by: Edwin Catmull
Nurturing Creativity in Organisations
based on
Creativity Inc (2014)
06
Feb
'20
Talk by: Judea Pearl
The Book of Why
based on
The Book of Why (2018)
25
Feb
'21
Talk by: David Epstein
Why be a generalist?
based on
Range (2019)
30
Jan
'20
Talk by: Jamie Metzl
Hacking Our Genome
based on
Hacking Darwin (2019)
27
Jan
'20
Talk by: David Wallace-Wells
The Uninhabitable Earth
based on
The Uninhabitable Earth (2019)
16
Jan
'20
Talk by: Scott Galloway
How Facebook, Apple Is Playing a Different Game
based on
The Four (2017)
13
Jan
'20
Talk by: Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler
How Our Perception of How to Spend Money Is Flawed
based on
Dollars and Sense (2017)
09
Jan
'20
Talk by: András Tilcsik
Why Our Systems Fail
based on
Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It (2018)
06
Jan
'20
Talk by: Susan Cain
A World Made for Introverts
based on
Quiet (2012)
02
Jan
'20
Talk by: Nick Chater
The Improvising Mind
based on
The Mind is Flat (2018)
26
Dec
'19
Talk by: Matthew Walker
Why We Sleep
based on
Why We Sleep (2017)
23
Dec
'19
Talk by: Peter Thiel
Building Startups
based on
Zero to One (2014)
19
Dec
'19
Talk by: Ray Dalio
Automated decision making machines
based on
Principles (2017)
16
Dec
'19
Talk by: Andrew Lo
Adaptive Market Hypothesis
based on
Adaptive Markets (2017)
12
Dec
'19
Talk by: Safi Bahcall
The principles of innovation
based on
Loonshots (2019)
09
Dec
'19
Talk by: Clayton M. Christensen
Being mindful about your goals
based on
How will you measure your life? (2012)
28
Nov
'19
Talk by: Rutger Bregman
The case for Universal Basic Income
based on
Utopia for Realists (2016)
25
Nov
'19
Talk by: Steven Pinker
How language shapes your thinking
based on
The Stuff of Thought (2005)
14
Nov
'19
Talk by: Kate Raworth
What current economic thinking ignores
based on
Doughnut Economics (2017)
11
Nov
'19
Talk by: Maria Konnikova
Why we trust someone
based on
The Confidence Game (2017)
07
Nov
'19
Talk by: Max Tegmark
Our Mathematical Universe
based on
Our Mathematical Universe (2014)
04
Nov
'19
Talk by: Annie Duke
Thinking in Bets
based on
Thinking in Bets (2019)
31
Oct
'19
Talk by: Carlo Rovelli
The Order of Time
based on
The Order of Time (2017)
28
Oct
'19
Talk by: Douglas Murray
The Death of Europe
based on
The Strange Death of Europe (2017)
24
Oct
'19
Talk by: Michael Blastland
The Hidden Half
based on
The Hidden Half (2019)
21
Oct
'19
Talk by: Duncan Green
How change happens in society
based on
How Change Happens (2016)
17
Oct
'19
Talk by: Binyamin Appelbaum
How Economists got to rule the world
based on
The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society (2019)
14
Oct
'19
Talk by: Steven Johnson
Emergence and Collective Intelligence
based on
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (2002)
10
Oct
'19
Talk by: Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel
based on
Guns, Germs and Steel (1997)
07
Oct
'19
Talk by: Steven Pinker
Megatrends
based on
Enlighement Now (2018)
03
Oct
'19
Talk by: Paul Mason
Contemporary Capitalism
based on
PostCapitalism (2015)
30
Sep
'19
Talk by: Max Tegmark
The future of humanity
based on
Life 3.0 (2017)
26
Sep
'19
Talk by: Scott Galloway
The Algebra of Happiness
based on
The Algebra of Happiness (2019)
23
Sep
'19
Talk by: Daniel C. Dennett
Old and new thinking tools
based on
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools of Thinking (2014)
19
Sep
'19
Talk by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Owning the risks you create
based on
Skin in The Game (2017)
16
Sep
'19
Talk by: Arthur Herman
Plato Versus Aristotle
based on
The Cave and the Light (2013)
12
Sep
'19
Talk by: Yuval Noah Harari
21 lessons for the 21st century
based on
21 lessons for the 21st century (2018)
09
Sep
'19
Talk by: Mariana Mazzucato
Who creates value in today's society?
based on
The Value of Everything (2018)
05
Sep
'19
Talk by: Brian Christian
Algorithms and Human Decision Making
based on
Algorithms to Live By (2016)
02
Sep
'19
Talk by: Ben Horowitz
Hard Management Decisions
based on
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (2014)
03
Feb
'20
Talk by: Nick Bostrom
How an AI Could Take Over The World
based on
Superintelligence (2014)
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Enhancing your Brain
Talk by: Garry Kasparov
How Life Imitates Chess
based on
How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
Talk by: Malcolm Gladwell
What makes people outperform others
based on
Outliers (2008)
Talk by: Daniel Kahneman
Your Fast And Slow Brain
based on
Thinking Fast and Slow (2011)
Talk by: Edwin Catmull
Nurturing Creativity in Organisations
based on
Creativity Inc (2014)
Talk by: Jamie Metzl
Hacking Our Genome
based on
Hacking Darwin (2019)
Talk by: Matthew Walker
Why We Sleep
based on
Why We Sleep (2017)
Talk by: Daniel C. Dennett
Old and new thinking tools
based on
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools of Thinking (2014)
Talk by: Nick Bostrom
How an AI Could Take Over The World
based on
Superintelligence (2014)
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