Our 300th episode! - How to have better intellectual conversations (with Uri Bram)

Read the full transcript here. The Clearer Thinking Podcast listener survey is here! If you've ever listened to the Clearer Thinking podcast before, we'd love it if you'd take our listener survey so we can learn about your experience and improve the podcast based on your feedback. Give feedback to help us improve the Clearer Thinking podcast! What makes a conversation feel like shared discovery? HWhen does repeating polished ideas kill discovery? What practices force live thinking, not rehearsed speech? How do you check that both people are scouting? How do you align vibe and tempo without dulling the experience? How do you compress a garden of thoughts into words? What kinds of responses prove they really listened? When is a point of order interruption essential? Why do groups oscillate instead of moving forward? How do you pick one promising path among many? What role should a moderator actually play? Why does the lowest relevance threshold dominate airtime? How do pause and interruption norms decide who speaks? Can groups make progress without turning into debates? What explicit rules make book clubs worth attending? When should you opt out rather than endure? We're thrilled to have friend of the podcast and frequent factotum, Uri Bram, join Spencer for this very special celebration of our 300th episode of The Clearer Thinking Podcast. Uri is CEO and Editor-at-Large at The Browser. He has written about science and business for Nautilus, Motherboard, Quartz and more and is regularly featured on i24 News as an economics analyst. Prior to that, Uri led Communications at GiveWell, a research and grantmaking organization focusing on global health. Links: The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef Clearer Thinking Nuanced Thinking Module Staff Spencer Greenberg — Host + Director Ryan Kessler — Producer + Technical Lead WeAmplify — Transcriptionists Igor Scaldini — Marketing Consultant Music Broke for Free Josh Woodward Lee Rosevere Quiet Music for Tiny Robots wowamusic zapsplat.com Affiliates Clearer Thinking GuidedTrack Mind Ease Positly UpLift [ Read more ]

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Our 300th episode! - How to have better intellectual conversations (with Uri Bram) is an episode from Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg by Spencer Greenberg.

This episode is 01:23:26 long.

This episode was published on Feb 11, 2026.

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