You're in the Hospitality Business (Whether You Know It or Not)
For the last three years, Will Guidara has been on the road talking about unreasonable hospitality. He's met financiers and prison wardens,...
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20 of 335 episodesWe're Still Thinking About This Conversation with Will Guidara
In September 2023, Will Guidara told us the story of how he used two words to turn a middling brasserie into the best restaurant in the worl...
Here’s Our Favorite Book of the Season
Every few months, we pick one book with the power to change how you see the world. Then we build an experience around it: author conversatio...
“Beliefs Are Tools, Not Truths”
What's standing between you and your goals? Focus? Discipline? Motivation? Nir Eyal points the finger somewhere else. Your beliefs. In his n...
The History and Future of Apple
In celebration of Apple's 50th birthday, we're probing the company's past and peering into its future with David Pogue — former New York Tim...
Best Of: Tony Fadell’s Guide to Building Products, Startups and Careers
Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone, and Nest Thermostat. In his book Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth...
Demis Hassabis Wants to Build AGI. Should We Trust Him?
When journalist Sebastian Mallaby approached Demis Hassabis, Google's AI chief and a man with a lifelong mission to build superintelligence,...
Patrick Radden Keefe on a Double Life, a Gilded City and a Mysterious Death
In 2023, Patrick Radden Keefe met a man who told him, "I might have a story for you." When you're Patrick — New Yorker staff writer, author...
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay
It’s a big, bad, scary, lonely world out there. Lucky for us, Jenny Lawson — aka the Bloggess — has collected more than a hundred tricks and...
Best Of: The New Science of Improving Your Memory
The French filmmaker Jean Renoir said, "The only things that are important in life are the things you remember." But what do you remember an...
How to Find the Meaning of Your Life (with Arthur C. Brooks)
Let's face it, modern life is kind of a bummer. We're glued to our phones, starved for meaning, haunted by a gnawing sense of emptiness. Ent...
The Surprising Power of Oversharing
We’ve been told that “oversharing” (TMI) is a social sin. But our guest today, Leslie John, who teaches at Harvard Business School, argues t...
How a Mormon Journalist Became a Degenerate Gambler
On a muggy spring day in 2018, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that transformed America. In a 6-3 ruling, the high court cleared th...
Michael Pollan on Food, Psychedelics and His Next Book
Last week, we hosted a members-only Q&A with Michael Pollan. We covered food and diet, his writing process, psychedelics, and dreams. We als...
The Story of Stories
What do the campfire, printing press, motion picture, and smartphone have in common? They're all storytelling technologies. Each one gave us...
Best Of: How To Connect With Anyone
According to Merriam-Webster, the word "conversation" has 36 synonyms, ranging from the alliterative ("confabulation") to the arcane ("persi...
A War Correspondent on the Crisis in Iran
As the war with Iran enters its second week, two big questions loom: How did we get here? And how will it end? We put those questions to Sco...
How AI Could Change Everything in the Next 1,000 Days
Emad Mostaque co-founded Stability AI, the company behind the text-to-image generator Stable Diffusion, and he now runs Intelligent Internet...
Do We Even Need Politicians?
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” sneers a rebel henchman in Shakespeare’s “Henry VI.” Hélène Landemore, a political scie...
Inside the Most Creative Friendship in History
On the surface, Ian Leslie's book John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs is a dual biography of the greatest songwriting duo the world has ever...
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