Paul Bearer (Sheer Terror | Joe Coffee)
Paul Bearer is the vocalist for one of the most influential and underrated New York Hardcore bands of all time: Sheer Terror. Sheer Terror c...
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Todd Nief's Show
I love learning about and thinking through the frameworks and principles that people use to understand the world - as well as the processes that they use to maintain and update their princip...
Episodes
20 of 100 episodesChristopher M. Russo (Mercatus Center) on Monetary Policy, The Fed, and Inflation
Monetary policy is confusing . What even is The Fed? How do they control interest rates? Is The Fed different than the Treasury? Why do diff...
Spenser Mestel on Voting Rights, Election Reform, and Writing a Book with Mat Fraser
I first encountered Spenser's work through his writing for the Morning Chalk Up , and at some point I clicked on enough links to realize tha...
Dave Bland (Full of Hell | Jarhead Fertilizer)
Dave Bland is one of the most creative drummers currently playing extreme music. While technical wherewithal with blindingly fast blast beat...
Matthew O. Jackson, PhD on Human Networks and Microfinance
Humans have an intuitive sense for who is important and well-connected. We like knowing "movers and shakers," and we regularly engage in com...
Kayhan Vaziri (Yautja)
Yautja plays lurching, uncomfortable music, so it is fitting that their new album is called "The Lurch." I first met Kayhan back in approxim...
Simple Solutions to Complex Problems [Solocast]
I've often spoken on the Legion Strength & Conditioning podcast about the desire for "simple solutions to complex problems." I figured I'd r...
Bryan James, PhD on Alzheimer's and Epidemiology
At some point in the last year or so, I started listening to the Epidemiology Counts podcast . I was thrilled to learn that the host, Bryan...
James Pligge (Harm's Way) Round II
James Pligge is back by popular demand. This time, we talk about some of the many misconceptions that people have about James and Harm's Way...
John Caution (Weekend Nachos)
I feel like I say this about a lot of my friends that I have on the podcast, but John Caution is one of the weirdest and funniest people I k...
Matt Parlmer (General Fabrication)
Speaking with Matt is like being blasted with a firehose of information. He is entwined in the worlds of politics, database engineering, and...
Andy Nelson (Bricktop Recording | Like Rats | Sourmouth)
Andy is one of the most talented musicians I know. Some people think of musical talent as a preternatural gift for shredding through neoclas...
Jeff Kolar
Jeff edits many of these podcasts…and now it is time for him to speak! Jeff is a prolific musician and artist — creating in a variety of gen...
Preston Weippert (Of Feather and Bone)
Of Feather and Bone put out one of the best records of 2020 with Sulfuric Disintegration , so I was really excited to speak with drummer Pre...
The Sloshing Social Information Ecosystem
Like many, I am deeply concerned with the impact social media has had on our brains, our attention, and our society. I have a slightly diffe...
James Pligge (Harm's Way) [Repost]
This episode with James from Harm's Way is one of the most consistently downloaded episodes of the podcast, so figured this would be a good...
Juliet Starrett on Excellence in Operations at San Francisco CrossFit [Repost}
This conversation is a repost from the From Coach to Business podcast that I did with my friend Brandon last year. With the recent announcem...
[Repost] Scott Young (Author of Ultralearning)
This is a holiday repost, which pairs very nicely with the recent episode with Cedric Chin discussing tacit knowledge, expert intuition, and...
Cedric Chin (Commoncog) on Tacit Knowledge and Learning from Experts
Certain clusters of nerds on the internet can find it very frustrating when successful people say a lot of incorrect stuff ("Just focus on y...
Leonard Suryajaya on Humor and Confrontation in Photography and Growing up in Indonesia
Leonard Suryajaya creates lush, harrowing, and hilarious images in his photography, and I was fortunate enough to be a part of his process f...