Recent Podcasts

Malcolm Gladwell’s most recent episode of his Revisionist History podcast takes the listener through the engineering costs and tremendous planning that went into developing the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center. Relevant to us because we work there but also relevant to people who don’t work at WTC because Gladwell uses this exploration to illustrate issues with homelessness in America. Sound like a stretch? Check it out for yourself

Bill Gates interview on Stuff You Should Know focusing on his work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fight disease; particularly Covid 19. Believe it or not, vaccines, Covid 19, and Bill Gates have been the subject of conspiracy theories and misinformation of late (SHOCKING, right?). Bill is very candid in this discussion and answers questions specific to the pandemic as well as his vision for post-pandemic recovery.

We are all asked to push sales and improve performance YoY and QoQ in perpetuity. I liked this Freakonomics episode on economic growth because it explored National GDP growth at and the impact it has on the happiness of the populace. The lesson of diminishing marginal benefit from material goods (wealth) makes a lot of sense as do the Wellbeing Economies of Iceland, Scotland, and New Zealand (all of whom have female leaders).

BBC’s In Our Time podcast can be a little dry but this rebroadcast of an exploration of Utilitarianism as “the science of ethics” is relevant to us more now than ever. Give it a listen if you want to listen to really old people discuss the teachings of really, really, old dead people (Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Plato) and how the actions of the individual should increase the happiness and well-being of society as a whole.