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Jim talks with Rob Henderson about his book Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class and the concept of luxury beliefs. They discuss Rob’s journey from foster care to Yale and Cambridge, Jim’s background, the decline in two-parent families from 1960 to 2005, changing forms of elite hypocrisy, intra-elite competition, corporate adoption of […]
EP 280 Rob Henderson on Luxury Beliefs Read More »
Rushkoff discusses the importance of looking between major global events in order to find connection and meaning. 🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff,
Every Thing Is In Between Read More »
After more than a decade of exploring what’s emerging at the edges of culture and consciousness, it feels clear that we’ve crossed some kind of threshold – we’re no longer in a time of gathering ideas, but of coming into deeper intimacy and action. Thank you for accompanying me on this journey of inquiry. While
The Final Episode of Emerge Read More »
Jim talks with epidemiology expert Samuel Scarpino about the recent spread of H5N1 (bird flu) in dairy cows and its implications for public health. They discuss the historical context of H5N1, fatality rates, modeling the spread, network effects in disease transmission, current surveillance efforts, H5N1 transmission mechanisms, challenges of human respiratory transmission, lessons learned &
EP 279 Samuel Scarpino on H5N1 (Bird Flu) and Pandemic Risk Read More »
Jim has a wide-ranging conversation with recurring guest Peter Wang on AI copyright frameworks and the rapidly changing tech landscape. They discuss “the Chattening” (ChatGPT’s release in November 2022) & its impact, parallels between current AI & the invention of science, humans as narrow-band sensors, cybernetics & control systems, the unbearable slowness of being, the
EP 278 Peter Wang on AI, Copyright, and the Future of Intelligence Read More »
Rushkoff shares a new monologue that makes sense of Trump’s latest round of seemingly outlandish proclamations. 🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions with Rushkoff, special
Rushkoff’s Christmas Monologue: Corleone-Style Diplomacy and the Post-human Future Read More »
Jim talks with Kristian Rönn, co-founder of the carbon accounting tech company Normative, about his book The Darwinian Trap: The Hidden Evolutionary Forces That Explain Our World (and Threaten Our Future). They discuss Darwinian traps & demons, the parable of Picher, Oklahoma, the “cost of doing business” mentality, beauty filter arms races, perverse incentives in science, Goodhart’s
EP 277 Kristian Rönn on Darwinian Traps and How to Escape Them Read More »
Jim talks with philosopher and cognitive scientist Carolyn Dicey Jennings about her book Attention and Mental Control. They discuss mental control vs self-control, the ping pong metaphor, prioritization vs single-threaded focus, voluntary vs automatic attention, perceptual processing & conscious attention, 3 forms of interest, meditation & mind wandering, hyperfocus as a superpower, ADHD & neurodiversity, the
EP 276 Carolyn Dicey Jennings on Attention and Mental Control Read More »
Award-winning author and host of Discovery/HBO’s Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction Mitch Horowitz helps us create the conditions for a tide pool where only rivers seem to flow. This conversation was recorded on December 10, 2024, at CX in New York City. 🎧 Listen to Horowitz’s podcast, ESP is Real, from SpectreVision. 🎶 Live music soundscape
Mitch Horowitz: Occultism and the Fight for Reality – Live from CX Read More »
Jim talks with lawyer and former DHS policy person Rachel Winkler about Trump’s promise to carry out a large-scale deportation operation. They discuss estimates of undocumented immigrants in the U.S., mixed-status households & the aging undocumented population, the legal standing of an undocumented immigrant, types of undocumented immigrants, the process for pending deportation orders, potential
EP 275 Rachel Winkler on Mass Deportation Read More »
