Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Clearer Thinking is a podcast about ideas that truly matter. If you enjoy learning about powerful, practical concepts and frameworks, wish you had more deep, intellectual conversations in your life, or are looking for non-BS self-improvement, then we think you'll love this podcast! Each week we invite a brilliant guest to bring four important ideas to discuss for an in-depth conversation. Topics include psychology, society, behavior change, philosophy, science, artificial intelligence, math, eco...
Episodes (323)
Using metacognitive therapy to break the habit of rumination (with Pia Callesen)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
How quickly is AI advancing? And should you be working in the field? (with Danny...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Can we choose who we are? (with Gavin Leech)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Normalizing catastrophes and catastrophizing normalcy (with Mike Pesca)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
What's wrong with society, and how can we fix it? (with Tim Urban)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
AI creativity and love (with Joel Lehman)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Glimpses of enlightenment through nondual meditation (with Michael Taft and Jere...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Crumbling institutions, culture wars, and the dismissal economy (with Ashley Hod...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Virtual reality, simulation theory, consciousness, and identity (with David Chal...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Deep canvassing, street epistemology, and other tools of persuasion (with David...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Will AI destroy civilization in the near future? (with Connor Leahy)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Is AI development moving too fast or not fast enough? (with Reid Hoffman)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Where philosophy meets the real world (with Peter Singer)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Large language models, deep peace, and the meaning crisis (with Jim Rutt)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Censorship, cancel culture, and truth-seeking (with Iona Italia)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Why are birth rates plummeting? And how much does it matter? (with Malcolm & Sim...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Science is learning from start-ups (with Adam Marblestone)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The range of human perceptual experiences (with Anil Seth)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The capabilities approach to welfare (with Martha Nussbaum)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Should you become a charity entrepreneur? (with Joey Savoie)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Has political polarization been misunderstood? (with Nick Gillespie)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
How can you tell if you're cut out for entrepreneurship? (with Matt Clifford)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Letting ChatGPT make your decisions for you (with Dax Flame)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
What good is college now that we can learn everything for free on the internet?...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Not seeing your face as a first step to enlightenment? (with Richard Lang)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Is giving people a sense of agency better than giving them cash? (with Richard S...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Are you working on the most important problem in your field? Why not? (with Rohi...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
How huge a deal is climate change, really? (with Diana Ürge-Vorsatz and Misha Gl...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Becoming a policy entrepreneur (with Tom Kalil)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
How to build your second brain (with Tiago Forte)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Does every language have a word for depression? (with Sean Mayberry)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
What things in life *shouldn't* we optimize? (with Christie Aschwanden)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
How can we make science more trustworthy? (with Stuart Ritchie)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Living a life of service to others (with Tasshin Fogleman)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Mapping metaethics (with Lance Bush)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Do organizations have to get slower as they grow? (with Alex Komoroske)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
How can we un-break politics? (with Magnus Vinding)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Why capitalism doesn't live up to its promises (with Martin Schmalz)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Anti-interoperability, vendor lock-in, and high switching costs (with Cory Docto...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Separating the sinner from the sin (with Khomotso Moshikaro)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The FTX catastrophe (with Byrne Hobart, Vipul Naik, Maomao Hu, Marcus Abramovich...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
How to find out what people in rural communities really need (with Robert Chambe...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Building healthy relationships (with Jayson Gaddis)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Bringing rationality into politics (with Elizabeth Edwards-Appell)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Sex workers — empowered, or victims? (with Melissa Broudo)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
What, if anything, do AIs understand? (with ChatGPT Co-Creator Ilya Sutskever)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Forecasting the things that matter (with Peter Wildeford)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Is the universe a computer? (with Joscha Bach)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Inventions, stories, and ideas that don't matter (with Pablos Holman)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Humble-bragging, counter-signalling, and impression management (with Övül Sezer)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg