Show Notes
We talk about Liftoff, Eric Berger's wild ride through SpaceX's early days. Three failed launches, one last shot, and a culture that turned failure into fuel.
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Toni Morrison's debut still hits like a mirror held up to the culture. We talk Pecola, the primer, and why understanding Cholly is the hardest empathy test in American lit.
We dug into Abel James and his case for eating like our ancestors. Honestly, the fat-is-fine argument got us rethinking our whole fridge.
We dig into Bourne's classic workbook and why it treats anxiety like a learned habit you can unlearn. Plus the one exercise that honestly scared me more than the panic itself.
Timothy Clark's four stages of psychological safety, from belonging to challenging the boss. We talk about why you can't skip ahead, and the moment a junior engineer saved millions.
This episode goes way beyond the buzzwords and into muddy fields. Xiaowei Wang shows us how tech like blockchain and AI actually lands in rural China, and why it's never just a neutral tool.