Show Notes
We dig into Bezos's collected letters and speeches and find a surprisingly philosophical playbook for staying curious, taking big risks, and refusing to let success make you soft.
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Peter Singer asks why we'd save a drowning kid in a pond but not the one dying of malaria far away. We talk about the suit, the stats, and the sliding scale of giving. It's unsettling in the best way.
One man turned a huge chunk of Africa into his private rubber plantation, and the world looked away for decades. Then a shipping clerk noticed something in the manifests and refused to shut up.
We dig into Stephen Briers' Psychobabble and why the self-help industry might be selling us a bill of goods. Turns out the inner child might need a timeout.
Sam and Sophie unpack Prem Rawat's case that peace isn't something you achieve but something you notice — through the breath, the pause, and the difference between the mind and the self.
A woman with five marriages, a criminal empire, and a talent for becoming whoever she needs to be. Defoe's 1722 novel still feels uncomfortably modern.