Handpicked podcast conversations with writers, designers and builders about craft, taste and the long work of making something good.
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August 17, 2026
The Ezra Klein Show · Nilay Patel · 1 hr 12 min
Two people who have spent their careers inside the attention economy talk honestly about what it has cost. It is not a lecture about screen time; it is a conversation about what happens to a culture when everything is optimised for a click.
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August 15, 2026
Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman · Katy Bowman · 44 min
A biomechanist takes the most unglamorous subject imaginable and uses it to explain something larger: how the shape of a body records decades of small habits. No supplements, no protocols, no hype. Just careful thinking about how we live in our own feet.
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August 12, 2026
In Our Time · Sanjeev Gupta, Rebecca Bell, Saskia Goes · 52 min
A calm academic conversation about how an idea considered ridiculous became the foundation of modern earth science. No music, no drama, just three scholars taking their time. It is a small lesson in how consensus actually changes.
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August 9, 2026
The Peter Attia Drive · Matthew Walker · 1 hr 58 min
Two careful scientists taking their time with a subject most of us treat casually. There is no hype here and no product at the end, which is exactly why it changes behaviour more reliably than a book summary would.
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August 5, 2026
99% Invisible · Roman Mars and Katie Mingle · 34 min
Long before anyone argued about AI, aviation had already learned what happens to human skill when the machine does most of the work. This episode turns one flight into a quiet, unforgettable argument about the cost of handing over control.
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August 3, 2026
Hidden Brain · Sheena Iyengar · 49 min
Sheena Iyengar spent her career studying why more options don't necessarily make us happier, and this conversation distills that research into something usable. It reframes daily decision fatigue as a design problem rather than a personal failing. Recorded during early pandemic uncertainty, its insights about control and choice have only grown more relevant.
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August 1, 2026
Hidden Brain · Matthew Walker · 36 min
Sleep scientist Matthew Walker explains why the average adult's habit of trading sleep for productivity is a quiet act of self-sabotage. The conversation moves past generic advice into what actually happens in a dreaming brain and why it matters for memory, mood and health. It's the rare health segment that changes behavior without moralizing.
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July 30, 2026
Acquired · Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal · 119 min
Long before Nvidia became a trillion-dollar AI bellwether, it was a scrappy graphics chip company that nearly died more than once. Ben and David trace those near-collapses and the stubborn technical bets that eventually paid off, which makes today's AI boom look far less inevitable and far more earned. It's a masterclass in how founders survive years of being almost wrong.
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