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    People I (Mostly) Admire

    46. What It’s Like to Be Steve Levitt’s Daughters

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Oct 31, 2026 • 46 min

    45. Leidy Klotz on Why the Best Solutions Involve Less — Not More

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Oct 24, 2026 • 40 min

    44. Edward Glaeser Explains Why Some Cities Thrive While Others Fade Away

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Oct 17, 2026 • 46 min

    43. Arne Duncan Says All Kids Deserve a Chance — and Criminals Deserve a Second One

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Oct 10, 2026 • 45 min

    42. America’s Math Curriculum Doesn’t Add Up

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Oct 3, 2026 • 42 min

    41. Dr. Bapu Jena on Why Freakonomics Is the Best Medicine

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Sep 26, 2026 • 40 min

    How a Great Architect Thinks, with Bjarke Ingels | Better in Person

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Sep 23, 2026 • 43 min

    40. Harold Pollack on Why Managing Your Money is as Easy as Taking Out the Garbage

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Sep 19, 2026 • 46 min

    39. Aicha Evans Wants You to Take Your Eyes Off the Road

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Sep 12, 2026 • 49 min

    38. Sendhil Mullainathan Explains How to Generate an Idea a Minute (Part 2)

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Sep 5, 2026 • 37 min

    37. Sendhil Mullainathan Thinks Messing Around Is the Best Use of Your Time

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Aug 29, 2026 • 51 min

    36. How Rahm Emanuel Would Run the World

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Aug 22, 2026 • 42 min

    35. David Epstein Knows Something About Almost Everything

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Aug 15, 2026 • 49 min

    34. Maya Shankar Is Changing People’s Behavior — and Her Own

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Aug 8, 2026 • 45 min

    33. Travis Tygart Is Coming for Cheaters — Just Ask Lance Armstrong

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Aug 1, 2026 • 45 min

    32. Angela Duckworth Explains How to Manage Your Goal Hierarchy

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jul 25, 2026 • 51 min

    31. Peter Leeson on Why Trial-by-Fire Wasn’t Barbaric and Why Pirates Were Democratic

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jul 18, 2026 • 46 min

    30. Dambisa Moyo Says Foreign Aid Can’t Solve Problems, but Maybe Corporations Can

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jul 11, 2026 • 44 min

    29. Bruce Friedrich Thinks There’s a Better Way to Eat Meat

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jul 4, 2026 • 45 min

    28. Professor Carl Hart Argues All Drugs Should Be Legal — Can He Convince Steve?

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jun 27, 2026 • 45 min

    27. Daniel Kahneman on Why Our Judgment is Flawed — and What to Do About It

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jun 20, 2026 • 44 min

    26. Memory Champion Nelson Dellis Helps Steve Train His Brain

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jun 13, 2026 • 35 min

    25. Sam Harris: “Spirituality Is a Loaded Term.”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Jun 6, 2026 • 43 min

    24. Are We Under Threat from a New Kind of Terror? (Replay Ep. 24)

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    May 30, 2026 • 44 min

    23. Greg Norman & Mark Broadie: Why Golf Beats an Orgasm and Why Data Beats Everything

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    May 23, 2026 • 42 min

    22. Sal Khan: “If It Works for 15 Cousins, It Could Work for a Billion People.”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    May 16, 2026 • 44 min

    21. Pete Docter: “What If Monsters Really Do Exist?”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    May 9, 2026 • 43 min

    20. John Donohue: “I'm Frequently Called a Treasonous Enemy of the Constitution.”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    May 2, 2026 • 37 min

    19. Marina Nitze: “If You Googled ‘Business Efficiency Consultant,’ I Was the Only Result.”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Apr 25, 2026 • 38 min

    18. Robert Sapolsky: “I Don’t Think We Have Any Free Will Whatsoever.”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Apr 18, 2026 • 42 min

    17. Emily Oster: “I Am a Woman Who Is Prominently Discussing Vaginas.”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Apr 11, 2026 • 42 min

    16. Joshua Jay: “Humans Are So, So Easy to Fool.”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Apr 4, 2026 • 42 min

    15. Tim Harford: “If You Can Make Sure You're Not An Idiot, You've Done Well.”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Mar 28, 2026 • 42 min

    13. Yul Kwon: “Don't Try to Change Yourself All at Once.” (UPDATE)

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Mar 21, 2026 • 43 min

    12. Sue Bird: “You Have to Pay the Superstars.”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Mar 14, 2026 • 39 min

    11. Paul Romer: “I Figured Out How to Get Myself Fired From the World Bank.”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Mar 7, 2026 • 34 min

    10. Suzanne Gluck: “I'm a Person Who Can Convince Other People to Do Things”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Feb 28, 2026 • 36 min

    8. Peter Attia: “I Definitely Lost a Lot of IQ Points That Day”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Feb 21, 2026 • 39 min

    7. Caverly Morgan: "I Am Not This Voice. I Am Not This Narrative."

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Feb 14, 2026 • 39 min

    6. Nathan Myhrvold: “I Am Interested in Lots of Things, and That's Actually a Bad Strategy”

    People I (Mostly) Admire
    Feb 7, 2026 • 48 min
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