I have some important news about Build For Tomorrow.
And here’s my new show, Help Wanted: https://link.chtbl.com/85RcT5bT
I have some important news about Build For Tomorrow.
And here’s my new show, Help Wanted: https://link.chtbl.com/85RcT5bT
For decades, people have been told they have a certain “learning style.” Maybe you think you’re a visual learner, for example, or a reading/writing learner. But new research is upending all that. Here’s what we got wrong — and how we can become truly better learners.
Special guests:
Polly Husmann, Associate Professor of Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology for the Indiana University School of Medicine
Martin Bloomer, Professor, Department of Classics at the University of Notre Dame
Beth Rogowsky, Professor at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Jim Kwik, brain coach, podcaster, writer, and entrepreneur
In 1923, a famous scientist predicted how work would change in 2023. Now, 100 years later, we can confirm: He was shockingly right… and yet totally wrong. What happened? The answers can tell you a lot about what’s coming in the next 100 years, and how technology will (and maybe won’t) change work forever.
Guests:
Jason Crawford – Roots of Progress
David Autor – Professor of Economics at MIT
Everyone’s freaking out! How can that be put to good use? In this episode, we discuss the unexpected benefits of the bubonic plague, what the four-day workweek tells us about the future of work, how world-changing technologies become adopted, why business failures lead to success, how to use crises to change the status quo, and more.
This episode originally aired on The Jordan Harbinger Show, as he interviewed me, Build For Tomorrow host Jason Feifer.
Have you ever messed up — or just thought you messed up! — and then obsessed over what you could have done better? This episode is about what’s happening in your brain, why you’re doing it, and how to finally let it go.
Special Guests:
John Petrocelli – Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University
Amy Summerville – Senior Research Scientist, Social Psychology PhD
You can find opportunity in the hardest situations. But how?
To answer that out, we take lessons from one of the most fascinating changes in cultural history — when the record player was invented. Many people loved it, but musicians hated it. They tried to stop it. But their anti-recorded-music campaign did not go as planned.
This is a story about what it takes — for us all! — to let go of the past and embrace the future.
Special Guests:
Mark Katz, Professor of Music at the UNC Chapel Hill
Matthew Thibeault, Associate Professor of Cultural & Creative Arts at The Education University of Hong Kong
Jim Ramsburg, former radio historian (1935-2021)
Viola Smith, former musician (1912-2020)
Want to fix the problem with work today? It starts by understanding the common phrase “nobody wants to work anymore” — including what’s right about it, what’s wrong about it, and why critics have been using these exact same words for more than a century.
Guests:
Peter Stearns – Professor of History at George Mason University
Matt Plapp – CEO at America’s Best Restaurants
Twitter thread from Paul Fairie
Barbie sales were plummeting. A new leader had a vision: The doll needed to be “a reflection of our times.” But how do you make something more modern? In this episode, we learn how Barbie took some big risks — and then take a trip through toy history, to discover just how much our toys say about ourselves.
Guests:
Richard Dickson, former Mattel executive
Jonathan Alexandratos, Toy Historian, Instructor at Queensborough Community College
Gary Foreman, producer and director for high-end documentaries and films
Our brains are full of fun facts: the memory span of a goldfish, Marie Antoinette’s famous words, the vomitoriums of Rome, and more. But what if it’s all wrong? In this episode, I debunk more than a dozen common misconceptions and then ask: Why do we remember misinformation so easily? And is there a better way to learn?
Special thanks to our guests:
Culum Brown, Head of the Fish Lab at Macquarie University
David Rapp, Psychology Professor at Northwestern University
Margaret Rodenberg, Author of “Finding Napoleon”
Andrew Rabin, Professor of English at the University of Louisville
Caillan Davenport, Associate Professor of Classics at the Australian National University
The four-day workweek was once just an experiment. Now it’s regular life for many people. So what’s that like? In this episode, we look at the good, the bad, the reason our workweek evolved the way it did, and what it’ll take to get everyone else another day off.
Special thanks to our guests:
Brianne Kimmel, Founder and Managing Partner of Worklife Ventures
Nicole Miller, Director of People at Buffer
Darra Goldstein, Food historian
Claudine Adeyemi, Founder and CEO of Career Ear
Robert Whaples, Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University
Justin Mitchell, CEO and Founder of Yak