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North Star Podcast

May 24, 2021

Rob Henderson is one of my favorite up-and-coming writers. I like him because he's one of those people who doesn't fit into a category. He's a Ph.D. candidate in psychology, but I met him in a book club about technological stagnation. He's spent years in the academy, first at Yale and now at Cambridge, but most of...


May 17, 2021

This week, I have two guests. Both are affiliated with Synthesis, a new kind of online school where kids learn through games and simulations. One is Chrisman Frank, the CEO of Synthesis. The other is Ana Lorena Fabrega, who is their Chief Evangelist.

Here's the backstory: A few years ago, Elon Musk asked the co-founder...


May 7, 2021

Ash Fontana is an entrepreneur, investor, and author. As an entrepreneur, he was only of the early employees at an online investing platform called AngelList. From there, he became the Managing Director at Zetta, the first investment fund focused on artificial intelligence. Now, he's the author of the...


Feb 16, 2021

My guest today is Li Jin, the founder and managing partner at an early-stage venture capital firm called Atelier.

She's known for her extensive writings about the Passion Economy.

Her essays explore how people can make a living from their passions and creative skills.

All of her writing is filtered through the lens of...


Feb 1, 2021

My guest today is Zena Hitz, a tutor at St John’s and the author of an excellent book called Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life. Her book explores the meaning and the value of learning for its own sake, through images and stories of bookworms, philosophers, scientists, and other learners,...