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North Star Podcast

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,...


Jan 25, 2021

I have two guests today: Tiago Forte and Will Mannon.

Tiago is my business partner and the creator of an online course called Building a Second Brain. The two of us record a podcast like this every year to reflect on what we’ve learned about the online education industry. And this time, we invited our Director...


Jan 25, 2021

My guest today is Gagan Biyani, the current CEO of an education startup (where I’m both an investor and an advisor) that helps teachers run Cohort-Based Courses on the Internet and has students from around the world. Gagan also founded a multi-billion dollar online education platform called Udemy. Afterward, he...


Dec 21, 2020

My guest today is Trevor Bauer, who is arguably the very best pitcher in Major League Baseball. In 2020, he had the lowest Earned Run Average of any pitcher and won the National League Cy Young Award, which goes to the top pitcher in the game. I wanted to interview Trevor not only because he's an excellent pitcher,...