Bedste Audiobook Review-podcasts (2024)

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What's Our Problem, by Tim Urban 7:33

11M ago7:33

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If I had to recommend just one audiobook this year, which one would it be? In What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies, Tim Urban tackles the perplexing question of why, despite technological advancements, society seems to lack wisdom. He introduces the concept of the 'Ladder of Thinking,' where high-rung thinking embraces truth and open…

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Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, by Bono 8:25

1y ago8:25

8:25

When was the last time you listened to an audiobook that combined history, memoir, and rock music? This audiobook represents storytelling at its finest, combined with exceptional editing and production quality and woven with intimate reinterpretations of some of U2’s most iconic and poignant songs, produced by Bono and The Edge.. Connect with Audio…

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Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships by Nedra Glover Tawwab 8:10

1+ y ago8:10

8:10

Do you need practical advice on identifying dysfunctional family patterns? Or choosing the best path to breaking the cycle and living your life your way? Nedra Glover Tawwab is a licensed therapist, writer, and speaker based in North Carolina. With over a decade of experience in mental health, she specializes in working with individuals and couples…

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The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz 6:49

1+ y ago6:49

6:49

This episode is also available on the Access Ideas podcast. What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? The authors of The Good Life promise the answer may be closer than you realize! Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz are the director and associate director of The Grant Study, also known as the Harvard Study of Adult Development, on…

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Access Ideas podcast episode #1: What Drives Our Obsession with HBO’s Succession? 19:13

3y ago19:13

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Subscribe to the Access Ideas podcast on all podcast streaming platforms. You can expect ad-free, entertaining and informative episodes on a variety of topics throughout 2022. ** What drives our fascination with the fictional Roy family? HBO's Succession follows the dysfunctional owners of Waystar RoyCo, a global media and entertainment conglomerat…

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Coming soon: Access Ideas podcast begins January 18, 2022 1:02

3y ago1:02

1:02

Are you an ideas enthusiast or collector? Our new podcast, Access Ideas, expands on a few familiar areas of interest and explores questions you didn’t know you had, such as can Jane Austen novels serve as escapist fantasy, why is sleep science so controversial, and what drives our obsession with HBO’s Succession? You can expect ad-free, entertainin…

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Top 2021 Reviews: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 7:01

3y ago7:01

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My favourite audiobook of 2021! Oliver Burkeman is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking (2012) and Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done (2011), a collection of columns for the Guardian newspaper. Four Thousand Weeks is about making the most of our radically finite lives in a worl…

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Top 2021 Reviews: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe 8:08

3y ago8:08

8:08

Looking for a gripping TRUE story that's impossible to put down? In his 15-hour audiobook published in April 2021, Keefe captures a family saga that spans the twentieth century and leads up to 2020. Members of the Sackler family founded Purdue Pharma, the infamous maker of OxyContin, a prescription drug that has fuelled an opioid epidemic across No…

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Top 2021 Reviews: High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley 8:09

3y ago8:09

8:09

“This is one of the most important books that will be published in 2021. The Covid vaccine will soon free humanity from a biological pandemic, and this book, if widely read, could free humanity from an equally deadly scourge—high conflict.” — Jonathan Haidt, Social psychologist, Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University Stern School of…

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Top 2021 Reviews: Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind by Judson Brewer 7:20

3y ago7:20

7:20

One of my top audiobook listens for 2021. Dr Judson Brewer is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Brown University. As an addiction psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for treating addictions, Dr. Jud has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treat…

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Top 2021 Reviews: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, by Bill Gates, read by Wil Wheaton 7:58

3y ago7:58

7:58

One of my top audiobook listens for 2021. Gates identifies the Five Grand Challenges of climate change as manufacturing (31%), electricity (27%), agriculture (19%), transportation (16%), and buildings (7%). Since there’s no single solution for any of these sectors, Gates proposes we speed up the cycle of innovation and attract a mix of private and …

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Top 2021 Reviews: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, read by Carey Mulligan 7:16

3y ago7:16

7:16

“Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever…” Ultimately, stories have emotional power over us, and great stories stay with us for a lifetime. Haig’s charming style made this listen impossible to put down. And, although it covers some heavy subject matter, The Midnight Library is an easy listen bea…

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Top 2021 Reviews: You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy 7:01

3y ago7:01

7:01

One of my top audiobook listens for 2021! One Goodreads reviewer gave this book three stars out of five, criticizing it as a “Love Letter to Listening” (but lacking tips of how to listen better). This same rationale is exactly why I’m giving this title five out of five stars. The fact is, most of us know perfectly well what listening skills are, bu…

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There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century by Fiona Hill 5:57

3y ago5:57

5:57

Fiona Hill is director of the Center on the United States and Europe, and senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. Growing up in England’s coal-mining country, Fiona Hill knew that she was in a forgotten place. The last of the local mines had closed, businesses were shuttering, and despair was etched in the faces ar…

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The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall & Douglas Abrams 6:43

3y ago6:43

6:43

Dr. Jane Goodall DBE is an ethologist and environmentalist. From infancy she was fascinated by animal behavior, and in 1957 at 23 years old, she met the famous paleoanthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey while she was visiting a friend in Kenya. Impressed by her passion for animals, he offered her the chance to be the first person to study chimpanzees, ou…

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Repeat listen: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant 7:44

3y ago7:44

7:44

One of my top audiobook listens for 2021! Think Again is a 21st Century reboot of Enlightenment ideas, celebrating skepticism and science. Adam Grant’s balance of storytelling and statistics is fascinating, but what makes this listen fun is how Grant challenges us to explore our own tendencies and guides us in how to practice rethinking our beliefs…

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Classic literature as audiobook: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, read by Maggie Gyllenhaal 7:14

3y ago7:14

7:14

Can the audiobook format add something of value to classic literature? Leo Tolstoy's epic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature and famously begins with the line “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31188265-anna-karenina C…

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Repeat listen: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, written by Katherine May and read by Rebecca Lee 6:04

3y ago6:04

6:04

One of my top audiobook listens for 2021! All of us have experienced unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a breakup, or a job loss. These experiences can be deeply lonely and confusing. I’m reviewing this book because I’m thinking of all the people I know living through what may feel like one of the most diffic…

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Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health, written and read by Professor David Nutt 8:32

3y ago8:32

8:32

Professor David Nutt is a neuropsychopharmacologist and researcher at Imperial College London. In 2009, he was infamously dismissed from his role as Chair of the United Kingdom’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. The reason was his public stance that illicit drugs should be classified according to the actual evidence of the harm they cause. …

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Projections: A Story of Human Emotions by Karl Deisseroth, read by Karl Deisseroth, Natalie Naudus, Karen Chilton 6:45

3y ago6:45

6:45

Karl Deisseroth has spent his life researching the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher creating and developing the revolutionary field of optogenetics, which uses light to help decipher the brain’s workings. Projections is promoted as a work that combines his knowledge of the brain’s inner circuitry with a deep …

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Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland, read by Tom Parks 6:58

3y ago6:58

6:58

Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Philosophy Edward Slingerland makes a bold claim in his new book in that overall and over the course of history, alcohol has produced net positive benefits for both individuals and cultures, or our taste for it would have been eliminated by genetic or cultural evolution (given its heavy costs). We w…

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Things I Learned from Falling by Claire Nelson 9:52

3y ago9:52

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Things I learned from Falling is promoted as a memoir by Claire Nelson, who shares how she fell over 25 feet after wandering off the trail in a deserted corner of Joshua Tree Park. The fall shattered her pelvis, rendering her immobile. She lay in a canyon for the next four days, exposed to the relentless California sun. Her rescuers had not expecte…

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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Dr. Anna Lembke 7:18

3y ago7:18

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Anna Lembke is the medical director of Stanford Addiction Medicine, program director for the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She is the recipient of numerous awards for outstanding research in mental illness, for excellence in teaching, and for clinical innovation in treatm…

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The Comfort Book by Matt Haig 6:13

3y ago6:13

6:13

Matt Haig is an author for children and adults. His memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, was a number one bestseller, staying in the British top ten for 46 weeks. His children’s book A Boy Called Christmaswas a runaway hit and is translated in over 40 languages. It is being made into a film starring Maggie Smith, Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent and The G…

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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 6:24

3y ago6:24

6:24

Oliver Burkeman is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking (2012) and Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done (2011), a collection of columns for the Guardian newspaper. Four Thousand Weeks is about making the most of our radically finite lives in a world of impossible demands, relentl…

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This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan 6:32

3y ago6:32

6:32

Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. Pollan’s 2021 book, This is Your Mind on Plants, features three essays about opium, caffeine and mescaline, with a covid-era i…

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Critique and Compare: How to Do the Work by Dr. Nicole LePera vs. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. van der Kolk 12:43

3y ago12:43

12:43

Self-help references on social media seem to be more popular these days, especially as many of us seek to move forward from pandemic life to something new and not quite back to normal. Perhaps it’s that more of us are self-conscious as we venture out into public life, and maybe it’s also that the pandemic gave many of us time to think about our men…

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Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green, read by David Pittu 7:15

3+ y ago7:15

7:15

The Last Call Killer preyed upon gay men in New York in the ‘80s and ‘90s and had all the hallmarks of the most notorious serial killers. Yet because of the sexuality of his victims, New York City’s high murder rates, and the AIDS epidemic, his murders have been almost entirely forgotten. This is journalist Elon Green’s first book, and unlike some …

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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard 7:58

3+ y ago7:58

7:58

Suzanne Simard is a professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences and teaches at the University of British Columbia. She was born in the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia in 1960. Her family were loggers, so it seemed like a natural fit for her to join a commercial logging company as she started her career. Her job was to che…

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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green 7:20

3+ y ago7:20

7:20

The Anthropocene Reviewed started out as a podcast, where bestselling author John Green tried to make sense of some of the contradictions of human life – how we can be so compassionate, and yet so cruel. So persistent, yet so quick to despair. Green says that above all, he wanted to understand the contradiction of human power; how we are too powerf…

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A conversation with Elena Iacono: What insights can we bring to our post-pandemic lives? 34:20

3+ y ago34:20

34:20

In today’s extended episode, I chat with Elena Iacono. Elena is a professional colleague of mine who helps empower people to support their well-being and mental health, including flexible resources and compassionate workplace practices. Elena has inspired me with her passion for exploring food and gardening. When her grandmother died in April 2020 …

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Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab 7:39

3+ y ago7:39

7:39

Do you struggle with saying no, or simply telling people what you need? Or, are you someone who secretly or not so secretly embraces JOMO, (the joy of missing out)? Nedra Glover Tawwab shares plainly and clearly what many people feel, but many can’t or won’t bring themselves to say. She shares specific, practical advice for any type of relationship…

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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb, read by Brittany Pressley 6:45

3+ y ago6:45

6:45

As many of us adjust to life after a pandemic, Lori Gottlieb’s memoir is a powerful reminder of how we relate to ourselves and others based on the stories we tell ourselves, versus our real-life interactions. Whether you’re interested or experienced in therapy or not, this audiobook contains so many relatable life stories that remind us of what it …

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A conversation with Lucas Cantor, host of the Book Society podcast 44:47

3+ y ago44:47

44:47

In today’s extended episode, I’m sitting down with Lucas Cantor, a podcaster, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and speaker. He has worked in NBC's music department for eight Olympic Games for which he won two Emmys in 2008 and 2012. He co-produced Lorde's cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World, found on the Hunger Games, Catching Fire…

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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe 7:32

3+ y ago7:32

7:32

In his 15-hour audiobook published in April 2021, Keefe captures a family saga that spans the twentieth century and leads up to 2020. Members of the Sackler family founded Purdue Pharma, the infamous maker of OxyContin, a prescription drug that has fuelled an opioid epidemic across North America for the last twenty years. Patrick Radden Keefe’s inv…

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The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills by Jesse Singal 7:34

3+ y ago7:34

7:34

In The Quick Fix, author and podcaster Jesse Singal argues that the trendy, TED-Talk-friendly psychological interventions so in vogue right now will never be enough to truly address social injustice and inequality. Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53317475-the-quick-fix?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=7XFqZDGRlj&rank=2 Connect with…

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What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing written and read by Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D. Perry 7:01

3+ y ago7:01

7:01

What Happened To You is the latest popular psychology book examining the relationship between trauma and behavioural patterns that many of us struggle to understand in ourselves and others. The title suggests we can better understand ourselves and others if we shift from asking “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” Note: An ACE score …

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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell 7:37

3+ y ago7:37

7:37

The Bomber Mafia is a fascinating exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war. The production was initially conceived of, from the beginning, as an audiobook. Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers—The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He is also the …

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The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't by Julia Galef 6:42

3+ y ago6:42

6:42

Author Julia Galef is the co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality and host of Rationally Speaking, the official podcast of New York City Skeptics. She defines “scout mindset” as the motivation to see things as they are, not as you wish they were – and to be intellectually honest and curious about what's actually true. Goodreads: https://ww…

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High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley 7:33

3+ y ago7:33

7:33

“This is one of the most important books that will be published in 2021. The Covid vaccine will soon free humanity from a biological pandemic, and this book, if widely read, could free humanity from an equally deadly scourge—high conflict.” — Jonathan Haidt, Social psychologist, Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University Stern School of…

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Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind by Judson Brewer 6:44

3+ y ago6:44

6:44

Dr Judson Brewer is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Brown University. As an addiction psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for treating addictions, Dr. Jud has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and a…

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Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato, read by Lexie McDougal 7:07

3+ y ago7:07

7:07

“This economist has a plan to fix capitalism. It's time we all listened.” – Wired Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP). She received her BA from Tufts University and her MA an…

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake 6:30

3+ y ago6:30

6:30

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and a writer with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. He received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian…

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Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere by Tsedal Neeley, read by Marisha Tapera 6:37

3+ y ago6:37

6:37

Tsedal Neeley (@tsedal) is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Her work focuses on how leaders can scale their organizations by developing and implementing global and digital strategies. She regularly advises top leaders who are embarking on virtual work and large-scale change that involves globa…

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A conversation with Rachel Décoste, author of a Year of Return: a Black Woman’s African Homecoming 1:02:25

3+ y ago1:02:25

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Have you ever explored your ancestry? What did you discover? In her 2021 audiobook, The Year of Return: A Black Woman’s African Homecoming, Rachel Décoste shares her epic odyssey to Africa. Like most descendants of enslaved Africans, Décoste could not pinpoint her origins until technology evolved. Guided by a DNA test, she visited 5 countries in as…

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A conversation with Paul Gewuerz, founder of Made to Order Audio: give the gift of a custom audiobook and commemorate your story 32:15

3+ y ago32:15

32:15

What are the funny or interesting stories from your life? You know, the ones that get retold at every family or friends get together? In this extended episode, I sit down with Paul Gewuerz, the founder of Made to Order Audio, to chat about the art and possibilities of custom audiobooks. Commission a one of a kind personalized audiobook to commemora…

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, by Bill Gates, read by Wil Wheaton 7:21

3+ y ago7:21

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Gates identifies the Five Grand Challenges of climate change as manufacturing (31%), electricity (27%), agriculture (19%), transportation (16%), and buildings (7%). Since there’s no single solution for any of these sectors, Gates proposes we speed up the cycle of innovation and attract a mix of private and public investment that is more risk tolera…

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The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel 7:43

3+ y ago7:43

7:43

In the Tyranny of Merit, political philosopher Michael Sandel attacks what he calls “the rhetoric of rising” and ideas about meritocracy on both the political left and right in the United States. Michael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University. His writings—on justice, ethics, democracy, and markets--have been translated into 27 l…

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The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel, read by Dylan Moore 6:36

3+ y ago6:36

6:36

The Glass Hotel is like a literary mosaic of tiny pieces taken from various times, locations, and perspectives. I found this initially disorienting, but when the bigger picture started to emerge, I was hooked. Emily St. John Mandel was born and raised on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. She studied contemporary dance at the School of Tor…

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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant 7:44

3+ y ago7:44

7:44

Think Again is a 21st Century reboot of Enlightenment ideas, celebrating skepticism and science. Adam Grant’s balance of storytelling and statistics is fascinating, but what makes this listen fun is how Grant challenges us to explore our own tendencies and guides us in how to practice rethinking our beliefs. How often do you think again? Take the q…

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