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Socratic Method Podcasts
Akbar’s Chamber offers a non-political, non-sectarian and non-partisan space for exploring the past and present of Islam. It has no political or theological bias other than a commitment to the Socratic method (which is to say that questions lead us to understanding) and the empirical record (which is to say the evidence of the world around us). By these methods, Akbar’s Chamber is devoted to enriching public awareness of Islam and Muslims both past and present. The podcast aims to improve un ...
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"RE:Thinking Podcasting" shares a philosophical approach to how you should think about your life as a podcaster. Through philosophical thinking and the Socratic Method, Matthew Bliss unpacks commonly accepted podcasting ideas and advice, and asks questions of his guests and of himself to help you discover your own reflective, self-sustaining podcast workflows and strategy. For too long, Podcasters have been asking the same basic questions: ❌ How do I get more listeners? ❌ What's the best mic ...
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Developer Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence. With over 17 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell, engineering leader with over 15 years of industry experience. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Email: [email protected]
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Noodles in the Sandbox is a playful yet thought-provoking exploration of alternative education, designed for parents who have stepped away from traditional public schools and are seeking the best path for their children. Hosted by experienced educators who lead Acton Academy Northwest Austin (Texas). Together we dive into early education tools, parenting strategies, and focus on cultivating 21st-century skills in a learner-driven environment. In each episode, we embrace curiosity, lifelong l ...
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Getting you behind the research and ideas in contemporary life. Interviews from a team of producers who discuss the latest thinking behind the key issues of our time. Listen live or podcast. SoundMinds Radio tells a 15-minute research story in the academics own voice. A soundscape rich program from BayFM community radio and Western Sydney University in Australia. At SoundMinds Radio we believe in the Socratic method, so leave us a comment or suggest a new story. We love hearing your ideas. C ...
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A public discourse implementing the Socratic seminar method in order to explore theories, examine ideologies, reveal hidden truths, and ignite an indiscriminate conversation. Through dialogue, we explore the vast perspectives within the minds of various individuals in search of the truth which includes questioning the issues we label “controversial” as a society. To provoke enlightenment we must shed light on the matters we choose to hide in the dark. Our obligation as humans, educators, and ...
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From the trusted team behind the Tuttle Twins books, join us as we tackle current events, hot topics, and fun ideas to help your family find clarity in a world full of confusion.
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More than two thousand years ago, the great Greek philosopher Socrates was condemned to death for making seditious comments against the city state of Athens. His followers and disciples were legion. Ranging from Xenophon, the mercenary warrior and historian of the Peloponnesian War to the scholarly Plato, Socrates was described as the conscience-keeper of the nation, or the “gadfly” who would not let the massive machinery of the state rest in complacence. The Apology of Socrates by Plato was ...
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A.J., Graeme, and Thomas discuss everything having to do with the classical world. Our aim is to help both educators and laypeople enjoy the classical world as much as they enjoy fine ales and good tales.
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Life is complicated. It is afflicted with more big questions than big answers. As one is tested by the suffering and irrationality of life, the questions become more compelling and imperative, and the answers become more urgent and necessary in order to be a good person and to live a happy life. What does it mean to be a good person? What is a happy life? What is love? Who am I before I was told who I am? Why haven’t I found myself yet? Why do I have regrets? Is the world just? Everything se ...
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Explore the mystical realms where BDSM meets spirituality in the Saturnian Sex Magick Podcast, paving a visionary path for passionate souls. We look five to ten years into the future, where BDSM becomes a Spiritual System. You can find the podcast on all the major platforms. Your hosts Master Saturn 🪐 and little libra ♎ are BDSM Educators in a long-term power exchange relationship. Together they run Whips, Chains & Duct Tape which libra founded in 2012 and has provided hundreds of thousands ...
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Welcome to the Homeschool advantage, an interview based podcast that connects homeschoolers to vendors, curriculum content creators, coops and more. My name is Bex Buzzie and I am a teacher, coach and educational course content creator from San Diego California. The homeschool advantage is here to give you the leg up in a world that is slightly upside down by connecting parents who want to homeschool, parent who have been homeschooling, teachers who are looking for an edge or new material to ...
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To challenge and rethink our paradigms for understanding society, by applying Reformed theology and philosophy to politics, religion, and culture, in order to encourage individual freedom and responsibility within our own spheres of influence. Mere Liberty is about liberty at its most fundamental core. It’s stripping away the rhetoric that we’ve become accustomed to hearing and challenging the paradigms that face us today. Mere Liberty is not about politics per se, rather it’s about the phil ...
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Greek philosopher Socrates believed that the best way to teach was by asking lots of questions to help someone think and find answers for themselves.
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A Pivot, A Reality Check, and Why I'm Here (Foundational Episode 05)
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12:49Its easy to start your podcasting journey and feel far away from the top 1%. And if you feel like you can get there easily, you might find the journey harder than you thought. But the key is not to be stuck in the quagmire of the present, but build your grand vision of where podcasting can take you. This is the fifth and final foundational episode …
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Burnout, Freelance Editing and Finding Intrinsic Value (Foundation Ep04)
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13:46Many podcasters sharing their experiences talk about "Podfade" (otherwise known as "podcaster burnout") as something to avoid at all costs for fear of failure. Whatever failure could mean in podcasting, anyway. Burnout can also hit the podcast professionals as well, in a world where competing with AI means we have to keep adding more and more to ou…
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As characters in stories go on adventures, face challenges, and learn important lessons, there comes a point where they must choose to either grow into someone braver, kinder, or wiser or go in the wrong direction and become more selfish, angry, or cruel.
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Socrates, Philosophy in Podcasting and Challenging the Status Quo (Foundation Episode 03)
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11:42Everyone says that we don't teach critical thinking anymore, and everywhere, collective group-think is dominating discussions. This is why philosophy, and particularly Plato's work featuring Socrates, is incredibly useful when we explore podcasting. Thinking and internal discussion is more important now than ever, and what we interrogate and unpack…
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Behavior Change 101: Trigger, Incentive, and Ability
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20:16This episode delves into a powerful model for encouraging behaviour change, applicable to both managing others and self-improvement, by focusing on three critical factors: Trigger, Incentive, and Ability. It challenges common, ineffective management approaches and provides insights into fostering new habits and desired actions by making the 'right'…
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Rachel and Brittany tackle another one of the logical fallacies that prevent people from thinking rationally.
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My First Podcast, Fixing Poor-Quality Audio and a Blue Yeti (Foundation Episode 02)
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12:20It's easy to think that producing a great-quality podcast is only about the tech, but there is much more to it. An idea, some audio troubleshooting and acknowledging my unique path were the ways that I became a podcaster. And once I had laid the groundwork, I could realise my podcasting goals and become the Podcast Producer & Editor I am today. Thi…
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613. What is The Importance of Delayed Gratification?
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13:30It's easy to get caught up in instant gratification. But more often than not, the things that offer you the most value are worth the wait.
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Early Beginnings, a Career in Tech & never becoming a Teacher (Foundation Episode 01)
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11:31This is the first of five episodes that will give you an introduction to me, Matthew Bliss, as the host of RE:Thinking Podcasting by sharing with you my career, a bit of my life and how my thinking has changed on my podcasting journey so far. If you've met me before, it's incredibly likely I haven't mentioned a lot of what you'll hear in these epis…
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Islam in the Land of Bilal: The Rich Heritage of Ethiopia’s Muslims
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1:08:58Today nearly a third of Ethiopians are Muslims. At around 37 million, that’s a larger Muslim population than many Middle Eastern countries. According to Islamic tradition, fourteen centuries ago the first person appointed by the Prophet Muhammad to call Muslims to prayer was an Ethiopian called Bilal ibn Rabbah. Moreover, some of the Prophet’s comp…
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On How this Podcast will Help You & Misinformation in the Podcasting World
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10:51Certainty in podcasting feels like a warm bed on a cold evening, but the truth is that there is more variability in the podcasting world than you know. You may have been sold this certainty in advice, but the only real way to find your path in podcasting is to create your own Podcasting Philosophy. In this episode of Rethinking Podcasting, I explai…
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Sometimes we use humor to diffuse tense situations, but there are some situations where a joke can escalate things in really bad ways. Think: going through TSA at the airport. Or making fun of a friend, not knowing they are going through a hard time.
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People love to call others a "fascist" whenever they disagree with their political views. But what does that term really mean and our most people using it incorrectly?
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Goal of the Goal - Using Goals As A Prioritization Clarifying Tool
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26:13This episode delves into the crucial role of well-positioned goals in a developer's career. It asserts that goals provide clarity, perspective, and purpose, particularly focusing on clarity as a primary benefit. The discussion challenges common struggles with goal setting, including the often-overlooked importance of relevance (the 'R' in SMART goa…
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Rachel and Brittany give a very basic primer on how credit cards work and some things to keep in mind when you begin your journey into finances and managing your own money. Stay out of debt! Be really careful with that first credit card. It may FEEL like "FREE MONEY" but the bill always comes due! Credit scores.…
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Your Capacity for Growth Is Dependent on This Factor - Cognitive Load Theory
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23:49Today we explore Cognitive Load Theory. This concept can profoundly influence how you structure your workday, manage teams, and approach learning in your career. The episode highlights that much of professional work, particularly in knowledge-based roles like software engineering, is fundamentally about learning. You will discover that there is an …
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609. Why is Appealing to Emotions a Logical Fallacy?
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15:01A lot of people will try to get you to agree with their political or ideological beliefs using only emotional arguments. Using emotions might help to pull at heartstrings, but it is important to base your arguments on logic arguments first before you bring emotion into the mix.
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Whether you're just visiting another city or state, or traveling halfway around the world, there is so much adventure to embrace in traveling. Rachel and Brittany encourage you to embrace the planning and process of travel, as well as the cultural lessons you can learn.
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This episode focuses again on the fundamental principle that your systems are perfectly designed for the outcomes you are experiencing, regardless of whether those systems were intentionally or accidentally created. Here are the key takeaways from the episode: Uncover how your systems, whether intentionally or accidentally designed, are perfectly c…
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Rachel and Brittany gives some tips for teenagers looking to get their first job. Where do you want to work? What would you be good at? Who is hiring? What about my network? How to nail a first impression with an employer. Let us walk through it all.
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606. What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
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13:56You're never too young to start thinking about what kind of career you want to have. But how can you make such a difficult decision when you have so many options?
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Seneca’s Stoic Method for Mastering Anger and Averting Conflicts
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30:01Got a temper? So did the ancient Romans. But one of them, the Stoic philosopher Seneca, had a radically different approach to anger, and it still works today. In this episode, we explore how Stoicism teaches us to master our emotions, especially the most destructive one of all, anger. Seneca didn’t just preach calm. He gave practical advice on how …
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Perfection Is Fragile, and You Should Avoid It
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20:03This episode discusses why perfection is a dangerous and fragile goal, explaining how striving for 100% leads to unsustainable outlier states. It highlights how setting perfection as a bar can cause commitments to break and plans to fail due to a lack of slack, and offers strategies like building redundancy and planning with slack to achieve goals …
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Before humans used social media to share idea, they used pamphlets. And on the road to the revolutionary war, there was no great pamphleteer than Thomas Paine.
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604. What Is The Real Meaning of Independence Day?
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13:03The Fourth of July is almost here! While fireworks and family time is great, it's important to remember the true meaning of the holiday.
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Your System is Perfectly Designed for Your Current Outcomes
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18:14This episode introduces the potentially controversial principle that your system is perfectly designed for its current outcomes, urging listeners to embrace greater responsibility for systemic issues. It explores how to redefine system boundaries to holistically integrate all influencing factors, like talent and organisational processes, ensuring t…
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Mecca through Bosnian Eyes: Five Centuries of Pilgrimage Writing from Southeast Europe
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56:42The Muslims of Bosnia in southeast Europe treasure a centuries-long tradition of writing about the journey to Mecca. These treatises and travelogues help us trace the changing ways in which the hajj was experienced and described by these European Muslims who lived under the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires, then socialist Yugoslavia, before the…
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603. Who Was More Important, John Adams or Sam Adams?
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13:02Two of the most important figures in the Revolutionary War were John Adams and Sam Adams. While the two were cousins, when it came to fighting for liberty, the two had very different styles.
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602. Are We Really Living in "Unprecedented" Times?
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13:49These days, the mainstream media and social media influences like to tell us that we are living through scary and unsafe times that humans have never experienced. Is this true? Or have human history experienced much crazier times than we are today?
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Using LLMs To Expand Your Working Vocabulary
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13:26This episode explores the fundamental mindset of building your vocabulary, extending beyond literal words to conceptual understanding and mental models, and how Large Language Models (LLMs) can be a powerful tool for expanding and refining this crucial skill for career growth, clarity, and navigating disruptions. Uncover why building your vocabular…
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Rachel and Brittany discuss the importance of a well-rounded education and why you should maintain a healthy curiosity about subjects you don't think are relevant to you. You might be surprised at how your "useless knowledge" comes in handy in life.
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600. Picking your battles: Is this really worth fighting over?
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12:11Brittany and Rachel discuss how to decide if you should pick a fight with someone over an issue you have with them. Is it important enough to go to war with your brother over how he chews his food? What about the annoying things you do? On the other hand, its important to stand up for what is right. Where do you draw the line?…
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599. Why Should You Learn to "Trust Your Gut?"
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12:26Every individual has gut instincts that help us guide what choices we make in life. How can we learn to know when to follow our gut and when our gut instincts might be holding us back from new experiences?
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Great Reviews and Terrible Tacos - Sharpening Substitute Questions with Counterfactuals
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23:28This episode delves into the use of substitute questions—simpler queries we use to answer more complex ones—and the crucial concept of cohesion between these substitutes and our true objectives. You'll learn how to leverage counterfactual thinking to scrutinize your assumptions and enhance the effectiveness of your decisions. Discover two powerful …
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598. Why should you worry about prison labor and private prisons?
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12:49Rachel goes down the rabbit hole of why prison labor can be so concerning, and its not for the reason you think. Incentives matter, and should we be incentivising incarceration in a free society? When lots of big interests are making lots of money off of prisons and prison labor, what do you think happens to the demand for more prisoners?…
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Now a days, we hear a lot about "settled" science. But is science a fixed truth that never changes? Or is science ongoing quest?
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Why Maintenance Matters Now - Construal Level Theory, Marshmallows, and Hyperbolic Discounting
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22:57This episode explores why maintenance tasks, despite their fundamental importance, are often neglected or deprioritised in our daily lives and professional work. It delves into the psychological biases that make consistent maintenance challenging, such as hyperbolic discounting, where immediate gratification is valued over future gains, and the con…
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Socrates’ Path to Virtue: Ten Footsteps to Good Character
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38:27Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all believed that what you are matters far more than what you have. Good character is your most precious possession. In this episode, we dig deep into the ten unmistakable qualities of a person with good character, guided by the timeless wisdom of philosophy’s greatest minds. Socrates teaches that an examined life is …
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NEW PODCAST: Your Philosophical Approach to Podcast Flourishing
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2:31Imagine the Agora in Ancient Athens: a bustling marketplace of citizens and slaves living their lives. The chipping of ceramics echo across the square, the shuffling feet of crowds across cobbled streets, the tinkle of coins changing hands... and you may even hear Socrates, a philosopher known to walk the streets engaging in his infamous dialogic t…
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The Miraculous Pencil demonstrates how the world is so interconnected. Trade barriers threaten that connection and our supply chains could suffer. But what if the Trump tariff threats are just a good negotiating tool? Let's unpack what we know so far.
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Follow This Principle - Establish Your Baselines
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8:00This episode introduces a profound yet simple principle: knowing your baselines. This concept is crucial for effectively detecting and measuring change in your life and career. Uncover the fundamental idea that to recognise when something has changed, you must first understand what things were like before the change occurred. Often, people haven't …
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595. What Is The Difference Between a Peaceful Protest and Domestic Terrorism?
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Islamic Occultism: The ‘Hidden’ Sciences of the Premodern Muslim World
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1:04:15Islam and the occult may seem like odd bedfellows. But during the medieval and early modern periods, Muslim thinkers wrote vast numbers of manuscripts on a panoply of occult sciences, ranging from numerology and astrology to alchemy and lettrism. Just as the English word occult derives from the Latin occultus (meaning ‘hidden’), so in Arabic were t…
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Advice on Advice - Taking Everything with a Grain of Salt
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13:54This episode explores the complex landscape of receiving advice in your career, particularly during uncertain times. It offers insights on how to critically evaluate feedback and external information, prepare for potential negative outcomes outside of your control, and adapt your focus to thrive in a changing industry. Explore why the vast amount o…
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In this episode, Graeme tells us of the Narcissism of Raskolnikov. I mean, Graeme tells you, but A.J. had all the ideas (please give him validation).By Well, three guys, but only one had all the ideas.
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594. What Is The Difference Between The Rule of Law and The Rule of Men?
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14:24Why we need rules and why the Constitution is important for the government to follow.
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Career Advice for Surviving AI Outsourcing
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13:09This episode addresses the fear surrounding industry changes, such as AI and potential outsourcing, and offers actionable advice for engineers, managers, and leaders to navigate these challenges. You'll learn why shifting your focus from just developing skills to embracing ownership and responsibility is crucial for long-term career resilience and …
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If you want to be successful in your life, it's important to recognize the importance of ditching your ego.
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