Best thinkforyourself Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 45: Revisiting Public Health with Dr. Ali Khan 58:56

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Ali Khan is Dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and a former Assistant Surgeon General with the US Public Health Service. Dr. Khan’s career has focused on health security, global health, & emerging infectious diseases. He completed a 23-year career as a senior director at the CDC where he was one of the…

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Episode 44: Talking Investing & Business with Mike McCarthy 1:00:14

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Michael McCarthy is the co-chairman of Bridges Trust. In addition to his role at Bridges Trust, he is also the chairman and founder of McCarthy Group, LLC, an investment holding company headquartered in Omaha since its founding in 1986. Mike serves on the boards of a number of public, private and not-for-profit entities including Union Pacific Corp…

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Episode 43: Confronting Challenges with Charlene Wheeless 1:00:40

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Charlene is the author of You are Enough: Reclaiming Your Career and Your Life With Purpose, Passion, and Unapologetic Authenticity. In 2020, following a four-year health crisis, Charlene retired from Corporate America as the principal vice president of global corporate affairs for Bechtel Corporation, one of the world's leading engineering and con…

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Episode 42: Modernizing Manufacturing with Kevin Czinger 1:01:34

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Kevin Czinger is the founder, lead inventor and CEO of Divergent Technologies. He founded Divergent to revolutionize car manufacturing by inventing and deploying an end-to-end digital production system, thereby catalyzing and leading the global manufacturing transition from analog to digital production. Divergent 3D’s patented manufacturing platfor…

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Episode 41: Finding Common Ground with Diane Hessan 1:00:12

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Diane Hessan, an award-winning entrepreneur and innovator in the market research field, is a nationally recognized expert on the American voter. A member of the Boston Globe Editorial Board, she has written extensively about the voices of the electorate and is the author of Our Common Ground: Insights from Four Years of Listening to the American Vo…

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Episode 40: Discussing the Uyghur Genocide with Hakim Idris and Rushan Abbas 1:02:16

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Hakim Idris is the author of Menace: China's Colonization of the Islamic World & Uyghur Genocide. His wife Rushan Abbas is the founder and executive director of the Campaign for Uyghurs. Hakim and Rushan are among the world's most informed individuals about Chinese activities against Muslim minorities in East Turkistan. Perhaps the single most impo…

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Episode 39: Considering Climate Alarmism with Bjorn Lomborg 1:03:58

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Dr. Bjorn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School. The Copenhagen Consensus Center is a think-tank that researches the smartest ways to do good. For this work, Lomborg was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influe…

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Episode 38: Talking Macro with Grant Williams 1:05:29

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Much to his chagrin, Grant Williams has spent the last 35 years in finance. Over that period, he has held senior positions at a number of investment banks and brokers including Robert Fleming, UBS, Banc of America and Credit Suisse in locations as diverse as London, Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney and Singapore. Grant is a senior advisor to Vulp…

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Episode 37: Navigating Uncertainty with Chad Foster 58:24

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Chad Foster is the author of Blind Ambition: How to Go from Victim to Visionary. Chad currently works at Red Hat/IBM and was the first blind executive to graduate from the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School. Despite going blind in his twenties, he has built a very successful career in the technology industry. He lives wit…

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Episode 36: Disentangling Technology Competition with Mike Rogers 1:01:50

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Mike is a former Congressman from Michigan. A former officer in the US Army and Special Agent for the FBI, Mike chaired the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where he authorized and oversaw a budget of $70 billion that funded the nation's 17 intelligence agencies. He currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the Board at the MITRE Co…

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Episode 35: Probing Polarization with Joan Williams 1:00:12

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Joan is a Distinguished Professor of Law and the Hastings Foundation Chair at the University of California, Hastings College of Law. She is the author of numerous books, including the much acclaimed White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America. Described as having "something approaching rock star status” in her field by The New Yor…

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Episode 34: Speaking Space with Sara Seager 1:00:49

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In this episode, I speak about space with Sara Seager. Professor Seager is an astrophysicist and a professor of physics and planetary science at MIT. Her research, which earned her a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, has introduced many foundational ideas to the field of exoplanets. She has led different space missions or space mission concept s…

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Episode 33: Discussing Global Liquidity with Michael Howell 1:01:50

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In this episode, I speak with Michael Howell, Managing Director at CrossBorder Capital, a firm he founded in 1996. He's been listed as the top emerging market strategist multiple times and developed a quantitative liquidity research methodology while at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s. He is the author of the recently-released Capital Wars: The Rise …

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Episode 32: Seeking/Speaking World Peace with John Hunter 1:02:11

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In this episode, I speak with John Hunter, an award-winning teacher and educational consultant who created the World Peace Game in 1978. He is the founder and executive director of the World Peace Game Foundation and has spoken about his work at TED, the US Pentagon, Google, the Aspen Institute, and many other places. John is also the author of Wor…

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Episode 31: Talking Rare Earths with MP Materials' James Litinsky 1:02:16

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In this episode, I speak with James Litinsky, Chairman and CEO of MP Materials, America's leading rare earth company. Jim is also the founder and Chief Investment Officer of JHL Capital Management, an investment firm he formed after spending time at Fortress Investment Group, Omnicom, and Allen & Company. [RECORDING DATE: March 4, 2021] If you find…

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Episode 30: My Conversation with Danielle DiMartino Booth 1:01:10

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In this episode, I speak with Danielle DiMartino Booth, CEO and Chief Strategist for Quill Intelligence. Danielle is a former Advisor to Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher and spent almost a decade thinking about financial stability and the efficacy of unconventional monetary policy. She is the author of FED UP: An Insider's Ta…

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Episode 29: Discussing the US-China Tech Rivalry with Emily de La Bruyere 59:53

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In this episode, I share my conversation with Emily de La Bruyere, a co-founder of Horizon Advisory. Emily's work focuses on China's standardization ambitions, military-civil fusion strategy, and the implications for US economic and national security. She uses primary-source Chinese-language materials and has pioneered data tools for new analytical…

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Episode 28: My Conversation with BIgTen Commissioner Kevin Warren 56:52

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In this episode, I speak with Kevin Warren, the Commissioner of the Big Ten Conference. Kevin is a decorated college athlete and was part of the 1982 Ivy League championship basketball team at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has decades of experience in the NFL and is among the most accomplished executives in the business of sports. Prior t…

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Episode 27: Talking Tech and Competitive Innovation with Gilman Louie 1:00:56

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In this episode, I speak with Gilman Louie, a venture capitalist. Gilman is the founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel, a strategic venture fund created to help enhance national security by connecting the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. intelligence community with venture-backed entrepreneurial companies. [RECORDING DATE: February 2, 2021] If you …

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Episode 26: Connecting (Open-Source) Dots with Eliot Higgins 1:01:31

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In this episode, I speak with Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat (an international collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists using open-source and social media to probe some of the world's most pressing stories. Eliot also sits on the advisory board of the International Criminal Court in The Hague and is the author of We Ar…

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The Holographic Microbiome 16:44

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In the episode we explore the Holographic Fractal Theory and how it relates to your Microbiome. Be prepared to stretch your brain as K. Lux takes you on a wild ride through thought experiments involving AI, Eugenics, Fractals and the innate power we all have residing deep inside our guts! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod…

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Quantum Healing Activation 1 30:04

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This is the first activation code to activate your ability to heal anything on command sans western medicine. You will learn the basics of Light Codes and how they cause all illness and ailments in the body, and how to look in the realm above the area of the problem to heal it. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/think…

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PSYOPS Astrology 9:57

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Since time immemorial, our ancestors have always been in tune with the stars... our Divine Cosmic Clock in the sky, gifted to us to read the heavens and integrate/plan our lives around. We relied on it to know when to plant our crops, prepare our food for the winter and even when to procreate. During the industrial revolution, we fell out of touch …

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Pilot~ We are Seeds 8:18

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After a few years hiatus and working towards launching some goals. I am finally up and running with all new podcasting equipment and recording studio! I will be remastering a few old episodes and adding lots of new content.. late night recordings to simultaneously blow your mind and get you zenned out. In this episode I share my Tree of Life metaph…

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Episode 25: Speaking with Bart Weetjens 1:00:02

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In this episode, I share the audio portion of my December 2020 webinar with Bart Weetjens, a Zen Buddhist monk who pioneered the use of rats to identify landmines. For more information about the THINK FOR YOURSELF series, please visit www.mansharamani.com.By Vikram Mansharamani

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Episode 24: My conversation with Jeremy Grantham 1:02:22

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in this episode, I share the audio portion of my December 2020 webinar discussion with Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of GMO. For more information about the THINK FOR YOURSELF series, please visit www.mansharamani.com.By Vikram Mansharamani

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Episode 23: A Conversation with Ambassador Hank Crumpton 1:01:27

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In this episode, I share the audio portion of my December 2020 webinar discussion with Ambassador Hank Crumpton, co-founder and co-CEO of Martin+Crumpton Group and a 24-year veteran of the CIA's clandestine service. Ambassador Crumpton is also the author of THE ART OF INTELLIGENCE. For more information about the THINK FOR YOURSELF series, please vi…

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Episode 22:Talking about "Parents Who Lead" with Stew Friedman 1:00:26

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In this episode, I share the audio portion of my November 2020 discussion with Stew Friedman, one of the world's leading leadership scholar, about his recently released book, PARENTS WHO LEAD, which he co-authored with Alyssa Westring. For more about the THINK FOR YOURSELF series, please visit www.mansharamani.com.…

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Episode 21: Speaking with Rebecca Lissner 1:00:12

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In this episode, I share the audio portion of my November 2020 discussion about global dynamics in a post-Trump world with Rebecca Lissner, a professor at the US Naval War College and co-author, with Mira Rapp-Hopper, of AN OPEN WORLD. For more information about the THINK FOR YOURSELF series, please visit www.mansharamani.com.…

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Episode 20: "When More Is Not Better" with Roger Martin 1:02:10

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In this episode, I share the audio portion of my October 2020 webinar discussion with Roger Martin, a leading management scholar and prolific author. Among other topics, we did discuss Roger's latest book, WHEN MORE IS NOT BETTER. For more information about the THINK FOR YOURSELF series, please visit www.mansharamani.com.…

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Episode 19: Discussing "How to Eat" with Dr. David Katz 1:05:04

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In this episode, I share the audio portion of my October 2020 webinar discussion with Dr. David Katz, founder of DietID and co-author, with Mark Bittman, of HOW TO EAT. For more information about the THINK FOR YOURSELF series, please visit www.mansharamani.com.By Vikram Mansharamani

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Episode 18: Speaking with General Susan Helms 1:05:18

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This episode is the audio portion of my webinar discussion that took place in October 2020 with General Susan Helms, a retired three-star Air Force general and astronaut who spent more than 200 days in outer space. For more information about the THINK FOR YOURSELF series, please visit www.mansharamani.com.…

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Episode 17: A Conversation with Harvard's Rakesh Khurana 1:03:02

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In this episode, I share the audio portion of a wide-ranging conversation I had with Professor Rakesh Khurana, Dean of Harvard College, in October 2020. For more information about the THINK FOR YOURSELF series, please visit www.mansharamani.com.By Vikram Mansharamani

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Episode 16: Discussing Decision-Making With Annie Duke 1:02:12

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This episode is the audio portion of my October 5th conversation with Annie Duke, a former professional poker player and author of two great books, Thinking in Bets and How to Decide. For more information about the THINK FOR YOURSELF series, please visit www.mansharamani.com.By Vikram Mansharamani

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Episode 15: Speaking with Frank Sesno 1:02:43

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In this episode, I share the audio portion of my June 30, 2020 interview with Frank Sesno. Frank is one of the most accomplished journalists in the world, having served as White House Correspondent as well as Washington Bureau Chief for CNN. He's also the author of ASK MORE: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change.…

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Episode 14: A Discussion with Greg Hayes 57:01

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In this episode, I share the audio portion of my June 18th webinar discussion with Greg Hayes, the current Chief Executive Officer of Raytheon Technologies. Greg and I discussed US-China relations, the defense budget, military technologies, and the purpose of a corporation, among other topics. To learn more about the THINK FOR YOURSELF webinar seri…

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Episode 13: Stewardship at Kiewit (and other topics) 1:00:46

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In this episode, I provide an audio replay of June 12th webinar discussion with Bruce Grewcock. Bruce is the recently-retired chief executive officer of Peter Kiewit Sons', Inc. and the firm's current Chairman. We discuss long-term thinking, the construction industry, and the importance of people (among other topics). To learn more about the THINK …

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Episode 12: My discussion with Reince Priebus 1:04:34

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In this episode, I share the audio portion of my June 4th webinar discussion with Reince Priebus. Reince is the former Chairman of the Republican National Committee and served as the White House Chief of Staff in 2017. He was twice honored as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. To learn more about the THINK FOR YOURSELF…

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Episode 11: Apollo Robbins, Master of Focus Management 59:00

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In this episode, I share the audio portion of my May 29th webinar interview with Apollo Robbins, the "Gentleman Thief" who I profile in THINK FOR YOURSELF. To learn more about the THINK FOR YOURSELF webinar series, please visit www.mansharamani.comBy Vikram Mansharamani

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Episode 10: The World According To Jim Grant 1:00:46

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In this podcast episode, I share the audio portion of my May 15th webinar interview with James Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer. Jim is the author of numerous books and brings an encyclopedic history of financial markets to his analysis of current developments. To learn more about the THINK FOR YOURSELF webinar series, please visit w…

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Episode 9: Considering the US-China Rivalry with Kishore Mahbubani 1:01:44

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This episode is a replay of my May 8, 2020 webinar interview with Kishore Mahbubani. Kishore is the former Singaporean ambassador to the United Nations and served as President of the UN Security Council. He is also the author of HAS CHINA WON? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy. For more information about the THINK FOR YOURSELF webinar serie…

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Episode 8: Talking Oil with Tom Petrie 1:03:54

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This podcast episode is an unedited interview of my May 1, 2020 webinar interview with Tom Petrie, an oil industry analyst with more than 40 years of experience and the author of Following Oil: Four Decades of Cycle Testing Experiences and What They Foretell about US Energy Independence. For more information about the THINK FOR YOURSELF webinar ser…

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Episode 7: A Conversation with General Lori Robison 1:01:09

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This podcast is an unedited audio replay of my interview with General Lori Robinson, USAF (Ret), former Commander of NORAD and USNORTHCOM. To learn more about the THINK FOR YOURSELF webinar series, please visit www.mansharamani.com.By Vikram Mansharamani

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Episode 6: Discussing Public Health with Dr. Ali S. Khan 1:00:48

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This podcast is an unedited audio replay of my interview with Dr. Ali S. Khan, dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and author of THE NEXT PANDEMIC. To learn more about the THINK FOR YOURSELF webinar series, please subscribe to my newsletter at www.tinyletter.com/mansharamani…

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Episode 5: Miscellaneous Market Musings 18:06

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In this episode, I reflect on how the pre-existing economic conditions have combined with the Coronavirus pandemic to produce a highly uncertain investing climate. Topics discussed include the US dollar, gold, inflation, commodities, and the passive investing bubble.By Vikram Mansharamani

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Episode 4: Thoughts About Life After the Coronavirus 23:39

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In this episode, I share some thoughts about how the recent nCov19 pandemic may have long-term impacts on various domains of our lives.By Vikram Mansharamani

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Episode 3: Contemplating Coronavirus Chaos 29:03

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In this episode, I discuss some of the pressures related to the current coronavirus outbreak and how they are affecting global economic, financial and political dynamics.By Vikram Mansharamani

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Episode 2: Reviewing My 2015 Predictions 30:24

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In this episode, I review the 15 Predictions I made in January 2015 for the 2015-2020 timeframe. Here's the original post: 15 Predictions for '15-'20.By Vikram Mansharamani