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Season 9

Feb. 24, 2023

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch

Lewis Dartnell teaches us how to survive a post-apocalypse and rebuild everything we need from modern society to survive and thrive.

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March 9, 2023

4000 weeks: Time management for mortals - Oliver Burkeman

4000 weeks is a productivity book that is anti-productivity. We are all going to die and optimising our day for every last morsel of work is not the way to be happy or effective. We break down the biggest lessons from the boo...

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March 21, 2023

The Culture Code: Secrets of Highly Successful Groups - Daniel Coyle

Teamwork is renowned for being the key to success. The practicalities of making it happen to rely on building a brilliant culture. But what does that mean? This book breaks down some memorable and thought-provoking examples l...

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April 7, 2023

False Alarm - Bjorn Lomborg - The cost of climate change panic

In False Alarm, Bjorn Lomborg examines how climate change panic costs us trillions, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet. This is a divisive book and even had us as hosts disagreeing on subjects. Bjorn Lomborg proposes...

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May 3, 2023

The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu

What can you learn from hard science fiction that applies to the future of the world

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June 27, 2023

The changing world order - Ray Dalio

Why nations succeed and fail - a summary and review of Ray Dalio's economic forecasting system

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Aug. 9, 2023

The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene

A summary and review of the most important parts of the 48 laws of power

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Feb. 2, 2024

The Signal and The Noise - Nate Silver

Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don't

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March 6, 2024

No Offence, But... by Gina Martin

How to have difficult conversations, for meaningful change. We break down Gina Martin's book addressing how to navigate some of the worst conversation-stoppers and poor thinking in our culture today. It also features chapters...

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March 14, 2025

The Dark Forest - Liu Cixin [Three Body Problem pt.2]

Summary and philosophical discussion on part 2 of the Three Body problem

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March 27, 2025

Morgan Housel - Same As Ever: Timeless lessons on risk, opportunity a…

The best mental models, lessons and takeaways from Morgan Housels ideas

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