Renée Garcia is a lifelong entrepreneur and the leading advocate for Reality Transurfing worldwide. She is the author of "Quantum Capitalist," a transformative guide based on the principles of Reality Transurfing, which has swept the globe and changed hundreds of thousands of lives. Having ventured deeply into the metaphysical world of Reality Crea…

Jake Dunlap is the industry-leading CEO on Modern Sales and Revenue Trends. He was recognized internationally by LinkedIn as the only CEO in the latest Top Voices for Sales list in 2023. He has worked with 1000s of top revenue leaders and teams globally, such as Microsoft, Splunk, NFL, and NBA, to modernize their sales organizations, driving 100s o…

What is data, and why does it matter for us to care about the data traces we leave behind? What are the implications for our lives of how this data is used by other people in other times and places? In a conversation with Joanne Kuai, authors Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert introduce their new book and talk about how we can rethink our relationshi…

The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding of this facility, and the clinical provision of contraception that it enabled, marked the moment when physicians started to take the prevention of pregnancy seriously as a medical concern. In Contracep…

Ellen J. Langer is the author of eleven books, including the international bestseller Mindfulness, which has been translated into fifteen languages, and Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. Most recently, she is the author of The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health. Langer is the recipient of, among other nume…

Natalie is the author of The Power of Trust: How Top Companies Build, Manage and Protect It and President of Success Through Trust. She’s been named one of the world's Top Thought Leaders in Trust for 5 consecutive years in a row by Trust Across America. Other leaders who have been named include Howard Schultz founder and CEO of Starbucks and autho…

A nuanced, science-based understanding of the creative mind that dispels the pervasive myths we hold about the human brain—but also uncovers the truth at their cores. What is the relationship between creativity and madness? Creativity and intelligence? Do psychedelics truly enhance creativity? How should we understand the left and right hemispheres…

A probing examination of the dynamic history of predictive methods and values in science and engineering that helps us better understand today's cultures of prediction. The ability to make reliable predictions based on robust and replicable methods is a defining feature of the scientific endeavor, allowing engineers to determine whether a building …

Chris Doelle (pronounced DAY-lee) is a teacher, father, coach, husband, and student. His goal in life is to share good stories and fight the good fight. He has authored books like "All I Need to Know I Learned from My Texas High School Football Coach" and "Lame Jokes Rule," showcasing his diverse interests in education, sports, humor, and storytell…

Today’s book is: More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (MIT Press, 2024), by Meredith Broussard. When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch—it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world. The word “glitch” implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it …

In The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology (MIT Press, 2024), Elena Kochetkova examines the relationship between nature and humans under state socialism by looking at the industrial role of Soviet forests. The book explores evolving Soviet policies of wood consumption, discussing how profes…

Ryan Staley is the Founder and CEO of Whale Boss where he helps Technology Founders grow from $1M-$30M through the principles he used to achieve the same results personally. Ryan Has taught over 800 CROs, VPs, or Leaders his proprietary Enterprise Sales frameworks for startups and companies like Google, Amazon Web Services, Stripe, Salesforce, Uber…

Melancholy Wedgwood (MIT Press, 2024) is an experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood that reveals the tenuous relationship of eighteenth-century England to late-capitalist modernity. It traces the multiple strands in the life of the ceramic entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) to propose an alternative view of eightee…

What isn't counted doesn't count. And mainstream institutions systematically fail to account for feminicide, the gender-related killing of women and girls, including cisgender and transgender women. Against this failure, Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action (MIT Press, 2024) brings to the fore the work of data activists across the Americas …

Educational analytics tend toward aggregation, asking what a “normative” learner does. In The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Justice (MIT Press, 2024, open access at this link), educational researchers Matthew Berland and Antero Garcia start from a different assumption—that outliers are, and must be treated as, valued individuals. …

What are the tactics needed for a world of platforms and algorithms? In Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power (MIT Press, 2024), Tiziano Bonini, Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Siena, and Emiliano Treré, a Reader in Data Agency and Media Ecologies at Cardiff University…

Listen to this interview of Lee McIntyre, Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science (Boston University) and Senior Advisor for Public Trust in Science (Aspen Institute). We talk about his book The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience (MIT Press, 2019). Lee McIntyre : "Scientists have…

How games are built on the foundations of rules, and how rules—of which there are only five kinds—really work. Board games to sports, digital games to party games, gambling to role-playing games. They all share one thing in common: rules. Indeed, rules are the one and only thing game scholars agree is central to games. But what, in fact, are rules?…

In an era where sales and marketing are often seen at odds, three titans are stepping forward to bridge the gap. In this week's episode, The King of Sales, Jeffrey Gitomer, Marketing Genius, Jay Abraham and the Master of NeuroLinguistics, Wyatt Woodsmall are joining forces and talking about their upcoming, groundbreaking The Laureates Mastermind. O…

Episode 109, Brought to you in association with our friends at Soccer Coach Weekly (@SoccerCoachWeek) Episode 109 – What’s too far? A conversation about behaviour in youth grassroots football In this episode we speak with James Brooks and discuss behaviour in grassroots football. We look at coach matchday behaviour and what’s changes over the past …

The engaging memoir of a legendary president of Wellesley College known for authentic and open-hearted leadership, who drove innovation with power and love. The Claims of Life: A Memoir (The MIT Press, 2023) traces the emergence of a young woman who set out believing she wasn’t particularly smart but went on to meet multiple tests of leadership in …

CEO at Outstand (http://outstand.com), Creative, Marketer, Sales Consultant, and Spokesperson for Originality, Andy Horner is one of the smartest insightful and creative human beings on the planet. And you get to spend a few minutes with him to talk about creativity in a way you've never heard before. By the end of this episode, you will discover w…

Ali Hemyari, author of the new book, Discipline: What it Takes to Really Build a 7-Figure Business is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of several successful businesses (currently at 10). Ali Hemyari knows what it takes to succeed. A certified SWAT Operator, triathlete, helicopter and airplane pilot, and elite dog trainer, he’s become a real-es…

In Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle (MIT Press, 2023), Dr. Matthew Hersch challenges the existing narrative of the most significant human space program of the last 50 years, NASA's space shuttle. He begins with the origins of the space shuttle: a century-long effort to develop a low-cost, reusable, rocket-powered airplane to militarize…

The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing. A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet—be input on such a device? In The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information…

Listen to this interview of Brandon Brown, Professor of Physics at the University of San Francisco. We talk about factoring in both message-sender and -receiver to your writing for STEM. Brown is the author of Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM (MIT Press, 2023). Brandon Brown : "I've seen so many different scientists and communicator…

How abstract design decisions in 2D platform games create rich worlds of meaning for players. Since the 1980s, 2D platform games have captivated their audiences. Whether the player scrambles up the ladders in Donkey Kong or leaps atop an impossibly tall pipe in Super Mario Bros., this deceptively simple visual language has persisted in our cultural…

Kalpavigyan—science fiction written to excite Bengali speakers about science, as well as to persuade them to evolve beyond the limitations of religion, caste, and class—became popular in the early years of the twentieth century. Translated into English for the first time, in The Inhumans and Other Stories (MIT Press, 2024) you'll discover The Inhum…

Speaker, trainer, bestselling author and award-winning business coach, Christine Gallagher, founded ShesGotClients.com in 2009, a company dedicated to teaching coaches, experts, and practitioners how to add $100k+ in new revenue (much of it recurring) with simplified marketing and intentional energy direction - and to keep most of that in PROFIT, w…

Originally published in 2019, Benjamin Pauli’s book, Flint Fights Back offers lasting insights into one of the most important drinking water-caused public health crises of American history. In this 2024 interview Pauli shares some explanations from the book but also offers his insights, in this year of the 10th anniversary of the Flint Water Crisis…

Infographics and data visualization are ubiquitous in our everyday media diet, particularly in news—in print newspapers, on television news, and online. It has been argued that infographics are changing what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century—and even that they harmonize uniquely with human cognition. In this first serious explorat…

What if our goal had not been to land on Mars, but in pure consciousness? The experience of pure consciousness—what does it look like? What is the essence of human consciousness? In The Elephant and the Blind. The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports (MIT Press, 2024)," influential philosopher Thomas …

With over 11 years of sales and sales leadership experience, Chet Lovegren started The Sales Doctor in 2020 as a way of providing a ‘prescriptive’ approach to revenue problems and struggling go-to-market strategies. Chet has helped build out sales processes and teams that led to companies successfully raising over $100M in VC Funds, Chet follows a …

In Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications (MIT Press, 2024), Jacob Ward explains why the privatization of British Telecom signaled a pivotal moment in the rise of neoliberalism, and how it was shaped by the longer development and digitalization of Britain’s telecommunications infrastructure. When Margaret Tha…

C. S. Sherrington said “All the brain can do is to move things". The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function (MIT Press, 2023) shows how much the brain can do "just" by moving things. It gives an amazing overview of the large variety of motor behaviors and the cellular basis of them. It reveals how motor circuits provide the un…

Derek Batman is the entrepreneurial leader of Hardbat Athletics and Lucid Branding Solutions. With a lifetime devoted to athleticism, Derek studied Exercise Science at The University of Indiana, Pennsylvania, and West Chester University. He has been running Hardbat Athletics for over twelve years, helping the people of Newark become their strongest…

Episode 108, Brought to you in association with our friends at Soccer Coach Weekly (@SoccerCoachWeek) Episode 108 – How To Deliver An Effective Training Session, a conversation with Mark Rivers, Arsenal Pre-Academy Manager and FA Tutor In this episode we speak with the awesome Mark Rivers who is the current Pre-Academy Manager at Arsenal and an FA …

LEADING EXECUTIVES TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL WITH CLARITY As CEO of AddingZEROS, an executive development firm, Monte creates leadership and management clarity to CEOs and their executive teams through strategic thinking and execution planning. Our team of facilitators help mid-market organizations align and engage their teams. As one of the to…