ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
A show about things that tickle your brain.
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Update frequency:
every 52 days
Average audio length:
9 minutes
English
United States
266 episodes
since Nov. 6, 2013
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
“Preppers” get a bad rap, but there’s a difference between hoarding machetes & being well-situated to help your community in an emergency.
Video: http://youtu.be/DQMY-9CRUsI
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2026/06/07/266.-Disaster-Prepping.html
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Some people will swear up & down that you only need 1 perspective to understand the world. Philosopher Donald Davidson makes a compelling case why you need at least 2.
Video: http://youtu.be/12Z2uxjJ7-0
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2026/04/09/265.-Triangulation.html
Software companies are keen to Move Fast & Break Things™, & computers are eager to comply, but users want reliable, bulletproof, “skookum” devices.
Video: http://youtu.be/ch_pckgIQxM
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2026/01/30/264.-Computers,-Software,-and-Skookum-Tech.html
We’ve poured tons of resources into computers & the internet, but haven’t seen much in the way of returns. Maybe it’s because they foster bad communication habits.
Video: http://youtu.be/FvsmvOdeEn4
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2025/11/28/263.-Communication-Overload.html
“Andor” is a story about how secrecy kept the Rebellion alive, but it’s hard to imagine anyone in the present day keeping anything to themselves.
Video: http://youtu.be/5FgeQw1XNo4
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2025/10/07/262.-How-to-Keep-a-Secret.html
Is winning everything? Outside the context of a game, what does “winning” even mean?
Video: http://youtu.be/9oq1zjbrjYc
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2025/07/19/261.-Fight-the-Good-Fight.html
A lot of ink has been spilled about the crisis of misinformation, but Henry Farrell thinks we have a much bigger problem: manufactured public opinion.
Video: http://youtu.be/Mjyq9gAqH5g
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2025/05/25/260.-Social-Media-and-Social-Irrationality.html
Alastair MacIntyre thinks we’ve lost something essential at the core of our discussions of right & wrong, & Aristotle has been telling us for 2000 years.
Video: http://youtu.be/CDetc4y7_Gs
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2025/04/15/259.-After-Virtue.html
What do Aristotle, Carl von Clausewitz, and John Dewey have in common? They’re all better reading than the news right now, and they all stress the importance of prudent action.
Video: http://youtu.be/J8l_kDwiy70
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2025/03/07/258.-Phronesis-Theory-and-Practice.html
Our mental landscape is irrevocably bound up in variations of 26 characters, but we’re historical exceptions.
Video: http://youtu.be/N7Q4yU719FA
Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2025/01/21/257.-Orality-and-Literacy.html
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