# Timur Kuran

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The NFL Draft and 'Preference Falsification'

This episode of The Daily Coach: Sports Leadership Lessons revisits Timur Kuran’s idea of preference falsification and how public pressure can distort private judgment. Using the NFL Draft and mock draft noise, it explores why teams conform when they fear being the outlier. Leaders are reminded to …

The Silk Road's Muslim Merchants (part 3): The Trust Network

In a moneychanger's office in Basra around 950 CE, a merchant could hand over 100 gold dinars and whisper a password. Two months of desert travel away, in Samarkand, the moneychanger's counterparty would pay 100 dinars to whoever produced the password. No gold crossed the desert. The ledger would b…

Thyrsus - Episode 1 | The Agency Problem

The Cerebral Is the Final Boss.What if population control never went away — it just moved indoors? Jay Conrad Stewart and The Jeantrepreneur trace a line from Thomas Malthus to your morning scroll, arguing that the real scarce resource isn't grain or water — it's your capacity to think for yourself…

Michael Levin - Making the Process-of-Life Flourish in Bio and Beyond (Stewarding the Flame, Ep 1)

This installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with Michael Levin, Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University, Director of the Allen Discovery Center, and one of the world's leading researchers in developmental biology, regeneration, bioelectricity, and collective i…

Marching To Your Own Drummer

What would you have done? It's one of the most enduring questions in psychology. We all like to think that in a moment of crisis, we'd rise to the occasion and show courage. And yet many of us have had experiences where we followed orders and did what we were told to do. This week, we talk with psy…

A Conspiracy of Silence

We all self-censor at times. We keep quiet at dinner with our in-laws, or nod passively in a work meeting. But what happens when we take this deception a step further, and pretend we believe the opposite of what we really feel? In this favorite episode from 2020, economist and political scientist T…

A Conspiracy of Silence

We all self-censor at times. We keep quiet at dinner with our in-laws, or nod passively in a work meeting. But what happens when we take this deception a step further, and pretend we believe the opposite of what we really feel? This week on Hidden Brain, economist and political scientist Timur Kura…