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Made You Think
Made You Think is a podcast by Nat Eliason, Neil Soni, and Adil Majid where the hosts and their guests examine ideas that, as the name suggests, make you think. Episodes will explore books, essays, podcasts, and anything else that warrants further discussion, teaches something useful, or at the very...
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121: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
“Prime Intellect was an uncertain god. It had acted because it had to, but if it had been human its hand would be shaking on the controls.”
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120: Wired To Heal: Regeneration and The Body Electric
“The greatest polluting element in the earth's environment is the proliferation of electromagnetic fields. I consider that to be a far greater threat...
119: Surviving Against All Odds: Endurance by Alfred Lansing
“In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's o...
118: Attention is All You Need: The World After Capital
“The amount of human attention in the world is finite. We have 24 hours in the day, some of which we need to spend paying attention to eating, sleepin...
117: Winning and Losing Millions in Crypto Confidential
“I could hardly form the words. My mouth wasn’t working. My heart hammered in my ears and pins and needles burned my hands and feet. I squeezed my fis...
116: What Was It All For? WWI by Martin Gilbert
“If the war was to be over by Christmas, as many believed, or at the latest by Easter 1915, tens of thousands of soldiers might be killed or wounded b...
115: Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
"The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. Fo...
114: Book vs. Big Screen: 3 Body Problem on Netflix
"But if science tells you that something’s impossible, and it happens anyway, it means one of two things. Either the science is wrong, or it’s a scam....
113: Too Much of a Good Thing: Bad Therapy
"We’ve never had a generation more focused on its feelings and, frankly, not one more tyrannized by their feelings.”
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112: Thou Mayest: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitio...
111: Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
"All the facts of science aren't enough to understand the world's meaning. For this, you must step outside the world."
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110: Fear of Oozification
"Oozification is the process of recursively replacing systems based on numerous larger building blocks, governed by many rules, with ones based on few...
109: The Pursuit of Intelligence: Flowers for Algernon
“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
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108: To Strive or Not to Strive: Straw Dogs
“If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of particular humans. If we speak of th...
107: What is Quality: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
“Quality...you know what it is, yet you don’t know what it is. But that’s self-contradictory. But some things are better than others, that is, they ha...
106: Building Blocks of Civilization: How the World Really Works
“Modern economies will always be tied to massive material flows, whether those of ammonia-based fertilizers to feed the still-growing global populatio...
105: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
“Perhaps the deepest reason why we are afraid of death is because we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity —...
104: Are We Destined to Be Pets? Novacene by James Lovelock
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten...
103: Beyond the River of Doubt: Into the Amazon
“But at a purely personal level, Rondon embodied the best of both modern and old-fashioned virtues. He was intensely and genuinely patriotic, adhered...
102: From Fighter Jets to Rocket Ships: The Right Stuff
“The idea was to prove at every foot of the way up that you were one of the elected and anointed ones who had the right stuff and could move higher an...
101: Everything Is One: The Upanishads
“He who sees all beings in his Self and his Self in all beings, he never suffers; because when he sees all creatures within his true Self, then jealou...
100: The Creative Act (Kinda)
“A river of material flows through us. When we share our works and our ideas, they are replenished. If we block the flow by holding them all inside, t...
99: Roosevelt’s Last Adventure: The River of Doubt
“The ordinary traveler, who never goes off the beaten route and who on this beaten route is carried by others, without himself doing anything or riski...
98: What Your Food Ate
“Across the board, dietary advice typically focuses on what and how much to eat, with remarkably little attention paid to how farming practices influe...
97: Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
“The Chinese people had invented the compass, paper, the printing press, gunpowder, the seismograph, the crossbow, and the umbrella; they had sailed t...
96: Crony Beliefs by Kevin Simler
"First, it's important to remember that merit beliefs aren't necessarily true, nor are crony beliefs necessarily false. What distinguishes the two con...
95: The Secret to Happiness: The Courage to Be Disliked
“Your unhappiness cannot be blamed on your past or your environment. And it isn’t that you lack competence. You just lack courage. One might say you a...
94: Sunset for Humanity: The Three-Body Problem
“It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up...
93: The First History Book: History of the Peloponnesian War
“Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.”
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92: The Lessons of History
“It is not the race that makes the civilization, it is the civilization that makes the people: circumstances geographical, economic, and political cre...
91: Digital Immortality: Permutation City
“Opponents replied that when you modeled a hurricane, nobody got wet. When you modeled a fusion power plant, no energy was produced. When you modeled...
90: It Is a Possibility: Where’s My Flying Car?
“In today’s world, even a non-Stagnated version, the flying car is not a replacement for the car; it is a replacement for the airplane. A reasonably w...
89: The Art of War by Sun Tzu
“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of in...
88: The Mind-Body Connection: How The Body Keeps The Score
“Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend wha...
87: Lessons from The Master: The Analects of Confucius
Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode we discuss The Analects of Confucius and virtuous living.
We cover a wide ran...
86: Comfort is Killing Us: The Comfort Crisis
Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode we discuss The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter, and how our modern lifestyle and p...
85: Lessons from Laozi, the Tao Te Ching
In today’s episode, Nat Neil and Adil discuss the Tao Te Ching by Laozi. We each picked a few of our favorite chapters from the book to read and discu...
84: The Tangent Episode
Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode, Neil, Nat, and Adil give you a full 70 minutes doing what they do best: Going on t...
83: The (Anti) Hero's Journey: The Odyssey
"Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy, and where he went, and who he...
82: The Wrath of Achilles: The Iliad
“Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the...