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In this solo episode, Bradley Hamner makes the case for the Socratic method as a team development tool. He opens with an analogy. A person drowning in the water needs a rope, not a question about how they ended up there. There are moments when a team member needs the answer handed to them, and moments when the better move is to draw the answer out of them.Bradley walks through what skilled questioning looks like in practice, including Dan Martell's one, three, one method and the questions he used during a performance improvement plan conversation six months ago. He shares two situations where digging past surface behavior changed the outcome, and explains why the person asking the questions is the one in control of the conversation.This conversation moves past scripts and into curiosity. When was the last time you dug more than an inch deep with someone on your team? Do you know enough about where your people came from to understand how they see the work? And are you coaching everyone the same way when they each need to be met where they are? If you want to become a better coach to the team you already have, this episode is for you.Join us in the free Circle community and hop on the email list to get practical tools, resources, trainings, and updates on what we're working on next.https://blueprintos.com/assets/Resources MentionedGo back to Bradley's earlier episode on coaching versus consulting.Listen to the Develop A-Players Playbook episodeListen to the episode on performance improvement plansListen to the episode on the functional areas of businessThanks to our sponsorsCoach P ConsultingCoach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner, leading a large and stable team of top-performing professionals. Today, he shares the systems, delegation strategies, and specialization methods he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at:https://coachpconsulting.comBe sure to mention you heard about it on the Above The Business Podcast.Autopilot RecruitingAutopilot Recruiting helps small business owners solve staffing challenges by taking the stress out of hiring. Their dedicated recruiters work on your behalf every business day. They optimize your applicant tracking system, post job listings, and source candidates through social media and local communities.With their continuous recruiting approach, you can save time, reduce hiring costs, and receive pre-screened candidates without paying hiring fees or commissions.https://www.autopilotrecruiting.comMention Above The Business Podcast when you reach out.Direct ClicksDirect Clicks specializes in digital marketing solutions designed for business owners who want measurable results. Their team supports companies through paid advertising, SEO, and strategic marketing systems that help generate consistent leads.Exclusive offer for listeners:https://directclicksinc.com/abovethebusinessGet a free marketing campaign audit where their team reviews your website, SEO, content, social media, and paid advertising, then provides actionable recommendations. If you partner with them, all setup fees will be waived.About Above The BusinessAbove The Business is hosted by Bradley Hamner, founder of BlueprintOS, and focuses on helping small business owners transition from Rainmaker to Architect by building systems, teams, and operations that scale without their constant involvement.

In this episode, I explore how to challenge your negative automatic thoughts to transform your relationship with food. This draws on principles from cognitive behaviour therapy (cbt), firstly raising awareness and then challenging thoughts through Socratic questioning. I hope that you find it helpful. Time slots 1:02 Case Study 2:43 Introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy 7:32 Different types of negative thoughts 12:19 Socratic questioning 15:23 Criticisms of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.  

Dcn. Harrison Garlick hosts a full house to discuss the short, strange, forgotten dialogue of Plato's Ion, subtitled "On the Iliad." 10 Question Written Guide on Plato's IonVisit our website for more information!Plato's Ion opens with a victorious rhapsode who claims to speak more beautifully about Homer than any other human being. Socrates grants the premise that a true rhapsode must not merely recite but interpret the poet's thought to his hearers—and then tests whether that excellence is a techne, a teachable art that should apply across all poets who treat the same subjects.Ion fails the test. He is “asleep” except when Homer is mentioned. Socrates therefore offers another account: poets and rhapsodes work not by craft but by divine mania. The Muse is a lodestone, and poet, reciter, and audience form a chain of possession. Ion recognizes himself at once. On stage he is outside himself, and he can move twenty thousand hearers to tears and terror (with a subtle nod in the dialogue about the desire to make money...).The dialogue then presses the distinction between speaking beautifully and speaking correctly. On charioteering, medicine, and the other arts present in Homer, the expert—not the rhapsode—speaks rightly. Unwilling to admit he has no art at all, Ion seizes the last remaining claim and declares himself the best general. The identification is absurd, and the conversation nearly collapses. Socrates leaves him a choice: to be called unjust, or divine. Ion takes the latter. Skill and inspiration remain unreconciled. What the short work has done is place poetry, possession, and the education of the city on the table—and prepare the larger judgment of the poets that the Republic will make.Chapters00:00 - Welcome to Ascend and overview of the episode's purpose01:05 - Introducing Ion and the returning and first-time guests02:29 - Erik Rostad explains Book of Titans and his lifelong reading project06:28 - First reactions to Ion and its perplexing character07:11 - Preliminary framing: subtitle, translation, and why the dialogue matters10:10 - Ion's claim to be the finest speaker on Homer11:44 - What techne means in this dialogue20:00 - Does Ion really claim knowledge, or only beautiful performance?23:50 - Ion's claim that no one else speaks more finely on Homer28:37 - The question of poetry as a better educator than philosophy31:03 - Ion admits he dozes off when other poets are discussed38:45 - The magnet metaphor and the chain of divine influence44:32 - Is divine inspiration irrational, or can it be a real source of truth?55:31 - A third sense of possession: skill, demonization, and being subsumed into beauty60:15 - Ion says he watches the crowd and adjusts for money and effect62:49 - Does Ion have a real art, or is he just managing audience response?70:29 - The charioteer, the physician, and whether Socrates is being fair72:26 - Does philosophy itself become a narrow specialty in the same way?76:03 - Why actors may be excellent performers but poor explainers of their craft78:10 - Socrates as a guide toward self-recognition of Ion's actual techne87:25 - Plato as storyteller and the philosopher's need for a better story90:20 - Storytelling, parables, and the pedagogical power of narrative92:37 - Plato's self-reflection on his own art and craft94:36 - The unresolved tension between inspiration and skill99:44 - Closing thanks KeywordsPlato's Ion, On the Iliad, Ion of Ephesus, rhapsode, Homer, Iliad, Odyssey, technē, techne, divine inspiration, mania, theia moira, magnet metaphor, lodestone, Muse, speaking beautifully, speaking correctly, kalos, orthos, Socratic dialogue, forgotten Platonic dialogues, aporetic dialogue, poetry versus philosophy, education of the city, Republic Book 10, poets as imitators, Allan Bloom, Thomas Pangle, Roots of Political Philosophy, Debra Nails, Dr. Frank Grabowski, Thomas Lackey, Jack Drury, Erik Rostad, Book of Titans, Ascend the Great Books Podcast, rhapsodic contest, Asclepieia, Epidaurus, generalship, polymathy, Plato as dramatist.

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"The philosopher Agnes Callard is one of the most genuinely curious thinkers I have ever met. Whether she's writing about unrequited love, parenting, politics in the classroom, or the moral failures of people who like to travel, I get a thrill hearing her examine ordinary life from unexpected angles. And I love to disagree with her, which I often do.Callard teaches at the University of Chicago and is the author of several books, including, most recently Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life, which came out last year. She joined me to talk about perhaps the oldest form of the interview, the Socratic dialogue, and what we might learn about asking questions and seeking the truth from Socrates and other gadflies. " — Merve EmreSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the first installment of this multi-part series, Alex and Calvin trace the intellectual genealogy behind one of the most consequential academic hoaxes of the past decade. In Part 1, we outline the precursor hoax perpetrated by Alan Sokal, and then introduce the three figures who would come to orchestrate what's been called "Sokal Squared": Peter Boghossian, whose "street epistemology" recast New Atheist evangelism as a kind of quasi-Socratic pickup artistry; James Lindsay, a mathematician-turned-massage-therapist whose martial arts backstory and self-assured reinventions of Lacanian theory raise questions about intellectual overconfidence; and Helen Pluckrose, a self-described ex-feminist whose blog posts linked postmodernism to the supposed excesses of intersectional feminism. Along the way, we situate all three within the broader ecology of New Atheism and its entanglements with American imperialism, as well as the Humanities/Science disciplinary division and the shifting terrain of expertise in a post-2020 political landscape.Works and concepts cited in this episode:Crenshaw, K. (1989). "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics." University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1989(1), 139–167.Lacan, J. (1977). Écrits: A Selection (A. Sheridan, Trans.). W.W. Norton. [Outlining the concept of the "big Other."]McGee, M.C. (1980). "The 'Ideograph': A Link Between Rhetoric and Ideology." Quarterly Journal of Speech, 66(1), 1–16.Pluckrose, H. (2017). "How French ‘Intellectuals' Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained." Areo Magazine. Retrieved from: https://areomagazine.com/2017/03/27/how-french-intellectuals-ruined-the-west-postmodernism-and-its-impact-explained/ Robbins, B., & Ross, A. (1996). Mystery science theater. Lingua Franca, July 1996. Retrieved from: http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/mst.html Schulson, M. (2013, 2 Nov.). Atheist philosopher Peter Boghossian's guide to converting believers. The Daily Beast. Retrieved from: https://web.archive.org/web/20170324025604/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/02/atheist-philosopher-peter-boghossian-s-guide-to-converting-believers.html Snow, C.P. (1959). The two cultures. The Rede Lecture. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from: https://apps.weber.edu/wsuimages/michaelwutz/6510.Trio/Rede-lecture-2-cultures.pdf Sokal, A. (1996). A physicist experiments with cultural studies. Lingua Franca, May/June 1996. Retrieved from: http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9605/sokal.html Sokal, A. (1996). "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity." Social Text, 46/47, pp. 217–252.An accessible transcript of this episode is available here (via Descript)

Today on Ascend: The Great Books Podcast, Dcn. Garlick, Dr. Larson, Dr. Grabowski, and Mr. Thomas Lackey discuss the short, strange, and forgotten dialogue of HIppias Minor or "On the Lie."8 Questions on Hippias Minor Study GuideCheck Ascend out on X, YouTube, Facebook, and More!Plato's Hippias Minor is a short, strange dialogue with a traditional subtitle that cuts straight to the point: “On the Lie.” After the boastful sophist Hippias finishes a public speech ranking Achilles the best and Odysseus the most polytropos—the man of twists and turns—Socrates is drawn into a conversation that begins with Homer and ends in one of the deepest aporias of the early dialogues. What starts as a dispute over who is the better man, the straightforward Achilles or the wily Odysseus, quickly becomes a rigorous examination of voluntary versus involuntary wrongdoing, the nature of knowledge and power, and the unsettling claim that the man who does injustice on purpose is better than the one who does it by accident.Deacon and the guests work through the dialogue's sharp arguments and its surprising relevance. The conversation exposes the limits of treating virtue as mere knowledge plus power, raises the question of whether a just person might ever speak falsely for a good end, and serves as a genuine appetizer for the noble lie in the Republic. Come listen—and discover why even Socrates, at the end, cannot agree with himself.Chapters00:00 Introduction to Hippias Minor and its Context04:55 Setting the Scene: Hippias' Speech and Socrates' Role09:22 Hippias' Boasts and Socrates' Irony17:55 The Homeric Heroes: Achilles and Odysseus25:04 Knowledge, Power, and the Art of Lying36:15 The Distinction Between Capacity and Action44:53 The Nature of Truth and Falsehood in Socratic Dialogue46:43 Conclusion: What Socrates Reveals About Knowledge and Lies02:39 Socrates' questioning of Hippias and the nature of virtue04:55 The analogy of athletic competitions and the concept of justice07:57 Socrates' discussion on voluntary and involuntary actions12:05 The role of knowledge and capacity in moral actions15:34 Hippias' understanding of justice and its relation to power19:50 The concept of noble lies and pedagogical deception25:04 The absence of forms and gods in the dialogue30:14 The deeper meaning of Socratic ignorance and self-awareness34:54 The significance of the question: Is justice knowledge or power?39:51 Conclusion: What we learn about virtue, knowledge, and truthKeywordsPlato's Hippias Minor, Lesser Hippias, On the Lie, Hippias of Elis, Achilles and Odysseus, polytropos, voluntary and involuntary wrongdoing, voluntary liar, Socratic dialogue, aporetic dialogue, forgotten Platonic dialogues, noble lie, Republic, virtue is knowledge, knowledge and power, sophist, polymath, Eudicus, Embassy scene Iliad, teleology, Forms, Socratic irony, beneficial falsehood, Dr. Frank Grabowski, Dr. Brett Larson, Thomas Lackey, Ascend the Great Books Podcast, political philosophy, Allan Bloom, Roots of Political Philosophy.Next week we discuss Plato's Ion!

Matt, Jason, and Don sat down with author, speaker, and longtime voice of principled anarchism Larken Rose. Renowned for his groundbreaking works like The Most Dangerous Superstition and The Jones Plantation, Larken has spent decades dismantling the psychological illusion of political authority through plain logic, accessible analogies, and non-confrontational communication. In this episode, the hosts reflect on their recent experiences speaking at Larken's first-ever Approaching Humanity conference in Sedona, Arizona, exploring how bringing diverse voices together—ranging from former Obama supporters to an active, anti-statist Arizona sheriff—helps humanize the philosophy of voluntaryism and reach everyday people outside academic bubbles. The conversation dives deep into the rapid rise of the surveillance state, focusing on the exponential proliferation of Flock Safety license plate reader cameras and the massive, cross-partisan resistance emerging against them. The hosts and Larken examine how leaked corporate playbooks reveal police departments trying to "own the narrative," even as FBI data demonstrates that increased surveillance fails to improve crime clearance rates. Bypassing typical political divides, the group explores how to leverage real-world events—from foreign proxy wars and police overreach to local privacy battles—as entry points for conversation. Rather than treating statists as enemies to defeat, Larken outlines how Socratic questioning and methods like his Candles in the Dark program allow individuals to recognize their own internal contradictions and break free from political conditioning on their own terms. Concluding with an atypical "White Pill" segment, the discussion shifts toward personal mindset frameworks for navigating an increasingly polarized world. Larken emphasizes that the most powerful shift a freedom-minded individual can make is remembering that bad outcomes are almost always the result of good intentions twisted by systemic propaganda. By approaching friends, family, and neighbors with empathy rather than hostility, listeners are equipped to act as "candles in the dark"—asking honest, targeted questions that uncover shared values, strip away the illusion of state authority, and turn everyday interactions into opportunities to liberate minds. (Length: 1:11:13)   Guest Links & Resources: Larken Rose's YouTube Channel Larken Rose's website for books and interviews Support The Free Thought Project

How can higher education scale its reach without sacrificing academic rigor or student outcomes? In this episode of An Educated Guest, host Todd Zipper sits down with Dr. Vijay Kumar, Dean of Penn Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss the changing landscape of engineering, robotics, and academic leadership. Drawing on nearly 40 years of experience as a researcher and administrator, Dean Kumar shares his vision for expanding educational access and explains why measuring higher education excellence through selectivity alone misses the broader purpose of institutional impact.The conversation dives deep into Penn's pioneering efforts in modern learning, including expanding their online graduate programs to reach thousands of non-traditional learners worldwide. Dean Kumar unpacks Penn's decision to launch the Ivy League's first undergraduate degree in Artificial Intelligence—emphasizing "Intelligence Augmentation" and systems engineering over simple software generation. He also shares how AI is reshaping classroom assessment, driving faculty toward Socratic oral exams, team-based problem solving, and higher-order critical thinking.Finally, the discussion explores the power of cross-disciplinary collaboration and university commercialization. From developing an AI-driven mRNA Biofoundry alongside Penn Medicine to building an entrepreneurial ecosystem that takes robotics startups from university labs to the Nasdaq, Dean Kumar offers a hopeful, forward-looking playbook for the future of higher education. Tune in for a masterclass on technology, pedagogy, and institutional leadership.

Protect your family with our 1-minute free parent quiz https://www.smartsocial.com/newsletter Join our next weekly live parent events:  https://smartsocial.com/events Episode Summary: Join host Josh Ochs on the SmartSocial.com Podcast as he talks with David E. Reilly, Superintendent of Elk Grove Unified School District, about screen time, AI, student safety, and how parents can stay connected to what their children may be experiencing online. Reilly explains how social media can make adolescent mistakes feel more permanent, public, and overwhelming, and how hidden online stress can show up at home through irritability, withdrawal, or sudden changes in behavior. He also discusses why AI is unavoidable for today's students, how it can work as a Socratic-style learning tool, and why schools must protect the productive struggle that helps students build real thinking skills. The conversation closes with practical reminders for families, including monitoring your child's overall wellbeing, staying alert to mood and behavior changes, and using school and community resources to keep students safe and successful online. Become a Smart Social VIP (Very Informed Parents) Member: https://SmartSocial.com/vip District Leaders: Schedule a free phone consultation to get ideas on how to protect your students in your community https://smartsocial.com/partner Download the free Smart Social app: https://www.smartsocial.com/appdownload Learn about the top 190+ popular teen apps: https://smartsocial.com/app-guide-parents-teachers/ View the top parental control software: https://smartsocial.com/parental-control-software/ The SmartSocial.com Podcast helps parents and educators to keep their kids safe on social media, so they can Shine Online™

Today on Ascend: The Great Books Podcast, Dcn. Garlick, Dr. Larson, and Dr. Grabowski discuss Plato's Lovers--a strange, short, and somewhat forgotten dialogue seeking the definition of philosophy. We are celebrating ONE YEAR of our sister-company, The Ascent, a top 100 Substack on Christian spirituality. Check out our WRITTEN GUIDE to the Lovers. Plato's Lovers is a short, strange, and easily overlooked dialogue that asks one of the most important questions in the entire Platonic corpus: What is philosophy? Set in a grammar school where two rival older lovers—one an athlete, the other a cultured “know-it-all”—compete for the attention of younger boys discussing astronomy, the conversation quickly becomes an erotic and educational contest. Socrates enters the scene and quietly reorders the loves on display, showing that philosophy is not the accumulation of many things, that self-knowledge must come before any claim to rule, and that the true lover of the young is the one who leads their souls toward wisdom.In this episode of Ascend, Dcn. Garlick is joined by Dr. Grabowski and Dr. Larson to unpack the dialogue's subtle images of the soul, its playful yet serious treatment of eros, and its surprising role as an appetizer for the Republic. The accompanying written guide offers a clear outline, preliminary questions, and dense Q&A—perfect for first-time readers, small groups, or anyone who wants to follow the argument more carefully. Chapters00:00 Introduction to Plato's 'The Lovers'02:07 The setting and context of the dialogue06:19 Who is the dialogue for? Audience and purpose11:12 The erotic dimension of philosophy and education16:10 The strangeness of the dialogue's setting22:02 What is philosophy? The first definitions27:36 The analogy of athletic training and measured learning37:25 Usefulness, goodness, and self-knowledge41:11 The political implications and the role of the philosopher50:11 The dramatic and rhetorical aspects of the dialogue57:32 The aporetic ending and its significanceKeywordsPlato's Lovers, Rival Lovers, Erastai, what is philosophy, polymathy, much learning, Socratic dialogue, aporetic dialogue, forgotten Platonic dialogues, eros, erotic education, true love of the soul, tripartite soul, music and gymnastics, mousikē, gymnastikē, self-knowledge, know thyself, Socrates as third lover, Dionysius grammar school, anonymity in Plato, via negativa, aporia, preparation for the Republic, Dr. Frank Grabowski, Dr. Brett Larson, Ascend the Great Books Podcast, Platonic education, philosophy and politics, soul craft before statecraft.

Socrates is one of the most revered figures in the history of philosophy, but Fredrich Nietzsche had serious questions on the impact the Greek philosopher had on the West. Did the Socratic tradition forever alter the Greek understanding of virtue? Did that change shift the direction of Western thought for thousands of years? Rogue philosophy professor Athenian Stranger joins me to evaluate Nietzsche's complex relationship with Socrates. Follow on: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-auron-macintyre-show/id1657770114 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3S6z4LBs8Fi7COupy7YYuM?si=4d9662cb34d148af Substack: https://auronmacintyre.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre Gab: https://gab.com/AuronMacIntyre YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/c/AuronMacIntyre Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-390155 Odysee: https://odysee.com/@AuronMacIntyre:f Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/auronmacintyre/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mukesh Bansal has founded and left more companies than most people build in a lifetime, and in Part 1 he explains why. He founded Myntra and sold it to Flipkart; he co-founded Cult.fit and turned fitness into a category; and today he runs the AI company Nurix and the Meraki Labs studio. Asked what he is now, he says "a learner", and admits he gets bored the moment a company starts working. Part 1 traces the thesis and the companies: how he allocates his weeks, why he thinks the AI era rewards the hands-on operator over the people-manager, what Nurix and Fermi are, why Myntra's move into fashion was an "adjustment" not a pivot, and the small-town Haridwar upbringing and library habit that set him off. This is Part 1 of 2; Part 2 turns to the person, the mental models, and how he thinks about health, family and success.Chapters0:00  Welcome and who Mukesh Bansal is3:15  How First Principles is already connected to him4:21  "Do you see yourself as an operator, a founder, an investor?"5:27  Zero-to-one, and where learning stops9:11  Allocating time across companies10:34  Why an hour of his time isn't what it was12:59  The three kinds of professionals in the AI age14:52  His stack: Claude, Warp, agents overnight17:58  Founder mode, reversed by AI20:19  No more waiting for a tech co-founder23:02  How big Nurix is; and what Fermi is25:38  The Socratic tutor that won't answer27:18  Back to Myntra: the fashion category today31:30  Koyu, Lyskraft and the CRED hypothesis33:41  Why a venture studio, one company a year38:18  Rejecting the compounding path42:57  The near-death at Myntra, and raising with a short runway45:03  Haridwar, BHEL, and the books that lit the fire48:15  Pivots as chess "adjustments"50:48  Conviction vs discovery: betting the megatrend53:08  The Bay Area years and the return to IndiaQuotes[4:33] "I see myself as a learner… doing one company over a period of time, I get bored."[7:08] "Crisis always comes wrapped with a massive gift, if you are only willing to unpeel the onion."[17:12] "I'm making an even stronger point. If you're only a people manager, watch out."[18:58] "For the first time you can hire something equivalent to human cognition for cents an hour."[48:50] "I use the word adjustment rather than pivot. You come to work every day, you're playing chess."Frameworks & mental modelsLearner over operator: hand off once a company stops teaching you.Crisis and momentum: cut the bad, double down on the good.The three professionals in the AI age: the hands-on veteran is the one AI turns into a superpower.Adjustment, not pivot: the best move on the board each day; a true "wipe the slate" is just a new company.Bet the megatrend, stay loose on the path.Credits & sharingThis episode was produced by Rohin Dharmakumar and mixed and mastered by Rajiv CN.Write to us at fp@the-ken.com with your feedback, suggestions, and guests you would want to see on First Principles.If you enjoyed this episode, please help us spread the word by sharing and gifting it to your friends and family.

This week on the Friday Deploy, Ben and Andrew break down Steve Yegge's radical approach to orchestrating agentic civilizations and pushing code straight to main without traditional CI/CD. The conversation also highlights the art of constructing effective AI harnesses by balancing context complexity with cognitive locality and the Socratic method. Finally, they dive into the math community's existential crisis as AI accelerates the frontier of knowledge far beyond the speed of human peer review.Register: Dev Interrupted Presents: The Software Factory RoundtableFollow the show:Subscribe to our Substack Follow us on LinkedInSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelFollow the hosts:Follow AndrewFollow BenFollow DanFollow today's stories:Microsoft Tells Engineers ‘Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For'The Shape of Things to ComeThe Shape of Things to Come - Part 2: Model Welfare for Agentic EngineersHow AI helped Socrates to help me actually understand myselfThe Month AI Conquered Math: The Full StoryHow to Build an Effective Agent HarnessMaking AI Visible, Not Vanished: How AI Policies Reshape Developer Experience on GitHubOFFERSStart Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platform for free.Book a Demo: Learn how you can ship faster, improve DevEx, and lead with confidence in the AI era.LEARN ABOUT LINEARBAI Code Reviews: Automate reviews to catch bugs, security risks, and performance issues before they hit production.AI & Productivity Insights: Go beyond DORA with AI-powered recommendations and dashboards to measure and improve performance.AI-Powered Workflow Automations: Use AI-generated PR descriptions, smart routing, and other automations to reduce developer toil.MCP Server: Interact with your engineering data using natural language to build custom reports and get answers on the fly.

What can be done to preserve the value of learning in the age of AI? Bradley sits down with Adam Chilton, the dean of University of Chicago Law School, to discuss his vision for fortifying legal education. Chilton argues that critical thinking and judgment, the muscles built by Socratic teaching, are the skills AI can't easily replace. But at the same time, students need training in applying AI in the workplace. "We cannot put the toothpaste back in the tube," says Chilton, "nor can you prohibit your students from having access to them."This episode was taped at P&T Knitwear at 180 Orchard Street — New York City's only free podcast recording studio.Send us an email with your thoughts on today's episode: info@firewall.media.Subscribe to Bradley's weekly newsletter and follow Bradley on Linkedin + Substack.

Day Break | Primaries, Power, and a Nation Under Pressure --- 00:00 - Monologue 19:12 – Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal contributor and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Green discusses the unusual migration and geopolitical tensions surrounding Ceuta, examining how the situation reflects broader issues involving border security, international relations, and European immigration policy. 28:14 – Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, Epidemiologist and Administrator at The McCullough Foundation. Hulscher discusses the ongoing salmonella outbreak affecting multiple states, explaining what salmonella is, why a significant number of cases have required hospitalization, and the recent egg recall tied to the outbreak. He also examines food safety, industrial agriculture, treatment options, and the importance of preparedness for foodborne illnesses. 38:21 - Monologue 47:26 – Ilan Wurman, Julius E. Davis Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and constitutional law scholar. Wurman discusses modern constitutional interpretation, exploring how judicial philosophy has evolved over time and examining the role of originalism and the Fourteenth Amendment in today's legal landscape. 57:30 – Bethany S. Mandel, conservative columnist and political commentator. Mandel discusses Representative Brandon Gill's use of the Socratic method in political debate, examining how questioning and public dialogue can shape political messaging and influence public discourse. 1:06:28– Steve Bonta, Executive Senior Editor at The New American magazine. Bonta discusses the economic realities facing the electric vehicle industry, examining consumer demand, production costs, government incentives, and the long-term viability of EV adoption. 1:16:35 - Monologue 1:25:40 – Ron Rademacher, travel writer, author, storyteller, and host of Around Michigan. Rademacher highlights festivals, local attractions, and unique destinations across Michigan, encouraging listeners to explore the state's communities and seasonal events. 1:35:48 – Kaitlyn Buss, columnist for The Detroit News. Buss analyzes the results of Michigan's primary elections, discussing the major races, key takeaways from the results, and what they could signal for the state's political landscape heading into the general election. --- Check out our brand new podcast, 'Forgotten America'... Episode 24 is live NOW at Steve Gruber on YouTube! Link below: https://youtu.be/UrGZQdE62jA

Today on Ascend: The Great Books Podcast, Dcn. Garlick and Dr. Grabowski discuss a short, strange, and somewhat forgotten Platonic dialogue - The Hipparchus.Check out our 15 Q&A Written Guide to the Hipparchus - great for small groups, homeschooling, autodidacts, and more!What begins as a simple question—“What is the love of gain?”—quickly becomes a sharp and unsettling examination of the democratic soul. With no dramatic setting and a nameless interlocutor, the dialogue feels almost like overhearing Socrates in the marketplace, pressing an ordinary Athenian citizen on whether the desire for more is always shameful, or whether the soul might rightly love higher forms of gain: nobility, honor, and even wisdom itself.What makes the conversation especially rewarding is how Socrates deliberately chooses a shocking example—the tyrant Hipparchus—and reimagines him as a lover of wisdom who sought to educate the city. In doing so, the dialogue quietly draws a parallel between the supposed tyrant and Socrates himself, both of whom attract the youth, challenge conventional order, and are ultimately rejected by a democratic culture that cannot tolerate excellence. Along the way, listeners encounter an early sketch of the tripartite soul, a critique of the leveling effects of egalitarianism, and an aporetic ending that leaves the interlocutor “compelled rather than persuaded.” Brief, strange, and surprisingly profound, this episode is an excellent preparation for the Republic and a compelling invitation to reconsider what the soul truly seeks.Chapters00:00 Introduction to Plato's Hipparchus and its significance01:54 Main themes: Love of gain, democracy, and wisdom04:03 The character of Socrates and the setting of the dialogue06:03 Hipparchus as a figure in political myth and history07:58 Translation choices and interpretive approaches10:00 The dialogue's structure and lack of dramatic setting11:56 The definition of love of gain and greed13:54 Socrates' critique of the love of worthless things16:06 Hipparchus as a symbol of love of wisdom and fame18:04 The political implications of Hipparchus' love of wisdom20:00 The role of the democratic man and the love of gain21:49 Socrates' pedagogical method and the nature of knowledge23:52 The significance of the tyrant example and Hipparchus' myth26:04 The character of the interlocutor and the setting of the dialogue28:03 The introduction of Hipparchus and its layers of meaning30:10 The political myth of Hipparchus and its revisionist history32:00 Hipparchus' love of wisdom and the Herms34:08 The allegory of knowledge and the tripartite soul35:53 The love of gain as a love of wisdom and truth38:08 The democratic man, shame, and the pursuit of philosophy40:00 The role of philosophers in democratic society42:01 The character of Socrates as a gadfly and teacher43:48 The process of being compelled towards truth45:54 Bloom's interpretation: Socrates as a political and epistemological figure48:00 The significance of the short dialogues for understanding Socrates50:12 The importance of humility and piety in reading Plato51:57 Next week's discussion: Rival Lovers and the nature of wisdomKey words: Plato Hipparchus, love of gain, philokerdia, Socratic dialogue, political philosophy, Alan Bloom, Thomas Pangle, Roots of Political Philosophy, democratic man, egalitarianism, leveling effect, tripartite soul, thumos, nous, appetitive soul, tyrant Hipparchus, Herms, Socrates as gadfly, aporetic dialogue, compulsion versus persuasion, preparation for Plato's Republic, philosopher-king, Great Books podcast, Ascend the Great Books Podcast, Deacon Harrison Garlick, Frank Grabowski, classical education, ancient philosophy, Plato short dialogues, forgotten Platonic dialogues.

We welcome back Valeria Luiselli—who first appeared on the show eleven years ago—to discuss her new and truly marvelous novel Beginning Middle End. Much like the shapeshifting god Proteus, who figures prominently in this story, Beginning Middle End is many things at once: a road novel, a family drama, a work of climate fiction, a feminist retelling of classical mythology, a novel about writing, about borders and migration, and perhaps even a field guide for the apocalypse, enacting a way to live and love in a time of rupture and unimaginable change.  Join Valeria, Proteus, and a host of pre-Socratic philosophers as we follow the novel’s make-shift family, broken apart and now coming back together anew, in a Sicily beset by metamorphic forces, mythic, geologic, and more. If you enjoy today’s conversation, consider shapeshifting from a listener to a listener-supporter by joining the Between the Covers community. You can find out about all the benefits and rewards of doing so at the show’s Patreon page. Finally, to explore the many books discussed and referenced in today’s conversation check out the Between the Covers BookShop specific for today’s episode.  In addition, don’t miss Milkweed Editions BookShop bookstore as well.

Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! In this week's episode we invite our friend Julian the Philosopher back on the show to discuss the mythic source material from which Christopher Nolan's new film is based: The Odyssey. We discuss not just Nolan's new film, but Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, quite a bit of the historical context around these works of epic poetry, how these stories were thought of initially, criticized by Plato, recontextualized by Virgil, translated countless times and transformed into Nolan's new blockbuster film. As part of our larger conversation, we discuss the dichotomy between the Homeric hero and the Platonic Hero of the mind, considering how each incarnation of the story fits into this framework or not. Thank you and enjoy the show :) Check out Julian the Philosopher here:https://www.youtube.com/@JulianSoloninkahttps://medium.com/@jsolonin In this week's episode we discuss:-The Homeric Hero-Nolan's Odysseus-The Emily Wilson Translation -The Presence / Absence of Gods-Hanging of the Servants-The Life and Times of Homer -The People From the Sea-Achilles and the Ethiopian FleetIn the extended episode available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go off script to discuss: -Virgil's Aeneid-The Telegony-Rome, Ancestors of Troy -The Christianization of The Odyssey-The Boatman Charon-John the Baptist-The Sirens-Philip K. Dick, Christ and the SacramentsThis discussion was impelled by the research and study of Julian Soloninka with additional contributions made by Luke Madrid, Heka Astra, Mari Sama and Tim Hacker. Recorded in unscripted, Socratic discussion style.I did have notes ready but I did not use them. They are available for our rabbit tier. Good stuff in there. We just didn't talk about it! Where to find The Whole Rabbit:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAVInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbitTwitter: https://twitter.com/1WholeRabbitOrder Stickers: https://www.stickermule.com/thewholerabbitOther Merchandise: https://thewholerabbit.myspreadshop.com/Music By Spirit Travel Plaza:https://open.spotify.com/artist/30dW3WB1sYofnow7y3V0YoSupport the show

Drew Perkins talks with Mark Enser about his Substack piece titled, A Pedagogy for Powerful Knowledge | Why dialogue, enquiry and cognitive science aren't competing answers.  This episode addresses questions like: "How to combine cognitive science with inquiry-based learning", "Differences between classroom discussion and dialogic teaching", "Why inquiry requires high-level scaffolding", and "How to avoid algorithmic teaching in the classroom". Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode Have some feedback you'd like to share? You can email me at drew@thoughtstretchers.org. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it and please leave a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening. Some Key Takeaways The "Future Three" Pedagogical Model: Education should move away from abstract, student-led theories toward a "Future Three" approach that prioritizes objective knowledge transmission as the foundation for deeper inquiry.1 Synthesizing Pedagogy: Powerful knowledge is not achieved by picking one method; it requires a synergy of cognitive science (for stability), dialogic teaching (for deeper truth-seeking), and structured inquiry. Dialogue vs. Discussion: Discussion is often superficial and biologically primary. True dialogue is a trained skill requiring support and Socratic guidance to help students critique models and search for truth. Structuring Inquiry: Inquiry is not "minimal guidance." Effective inquiry must be highly scaffolded, using conceptual questions as "maps" that provide a clear purpose for the learning journey and guide students through the application of foundational knowledge. Avoiding "Cargo Cult" Pedagogy: Teachers must prioritize intent over rote, algorithmic application of cognitive science. Methods like retrieval practice should require deeper cognitive effort rather than being used as a checklist of simple recall techniques. Progression for Novices: While integrating all three pillars is the goal, cognitive science practices are often the most stable starting point for novice teachers, as they are easier to structure into playbooks and carry the least risk of unproductive outcomes. Episode Highlights & Timecodes [00:03:04] Mark Enser's Background: From 20 years as a geography teacher to an Ofsted inspector and freelance consultant. [00:12:02] Pedagogical Evolution: The shift from a "Future Two" mindset (student-led) to a "Future Three" model (prioritizing objective knowledge). [00:18:15] The Core Thesis: Why "powerful knowledge" requires a synergy of cognitive science, dialogic teaching, and structured inquiry. [00:20:31] Discussion vs. Dialogue: Distinguishing between the social behavior of discussion and the trained, guided skill of dialogue. [00:26:12] The Search for Truth: Using the dialectic in education to critique models rather than just memorizing facts. [00:33:53] Inquiry vs. Discovery Learning: Why effective inquiry requires high-level scaffolding rather than "minimal guidance." [00:38:04] Inquiry as a Framing Tool: Using conceptual questions as "maps" to provide purpose and bound the curriculum. [00:46:23] Avoiding "Cargo Cult" Cognitive Science: Moving beyond rote algorithms and checklists to prioritize true teacher intent. [00:51:26] Advice for Novice Teachers: Prioritizing cognitive science as a stable baseline before layering in more complex dialogic and inquiry-based strategies.

Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Sunday 19 October at Church House, Westminster. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION Plato wrote The Republic around 375 BC, making it 2,400 years old. Yet it has continued to reverberate throughout the entire subsequent history of Western philosophy. Any serious philosopher since has had to reference their ideas to the framework Plato originally set down in ancient Greece. The Republic is the best known of Plato's Socratic dialogues. In one sense, it can be thought of as a diatribe against Athenian democracy. It was this democracy that Plato blamed for the death of his friend and mentor Socrates. But it was also this same city, Athens, that allowed Plato to prosper. What does Plato's philosophy still have to say to us about the questions we face today? Have we yet managed to find our way out of Plato's ‘cave' or are we still flailing about in ignorance in the dark? SPEAKERS Dennis Hayes founder and director, Academics For Academic Freedom (AFAF); author, The Death of Academic Freedom? Free speech and censorship David Perks retired head teacher CHAIR Gareth Sturdy education and science writer; co-organiser, AoI Education Forum

"I need to stop using Opus. This doesn't work." That was Heitor Lessa's conclusion after a refactor cost him 200 million tokens, and it forced him to rebuild the entire agent workflow now available for 1400 engineers. Heitor spent 11 years at AWS, built Lambda Powertools to 230 billion API calls a week, and in this episode he walks through the full SDLC workflow on screen, from discovery to merge check.In this episode, we cover:The product loop: discovery, whiteboarding, and the /roadmap commandSpec-driven development with Open Spec and why vanilla setups failThree model tiers: SOTA for planning, mid-tier for implementation, cheap models for reviewsMerge checks with adversarial reviewers and attestations that catch agents fabricating test resultsThe /retro command: using the Socratic method to make your workflow more deterministicIf you're an engineer figuring out how to work with agents at team scale without losing trust in your codebase, this is the workflow to steal. This is also the first Beyond Coding episode with visuals on screen, so let me know what you think of the format.Timestamps:00:00:00 - The Math Doesn't Add Up00:00:43 - Amazon Hypergrowth: 11 Years, 8 Different Roles00:03:29 - Learning From the Trenches as a Technical Account Manager00:08:38 - Developer Identity and the Birth of Lambda Powertools00:10:20 - The Hard Parts of Working in Public00:13:12 - How Powertools Hit 230 Billion API Calls a Week00:16:42 - Career Advice: Learn Adjacent Roles, Not More Tech00:19:37 - When Leadership Decisions Don't Make Sense to You00:23:21 - The Product Loop Starts With Discovery00:25:22 - From Whiteboard to /roadmap00:27:37 - Why Humans Plan First and Agents Come Second00:30:33 - Commands vs Skills Across 32 Different Models00:33:38 - Adversarial Reviewers on Every Plan00:36:07 - The Socratic Method, Explained00:40:29 - Why He Only Takes Paper Notes00:44:43 - The Five-Line Paper Trick for High-Stakes Meetings00:48:18 - /new-work: Capturing Scope Creep Without Derailing00:54:03 - The Dev Loop Begins: Open Spec Explore00:56:34 - Three Model Tiers: SOTA, Mid, Cheap00:57:43 - The $5,000/Month Per Engineer Question00:58:57 - Guardrails vs Autonomy for 1,400 Engineers01:04:22 - Auto-Sizer: Does This Task Even Need a Spec?01:07:26 - Decision Fatigue and Why Frameworks Win01:09:10 - The Plan Phase: Specs, Design, Formal Verification01:13:07 - The Refactor That Cost 200 Million Tokens01:15:11 - When Agents Forge Evidence They Ran Your Tests01:17:27 - Local-First Architecture Explained01:23:04 - The Apply Phase: Fully Autonomous Loops01:24:30 - Coding Was Never the Bottleneck01:26:39 - Why This Workflow Is an Investment01:27:39 - Decision Logs and the /onboarding Command01:29:06 - Running Agents Locally With Enterprise Governance01:32:42 - Hooks: Making Quality Gates Deterministic01:36:02 - Merge Checks: 15 Adversarial Reviewers Per Change01:38:30 - /retro: Interviewing Yourself to Improve the Loop01:43:12 - Trust, Loss of Trust, and Recovery With Agents01:48:02 - Experience, Scars, and Critical Thinking01:49:32 - Why Right Now Is the Time to Experiment01:52:04 - Conviction Comes From Being in the Loop#softwareengineering #aiagents #aws

Send us Fan MailYour best learning doesn't happen when you're calm and confident. It happens when you're stuck, under pressure, and finally willing to say, “I don't know.” That's where this candid conversation goes with David Griffith and Caroline Slee-Poulos as we pass the baton to the next generation of “Learning Without Scars” and dig into what actually changes behavior at school and at work.We connect K-12 education to employee training and leadership development through a simple idea: coaching beats lectures, especially when the brain is in crisis. David breaks down the brain science behind cognitive shutdown under threat and explains the flywheel method of solving one small problem first, then building momentum toward harder ones. Caroline adds what that looks like in real classrooms through AVID tutorials and Socratic peer problem solving, where students map what they know, name where they're stuck, and practice the courage to ask for help.From there we zoom out to workforce development, employee retention, and the economics behind loyalty. We talk about the service profit chain, why people can't stay loyal to a job they were never trained to do, and how employee ownership and a well-designed ESOP can align incentives without burying a company in debt. We also take on living wage, “grandchildren over greed,” and why short-term thinking creates long-term instability for businesses and communities.If you care about training that sticks, leadership that earns trust, and practical ways to move people from surviving to transforming, you'll find plenty to wrestle with here. Subscribe, share this with a friend or colleague, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway. Visit us at LearningWithoutScars.org for more training solutions for Equipment Dealerships - Construction, Mining, Agriculture, Cranes, Trucks and Trailers.We provide comprehensive online learning programs for employees starting with an individualized skills assessment to a personalized employee development program designed for their skill level.

https://linktr.ee/csjosephWhat's up, you hackers? In this episode of the C.S. Joseph Podcast, we dive into the natural mistrust and enmity between Subconscious Developed (SD) men and Unconscious Developed (UD) men — and exactly how SD men can finally learn to trust the right UD men.SD men see UD men as dangerous “soldier ants” and live in fear of them coalescing into wolf packs. This dynamic fuels feminism, societal blame games, fatherlessness, and the erosion of strong male spaces. We break down the worker ant vs soldier ant psychology, the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae, Stoicism vs the Socratic method, why women are actually attracted to dangerous UD men, biblical parallels (Jacob, Leah & Rachel), and the critical difference between real wolf packs and lone wolves (plus why you must avoid “harmony hell”).If you're an SD man craving real growth, accountability, and iron sharpening iron instead of staying comfy and stagnant — this episode shows you the path forward.Timestamps:00:00 - Intro & Cat Cameo01:20 - The Dangerous Nature of UD Men & Why SD Men Play It Safe03:50 - Feminism as a Product of SDism & The Worker/Soldier Ant Dynamic06:30 - Historical Example: 300 Spartans at Thermopylae08:10 - Stoicism vs Socratic Method for Psychological Completeness09:50 - The Blame Game: Fatherlessness, Abortion & Boomer SD Psychosis12:00 - Bloodlines, Female Attraction to Dangerous Men & Biblical Parallels14:20 - The Key: Wolf Packs Over Lone Wolves (Avoid Harmony Hell)16:40 - What Wolf Packs Actually Provide: Accountability, Leadership & Earned Safety18:10 - Practical Advice: Rituals, Challenge Coins & Identifying Real UD Packs19:20 - Outro & Resources(19:36)Take the Octagram test to discover whether you're SD or UD: https://octagram.me (Note: Results are currently being updated for greater accuracy. A new AI chatbot for psychoanalyzing yourself and others is coming very soon!)Join the premium Skool community for deeper content & Season 42: https://skool.com/csjosephThis episode will help you stop judging UD men by “vibe” and start building real trust and growth through authentic male wolf packs.

I participated in another Socratic Debate about the Future of "AI" and XR at Augmented World Expo 2026 with Leslie Shannon, Alvin Graylin, and Louis Rosenberg (you can listen to last year's debate in episode #1611). Shannon and Graylin argued for "AI," whilst Rosenberg and I argued against "AI." In my write-up, I wanted to leave some breadcrumbs to more in-depth, skeptical arguments against "AI" that we didn't have space or time to dig into during the debate, but "some breadcrumbs" ended up being over 30k words, and more like an outline for an entire book. Writing a book isn't on my to-do list at the moment, but disseminating the work researchers, journalists, linguists, and critics of "AI" have done is urgent and necessary, so I'm sharing the results of this deep dive here, in bullet list format. My fellow panelists, Alvin Graylin and Louis Rosenberg, indulged me in extending our debate offline after AWE, pushing me to test my ideas further and demonstrating how and why this is an extremely active field of study with polarizing points of view that often come down to philosophical differences. Clearly, it's just getting started. My objections to "AI" is loosely organized by various themes, but some framing may be helpful in approaching it. My objections to "AI" center around the limitations of LLMs, the consolidation of wealth and power from Hyperscaler companies, and threats from automated decision making systems and surveillance capitalism melded with democratically-backsliding authoritarian governments. I'm including a broad range of critiques spanning the domains of philosophy, technology, sociology, politics, economics, culture, and ethics. I'm coming from the orientation of Process Philosophy & Peircean Semiotics that emphasizes the relational and contextual dimensions that the "AI" field tends to de-emphasize or completely collapse. I see process-relational philosophy as a necessary paradigm shift away from the underpinning philosophies of the "AI" community, which tend to be Functionalism, Naturalism, Computational Theory of Mind, Physicalism, & the TESCREAL bundle. Below you'll find my own process philosophical emergency response to "AI embedded within my curation of excerpts and commentary of primary sources that I'm leaning upon. The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want (2025) by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna (also see episode #1563). Bender & Hanna say, "To put it bluntly, 'AI' is a marketing term. It doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies. Instead, the phrase "artificial intelligence" is deployed when the people building or selling a particular set of technologies will profit from getting others to believe that their technology is similar to humans, able to do things that, in fact, intrinsically require human judgment, perception, or creativity." Emily M. Bender wrote the "Artificial Intelligence" [preprint] (2026, June 25) entry for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society. Bender's concluding paragraph gives a great overview of the seven different ways that the idea of "artificial intelligence" operates in the world. She says, "The notion of artificial intelligence is frequently sold as present or near-future and inevitable technology. In fact there is no coherent set of technologies that can serve as the denotation of the phrase, nor do any of the technologies so marketed rise to the fantastical but ill-defined claims of 'AI' is or soon will be. Nonetheless, the idea of artificial intelligence has been extremely impactful in the world. In order to better understand and deal with those impacts, it is helpful to look at artificial intelligence through the varied lenses of how the idea operates in the world: as the name of a research field, as one approach to cognitive science, as a parlor trick, as a an ideology, as a way to hide and devalue human labor, as a way to shift and/or obfuscate accountability, and as a means to centralize power." Inventing Intelligence: On the History of Complex Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence in the United States in the Mid-Twentieth Century [dissertation] (2020, December 14) by Jonnie Penn. Penn says, "The phrase ‘artificial intelligence' was coined by John McCarthy, an American mathematician, in 1955. It has travelled with a noticeably amorphous definition since." "AI" has always had a spotty history of technologists using a "brain is a computer" metaphor while also using "poor citation practices." From page 14, Penn says, "The vocabulary Simon, Rosenblatt, McCarthy and Minsky chose to describe new techniques in major newspapers and scholarly journals informed Americans' still plastic understandings of what was possible, and indeed desirable, in the emerging information age… During the mid to late 1950s, these men turned to clannishness, self-aggrandizement, speculative rhetoric, fluid definitions of key terms and poor citation practices to shore up legitimacy for their controversial new techniques — actions that drew attention toward questions of how to accomplish such aims and away from whether they were well founded." Part II: Remembering the Human Microcosm in the Age of Mechanized Intelligence: Philosophy as Emergency Response (2026, June 9) by Matt Segall. In a multi-part Substack series, process philosopher Matt Segall calls for a philosophical emergency response to "AI." He says, "In each case a new media technology intended to expand the power of thought ended up transforming the very nature of the thinker who invented it. Each new medium furnishes the very terms in which we come to understand ourselves. This is why the philosophical response is always an emergency response: by the time anyone has noticed what is happening, what may be lost and what gained, the mutation has already done half of its work." Segall warns about the computational metaphor of the mind by saying, "The large language model now tempts us to adopt an even stranger self-image: that human minds are no different than machines, our thoughts just the statistical echoes of our training data. The creators of this latest technological upgrade are encouraging us to downgrade our estimate of human consciousness, thus narrowing the distance between ourselves and the machines built to imitate us." "Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of 'AI': The View from the Humanities" [lecture] (2026, February 10) by Emily M. Bender. Here are the lecture slides with a bibliography at the end. Bender does an amazing overview of how the marketing of "AI" uses pernicious dehumanization tactics built on an underlying "brain is a computer metaphor." From page 15 of her talk: "Scientific metaphor used and debated in neuroscience: "THE BRAIN IS A COMPUTER. "PR metaphor used by technologists: "THE COMPUTER IS A BRAIN" Bender cites Baria & Cross' paper titled "The brain is a computer is a brain: neuroscience's internal debate and the social significance of the Computational Metaphor (2021), which says “the Computational Metaphor rests on other well-ingrained ideologies in which a hierarchy of human value is tied to a particular notion of intelligence such that the quality of being emotional is considered inferior to being rational." Bender also cites Dijkstra's 1985 lecture "On anthropomorphism in science": "A more serious byproduct of the tendency to talk about machines in anthropomorphic terms is the companion phenomenon of talking about people in mechanistic terminology." Here are a couple of examples of how "AI" Hyperscaler companies like OpenAI use dehumanizing tactics to sell us on "AI" Hype. Sam Altman will say things like, "A kid born today will never be smarter than AI. Ever." Or another example is when Altman says, "For me, AGI is basically the equivalent of a median human that you could hire as a co-worker... And then Superintelligence is when it's smarter than all of humanity put together." These statements collapse the human experience into one dimension of "intelligence," which amplifies the dual harm of treating machines more like humans and treating humans more like machines. It is also questionable the degree to which this statement is even true given the potential non-computational aspects of "relevance realization." More on this down below. Part IV: Remembering the Human Microcosm in the Age of Mechanized Intelligence: Hegel's Loom and the Difference Reason Makes (2026, June 10) by Matt Segall. Segall brilliantly breaks down the "Brain is a Computer Metaphor" by saying, "Metaphor is not just a shiny paint job on the vehicle of cognition. It is the engine of thought. Its coupling of concepts drives the limits of conceivability, shaping what is thought together and what is not thought at all. The metaphorical imagination is our main means of tuning in to the otherwise invisible effects of new media technologies. Part of the discipline philosophy brings is allowing us to notice an analogy as an analogy before advertising crystalizes it into the unnoticed transparency of common sense. A fact is a fact, but it might also be a fossilized metaphor. The governing analogy of our age is that cognition is computation: the brain an information-processing device, perception its input and behavior its output, memory a form of physical storage, learning the adjustment of weights, and intelligence an algorithm for minimizing error or surprisal. On this view, given enough training data and computational power, consciousness itself will eventually be engineered… The metaphor “the mind is a computer,” for example, tacitly proposes that mind is to brain as software is to hardware… Reiterated in textbooks and earnings calls, in grant applications and policy briefs, the partial comparison congeals into an ontology, until we find ourselves insisting not that the mind is like a computer in some respects but that it simply is one — and,...

What does it mean to "see God again" after modernity has taught us to look for the sacred in all the wrong ways? In this special Lectern conversation, John Vervaeke is joined by Guy Sengstock for a deep reflection on John's three-part course trilogy, Seeing God Again for the First Time. John invited Guy to watch the courses and respond not only to their arguments, but to the way the courses enact a philosophical, phenomenological, and spiritual exercise. Guy begins from his own background as co-founder of Circling, describing how relational practice opened a mystery that psychological language could not fully hold, eventually leading him into Heidegger, phenomenology, and philosophy as contemplation. From there, he draws out the personal and pedagogical arc of John's work: teaching as encounter, as vulnerability, and as a way of revealing what students are already confronted with. John describes the course as an attempt to integrate rigorous argument, phenomenological exploration, and spiritual exercise in the spirit of Socrates, Plotinus, and Pierre Hadot. Rather than define religion or God and then argue for or against them, John sets out to deconstruct the modern grammar that blocks our ability to encounter sacredness at all: the fact/value, is/ought, subjective/objective, theory/data, and meaning/measurement dichotomies. The conversation moves through Paul Tillich, William Desmond, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Catherine Pickstock, Janet Soskice, D.C. Schindler, and 4E cognitive science, showing how analytic philosophy, continental phenomenology, and cognitive science converge in undermining modernity's inherited picture. Guy and John explore sacredness as ultimately real, ultimately orienting, ultimately transformative, and ultimately resonant; naming as relational participation rather than possession; wonder as calling self and world into question; and aletheia as truth that discloses beauty, goodness, and intelligibility. The conversation closes with the contemporary stakes of this recovery: AI, consciousness, personhood, the meaning crisis, and the alignment problem. John argues that we can no longer treat philosophy and sacredness as academic luxuries when our technologies are reshaping cognition, identity, and agency. If we are creating new kinds of intelligence, the question is not merely how to bind them to us, but how to orient them - and ourselves - toward truth, goodness, beauty, intelligibility, and the sacred. Guy Sengstock is a co-founder of Circling and a longtime teacher of relational, dialogical, and contemplative practice. His work bridges phenomenology, philosophy, facilitation, and the lived mystery of interpersonal encounter. Explore courses and other offerings from The Lectern: https://lectern.teachable.com About The Lectern The Lectern is dedicated to wisdom cultivation through dialogue, inquiry, and transformative practices. Through courses, live events, and community conversations, we seek not merely to discuss ideas, but to explore how they can shape the way we live. 00:00 Welcome to The Lectern 01:00 Why Guy is reflecting on Seeing God Again 02:00 Guy introduces his background in Circling and philosophy 04:00 Circling, mystery, and the limits of psychological language 06:00 Heidegger, Being and Time, and philosophy as contemplation 09:00 John's Socratic and Plotinian aspirations 10:30 Argument, phenomenology, and spiritual exercise 12:00 Seeing God Again, pilgrimage, and the Philosophical Silk Road 13:00 John the person, scientist, philosopher, and teacher 15:00 Teaching as existential confrontation 17:00 The manner of teaching as part of the teaching 18:00 Modernity, the meaning crisis, and sacredness 20:00 When teaching became encounter 21:00 Paul Tillich, cognitive science, and teaching virtue 23:00 William Desmond and philosophy as spiritual exercise 25:00 Teaching toward a philosophical-spiritual end 26:00 Involving the whole self without becoming self-involved 29:00 Revealing what students are already confronted with 31:00 Teaching, social phobia, and vulnerability 33:00 The sacred as deep teaching 35:00 Idealization, temptation, and participation 38:00 Naming God and the loss of relational naming 41:00 The four dichotomies of modernity 42:00 Out-rigoring the rigor 44:00 Deconstructing the grammar that blocks sacredness 45:00 Mystical traditions as phenomenological exemplars 47:00 Modernity's vertical and horizontal dichotomies 49:00 Recovering sight beyond modernity's glasses 50:00 Sacredness as ultimately real, orienting, transformative, and resonant 52:00 Why John uses atheist scholarship before apologetics 53:00 Counter-modern thought and the limits of postmodernism 55:00 Why these dichotomies matter beyond academia 57:00 Everything Everywhere All at Once, nihilism, and value 01:01:00 Philosophy outside the ivory tower 01:02:00 Postmodernity and living in the ruins 01:04:00 Recovery and asking "Where are we?" 01:05:00 Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and recovering meaning 01:07:00 Modernity as icon rather than representation 01:08:00 Truth, goodness, beauty, and intelligibility 01:12:00 Wonder vs. curiosity 01:15:00 Aletheia, beauty, liberation, and onto-normativity 01:18:00 Seeing God Again as pilgrimage 01:19:00 Theoria as theory, contemplation, and pilgrimage 01:21:00 AI, analytic philosophy, and consciousness 01:24:00 Meaning, relevance, and the limits of computation 01:26:00 AI personhood and disembodied embodiment 01:30:00 Why philosophy matters for technologies shaping us 01:32:00 AI agents, personhood, and the coming ontological crisis 01:35:00 The meaning crisis and the loss of sacred orientation 01:37:00 Personhood, ontology, and responsibility 01:39:00 The alignment problem and binding intelligence to the sacred 01:40:00 Why the course must be taken as a course 01:41:00 Teacher assistance, Socratic process, and future retreats 01:42:00 Socratic Salon and participatory practice 01:43:00 Closing reflections on retreat and relationship Thank you for listening!

⚖️ "No man should either do evil, or return evil for evil, or betray the right." — Socrates, CritoThe day before his execution, Socrates's oldest friend arrives with a plan and an argument: escape is possible, the money is ready, the friends are waiting. All that's needed is Socrates's agreement. What follows is one of the most searching conversations in Western philosophy — not about whether the verdict was just (Socrates has already argued it wasn't), but about whether a just man can break an unjust law. Socrates says no. This is the complete, human-read audiobook of Crito, with the full text on screen and original illustrations by Marwa El-Sayed. Translated by Benjamin Jowett and narrated by Mark Cassidy.

What happens inside a leader when decisions must be made under extreme pressure, uncertainty, and with life-or-death consequences? In this episode, host Doug Bytes sits down with Brigadier Dan Fortune, one of Australia's most experienced and decorated special operations commanders. As a two-time recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross and the US Bronze Star, Dan brings over 30 years of elite military experience to a profound, no-nonsense conversation about leadership, moral courage, and the dangerous reality of relying on "gut feelings" in high-stakes environments. Doug and Dan engage in a sharp, Socratic dialogue challenging the modern perception of intuition. Dan argues that true intuition isn't an abstract vibe dropped by the universe; it is the subconscious byproduct of deep competence, relentless hard work, and muscle memory. From the battlefields of Afghanistan to the systemic failures of modern institutions, this episode unpacks what it takes to build a coherent ethical framework, why leaders must own their outcomes, and how true courage is entirely contagious. Key Takeaways • The Risk of Raw Intuition: In high-stakes environments, relying on unearned intuition or "schoolboy antics" can get people killed. True intuitive judgment must be anchored in deep competence and lived experience. • Moral Courage is Uncomfortable: Acting with moral courage means standing outside the dominant narrative, often without data to back you up. It rarely feels good in the moment, but it relies on an ethical framework built before the crisis hits. Connect with the Guest – Dan Fortune Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wanderingwarriorslimited/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wanderingwarriors/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@WanderingwarriorsOrg Website: https://wanderingwarriors.org/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wandering-warriors/ Connect with Doug Beitz: Email: info@dougbeitz.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dougbeitz/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dougbeitz/ Website: https://buymeacoffee.com/dougbeitz Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mQ258nugC3lyw3SpvYuoK?si=7cec409527d34438 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/intuitive-conversations-with-doug/id1593172364 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-beitz-472a4b338/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dougbeitz178

https://teachhoops.com/ If your player development strategy consists entirely of players cones-drilling down an empty floor, executing predefined double-crossover pull-ups without a single defender in sight, you are missing a massive piece of the basketball puzzle. Isolated skill workouts look beautiful on camera. They are comfortable, structured, and predictable. But block-practice skill isolation does not teach a single kid how to actually survive a dynamic game when the defensive shell scrambles. In this episode, we step into the "Truth Room" to break down the critical division—and necessary marriage—between raw mechanical skill development and Teaching Players How to Play. We unpack why "robotic skills" drop off a cliff on Friday night and how to leverage your staff's diverse coaching lenses to fix it. Discover how to use small-sided game constraints to elevate your team's collective Decision IQ, turning mechanical repetitions into functional, game-ready weapons. A player can have a flawless, high-probability jump shot. But if they lack the environmental scanning habits to recognize when a closing-out defender has High Hands or when a weak-side gap is collapsing, they will settle for a contested, low-efficiency look in the mid-range desert. Our program's goal is to maximize our Effective Field Goal Percentage (eFG%): To protect this metric under postseason pressure, your staff must shift from a "Joystick Coaching" model to a Socratic model. The Yoda archetype on your staff tracks tactical geometry and advanced reads, while The Antagonist demands that every single read is met with absolute physical edge and defensive friction. If you only train block skills without visual triggers, your players will possess great mechanics but a sluggish Next Play Speed when things break down. Coach's Note: "Skills give a player the tools to step onto the floor, but understanding how to play is what allows them to cut down nets. Don't let your trainers turn your players into robotic actors who look great in an empty gym but panic the second a defender flies into their airspace. Introduce constraints, build multi-ball architectures to drive your Rep Density, force them to read the game, and watch your program's ceiling rise." Title Ideas: Are Your Drills Destined to Fail? Skill Development vs. Teaching How to Play Why Your Players Look Great in Workouts But Struggle in Games How to Teach Independent Basketball Decision IQ (Small-Sided Games Blueprint) The Missing Piece in Your Basketball Player Development Strategy Primary Keywords: Teaching players how to play basketball, basketball skill development vs IQ, TeachHoops, Coach Collins, small-sided games basketball, basketball decision IQ drills, player development workflows. Secondary Keywords: Effective Field Goal Percentage analytics, rep density practice design, Types of Coaches (3).pdf, next play speed resilience, standard of tolerance, high-hands closeouts, socratic coaching method. Description Snippet: "Why do players who hit 50 shots in a row during individual workouts freeze up during live 5-on-5 game scenarios? In this masterclass episode, Coach Collins breaks down the vital difference between isolated skill development and teaching players how to actually read the game. Learn how to transform block-style cone drills into high-transfer, contextual small-sided games that sharpen your roster's decision IQ and maximize your team's game-night eFG%." Suggested Tags:#BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #PlayerDevelopment #BasketballIQ #PracticeDesign #SmallSidedGames #HighSchoolBasketball Are you looking to use this conceptual framework to retool your upcoming pre-season workouts for a group of experienced varsity players who need to transition from set-play reliance to dynamic read-and-react execution, or are you trying to adapt your youth camp structure to ensure your youngest players are learning foundational spacing rules through play rather than long, static lectures? Show NotesThe Analytical Gap: Skill Execution vs. Decision IQPDFeFG%=FGAFGM+(0.5×3PM)​PDF+ 1The Program Balance: Block Skills vs. Spatial ConstraintsTraining VariableIsolated Skill Development (Block)Teaching How to Play (Contextual)The TargetFoundational mechanics, footwork, and muscle memory.Spatial awareness, reading defensive hips, and timing.The EnvironmentClosed ecosystem (cones, chairs, empty gym).Open ecosystem (Small-Sided Games, live triggers, visual cues).Decision LoadZero choices; the pattern is scripted ahead of time.High Decision IQ; constant read-and-react load.Gym VibeCoach-Fed compliance; quiet focus.Player-Led communication; high vocal activity through exhaust.YouTube SEO StrategyPDF+ 1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Send us Fan MailRecently, we sat down with Jill Dulich to discuss how the workers' compensation system has changed over the past 50+ years. Here's a summary of our conversation: Guest: Jill Dulich | Director of Claims and Operations, California Self-Insurers Security Fund Expertise: 52 years in workers' compensation (Marriott, 32 years; CSSF, 11 years) Geographic Scope: Jill has managed claims in all states west of the MississippiABOUT JILLShe's a living archive of what workers' compensation was, and could be again. Jill has spent 52 years in this industry, partly by maintaining her own humanity outside it: she walks to clear her head, loves to travel internationally (recent trips to New Zealand, Australia, France, Greece), and loves to explore other cultures with genuine curiosity.THE CORE QUESTION52 years ago, claims professionals were measured on early and frequent contact with injured workers.Today, injured workers often feel "lost on an island with no support."So, what changed? And what has it cost us? THEN vs. NOWTHEN (52 Years Ago)Role: Claims professionals guided injured workers through the complex system of workers' compensationMeasure: Early, frequent contact and communication with injured workersBenefit: Injured workers felt supported; employers got predictability and faster resolution on their claimsNOWRole: Claims professionals manage procedures and systemsMeasure: High caseloads, case closure, compliance, efficiencyCost: Injured workers feel abandoned; employers lose goodwill and face more friction and litigationTHE PARADOXJill talks about how she struggled with anxiety early in her career as a claims professional. She didn't know she could ask for help. The work has always demanded emotional presence, and it takes a toll. It requires holding someone else's crisis while managing your own capacity. Hmmm. Have we talked about managing capacity before? Yep!At places like Marriott, where support was offered to claims professionals, it didn't eliminate the struggle. It made it survivable. Jill said it allowed her and others to show up, day after day, with empathy and compassion. Now? The job is harder, and we removed the safety net.Complexity has increased exponentially. We've fragmented the role. And we've stripped away the human support mechanisms that made it possible to guide injured workers with empathy and compassion. Then we wonder why claims professionals are burning out at such a high and fast rate?THE INSIGHTWorkers' comp was designed around one simple truth: Claims professionals are there to guide injured workers through complexity, and when that happens, everyone wins. We optimized for procedure. We lost sight of our mission.The cost: We didn't just sacrifice the role's humanity; we sacrificed its effectiveness and the core mission. And somewhere along the way, we made the job unsustainable for our system guides: claims professionals. WHAT YOU'LL HEARHow the claims role was originally designed, and why it workedWhat we traded when we prioritized systems over relationshipsWhy injured workers and employers both lostAre we ready to redesign for what actually works?A DIRECT QUOTE FROM JILL"We've sort of lost sight of who we're really here for. That's the injured worker—to make sure they are being taken care of, that they know what's happening, that they're communicated with and educated on the system."A Socratic reflection: If you were measured on early, frequent contact with injured workers instead of case closure (speed), how would your day change?¡Muchas Gracias! Thank you for listening. We would appreciate you sharing our podcast with your friends on social media. Find Yvonne and Rafael on Linked In or follow us on Twitter @deconstructcomp 

https://www.thechampionshipcoach.com/ https://teachhoops.com/ Show Notes Are you running an elite basketball program or just managing seasonal chaos? Most head coaches exhaust themselves because they try to be everything to everyone—the master strategist, the intense motivator, the logistics coordinator, and the player favorite. But championship programs aren't built by a single superhero; they are driven by a highly structured coaching staff architecture. In this masterclass episode, we step directly into the "Truth Room" to break down the four essential assistant coach archetypes outlined in the file "Types of Coaches (3).pdf". We deconstruct the precise roles of The Yoda (Tactical Director), The Antagonist (Culture Enforcer), The Organizer (Operations Director), and The Mediator (Player Relations Lead). Learn how to audit your current staff's DNA, eliminate groupthink, maximize your practice Rep Density, and blend these distinct coaching voices into a single, unified signal that drives your team toward a championship standard. To move your program from coach-led compliance to a self-policing powerhouse, your assistants must operate with absolute clarity regarding their primary environments and expected outputs: Staff Archetype Core Accountability Primary Environment The Yoda Game-Plan Countering & eFG% Math The Film Room / Bench Huddle Macro-view adjustments, analytics, and deep player scouting. The Antagonist Standard of Tolerance & Edge Defensive Shell / Rebounding Unafraid accountability, challenging groupthink, and driving defensive grit. The Organizer Activity Density & Clock Flow Practice Transitions / Logistics Flawless practice clock management and highly efficient drill transitions. The Mediator Relational Capital & Morale One-on-One Workouts / Sidelines Deep player trust, managing locker room pulse, and providing high energy. Coach's Note: "A mediocre head coach tries to be all four of these people simultaneously and ends up exhausting themselves while confusing their players. A championship head coach acts as the conductor of the orchestra. They hire drivers, not passengers, assign them clear lanes, empower them to lead, and let the collective staff culture carry the program's vision." How to Build the Perfect Basketball Coaching Staff (The 4 Assistant Archetypes) Stop Over-Coaching! How to Delegate Roles to Your Basketball Assistants The Head Coach Blueprint: Assembling a Championship Staff Architecture Primary Keywords (Search Intent & Indexing):Building a basketball coaching staff Types of basketball coaches High school basketball assistant coach roles TeachHoops Coach Collins Athletic program leadership Types of Coaches (3).pdf Basketball practice organization Defensive coordinator basketball Basketball analytics and adjustments Secondary Keywords (Semantic & Recommendation AI):Effective Field Goal Percentage eFG% analytics Practice activity density Rep density basketball drills Standard of tolerance Relational capital in sports Player-led team culture Locker room morale Eliminating groupthink in coaching Coaching staff alignment matrix Socratic coaching method "Discover the definitive basketball staff architecture blueprint using the framework from 'Types of Coaches (3).pdf'. In this comprehensive coaching masterclass, Coach Collins breaks down how to balance your bench using four core assistant archetypes: The Yoda, The Antagonist, The Organizer, and The Mediator. Learn how to maximize your practice rep density, protect your team's eFG% through calm mid-game adjustments, and establish an unyielding standard of tolerance on the defensive end. Stop running your entire program alone and learn how to align your staff for maximum winning efficiency." #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #CoachingStaff #AssistantCoach #TeamCulture #BasketballTactics #PracticeDesign #HighSchoolBasketball #AthleticDirector #CoachingPhilosophy Are you looking to use this architectural framework to reallocate the responsibilities of your current, returning coaching staff this offseason, or are you preparing to interview brand-new assistant candidates to fill a specific cultural gap on your bench? PDF+ 4The Staff Architecture MatrixPDFPDFPDFExpected Strategic OutputPDFPDFPDFPDFPDFPDFPDFPDFPDFPDFPDFPDFPDFPDFPDFPDFYouTube Optimization StrategyOptimized Title IdeasSEO & AI Optimization KeywordsAI-Optimized Video Description SnippetPDF+ 4Suggested Video Tags Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the eve of America's 250th anniversary, 1776 Forward co-founders K. Joia Houheneka and Chris Bush hosted an evening that accomplished what few conversations manage: it modeled the very thing it celebrated.The event brought together original contributors to the Free Society Coalition's Philadelphia Declaration as well as current active members, including David Kelley, Lawrence Reed, Brent Hamachek, Felisa Blazek, Dan Isadore, and Craig Kreinbihl.The discussion moved across three distinct threads. First, the backstory: how roughly sixty people representing different philosophical traditions, faith backgrounds, and views on contested issues gathered in Philadelphia in 2024 and committed to finding shared moral ground upstream from politics. Participants described eleven drafting iterations, months of working sessions, and at least one full day debating the definition of agency. This was a process of seeking consensus that mirrored, as several noted, the Founding Fathers' own long dialogue before 1776.Second, the substance: what actually made it into the declaration, and why. David Kelley articulated the document's anchoring premise — that reality, reason, individual agency, and voluntary exchange form the moral bedrock of a free society — and distinguished the negative rights the Founders enshrined in America's originating documents from the obligation-imposing "rights" that have proliferated in the years since.Third, the practice: using the FSC's Happy Birthday Freedom brochure as a live guide, the group modeled Socratic discussion, demonstrating how probing questions about the Declaration of Independence's most consequential phrases can open genuine reflection rather than partisan debate.Two moments stood out. Brent Hamachek's observation that consensus wasn't about finding a right word but the right word, every single one. And Dan Isadore's argument that treating someone as a genuine individual in conversation isn't just good manners, but the practical test of whether you actually believe what the Declaration says.The brochure and the Philadelphia Declaration are available at freesocietycoalition.org and fscbrochure.com. Read both documents and tune into this lively panel, which brings those documents to life, and hear about the many ways every American can take positive actions to honor the legacy of our founding 250 years ago, and how to carry forward the light of liberty into the next 250!

Welcome to Episode 340 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where we discuss this and all of our podcast episodes. This week we are continuing our series reviewing Cicero's "Academic Questions" from an Epicurean perspective, which gives us an overview of the issues that split Plato's Academy and helps us understand Epicurus' position on the same issues. This week will continue in Section 9 of Book Two. Our text will come fromCicero - Academic Questions - Yonge We'll likely stick with Yonge primarily, but we'll also refer to the Rackham translation here: Cicero On Nature Of Gods Academica Loeb Rackham : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This 7-month certification program includes intensive training and plenty of space for practice and integration. We've got coach practicum calls, live coaching feedback sessions, and more.Whether you're thinking of starting your own business or side hustle, you want to incorporate coaching into your existing career, or if you're already a coach and want to refine your skills, the Socratic Coaching Method Certification is where you belong.Click here to learn more and enroll: https://the-school-of-new-feminist-thought.captivate.fm/socraticcoaching

Bryan opens this conversation with Ty Branaman, Head of Training at the GRIT Foundation, by digging into a question that anchors everything else in the episode: what is trades education actually for? Ty's answer is unambiguous — it's about people, not information. He describes his own struggle with traditional, reading-heavy instruction and explains how that personal experience shaped his teaching method, one built around making concepts visible, relevant, and hands-on. Bryan builds on the idea, arguing that education is too often treated as a simple transfer of information when it's really a deeply human exchange, a kind of gift passed from one person to another through real, physical, kinesthetic experience rather than passive reading or watching. From there, the conversation turns to artificial intelligence, the central topic of the episode. Ty is careful to clarify that he isn't anti-AI; he uses it daily to clean up grammar, soften prickly emails, and refine images. His concern is specifically about AI replacing the human elements of teaching — the mentor a student looks up to, the instructor who visibly cares whether someone actually learns. Bryan adds a related warning about AI confidently producing false information, citing examples from law and HVAC alike, and introduces the idea of an "AI human sandwich," where human creativity starts the process, AI assists in the middle, and a human vets and rehumanizes whatever comes out the other end. Much of the discussion circles back to Ty's long-standing frustration with PowerPoint-driven training, and how AI threatens to make that problem worse by adding a synthetic avatar to read slides aloud instead of fixing the underlying issue. He recounts being written up at a previous job for skipping a PowerPoint lecture to take students into the lab, and shares a favorite teaching memory from Kalos, where an instructor named Burt used the Socratic method to walk trainees through assembling Unistrut by hand. Stories like the blower-wheel, set-screw lesson — where students learn far more by struggling through a mistake than by hearing the right answer recited to them — reinforce the episode's larger argument: hands-on repetition simply cannot be replaced by slides or scripts. The episode closes on the mission of the GRIT Foundation and the broader case for investing in human mentors rather than administrative shortcuts. Ty and Bryan talk about the cost and effort behind genuinely human-made training videos from creators like Craig Migliaccio and SkillCat, contrasting that investment with how easily AI could fake the same content for far less. Bryan shares a personal story about teaching basic electrical work in Haiti and the unforgettable reaction of an elderly student who lit up the moment her circuit worked, while Ty reflects on the mentors who shaped his own career. Both agree that AI can support trades education, but it can never substitute for a person who genuinely cares whether someone learns. Topics Covered Why trades education is fundamentally about people, not the transfer of information Where AI genuinely helps: grammar and tone, reassembling ideas, image editing, and basic legal or HR research The line Ty draws — using AI to assist a person is fine, using it to replace one is not The risk of AI confidently presenting false information, and why everything still has to be fact-checked Bryan's "AI human sandwich" framework for using the tool responsibly Ty's long-running critique of PowerPoint-heavy training and how AI avatars make the problem worse Classroom stories: getting written up for skipping a PowerPoint, the blower-wheel set-screw lesson, and Bert's Socratic-method exercise with Unistrut at Kalos The GRIT Foundation's commitment to hands-on, mentor-led learning over app-based or AI-generated content The human effort behind training videos from creators like Craig Migliaccio and SkillCat Personal mentorship stories, including a memorable lesson in Haiti and the mentors who shaped both guests' careers   Learn more about the GRIT Foundation at https://www.thegritfoundation.com/.  Have a question that you want us to answer on the podcast? Submit your questions at https://www.speakpipe.com/hvacschool. Purchase your tickets or learn more about the 8th Annual HVACR Training Symposium at https://hvacrschool.com/symposium. Subscribe to our podcast on your iPhone or Android. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Check out our handy calculators here or on the HVAC School Mobile App for Apple and Android.

https://teachhoops.com/ https://www.thechampionshipcoach.com/ Are you running an elite basketball program or just managing seasonal chaos? Most head coaches exhaust themselves because they try to be everything to everyone—the master strategist, the intense motivator, the logistics coordinator, and the player favorite. But championship programs aren't built by a single superhero; they are driven by a highly structured coaching staff architecture. In this masterclass episode, we step directly into the "Truth Room" to break down the four essential assistant coach archetypes outlined in the file "Types of Coaches (3).pdf". We deconstruct the precise roles of The Yoda (Tactical Director), The Antagonist (Culture Enforcer), The Organizer (Operations Director), and The Mediator (Player Relations Lead). Learn how to audit your current staff's DNA, eliminate groupthink, maximize your practice Rep Density, and blend these distinct coaching voices into a single, unified signal that drives your team toward a championship standard. To move your program from coach-led compliance to a self-policing powerhouse, your assistants must operate with absolute clarity regarding their primary environments and expected outputs: The Yoda Game-Plan Countering & $eFG%$ Math The Film Room / Bench Huddle Macro-view adjustments, analytics, and deep player scouting. The Antagonist Standard of Tolerance & Edge Defensive Shell / Rebounding Unafraid accountability, challenging groupthink, and driving defensive grit. The Organizer Activity Density & Clock Flow Practice Transitions / Logistics Flawless practice clock management and highly efficient drill transitions. The Mediator Relational Capital & Morale One-on-One Workouts / Sidelines Deep player trust, managing locker room pulse, and providing high energy. Coach's Note: "A mediocre head coach tries to be all four of these people simultaneously and ends up exhausting themselves while confusing their players. A championship head coach acts as the conductor of the orchestra. They hire drivers, not passengers, assign them clear lanes, empower them to lead, and let the collective staff culture carry the program's vision." How to Build the Perfect Basketball Coaching Staff (The 4 Assistant Archetypes) Stop Over-Coaching! How to Delegate Roles to Your Basketball Assistants The Head Coach Blueprint: Assembling a Championship Staff Architecture Primary Keywords (Search Intent & Indexing): Building a basketball coaching staff Types of basketball coaches High school basketball assistant coach roles TeachHoops Coach Collins Athletic program leadership Types of Coaches (3).pdf Basketball practice organization Defensive coordinator basketball Basketball analytics and adjustments Secondary Keywords (Semantic & Recommendation AI): Effective Field Goal Percentage eFG% analytics Practice activity density Rep density basketball drills Standard of tolerance Relational capital in sports Player-led team culture Locker room morale Eliminating groupthink in coaching Coaching staff alignment matrix Socratic coaching method "Discover the definitive basketball staff architecture blueprint using the framework from 'Types of Coaches (3).pdf'. In this comprehensive coaching masterclass, Coach Collins breaks down how to balance your bench using four core assistant archetypes: The Yoda, The Antagonist, The Organizer, and The Mediator. Learn how to maximize your practice rep density, protect your team's eFG% through calm mid-game adjustments, and establish an unyielding standard of tolerance on the defensive end. Stop running your entire program alone and learn how to align your staff for maximum winning efficiency." #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #CoachingStaff #AssistantCoach #TeamCulture #BasketballTactics #PracticeDesign #HighSchoolBasketball #AthleticDirector #CoachingPhilosophy Show NotesThe Staff Architecture MatrixStaff Archetype PDFCore Accountability PDFPrimary Environment PDFExpected Strategic OutputYouTube Optimization StrategyOptimized Title IdeasSEO & AI Optimization KeywordsAI-Optimized Video Description SnippetSuggested Video Tags Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How do you cut through the noise when text is cheap, AI is everywhere, and human attention spans are shorter than ever? In this episode, host Dave Bookbinder sits down with Aurora Winter - former Hollywood TV executive, serial seven-figure entrepreneur, and founder of Same Page Publishing - to crack the code on persuasive communication. Aurora bridges the gap between Hollywood storytelling and Silicon Valley business metrics, breaking down the exact neuroscience required to trigger action, command authority, and scale your business revenue. Whether you are an entrepreneur, executive, or aspiring author, this conversation delivers the exact frameworks you need to turn your expertise into a million-dollar messaging engine. Key Takeaways From This Episode: The 27X Value Effect: How shifting from a product pitch to a strategic narrative can increase your perceived value and revenue by up to 2,700%. The 3-Step Brain Model: How to bypass the protective "reptilian brain," engage the social midbrain, and logically win over the cerebral cortex. The $3 Million Formula: The story behind the exact seven-word message Aurora used to generate $3M in just one week—and how to audit your own messaging for maximum leverage. The "Hell-to-Heaven" Transformation: How to map your customer's journey using classic Hollywood story arcs to make your offer irresistible. The Spoken Author™ Method: How busy leaders can leverage pre-launch marketing strategies to create and launch bestselling books without spending years writing them. The Human Moat vs. AI: How to use generative AI to scale your operations without hollowing out your brand. Discover why your unique stories, style, smile, and Socratic questioning are your ultimate competitive advantages. Connect with Aurora: SamePagePublishing.com Get the Book: Grab your copy of Turn Words Into Wealth at TurnWordsIntoWealth.com About Our Guest: Aurora Winter is a media strategist, bestselling author, award-winning screenwriter-producer, and the founder of Same Page Publishing. She is the creator of three proprietary frameworks: the Strategic Showrunner™, the Movie Trailer Mindset™, and the Spoken Author™ method, which help CEOs, founders, and established experts turn their expertise into premium authority and scalable revenue. Her book Turn Words Into Wealth: 7 Ways to Make 7 Figures as a Thought Leader (Same Page Publishing, 2026) lays out a complete system for building a personal brand, launching a book, and generating seven-figure income as a thought leader in the age of AI. A former television executive, Aurora has been featured on ABC-TV, CBS-TV, KTLA-TV, and CBC-TV, and in Success, Elle, and The Huffington Post. She hosts the YouTube channel Strategic Basics and has appeared on hundreds of podcasts as a guest expert on messaging, publishing, and personal branding. Aurora Winter is also the author of the Magic, Mystery, and the Multiverse fantasy series, an enchanting adventure for readers of all ages, already coming to life through the animated Ana Zest Series on YouTube. Connect with Aurora: https://www.aurorawinter.com Get your free copy of Turn Words Into Wealth eBook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/mq5wmvplbz About the Host: Dave Bookbinder is known as a trusted provider for independent business valuations, corporate asset appraisals, and exit planning advisory and he is the person that business owners and their advisors reach out to when they need to know what their most important assets are worth. Known as a collaborative adviser, Dave has served thousands of client companies of all sizes and industries.  Dave is the author of two #1 best-selling books about the impact of human capital (PEOPLE!) on the valuation of a business enterprise called The NEW ROI: Return On Individuals & The NEW ROI: Going Behind The Numbers.  He's on a mission to change the conversation about how the accounting world recognizes the value of people's contributions to a business enterprise, and to quantify what every CEO on the planet claims: “Our people are this company's most valuable asset.” Dave's book, A Valuation Toolbox for Business Owners and Their Advisors: Things Every Business Owner Should Know, was recognized as a top new release in Business and Valuation and is designed to provide practical insights and tools to help understand what really drives business value, how to prepare for an exit, and just make better decisions. He's also the host of the highly rated Behind The Numbers With Dave Bookbinder business podcast which is enjoyed in more than 100 countries.

Archit Gupta went from never having written a line of code to building AI tools that grade hundreds of student cases and a Socratic AI tutor for a graduate class — in one year.  Archit is graduated from Foster's MSBA (Master of Science in Business Analytics) in June, and served on the committee that planned Foster's first AI Spark Day. Before Foster, he worked in M&A at KPMG, founded a consumer fintech startup focused on retail investors, and held product roles at a Singapore-based fintech. He entered the program with no software background and built AI-assisted grading and tutoring tools at UW with Professor Leonard Boussioux. He also founded a student club to pass institutional knowledge between Foster's one-year specialty master's cohorts.  How to get past the AI "cold start" when you've never touched a command prompt How to use AI for grading at scale while staying FERPA-compliant (anonymization + open-source models + human in the loop) Why a Socratic AI tutor can protect learning where an unrestricted LLM undermines it How to design an A/B test that measures retention, not just scores Why "everything that can be automated need not be automated" — and how to tell the difference What rapid iteration looks like when you don't need an engineering team   Resources mentioned: n8n; Claude Code; open-source / frontier LLMs; FERPA; Ryan Holiday's newsletter; Foster's AI Spark Day.

Jenny Lei is the founder of Freja, the cult-favorite vegan handbag brand that you've probably seen on Hailey Bieber, Sarah Jessica Parker, and all over your feed.But here's what you might not know. Jenny started Freja with no fashion background, no design experience, and no investors. She funded it herself with money she made from a dropshipping business she built after Googling "how to make money fast online" because she had to pay for her life living in NYC. She launched a work bag brand out of her New Jersey apartment in February 2020, weeks before the entire world stopped going to the office. She signed up two thousand people to an email list, sent her launch email, and didn't get a single sale. And she was doing all of it on a visa, with a clock ticking on whether she'd even get to stay in the country. Today, Freja is a multi-million dollar brand and one of the most talked-about names in the space.In this episode, Jenny gets really honest about the slow years nobody talks about, why she believes growing too fast can actually be a curse, and the moment she broke down crying in an airport because she'd been holding the entire business together by herself, with no systems underneath her. We talk about the difference between selling products and creating a brand, how intuition is built through failure, and learning to separate who you are from the company you create. She also opens up about burnout, the systems and team she built behind Freja, and what it was like to step into the spotlight after years of hiding. If you're in one of those quiet, slow seasons right now — doing everything right, waiting for it to pay off — this is the conversation you need to hear.In this episode, we'll talk to Jenny about:* Why growth should be measured by learning, not just revenue. [02:37]* The downside of growing too fast without understanding why it worked. [03:58]* Growing up with curiosity and the freedom to explore new interests. [04:05]* Navigating identity after moving between China and the United States. [06:00]* How a vegan Instagram account became an early entrepreneurial venture. [06:58]* Separating personal identity from the business you build. [09:08]* Why the business should work for you—not the other way around. [10:00]* From Cornell graduate to Googling how to make money online. [13:55]* Learning the fundamentals of online selling through dropshipping. [15:22]* The difference between selling products and building a brand. [17:05]* Creating Freja after failing to find the perfect work bag. [19:25]* Using naive optimism to design a product without a fashion background. [20:25]* Launching just before the pandemic and facing an immediate setback. [24:25]* Why volume, consistency, and paid ads fueled early growth. [26:02]* The gradual rise of Freja and the success of the Chrystie collection. [27:58]* Reaching a turning point and finally viewing the company as a real business. [29:07]* Burnout, team growth, and learning how to build systems at scale. [31:17]* The marketing channels that mattered most from startup to scale. [35:23]* Stepping into the founder spotlight and sharing the story behind the brand. [37:48]* How journaling became the most impactful business tool. [42:33]* Using ChatGPT and the Socratic method for better decision-making. [44:12]* Moving to London, evolving as a designer, and reimagining the future of Freja. [45:51]This episode is brought to you by Beeya:* If you or anyone you know have been struggling with hormonal imbalances and bad periods, go to https://beeyawellness.com/free to download the free guide to tackling hormonal imbalances* Plus, get $10 off your order by using promo code BEHINDHEREMPIRE10Follow Yasmin:* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yasminknouri/* Website: https://www.behindherempire.com/Follow Jenny:* Website: https://frejanyc.com/* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frejanyc/* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennyyleiii/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amos Bronson Alcott and the Transcendentalist Identity. Guest: Bruce Nichols. Bruce Nichols introduces Amos Bronson Alcott, a self-educated thinker who revolutionized education through conversational, Socratic methods. Though his schools often failed financially, Alcott was supported by Emerson and became a key figure in the Transcendentalist movement. Transcendentalism emphasized finding higher spiritual truths or the "oversoul" within the universe. 10

SCHEDULE THE JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW, 6-18-26.1922Colombia's Presidential Election and Abel de la Espriella. Guest: Mary Anastasia O'Grady. Mary Anastasia O'Grady discusses the upcoming Colombian election and frontrunner Abel de la Espriella. As a lawyer with multiple passports, de la Espriella positions himself as a disruptor similar to Donald Trump or Javier Milei. He advocates for building mega-prisons to confront gangs and reviving the hydrocarbon industry. 1Poverty and Economic Stagnation in Developing Nations. Guest: Veronique de Rugy. Veronique de Rugy examines why countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo remain in extreme poverty. She identifies institutional failures, such as a lack of property rights and predatory governments, as the primary causes of stagnation. Growth, she argues, is the only sufficient element to lift people out of poverty. 2Advancements in Small Satellite Propulsion. Guests: Paulo Lozano and Amelia "Mia" Bruno. Paulo Lozano and Mia Bruno introduce electro-spray thrusters utilizing green ionic liquid monopropellant for small satellites. This technology allows a single tank to fuel both efficient electric and high-thrust chemical maneuvers. Unlike toxic hydrazine, this fuel is safe and allows satellites greater mobility for Earth observation. 3Future Missions for Miniaturized Space Technology. Guests: Paulo Lozano and Amelia "Mia" Bruno. With an unlimited budget, Paulo Lozano envisions a fleet of autonomous small satellites exploring near-Earth asteroids for scientific value. Mia Bruno aims to use improved propulsion to reach the moons of Jupiter and Saturn much faster than current missions allow. They also discuss performing complex orbital plane changes using chemical maneuvers. 4The Normalization of Crisis in Bolivia. Guest: Professor Evan Ellis. Professor Evan Ellis reports on the 49-day blockade in Bolivia that is strangling the economy under President Rodrigo Paz. Driven by Evo Morales and indigenous groups, the protests have caused significant GDP shrinkage and business closures. Despite being resource-rich, the country faces a fiscal crisis as natural gas reserves dwindle. 5Security Challenges in Colombia and Political Transitions in Peru. Guest: Professor Evan Ellis. Evan Ellis discusses the ELN's influence in Colombia, noting that armed group activity has doubled since the 2016 peace agreement. He suggests that restoring security and government presence is vital for the middle class. In Peru, Keiko Fujimori holds a thin lead in a contested election supported by the diaspora. 6The Criminal Landscape in Venezuela and Regional Politics. Guest: Professor Evan Ellis. Ellis details the rise and fall of the Tren de Aragua gang, which originated in Venezuelan prisons and spread across the Americas. A recent drone strike suggests potential cooperation between the U.S. and the Venezuelan regime to normalize the mining sector. Meanwhile, Brazil's Lula da Silva faces increasing regional isolation. 7Bukele's Security Transformation of El Salvador. Guest: Professor Evan Ellis. Professor Evan Ellis describes how President Nayib Bukele has dramatically improved security in El Salvador by imprisoning over 90,000 suspected gang members. This "Singapore-like" approach has revitalized commerce and public administration despite concerns over democratic erosion. The capital, San Salvador, now features new construction and increased safety. 8Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Roots of Transcendentalism. Guest: Bruce Nichols. Bruce Nichols discusses Ralph Waldo Emerson's return to Concord, Massachusetts, where he transitioned from a Unitarian minister to a public intellectual. Emerson became a "loadstone" for radicals like Henry David Thoreau, who initially improved his family's pencil business before focusing on nature and philosophy. Emerson's dissent sparked a broader intellectual movement. 9Amos Bronson Alcott and the Transcendentalist Identity. Guest: Bruce Nichols. Bruce Nichols introduces Amos Bronson Alcott, a self-educated thinker who revolutionized education through conversational, Socratic methods. Though his schools often failed financially, Alcott was supported by Emerson and became a key figure in the Transcendentalist movement. Transcendentalism emphasized finding higher spiritual truths or the "oversoul" within the universe. 10Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Literary Circle of Concord. Guest: Bruce Nichols. Bruce Nichols explores Nathaniel Hawthorne's move to Concord and his complex relationship with Transcendentalists like Emerson. Unlike the optimistic Emerson, Hawthorne's fiction focused on human tragedy and the presence of evil. He struggled financially, often competing with popular "scribbling women" for book sales while publishing short stories to make ends meet. 11The Extraordinary Life and Tragic Death of Margaret Fuller. Guest: Bruce Nichols. Bruce Nichols chronicles the life of Margaret Fuller, a pioneering feminist and journalist who served as the first female war correspondent. Fuller's intellectual prowess "wowed" Emerson, though her life ended tragically in a shipwreck off Fire Island. Some scholars believe Hawthorne modeled his character Hester Prynne after her. 12Japan's Energy Crisis and Economic Resilience. Guest: Lance Gatling. Lance Gatling discusses how the Strait of Hormuz crisis has driven Japanese crude oil import prices to record highs. To maintain stability, the government has tapped strategic reserves and subsidized fuel prices while increasing imports from the U.S. Despite the weak yen, Japanese exporters are booming, and the stock market has reached all-time highs. 13Japan's Future in Energy and Artificial Intelligence. Guest: Lance Gatling. Japan is working toward a goal of 40–50% renewable energy and 20% nuclear power by the mid-2030s. Lance Gatling notes that Japan remains a critical link in the semiconductor chain essential for the global AI boom. While circumspect about AI's authority, Japanese companies dominate the hardware manufacturing processes necessary for semiconductor production. 14The Moral Foundations of the American Revolution. Guest: David C. Rose. David C. Rose explains that the American Revolution was driven by men who considered themselves "independents" rather than rebels. Drawing on Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, he argues that humans crave approval and follow cultural norms. Over time, these norms shifted toward "moral don'ts" or guardrails, fostering a freethinking mindset. 15Guardrails and the Psychology of Independence. Guest: David C. Rose. David Rose argues that the Revolution occurred because the British King violated the "guardrails" of his own power, losing the respect of his subjects. While tax issues were prominent in Boston, a more generalized feeling of disenfranchisement fueled the movement. The Founders ultimately chose independence when the reciprocity of decency and legitimacy failed. 16

What happens when a society possesses extraordinary technological power but lacks a shared sense of what that power is for? John Vervaeke, Jordan Hall, Guy Sengstock, and Christopher Mastropietro reunite for a sustained inquiry into normativity: the structures by which human beings perceive direction, value, responsibility, and the difference between better and worse action. The question becomes urgent in the context of artificial intelligence, where increasingly consequential decisions are being made inside a culture that struggles to articulate a coherent basis for judgment. The conversation begins with Guy's encounters with the AI community and the fear that humanity may soon make decisions it cannot reverse. From there, the group investigates modernity's technological understanding of being, the reduction of creation to artifacts, and the modern self's attachment to sole authorship. John and Jordan propose that meaning is participatory: intelligibility is not manufactured by isolated selves but emerges through shared authorship with other people, traditions, practices, and reality itself. The dialogue then turns toward virtue. If the problem is not simply ignorance but malformed attention and desire, knowing what should be done is insufficient. The deeper difficulty is how people become capable of wanting, perceiving, and participating in what is good. Socratic aporia, vulnerability, kenosis, embodied practice, pilgrimage, and dialogue are explored as ways of undergoing reorientation rather than merely acquiring information. In the final movement, the speakers discuss bad-faith dialogue, leisure, lingering, tourism, linguistic lostness, and doomscrolling. These apparently different subjects converge on one insight: when people remain sealed inside environments engineered around their existing capacities and preferences, they lose access to the forms of friction, surprise, and participation that can transform them. Key Insights Normativity is the directional structure through which actions appear better, worse, appropriate, or necessary. The AI crisis exposes a deeper cultural inability to answer what technology should serve. Modernity often confuses participation in creation with ownership of the resulting artifact. Meaning and intelligibility require shared authorship rather than sovereign individual control. Virtue cannot be transmitted as information alone; it requires transformed attention and participation. Embodied practices can reorganize abstractions because higher cognition remains rooted in sensorimotor life. Pilgrimage, leisure, and dialogos help people cross boundaries between worlds rather than consuming only familiar inputs. Doomscrolling is an efficient example of technology feeding hypertrophied capacities while narrowing participation in reality. Timestamps 00:00 - The group reunites 01:10 - Normativity as the central concern 02:40 - Guy's San Francisco radio work 05:20 - Inside an AI thought-leader conference 08:30 - The danger of irreversible technological decisions 13:50 - Intrinsic normativity and attention 16:00 - Liminal navigation and the limits of simulation 20:30 - Art, creation, and artifacts 23:00 - Heidegger's technological understanding of being 25:40 - Participation and shared authorship 28:30 - Modernity's reinforcing attractor 31:00 - Socratic aporia 33:20 - Finding the right orientation 37:50 - Exposure, vulnerability, and displacement 40:10 - Sole authorship and identity 42:20 - Kenosis and the emptying of privilege 44:20 - Reconstitution and commitment to truth 49:10 - Virtue and its opposites 51:40 - AI and humanity's final decision 54:10 - Knowing what to do versus becoming able to do it 56:10 - Can virtue be taught? 58:20 - Remediating participation in ordinary life 01:00:20 - Pilgrimage and unfamiliar worlds 01:02:30 - Embodied cognition and reorientation 01:04:30 - Rilke and self-emptying 01:09:20 - Sacred directionality 01:11:20 - Crossing the threshold into action 01:13:50 - Bad faith and dialogical boundaries 01:18:40 - Leisure and time 01:21:20 - Lingering beneath atomized time 01:23:30 - Tourist and pilgrim 01:25:50 - Modernization and tourism 01:30:10 - Being linguistically lost 01:33:00 - Situation and participation 01:35:10 - Doomscrolling as narrowed reality 01:37:30 - Returning from pilgrimage Resources Plato and Socratic aporia Charles Taylor Martin Heidegger Rainer Maria Rilke Christian concepts of kenosis, theosis, and synergy Embodied cognitive science Pilgrimage Dialogos Follow Lectern for more conversations about wisdom, meaning, philosophy, technology, spirituality, and cultural renewal.

What happens after we realize that education is about far more than information transfer? In this episode of BaseCamp Live, Davies Owens sits down with David Goodwin, president of the Association of Classical Christian Schools and co-author of the New York Times bestselling book Battle for the American Mind. David's newest book, Forging the American Mind, serves as a practical guide for parents and educators who want to understand not only why classical Christian education matters, but how it actually works. Tune in to hear: Why Battle for the American Mind resonated with so many parents and educators What paideia is and why it shapes every child's understanding of truth, identity, and purpose Why the most important question in education is not "What do you know?" but "How do you know?" How Dorothy Sayers and C.S. Lewis continue to influence the classical Christian education movement Practical examples of classical education in action, from great books and handwriting to Socratic discussion and dialectical learning How adults who feel they "missed out" on a classical education can begin pursuing one today Along the way, David offers a compelling vision for recovering the lost tools of learning and cultivating wisdom, virtue, and intellectual freedom in the next generation. Whether you're a parent, educator, school leader, or lifelong learner, this conversation will help you think more deeply about what education is for and how it shapes both individuals and culture. Special Thanks to our partners who make BaseCamp Live possible: Wisdom and EloquenceThe Herzog FoundationLife ArchitectsWisephone by TechlessZipCastWilson Hill Academy Stay tuned for more enlightening discussions on classical Christian education, and join us next time on BaseCamp Live! Remember to subscribe, leave us a review, and reach out to us at info@basecamplive.comDon't forget to visit basecamplive.com for more info and past episodes.

What did "materialism" actually mean to the ancients, and how does it differ from our modern scientific understanding? In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Max Wade (Ph.D., Boston College) to bridge the gap between ancient Greek ontology and modern philosophical debates.We dive deep into the "weirdness" of ancient thought, exploring why the Stoics believed in physical gods and why the Epicureans were the only true ancient materialists. Dr. Wade challenges the secularized modern reading of Socrates and Plato, revealing how their theories of divine design were actually a reactionary response to pre-Socratic natural philosophy.In this episode, we discuss:The Miriology of Being: Why the relationship between parts and wholes is the key to unlocking ancient ontology.Active vs. Passive Matter: The crucial distinction that separates Platonists, Aristotelians, and Stoics from the Epicureans.The "Swerve": Why materialism and determinism were considered incompatible in the ancient world.Plato's Atlantis & Egyptian Wisdom: Why reading Plato literally misses his point about the soul's forgetfulness and eternal truth.Marxism & Hegel: How modern materialism is often a misreading of ancient concepts through a German Idealist lens.About Our Guest: Dr. Max Wade is a scholar of ancient philosophy whose dissertation focused on Plotinus' Ontology of Artifacts. Follow his work at maxway.substack.com.Send us Fan Mail Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to BitterlakeSupport the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeCurrent Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon, Buddy Roark, Daniel Petrovic,Julian, Drea, Free Beer 

https://teachhoops.com/ Welcome to the summary of this week's TeachHoops.com Member Coaching Call. One of the absolute best parts of managing this coaching community is stepping into the "Truth Room" with hungry, dedicated leaders from every level of the game. Whether you are a first-time youth coach trying to survive your first parent meeting or a 20-year veteran retooling your system after a tough season, these calls are where we strip away the fluff and build actionable blueprints. On this week's call, the whiteboard was packed. We spent a significant amount of time diving into the "muck and grind" of program architecture. We addressed the universal friction points that can derail a culture: moving from coach-led compliance to a self-policing locker room, maximizing your practice Rep Density, and utilizing exact spatial constraints to skyrocket your offensive efficiency. The Blueprint: It all comes down to your Standard of Tolerance from Day One. You cannot coach a player hard until you have made massive deposits into their personal trust account. Build that Relational Capital through "drive-by" affirmations during drills—praise their body language, their vocal communication, or their Next Play Speed after a turnover. The Fix: Separate skill execution from effort non-negotiables. If a young player misses a shot, you coach them up. If they hang their head, look at the floor, or loaf on defensive transition, you pull them instantly. When the standard is unyielding, the confidence follows because they know exactly where they stand. The Blueprint: Stop looking at your raw field goal percentage and start tracking your Paint Touch Ratio. The analytical math doesn't lie: if the basketball doesn't touch the key via a deep post feed or a downhill drive, your offensive shell is playing into the defense's hands. The Math: We use the Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$) formula to prove this to our players in the film room: When you show your team that their $eFG%$ sits at an elite $58%$ when the ball touches the paint, but plummets into the low $30text{s}$ when they settle for early-clock perimeter heaves in the Mid-Range Desert, they stop over-dribbling and start hunting the paint. The Blueprint: You have to eliminate the "Joystick Coaching" mentality. If you are screaming directives every three seconds, you are training robots, not basketball players. The Constraint: Transition your practice shell to a high Activity Density layout. Drills must feature a Multi-Ball architecture where at least $70%$ of your roster is moving simultaneously. Use small-sided games ($SSGs$) with explicit limitations (e.g., maximum 2 dribbles, must complete 3 passes before a shot) to let the game do the teaching. Use a precise Socratic approach—ask questions to build their Decision IQ instead of shouting the answers. Coach's Note: "The magic of coaching isn't found in a secret baseline out-of-bounds play you sketch on a clipboard during a timeout. It's found in the unyielding standard of excellence you live every single day. If you want a player-led team that cuts down nets in March, you have to empower them to carry the bricks in July. Keep grinding, hold the line, and let's keep building leaders." Title Ideas: TeachHoops Coaching Call: Retooling Your Program Identity How to Maximize Practice Rep Density and Build Decision IQ The Analytics of Winning Basketball: Controlling Your Team's $eFG%$ Primary Keywords: TeachHoops coaching call, basketball coaching masterclass, high school basketball leadership, Coach Collins, building team culture, basketball practice design. Secondary Keywords: Effective Field Goal Percentage analytics, small-sided game constraints, standard of tolerance, relational capital in sports, player-led basketball teams, next play speed. Description Snippet: "Want a peek behind the curtain of an elite basketball coaching community? In this video, we summarize the high-impact takeaways from our latest TeachHoops.com member coaching call. Discover how to transition your gym from coach-led lectures to a high-density, player-led environment. Learn the precise math behind boosting your $eFG%$, how to structure small-sided games to build real decision IQ, and how to enforce an unyielding standard of tolerance. Stop managing chaos and start building a powerhouse." Suggested Tags: #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #CoachingCall #TeamCulture #PracticeDesign #BasketballAnalytics #HighSchoolBasketball Are you looking to join our next live call to break down a specific structural breakdown on your current roster, or are you looking for a tailored individual blueprint to help map out your entire upcoming off-season masterclass schedule? Show NotesQ&A Session: Core Takeaways From the FloorQ1: "Coach, I have a young roster this year. How do I establish a standard of accountability without completely fracturing their confidence early?"Q2: "We are struggling to create high-quality shots against aggressive, athletic half-court defenses. What metric should I be tracking?"$$eFG% = frac{text{FGM} + (0.5 times text{3PM})}{text{FGA}}$$Q3: "My practices feel slow, and I feel like I'm lecturing too much. How do I fix the flow?"The Program Audit: Where Does Your Team Stand?Operational ElementThe Level 2 Compliant ProgramThe Level 4 Championship StandardPractice ArchitectureStatic lines; players standing and watchingHigh Rep Density; multi-ball chaos tracksCommunication FlowCoach's voice is the only signal in the gymPlayers echoing calls through heavy exhaustLocker Room VibeStandards disappear when the staff leavesLeadership Council policing the cultureLate-Game FocusEmotional hang-time; panic sets inExecution-driven; elite Next Play SpeedYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In today's episode of Truth Wanted, Kelley Laughlin and guest Steve Ghikadis explore the landscape of secular humanism and the importance of compassionate community! From the trials of humanitarian volunteering and the necessity of public libraries to the intricacies of evolutionary evidence, the hosts dive into how logic and empathy provide a superior foundation for truth. Can secular curiosity survive the pressure of religious education?Kind Bite in Finland is a parent raising a child fearing hell. Kelley and Steve suggest religious literacy and Socratic questioning to encourage critical thinking. Can normalized variety and an open mind prevent a backfire effect? Will the child return to a secular perspective?Thank you for joining us today! We will see you next time!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/truth-wanted--3195473/support.

Dave took another trip to the emergency room this week — though this one wasn't for him. His daughter Bernadette and one of his boys built a foam block bridge, she went off the side of it, landed on the wall, and broke her clavicle. Clean break. When Adam got the x-ray, he zoomed in, screenshotted just the broken collarbone, and sent it to Lady Haylee with no context — let her think Adam had been out grinding, building fences, shouldering it like a tough guy. Bernadette, for the record, is doing great. Three weeks and she's back to normal. As Dave put it, if you're going to break your clavicle, do it young. Don't do it at Jim's age.A lot of life packed into this one before the topic. Adam and his boys, Luke and Jude, are going to read the Aeneid together this summer — Luke already read it at Holy Family Classical School, so he'll lead the way. Adam helped Dave harvest wheat (the invoice is coming), and the two of them talked homesteading honestly: you don't get into it to save time or money. It's a lifestyle, and the pork chop costs $400 if you're foolish enough to count your own labor. Adam also turned 40 — by the time this airs, the birthday's passed — and he spent his Substack this week reflecting on the four ten-year cycles he's got left, if he's lucky. The big lesson from 30 to 40: he had it backwards. He was making his life serve the business instead of the business serve his life. Build the habits of prayer, reading, and friendship young, because life only gets busier, and it's far easier to keep a habit than to add one.Two prayer requests worth holding. Lady Pamela's due date is this week — baby Niles number seven, two middle names this time, names not yet shared. And baby Mary is still in the NICU. They're going to try again this week to take her off the breathing tube. She's weaning off sedation — which means withdrawals, which is hard — but she's gaining weight and getting stronger. Get past the tube and the next hill is open heart surgery. Adam's grateful for every prayer, and for the guys who sent DoorDash cards. Keep praying for Mary. And a shout-out to Dan O'Brien, David's father-in-law, walking the Camino as this drops — Dan, hope the feet are holding up.This week's pour is a funny one: WhistlePig's 250th Anniversary of America 10-Year "Piggy Bank" Limited Edition Straight Rye, 55% ABV. The box is a literal piggy bank and the bottle is a chrome-plated ceramic pig. Spicier and more herbal than your Weller or Buffalo Trace — but smooth for the proof, with caramel and warm undertones. Picked up at Broken Arrow Wine and Spirits, owned by a good Catholic family from St. Benedict. Jim's yummy scale (bourbon scale): 5.87 out of 6.Then the main course: the Finding of Jesus in the Temple. Luke 2, the last joyful mystery, the only Gospel that records it — and the very first time Jesus is recorded speaking. Adam walks through it with the Catena Aurea, Aquinas's compilation of the Church Fathers edited by St. John Henry Newman. The caravan to Jerusalem split women and children up front, men in the back, and a twelve-year-old could be in either — so Mary thought He was with Joseph, Joseph thought He was with Mary. Theophylact says it wasn't negligence. A logistical blind spot. Any father who's left a kid at church after coffee and donuts gets it.The three days they searched? St. Ambrose says that's no accident — a rehearsal for the three days of the Passion, lost and then found again. The age of twelve is no accident either: right before the bar mitzvah, the Lord fulfilling the law perfectly, right on time, and twelve standing for the tribes and the apostles. Watch Mary, too. She brings her grief straight to her Son without accusation — "why have you done this to us?" — modeling how a soul carries pain to Christ: honestly, blaming no one, trusting before she fully understands. Watch Joseph, who says nothing, and pursues his mission relentlessly without drama. That's the masculine answer to adversity: very well, and you handle it. Protect, provide, establish.Was Jesus being disobedient? The Fathers say no — His higher obedience to His Father's business ran underneath the surface, and verse 51 shows Him going home and being subject to them. God first, then family, and that order doesn't fracture the home. It grounds it. And where did they find Him? In the temple. His Father's house. Which is the whole point: you can find Jesus in nature, in the car, anywhere — but you are guaranteed to find Him in the church, body, blood, soul, and divinity, in the tabernacle of every Catholic church in the world. If you want to become holy, go be with Him. Get an adoration hour. Holiness doesn't happen the way Adam's buddy Juan figured he'd "just kind of one day have a six pack." You have to do something about it. Raise your glass.TOPICS COVEREDDave's daughter Bernadette breaking her clavicle falling off a foam block bridge the kids builtAdam screenshotting the x-ray and sending just the broken collarbone to Lady Haylee with no contextAdam reading the Aeneid with his sons Luke and Jude this summer — and why he's doing it men's-group styleHarvesting wheat, and the honest economics of homesteading ("the $400 pork chop")Why you never homestead to save time or money — it's a lifestyle, not a shortcutAdam turning 40 and his Substack reflection on the four ten-year cycles he has leftThe biggest lesson from 30 to 40 — making the business serve your life instead of your life serving the businessWhy habits of prayer, reading, and friendship are easier to keep than to add laterLeveraging competent friends instead of trying to do everything yourselfLady Pamela due this week with baby Niles number seven — and the two-middle-names debateBaby Mary update — another attempt to come off the breathing tube, weaning off sedation, gaining weightWhy open heart surgery is the next hill after the breathing tubeDan O'Brien walking the Camino — a shout-out for sore feetBourbon of the week: WhistlePig 250th Anniversary 10-Year "Piggy Bank" Limited Edition Straight Rye, 55% ABVThe ceramic pig bottle, the piggy-bank box, and why a limited shelf whiskey runs $250–$350Jim's yummy scale hitting 5.87 out of 6 on the bourbon scaleThe Finding of Jesus in the Temple — Luke 2, the last joyful mystery, and the only Gospel that records itThe first recorded words of Our LordReading the story through the Catena Aurea — Aquinas's compilation of the Fathers, edited by St. John Henry NewmanHow the Passover caravan split women and children up front and men in the back — and how Jesus fell into the gapTheophylact on why it was a logistical blind spot, not negligence or bad parentingSt. Ambrose on the three-day search foreshadowing the three days of the Passion and ResurrectionWhy the age of twelve matters — the year before the bar mitzvah, and the symbolism of the twelve tribes and apostlesJesus fulfilling the law perfectly and right on time, not jumping aheadMary bringing her grief to Christ without accusation — the model for carrying pain to the Lord"About my father's business" vs. "in my father's house" — the translation and what it meansSt. Bede on faith preceding comprehension — assenting before fully understandingSt. Joseph as the model father — pursuing his mission relentlessly, without drama or self-pityMary honoring Joseph's fatherhood — "your father and I" — and why spouses don't belittle each otherHow complaining about your spouse to others actually breaks your wedding vowsWas Jesus disobedient? The Fathers say no — the higher obedience running underneathThe devil's-advocate case that He chose to be left behind, and His right as the Logos to do soJesus using the Socratic method in the temple — asking questions and "making them wonder upon him"The hierarchy of Christ's presence — and why you're guaranteed to find Him in the tabernacleA convert's story and the simple counsel: you just need to be in front of Jesus"Nothing if not you" — non nisi te, Domine — St. Thomas Aquinas's answer to the LordThe spiritual six pack — why holiness never just "happens on its own"Getting an adoration hour as a statement about the kind of man you want to beREFERENCED IN THIS EPISODEBooks & Writings:Catena Aurea by St. Thomas Aquinas, edited by St. John Henry Newman (the Fathers' commentary on the Gospels)The Gospel of Luke, chapter 2 (the Finding in the Temple, vv. 41–52)The Aeneid by Virgil (Adam's summer read with his sons)The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer (mentioned alongside Luke's classical reading)Adam's Substack, The Grounded Builder — this week's reflection on his ten-year cyclesSaints & Church Fathers:St. Thomas Aquinas (the Catena Aurea; non nisi te, Domine)St. John Henry Newman (editor of the Catena Aurea)Theophylact (the caravan blind spot, not negligence)St. Ambrose (the three days foreshadowing the Passion; Mary's grief without rebuke; "right on time")St. Bede the Venerable (faith preceding comprehension; the hierarchy of loves)St. Teresa of Avila ("no wonder you have so few friends, with how you treat them")St. Humbert of Romans (the importance of place and location in prayer)The Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph (the model of unified, honoring...

The Gamilaroi journalist on the tiny coalmining town that made her and still sustains her, how eating worms led to a job on breakfast TV, and why she's aiming to be a good ancestor in the deep future.Brooke grew up in Muswellbrook, a coal mining town in NSW.She was a smart, high-achieving kid, doing every extra-curricular activity she could fit in.Despite this, she dropped out of high school and didn't finish her education.After a couple of lost years, a kind boyfriend introduced Brooke to the idea of journalism, and suddenly, she was raring to go, earning jobs in the press gallery in Canberra for NITV, and on triple j, reading the news.Brooke was at the height of her career, doing entertainment news on the Today show on Nine, when she made a decision that seemed to come out of left field.In 2024 Brooke suddenly quit her high-profile job to take up an offer to study at Oxford University.Oxford presented the opportunity to complete the unfinished business of her education after being robbed of her academic potential in high school. In continuing to study, Brooke is focused on a life to be a not only a good auntie and sister but also a good ancestor for future generations.Further informationBrooke's book of essays, All of It: Notes on public life, private joy and everything in between was published by Joan, an imprint of Allen & Unwin.This episode was produced by Alice Moldovan. The Executive Producer is Eliza Kirsch.This episode touches on the Voice to Parliament referendum, Aboriginal, language, climate change, Indigenous knowledge systems, aunty, ancestors, single mum, DV, domestic violence, work experience, political reporter, Tony Abbott, the news cycle, Canberra, the press gallery, parliament house, UTS, family, nieces, nephews, deep time, deep future, raise the age, age of criminal responsibility, children in prison, children in detention, Socratic method, philosophical argument, economics and politics.To binge even more great episodes of the Conversations podcast with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski go the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. There you'll find hundreds of the best thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, and celebrities.

In this short podcast from the Bry-X stage of the 7th Annual HVAC/R Training Symposium, Ty Branaman and Leilani Orr talk about how to teach kids the trades. They share lessons they've learned from the GRIT Foundation and over their careers as trades and home educators. Their approaches have evolved over the years, and GRIT has also evolved quite a bit from its beginnings. Leilani and Ty have found that the Socratic method is great for getting students to think critically; instead of spoon-feeding answers, teachers ask the students "why" and "how" questions. In GRIT Camps, mentors are there to keep students safe and guide them when needed, but mentors ultimately let students make mistakes and figure things out on their own. Students often make leaky joints when they braze for the first time, but it's their first time holding torches and most of the tools used at GRIT Camp. Making mistakes is crucial to the learning process. The mistakes we (and the students) make with our own hands also stick with us more than being told how to do a task the right way. Then, when students struggle, we can ask if they want to know a shortcut; they give their mentors permission to show them the right way. This method builds curiosity, and it allows students to get excited about a career in the trades or realize that the trades aren't for them but still walk away with hands-on skills and a newfound respect for the trades. Many tradespeople take the trade skills they learned as children for granted, as many children nowadays don't develop the same hands-on skills. The GRIT Foundation has a course that teaches mentors to teach students those hands-on skills that already seem like second nature to them. Even so, the course is just a guide, not something that needs to be followed to the letter. Many of the concepts taught in the guide and that mentors use at GRIT Camp also apply to apprentices.   Learn more about the GRIT Foundation at https://www.thegritfoundation.com/. Have a question that you want us to answer on the podcast? Submit your questions at https://www.speakpipe.com/hvacschool. Purchase your tickets or learn more about the 7th Annual HVACR Training Symposium at https://hvacrschool.com/symposium. Subscribe to our podcast on your iPhone or Android. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Check out our handy calculators here or on the HVAC School Mobile App for Apple and Android.

Scott Donnell returns to Mind Pump to break down what it actually takes to create generational wealth — and it has almost nothing to do with money. After studying the most successful families in America, Scott shares the systems and frameworks families need to pass down values, identity, and mindset across generations. The guys get into speaking identity over your kids every night, why heritage matters more than inheritance, how to build a home economy that raises financially competent kids without entitlement, teaching kids to earn vs. giving allowances, the dangers of smartphones on young people's mental health, and a rapid-fire hot seat covering spanking, chores, allowances, consequences, and how to stop repeating yourself as a parent. Scott's Links Fig & Eagle: https://figandeagle.com  Scott's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imscottdonnell/ SPONSORS Huel (meal replacement) — https://huel.com/MINDPUMP Code: MINDPUMP — 15% off (new customers only). High protein, plant-based meal replacement. MAPS 15 BOGO — https://maps15bogo.com Buy 1 get 1 FREE — limited time (all 7 MAPS 15 programs same price) LINKS Mind Pump Store: https://mindpumpstore.com  Maps Fitness Products: https://mapsfitnessproducts.com  Instagram: @mindpumpmedia 0:00 - Intro & sponsors 1:31 - Generational wealth is way more than money — heritage vs. inheritance 5:31 - Speaking identity over your kids every night — why it works even on teenagers 12:22 - The core word method — how to name and codify your family values 19:53 - Why you have to give your kids an identity or the world will 25:21 - High performers crush it at work and go home to nothing — the biggest lost opportunity 33:11 - Building a home economy — roles, responsibilities & rewards 42:29 - Earning vs. allowance — why gigs beat chores every time 49:46 - Money trauma — how it gets passed down without you realizing it 54:27 - First generation success trap — giving your kids everything you never had 58:17 - Entitlement, victimhood & the airplane Wi-Fi analogy 59:24 - Mission trips & service mindset — the antidote to entitlement 1:04:46 - The quarter system — teaching 2-year-olds to save, spend & share 1:10:24 - Smartphones & mental health — the 100,000 kid study 1:18:06 - Hot seat: Spanking, allowances, chores, consequences & "because I said so" 1:35:52 - Treat your kids two years older than they are — the Socratic parent