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In this episode, Caleb Zakarin and Uri Bram dive into the world of effective charitable giving through the lens of GiveWell, an organization known for its rigorous evaluation of charities. Uri explains how GiveWell identifies and recommends high-impact charities, discussing the data-driven criteria and ethical considerations behind their assessments. The conversation highlights real-world examples of how smart giving can lead to substantial, measurable benefits. Whether you're a seasoned donor or new to philanthropy, this episode offers valuable insights into making your contributions truly count. Please consider donating with GiveWell. Work at GiveWell. A great job for academics considering an alternative path. Uri Bram is head of communications at GiveWell and CEO of The Browser. Caleb Zakarin is editor at the New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this episode, Caleb Zakarin and Uri Bram dive into the world of effective charitable giving through the lens of GiveWell, an organization known for its rigorous evaluation of charities. Uri explains how GiveWell identifies and recommends high-impact charities, discussing the data-driven criteria and ethical considerations behind their assessments. The conversation highlights real-world examples of how smart giving can lead to substantial, measurable benefits. Whether you're a seasoned donor or new to philanthropy, this episode offers valuable insights into making your contributions truly count. Please consider donating with GiveWell. Work at GiveWell. A great job for academics considering an alternative path. Uri Bram is head of communications at GiveWell and CEO of The Browser. Caleb Zakarin is editor at the New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs

In this episode, Caleb Zakarin and Uri Bram dive into the world of effective charitable giving through the lens of GiveWell, an organization known for its rigorous evaluation of charities. Uri explains how GiveWell identifies and recommends high-impact charities, discussing the data-driven criteria and ethical considerations behind their assessments. The conversation highlights real-world examples of how smart giving can lead to substantial, measurable benefits. Whether you're a seasoned donor or new to philanthropy, this episode offers valuable insights into making your contributions truly count. Please consider donating with GiveWell. Work at GiveWell. A great job for academics considering an alternative path. Uri Bram is head of communications at GiveWell and CEO of The Browser. Caleb Zakarin is editor at the New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

In this episode, Caleb Zakarin and Uri Bram dive into the world of effective charitable giving through the lens of GiveWell, an organization known for its rigorous evaluation of charities. Uri explains how GiveWell identifies and recommends high-impact charities, discussing the data-driven criteria and ethical considerations behind their assessments. The conversation highlights real-world examples of how smart giving can lead to substantial, measurable benefits. Whether you're a seasoned donor or new to philanthropy, this episode offers valuable insights into making your contributions truly count. Please consider donating with GiveWell. Work at GiveWell. A great job for academics considering an alternative path. Uri Bram is head of communications at GiveWell and CEO of The Browser. Caleb Zakarin is editor at the New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/finance

In this episode, Caleb Zakarin and Uri Bram dive into the world of effective charitable giving through the lens of GiveWell, an organization known for its rigorous evaluation of charities. Uri explains how GiveWell identifies and recommends high-impact charities, discussing the data-driven criteria and ethical considerations behind their assessments. The conversation highlights real-world examples of how smart giving can lead to substantial, measurable benefits. Whether you're a seasoned donor or new to philanthropy, this episode offers valuable insights into making your contributions truly count. Please consider donating with GiveWell. Work at GiveWell. A great job for academics considering an alternative path. Uri Bram is head of communications at GiveWell and CEO of The Browser. Caleb Zakarin is editor at the New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seb Park and Uri Bram on cooking revelations

Seb Park and Uri Bram reject the post-Covid world

Seb Park and Uri Bram judge Antarctic explorers

Is it possible to be both agreeable and skeptical in conversations? How can you give feedback and challenge people constructively without triggering their automatic self-defense mechanisms? More generally, how can you challenge people intellectually without riling them up emotionally? What skills are needed to be able to have detailed, productive conversations across a wide range of topics? How can you push through plateaus in the process of self-improvement? What are podcasts as a medium good for?Find more about Spencer through his website, spencergreenberg.com.[Read more]

Is it possible to be both agreeable and skeptical in conversations? How can you give feedback and challenge people constructively without triggering their automatic self-defense mechanisms? More generally, how can you challenge people intellectually without riling them up emotionally? What skills are needed to be able to have detailed, productive conversations across a wide range of topics? How can you push through plateaus in the process of self-improvement? What are podcasts as a medium good for?Find more about Spencer through his website, spencergreenberg.com.

“What the internet really needed was a great curator; someone who would read and select and present the finest pieces to you so that you could ignore the noise and get straight to the quality.” — Uri Bram, The BrowserMission accomplished. If you subscribe to The Browser, you can rest easy knowing that a steady stream of fascinating pieces you didn't know you wanted to read will flow effortlessly to you. A manageable five per day, in fact, plus extra bits in the postscript, like a video, podcast and quote. That's after the small team sifts through hundreds of stories every day. “The only real criteria we have at The Browser is: Will this piece be as interesting 10 years from now as it is today?” CEO Uri Bram reveals. But it's not just the stories that are interesting; so are the sources. The Browser curates from an extremely long tail of publishers and voices, almost all accessible for free, so there was much to unpack about the art of curation. Highlights, inspiration and key learnings:What problem The Browser is trying to solveWhat makes a story right for The BrowserWhat makes a curator right for The BrowserA typical day for the teamCollecting 10+ years of RSS feedsWhat grabs a curator's attention in the firehoseThe thinking behind their haiku-like subject linesWhat's hard about running The BrowserDiscovering The Browser and publishing to GhostGhost vs SubstackThe Browser as a source: copying or compliment?Incorporating YouTube into their content strategyWhich newsletters Uri loves himself

On small biz buzz this week we’ve got the founder of article curation site thebrowser.com and author of Thinking Statistically, Uri Bram. “Every day we read hundreds of articles and select our favourite five for you to enjoy, so you'll always have interesting things to ponder and fascinating ideas to discuss at dinner.” - The Browser We’ll be discussing realistic timelines for “overnight success”, how happy subscribers are the most cost effective marketing agency, and how to tell when you’re using busy work to hide from your real responsibilities. “I always took pride that I answered every email, and I went over subscriber rater... It never ends. you clear your inbox and then you wake up in the morning and there's another. I think we're all traumatized.  A lot of the things I was doing, I enjoyed them because I had gotten good at them. But actually, it didn't need to be me doing them. It didn't really take expertise even. They were the simpler tasks. And I was procrastinating from the harder tasks by the simpler tasks. And what I really needed to do is hand off the simpler tasks.” - Uri Bram

With remote working fast becoming the norm in the new post-COVD world, Gavin talks to Uri Bram, founder of The Browser, about the ways in which he has successfully managed teams around the world, and how we can make the most of our people from afar.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Ensuring our teams know their separate areas of work, and structuring our workflows around this, is essential to provide a fluid stream of productivity. We need to account for the lack of nuance in communication that can occur with remote working. There are no more water cooler moments. Collaboration, done regularly, reinstates that sense of community we get from working in a collective environment. We are all social animals, and this can never be replaced. Other ways of encouraging interaction and engagement, are to make sure that we have instant forms of group communication. BEST MOMENTS 'There's always been a very natural blurring between my home life and work life' 'We've structured things so as to make sure that everyone has a very clearly defined role' 'We basically watch each other work to some degree' 'We are all social animals in the end' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast  To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com     The Browser - https://thebrowser.com/author/uri/ Uri Bram LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/uri-bram-33297b16/?originalSubdomain=uk Uri Bram - https://uribram.com Uri Bram Twitter - https://twitter.com/uribram?lang=en ABOUT THE HOST Gavin Preston Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years. Gavin’s energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change. CONTACT METHOD Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How to use effective communication in your remote team as a competitive advantage?Uri Bram, the CEO of The Browser & The Listener - two newsletters with the best written and audio-recorded content from a variety of categories curated by a fully remote team. Find the full transcript here!

We often say that something raises more questions than answers as if that's a bad thing - but perhaps it's a more dangerous state of affairs when we have more answers than questions.  Many of the recent conversations in the Club have focused on the power of writing to identify and explore good questions, and the work that needs to be done to communicate the answers.  Hear from:  Gillie Bolton on the power of reflective practice to allow us to range more freely as we explore; Sarah Rozenthuler on capturing questions in real time; Dave Coplin on the power of open questions to create unexpected connections;  Pippa Malmgren on exploring big questions with other big brains;  Jonas Altman on involving other brains even when they're not in the room;  Alise Cortez on exploring questions with a wide range of others in public; Uri Bram on making the answers to questions as easy as possible for readers to access;  and Jasper Sutcliffe on communicating the value of your answers to readers asking the right questions.   

Uri Bram is the CEO of The Browser which runs regular newsletters to help people find good articles, podcasts, and videos to read. He has been living as a digital nomad for over seven years and also runs The Browser as a remote company. We chat about Uri’s own journey, what it's like working with Robert Cottrell (who reads 10-12 hours a day), his early experiences becoming a kindle best-selling, how he thinks about running a remote company and some of his favorite reads worth checking out. Articles/Books mentioned In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays, Bertrand Russell Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons Leadership & Solitude, William Deresiewicz Disadvantages of an Elite Education, William Deresiewicz Seeing Like a State, James Scott How Ghost Is Structured for the Long-Term The Great Works of Your Life, Cope Ada Palmer, Ex Urbe Susan Bryson, Aftermath Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued, Patrick McKenzie ------------------------- To find ways to support Boundless, Click here Subscribe to a weekly e-mail on life, work & the creative path

'With a book you're not just paying for the pages you read, you're paying for someone to make the rest of the world shut up for a minute while you can concentrate.' Uri Bram knows a thing or two about the value of content and attention. He curates the internet, after all, as the publisher of The Browser and The Listener ('the absolute dream job'). He's also the author of Thinking Statistically, a self-published surprise bestseller (and noone was more surprised than Uri...) In this conversation we discuss why statistical literacy matters more than ever, why less is more valuable than more, and why books keep us sane in a world of infinite distraction. Shut up, world: I'm reading. 

This week we're speaking to Uri Bram, a publisher at The Browser, which is literally the number one curation based newsletter on the internet today. In this episode we'll cover some juicy topics such as why The Browser moved from Substack over to Ghost, how they were able still be around after 10 years, their pricing plans, and so much more

Warning: what follows is a communion of two souls in a chance encounter. Uri Bram is the publisher of The Browser — a weekly newsletter curated by Uri and his team, read by over 50,000 subscribers. He's written two books: Thinking Statistically and The Business of Big Data. Uri is also the designer of three games: Lettercat, Person Do Thing, and Days Old. Uri and I had never spoken before we recorded this episode. And neither had I heard of The Browser prior to two weeks before this post. The morning I discovered their work was the morning I became brighter, smarter, more entertaining, or at the very least, half as much as the folks working hard to produce the world's favorite curation newsletter. I kept scrolling through their site. I was floored. Their website is topnotch. The giraffe mascot is cute as all hell. “A truly wonderful site” – Stephen Fry Most important, they collect only the finest, most entertaining and thought provoking articles on the Internet. I'm incredibly impressed at their high bar for quality. I promise that any article chosen by their hard working team is worth the read. This isn't your typical buzzfeed bullshit. And nor is it as high brow as The New Yorker. The content they collect is fun, interesting, hilarious, and full of humanity. Reading articles from The Browser is now a part of my evening reading routine. It's making me less stupid, and it'll make you less stupid, too. In this conversation, we discuss Uri's writing process at length. Uri's a much more experienced writer than I am. And I learned so much about how difficult it is to organize hundreds, if not thousands of ideas in a book. We also discuss content curation (not creation), and why The Browser is world-class at it, game design, meditation, getting unstuck, going for walks and getting out in nature, how regular people can benefit from learning statistics, and much more. So grab your favorite coffee and please enjoy our talk!

We are flooded with information each day - articles, headlines, podcasts, news, and more. Today, our guest runs several businesses built around curating this flood of content into something worthwhile to read or listen to. Stories that have lasting value, and that can change your life. Uri Bram is the CEO of The Browser and The Listener - businesses built around curation that we are excited to learn more about. 00:00:00 Small Business Show #298 for Wednesday, October 14, 2020 00:01:14 SPONSOR: TextExpander.com/podcast gets you 20% off your first year Uri Bram, CEO of The Browser, The Listener, The Viewer We need curation! The Plan: Flow with Everything Make Yourself the Hub of Uncommon Experiences Be intentional with your business, with your metrics We Love Mistakes! We'll only recommend something if it's still going to be interesting in ten years Identify Mistakes of Omission The Bootstrapper's Dilemma Uri Bram: “I make things out of thoughts.” Sort out your problems first. SBS 298 Outtro

Are universities a cult? Do charitable interventions like de-worming work? How much should we trust the conclusion of well-respected charity evaluators like GiveWell? Uri is the publisher of The Browser and The Listener, the world's favourite curation newsletters, and the author of Thinking Statistically and The Business of Big Data. Uri can be found at uribram.com or uri@uribram.com. As we mention in the audio, this episode includes a critique of Givewell. Givewell were kind enough to listen to our recording and send us a reply. Here's their reply: We're excited to see this level of detailed engagement with our research. As Uri and Spencer note, one of the key reasons we share the full analysis behind our recommendations is precisely this: inviting fresh perspectives and debate on the conclusions we reach. We operate in an expected value framework when recommending top charities. We recommend deworming programs because of the possibility that deworming may have a large impact on long-term economic well-being. At less than $1 per treatment, we think it's a pretty good bet. We've discussed our views publicly over the years, such as in our blog post titled "Deworming might have huge impact, but might have close to zero impact." The case for deworming's long-term benefits does rely on a relatively small number of studies. And the mechanisms by which it has long-term impact are unclear. But when we account for these uncertainties in our impact estimates, it still remains promising. We've also supported research to better understand the impacts of deworming. We funded part of a study that measured the economic welfare of children who received deworming treatments 20 years later. This work was recently published, and at a high level, seems to support the story of deworming's long-term effects. Thanks again for discussing this topic—it's an important and thorny one! Givewell also mentioned some corrections to some of the claims made in the episode. They said: [We] noticed some comments outside of the deworming conversation that didn't reflect our views and flagged a few of the more important ones below. In addition to the groups you listed, our current list of top charities includes Malaria Consortium's seasonal malaria chemoprevention program and Helen Keller International's vitamin A supplementation program. The full list is here: https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities. The two outcomes we recommend our current list of top charities for are averting deaths (not improving nutrition) and increasing incomes/consumption. We are open to considering additional outcomes in the future. Uri said the following in regards to cash transfers: "I might be wrong but I think GiveWell doesn't count—if you took the money and spent it on a one-off way that didn't increase your long-term wealth or income—then GiveWell wouldn't count that." This is not accurate. We model short-term as well as longer-term benefits to cash transfers. This is reflected in our cost-effectiveness model and discussed in this blog post.

Are universities a cult? Do charitable interventions like de-worming work? How much should we trust the conclusion of well-respected charity evaluators like GiveWell?Uri is the publisher of The Browser and The Listener, the world's favourite curation newsletters, and the author of Thinking Statistically and The Business of Big Data. Uri can be found at uribram.com or uri@uribram.com.As we mention in the audio, this episode includes a critique of Givewell. Givewell were kind enough to listen to our recording and send us a reply. Here's their reply:We're excited to see this level of detailed engagement with our research. As Uri and Spencer note, one of the key reasons we share the full analysis behind our recommendations is precisely this: inviting fresh perspectives and debate on the conclusions we reach.We operate in an expected value framework when recommending top charities. We recommend deworming programs because of the possibility that deworming may have a large impact on long-term economic well-being. At less than $1 per treatment, we think it's a pretty good bet. We've discussed our views publicly over the years, such as in our blog post titled "Deworming might have huge impact, but might have close to zero impact."The case for deworming's long-term benefits does rely on a relatively small number of studies. And the mechanisms by which it has long-term impact are unclear. But when we account for these uncertainties in our impact estimates, it still remains promising.We've also supported research to better understand the impacts of deworming. We funded part of a study that measured the economic welfare of children who received deworming treatments 20 years later. This work was recently published, and at a high level, seems to support the story of deworming's long-term effects.Thanks again for discussing this topic—it's an important and thorny one!Givewell also mentioned some corrections to some of the claims made in the episode. They said:[We] noticed some comments outside of the deworming conversation that didn't reflect our views and flagged a few of the more important ones below.In addition to the groups you listed, our current list of top charities includes Malaria Consortium's seasonal malaria chemoprevention program and Helen Keller International's vitamin A supplementation program. The full list is here: https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities.The two outcomes we recommend our current list of top charities for are averting deaths (not improving nutrition) and increasing incomes/consumption. We are open to considering additional outcomes in the future.Uri said the following in regards to cash transfers: "I might be wrong but I think GiveWell doesn't count—if you took the money and spent it on a one-off way that didn't increase your long-term wealth or income—then GiveWell wouldn't count that." This is not accurate. We model short-term as well as longer-term benefits to cash transfers. This is reflected in our cost-effectiveness model and discussed in this blog post.

Are universities a cult? Do charitable interventions like de-worming work? How much should we trust the conclusion of well-respected charity evaluators like GiveWell?Uri is the publisher of The Browser and The Listener, the world's favourite curation newsletters, and the author of Thinking Statistically and The Business of Big Data. Uri can be found at uribram.com or uri@uribram.com.As we mention in the audio, this episode includes a critique of Givewell. Givewell were kind enough to listen to our recording and send us a reply. Here's their reply:We're excited to see this level of detailed engagement with our research. As Uri and Spencer note, one of the key reasons we share the full analysis behind our recommendations is precisely this: inviting fresh perspectives and debate on the conclusions we reach.We operate in an expected value framework when recommending top charities. We recommend deworming programs because of the possibility that deworming may have a large impact on long-term economic well-being. At less than $1 per treatment, we think it's a pretty good bet. We've discussed our views publicly over the years, such as in our blog post titled "Deworming might have huge impact, but might have close to zero impact."The case for deworming's long-term benefits does rely on a relatively small number of studies. And the mechanisms by which it has long-term impact are unclear. But when we account for these uncertainties in our impact estimates, it still remains promising.We've also supported research to better understand the impacts of deworming. We funded part of a study that measured the economic welfare of children who received deworming treatments 20 years later. This work was recently published, and at a high level, seems to support the story of deworming's long-term effects.Thanks again for discussing this topic—it's an important and thorny one!Givewell also mentioned some corrections to some of the claims made in the episode. They said:[We] noticed some comments outside of the deworming conversation that didn't reflect our views and flagged a few of the more important ones below.In addition to the groups you listed, our current list of top charities includes Malaria Consortium's seasonal malaria chemoprevention program and Helen Keller International's vitamin A supplementation program. The full list is here: https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities.The two outcomes we recommend our current list of top charities for are averting deaths (not improving nutrition) and increasing incomes/consumption. We are open to considering additional outcomes in the future.Uri said the following in regards to cash transfers: "I might be wrong but I think GiveWell doesn't count—if you took the money and spent it on a one-off way that didn't increase your long-term wealth or income—then GiveWell wouldn't count that." This is not accurate. We model short-term as well as longer-term benefits to cash transfers. This is reflected in our cost-effectiveness model and discussed in this blog post.[Read more]

Are universities a cult? Do charitable interventions like de-worming work? How much should we trust the conclusion of well-respected charity evaluators like GiveWell?Uri is the publisher of The Browser and The Listener, the world's favourite curation newsletters, and the author of Thinking Statistically and The Business of Big Data. Uri can be found at uribram.com or uri@uribram.com.As we mention in the audio, this episode includes a critique of Givewell. Givewell were kind enough to listen to our recording and send us a reply. Here's their reply:We're excited to see this level of detailed engagement with our research. As Uri and Spencer note, one of the key reasons we share the full analysis behind our recommendations is precisely this: inviting fresh perspectives and debate on the conclusions we reach.We operate in an expected value framework when recommending top charities. We recommend deworming programs because of the possibility that deworming may have a large impact on long-term economic well-being. At less than $1 per treatment, we think it's a pretty good bet. We've discussed our views publicly over the years, such as in our blog post titled "Deworming might have huge impact, but might have close to zero impact."The case for deworming's long-term benefits does rely on a relatively small number of studies. And the mechanisms by which it has long-term impact are unclear. But when we account for these uncertainties in our impact estimates, it still remains promising.We've also supported research to better understand the impacts of deworming. We funded part of a study that measured the economic welfare of children who received deworming treatments 20 years later. This work was recently published, and at a high level, seems to support the story of deworming's long-term effects.Thanks again for discussing this topic—it's an important and thorny one!Givewell also mentioned some corrections to some of the claims made in the episode. They said:[We] noticed some comments outside of the deworming conversation that didn't reflect our views and flagged a few of the more important ones below.In addition to the groups you listed, our current list of top charities includes Malaria Consortium's seasonal malaria chemoprevention program and Helen Keller International's vitamin A supplementation program. The full list is here: https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities.The two outcomes we recommend our current list of top charities for are averting deaths (not improving nutrition) and increasing incomes/consumption. We are open to considering additional outcomes in the future.Uri said the following in regards to cash transfers: "I might be wrong but I think GiveWell doesn't count—if you took the money and spent it on a one-off way that didn't increase your long-term wealth or income—then GiveWell wouldn't count that." This is not accurate. We model short-term as well as longer-term benefits to cash transfers. This is reflected in our cost-effectiveness model and discussed in this blog post.

This week Uri Bram, Publisher of The Browser, chats with Evangeline Garreau, Writer of May I Recommend, about the art of recommendation and curation.  May I Recommend: Evangeline.website Twitter: @egarreau

In this episode, Nontsi and Lindelani are joined by Uri Bram in discussing why and how food matters as well as other fun food stories from the past. This conversation was inspired by Bee Wilson’s article “But Is It Food?”.

Uri Bram is the bestselling author of Thinking Statistically and the CTO of Umuzi, an educational organisation that supports talented young people to develop the skills needed to access high-value careers. For those of you who are long time listeners, you may remember Uri first appeared on the podcast back on episode 62 where we spoke about key statistical principals, music theory and learning skills from experts. Uri like me is someone who is interested in a number of different areas and he’s been up to a lot since we last spoke, joining Umuzi in South Africa as their CTO. Umuzi teach a range of digital skills, including coding, copywriting and design, using real life projects to make the experience as practical as possible. In this conversation we discuss a range of topics including: How the courses are selected and delivered at Umuzi and how they compare to other alternative education programs Whether there is a tradeoff between training skills and teaching people to think How to choose projects when you have a lot of interests and trouble focusing So whether you’re interested in alternative education or have too many interests and want to find a way to pick your projects better, this episode will leave you with a range of useful insights.

CliffCentral.com — As the 4th Industrial Revolution beckons, wealth and power are no longer defined by access to natural resources, but by access to data and the ability to analyse and use it. This has major implications for individuals, entire nations and the continents at large as companies like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google increasingly become more dominant in the affairs of the world than some nations. Andrew and Rori are joined by Bosun Tijani, CEO of Co-Creation Hub and author, Uri Bram, to understand how the control of data will impact our lives and geo-politics in general around the world.

Uri Bram is the bestselling author of Thinking Statistically and speaks about using data and statistical thinking effectively in the real world. In this episode we discuss: - The key statistical principals that everyone should be aware of - How understanding music theory makes you a better musician - How to learn complex skills from experts So whether you’re math-phobic or already consider yourself a stats maverick this conversation will give you a whole range of useful insights that.

Acclaimed author Uri Bram was kind enough to take some time out of his busy travel schedule to sit down with the two biggest mugs on the internet. If you're interesting in improving yourself to no end, allow his words to stroke your hair like a tea tree conditioner. Beaming to us from a beautiful Tel-Aviv day, Uri Bram sorts us out to no end with his wealth of knowledge on a range of topics.

If you don’t value your free time but, like us at VoW, prefer to fritter it away next to the sandwich grill, we recommend you spend this hour with us. In WhimCast #3 we cover such subjects as the business model of #Tidal (y’know – THAT music platform by the notorious Jay-Zed). Then we touch on artificial intelligence and whether it’s possible that we could all be destroyed by robots in the near future. Then, since that conversation has high potential to get rather dark, we steer the plane out of that nosedive by revealing how penguins can predict the outcome of a #football match. Not to mention, we shamelessly plug the absolute crap out of our guest next week, high quality author and general good-time guy, Uri Bram. (Check him out at http://uribram.com)