Episodes featuring Chris Williamson
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Joe Hudson joins Chris Williamson to explain how to tell when you're about to make a bad decision. His hook: a good decision is not one where you get what you want, but one where you don't compromise yourself.
The Fat Electrician tells Chris Williamson about war animals, mainly Sergeant Reckless, a Korean War horse he calls America's war horse, who hauled ammunition for the Marines, was smuggled home, and became a real...
Coach Joe Hudson tells Chris Williamson that decision-making is 100% emotional, and that hard decisions get easier once you can feel the emotions you fear and lean on a small set of personal principles.
Robert Greene talks with Chris Williamson about the sublime: experiences that take us outside the limits our culture and brain place on reality. He uses a neuroscientist's stroke and the odds of human evolution to...
Chris Williamson and James Smith record on a tour bus, swapping wild stories from Smith's youth while arguing that success brings diminishing returns and that young people feel needless pressure to rush it.
Chris Williamson talks with a military history YouTuber about Logan Weston, "the fighting preacher," who fought in World War II, Korea and Vietnam and earned over 300 medals but no Wikipedia page until the guest's video.
Chris Williamson talks with evolutionary psychologist Rob Kurzban about why we have feelings at all. Kurzban explains his idea that emotions measure something and then motivate action, and why many of them misfire in...
Chris Williamson films the first week of his UK tour, playing four shows in four cities in four days from a tour bus while working through nerves, imposter syndrome and doubts about the show.
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou tells Chris Williamson why China is the foreign power he worries about most, how spies get recruited inside the US government, and why he sees Israel as the top immediate infiltration...
Chris Williamson, Shaan Puri, George Mack and Jack Butcher swap ideas on crypto coin scams, prediction markets, fake dopamine apps, taste versus AI slop, kids and screens, generosity and what real product-market fit...
Chris Williamson and Daniel Cox discuss Cox's survey finding that young women judge female cheating less harshly than everyone else judges it. They also cover online sexual harassment and the pressure young women face...
Chris Williamson talks with positive psychology founder Martin Seligman about moving from learned helplessness to optimism and agency, practical ways to dispute negative thoughts, how agency shaped human history, and...
Psychiatrist Alok Kanojia (Dr K) tells Chris Williamson about his string of rock bottoms, from failing college to a meditation moment of acceptance, and argues that futile work and failure are deeply undervalued.
Chris Williamson talks with researcher Daniel Cox about why young men and women increasingly distrust each other. Cox blames algorithms, overinvested parenting, online dating, the loss of shared social spaces and a...
The Fat Electrician tells Chris Williamson the story of Pappy Gunn, a retired Navy pilot who reinvented American bombers in World War II while trying to free his wife and kids from a Japanese internment camp.
Chris Williamson, Joe Hudson and Alok Kanojia discuss why the feeling of wanting is so hard to sit with, and how awareness of desire, rather than resisting it, can loosen compulsions like porn and nicotine.
Chris Williamson talks with Nic Palmer, The Fat Electrician, about little-known war heroes. They cover why governments stopped celebrating them, odd wartime inventions, how to make history engaging, and Palmer's kids'...
Chris Williamson talks with Shaan Puri about why people seek permission rather than advice, and why courage, not intelligence, is what holds most people back from the life they want.
Physicist David Deutsch joins Chris Williamson to argue that pessimism is lazy thinking and that optimism means solving problems through knowledge, not cheerfulness.
Chris Williamson shares his experience finding an AI voice clone of himself used commercially without consent, and examines the legal and reputational risks this creates for creators.