3 Takeaways features insights from the world’s best thinkers, business leaders, writers, politicians, scientists and other newsmakers. Each episode ends with 3 key takeaways to help you understand the world in new ways that can benefit your life and career. Hosted by Lynn Thoman.
315 episodes transcribedCould America build the world’s best AI and still lose the AI race?What if the biggest threat to America’s lead isn’t China’s technology, but our own...
What if your brain isn’t showing you the world as it truly is?Journalist, professor, and author of "A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness...
Why would the world’s largest country risk everything to destroy a smaller neighbor?What is it about Ukraine that poses a greater threat to Vladimir P...
How does someone steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre and simply walk away? And how did an even more brazen crew rob the same museum in broad daylight...
Artificial intelligence could change almost everything.John Hennessy thinks we're still asking the wrong questions.As Chairman of Alphabet and on...
Why do some people instantly draw us in?Olivia Fox Cabane reveals that charisma is not a gift. It is a skill - and most of us misunderstand what creat...
Everyone knows where the last generation of great technology companies came from.The more interesting question is where the next generation will.Mehra...
Dr. Robert Cialdini, author of Influence - 5 million copies sold, and one of the most important books Warren Buffett says he's ever read - has sp...
Most people think healthcare is broken by accident.Mark Cuban says it isn't.In part two of our conversation, he explains the hidden companies who...
The NBA thought it was selling basketball.Mark Cuban thought it was selling something else.That insight shaped how he has built companies, evaluated o...
What if those brief conversations - with a barista, a neighbor, or someone sitting next to us - matter far more than we realize?Gillian Sandstrom, a U...
The wind stops blowing. The sun goes down.What happens next?Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz explains why the transition to clean energy m...
We think of North Korea as a communist dictatorship. But Jonathan Cheng, the Wall Street Journal’s China Bureau Chief and former Korea Bureau Chief, s...
When people think about war, they picture missiles and mushroom clouds.But what if the greatest threats today are the ones most people never see comin...
Most people see the world as the U.S. vs. China.But the real power shift is happening elsewhere.Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American...
Inflation, interest rates, AI, tariffs, the dollar…Most people treat them as separate stories but actually, they’re not.Former Council of Economics Ch...
“We trained a whole country.”It sounds like an exaggeration.It’s not - according to Patrick McGee, author of Apple in China.So what actually happened...
Dr. Tom Mihaljevic, CEO of Cleveland Clinic and a leading heart surgeon, explains how medicine is already changing in ways most people don’t see.He ha...
Iran briefly showed it could choke off a waterway carrying nearly a fifth of the world’s oil.That’s the visible threat.The real risk may be something...
We’re entering a world where life itself could become programmable.What if creating new forms of life becomes as simple as writing code? Geneticist Ad...
