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.
321 episodes transcribedWhat if one of the things Americans believe most deeply about America simply isn’t true?Americans have a powerful story about who they are and why Ame...
What if AI becomes easier to talk to than another person?And what happens to us when it does?MIT professor Sherry Turkle has spent decades studying wh...
Mark Cuban told people that television would eventually be delivered over the internet. Everybody thought he was an idiot.Now, Cuban is making another...
What if the president can act before Congress has time to stop him?As former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, former General Counsel of the Depart...
What if trying harder is sometimes exactly the wrong thing to do?Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania psychologist, MacArthur Fellow, and auth...
What can we do when doing the morally “right” thing produces worse outcomes?And what if some of society’s strongest moral instincts are preventing us...
Could 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...
