Joe Walker hosts refreshingly in-depth conversations with founders, scientists, scholars, economists, and public intellectuals. (Formerly 'The Jolly Swagman Podcast'.)
113 episodes transcribedPalmer Luckey is an American tech entrepreneur and billionaire. He has founded two companies: Oculus VR (acquired by Facebook for $2 billion in 2014),...
Daniel Kahneman is widely regarded as the most influential psychologist alive. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics (2002) for his work on judgment and...
In the long run, talent allocation is almost everything. But as a society, we're not actually very good at it. The question of how to reliably match p...
From language and writing to the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, computers and Adobe Photoshop, our species has a history of inventing tools for augmenti...
How rational are we? How can a species smart enough to set foot on the moon also be prone to conspiracy theories that the moon landing was fake? Joe s...
Bayesianism, the doctrine that it's always rational to represent our beliefs in terms of probabilities, dominates the intellectual world, from decisio...
William Dalrymple is an acclaimed historian and writer. Show notes available at: josephnoelwalker.com/138-afghanistanSee omnystudio.com/listener for p...
Richard Holden is Professor of Economics at UNSW. Steven Hamilton is an Assistant Professor of Economics at The George Washington University. Full tra...
Ole Peters is a physicist and a Fellow at the London Mathematical Laboratory. Show notes available at: josephnoelwalker.com/136-ergodicitySee omnystud...
Michael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University, where he is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Theory. His cour...
Graham Allison is an American political scientist and the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government Harvard University.Full transcript available at: jose...
Niall Ferguson is one of the world's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University,...
John Hewson is a former Australian politician and was leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 1994.Full transcript available at: josephnoelwalker.com...
John Kay is one of Britain's leading economists.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
John Horgan is a science journalist and Director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. He wa...
Graeme Davison is Australia's most eminent urban historian.Full transcript available at: josephnoelwalker.com/graeme-davisonSee omnystudio.com/listene...
Cheryl Misak is a Canadian philosopher and the author of Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers.Full transcript available at: josephnoelwalker.com/mis...
Malcolm Turnbull was the 29th Prime Minister of Australia.Full transcript available at: josephnoelwalker.com/malcolm-turnbullSee omnystudio.com/listen...
Andy Lee is one half of iconic Australian comedy duo Hamish & Andy.Full transcript available at: josephnoelwalker.com/andy-leeSee omnystudio.com/l...
Robert Skidelsky, FBA is a British economic historian. He is the author of a three-volume award-winning biography of British economist John Maynard Ke...
