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Every episode is published with a transcript, the ideas that came out of it, and the questions it failed to settle. Built to be read as much as heard.

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Portrait — Dr. Elias Warfield

What you can't unsee

Dr. Elias Warfield — neuroscientist, studies expert intuition
PerceptionExpertise

“Most people think expertise is knowing more. It's mostly the inability to stop noticing things.”

1:38WatchListenTranscript
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Portrait — Sana Bhatt

The eleventh year

Sana Bhatt — distance coach
PersistenceStandards

“When does persistence stop being a virtue and start being an excuse not to look at the evidence?”

1:12WatchListenTranscript
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Portrait — Daniel Reyes-Holt

Nothing was inevitable

Daniel Reyes-Holt — founder, two exits
RiskDecisions

“Everyone reads the ending backwards. I was guessing the entire time, and the guessing was the skill.”

1:47WatchListenTranscript
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Portrait — Marisa Okonjo

The case you are afraid to take

Marisa Okonjo — trial lawyer, Houston
FearConviction

“I had to decide what I believed about a jury before I could ask twelve people to believe me.”

1:25WatchListenTranscript
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