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Amy Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. Her research examines psychological safety in organisations. Her most recent book is The Fearless Organization. Brad DeLong is an economic historian and Professor of Economics at the University of California Berkeley. From 1993 to 1995 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for economic policy. His most recent book is Slouching Towards Utopia. Devon Zuegel is a programmer and writer, who is currently researching start-up cities and land use policy. She is host of the Tools & Craft podcast, and author of the paper ‘Inside the Crypto Black Markets of Argentina’, published at Freethink.com. Doyne Farmer is the Baillie Gifford Professor of Mathematics, and Director of Complexity Economics at the Oxford Institute of New Economic Thinking.…

SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE MONEY MAZE Simon Brewer: Simon Sebag Montefiore, welcome to the Money Maze podcast. Simon Sebag Montefiore: Great to be on. Thank you for having me. SB: It's a pleasure. We've known each other for a decade now and I've been looking forward to this interview enormously. You've become one of the world's celebrated historians. But let's begin with a glimpse of your own history. Were you a family of books and stories? SSM: I was brought up in a very literary family. Books were our religion almost – the house was full of them. We talked about books all the time. I remember when my father took me aside when I was about eight and said to me, ‘Here's a history of the world, maybe you'll write one of these one…

DEVON ZUEGEL ECONTALK Russ Roberts: My guest is programmer and writer Devon Zuegel. She has two podcasts: Tools & Craft, and Order Without Design, which is with Alain and Marie-Agnes Bertaud. And some of you may have enjoyed Alain Bertaud's episode on EconTalk – one of my favourites. Her podcast is named after his book, Order Without Design. We're going to talk about a remarkable piece that you wrote a couple of months ago at Freethink, ‘Inside the Crypto Black Markets of Argentina.’ Devon, welcome to EconTalk. Devon Zuegel: Thanks for having me. I love this podcast so it's really exciting to come on to speak. RR: This piece you wrote could probably be the basis for a semester-long course in economics related to monetary policy, trust, innovation, regulation, exchange. It's a really fascinating…

AMY EDMONDSON IN GOOD COMPANY Nicolai Tangen: We are going to cover a topic that almost all our guests have mentioned, namely, psychological safety. But what does it mean and how can a leader or employee create this in his or her team? We are lucky to have the world's leading expert on this topic, Amy Edmondson. Amy, you were on my reading list when I was doing my Masters in Social Psychology. Just to make sure we are on the same page, for people who don't know much about it, what is psychological safety? Amy Edmondson: It describes a climate or a group where people believe that candour is welcome. NT: And why is it so important? AE: It is important because today nearly all of us do knowledge-intensive work. We do work…

ANDREW HUBERMAN THE KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Shane Parrish: Let's start with light. Light seems to impact the way we feel, how we learn and how we sleep. How does light exposure or sunlight exposure impact the way we sleep? During the day we have the opportunity to interact with light in various ways and our cells use that information. Maybe you can take us through how we can use light to get a better night's sleep. Andrew Huberman: Light is perhaps the most powerful stimulus for our mental and physical health, and for our performance in every endeavour. We often miss this point because the effects of light are what we call slow and integrative. If you look at a particular colour of light, it's not that suddenly you're going to be endowed…

DOYNE FARMER VOLTS David Roberts: A group of scholars at Oxford University's Institute for New Economic Thinking have released a working paper that made a considerable splash in the world of energy nerds. It has now been peer reviewed and published in the journal Joule. It is called ‘Empirically Grounded Technology Forecasts and the Energy Transition'. At the heart of the paper is a new way of forecasting technology costs that is more grounded in history and empirical data than the integrated assessment models used by organisations like the IPCC and the IEA. Those models have notoriously overestimated the future costs of clean energy technologies and consequently counselled insufficient climate action for decades now. The Oxford scholars take a different approach centred on technology learning curves, sometimes called experience curves. They begin…