The Joe Walker Podcast

By: Joe Walker
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  • Joe Walker hosts refreshingly in-depth conversations with founders, scientists, scholars, economists, and public intellectuals.

    (Formerly 'The Jolly Swagman Podcast'.)
    2024 Joe Walker
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Social Sciences
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Episodes
  • Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan

    Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan
    Sep 19 2024

    Nassim Taleb is trader, researcher and essayist. He is the author of the Incerto, a multi-volume philosophical and practical meditation on uncertainty.

    Full transcript available at: https://josephnoelwalker.com/nassim-taleb-158/

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    2 hrs and 5 mins
  • Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson — How Culture Drove Human Brain Size, Enabled Us To Dominate Earth, And Is Leading Us Astray

    Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson — How Culture Drove Human Brain Size, Enabled Us To Dominate Earth, And Is Leading Us Astray
    Aug 13 2024

    Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson are anthropologists based in America. Their partnership was central to the development of Dual-Inheritance Theory, a framework that applies Darwinian evolution to culture and explains how genes and culture have intertwined to shape our species.

    This is their first ever joint interview.

    Full transcript available at: josephnoelwalker.com/boyd-and-richerson/

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    2 hrs and 24 mins
  • Lucy Turnbull — Urbanism, YIMBYism, and Solutions to Australia's Housing Crisis (Bonus Live Episode)

    Lucy Turnbull — Urbanism, YIMBYism, and Solutions to Australia's Housing Crisis (Bonus Live Episode)
    May 30 2024

    Lucy Turnbull is an urbanist, businesswoman and philanthropist.

    She was the first female Lord Mayor of Sydney, from 2003-4.

    From 2015-20, she was the inaugural Chief Commissioner of the Greater Sydney Commission, tasked with delivering strategic planning for the whole of metropolitan Sydney.

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    47 mins

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