Ben Solo rejoins the pod to talk about 1 book and two short stories. We start by discussing a book by Rory Sutherland. The full title is Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense, although, it was previously called Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in...

First, apologies for missing a week. Producing these takes a lot of work and I needed I week off. - Jim Our guest this week is Balazs Szelenyi, Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University. From his university bio: Balazs Szelenyi received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1998 and teaches...

Peter Mulvey joins the pod in person, sitting side by side with Jim in the Slabmedia offices this week. We talk about his career in songwriting, hitting a little on themes and methods, but also on inspiration, and a long history of work. Jim mentions Peter's TED talk about his book Vlad the...