If anyone with a phone and a WiFi connection can become a journalist these days...what does that mean for the future of journalism?

How about your Hallmark holiday but with a twist? Today, we’re not just talking about love. We’re learning about how it comes to exist. Let’s think about what love really has to do with it.

In media as in life, sex sells…but why? And how? And should it? This week on Thinking Is Cool, let’s take a traipse through critically acclaimed movies and television with a very important question in mind: How much sex is too much?

Can you believe in a wealth tax and still want to be wealthy? Can you espouse the importance of universal pre-k and still send your kid to an elite private school? These are the questions of champagne socialism, rooted in the eternal battle between capitalism and whatever else is out there. And we’re taking them on this week on Thinking Is Cool.

Why are Instagram ads so effing good? What do the Big Tech companies really know about you? And how much of that information are you, perhaps unwillingly, providing when you agree to their T&Cs? This week, let’s talk about the money being made on your silly little data.

It’s okay to admit it—none of us have any idea what’s worth paying attention to in the crypto world. Well, none of us except today’s Thinking Is Cool experts who weigh in on the past, present, and future of the internet’s favorite conversation topic.

Today, I speak with revered journalist and producer and generally very intelligent person Cleo Abram about the motivations behind and implications of living forever.

You’ve got questions and we’ve got answers. In this edition of Thinking Is Cool’s Continuing the Conversation series, I speak with TCG investor and general innovation expert Gaby Goldberg in an effort to truly understand what Web3 means for everyone.

Online friends. Friends whose relationship changed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Peripheral friends. The closest of friends. Friends who disagree. We need them all—and this episode will tell you why.

Today, buying a house is more complicated and, at times, more impossible, than it ever was for our parents or grandparents. Younger generations are stuck in a tricky spot—culturally, owning a house is really important but financially, it feels out of reach. So what are we to do?

What if we could solve ourselves out of aging? What might the world look like if we lived to 100 years, 200 years, or forever? Let’s explore.

Not everyone gets to speak freely online, at least not lately. As we navigate the nuances of deplatforming, algorithmic megaphones, and modern conversational warfare...how is free speech—both in theory and in practice—changing?

Today on Thinking Is Cool, I’m taking 40 minutes to begin better understanding the nuanced labyrinth of homelessness in America—how we got here, what we’re doing, and when this can become a problem of the past. I hope you’ll join me.

Investing isn’t the old rich dudes’ game anymore. It’s yours, it’s mine, it’s everyone’s. But what are the ramifications of this rapid democratization of investing, this revolutionary tide change in the stock market? What happens in the post-meme stonk world, one in which the definition of “investor” looks nothing like it did a decade ago? What might our investing habits and goals mean for platforms and their responsibility? And most importantly...is it better to have meme-stocked and lost...

Today, we’re raising the mythical curtain on Apple, a company that needs no introduction...but also lays claim to a history that most certainly might surprise you. In four storied decades, Apple has transformed the world and its inhabitants. But how? And has it all been for better? Or for worse?

The world is getting more comfortable with the idea that more than a handful of us do drugs. But how can we use this moment of shifting perception to engineer a stronger, safer, more equitable world? Let’s think about it.

Should Greek life exist? Are the friends and parties and leadership skills we glean from frats and sororities worth the sexism, racism, elitism, and flat out danger they also breed? Let’s talk about it.

Modern love is messy, complicated, heart-wrenching, beautiful, and above all else? Online. Today on TIC: the dating app dilemma, technified love, and the death of the meet-cute.

Thinking Is Cool is back...and I’m pulling no punches. Let’s do this.

Continuing the Conversation starts with Caroline Spiegel, the CEO of the audio erotica company Quinn. We’re talking about how the porn industry changes for the better and the ways consumers (read: all of us) can expedite that evolution.

Today, we examine how Facebook, the king of the tech monopoly castle, has changed the world...both for better and for worse.

The Great Reopening, the Roaring 20s, the Summer of Love. It’s here. We’re learning to cope with a new reality in the post-Covid era. But...how exactly are we supposed to do that? This week on Thinking Is Cool, we’re figuring it out together. It’s not easy to bounce back from a worldwide pandemic that claimed some 600,000 lives in the United States alone. It’s not simple to reintegrate into society after spending the better part of the last year distanced, both socially and mentally. But...

It's not worth getting dressed this summer if you're not wearing Thinking Is Cool merch. Buy some here ( https://thinking-is-cool.myshopify.com/products/thinking-cap ). There are 2,755 billionaires in the world, which means 0.00000035% of us have three commas in our net worth. Despite that, those with the power to accumulate wealth are often those with the power, period. Because of that, we need to hold the ultra wealthy accountable. How did they build their wealth? How have they held onto...

All it takes is a positive attitude and a little elbow grease, right? Well, that...plus an enormous rethinking of the ways we incentivize political action and voting in the world’s most storied democracy. Nothing we can’t handle in a podcast episode. This week on Thinking Is Cool, I’m exploring the future of political parties as we work to evolve past where we are today—at a point of extreme and even dangerous fracturing along party lines. Because this—hyperpartisanship and the gridlock and...

Today on Thinking Is Cool, we’re together taking on the sisyphean task of finding out. Here’s a spoiler: The answer is a big fat maybe. Because like all good things in life, the answer is simple—it depends. Cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, and decentralization have the potential to be a lot of things: the future of global currency systems, the future of the internet, the future of wealth building, and more. But it’ll take more than just adding laser eyes to your Twitter profile...