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Path Breakers with Andrew McAfee

Nov 25, 2018

What professionalism means today, how to go from the slums of Zimbabwe to the top ranks of McKinsey, the best ways to get more people of color into tech, why productivity is still so lousy, how it feels to pass out in front of a group of CEOs, and much more...


Oct 3, 2018

How machine learning can accelerate progress in empirical economics, why we've probably been relying on theory too much up to this point, lessons from a woman who's succeeded at the highest levels of both high tech and academic economics, productivity secrets of a monster performer (hint: it's about the...


Aug 4, 2018

How to fake fight news when you're "fake news," the dangers of having a bully in a big bully pulpit, whether pundits should make testable predictions, why he still believes deeply in America, and much more...


Jul 19, 2018

Why he retired to a metal shop instead of a yacht, how to train an autonomous car just by showing it YouTube videos, why the Maker movement is such a big deal, what it's like as a CEO to get targeted by activist investors, why so business leaders have spoken out against Trump, and much more.


Jul 4, 2018

Where he and his brother got the chutzpah to take on the worldwide payments industry, why there isn't more entrepreneurship these days, what Bitcoin and the Blockchain teach us, what it means for a business to "take the squishy stuff seriously," and much more.