Archive - Fred Pinto's Substack

Unpacking the science of optimal experience, a conversation with Steven Kotler

We’re all familiar with the glib screensaver dream: “a hammock on the beach, between two palm trees, cocktail in hand, looking out over the turquoise…

Jan 23 •

December 2024

The Practical Learning Playbook, a conversation with James Altucher

Mark Twain once wrote, “I’ve never let schooling interfere with my education.”In that spirit, some of our most successful entrepreneurs were either bad…

Dec 10, 2024 •

October 2024

Building world-class teams, with VaynerX’s Chief Heart Officer, Claude Silver

It seemed like too simple a question.Claude Silver had been toiling hard for years at the tireless grind of modern advertising.One day, she realized…

Oct 23, 2024 •

September 2024

On Which “God” Do We Disagree About? A conversation with religious iconographer and public speaker Jonathan Pageau

When he was 5 years old, my son looked up to me after a bedtime story, and asked me: “Dad, does God exists?” If he hadn’t added the “s” at the end, I…

Sep 13, 2024 •

June 2024

Will Diversity Tear Us Apart? A Conversation with social psychologist Dr. Daniel A. Yudkin

“Hell,” Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote, “is other people.” The psychology literature on relationships confirms they can make life miserable. Forget enemies…

Jun 27, 2024

May 2024

The Price of Truth, with Glenn Greenwald

The truth can be an elusive thing. From early on, we learn that it’s easier to get things wrong than to get them right. When we understand something, we…

May 15, 2024

April 2024

Can democracy become a rational game? A conversation with Dr. Bjørn Lomborg

There’s something unmistakably toxic in today’s politics. Pick the issue, and its online offshoots are likely to be oversimplified, black-and-white…

Apr 2, 2024

March 2024

Optimizing Our Beliefs: A conversation with unicorn entrepreneur and founder of Impact Theory, Tom Bilyeu

There’s a word that gets thrown around so much these days, many falsely assume it’s a flakey term straight out of the New Age book section. The word is…

Mar 5, 2024 •

February 2024

Can We Overcome Our Machines?

The tools we create tend to fill us with fascination and fear alike.They provide enjoyment and upgrade our abilities. But they also contain new traps…

Feb 8, 2024 •

January 2024

How can we best humanize technology? A conversation with best-selling technology author and entrepreneur, Mitch Joel

Starting the 2024 season of the podcast! My guest in the first episode of the podcast this year is entrepreneur, author, and longtime cultural, business…

Jan 25, 2024 •

November 2023

Is Optimism a Weakness? A conversation with rapper, entrepreneur and best-selling author, Jesse Itzler

With so much information at our fingertips, we modern humans tend to overthink things. And when we do, our hard-wired negativity bias brings our focus…

Nov 30, 2023 •

October 2023

Why We Love Conspiracy Theories : What the Research Says

Here are the seven reasons based on my evidence-based dive into the literature.

Oct 31, 2023 •

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