Time Sensitive

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Time Sensitive

Candid, revealing long-form conversations with leading minds about their life and work through the lens of time. Host Spencer Bailey interviews each guest about how they think about time broadly and how specific moments in time have shaped who they are today. Explore more at timesensitive.fm

  1. Malcolm Gladwell on Finding Freedom in Abandoning Expectations

    4 DAYS AGO

    Malcolm Gladwell on Finding Freedom in Abandoning Expectations

    Malcolm Gladwell, the author of the best-selling books “The Tipping Point,” “Blink,” and “Outliers” and the host of the Revisionist History podcast, talks about his latest title, “Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering”; the disappearance of what he calls “the critical enterprise in America”; and how A.I. is complicating his famous “10,000-Hour Rule.”

    1h 12m
  2. Richard Christiansen on Bridging Horticulture and Popular Culture

    11 DEC

    Richard Christiansen on Bridging Horticulture and Popular Culture

    Richard Christiansen, founder of the garden-pleasure apothecary Flamingo Estate, talks about his lifelong connection with beekeeping and honeywhy more brands should embrace “radical inconsistency” in their products; and how reading a book by Jane Goodall, and later befriending the anthropologist and conservationist, changed the course of his life. He also shares his circuitous journey from Australian farm boy, to running the New York City creative agency Chandelier for nearly two decades, to now overseeing a global collective of growers from his seven-acre home and farm in the hills of Los Angeles.

    1h 2m
  3. Marcia Bjornerud on the Profound Wisdom of Rocks

    20 NOV

    Marcia Bjornerud on the Profound Wisdom of Rocks

    The geologist Marcia Bjornerud, author of the new book “Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks,” discusses the power of looking at the world through a Deep Time lens, why we’re currently in what she considers a “golden age” of geoscience, and what a “time literate” society would mean for humanity and the planet.

    59 min
  4. Nachson Mimran on Leveraging Privilege for Good and in Service of Others

    13 NOV

    Nachson Mimran on Leveraging Privilege for Good and in Service of Others

    Nachson Mimran, the co-founder of The Alpina Gstaad hotel in the Swiss Alps as well as the co-founder of the decarbonization, refugee empowerment, and “human optimization” organization to.org, discusses his big-picture view of the word hospitality; how a family tragedy led him and his brother to create to.org; and his bold vision for building transformative spaces for culture, art, and well-being in refugee settlements.

    54 min
  5. Jonathan Lethem on Novel Writing as a Memory Art

    30 OCT

    Jonathan Lethem on Novel Writing as a Memory Art

    The novelist, essayist, and cultural critic Jonathan Lethem, author of the new book “Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture” (ZE Books), discusses his passion for book dedications; the time he spent with James Brown and Bob Dylan, respectively, when profiling them for Rolling Stone in the mid-aughts; how his writing is, in part, a way of dealing with and healing from his mother’s death in 1978, at age 36; and why he views his work as “fundamentally commemorative.”

    1h 12m
  6. Lindsey Adelman on the Transformative Nature of Light

    23 OCT

    Lindsey Adelman on the Transformative Nature of Light

    The lighting designer Lindsey Adelman discusses her recent decision to shift her company away from a large-scale production operation and toward a smaller, more intimate “studio” model; the great surprise of having one of her designs installed in Vice President Kamala Harris’s Washington, D.C., home; her love of hosting; and the various writers and artists who have helped shape her conceptions of light over the years.

    1 hr
  7. Paul Goldberger on Architecture as an Act of Optimism

    9 OCT

    Paul Goldberger on Architecture as an Act of Optimism

    The Pulitzer Prize–winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger discusses the staying power of Philip Johnson’s Glass House as it turns 75, the evolution of architecture over the past century, what he’s learned from writing architects’ obituaries, and the Oreo cookie from a design perspective.

    1h 12m
  8. Francesco Clemente on Painting as Poetry and Performance

    25 SEPT

    Francesco Clemente on Painting as Poetry and Performance

    The artist Francesco Clemente discusses collaborating with the chef Daniel Humm on the soon-to-open Clemente Bar at Eleven Madison Park, frescoes as the most luminous artistic medium, the lifelong influence of the artists Cy Twombly and Joseph Beuys on his work, his deep affinity with India, and the certain timeworn quality to his art.

    59 min
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Candid, revealing long-form conversations with leading minds about their life and work through the lens of time. Host Spencer Bailey interviews each guest about how they think about time broadly and how specific moments in time have shaped who they are today. Explore more at timesensitive.fm

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  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
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