Talk Cocktail

Jeff Schechtman

Jeff Schechtman talks with authors, journalists, newsmakers and opinion shapers, and sheds light on the issues of the day, from local stories to national and international headlines and ideas. jeffschechtman.substack.com

  1. 4 dni temu

    The Cruelest Game

    Lose a pickup basketball game and you shrug it off. Lose a tennis match, Matthew Futterman learned, and it feels like you got beaten up. As the US Open gets under way this week, Futterman, veteran sports journalist for The Athletic and author of The Cruelest Game, goes inside the sport’s real battleground — the head — where even the greatest lose nearly half the points they play, and the hardest thing any champion does is learn when to leave. Then there’s the money. At the top, fifty to a hundred million a year rides on winning, and every sponsor becomes one more voice in your head. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe

  2. 20 sie

    An Inversion of AI’s Discontent

    San Francisco Chronicle reporter Emily Hoeven expected the towns hosting America’s new data centers to be the angry. She found the opposite. In a recent column — titled “‘We were a dying little town’: How Silicon Valley data centers are reshaping rural America” — she maps a strange disconnect: the dread over data centers looms large in the Bay Area, cradle of the artificial intelligence boom, while places bearing the weight, like Ellendale, North Dakota, have made their peace. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe

  3. 13 sie

    The Age of AI Will Require Intuitive Leadership, Not More Data

    We're told the leader with the most data wins. Ronald Kraft, PhD, argues in his new book “The 7 Laws of Intuitive Leadership,” the opposite. As AI makes information infinite and answers instant, he says the real edge is disciplined intuition — a trainable "third system" of judgment no machine can copy. Can today's leaders relearn to trust the instinct the data keeps drowning out? Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe

  4. 8 sie

    Does Fascism Have American Roots?

    What if the roots of fascism weren’t European at all, but embedded in America’s founding struggles over democracy and race? For more than a decade, we’ve been flooded with books warning about fascism — how to recognize it, how it spreads, how democracies lose their way. Almost all begin with the same assumption: Fascism was a European creation that eventually washed up on American shores. Joseph Kelly says we’ve got it backwards. Kelly, a professor at the College of Charleston and author of The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism 1818-1915, joins me in this WhoWhatWhy Podcast to explains why fascism is less an ideology than a corruption of democracy itself. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe

  5. 30 lip

    Can Code Have a Conscience?

    The AI debate is endless. One writer decided to measure it by asking not how smart the machines are, but how humane they are. Talking about artificial intelligence has become its own industry. AI will save us or doom us. It will cure cancer or end work. Panels, manifestos, congressional hearings, op-eds without end — and through all of it, the machines keep getting better at talking back, and no one can tell you whether the thing you confided in last night was good for you or not. My guest on this recent WhoWhatWhy podcast, Erika Anderson, has stopped arguing and started measuring. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe

  6. 25 lip

    Design as an Act of Inclusion

    The digital world is being rebuilt around AI, and for the first time in a generation the concrete of that world is still wet. Lainey Feingold thinks that's the opportunity! Technology can now read any text aloud, describe any image, caption any voice in real time — the most powerful equalizer disabled people have ever had, if it's designed in rather than bolted on. Feingold, a disability rights lawyer who won talking ATMs and accessible banking without ever filing a lawsuit, has gathered thirty-nine authors from ten countries into Digital Accessibility Ethics. Their case: build for the person at the edge and everyone gets a better product. Who do we decide to build for? Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe

  7. 22 lip

    The Real California That Gavin Newsom Will Have to Defend

    The author and journalist Mark Arax joins me on the California Sun podcast to discuss his recent sweeping essay in the Guardian, published under the headline “California: Land of Plunder and Hypocrisy.” From the Gold Rush to the artificial intelligence boom, Arax explores how California’s myths, ambitions, and repeated reinventions have often concealed a far more complicated history of extraction, contradiction, and self-deception. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe

  8. 18 lip

    As America Becomes a Gerontocracy, Its Future Keeps Getting Delayed

    We’re living through the greatest transfer of wealth in history. Trillions of dollars are slowly passing from one generation to the next. Yet for all the money that’s changing hands, something far more important isn’t: Power. Our guest on this WhoWhatWhy podcast, Yale historian Samuel Moyn, believes America has quietly become something few of us have recognized: an aging society where the balance between generations has fundamentally shifted. The cohort of people making the biggest political decisions, controlling the most valuable assets, dominating elections, and shaping the country’s future are getting older, not younger. We’ve spent years arguing over whether this politician or that president is too old. But what if those debates have distracted us from a much larger story? Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe

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O programie

Jeff Schechtman talks with authors, journalists, newsmakers and opinion shapers, and sheds light on the issues of the day, from local stories to national and international headlines and ideas. jeffschechtman.substack.com

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  • Twórca
    Jeff Schechtman
  • Lata aktywności
    2019 - 2026
  • Odcinki
    1 tys.
  • Klasyfikacja
    Dla wszystkich
  • Prawa autorskie
    © Jeff Schechtman
  • Witryna programu
    Talk Cocktail

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