38 episodes
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis Pushkin
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4.5 • 8.5K Ratings
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Journalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis takes a searing look at what’s happened to fairness in American life through the lens of people who depend on public trust. After exploring what’s happened to referees and coaches, the third season of Against the Rules tackles what’s happened to our trust in experts and expertise. An expert has probably saved your life more than once. So why is it so hard to judge who the real experts are? And why, once we’ve found them, do we struggle to listen to what experts have to say? In this season, we meet oceanographers and baseball writers, nurses and former gang members — people who don’t have a lot in common but the mixed blessing of their expertise.
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Episode 1: Six Levels Down
Athenahealth was just another healthcare provider facing the biggest problem US doctors face: not treating patients, but getting insurance companies to pay their bills. But then the company figured out how to fix the problem, by recognizing an overlooked expert toiling in the hospital basement.
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REBROADCAST: The Hand of Leonardo
Season Three of Against the Rules continues in this feed next Tuesday. In the meantime, Michael Lewis has an update on one of the most popular episodes from his first season, about a painting that may or may not have been done by Leonardo.
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Episode 2: The Art of the Untold Story
Why can’t we see the experts right in front of us, even when they're saving our lives? Maybe it's because the specialized knowledge of many experts defies good storytelling. We hear from a nonprofit trying to elevate the esoteric work of government experts, and we hear from one of their nominees. His work has changed the survival prospects for many lost at sea, but even those survivors have never heard his name.
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Programming Note
We’re hard at work now on episode 6. Check back here for it next Tuesday.
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Episode 3: Field of Ignorance
The right kind of expert, at the right time, can change everything. While working as a security guard at a pork-and-beans cannery in Kansas, Bill James started writing about baseball. But writing about it through the poetry of statistical analysis. It took a long time, but James's way of looking at the game changed more than just baseball.
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Episode 4: Respect the Polygon
Experts know more now than ever before. And we’re more critical of them than ever before, too. But one kind of expert really gets us riled up: the type who deals in probabilities. We hear from meteorologists, political forecasters, and even nurses about why calculating the odds is so hard, and why we all suffer the deadly consequences as a result.
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Customer Reviews
Keeps getting better
Micheal Lewis never disappoints. Just when I thought this podcast couldn’t get any better an episode like “The Overconfidence Game” comes out and renews my love for this show all over again. Thank you for making such high quality content!
The Overconfidence Game
I don’t care if it’s patronizing or not but the guests on this episode are just annoying. And, a different note, society is a completely made up place. It’s a game. It’s a creation of human action. So if overconfidence has helped males reach a dominant position over thousands of years of evolution then perhaps women should adapt that strategy.
Genius
My favorite podcast and author, bar none
Michael has a way of getting to the heart of his topic in a way that is truly riveting. Not only does he grab your attention, he stirs emotions within the reader that are deep an earnestly felt.
Michael has a way of motivating his audience. Well done!
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