151 episodes

Narratives is a project exploring stories about progress.

Narratives is hosted by Will Jarvis. For more information, and more episodes, visit www.narrativespodcast.com

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    • Society & Culture
    • 4.6 • 16 Ratings

Narratives is a project exploring stories about progress.

Narratives is hosted by Will Jarvis. For more information, and more episodes, visit www.narrativespodcast.com

    152: Molly Mielke - Cultivating Agency

    152: Molly Mielke - Cultivating Agency

    In this episode, we're joined by Molly Mielke to talk about agency. How to cultivate it, curate it and nurture it. 







     



     







     












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    • 46 min
    151: Malcom Collins - The Fertility Collapse

    151: Malcom Collins - The Fertility Collapse

    Malcolm’s background. (0:05)





     
     




     
     









    The problem of population collapse. (2:00)





     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     









    Demographics is destiny and gender equality. (8:17)





     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     









    How far along are we with artificial wombs? (11:25)





     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     









    The stock market is a safe place to store your assets. (16:05)





     
     




     
     









    Fertility rates and their impact on asset prices. (18:56)





     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     









    The collapse of fertility in China. (23:26)





     
     




     
     









    Cultural thriving in the future. (26:02)





     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     









    Where’s the white pill on this? (31:03)





     
     




     
     









    The collapse of the Roman Empire. (34:03)

    • 38 min
    150: Brent Jones - Land, Property Rights and Cadastres

    150: Brent Jones - Land, Property Rights and Cadastres

    Brent’s background. 0:01

    Introduction to assessment matters podcast.


    Brent's bio and big ideas for the future.



    How is the digitization of land records in the Us? 1:44

    In the United States, the 1850 system has been digitized.


    The challenge of standardizing the process.



    Lack of standards across state to state. 3:21

    Lack of standards across state to state and within states.


    Value structures using the cost method.



    What is the state of property rights in cadastral systems? 5:20

    The state of cadastral systems across the world.


    The downsides of having a title insurance.



    What is the big barrier to land rights? 7:55

    Securing land rights in the british colonies.


    Adoption of technology is key.



    Mapping the farc in Colombia. 9:52

    The farc colombia peace treaty and repatriation of 15 million properties.


    Fit for purpose mapping.



    Where are the low hanging fruit? 11:23

    The low-hanging fruit of real estate taxes.


    Taxation and real estate tax.



    Why people don’t like property taxes? 13:09

    Why Brent thinks property taxes are underrated.


    How Brent originally got into cadastral work.



    What are you most excited about in the next 20 years? 15:23

    Excited about the next 20 years for cadastre.


    Building a cadastral system in developing countries.



    Where to learn more about Cadastral. 17:30

    Where to learn more about Brent's work and Cadastral.


    Where to find more information about cadastral

    • 19 min
    149: Nathan Allebach - Twitter, Urbanism and Discourse

    149: Nathan Allebach - Twitter, Urbanism and Discourse

     

    narratives - nathan final
    Summary

    Nathan’s background. 0:05

    Introduction to the podcast and the guest.


    Nathan's bio and his interest in urbanism.


    Stumbling into the discourse of urbanism.


    How he first got interested in the topic.



    Nathan’s marketing background. 4:02

    Nathan talks about marketing and movement.


    Nathan shares his take on marketing.



    How to best navigate social media discourse? 6:15

    Observing various forms of discourse on social media.


    Cars vs other forms of transportation.


    The 15 minutes cities conspiracy theory going viral.


    How to win people over.



    Nathan’s first instinct when he first heard about this. 11:42

    The psychology of conspiracy theories and how they form.


    Nathan shares his thoughts on current EMP messaging and how to improve it.


    The challenge of explaining urbanism to the left.


    Dark money and deregulatory talk.



    Is there a conspiracy on twitter? 17:36

    Skepticism toward power, paranoia and lack of ability to work around it.


    Twitter is toxic.



    Lessons learned from twitter. 20:31

    Lessons learned from tiktok and how he manages his communications.


    Tiktock is a health sign.


    The benefits of being a youtuber on Twitter and tiktok.


    Making a statement for yourself.



    Contrarian rebelling on social media. 25:20

    Being an anti-group from a young age.


    The internet is full of people like you.


    The intellectual dark web and social media.


    How social media is like the urbanist movement.


    Emv vs urbanest in their bio.


    Freddy de boer, critical of vmb.



    The aesthetics and vibes of a movement. 31:55

    Reservations about joining a group, aesthetics, vibes and who's in the room.


    Deep blue texas.


    Defining the differences between left and right.


    How humans work, and why it matters.



    How do we interpret our political leanings? 36:19

    No party is free of guilt.


    Tribalism is any kind of group thing.


    AOC is a lightning rod of discourse.


    AOC and the left-right divide.



    Practical examples of the problem with framing and framing. 42:05

    The difference between a conservative and a conservative.


    Practical examples in activism.


    Single-family zoning and how it is framed.


    How conservatives react to single- family zoning.



    How to get people to care. 47:03

    Why most people don't care about politics.


    How to choose the right messaging.


    Reframing politics around culture and policy engagement.


    Taking a step back regularly to recalibrate.



    Advice to the young people. 52:28

    Ten good-faith, thoughtful arguments vs one or two bad-faith responses.


    Online friends vs real-life friends.


    Advice for a budding movement trying to change the world.


    Follow their passions.



    Where are your strengths? 56:59

    Everyone is passionate about something, even if it's something stupid.


    Not everybody can be joe rogan.


    The anti-podcaster meme, and why it's a bad thing.


    Bismarck analysis newsletter.

    narratives - nathan final
    Summary

    Nathan’s background. 0:05

    Introduction to the podcast and the guest.


    Nathan's bio and his interest in urbanism.


    Stumbling into the discourse of urbanism.


    How he first got interested in the topic.



    Nathan’s marketing background. 4:02

    Nathan talks about marketing and movement.


    Nathan shares his take on marketing.



    How to best navigate social media discourse? 6:15

    Observing various forms of discourse on social media.


    Cars vs other forms of transportation.


    The 15 minutes cities conspiracy theory going viral.


    How to win people over.



    Nathan’s first instinct when he first heard about this. 11:42

    The psychology of conspiracy theories and how they form.


    Nathan shares his thoughts on current EMP messaging and how to improve it.


    The challenge of explaining urbanism to the left.


    Dark money and deregulatory talk.



    Is there a conspiracy on twitter? 17:36

    Skepticism toward power, paranoia and lack of ability to work around it.


    Twitter is toxic.



    Lessons learned from twitter. 20:31

    Lessons learned fro

    • 1 hr
    148: Dan Katz - ESG and Asset Management

    148: Dan Katz - ESG and Asset Management

    Dan Katz - ESG and Asset Management.
     




    Dan’s background. (0:05)





     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     









    How well do you rate the performance of the federal government? (4:14)





     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     









    What was the impact of the pandemic on the Us? (8:17)





     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     









    The problem with Esg and how Esg has changed. (14:53)





     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     









    Active vs passive investing. (18:48)





     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     









    The shift from active investing to indexing. (25:35)





     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     









    The problem with Esg. (29:27)





     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     









    The Usa etf and how it works. (34:17)





     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     









    The importance of supply chain and geopolitical risk. (38:29)





     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     









    Geopolitical risks and opportunities. (43:26)





     
     




     
     




     
     




     
     









    Industrial policy and nearshoring. (48:10)

    • 54 min
    147: Chris England - Land and Liberty

    147: Chris England - Land and Liberty

    Christopher England received his Ph.D. from Georgetown in 2015. His research and teaching focus on U.S. social movements, economic thought, and communications. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Loyola University Maryland, and Stanford University. His forthcoming book, Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism, is scheduled to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in February 2023. Land and Liberty traces the influence of the journalist Henry George, who argued that rising rents were the primary cause of economic inequality. England has been interviewed about his research for the upcoming PBS documentary The Monopolists and for articles in De Correspondent and Reason. We discuss his book, Land and Liberty. Lars Doucet joins as a cohost for this episode. 


     







     

    • 38 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
16 Ratings

16 Ratings

polycule ,

Favorite new podcast

Loving the guests and deep conversations.

WilliamGull ,

Meaty analysis on a wide variety of issues

Podcasters face a delicate tradeoff right at the outset: Too specific and the conversation won't generalize to other contexts, too abstract and it risks becoming unmoored from *all* applications. You need to anchor the discussion on something tangible to maintain an empirical feedback loop, but if your podcast is *just* about that thing it'll only be useful to those already laser-focused on the topic.

I don't know how *I'd* go about solving that problem, but I think I'd start by asking Will Jarvis, because Narratives does it. Each episode I've listened to has had useful insights with a wide range of applicability, and none of them have made me feel like they were hiding behind abstraction.

The target audience of the program, as far as I can tell, is people who want to understand things- to see the deeper patterns beneath the churning ephemera of modern life. There are key skills you need if you're gonna have any success at this- you need to be comfortable with uncertainty, able to mark unsolved mysteries as UNSOLVED rather than twisting them to fit the closest explanation. You need to be capable of reasoning under uncertainty, able to consider multiple possible explanations for any given phenomena. And- perhaps most difficult- you need to be capable of updating- of *actually* changing your mind when confronted with evidence that breaks your model. These are rare qualities, and Jarvis has them.

He's also a pretty skilled interviewer. I myself am not, so I have less insight into what exactly he's doing right here, but he's able to get guests to answer interesting questions, and I usually feel like I understand their perspectives.

I'd suggest sampling fifteen minutes of any episode; if I've written this review correctly, you probably already know if it's for you, but we should hedge against the possibility that I haven't.

If you're the target audience, I don't think you wanna miss it.

Emily Harrawood ,

Great podcast on a wide variety of topics

I look forward to the podcast every week. Keep up the good work!

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