
96 episodes

Time Sensitive The Slowdown
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- Society & Culture
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4.9 • 126 Ratings
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Candid, revealing portraits of curious and courageous people in business, the arts, and beyond who have a distinct perspective on time. Host Spencer Bailey interviews leading minds about their life and work through the lens of time—how they think about time broadly and how specific moments in time have shaped who they are today.
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Samuel Ross on the Art of “Awakening” Materials
The multi-hyphenate British designer, creative director, and artist Samuel Ross, founder of the fashion label A-Cold-Wall and the industrial design studio SR_A, talks about notions of ritual, essence, and alchemy; how his work straddles the line between the organic and the synthetic; and why he always thinks in threes.
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Jelani Cobb on 50 Years of Hip-Hop and the Future of Journalism
Jelani Cobb, a New Yorker staff writer and the dean of Columbia Journalism School, talks about timing and flow in hip-hop, why being a “first Black” leader in any high-profile profession is like “doing a high-wire act without a net,” and his belief that the future of journalism will include greater transparency around how a story gets made.
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Marilyn Minter on Pioneering Sex-Positive Feminism in the Art World and Beyond
Artist Marilyn Minter talks about the unrealistic societal and body-image standards young women continue to face, the importance of tolerating complexity and multiplicity in artwork, and the hope she has in the next generation to fight social injustice.
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Ari Shapiro on Finding Clarity and Connection Through Listening
Ari Shapiro, co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered, talks about his new memoir, “The Best Strangers in the World: Stories From a Life Spent Listening”; why he considers hosting All Things Considered like inheriting an heirloom; embracing one’s identity as a journalistic asset; and the parallels between reading fiction, cooking, and reporting.
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Anders Byriel on Redefining the Idea of “Company Culture”
Anders Byriel, the CEO of the Danish textile company Kvadrat, talks about why the best design has an artistic edge, the importance of making space for emotion within a corporate environment, and his deep and lifelong passions of poetry and photography.
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Tina Barney on Photography as a Way of Marking Time Across Generations
Photographer Tina Barney talks about what she views as the underlying sources of nostalgia, the fascinating natures of ritual and tradition, and the small miracles that can exist within a single photograph.
Customer Reviews
Worthwhile
Open the door to a world of individuals whose life, character and achievements are the result of minds capitalizing on every human experience: education, talent, loss, family, success, fear, relationships, opportunity, fate, ambition, trauma, intuition, doubt, challenge, perseverance, determination, love, deception… Immerse yourself in listening to people who set themselves apart by their critical interpretation of time, where triviality and inaction have no space. Relate to ideas and events from a human perspective, nurture the mind. Life is time sensitive.
excellent
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Wow
This is a fantastic thoughtful and insightful podcast that gives one hope for the future. The interviewers focus on the guests—not themselves—and they do their research and ask insightful questions because they listen. They are also genuinely diplomatic with narcissistic guests(Paper woman). Really great podcast. So worth listening to.