What's Your Problem?
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How Warren Buffet Built His Legacy By Finding Value No One Else…
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About this podcast
Every week on What's Your Problem?, former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein talks with entrepreneurs and engineers tackling the biggest challenges at the forefront of technology. How do you make a trip to space as routine as a plane flight? How do you turn solar energy into clean fuel? How do you use AI to stop deadly infections before they spread? We hear a lot these days about how the world is getting worse. What's Your Problem? learns from the thinkers and doers trying to make our future better.
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Episodes
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- How Warren Buffet Built His Legacy By Finding Value No One Else Could See from Business History · 44 min · Season 1Throughout the next few weeks, every Monday we'll be sharing some of our favorite episodes from Jacob's other show Business History. We hope you enjoy them and if you want to…
- Every Cell in Your Body Has a Clock · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 197Circadian rhythm isn’t just controlled by your brain. Every cell in your body runs on a 24-hour cycle, including your muscle cells. Karyn Esser is the chair of the department of…
- How a Bad Boss Kickstarted Silicon Valley... from Business History · 48 min · Season 1Throughout the next few weeks, every Monday we'll be sharing some of our favorite episodes from Jacob's other show Business History. We hope you enjoy them and if you want to…
- Solving the Trust Problem in AI Shopping · 40 min · Season 1Note: Today’s show is sponsored by PayPal. Kartik Hosanagar is a professor at the Wharton School. The problems he studies include: What will it take for people to trust AI agents…
- Can a Robot Build Better, Cheaper Houses? · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 196Jason Ballard is the co-founder and CEO of ICON. Jason's problem is this: Can you use 3-D printing to build houses that are cheaper, better and more interesting than the houses…
- Did AI Write This? · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 195Celebrated novelists, countless students and at least one billionaire have recently been accused of using AI in their writing. The most commonly cited AI detector in these cases…
- Blockers | A Preview of Michael Lewis's New Audiobook · 50 min · Season 1I'm here with a preview of Blockers, a new audiobook from Michael Lewis, the author of Liars Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and more. In Blockers, Lewis tells the story of a…
- Can We Defeat Deepfakes? · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 194We’ve all heard that nothing ever gets deleted from the internet. Luke Arrigoni says that just isn’t true. His company deletes thousands of deepfakes every day. Luke is the…
- The Printing Press: The Invention Built on Debt and Sin… from Business History · 47 min · Season 1Before 1450, books were written out by hand. It was slow and expensive. But Johannes Gutenberg borrowed a ton of money to create a printing press that could crank out Bibles and…
- Should We Pause AI? · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 193Everybody’s worried about the risks of AI. So we called up one of the most insightful writers we know on the subject: Zvi Mowshowitz. Zvi writes about AI and AI risks at his…
- Bonus: Planning for Your Financial Future · 10 min · Season 1 Episode 192On this bonus episode of What’s Your Problem, Jacob talks to Christine Chase, a Vice President, Financial Consultant at Fidelity Investments. Christine’s problem is this: How do…
- Can a Robot Kill Fish Humanely? · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 191The fish we eat usually die slowly, suffocating after they’re pulled out of the water. Saif Khawaja is the co-founder and CEO of a company called Shinkei. Saif's problem is this…
- Using Satellites to Prevent Famines · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 190Catherine Nakalembe is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland and the head of the Africa program at NASA Harvest, which uses satellite images to track agriculture…
- The Quantum Shift in Biomedical Discovery from Smart Talks with IBM · 44 min · Season 1When Dr. Lara Jehi began treating epilepsy patients in the 2000s, critical surgical decisions were driven more by clinician intuition and expertise than data. Today, she is a…
- Can We Slow Down Aging? · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 189Nir Barzilai is a physician and a researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where he runs the Institute for Geroscience. Nir’s problem is this: How can…
- Why Doctors Use Evidence but Managers (Mostly) Don’t · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 188Helen Pearson is the author of the book “Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works.” Helen's problem is this: How do you get people to make important decisions based on…
- The Job AI Was Supposed to Kill · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 187In 2016, Geoffrey Hinton, one of the inventors of modern AI, predicted that AI would replace radiologists within years. Ten years later, we have a shortage of radiologists. AI…
- How China Won the Car Industry · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 186After spending decades as marginal players in the global auto industry, Chinese carmakers have become the world’s biggest exporters of cars. Chinese cars are some of the best…
- Using Viruses to Fight Disease · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 185Phages are viruses that attack bacteria. People have been using phages to treat infections for over a hundred years, but in most cases they just don't work as well as…
- How AI Could Reduce Inequality · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 184David Autor is a labor economist at MIT. He has written about how the arrival of personal computers increased inequality among American workers. But when it comes to AI, David…
