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The Cultures

Feb 23, 2014


Feb 16, 2014

  • Why is it so difficult to simply let other people be wrong about something, especially online?
  • The travails of anarchist spaces like NoisebridgeDanny O'Brien's post that Naomi read out, and the Five Geek Social Fallacies.
  • Why don't Twitter and Facebook take rape and death threats more seriously? What would it take to...


Feb 9, 2014

  • We talk about psychotherapy, and whether online therapy is as good as (if not better than) in-person therapy
  • Will AIs ever actually turn evil?
  • Shipping containers - what happened when technology and automation threatened to eliminate thousands of jobs? You'll never guess the answer! (see The Box by Marc...


Feb 2, 2014

  • Naomi talks about what every writer should know about how book prizes are actually judged
  • Our advice to people applying for jobs, and hustling in general
  • G. K. Chesterton on The Fallacy of Success
  • The reality of growing older, and how it's pretty great

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