Wiser Than Yesterday Podcast
1) The Language Puzzle: How we talked our way out of the Stone Age - Steven Mithen
The relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone with an interest in what it means to be human.The Language Puzzle by Steven Mithen explains how the invention of wor...Show More
2) Bruce Lee: Artist of life - The 6 habits of power and wisdom from a legend
Bruce Lee was an intense man with such sheer concentration of energy that no one who encountered him, on screen or in person, could help but be drawn to him and his enthusiasm for life and knowledge.B...Show More
3) Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human - Richard Wrangham
In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of&nb...Show More
4) Thinking Fast & Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Why is there more chance we'll believe something if it's in a bold type face? Why are judges more likely to deny parole before lunch? Why do we assume a good-looking person will be more competent?The ...Show More
5) Impact: How to Measure World Change
Is Brexit more important than Bitcoin? How do we rank Buddhism vs TikTok?The world changes, technology advances, but what really matters and how much? Sam explains the Innovation Richter Scale, a fram...Show More
6) Poor Charlie's Almanac - Charlie Munger
The favourite mental models and timeless lessons from Charlie Munger on how to build worldly wisdom.Charlie Munger was the business partner of Warren Buffet and the cofounder of Berkshire Hathaway. Th...Show More
7) The World Until Yesterday - Jared Diamond - Stone Age Lessons on Innovation
Heard enough lame insights about caveman psychology? Jared Diamond goes hard into what life was really like, how we thought and how it compares to today.A masterclass of a book when it comes to truly ...Show More
The World Until Yesterday - Jared Diamond - Stone Age Lessons on Innovation
31:13 | Jul 15th, 2025
8) The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon - Brad Stone
We share the 10 best mental models about innovation from tech titan Jeff Bezos.This episode covers the story of Amazon and some of the incredible shifts it has created on the planet. From the obvious ...Show More
9) Morgan Housel - Same As Ever: Timeless lessons on risk, opportunity and living a good life.
Every investment plan under the sun is, at best, an informed speculation of what may happen in the future, based on a systematic extrapolation from the known past.Same as Ever reverses the p...Show More
10) The Dark Forest - Liu Cixin [Three Body Problem pt.2]
A philosophical discussion on part 2 of the Three-Body Problem series, The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin.We ponder different answers to Fermi's paradox and how we'd deal with different levels of intelligen...Show More