Edition 15
How to Turn Small Talk Into Smart Conversation Not sure I agree with being provocative just to stimulate conversation but I am all for absurdity
The Architect of Modern Algorithms A computer science pioneer, former head of computer science at MIT talks about a bunch of things incl. AI, discrimination against women, etc. Among a bunch of things I learnt from the interview were CLU (which predated a bunch of modern computer languages) and the Therac disasters
General inspiration - a 74 year old doctor who has done 140 courses on Coursera