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Five Good Questions Podcast

Welcome to Five Good Questions. I’m your host, Jake Taylor. Fact: the average American watches 5 hours of television per day. What would the world be like if we dedicated one of those hours to reading books instead? I don’t know, but I’d like to find out. So to inspire others to read more, I ask five good questions of interesting authors and share the results with you every Friday. Let’s see if together, we can’t rescue some of those lost hours. In addition to author interviews, we also publish "The Hikecast." The Hikecast is a show where interesting people take me on their favorite hikes or walks and we talk about big ideas in an unconstrained format.  No planned agendas, just deep conversations, recorded out in nature. The idea is for you to put on The Hikecast and get outside to simulate taking a hike with us.  I want you to feel like you're there with us out in nature.
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May 31, 2019

The Hikecast is a show where interesting people take me on their favorite hikes or walks and we talk about big ideas in an unconstrained format. No planned agendas, just deep conversations, recorded out in nature.

The idea is for you to put on The Hikecast and get outside to simulate taking a hike with us. I want you to feel like you're there with us out in nature.

Care to join us on a hike? :)

My guest for this episode is Bogumil Baranowski. Bogie is a founding partner at Sicart and Associates and previously worked at Tocqueville Asset Management. He's the author of the book Outsmarting the Crowd.

We went for a beautiful walk in Central Park in NYC.

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Also, please check out my first literary effort: The Rebel Allocator

It’s a coming-of-age story of a young man who learns about business and life from an unlikely teacher. Imagine The Karate Kid meets Thorndike’s The Outsiders. You’re right, it’s probably not what you were expecting, but I have my fingers crossed that you’ll really enjoy it. It's available on amazon now in print, digital, and audiobook formats.

With gratitude,
Jake

May 24, 2019

In this week's Five Good Questions, we're interviewing Barbara Tversky about her book Mind in Motion.

Barbara Tversky has three degrees in cognitive psychology at the University of Michigan. She moved to Israel with Israeli husband, learned the language & culture, taught, fought wars, and had 3 kids. Then she was on to Stanford to research memory, categorization, spatial thinking & language, design, diagrams, event cognition. Her kids grew up, her husband died, and she moved to Columbia Teachers College, adding research on gesture, art, creativity, and joint action.

Five Good Questions:
1. What are mirror neurons and how do they unite seeing and doing?
2. How do we use spatial reasoning to navigate the world?
3. What is the first law of cognition and what are some examples to help us understand?
4. What makes maps so miraculous?
5. How can insights of your research help investors and professional decision-makers be more effective?

And make sure you pick up your copy of the Rebel Allocator, available now on Amazon in digital, physical, and audiobook formats!

May 17, 2019

In this week's Five Good Questions, we're interviewing Mark Moffett about his book, The Human Swarm.

Mark Moffett is a tropical biologist and explorer known for finding rare species and behavior in remote places. His research has extended from the architecture of rainforest canopies to the behavior of army ants. For the last six years he has been merging psychology and anthropology to investigate the role of social identity in holding societies together across species and in humans up to the present day.

Five Good Questions
1. What is so remarkable about being able to walk into a modern day coffee shop?
2. What can ants, with their 250k neurons, teach us about human societies?
3. Can we ever get rid of societies?
4. Is it possible the psychological bias known as the “endowment effect” is an artifact of our avoiding violent territorial conflicts?
5. Tell us a funny or surprising anecdote about E.O. Wilson.

And make sure you pick up your copy of the Rebel Allocator, available now on Amazon in digital, physical, and audiobook formats!

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