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Build For Tomorrow
Want to take control of the future? In each episode of this podcast, Entrepreneur magazine editor in chief Jason Feifer takes something that seems concerning or confusing today, and then learns its surprising history, what important things we’re missing, and the solutions that can make us smarter an...
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The Greatest Myth About Learning
For decades, people have been told they have a certain “learning style.” Maybe you think you’re a visual learner, for example, or a reading/writing le...
What People of 1923 Predicted About 2023
In 1923, a famous scientist predicted how work would change in 2023. Now, 100 years later, we can confirm: He was shockingly right… and yet totally wr...
The Best Ways to Use a Crisis
Everyone’s freaking out! How can that be put to good use? In this episode, we discuss the unexpected benefits of the bubonic plague, what the four-day...
How to Stop Obsessing Over “What If…?”
Have you ever messed up — or just thought you messed up! — and then obsessed over what you could have done better? This episode is about what’s happen...
How to See Gain, Where Others See Loss
You can find opportunity in the hardest situations. But how?
To answer that out, we take lessons from one of the most fascinating changes in cul...
Why “Nobody Wants to Work Anymore” is BS
Want to fix the problem with work today? It starts by understanding the common phrase “nobody wants to work anymore” — including what’s right about it...
To Save Barbie, They Had to Change Her
Barbie sales were plummeting. A new leader had a vision: The doll needed to be “a reflection of our times.” But how do you make something more modern?...
Teddy Bears Are History’s Most Subversive Toy (Classic)
The teddy bear: Is it cute and cuddly, or a “horrible monstrosity” that’ll destroy humanity? In 1907, many people feared the worst — that this new toy...
All the Fun Facts You Have Wrong!
Our brains are full of fun facts: the memory span of a goldfish, Marie Antoinette’s famous words, the vomitoriums of Rome, and more. But what if it’s...
The Four-Day Workweek Is Here
The four-day workweek was once just an experiment. Now it’s regular life for many people. So what’s that like? In this episode, we look at the good, t...
Real Ways to Predict the Future
Do you wish you could predict the future? Not in a street-corner psychic kind of way, but in a more personal, meaningful way. How can you know what’s...
The Climate Problem We Can Solve Now
Climate change is described as a “generational battle,” in which young people care and older people don’t. But this is a perfect example of how we thi...
Why People Can’t Write, and How To Fix That
Who is to blame for people’s poor writing skills? It isn’t texting or tweeting. It’s a fateful decision made in 1875, from which we’ve never recovered...
We Can Make Politics Smarter
We like to laugh at lawmakers for their technology ignorance, like when Sen. Richard Blumenthal asked a Facebook executive if she’ll “commit to ending...
The Case for Sex Robots
Sex robots?! For decades, people have debated their dangers or called them ridiculous. But what if these bots can actually be a good thing? Here is th...
This Episode Will Change Your Brain
People worry that technology changes our brains. It’s the reason why tech critics talk about dopamine, a chemical that they say turns us into social m...
Simple Pleasures Aren’t Simple (See: Knitting)
Is everything really political these days? Or has it always been that way?
To answer that, let’s look at the story of knitting. Can anything get...
The Not-Boring Truth About Boredom
The most dangerous thing about smartphones, according to critics, is that we're never bored. Boredom is healthy, they say! But history and science may...
Yes, Talk to Strangers!
You might think you’re bad at talking with strangers. But in fact, you were built to talk to them — and you’re more natural at it than you know. In th...
How to Create Better Memories
Many people are reminiscing about the things they enjoyed during Covid, which is a surprisingly common thing to happen after bad or challenging times....
You Are Not “Addicted” To Technology
Are smartphones and social media addictive? Tech critics say yes. But actual addiction researchers say something else — and they point to ways in whic...
How To Live Like Ancient Royalty
What was once only available to kings and queens, but that you can do today? The answer: Shocking stuff you've never even thought of. If you ever worr...
Everyone Is Wrong About Participation Trophies
You’ve heard the story: Young people got “participation trophies” as kids, and it taught them to be entitled, lazy workers. But here’s what you haven’...
The Surprising Importance of To-Go Cocktails
You can learn a lot from a simple margarita… because when you take one home from a restaurant in America, you’re participating in a change that was hu...
When Exactly Were "The Good Old Days"?
We like to say that things were better before. But... what year was that, exactly? Join me on a trip through history, as we return to every supposed "...
Did Pessimists Archive Change Its Name? Yes!
This podcast was called Pessimists Archive. Now it's called Build For Tomorrow.
Why? Because this show is optimistic — and it needed a name that...
Do We Lose Skills Because of Technology?
We once knew how to do important things... until new technology made us weaker, lazier, and dumber. That’s a story we’ve told ourselves for centuries....
How to Communicate With the Future
These feel like historic times… so how can we share our wisdom and experiences with future generations? Turns out, it’s really hard! This episode expl...
The Most Important Podcast of Our Lifetime!
If you’ve ever voted in an election, watched the Bachelor, or worried about the end of days, then you’ve probably fallen for a specific rhetorical tri...
224 Years of Election Hacking
We have a clear narrative about the 2016 and 2020 election hacking: It’s social media’s fault. But Russia has used the same strategy against America f...
Your Fork Is A Sign That You Think For Yourself
The fork isn’t just a tool for eating. It’s also one of the greatest symbols of individualism — a utensil that people opposed for thousands of years,...
Why New Technology Always Seems Scary
People said radio was too addictive... then TV was too addictive... and now smartphones are too addictive! Why does every generation say the same thin...
The Mystery of the Shared Earbuds
What does it take for two different people to find common ground? To answer that, we dig into a nine-year-old mystery. In 2011, two very different guy...
Why We Hate Being Told What To Do
People are refusing to wear masks during a pandemic. Why? To understand, we rewind to the “Anti-Mask League” of 1919 and to the opposition to seatbelt...
The Good That Comes From A Pandemic
Covid-19 has interrupted our world, but it's also likely to improve it. After all, history shows that massive disruption is followed by massive opport...
How Natural Is "Natural"?
People love natural foods and natural products... but what is "natural," really? In this episode, we explore that question by going back to one of the...
Why We Really Celebrate Our Birthdays
Today, people complain about self-obsessed millennials. Yesterday, they complained about children celebrating their birthdays. When the birthday party...
Can Tech Physically Change Your Face?
Do you suffer from automobile face? What about airplane face? Or moving-picture face? These are just some examples from a strange historical pattern:...
Teddy Bears Are History's Most Subversive Toy
The teddy bear: Is it cute and cuddly, or a “horrible monstrosity” that’ll destroy humanity? In 1907, many people feared the worst — that this new toy...