A bonus episode after Season 1! Thanks for listening. Recapping the most popular episodes of Season 1 and previewing a few of the topics coming up in Season 2. What are your favorite episodes of Season 1? Reach out and let me know! @aaronjmarx

Your Time or God's Time

Apr 25th, 2021 23m 39s

How do you decide how hard to work, how aggressively to push toward your goals, what projects to start at what times? Are the results of these decisions in our hands at all, or do they spring from an intricate and ever-shifting collaborative da

The American Artform

Apr 18th, 2021 21m

Art is a human instinct. We seek to beautify our existence, our lives, our worlds. We strive to perform actions, produce goods, in such a manner by which they simply become inspiring by the very level of craft and refinement that they reach. F

The Source of Value

Apr 11th, 2021 23m 11s

There is a nickname for the human species that is often invoked in models of exchange and rational decision making. The nickname is “homo economicus”. This implies a simple yet profound truth about the nature of being human and participating in

Zero-Sum Game

Apr 4th, 2021 20m 26s

If you challenge yourself to truly examine your deeply held and subconscious beliefs about the nature of economics I suspect you will find a tension, perhaps a number of them. And I think these tensions boil down to the competing sense that mon

"We All Want the Same Thing"

Mar 28th, 2021 19m 4s

Certain divisive areas of human life, most especially politics and religion I tend to notice, often create sharply polarized and even tribal divisions between groups of people who seem to desire and pursue highly dissimilar visions of society,

Theories of Success

Mar 21st, 2021 22m 54s

Have you ever had anyone tell you their magic formula for success? I’ll bet you have. We go through life with so many mentors, sages, counselors, coaches, teachers, and others offering us their time-tested advice to create the best life possibl

Pareto Distributions

Mar 14th, 2021 18m 57s

A surprising but reliable mathematical relationship that seems to govern nature and human dynamics is the Pareto Principle. Variously known as the 80/20 principle, or the law of the vital few, it is essentially a dictum that states we will alw

What Does Your Utopia Look Like?

Mar 7th, 2021 21m 33s

Do you long for a utopia of some kind? Are you even aware that you do? Is it possible not to? So many of our hidden motivations are driven by the often subconscious desire to create some kind of utopia in the real world. But when we really ask

Do We Have Free Will?

Mar 1st, 2021 19m 17s

Do you make free choices? When you make decisions, do you have a soul evaluating which course to take? Or, are our thoughts and actions governed strictly and exclusively by the laws of the universe playing out in the physical matter of our bo

Does God Exist?

Feb 22nd, 2021 18m 46s

Do you believe in God? It’s a question as old as human thought itself. By what process do we arrive at an answer? Can we ever be sure of an answer in either direction? How do your thoughts about this timeless question affect your outlook?