Superposed

In February 2024, Apple summoned nearly 2,000 people to a 12 minute meeting to terminate Project Titan, Apple's decade-long, $10 billion attempt to build a car. No one in the room was shocked. They had lived through five leadership changes and just as many versions of what the "Apple Car" was supposed to be. The real question isn't why Apple's car failed to ship. It's why...

In August 1945, Harry Truman authorized the single most destructive act in the history of warfare – two atomic bombs that killed an estimated 214,000 people. He had been president for fewer than four months. He hadn't even known the Manhattan Project existed until 12 days after taking office. This episode asks the question that decision science was built to answer: was this Truman's decisi...

In 1973, seven justices built a 50-year precedent on the right to privacy. In 2022, five justices tore it down – and a leaked memo may be the reason none of them could change their mind. This episode breaks down Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, through the lens of quantum cognition. Dobbs began as a 15-week abortion ban in Missis...

At his peak, Pablo Escobar was one of the wealthiest men in the world with a net worth of over $30B and had built a reputation as Colombia's own Robin Hood – funding soccer fields, schools, and housing for the poor. He had wealth, power, and public love. So why did he risk everything to run for Colombian Congress? In 1982, Escobar entered politics, only to be publicly rejected by reformers Luis Ca...

In 2018, Elon Musk walked away from OpenAI, calling its odds of success "0%." Eight years later, OpenAI is valued at $852 billion and preparing one of the largest IPOs in history – and Musk has spent the years since suing to unwind it. This episode traces the real story behind Musk's exit: his $38 million in early funding, his failed bid for board control, his attempt to merge OpenAI...

It's 1947. You command the most powerful military on Earth, including the only nuclear arsenal in existence. Europe is starving, Stalin is circling, and your own Congress won't give you an easy path forward. Do you bomb, blockade, walk away –  or write a check? That was Harry Truman's actual decision after the brutal winter of 1946-47, when over a million Europeans and Soviets died and...

This week, the U.S. and Iran signed a deal to formally end their war – reopening the Strait of Hormuz, extending the ceasefire into a lasting agreement, and closing a conflict that cost at minimum $113 Billion and thousands of casualties since it began on February 28, 2026. It was supposed to last weeks. It took over 100 days. This episode traces the full arc: why Trump chose war over a deal in th...

You and I make over 35,000 decisions a day. Every one is an opportunity. But in today's world we can be so inundated with information and uncertainty, it can be hard to know what decisions to make. Luckily, quantum cognition provides a framework to better understand our decisions and make more fulfilling choices. Welcome to Superposed – a podcast that applies the principles of quantum cognitio...