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Welcome back to Readerzz! Today we’re continuing our series on The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today with Susanne Paola Antonetta. Last episode, we explored consciousness, the early history of psychiatric care, the rise of eugenics, and the lives of Paul Schreber and Dorothea Buck. In Part 2, we enter one of the darkest chapters of...

Welcome to Readerzz! Today we’re kicking off a new series on The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today with Susanne Paola Antonetta. Susanne is an award-winning poet, memoirist, and essayist whose work explores consciousness, mental illness, neurodiversity, science, and what it feels like to live inside an unusual mind. In this book, sh...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today we’re closing out our series on Living Systems Leadership with Nate Payne. Across the first two episodes, we built the core idea of the book: leadership is not just a role you perform, but a system you design. We looked at how authority, information, culture, responsibility, conflict, resilience, coordination, and trust move through an organization. In Part 3, we br...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today we’re continuing our series on Living Systems Leadership with Nate Payne. Last episode, we built the foundation: leadership is not just a role you perform, but a system you design. In Part 2, we take that idea further by asking what happens when an organization is under pressure. This episode gets into the patterns that show up when teams have to move, adapt, and ma...

Welcome to Readerzz! Today we’re kicking off a new series on Living Systems Leadership with Nate Payne. Nate is a leadership advisor, speaker, and author whose work helps leaders build teams and organizations that can adapt, recover, and grow stronger in the face of constant change. His core idea is that leadership is not just a role you perform. It is a system you design. And the best systems des...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today we’re closing out our series on Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University with Michael Gibson. Last episode, we covered the talent-scouting framework, Vitalik and the birth of Ethereum, the founding of 1517 Fund, and the hard lessons Michael and Danielle learned from Sand Hill Road. In Part 3, the story reaches its biggest an...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today we’re continuing our series on Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University with Michael Gibson. Last episode, we covered Michael’s path into Peter Thiel’s world, the launch of the Thiel Fellowship, and the early backlash against challenging the traditional college system. In Part 2, the idea becomes a real machine. This episode...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today we’re kicking off a new series on Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University with Michael Gibson. Michael is the co-founder and general partner of 1517 Fund, an early-stage venture firm that backs young builders, dropouts, and unconventional founders. Before that, he worked with Peter Thiel at the Thiel Foundation, where he he...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today we’re closing out our series on The Self-Driving You: Awaken the Driver Within to Rewire Your Brain and Transform Your Life with Alan Bodnar. In the first two episodes, we built the metaphor and went under the hood: the automatic self-driving system, the conscious driver, the survival and default-mode circuits, and the practical tools of breath and mindfulness. In P...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today we’re continuing our series on The Self-Driving You: Awaken the Driver Within to Rewire Your Brain and Transform Your Life with Alan Bodnar. Last episode, we built the foundation: the idea that much of our life runs on autopilot, with a conscious driver who can step in, take the wheel, and begin to rewire the system. In Part 2, we go under the hood. This episode get...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today we’re kicking off a new three-part series on The Self-Driving You: Awaken the Driver Within to Rewire Your Brain and Transform Your Life with Alan Bodnar. Alan’s core idea is that much of our life runs on autopilot. Our thoughts, reactions, emotions, habits, and even the stories we tell ourselves are often being driven by a system we did not consciously choose. But...

Today we’re doing something a little different: a one-episode special covering 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People with David Yeager. This is not another conversation about “kids these days,” and it is not a parenting advice book built on control, pressure, or lowering standards. Instead, Dr. Yeager breaks down the science of why so many common approaches to motivating young people ac...

Welcome back to Readerzz! This is Part 3, the final episode in our Our Primal 5 series with Matthew Campbell. In the first two episodes, we covered sunlight, sleep, movement, and social connection. Today, we close with Week 5: consumption and how to make change actually last. We expand “junk” beyond just food and talk about the drinks, substances, and information we take in every day, and how they...

Welcome back to Readerzz! This is Part 2 of our Our Primal 5 series with Dr. Matthew Campbell. In Part 1, we covered sunlight and sleep, the foundation that supports mood, energy, and emotional stability. Today we move into Weeks 3 and 4: movement and social connection. We talk about why your brain is not designed to sit still all day and feel good, and how to reframe movement so it feels accessib...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today we’re starting a new series on Our Primal 5: The Simple 5-Week Guide to Self-Care with Dr. Matthew Campbell, and we’re setting the tone right away. This isn’t “self-care” as a trend. It’s human maintenance, the basics people skip until they feel anxious, foggy, drained, unmotivated, or just off. In Part 1 (Weeks 1 and 2), we cover sunlight and sleep. We talk about h...

Today we’re back with Wes Towers, author of The Simple Manifesto . In Part 3, we combine Lens 3: Approach and Lens 4: Position — how to do less but get more, and how to be understood faster (in business and in real life). We talk about cutting “productive” tasks that don’t actually move you forward, the everyday excuses that keep people stuck (and how to stay honest without self-shame), and what m...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today we’re back with Wes Towers, author of The Simple Manifesto . In Part 2, we move into Lens 2: Nonconformist: what it looks like to live your values publicly, whether you’re building a company or just trying to live with more clarity. We talk about handling pushback without getting reactive, separating useful feedback from projection, and why being misunderstood is pa...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today we’re joined by Wes Towers,  a marketer and business builder focused on helping small business owners simplify their marketing, websites, and systems, and the author of The Simple Manifesto! In Part 1 of our conversation with Wes, we start at the foundation of his framework: Lens 1 - Standpoint. This episode challenges the “guru” playbook and digs into why business...

Welcome back to Readerzz! In Part 3 of our conversation with Ruby Ryba, author of How to Stop Scrolling , we arrive at the deepest layer of the journey: identity and attention. This episode goes beyond habits and settings to explore what your phone use reveals about your values, triggers, and the person you’re becoming. Ruby introduces the idea of personal “technophilosophies” - the rules we live...

Welcome back to Readerzz! In Part 2 of our conversation with Ruby Ryba, author of How to Stop Scrolling , we move from the space around the phone to the forces inside it. This episode dives into notifications, visual triggers, and the subtle design choices that keep us checking, tapping, and scrolling without thinking. Ruby breaks down how to quiet the constant noise, reduce digital clutter, and t...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today’s episode kicks off a special multi-part conversation with Ruby Ryba, screen-time strategist and author of How to Stop Scrolling . This first episode focuses on the foundation of Ruby’s approach: environment over willpower. Through real stories and simple “Easy Wins,” Ruby shows why our phones aren’t a self-control problem, they’re an environment problem. Small chan...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today, we're once again joined by Dr. Jeffrey L. Reynolds, an Ironman triathlete, public-health leader, two-time cancer survivor, and author of Every Mile Matters. In today's episode, we dive deep into the pivotal moments of of growth. We discover that endurance doesn’t end at the finish line, it evolves into empathy. Survival isn’t the story’s end; it’s your ne...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today, we're once again joined by Dr. Jeffrey L. Reynolds, an Ironman triathlete, public-health leader, two-time cancer survivor, and author of Every Mile Matters. In today's episode, we dive deep into the pivotal moments of of growth. We discussed the change cancer brings spirirtually, socially, and mentally, as well as the importance of gratitude, and reflecti...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today’s episode is special! We're joined by Dr. Jeffrey L. Reynolds, an Ironman triathlete, public-health leader, and now two-time cancer survivor whose story is as physical as it is spiritual. Every Mile Matters is not a book about finishing races — it’s about what happens when life throws you one you never signed up for. The lessons Jeff learned pounding out miles...

Welcome back to Readerzz!   Today, we’re covering part two of Personalized: Customer Strategy in the Age of AI, and are once again interviewing David Edelman.  In this new episode, we’ll dive into putting personalization into action through leadership, measuring our impact, and also the future of personalization! For any founders, small business owners, or even a fan of the podcast, I would highly...