Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.

Episode 272.

Have a seat with me. I will tell you some things I am currently on a lecture tour, but I want to tell you some stuff about what's been going on.

And once you know the direction of a couple things before I play this episode, one thing you should know, this episode was going to be about cascades with the great Greg Satell, but I now have COVID.

So that's what happens when you're on a lot of airplanes and then a lot of convention spaces, which is what I've been doing.

I've been in Nashville and New Jersey and Denver and Montreal and Toronto and then back to Denver and luckily I have a little bit of a break here and then I'm going to go to Madison, Wisconsin, which is great.

The How Minds Change is the Go Big Read book and they gave this book out to roughly 13,000 freshmen and I'm going to speak with a chancellor on stage and visit a bunch of places all throughout Madison.

And then after that it's going to be Goddard Space Center, NASA, yes, and then I'm going to San Diego for an award that I can't tell you about yet, but I will tell you about that shortly.

And lots of people have been emailing me and asking me, how can I be in these places? These are all lecture things. So I'm going to do a more traditional book tour after this.

So that everybody can just hang out and we can talk about how minds change and I can give demonstrations. I'm going to try to do that at bookstores and coffee shop places all throughout the United States and North America.

That will be fun. I'll set it up. I'll announce it. If you have a place like that, we'd like me to come be there and I can make this big road trip.

Email me. We'll talk about it. So this is going to be a rerun of an episode from last year with Annie Duke about her book Quit and Annie is a big part of the Alliance for Decision Education and they have a podcast called the Decision Education Podcast.

I'm on the board of ambassadors for that and I am in their finale for this week's podcast over at the Decision Education Podcast.

I am the guest that is the finale for that. And what a lineup of people to be hang out with. Cast Sunstein, Adam Grant, Stephen Pinker, Maya Shanker, Daniel Kahneman.

These are all people who were guests this season. So it feels really, really amazing to be part of all of that. And I have another thing to announce and it's going to be an episode soon.

I have joined the board of the School of Thought and they I helped them make this thing called the conspiracy test. You can go find it at the conspiracy test dot org.

There's going to be a big sort of launch announcement for this thing, but this is a website where you can test just how susceptible you are to conspiratorial thinking and particular conspiracy theories.

But more importantly, you can pass this along. You can give this link to people instead of arguing with them and have them learn it's very highly produced and very fun.

I won't ruin what happens when you go there, but involves being guided through some things by a eyes and reptilians. You'll see the conspiracy test dot org.

Okay, with all that in mind, I am on the road and also have COVID. So this will be an unexpected unintended rerun right here instead of the cascades episode.

But it's a really good episode with Annie Duke and I'm very happy to know Annie and then help her promote her book and also be part of the decision education podcast and the Alliance for decision education.

All that comes together in this episode, which I will play right now.

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