I started this podcast last fall to give me an excuse to talk to the smartest, weirdest,

most creative, and interesting people on the planet.

Since then, we've put out 25 episodes and things are going better than I ever could

have hoped.

Not only are it way more people listening than I expected, but these conversations have

spawned three or four brand new projects in partnership with my guests.

But one consequence of the explosion in the number of listeners over time is that most

of you probably never heard the early episodes.

With that in mind, I decided it would make sense from time to time to slip in re-broadcasts

of a few of my very favorite early interviews.

At the top of that list is my discussion with inventor Nathan Mirvold.

Nathan is truly one of the most brilliant, inspiring people I've ever met.

And weird too.

He spent his pandemic creating the highest resolution photo ever taken of a snowflake.

But also worked on the world's biggest problems, like how to supply clean energy to the globe.

Problems that are hard are usually hard because of the set of perspectives and tools that

have been used to try to solve them.

So you have to always ask, and I'm bringing something new to this problem.

And if you're not, then you should say, well, maybe I should either try to get a different

perspective or a different tool already, or maybe give it a rest and work on something

that I can build more progress with.

So there are people who know a lot about a few narrow topics.

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