What's Bunk About Brainstorming

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Does brainstorming light a creative fire or smother the sparks of invention? Our regular guest Maria Konnikova looks at the merits of spitballing. Konnikova writes for the New Yorker and is the author of The Confidence Game. For the Spiel, Donald Trump saves a thousand manufacturing jobs! Great. Now, what about the other 311,000? Today's sponsors: Placemakers, a new Slate podcast made possible by JPMorgan Chase. This podcast tells the stories of neighborhoods, businesses, and nonprofits that are working together to move their communities forward. Download and subscribe to Placemakerswherever you get your podcasts. LifeAfter. What happens to our digital lives when we're gone? LifeAfter, a new series from GE Podcast Theater and Panoply, the creators of last year's award-winning The Message, explores these very questions. Listen and download LifeAfter wherever you find your podcasts.Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.7	It's Wednesday, November 30th, 2016 from Slate, it's Digest I, Mike Pesca.
0:12.3	Brahma is conflict, conflict is interesting.
0:15.2	Yet, potential conflicts of interest don't seem that dramatic to most people.
0:20.4	To you and I, they might, but the average voter, they apparently don't.
0:23.9	Donald Trump never released his taxes, gave excuses that seemed flimsy.
0:28.7	At least they did in a pre-post-truth world, yet he was elected.
0:32.2	He says he'll announce how he will be addressing the issue of conflicts of interest,
0:37.0	but it's clear he doesn't care about the issue.
0:39.0	He thinks voters don't care, and at this point they, or at least the majority of voters
0:43.3	in electoral states that add up to the majority of the vote, do not care.
0:47.1	So, is conflict of interest bad?
0:49.6	It is, it really is.
0:51.3	He'll be able to make policy in his business interest, not in our national interests.
0:55.3	We won't know that these policies may be in his business interest because his business interests are opaque.
1:01.0	We'll be asked to take his word.
1:02.8	Remember, he has set every record for panochios and pants of flame that exist.
1:07.1	Ezra Bayjant, Turkey, Saudi Arabia.
1:09.2	Countries that the US to one degree or another is trying to put pressure on to open up democratically
1:13.4	or at least in terms of human rights.
1:15.2	Also, sites of Donald Trump properties.
1:17.7	Deutsche Bank faces a $14 billion fine by the US.
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