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Adam Mastroianni - Let Me Be Useful

Dialectic · Episode 58

Adam Mastroianni - Let Me Be Useful

Adam Mastroianni (Website, X) is an experimental psychologist and the writer of Experimental History. He earned his PhD in psychology at Harvard before leaving academia to pursue research and writing...

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58Adam Mastroianni - Let Me Be Useful10/1/26
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56Miles Grimshaw - Back Down the Mountain09/1/26
55Dan Lilienthal & José Chayet - As [untitled] as it Comes08/18/26
54Ian Rogers - Never a Spectator08/10/26
53Zhengdong Wang - Feeling the Wave07/29/26
52Jack Conte - Draw the Next Page07/21/26
51Nan Ransohoff - Power Laws for Philanthropy07/14/26
50Tyler Cowen & Nabeel Qureshi - An Appetite for More06/29/26
49Jasmine Sun - Close Enough to See Clearly06/18/26
48Henri Stern - Principled Enough to Be Pragmatic06/11/26
47Paul Scherer - A Friend That Brings Us Closer05/27/26
46Nicole Seah (Nix) - Loving What is Real05/11/26
45Nicholas Thompson - A Life of Long Form04/28/26
44Jared Weinstein - Within Earshot, Out of Camera Shot04/20/26
43Mario Gabriele - Reality is Story-Shaped04/7/26
42Celine Nguyen - Nurturing Your Mind in Public03/30/26
41Henrik Karlsson - Strolling Through Life’s Labyrinths03/23/26
40Charles Broskoski - Everything is Personal02/25/26
39Andrew Reed - Don’t Flinch02/11/26
38Molly Mielke McCarthy - The Art of Peopling01/28/26
37Trevor McFedries - Creative People Should Be Rich01/20/26
36C. Thi Nguyen - Measurement, Meaning, and Play01/13/26
35Brie Wolfson - Loving Attention & Ease in Craft01/6/26
34Ryo Lu - It's All the Same Thing12/18/25
33TBPN (John Coogan & Jordi Hays) - Inside Tech's Water Cooler11/12/25
32Chris Sacca - Drifting Back to Real10/20/25
31Gabe Whaley - Playing the Crowd & Outlasting the Hype10/7/25
30David Senra - The Clarity of Commitment09/20/25
29Billy Oppenheimer - Attuned to Clues09/9/25
28Maxwell Meyer - Starships & Road Trips09/1/25
27Mackenzie Burnett - Accounting for the American Dream08/12/25
26Cyan Banister - A Fool’s Dérive08/17/25
25Reggie James - Our Infinite Mirrors (Live at FWB Fest)08/10/25
24Linus Lee - Engineering for Aliveness07/28/25
23Tamara Winter - Tacit Trust & Caring Curiosity07/27/25
22Nadia Asparouhova - Ideas That Infect07/2/25
21Geoffrey Litt - Software You Can Shape06/17/25
20Yancey Strickler - Constellations of Creativity05/23/25
19Henrik Karlsson - Cultivating a Life that Fits06/2/25
18Tom Morgan - Wisdom in the Woo05/28/25
17Alex Danco - Innovation Begins with Gifts05/20/25
16Anjan Katta - A Sunrise Over Computing05/5/25
15D.A. Wallach - Serendipity & Systems04/27/25
14Alex Zhang - Curating Cultural Playgrounds04/21/25
13Nabeel S. Qureshi - The Will to Care03/31/25
12Che-Wei Wang & Taylor Levy (CW&T) - Iterating Together with Time03/24/25
11Eugene Wei - Amusing Each Other to Death03/17/25
10Josh Wolfe - Illuminating Tomorrow02/24/25
9Jacob Horne - Markets for What Matters02/18/25
8Steph Ango - Tools for Amplifying Our Light02/3/25
7Toby Shorin - The Shapes of Culture01/28/25
6Chris Paik - Intentionally in Search of the New01/18/25
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4Ava - Alive in Writing and in Love12/8/24
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