Sarah Tavel has spent the past four years as a general partner at venture capital firm Benchmark, after previously serving in the same role with Greylock Partners and as the first-ever product manager at Pinterest. In this episode Shane and Sarah how studying philosophy helped in her career as a venture capitalist, the value of …

Celebrated organizational psychologist and author Adam Grant provides compelling insight into why we should spend time not just thinking, but rethinking. In this episode we cover how to change our own views, how to change the views of others, hiring processes, psychological safety, tribes and group identity, feigned knowledge, binary bias, and so much more. …

On this Members Only episode of The Knowledge Project, billionaire businessman and philanthropist David Rubenstein discusses the definition of private equity and the near-term and long-term outlook, his current view of the markets and the U.S. economy, interest rates, decision making, opportunity cost and so much more. Audio for Members Only Only supporting members have …

Joel Greenblatt is one of the best investors in the world. In this wide-ranging conversation he talks about the difference between luck and skill, stock options, traits of successful management teams, lessons learned from Warren Buffett and what scares him the most in today’s market. Now available on: YouTube | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | …

Master researcher and author Jim Collins shares a practical guide for leadership. In this episode, we cover the Stockdale Paradox, why we should trust by default, the difference between “risk afraid” and “ambiguity afraid”, approaching life through relationships and not transactions, and so much more. Now available on: YouTube | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | …

Angela Duckworth is a professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania studying why some people succeed and others fail. She’s the author of Grit, a New York Times bestseller that reveals the secret to outstanding achievement is passion and persistence. In this conversation, she explores grit, whether human behavior is constant or circumstantial, the …

Thomas Zurbuchen manages the $8 billion dollar research program at NASA. In this interview, he gives a masterclass in how to make critical decisions when billions are on the line, how to manage risk, gathering effective information from a team, the challenges of commercial spaceflight, whether humans will ever life on Mars, and so much …

In this thought-provoking episode of The Knowledge Project, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley explores the unstoppable power of human innovation. Discover the crucial difference between invention and execution, why failure is essential to progress, and how collaborative problem-solving drives breakthrough technologies. Ridley reveals why innovation clusters geographically, explains why execution often matters more than ideas, …

Historian John Lewis Gaddis offers a masterclass in the lessons of history and why we should study it, the patterns of success and failure, grand strategy and how to use it, the value of a liberal education, and so much more. Gaddis is a professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. Audio for …

Author of one of the best business books of all time, The Personal MBA, Josh Kaufman chats with Shane about rapid skill acquisition, mental models, decision making, overcoming fear and so much more. Now available on: YouTube | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Transcript Here are a few highlights from the conversation: The Personal MBA …