Tim Hwang turns the tables and interviews me (Ben) about Speculative Technologies and research management. 

Peter van Hardenberg talks about Industrialists vs. Academics, Ink&Switch's evolution over time, the Hollywood Model, internal lab infrastructure, and more!... more

A conversation with Tim Hwang about historical simulations, the interaction of policy and science, analogies between research ecosystems and the... more

Nadia Asparouhova talks about idea machines on idea machines! Idea machines, of course, being her framework around societal organisms that... more

Seemay Chou talks about the process of building a new research organization, ticks, hiring and managing entrepreneurial scientists, non-model organisms,... more

William Bonvillian does a deep dive about his decades of research on how DARPA works and his more recent work... more

In this conversation, Adam Falk and I talk about running research programs with impact over long timescales, creating new fields,... more

In this conversation, Semon Rezchikov and I talk about what other disciplines can learn from mathematics, creating and cultivating collaborations,... more

Professor Michael Strevens discusses the line between scientific knowledge and everything else, the contrast between what scientists as people do... more

A conversation with the VitaDAO core team. VitaDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization — or DAO — that focuses on... more