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High Variance with Danny Buerkli

High Variance with Danny Buerkli

Written by: Danny Buerkli
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 High Variance is an interview podcast about a world that has become harder to read — more uncertain, more volatile, stranger. Host Danny Buerkli speaks with public intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and technologists to ask what is going on and how we should respond.© 2025 Radiant Spheres GmbH Social Sciences
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  • Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World – with Richard Cockett

    Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World – with Richard Cockett
    Jan 21 2026

    Every aspect of modernity was shaped by individuals with intellectual roots in Vienna, argues Richard Cockett, author of "Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World". Richard, historian and senior editor at The Economist, joins Danny Buerkli to discuss his latest book. They cover the story of the stunningly productive and creative Viennese emigrés, discuss implications for progress today and trace how the intellectual feud between Vienna and Frankfurt still reverberates today.
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    54 mins
  • Labor Market Impacts of AI – with Bharat Chandar

    Labor Market Impacts of AI – with Bharat Chandar
    Dec 29 2025

    Which effects of AI are we already seeing in the labor market? And what might be coming down the line? Bharat Chandar, postdoc at Stanford and co-author of the "Canaries in the Coal Mine" paper, joins Danny Buerkli to discuss what we know about the impacts of AI on the labor market and where the jury is still out.
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    44 mins
  • Improv Wisdom – with Patricia Ryan Madson

    Improv Wisdom – with Patricia Ryan Madson
    Dec 10 2025

    Patricia Ryan Madson, professor emerita at Stanford and author of "Improv Wisdom", joins Danny Buerkli to talk about how she got into improv, how she starts a class, how status works, Keith Johnstone's dark side, and the four A's of improv: attention, acceptance, appreciation, and action.

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    49 mins
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