Interviews: Jim Pethokoukis, Pod of Jake, Montessorium

by Jason Crawford · September 1, 2022 · 1 min read

A few interviews with me that were published recently (or not super recently, I’m catching up):

Faster, Please! the Podcast with Jim Pethokoukis

Listen on Substack. Topics included:

• How I got interested in progress
• Why “stuff” is underrated… but also why progress is more than just “stuff”
• Do we still not know how progress happens?
• Against utopianism
• Is risk/safety a blind spot for the progress community?
• Is progress a capitalist, democratic philosophy? Are there pro-progress socialists?
• If things haven’t gotten better in 10 years, what went wrong?

Pod of Jake

Jake and I talked about:

• My early tech career (starting with programming at age 11)
• Why I dropped out of high school
• Our expansion and CEO search
• What intellectual work is needed in progress studies
• Scientific vs. romantic environmentalism
• The massive impact of electricity on the economy

Transcript on the show page. Listen on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, etc.

Philosophy of Education with Matt Bateman of Montessorium

A conversation about industrial literacy and the pedagogy of progress, by the folks who commissioned my high-school progress course. Show page, Apple, Spotify.

(This one was recorded last November but published more recently.)

As always, see all my talks and interviews here.

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