Junto Club

Welcome to the 23rd meeting of Junto Club. 

On this episode, we talk a little about Benjamin Franklin’s perspective on pride and the Free Britney movement. 

Our main topic is on the savior of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, and his principles of leadership.

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Welcome to the 22nd meeting of Junto Club. 

Yes. The episode title is a bad joke.

On this episode, we talk briefly about pet rocks coming back around and getting kids back to work before diving into Karl Marx, communism and socialism. 

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Welcome to the 21st meeting of Junto Club. 

On this episode, we talk about a marriage contract from Albert Einstein that aged poorly and aliens. 

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Welcome to the twentieth meeting of Junto Club. 

Meeting twenty is a milestone episode for a couple of reasons. It’s our first episode done in person with all three of us in the same room. Also, in the time since meeting nineteen, Matt and Shu defended their Ph.D.s. 

This meeting focuses on the good, the bad and the ugly of doing a Ph.D. 

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Welcome to the nineteenth episode of Junto Club.

This is one of our more controversial episodes as we talk about depression, anxiety and the treatment of mental health conditions using hallucinogens. This includes diving into the neuroscience and behavioral science related to these conditions as well as the pharmacology of the legal and illegal treatments for these conditions. We discuss why these drugs may or may not work for certain people, and Jake provides insights based on first hand experiences.

We’ll be putting out new episodes in May. Matt and Shu are defending their dissertations over the next couple of weeks.

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Welcome to the eighteenth episode of Junto Club.

On this episode, Jake’s back; we think about the definition of the word “want”; Matt gives an update on the infrastructure bill, and we talk about Bruce Lee, his philosophy and different martial arts.

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Welcome to the seventeenth episode of Junto Club.

On this episode, Shu brings some unique pickup lines and other writings, and we talk about the neo-liberal bible, Why Nations Fail.

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Welcome to the sixteenth episode of Junto Club.

On this episode, Shu introduces a new and questionable segment, and we welcome back Jake to talk about non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and gaming.

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Welcome to the fifteenth episode of Junto Club.

On this episode, we talk about how the work to start something doesn’t compare to work to keep it running and a couple news stories. Then Shu interviews our guest Si on computer hardware design and the future of computing.

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Welcome to the fourteenth episode of Junto Club.

On this episode, we learn not to play it too safe from Benjamin Franklin, and Shu tells us how to get free books. We spend most of the episode talking universal basic income. There’s lots of Matt rants.

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