The Deeper Thinking Podcast
The Deeper Thinking Podcast The Deeper Thinking Podcast offers a space where philosophy becomes a way of engaging more fully and deliberately with the world. Each episode explores enduring and emerging ideas that deepen how we live, think, and act. We follow the spirit of those who see the pursuit of wisdom as a lifelong project of becoming more human, more awake, and more responsible. We ask how attention, meaning, and agency might be reclaimed in an age that often scatters them. Drawing on insights stretching across centuries, we explore how time, purpose, and thoughtfulness can quietly transform daily existence. The Deeper Thinking Podcast examines psychology, technology, and philosophy as unseen forces shaping how we think, feel, and choose, often beyond our awareness. It creates a space where big questions are lived with—where ideas are not commodities, but companions on the path. Each episode invites you into a slower, deeper way of being. Join us as we move beyond the noise, beyond the surface, and into the depth, into the quiet, and into the possibilities awakened by deeper thinking.
Episodes
You Want Success, But You’re Terrified of Who You’ll Become – The Deeper Thinking Podcast
An intimate exploration of Carl Jung’s concept of the shadow revolt, the emotional contracts that bind us to past selves, and the courage needed to step into who we are truly meant to become.
What if the resistance you feel isn’t fear of failure, but grief for the identity you might have to leave behind? Drawing dee...
The Grammar of Fire: Where Culture Cooks and Code Ferments - The Deeper Thinking Podcast
A sensory-philosophical investigation into how we cook meaning, commodify tradition, and algorithmically flavour desire—across supermarkets, satellites, and ancestral memory.
What separates the raw from the cooked isn’t just temperature—it’s a cultural code. In this episode, we follow Claude Lévi-Strauss’s structural...
You Are What You Do Next : Freedom as a Loop - The Deeper Thinking Podcast
*Can we pause our systems before they swallow our agency?*
An exploration of freedom as the engineered loops of reflection that allow us to author our own lives.
What if freedom wasn’t a sudden burst of will but a cultivated practice of recursive loops? In this episode, we invoke Paul Ricoeur’s and Dan McAdams’s narrative‐identit...
Radical Acceptance : A Discipline of Presence– The Deeper Thinking Podcast
Radical acceptance is not a gentle concession. It is not the quiet tolerance of what cannot be changed, nor the peaceful surrender to a world beyond one’s control. Rather, it is a confrontation with the real that resists interpretation. Unlike resignation, which drapes futility in soft cloth, radical acceptance offers no such comf...
When Enough Is Enough – The Deeper Thinking Podcast
A meditation on burnout, worth, and the quiet rebellion of stopping.
What if burnout isn’t a failure of energy, but a clarity of vision? In this episode, we trace the contours of exhaustion—not as collapse, but as quiet refusal. Drawing from the work of Byung-Chul Han, Lauren Berlant, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Virginia Woolf, we explore how the ethic o...
The Shame We Stand On – The Deeper Thinking Podcast
A recursive meditation on shame as epistemic ground, identity as performance, and healing as ontological disobedience.
What if shame wasn’t a feeling to overcome—but a structure we unknowingly stand on? In this episode, we explore the idea of ontological shame: a form of selfhood shaped not by momentary embarrassment but by systemic, inherited framework...
The Miseducation of Daddy – The Deeper Thinking Podcast
On intimacy as restraint, emotional fluency as miseducation, and the algorithmic performance of care. A slow unlearning of what it means to feel legibly.
What does it mean to be taught how to survive, not through love, but through legibility? In this episode, we examine the appearance of Jane Goodall on Call Her Daddy, not as a celebrity guest but a...
Governance Without Meaning – Why the System Still Functions Even as Public Trust Disappears
For those tracking the emotional, epistemic, and conceptual shifts reshaping public life.
What happens when institutions continue to operate but can no longer be interpreted? In this episode, we explore the quiet, often unseen reconstitution of governance—not through collapse or crisis, but through the slow erosio...
TED or Dead
For those who refuse to arc. For those who resist formatting. For those who remain honest in the face of narrative coercion.
When survival becomes a story requirement, and healing must perform to be believed, what happens to those who can’t—or won’t—comply? In this episode, we examine how emotional life has been captured by performance culture. We explore the affective coercion embedded in st...
To Be Read Correctly: Autism, ADHD, and the Architecture of Misrecognition
For listeners drawn to neurodivergence, diagnostic ethics, and the redesign of perception itself.
What happens when a diagnosis comes not as revelation, but as restitution? In this episode, we explore the late discovery of Autism and ADHD—not as deficits to be managed, but as architectures of experience long misinterpreted by the ...
A Story About the Future: AI, Archive, and the Ethics of Synthetic History
For listeners drawn to epistemic tension, technological haunting, and the quiet violence of perfect memory.
What happens when machines remember better than we do? In this episode, we examine the quiet transformation of memory into simulation, where generative AI reconstructs the past—not as evidence, but as emotional interface. Dr...
Two Nervous Systems Protecting Old Wounds – The Deeper Thinking Podcast
A meditation on rupture, habit, and the unseen choreography between two people trying not to break the same way again.
What looks like conflict is often just protection—two nervous systems trying to avoid something they’ve felt before. In this episode, we explore what happens when patterns repeat, when silence holds more weight than ...
The Interface Self
For those who sense their identity stretching to fit the screen—and want to listen more closely to what remains.
In a world that rewards legibility over complexity, what happens to the parts of us that don’t render cleanly? This episode explores the soft coercion of digital platforms—how identity, emotion, and presence are shaped by visibility logic, and how silence becomes a form of r...
The Paradox That Makes Truth Possible –
A meditation on contradiction as condition—not conflict—and the quiet cultural systems that cleanse paradox from our narratives, technologies, and sense of the real.
What if truth doesn’t emerge from coherence, but from contradiction? In this episode, we explore the doctrine of paradox control: the idea that modern institutions, platforms, and psyches are structu...
Repression as Infrastructure
When everything feels permitted, but nothing quite feels free—repression may no longer be psychological, but infrastructural.
Repression is not hidden; it is designed. Not as an accident of the psyche, but as a feature of the system. If repression once belonged to the inner life—some stubborn knot of childhood or dreamwork—then now it belongs to the infrastructures that route...
Memory Without Witness, Truth Without Origin - The Deeper Thinking Podcast
A slow meditation on truth without origin, memory without witness, and the subtle loss of metaphor in a world rendered by machines.
What if the future didn’t arrive with force, but with recursion? In this episode, we introduce the theory of Recursive Plausibility: the idea that truth, memory, and presence are increasingly simulate...
The Psychology of Regret: Memory, Morality, and the Impossibility of Letting Go
For those drawn to ethical memory, reflective depth, and the architecture of what-ifs.
What exactly is regret—and why does it linger? This episode rethinks regret not as failure, but as a signal: a moral memory, a call to presence, and a mirror of the lives we almost lived. From the structure of memory to existential ethics, ...
Wonder and Awe: On the Edges of What Cannot Be Held
For those drawn to quiet thresholds, unrepeatable presence, and the philosophical weight of silence.
Awe rarely arrives with explanation. It brushes the edge of sense, disrupts the rhythm of thought, and leaves behind no insight—only a shift. In this episode, we explore wonder not as feeling or fact, but as attention. As residue. As refusal. We follow t...
Google and the Ceiling of Thought: How Gemini Redraws the Limits of Memory, Agency, and Attention
For those interested in ambient intelligence, predictive cognition, and the philosophical cost of fluency.
What happens when an AI finishes your sentence, schedules your tour, or remembers more than you do? In this episode, we reflect on Google’s I/O 2025 keynote and explore how Gemini marks a turning point—...
Philosophy Didn’t Just Eat AI. It Wrote Its Code — and It’s Hungry for Meaning
An epistemic meditation on artificial intelligence as a philosophical actor—and the urgency of restoring meaning, not just function, to systems that now decide for us.
What does your AI system believe? In this episode, we expand on Michael Schrage and David Kiron’s MIT Sloan thesis, Philosophy Eats AI. We trace how systems built on machine logic inevitab...
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