The Context Window with David Deming Podcast
Harvard Dean David Deming hosts conversations with leaders and thinkers about their personal journeys, including the detours, doubts, and influential people along the way. The podcast aims to provide context for the discussions that matter most. It is produced by David Deming and distributed via Substack.
Episodes
Lloyd Blankfein thinks the next financial crisis will be worse
Lloyd Blankfein went from public housing in East New York to the top of Goldman Sachs, which he led through the worst financial crisis since the Depression. In this conversation with Harvard Dean David Deming, the former Goldman CEO explains why he thinks the next big crisis will be harder to contain than 2008, why the worst move an ambitious young person can make is to skip college to chase money
Ross Douthat on the case for God
Ross Douthat has spent his career making the case for God and against the meritocracy, to readers who mostly disagree with him. In this conversation with Harvard Dean David Deming, the New York Times columnist argues that belief in God is more reasonable now than it was a century ago, that consciousness may be the most supernatural thing we know, and that Harvard made him more ambitious and was no
Angela Duckworth: 'Grit is not enough'
Angela Duckworth is famous for the study grit. But in this conversation with Harvard Dean David Deming, she tells a messier story: ten years of feeling "capital-L Lost" after Harvard, the loneliness of achievement, and why she now believes perseverance only works when your situation lets effort pay off. Her new book, Situated: Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best, argues that grit i
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