Home Podcasts We Think We Know

We Think We Know

Yalin Buse 3 Episodes Aug 24, 2026

We Think We Know is a podcast that explores topics from technology to culture to psychology, challenging common assumptions by bringing in experts who have lived, studied, or worked in these fields. Each episode takes a familiar idea and pushes past superficial understanding to uncover deeper truths. The show aims to replace hot takes and headlines with real understanding.

Episodes

Work Expert: Don't Waste 90,000 Hours In A Job You Don't Like Aug 24, 2026 4343 You'll spend around 90,000 hours of your life working, so why do four in five people say they don't actually like their jobs? Checked out, numb, or quietly done. This episode is about finding real meaning in your work before your life in the wrong job! Hans Rosinek is a work researcher and bestselling author. He's spent years untangling what actually makes work feel worth it and right for

Female vs Male Brain: Whats the real difference ? With Neuroscientist Dr Sarah McKay Aug 10, 2026 4188 What really shapes the brain biology: trauma, hormones, and the world you grow up in? Oxford-trained neuroscientist Dr Sarah McKay unpacks how the brain works and changes across a lifetime, with a focus on women's brain health. We cover the 80% overlap between male and female brains, how gender equality reshapes the brain, why your phone quietly drains your memory, the teenage brain and r

Dream Job Influencer: The Reality Inside the $36 Billion Industry Jul 28, 2026 3375 You think being an influencer is free clothes and easy money. It's a $36 billion industry — and almost nobody understands how it actually works.Francesca Hung: content creator and former Miss Universe Australia pulls back the curtain: how influencers really get paid, why she said no to brand money most people never would, how the algorithm keeps every creator guessing, and the impossible

9 Years Inside Afghanistan: The War Photographer Who Stayed Jul 16, 2026 3593 Why don't war photos shock us anymore? Andrew Quilty spent 9 years as a photojournalist in Afghanistan — photographing the Taliban, the war, and the day Kabul fell and he has an answer.In this episode, we get into how the images on your feed shape what you believe about war, why you feel less every time you scroll, and what nine years behind the camera taught him about what a single photo

Dating Apps: Are They Keeping Us Single? Jul 3, 2026 3568 Maple founder Connor reveals how dating app algorithms secretly rank and league your profile, why Hinge, Tinder, and Bumble are built on the same psychology as slot machines, and why the system is structurally designed to keep you swiping instead of getting you matched quietly keeping millions of people single. Connor is the founder of Maple, a dating and social platform, and has spent ye

Model Reveals: The Reality Inside The Modeling World Jun 23, 2026 4255 In this episode, I sit down with the lovely Kenz Lawren, model and creator with over 1.5 million TikTok followers, to uncover the reality of the modelling industry and what it's really like to work as a model.We discuss the reality of Fashion Week, how much models actually get paid, agency life, the pressure to stay skinny, eating disorders, sexual harassment in the industry, rejection, a

Is ChatGPT Making Us Dumber? Neuroscientist On How AI Changes Our Brains Jun 11, 2026 4402 Neuroscientist and neuro-futurologist Professor Joel Pearson reveals what AI is really doing to our brains, our relationships, and our grip on reality — from cognitive atrophy and the loneliness trap to the rise of AI companions and what he calls the uncertainty pandemic.Professor Joel Pearson is a neuroscientist and neuro-futurologist based at UNSW, where he leads the Future Minds Lab.He

K-beauty: Why We've Been Getting Skincare Wrong May 26, 2026 3711 Korean skincare has reshaped global beauty culture but most people still don't understand why it works. In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Sean, a K-Beauty expert and educator, to explore the real philosophy behind Korean skincare: the cultural mindset, the ingredients that actually deliver results, the routines worth following, the products worth knowing, and the myths the beauty indu

Introducing Your New Favorite Podcast May 20, 2026 72 Most of us walk around with opinions we've never really tested. We think we know how the world works until someone who really knows tells us otherwise.This is We Think We Know, a podcast where I sit down with leading experts to challenge the assumptions we've never thought to question. Every episode, one conversation, one idea turned upside down.In this intro, I talk about who I am, why I

We Think We Know

Episodes

Recommended