In this podcast episode, you’ll understand new things about Covid, science, disinformation, herd behaviours and authoritarianism, but the biggest insights are on the meta-level: Ezra Klein takes you inside the mind of one of the great generalist thinkers of our time, Zeynep Tufekci.

From Weekly Filet #333, in February 2021.

To Understand This Era, You Need to Think in Systems

To Understand This Era, You Need to Think in Systems

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