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Ancient Minds in Modern Rooms
Twelve ancient thinkers brought into rooms they were never built for.
Episodes
- №013 MIN
Heraclitus, Parmenides and Zeno at the Sprint Retro
A philosopher of flux, a philosopher of stillness, and a master of paradoxes are placed inside a software team's two-week sprint retrospective. They take very different views of velocity, change and whether any work is being done at all.
With: Iris (host) · Heraclitus · Parmenides · Zeno
- №023 MIN
Cicero, Demosthenes and Aspasia at the All-Hands
Rome's greatest forensic orator, Athens' fiercest political speaker, and the Milesian rhetorician who is said to have taught Pericles are placed inside a 600-person company all-hands and asked what modern leaders do to the spoken word.
With: Iris (host) · Cicero · Demosthenes · Aspasia
- №033 MIN
Pythagoras, Archimedes and Eratosthenes in the Data Room
A number-mystic, an applied mathematician who moved levers and ships, and the man who measured the Earth from a shadow are dropped into a modern analytics war-room. Each treats numbers very differently — and disagrees sharply about what counts as a real measurement.
With: Iris (host) · Pythagoras · Archimedes · Eratosthenes
- №047 MIN
Diogenes, Marcus Aurelius and Hypatia on the Open-Plan Office
A Cynic, a Stoic emperor, and an Alexandrian philosopher-mathematician walk into an open-plan office and find that almost every premise of modern white-collar life can be argued with.
With: Iris (host) · Diogenes · Marcus Aurelius · Hypatia