The Context Window with David Deming Podcast

The conversations that matter most need context. Harvard Dean David Deming talks with leaders and thinkers about how they became who they are — the detours, the doubt, and the people who helped along the way. thecontextwindowpodcast.substack.com

The Context Window with David Deming Podcast is a education podcast hosted by David Deming, with 12 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

David Deming hosts The Context Window with David Deming Podcast, a education show with 12 episodes published.

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  Walter Isaacson on the sentence that built a country

  Jul 1, 202648 minS0

  <p>Walter Isaacson has written the definitive lives of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, and Jennifer Doudna. In his new book, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, he turns from people to a single line — the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence — and argues it was never a description of America but a mission statement the country has spent 250 years trying to live up to. </p><p>He joins David Deming to explain why Jobs and Musk were both “jerks,” whether empathy is a weakness, how Benjamin Franklin’s two-word edit changed the meaning of equalit...

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  Why new college grads can't find jobs (it's not AI)

  Jun 24, 202633 minS0

  <p>As long as we’ve been collecting data, new college graduates had better odds of landing a job than the average American worker. But that flipped after the pandemic. Although the obvious suspect is AI, David Deming - labor economist and Dean of Harvard College - thinks the obvious suspect is probably innocent.</p><p>In the first solo episode of The Context Window, he studies the scene of the crime: why the timing points to remote work rather than AI, how the pandemic quietly “containerized” white-collar work and made it legible to machines, and why he is willing to put...

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  Deval Patrick is not a "self-made" man

  Jun 17, 202651 minS0

  <p>Deval Patrick grew up in a South Side Chicago tenement, sharing one of two beds with his mother and sister, and went on to become the first Black governor of Massachusetts. But in this conversation with Harvard Dean David Deming, he keeps correcting the version of that story people like to tell. His life did not begin with the scholarship to Milton Academy, he insists, but years earlier, with the teachers in crowded Chicago classrooms who decided he was worth the trouble — a lottery ticket, he says, is only as good as what you make of it. Along the wa...

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  Lloyd Blankfein thinks the next financial crisis will be worse

  Jun 10, 20261h 25mS0

  <p>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, and what a 390-year-old university owes the country it helped found. Plus the $500 check that changed how he saw Harvard, the "vampire squid," and the law of conservation of...

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  Ross Douthat on the case for God

  Jun 3, 20261h 21mS0

  <p>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 not good for his soul. From there they go to meritocracy and magnanimity, admission by lottery, votes for parents, and what a 390-year-old university owes a country about to turn 250.</p...

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