Don't Want to Leave the L on the Table

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Sally Kohn worked in the White House as a cognitive neural science post stock. She says she wanted to be in a more social environment, getting to know people and working on teams. Her work helped change how millions of kids get free or reduced price lunches at school. After her departure from the white house there were no jobs available so she wrote an e-mailing list for local government officials asking if they had any experience with public policy.

A few weeks ago, Maya Shankar and her team reached out to me noting their new show, A Slight Change of Plans, which explores how various fascinating people have changed their minds, often after something unexpected happened in the story of their lives, overlapped in its interests and goals with You Are Not So Smart.

One of her guests, Megan Phelps-Roper, was recently a guest on this show, and Daryl Davis is one of her guests who I’ve long wanted to feature on this podcast. So, as podcasters do from time to time, Maya wondered if she could come on this podcast to promote her podcast, and seeing as our interests and obsessions and work and overall mission aligned so strongly, I said, "Absolutely, I would love that," and this is that episode

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