#18 - Chris Anderson - The Power of Infectious Generosity

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Mar 6, 2024

Chris Anderson, author of 'Infectious Generosity' and TED veteran, explores spreading kindness online, evolution of generosity, role of media, and future of TED in the digital age. Touches on Mr. Beast's philanthropy impact, Audacious Project's collaborative approach, and balancing competitiveness and generosity in innovation.

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Introduction

00:00 • 3min

Infectious Generosity: Spreading Acts of Kindness

02:34 • 17min

Navigating the Influence of Social Media Giants

19:42 • 17min

The Evolution of Generosity in Human Nature

37:11 • 20min

Exploring Mr. Beast and Philanthropy in the Digital Age

56:54 • 12min

The Audacious Project and Collaborative Philanthropy

01:09:04 • 23min

Exploring Generosity and Competitiveness in Innovation

01:31:53 • 5min

Navigating the Content Landscape

01:36:41 • 6min

What if we could harness the power of the internet to make kindness go VIRAL? That's the topic of this conversation with Chris Anderson -- Chris has run TED (of the famous TED talks) for the last twenty years, and recently wrote a book called "Infectious Generosity", which seeks to understand the nature of human kindness, and find ways to make it spread in the digital age. A crucial issue in these divisive times! Expect lots of evolutionary psychology, a dissection of why the media is broken, some deep internet history, and how to improve (and win at!) the attention game. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:20 - Infectious Generosity 00:13:09 - How the Internet Has Changed 00:30:50 - Role of News Media 00:37:08 - Evolution of Generosity 00:50:04 - Effective Giving 00:53:28 - Intent vs Consequence 01:01:30 - Religion and Generosity 01:08:59 - The Audacious Project 01:22:41 - Giving What You Can Pledge 01:26:54 - Is Chris Competitive? 01:36:35 - Future of TED Links ♾️ Infectious Generosity by Chris Anderson https://www.infectiousgenerosity.org/ ♾️ Thinking Fast and Slow https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... ♾️ Media Moloch Youtube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRz54... ♾️ The Mystery Experiment - a Study of Generosity https://bigthink.com/the-present/gene... ♾️ Against Empathy by Paul Bloom https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... ♾️ Atheism 2.0 by Alain de Botton TED Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oe6H... ♾️ The Audacious Project https://www.audaciousproject.org/ ♾️ Project Vesta https://www.vesta.earth/ ♾️ Liv's TED talk - The Dark Side of Competition in AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX_vN... ♾️ The Giving Pledge - http://givingwhatwecan.org/winwin Credits ♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree ♾️ Produced & Edited by Raymond Wei ♾️ Audio Mix by Keir Schmidt The Win-Win Podcast: Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.