Tag: Explain like I’m Five

“[Mindfulness] is not a new thing, but it is a thing that we are increasingly talking about because of our information driven society, where we are constantly inputting and consuming content and we are waking up to the fact that we can’t be consuming every moment of every day.”

 
Christina Crook, author of The Joy of Missing Out, talks to Aaron Reynolds about mindfulness, the Twitter outrage cycle, and the importance of finding time to be bored.
 

 
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“It’s like the old adage of sausage making- you may not want to know.”

Canada’s former Justice Minister Peter MacKay joins Aaron Reynolds to explain the what, why, and how of cabinet shuffles.

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“Money is so closely connected to democracy, and we tend to forget that sometimes.”

Helaina Gaspard, Director of Governance and Institutions at the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy at the University of Ottawa, joins Aaron Reynolds in the Canada 2020 studio to explain debt, deficits, and how a government buying stuff actually works.

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“There’s a relationship between your comfort of technology and your perceived knowledge of it – and I say perceived because most people don’t know what they’re using.”

Millennials! Who are they? What do they want? And why should we care? David Coletto, the CEO of Abacus Data, joins Aaron Reynolds to explain.

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“It’s not clear what’s the better direction: to have A.I. systems that may be flawed in some way, or rely on humans that we know are flawed”

Aaron Reynolds knows more about Terminator 2 than he does about artificial intelligence, so he invited Dan Munro into the Interac studio to explain the ethics of A.I. in a way that he could understand.

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“Wheeled toys designed to be ridden by children”

Aaron Reynolds knows more about Star Wars than he does about international trade, so he invited Mike Moffatt into the Interac studio to explain tariffs in a way that he could understand.

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