The Deeper Thinking Podcast

In a world obsessed with predictability, have we mistaken control for security? This episode of The Deeper Thinking Podcast challenges the illusion that uncertainty is something to be eliminated. From governance and financial markets to artificial intelligence and self-optimization culture, we explore how the pursuit of absolute control often backfires—creating fragility instead of resilience.

Drawing on insights from thinkers like James C. Scott, Bernard Stiegler, Hyman Minsky, and Viktor Frankl, we examine why societies, institutions, and individuals struggle with unpredictability—and what it truly means to navigate complexity. Could adaptability, rather than control, be the key to stability?

🔹 Why do top-down government policies often fail in times of crisis?

🔹 How does AI, designed to reduce uncertainty, actually increase it?

🔹 Why does financial stability paradoxically lead to economic collapse?

🔹 Is the self-optimization movement making us more anxious instead of more productive?

Join us as we rethink uncertainty—not as a problem to be solved, but as a condition to be embraced. The future doesn’t belong to those who try to control uncertainty—it belongs to those who learn to work with it.

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📖 James C. Scott – Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

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📖 Bernard Stiegler – Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus

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📖 Hyman Minsky – Stabilizing an Unstable Economy

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📖 Viktor Frankl – Man’s Search for Meaning

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Governance and Complexity: James C. Scott’s Critique

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• Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press, 1998.


• Stiegler, Bernard. Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus. Stanford University Press, 1998.


• Minsky, Hyman P. Stabilizing an Unstable Economy. McGraw-Hill, 2008.


• Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.


• Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Random House, 2007.


• Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. Random House, 2012.


• Popper, Karl. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge. Routledge, 2002.


• Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 1962.


• Harari, Yuval Noah. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Harper, 2017.


• Bostrom, Nick. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Oxford University Press, 2014.

• Minsky, Hyman P. "The Financial Instability Hypothesis." Working Paper No. 74, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, 1992.


• Scott, James C. "The High Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique." Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 3, no. 2, 1995, pp. 152-173.


• Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, and Martin, G. "The Logic and Risks of Artificial Intelligence." Risk Analysis, vol. 41, no. 6, 2021, pp. 1111-1130.


• Brynjolfsson, Erik, and McAfee, Andrew. "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies." MIT Sloan Management Review, vol. 55, no. 3, 2014.


• Stiegler, Bernard. "The Disorientation of Knowledge: Technics, Time, and Memory." Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 23, no. 2-3, 2006, pp. 151-170.


• Kuhn, Thomas S. "The Function of Dogma in Scientific Research." Scientific Change, vol. 3, no. 2, 1961, pp. 347-369.

• World Economic Forum. "The Risks and Benefits of AI-Driven Decision Making." 2021.


• The Bank for International Settlements. "The Impact of Uncertainty on Financial Markets and Stability." 2020.


• The Brookings Institution. "Automation, AI, and the Future of Work: Managing Disruptive Change." 2019.

• Governance and Complexity: James C. Scott’s Critique


• The Role of Uncertainty in Financial Systems: Hyman Minsky’s Hypothesis


• Artificial Intelligence and the Unintended Consequences of Control

This bibliography contains embedded Perplexity.ai links for academic sources, books, reports, and further reading to explore uncertainty, AI, governance, and systemic fragility.