Think First with Jim Detjen

Think First is an independent public initiative devoted to strengthening human discernment as information, technology, and persuasion accelerate.

Through conversations, publishing, research, and practical methods, Think First helps people examine claims, evidence, assumptions, incentives, and uncertainty before judgment takes hold.

Distorted by Jim Detjen is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Harvard Book Store, the Harvard Coop, independent bookstores, and Ingram.

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Podcasting since 2025 • 121 episodes

Think First with Jim Detjen

Latest Episodes

That’s Not What Happened — How Gaslighting Plants Doubt | The Foundations 06

From Season One · Foundational context for Season TwoGaslighting does not always succeed by replacing the facts. Often, it works by making us doubt our ability to recognize them.In this early episode of Think First, Jim Det...

August 25, 2026 • Season 2 • Episode 120 • 7:03

Clarity Is the New Counterculture | The Foundations 05

From Season One · Foundational context for Season TwoThis early Think First episode captures the first public articulation of work that would later evolve into the Clarity Framework.Jim Detjen asks how we can determine what...

August 25, 2026 • Season 2 • Episode 119 • 7:55

Distorted Is Now in the World — Inside the 346 Pages | The Foundations 04

From Season One · Foundational context for Season TwoDistorted is now in the world. Not a preview, a preorder, or a promise. It is out.This episode is not a sales pitch. It is a map to the book’s 346 pages: what is inside, ...

August 25, 2026 • Season 2 • Episode 118 • 7:09

AI Hallucination and the Cost of Synthetic Confidence | The Foundations 03

From Season One · Foundational context for Season TwoAI does not hallucinate simply because it is broken. It hallucinates because it is designed to produce coherent answers under uncertainty.Humans and media systems often d...

August 24, 2026 • Season 2 • Episode 117 • 12:45

Your Media Diet Is Training You | The Foundations 02

From Season One · Foundational context for Season TwoEvery feed trains a way of seeing. In this episode, Jim Detjen examines how repeated voices, emotional rewards, and easy agreement can shape judgment, even when the information ...

August 24, 2026 • Season 2 • Episode 116 • 11:10