Vantage Point with Eli Amdur
This is …
VANTAGE POINT
The podcast for critical thinkers.
Where we make sense of – and excel in – our lives, our jobs, and our world.
We’re not political, just critical.
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Thanks for joining in the first of our inaugural episodes. I’m your host, Eli Amdur.
VANTAGE POINT, the podcast for critical thinkers, will bring you:
1. One major commentary.
2. Timely, relevant observations and advice.
3. Eli’s aphorisms – short, pithy, and insightful.
4. Thoughts from great minds in history – and a question to ponder.
5. “What if?” Exciting contemporary ideas.
Additionally, from time to time we’ll interview exciting thought leaders from many fields.
VANTAGE POINT has one objective: To help make you better, more competitive, and more fulfilled by constantly improving your critical thinking.
Episodes
13 episodes
Steal Eleven Days From People and Watch What Happens
Vantage Point - the podcast for critical thinkers. In 1752, Britain's calendar reform erased eleven days overnight - no one actually lost a minute of life, but the country rioted anyway. Eli unpacks why the mere idea of missi...
Will You Recognize the Next Great Idea?
Vantage Point - the podcast for critical thinkers. Suppose every idea reached you anonymously, judged only on its merit. How many of the ones you'd actually accept come from the sources you'd never have expected? ...
The Power of the Positive Word
Vantage Point - the podcast for critical thinkers. Two nearly identical New Jersey towns put nearly identical open-space questions on the same ballot. One passed, one failed. The only difference anyone can find is the wording....
Don't Expect to Be Spoon-Fed
Vantage Point - the podcast for critical thinkers. Three months in, a listener asked where the how-to instructions were. Answering that question would have sabotaged the whole point. In this episodeA definition a...
Becoming Great Is a Decision, Not a Happenstance
Vantage Point - the podcast for critical thinkers. Critical thinking from an unusual angle — sports. Sandy Koufax, and why you should quit trying to be better than others and only try to be continuously better than yourself. <...
To Become a Great Writer, Never Stop Writing
Vantage Point - the podcast for critical thinkers. Ten practices to develop the gift — from Faulkner's 1,288-word sentence to your delete key. In this episodeA definition and a hard look at the episode'...
If You Want to Be a Writer, Start Writing
Vantage Point - the podcast for critical thinkers. The weighty, wonderful responsibility of putting words on a page — and the only way in. In this episodeA definition and a hard look at the episode's theme, ...
Jevons Paradox: Perhaps Not a Paradox After All
Vantage Point - the podcast for critical thinkers. Why making something more efficient makes us use more of it — and what that means for AI. In this episodeA definition and a hard look at the episode's theme...
Dialogue Deficiency: The World's Most Insidious Disease
Vantage Point - the podcast for critical thinkers. Why the loss of real dialogue may be more dangerous than any other global condition. In this episodeA definition and a hard look at the episode's theme, plu...