196 – Sanaa Kamal: A Voice from Gaza

Guest Episode Sanaa Kamal_mixdown [00:00:00] Jacob Shapiro: Hello listeners, welcome to another episode of Cognitive Dissidence. As usual, I’m your host. I’m Jacob Shapiro. I’m a partner and the director of geopolitical analysis at Cognitive Investments. Joining me on the podcast today is maybe the most impressive guest we’ve had thus far in the entire […]

192 – Yoroslav Trofimov Book: “Our Enemies Will Vanish”

Transcript generated automatically by Descript. Guest Episode E90 Yuroslav _mixdown [00:00:00] Jacob Shapiro: Hello listeners, welcome to another episode of Cognitive Dissidence. As usual, I’m your host, I’m Jacob Shapiro. I’m a partner and the Director of Geopolitical Analysis at Cognitive Investments. Joining me on the podcast is Yaroslav Trofimov. He’s the Chief Foreign Affairs […]

194 – Dee Smith: God, Sex, & Death

Guest Interview E91_mixdown_for video [00:00:00] Jacob Shapiro: Hello, listeners. Welcome to another episode of Cognitive Dissidence. As usual, I’m your host. I’m Jacob Shapiro. I’m a partner and the director of geopolitical analysis at Cognitive Investments. Joining me on the podcast today is Dee Smith. He is the CEO of the Private Intelligence Agency Strategic […]

197 – China, France, and Steel

Weekly Update 89_mixdown [00:00:00] Jacob Shapiro: Hello, listeners. Welcome to another episode of Cognitive Dissidence. As usual, I’m your host. I’m Jacob Shapiro. I’m a partner and the director of geopolitical analysis at Cognitive Investments. Before we start the podcast today, I have a favor to ask of you. I don’t normally ask for favors […]

195 – “Chaos” at U.S. Universities + Steel

Weekly Update 88 _mixdown [00:00:00] Jacob Shapiro: Hello, listeners. Welcome to another episode of cognitive dissidents. As usual, I’m your host. I’m Jacob Shapiro. I’m a partner in the director of geopolitical analysis at cognitive investments. Rob is back from vacation. I am not traveling for once. So we’re here to bring you our normal […]

193 – Marko Papic is Back!

Weekly Update 87_mixdown [00:00:00] Jacob Shapiro: Hello listeners and welcome to another episode of Cognitive Dissidence as usual. I’m your host. I’m Jacob Shapiro. I’m a partner and the director of geopolitical analysis at Cognitive Investments. Rob is on vacation this week, somewhere in Normandy. Whoa, is him such a terrible life he has, but […]

189 – 47 Crises in 17 Years

Transcript generated by Descript. Jacob Shapiro: [00:00:00] Hello, listeners, and welcome to another episode of Cognitive Dissidence. As usual, I’m your host. I’m Jacob Shapiro. I’m a partner and the director of geopolitical analysis at Cognitive Investments. Rob and I are back at it for our weekly chat. I love all our chats, but this […]

188 – James Meadway: The First Crisis of the Anthropocene

Transcript automatically generated by Descript. Jacob Shapiro: I sent you some of the work that we’ve done on how geopolitics and multipolarity are affecting investments. And I was pleasantly surprised that we come from extremely different backgrounds and end up with very similar conclusions. But I wanted to give listeners who are not going to […]

189 – Coronal Mass Ejection

  Jacob Shapiro: Hello, listeners. how about this for a segue, Rob? I’m dealing with computer issues, but the people of Taiwan dealing with the worst earthquake that they’ve had in 25 years, a 7.4 on the Richter [00:02:00] scale. The only saving grace is that it was not right in Taipei. It was southeast […]

187 – Sim Tack: Can Ukraine Still Win Against Russia?

E89 – Sim Tak_mixdown Jacob Shapiro: Hello, listeners, and welcome to another episode of Cognitive Dissidence. As usual, I’m your host. I’m Jacob Shapiro. I’m a partner and the director of geopolitical analysis at Cognitive Investments. No weekly podcast from me and Rob this week. I’ve had to travel this week and we just didn’t […]