Barack Obama, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Barack Obama comes up
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 33:51 Ron Shaich I had been involved with the Obama campaign, and there had been some discussion of, of joining the administration, and I was unable to give my commitment to Panera.
Daniel Kahneman: Algorithms Make Better Decisions Than You
- ▶ 52:20 Daniel Kahneman Obama was at a certain disadvantage relative to George Bush, you know. 3 times in the scene
Anna Wintour: Vogue [Outliers]
- ▶ 55:28 Shane Parrish She backed Obama, but not with just checks.
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 1:30:06 Josh Wolfe It happened with Iran, and I think the prior administrations from Obama and Biden were well-intentioned in trying to bring them into the Western world, but, you know, it was a sort of ruse, uh, you know, from Iran's standpoint.
Maya Shankar: The Toolkit to Accomplish Your Hardest Goals
- ▶ 24:37 Maya Shankar When I was working in the Obama White House, we were eager to help residents of Flint in the face of the lead and water crisis, right?
Rey Flemings: A Different Definition of Success
- ▶ 22:03 Rey Flemings The problem is not Obama or Bush.
Jack Kornfield: Finding Inner Calm
- ▶ 32:11 Jack Kornfield I was invited to the first White House Buddhist leadership gathering, um, toward the end of, um, Barack Obama's presidency, and there was about a hundred of us, and part of it was, you know, talking about serving communities, so any of…
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 3:23 Balaji Srinivasan I don't know, uh, but the last year I actually wrote an essay on this for Barry Weiss's blog, and, um, essentially what was surprising to me was that the reduction in state capacity was bipartisan in the U.S., and that is to say, like,…
#116 Jeff Immelt: Leadership In A Crisis
- ▶ 34:25 Jeff Immelt It changed when president Obama was president.
#108 Thomas Zurbuchen: Adventures in Astrophysics
- ▶ 1:08:52 Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen So, so basically, it's kind of interesting that if you look, I came in under the Obama administration, I worked in the Trump administration, and kind of, if you really looked at the priorities that did not, for example, in the science…
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 1:35:31 Neil Pasricha Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, you've heard of this, Mark Zuckerberg wears the same hoodie, doesn't matter, right?
#68 Daniel Kahneman: Putting Your Intuition on Ice
- ▶ 45:48 Daniel Kahneman So, I think Obama was at a certain disadvantage relative to George Bush, you know. 3 times in the scene
#53 Howard Marks: Luck, Risk and Avoiding Losers
- ▶ 53:07 Howard Marks You know, I think President Obama on the, on the stump said, well, we'll give them all laptops, but not everybody can work a laptop enough to make a living, and number two, in the information age, by definition, we need fewer people to…
#47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
- ▶ 1:40:47 Adam Robinson By the way, think Barack Obama.
#40 Ben Thompson: Thriving in a Digital World
- ▶ 43:17 Ben Thompson The parties, at the same time, because they were inextricably tied to the media, lost their power and gatekeeping status, and no one sort of realized this happened until, really, Obama came along and came out of nowhere and totally…
#6 Philip Tetlock: How to See the Future
- ▶ 32:20 Philip Tetlock About, that we, we do talk about in the book, ah, about, um, the decision President Obama made to go after Osama Bin Laden. 4 times in the scene