Engineer a Life You Love — Modern Wisdom with Mark Rober
Update: 2025-12-20
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Turn failure into data and curiosity into a career: Mark Rober reveals how engineering principles can design a joyful, resilient life. (Original: 2 hours → Condensed: 5 minutes.)
In this 5-minute distillation of Modern Wisdom, Chris Williamson and guest Mark Rober move from Mars rovers to viral YouTube experiments to show how prototyping, attention management, and deliberate practice build real agency. Learn practical takeaways on productivity, lifelong learning, education reform, STEM kits, entrepreneurship, and the ethics of AI and technology. Hear how constraints at NASA shaped iterative problem-solving, how viral work can drive civic impact, and why hands-on making, boredom, and small experiments beat passive consumption.
Hosts: Chris Williamson. Guest: Mark Rober. Keywords: space exploration, AI alignment, education, productivity, innovation. Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.
In this 5-minute distillation of Modern Wisdom, Chris Williamson and guest Mark Rober move from Mars rovers to viral YouTube experiments to show how prototyping, attention management, and deliberate practice build real agency. Learn practical takeaways on productivity, lifelong learning, education reform, STEM kits, entrepreneurship, and the ethics of AI and technology. Hear how constraints at NASA shaped iterative problem-solving, how viral work can drive civic impact, and why hands-on making, boredom, and small experiments beat passive consumption.
Hosts: Chris Williamson. Guest: Mark Rober. Keywords: space exploration, AI alignment, education, productivity, innovation. Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.
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