Highlights of 2025 (#281)

<p>Some insights change how you see the world.<br/><br/>From the White House to the frontiers of AI drug discovery, we’ve gathered the most powerful moments from a year of extraordinary conversations. <br/><br/>This 2025 highlights episode brings you the thinkers and leaders who challenged assumptions, revealed hidden patterns, and reframed the biggest questions of our time. </p><p>- <a href='https://www.3takeaways.com/episodes/catastrophe/mark-buchanan'>Mark Buchanan (Physicist): The hidden patterns behind catastrophes from wildfires to stock market crashes</a></p><p>- <a href='https://www.3takeaways.com/episodes/cass-sunstein-manipulation-ai'>Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law Professor): What Facebook’s emotional manipulation experiment really revealed</a></p><p>- <a href='https://www.3takeaways.com/episodes/art-beauty-susan-magsamen'>Susan Magsamen (Johns Hopkins): How your everyday environment is quietly reshaping your brain</a></p><p>- <a href='https://www.3takeaways.com/episodes/national-security-jake-sullivan'>Jake Sullivan (U.S. National Security Advisor): What surprised him most about Xi and Putin</a></p><p>- <a href='https://www.3takeaways.com/episodes/admiral-james-stavridis'>Admiral James Stavridis (Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander): Navigating the China challenge</a></p><p>- <a href='https://www.3takeaways.com/episodes/blackstone-jon-gray'>Jon Gray (President, Blackstone): The real key to career success (it’s not what you think)</a></p><p>- <a href='https://www.3takeaways.com/episodes/bonnie-hammer-15-lies'>Bonnie Hammer (Former Vice Chair, NBCUniversal): Redefining what “having it all” really means</a></p><p>- <a href='https://www.3takeaways.com/episodes/digital-extinction-of-experience-christine-rosen'>Christine Rosen (American Enterprise Institute): The hidden costs of a screen-mediated life</a></p><p>- <a href='https://www.3takeaways.com/episodes/zanny-minton-beddoes'>Zanny Minton-Beddoes (Editor-in-Chief, The Economist): American polarization through foreign eyes</a></p><p>- <a href='https://www.3takeaways.com/episodes/david-brooks'>David Brooks (New York Times columnist): The mistake people make when they turn to politics</a></p><p>- <a href='https://www.3takeaways.com/episodes/ai-craig-mundie'>Craig Mundie (Former Microsoft Chief Strategist): AI’s biggest unsolved problem</a></p><p>- <a href='https://www.3takeaways.com/episodes/david-agus'>Dr. David Agus (Founding CEO Ellison Medical Institute): How AI is changing drug discovery</a></p><p>- <a href='https://www.3takeaways.com/episodes/laura-carstensen-life-aging'>Laura Carstensen (Stanford Center on Longevity): What she wishes people understood about aging</a></p><p>- <a href='https://www.3takeaways.com/episodes/thomas-chatterton-williams'>Thomas Chatterton Williams (Author): Moving beyond racial identity</a></p><p>These are the conversations that expanded minds in 2025.</p>