David Reimer’s work sits at the intersection of storytelling, entrepreneurship, and human psychology. Asked what emerging questions excite him most, his answer is immediate: artificial intelligence. “The question that I get nowadays is how can AI help with storytelling?” he says. While AI can accelerate structure and craft, Reimer is clear about its limits. “It’s certainly not going to replace their role in telling the story, the human’s role in telling the story.” For him, t
Robert Litterman’s path into economics began far from Wall Street. He entered Stanford in 1969 intending to study physics, but the Vietnam moratorium and campus unrest pushed him to reconsider. Stanford’s newly created human biology program offered a broader lens. “Studying humans as part of nature really is how I thought about it,” he says. One lesson stood out early: incentives. “All animals respond to incentives… humans aren’t that different.” That insight—learned through
Steven Sloman’s writing and research revolve around a strikingly simple idea: we don’t think alone. And yet, he emphasizes, that realization came surprisingly late in his career. “My early mentors were all cognitive psychologists,” he says. “They shaped my interest in how people think”—not how communities think. As an undergraduate, he worked in Endel Tulving’s famed memory lab. In graduate school, he trained with Gordon Bower, David Rumelhart, Lance Rips, and Amos Tversky—g
