The Most Important Podcast

The Most Important Problem: Prologue and Introduction

Alex Season 1 Episode 1

This episode contains the pre-Chapter 1 material from the current draft of my book, The Most Important Problem. It gives the origin story of my current research, including the interviews I do on this show. If you're new, this is a good place to start.

In this episode, five mysterious men nearly cause a nuclear war, a pioneering Ottoman launches himself into the ocean, and the Director of the National Science Foundation makes weird faces at me.