app03 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:58:13 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Story Behind the Story - Episodes Tagged with “Philosophy” https://story.fireside.fm/tags/philosophy Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:00:00 -0700 Host Clara Sherley-Appel interviews authors about their creative process, from the inspiration behind the books they write to specific choices they make. en-us episodic Stories about stories and how they came to be Clara Sherley-Appel Host Clara Sherley-Appel interviews authors about their creative process, from the inspiration behind the books they write to specific choices they make. no books, book show, author interviews, interviews, stories Clara Sherley-Appel clara@ksqd.org The Score with C. Thi Nguyen https://story.fireside.fm/the-score c21ee95e-c706-4c6b-a10a-83a9f70b1b81 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:00:00 -0700 Clara Sherley-Appel full Clara Sherley-Appel Host Clara Sherley-Appel talks to C. Thi Nguyen about his book, THE SCORE: HOW TO STOP PLAYING SOMEONE ELSE'S GAME. 42:59 no <p>It seems like everything we do these days gets boiled down to metrics, from GPA to fuel efficiency to sleep quality. But what is all that data actually doing for us? And what is it doing <em>to</em> us?</p> <p>That's the question philosopher C. Thi Nguyen set out to answer in <em>The Score</em>. Along the way, he found himself unpacking modern notions of authority and objectivity, the difference between scoring systems in games and scoring systems in real life, and how humans construct meaning (and why we can't use numbers to do it).</p> <p>In our conversation, I talk to Thi about what it means to live in an era of big data, and how we can hold on to what we value amidst the quantitative noise. I hope you enjoy it. Special Guest: C. Thi Nguyen.</p> the score, c. thi nguyen, big data, metrics, quantification, ai, philosophy, effective altruism It seems like everything we do these days gets boiled down to metrics, from GPA to fuel efficiency to sleep quality. But what is all that data actually doing for us? And what is it doing to us?

That's the question philosopher C. Thi Nguyen set out to answer in The Score. Along the way, he found himself unpacking modern notions of authority and objectivity, the difference between scoring systems in games and scoring systems in real life, and how humans construct meaning (and why we can't use numbers to do it).

In our conversation, I talk to Thi about what it means to live in an era of big data, and how we can hold on to what we value amidst the quantitative noise. I hope you enjoy it.

Special Guest: C. Thi Nguyen.

]]> It seems like everything we do these days gets boiled down to metrics, from GPA to fuel efficiency to sleep quality. But what is all that data actually doing for us? And what is it doing to us?

That's the question philosopher C. Thi Nguyen set out to answer in The Score. Along the way, he found himself unpacking modern notions of authority and objectivity, the difference between scoring systems in games and scoring systems in real life, and how humans construct meaning (and why we can't use numbers to do it).

In our conversation, I talk to Thi about what it means to live in an era of big data, and how we can hold on to what we value amidst the quantitative noise. I hope you enjoy it.

Special Guest: C. Thi Nguyen.

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