
High Variance is an interview podcast about a world that has become harder to read — more uncertain, more volatile, stranger. Host Danny Buerkli speaks with public intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and technologists to ask what is going on and how we should respond.
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 15 | Founded | a year ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | EducationSociety & Culture | |||

Florence Gaub — political scientist, military strategist, and director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College — joins Danny Buerkli to talk about the craft of foresight: what makes for a good warning (be concrete, offer options, manage ... more
Dan Davies — economist, FT contributor, former investment bank analyst, and author of The Unaccountability Machine and Lying for Money — joins Danny Buerkli to make the case that management cybernetics is the science economics should have turned into... more
Simon Wardley — former CEO and creator of Wardley Mapping — joins Danny Buerkli to talk about how he went from feeling like a "fake CEO" to finding one of the most useful ways of thinking about strategy. Simon also explains how he "cheats" at predict... more
If you don't have a frontier AI lab within your borders, as a country, what exactly is your plan? Anton Leicht — visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of the "Threading the Needle" Substack — joins Danny Buerkl... more
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A thoughtful, high-signal interview show that tackles uncertainty, volatility, and big-picture shifts in technology, economics, and governance. Episodes mix deep dives into AI, public policy, futures thinking, and social dynamics with practical implications for how individuals and organizations respond to a rapidly changing world. Noteworthy strengths include access to diverse, high-caliber guests—from historians and policymakers to AI researchers and futurists—along with a capacity to connect historical context to contemporary challenges. The format tends toward long-form conversations that prioritize nuance, rigorous thinking, and practical takeaways for decision-makers, researchers, and curious professionals with an appetite for substant... more
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Recent guests on High Variance include:
1. Richard Cockett
2. Bharat Chandar
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