HeyJaredDiamond Jones
This is a self-titled podcast grounded in critical inquiry. The series examines how institutions define knowledge, expertise, and legitimacy.
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- Sep 17, 2026
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- Jul 30, 2026
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The Antidote (opens the original)
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What if the pressure was never punishment? It was always preparation. Eight episodes of observation. Eight layers of diagnosis. Now it is time for something different. This episode is the conversation behind the scholarship. Plain. Personal. Direct. For the first time Diamond takes off the scholarly hat and gets into what breaking free actually looks like in practice from healing your mindset and nervous system, to building the legal and financial foundation that protects what you create, to fin
Legitimacy for Sale (opens the original)
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Who decides what legitimacy looks like and what happens when they put it up for sale? Operation Varsity Blues was not an anomaly. It was the system's logic taken to its illegal conclusion. Legacy admissions preserved. Affirmative action banned. DEI eliminated. The standard shifts precisely when certain communities begin to meet it. But here is what the architects never modeled for. Black women are the most educated group in America by organic achievement without inherited advantage, without sele
The Literacy Divide (opens the original)
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What if the most dangerous gap in America is not the wealth gap but the comprehension gap? 54% of American adults read below a 6th grade level. The United States ranks 36th globally in literacy. Financial literacy is only mandated in 25 states. And the people making decisions about what gets taught have often never lived inside the realities those decisions affect. This is Episode 7 of Field Notes. And it is called The Literacy Divide. Not the gap between those who can read and those who cannot.
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