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Podcast
The Jackson Downer Podcast is built around questions worth examining. Jackson explores health, psychology, philosophy, technology, music, and the human condition through solo episodes, Listener Questions, Thought Experiments, personal stories, and occasional guests. He approaches each subject with curiosity, evidence, clear reasoning, and attention to real-world application.
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In this episode, I explain how caffeine works and how to use it to optimize mental and physical performance, including how dose, timing, and individual sensitivity influence its benefits and tradeoffs. I explain how caffeine blocks...
Questions about feeling dismissed by family, allowing yourself to feel proud, leaving a hard-won career, deciding whether to have children, and recognizing when support becomes enabling.
Five hypothetical scenarios about happiness, memory, identity, consciousness, free will, justice, love, sacrifice, and what makes a life meaningful.
An examination of cognitive offloading, memory, attention, writing, creativity, research, decision-making, critical thinking, and whether AI is making us more capable or more dependent.
Questions about a good life that still feels insufficient, unequal ambition in a relationship, mortality, creative fear, and outgrowing an old friendship.
An introduction to the show, what to expect from future episodes, and who Jackson is for anyone discovering him for the first time.
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