Skip to content
The Unreasonable Human
Podcast

The trouble with the to-do list

With Prof. Patrick Ferreira on whether certainty can be taught, bought or merely inherited, and what a more human economics would do about it.

Alina PetrovaBy Alina Petrova45 min listen
Illustration of a head in profile facing two overlapping rust-red circles and a cluster of thin vertical lines
A mind, and the things that move it. Photograph: The Unreasonable Human
The rational animal · Episode 845 min listen
The trouble with the to-do list
0:00 / 44:39
The trouble with the to-do list
0:00 / 32:00

With Prof. Patrick Ferreira on whether certainty can be taught, bought or merely inherited, and what a more human economics would do about it.

Recorded in London. A transcript follows within the week.

NudgesRationalityEconomics
Alina Petrova
Alina Petrova — Editor-in-chief

Alina Petrova is a Year 12 student preparing to apply to university, and the founder and editor of The Unreasonable Human. She reads across psychology, economics, behavioural science and neuroscience, and writes about the gap between how people are supposed to decide and how they actually do.

Follow
Read next

More on how we decide

All essays →
Illustration of a bare tree over a faint grid, overlaid with rust-red, pale blue and black-spotted circles
Rationality

Forecasting our own regret

12 min read
People crossing a sunlit concrete hall
Ideas

Rationality is a human endeavour

8 min read
Pale pink blossom on thin branches in front of a raw concrete wall
Behaviour

Why good people make bad decisions

7 min read

Ideas worth reading. Every week.

Essays, data and ideas on economics, rationality and why we do what we do.

No spam. Just thoughtful ideas.