PodcastReview

Kevin Mitnick’s The Art of Deception, published shortly before his death, catalogs social-engineering tactics—phishing, pretexting, dumpster diving—and argues people, not code, are security’s weakest link. Paired with Elif Shafak’s YouTube series “Say Your Word,” which unpacks loaded words like “shame” and “woke” for nuance-starved communicators.

Meredith Broussard’s More than a Glitch argues that bias in facial recognition, lending algorithms, and medical AI isn’t a bug to patch but a structural problem requiring algorithmic auditing. BBC podcast “Why Do We Do That?” digs into the evolutionary roots of doomscrolling, handshakes, and kissing.

Sarah Winters’ Content Design documents how her team merged 400+ UK government websites into one, codifying content design as using data to give users what they need, when they need it. Rounded out with three podcast picks—The Allusionist, The Moth, and Rough Translation—for summer listening.

Caterina Fake’s podcast “Should This Exist?” interrogates inventions—psychedelic therapy, cloud brightening, bionic kidneys—without judgment. Erin Meyer’s The Culture Map maps workplace norms (feedback, hierarchy, punctuality) across cultures, though its anecdotal method and repetitive structure draw some pushback.