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Hosted by Danny Buerkli · society · EN · 18 episodes
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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchHigh 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.
High Variance with Danny Buerkli is hosted by Danny Buerkli. The show has published 18 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Case Against Government Reform, with Andrew Greenway" (19 October 2026, 61 minutes), "The Craft of Foresight, with Florence Gaub" (22 July 2026, 61 minutes), and "The Craft of Foresight, with Florence Gaub" (22 July 2026, 61 minutes).
High Variance with Danny Buerkli publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 56 minutes across 18 episodes.
Booking probability for High Variance with Danny Buerkli is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. High Variance with Danny Buerkli requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. High Variance with Danny Buerkli's contact route on record: verified email.
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Danny Buerkli hosts High Variance with Danny Buerkli, a society show with 18 episodes published.
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Episode #17
Andrew Greenway — co-founder of Public Digital, one of the founders of the UK's Government Digital Service, and co-author of the new book Digital Sovereignty: The Power to Decide — joins Danny Buerkli to make the case...
Episode #14
<p>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...
Episode #14
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...
Episode #13
<p>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...
Episode #13
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...
Episode #12
<p>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...
Episode #11
<p>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...
Episode #10
<p>Jeff Stern — reporter and author of The Warhead — joins Danny Buerkli to talk about the long quest to build the “perfect weapon.” They discuss how a company mostly known for calculators revolutionized warfare, the...
Episode #9
<p>Ioana Marinescu — associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, research associate at the NBER, and member of Anthropic's Economic Advisory Council — joins Danny Buerkli to discuss her "intelligence...
Episode #8
<p>Germany and France have historically formed the core of Europe and the European Union. Joseph de Weck - political analyst, historian, author, columnist, and Europe Director at Greenmantle - knows both exceptionally...
Episode #7
<p>Every aspect of modernity was shaped by individuals with intellectual roots in Vienna, argues Richard Cockett, author of "Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World". Richard, historian and senior editor...
Episode #6
<p>Which effects of AI are we already seeing in the labor market? And what might be coming down the line? Bharat Chandar, postdoc at Stanford and co-author of the "Canaries in the Coal Mine" paper, joins Danny Buerkli...
Episode #5
<p>Patricia Ryan Madson, professor emerita at Stanford and author of "Improv Wisdom", joins Danny Buerkli to talk about how she got into improv, how she starts a class, how status works, Keith Johnstone's dark side, and...
Episode #4
<p>Jamais Cascio, futurist, scenario expert, and author of Navigating the Age of Chaos, joins Danny Buerkli for a deep dive into scenario planning. They discuss how the discipline has evolved since the days of Herman...
Episode #3
<p>Antoine Bosselut, Assistant Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, joins Danny Buerkli to explain how he and his team built Apertus, the 'open' LLM. Antoine and Danny discuss why...
Episode #2
<p>Vishal Jodhani, a master facilitator, joins Danny Buerkli to talk about what makes facilitation work. They discuss what makes for a good question, how to know the difference between productive chaos and unproductive...
Episode #1
<p>Don Kettl — prolific scholar of public administration — joins Danny Buerkli talk about state capacity and government reform. They discuss what DOGE got right (and what it didn't), whether gradual government is...
High Variance with Danny Buerkli
<p>We live in weird times. The world has become harder to read — more uncertain, more volatile, stranger. High Variance is an interview podcast about how to navigate this reality. We talk to people who are making sense...
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