{"podcast":{"title":"Into the Impossible With Brian Keating","slug":"into-the-impossible-with-brian-keating-324783","podcast_index_feed_id":324783,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ITI7213486251","website_url":"https://briankeating.com/podcast","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/82ed9870-601b-11eb-8196-478a251a046e/image/73e6d21c3fbe038e695dbefe71da6842.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Brian Keating","episode_count":607,"summary":"Think like a physicist. Wonder like a human. Into the Impossible is where Cosmic Conversations happen — uniting Nobel Prize winners, iconoclasts, authors, and technologists to explore reality’s deepest questions. From AI to aliens, from biophysics to the brain, from the cosmos to the multiverse, Brian Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego covers it all. If you’ve ever asked What’s out there? or What’s next?, this is where curiosity meets clarity. Learn to think like this. 🎙 Full episodes, notes & more: briankeating.com/podcast","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/into-the-impossible-with-brian-keating-324783"},"episode":{"title":"What's The Real Value of Your Degree?  Aswath Damodaran - #542","slug":"what-s-the-real-value-of-your-degree-aswath-damodaran-542","published_at":"2026-03-09T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/into-the-impossible-with-brian-keating-324783/what-s-the-real-value-of-your-degree-aswath-damodaran-542","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/into-the-impossible-with-brian-keating-324783","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/BBPI2089294421.mp3?updated=1773048416","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/BBPI2089294421.mp3?updated=1773048416","summary":"Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Aswath Damodaran joins Brian Keating to argue that markets, universities, and financial models are all suffering the same disease — mistaking mechanical processes for genuine thinking — and explains why Nobel economists aren't billionaires, why academia is the most deserving target for disruption, and why every major asset class is now overpriced with nowhere left to hide. 00:00 Intro 00:01:37 Why Nobel Economists Aren't Billionaires 00:06:08 Universities Have Completely Lost the Plot 00:07:43 95% of Academic Research Is Worthless 00:13:05 The University Is a Sticky Business — But Cracks Are Forming 00:40:00 ChatGPT Already Does What Bankers Charge Millions For 00:46:43 The Most Dangerous Number in Finance 00:52:35 There Is No Safe Place Left to Put Your Money 00:55:48 When Every Asset Is Overpriced, Buy What You Love 01:00:22 We Are Losing Our Ability to Think 01:01:30 Markets Are Smarter Than Experts — Every Single Time ➡️ Follow Aswath Damodaran 🌐 Website: https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/ 📚 The Little Book of Valuation: https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/ 📝 Musings on Markets (Substack): https://aswathdamodaran.substack.com Join this channel to get access to perks like monthly Office Hours: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join 📚 Get my books: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner, with productivity tips from 9 Nobel Prize winners: https://a.co/d/03ezQFu Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner, with life-changing interviews with 9 Nobel Prizewinners: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U My tell-all cosmic memoir Losing the Nobel Prize: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA The first-ever audiobook from Galileo: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican https:/…","meta_description":"Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Aswath Damodaran joins Brian Keating to argue that markets, universi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4292,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/into-the-impossible-with-brian-keating-324783/episodes/what-s-the-real-value-of-your-degree-aswath-damodaran-542/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/into-the-impossible-with-brian-keating-324783/what-s-the-real-value-of-your-degree-aswath-damodaran-542.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}