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The Unlearning Project Podcast | BARBURAS.com

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By: Andrei Barburas | BARBURAS.com
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A podcast of applied human insight. From dehumanization to unconscious bias, from the digital trenches to timeless philosophy, barburas.com brings you reflective, audio-first explorations that challenge what you know and invite you to see the patterns beneath. Each series draws from a course, reimagined as conversations for the ear. Free to listen, designed to provoke, and always pointing toward change.made by BARBURAS | Copyright ©2002 – 2026 Economics Management Management & Leadership Personal Development Personal Success Philosophy Social Sciences
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  • Social Engineering Is Just Persuasion

    Social Engineering Is Just Persuasion
    Oct 9 2026

    A phishing email and a sales pitch are structurally almost identical: urgency, scarcity, authority, a narrow window to act. One is called an attack. The other is called Tuesday. This episode looks at why social engineering works so reliably, and argues that the answer has less to do with sophisticated criminal innovation than with something much more familiar: the same psychological triggers that…

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    12 mins
  • The Politics of Being Believed

    The Politics of Being Believed
    Sep 25 2026

    Two people say the same thing. One gets heard. The other gets evaluated. Nobody decided this, but everybody in the room already knows which is which. This episode looks at the gap between an account being true and an account being considered credible, and what happens when that gap isn’t really about the quality of what’s being said. Drawing on Goffman’s work on stigma, this is a conversation…

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    12 mins
  • Who Writes the Default?

    Who Writes the Default?
    Sep 11 2026

    Every form, every policy, every “standard” way of doing something started as a decision; made by someone, working from their own frame of reference, at a moment when other frames of reference simply weren’t in the room. And once that decision became the default, it stopped looking like a decision at all. This episode looks at how neutral standards quietly encode whose needs came first…

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    11 mins
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