Podcast: Paul Kedrosky Interviews Kathryn Schulz: On Being Wrong

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Introduction (via Infections Talk Podcast)

In this episode, Paul talks with journalist and author Kathryn Schulz. They discussed Shulz’s recently released book, “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error.” They talked about Schulz’s premise that we’re all wrong, all the time, and how the inability of politicians and business leaders to admit to mistakes can be devastating. On the other hand, the ability to learn from our mistakes can have personal benefits.

Schulz’s freelance writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and the Huffington Post, among other publications. She writes “The Wrong Stuff,” a blog on Slate (magazine), and contributes to the Freakonomics blog at The New York Times. Schulz began her career in journalism writing for the now-defunct Feed Magazine, one of the earliest online magazines. She is the former editor of the online environmental magazine Grist, and a former reporter and editor for The Santiago Times, of Santiago, Chile, where she covered environmental, labor, and human rights issues. She was a 2004 recipient of the Pew Fellowship in International Journalism (now the International Reporting Project), and has reported from throughout Central and South America, Japan, and, most recently, the Middle East. A graduate of Brown University and a former Ohioan, Oregonian, and Brooklynite, she currently lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.

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