The Jim Rutt Show

Jim Rutt

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Booking Overview

A science-and-society show where Jim Rutt talks with critical thinkers at the edge of science, technology, politics, and social systems. Great booking target for guests who can go beyond headlines and explain structural forces, systems design, and the implications for public life.

Metrics

Episodes: 461

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

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Host

Jim Rutt - The provided podcast description frames the show as “crisp conversations with critical thinkers” at the leading edge of science, technology, politics, and social systems.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Renowned authors/scholars/journalists/industry executives with deep expertise in science, technology, politics, social systems, or applied frameworks (often evidenced by books and/or institutional leadership).
Required Achievements:  
Published books or major authored works, Institutional or organizational leadership (e.g., executive roles or research/lab leadership), Notable public-facing influence through journalism/activism/scholarship

Recent Guest Discussions

Cory Doctorow - Enshittification, Platform/intermediary Dynamics, Antitrust, And What Citizens Can Do About Internet Degradation

Tyson Yunkaporta - Worldviews, Metaphysics, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Skepticism, And How To Hold Multiple Lenses Simultaneously

Lisa Buckingham - Hiring And Job Architecture In The LLM Era, Learning Agility, AI Adoption/change Management, And Workforce Implications

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Jim Rutt Show
:

EP 346 Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Got Worse and What to Do About It

June 02, 2026

Jim talked with Cory Doctorow—prolific sci-fi and nonfiction author, journalist, activist, EFF special adviser, and author of Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It—about how structural forces degraded the internet, and what citizens (not consumers) can actually do about it. They discussed: The origin of "enshittification"—Cory's January 2023 blog post, its viral spread, and its naming as Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society Two-sided mar...

EP 345 Worldviews: Tyson Yunkaporta on Ceremony, Skepticism, and Seeing in 3D

May 28, 2026

Jim talks with Tyson Yunkaporta—indigenous Australian scholar and author of Sand Talk, one of Jim's top ten favorite books—about his metaphysics and worldview, the ecology of sex and creation, and how to wear rationalist and traditional knowledge frameworks simultaneously. They discuss: Jim's editorial endorsement of Sand Talk—"one of the top 10 best books I have ever read" Tyson's trilogy of books Humans as a custodial species—sacred carers embedded in nature Who Tyson is when he w...

EP 344 Lisa Buckingham on Hiring for the AI Era

May 26, 2026

Jim talks with Lisa Buckingham—a veteran HR leader at Vialto Partners, US Soccer, Lincoln Financial, and Thomson—about how the LLM era is reshaping hiring and job architecture, and how companies and workers can roll with the changes. They discuss: Jim and Lisa's shared history in natural language processing labs thirty years ago—and the contrast with today, where "everybody can be an AI expert" The kind of people to hire in the age of LLMs: intellectual curiosity, learning agility, and ...

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