Letters for Gary EP5 Stories Over Stats

Chapters

00:00 The Letters for Gary Premise

02:39 Prison Groupies

03:58 Could Michael Jackson be Your Friend ?

05:22 Ted Bundy’s Conjugal Visits

06:22 Vengeful Justice: Inside Russia's Extreme Prisons

09:05 Mixing Lifers with Short-Term Inmates

14:12 The Fear of Losing Freedom

18:15 Would You Rather Be Homeless or Go to Prison?

28:06 "Luxury" Prisons: The Northern European / Scandinavian Model

31:50 The Boiling Frog Metaphor: Gradual Shift in European Ideas

33:13 Individual Freedom vs. Societal Rules & Education

35:48 How Well-Meaning Individual Choices Lead to Catastrophic Results

37:25 Statistics vs. Human Emotion: How We Perceive Risk & Danger

41:14 Why Humans Are Driven by Narratives, Not Data 

43:03 Scaling Social Models: Why Small Tribal Dynamics Fail at Scale