What Is The Future of Creativity & Empathy? | Jacob Collier Asks Hank Anything

Jacob Collier joins Hank to ask him how we feel the wind, what the future of carbon removal looks like, and if creativity can be measured.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:00 How do I feel the wind?
00:04:28 How many things is it possible to focus on at once?
00:14:06 Carbon offsets, how do they work? Do they work?
00:19:40 What’s the future of carbon removal?
00:27:46 What is the physiological difference between falsetto and chest voice?
00:35:03 What is the biggest most unanswerable question in your life right now?
00:42:29 Can creativity be measured?

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[complexly]

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[benoftroy]

the worst thing about this episode is there's only one. hank and jacob could be a whole show forever. this was as fantastic as I hoped it would be

[rickyc]

“Its about 16 cents flat”

“… yeah thats what i was thinking”
LMAO

[TheRexisFern]

I'm paralyzed, so my leg just sat there and insulted me. 😂 But my hand can move in a great circle!

[NicolasPBJ]

I’m a percussionist, and instantly started doing the hand in one direction, foot in the other, and was thinking “this isn’t difficult at all”. Then Hank said only percussionists can do it and I was like “oh.”

[tristanandersen]

They should do this semi-regularly, except half of it is Jacob asking Hank about science, and half of it is Hank asking Jacob about music.

[JackDelfino]

Hank talking about empathy having a farther reach then ever before in the history of humanity is a paradigm shifting revelation for me. Just sitting with that

[itsGrapes]

The synergy and vibe of this video is what every 2 guy host podcast wishes it could be

[PlasticForkEater]

Got interrupted from reading Everything is TB with a notification for this. Sorry John.

[PrimRooks]

"Ask Hank Anything" has the very specific vibe of "educational public TV show that your grandparents would watch when you were a kid, which you would also watch from the side even though you were too young to understand anything." And I absolutely mean that as high praise.

[andreazo]

Hank wearing shoes on the couch and Jacob just in his socks is the most USA vs EUROPE thing ever. Thanks for the lovely episode!

[kenanjones]

"I actually wrote some down as well."
"What?? We're cute" Hank is very funny lol

[MrTallHead]

Hank: Do you have a guess?
Jacob: Yes, it's two-fold.
*cue laugh track*

[barbd]

How is this both one of the best Jacob Collier interviews and also one of the best Hank Green interview at the same time?!?!

[MoeffMaehUndMuh]

Ecologist here! Another great way to capture carbon is to restore ecosystems and especially wetlands. Plants that grow in wetlands like peatlands and saltflats capture carbon like forests do, but once they die the biomass does not decompose because the area is wet and the soil mostly anoxic. Its the same reason why canoes and bodies can be conserved in peat bogs for such a long time. Restoring these areas also helps very unique (and often threatened) plants and animals, plus they are also beautiful and strange (I once stood on a floating bog and when I jumped it felt like jumping on a sort of very firm waterbed, you could feel the ground move).
Restoring and rewetting peatlands also means that the peat that was accumulated over decades and centuries is no longer being slowly decomposed and emitted into the air, so it is an actally useful emission mitigation measure. In northern europe a lot of agricultural land is actually drained peatlands that is slowly decomposing.

Another way is to protect the whales and other big marine animals. When whales die, their bodies and the tons of carbon they store sink to the bottom of the ocean where they do not decompose, which is called a whalefall. It basically works like the bundles of seaweed that Hank mentioned. In the grand scheme of things it may not be a large amount of carbon, but it nicely shows how biodiversity and the climate crisis are interconnected

[poundlandvodka]

I'm a simultaneous interpreter, and the experiment about focus really reminded me of what we do all day. We have to listen to a speech in one language, process it, understand it, translate it, and re-express it in a syntactically coherent and culturally relevant way in the target language. It takes a lot of training to do well and with fluency, precisely because it's all about managing cognitive load and balancing your attention (including changing that balance when a speaker is expressing a particularly complex idea, for example).

[bluesmcgroove]

At first I was going to comment on how I could do the hand/foot thing, then Hank said "It's something only percussionists can do" and I realized "oh yeah, I've got 20 years experience of separating my feet and hands" lol

[AMTunLimited]

I keep forgetting that this community has gotten on for long enough that many or most might not have been around when Hank was a touring musician, and a genuinely talented one as well

[catatonicbug]

The speed at which both of these men can generate and articulate thoughts, both individually and in response to each other is incredible!

[nathanJohn]

Fun fact: The original meaning of multi-tasking in computers was actually switching between tasks very fast. Most PCs until the mid to late 2000s only had one processor core, so it could only do one thing at a time. Multi-threading is multiple things at the same time