Maria Popova on the Role of Chance in Shaping Our Lives

On Ep. 154 of our Time Sensitive podcast, the Bulgarian-born, Brooklyn-based writer, reader, and researcher Maria Popova, founder of the “free, ad-free, A.I.-free, fully human” website and newsletter The Marginalian, discusses her latest book, “Traversal”; why today’s A.I. debates are fundamentally modern versions of age-old questions about the soul; and the mystery of being alive.