A central-bank employee, a secure terminal and a payment instruction: the largest thefts no longer need a getaway car. This spoiler-light discussion explores the premise, characters and invisible financial machinery behind Tim Short’s Cash-Trap, a Jack Burgoyne novel inspired by actual events.
Running time: 8:47
Read Cash-Trap (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C5Y4ZQ8N)
This episode was produced with AI-assisted scripting and synthetic voices from Tim Short’s original book. The transcript was checked against the source and approved by the author.
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20 Jul 2026
The Enemy Is Not You
Armies study an enemy’s forces, weapons and terrain. But plans also depend on a psychological forecast: what will the enemy decide to do? Drawing on cases from Napoleon to Ukraine, Tim Short argues that cognitive bias creates systematic Theory of Mind errors in military decision-making.
Running time: 9:36
Read The Unknown Enemy (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1739290615)
This episode was produced with AI-assisted scripting and synthetic voices from Tim Short’s original book. The transcript was checked against the source and approved by the author.
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20 Jul 2026
How Do We Read Other Minds?
How do we predict what another person will do? One answer says that we apply an implicit theory of human behaviour. Another says that we use ourselves as a model. This episode explores Tim Short’s defence of Simulation Theory—and his account of why cognitive and emotional differences make simulations fail.
Running time: 9:09
Read Simulation Theory (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1138816051)
This episode was produced with AI-assisted scripting and synthetic voices from Tim Short’s original book. The transcript was checked against the source and approved by the author.
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