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VANTAGE POINT
The podcast for critical thinkers.
Where we make sense of – and excel in – our lives, our jobs, and our world.
We’re not political, just critical.
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Thanks for joining in the first of our inaugural episodes. I’m your host, Eli Amdur.
VANTAGE POINT, the podcast for critical thinkers, will bring you:
1. One major commentary.
2. Timely, relevant observations and advice.
3. Eli’s aphorisms – short, pithy, and insightful.
4. Thoughts from great minds in history – and a question to ponder.
5. “What if?” Exciting contemporary ideas.
Additionally, from time to time we’ll interview exciting thought leaders from many fields.
VANTAGE POINT has one objective: To help make you better, more competitive, and more fulfilled by constantly improving your critical thinking.
Vantage Point - the podcast for critical thinkers.
Merriam-Webster announced, on Instagram of all places, that it is now okay to end a sentence with a preposition. Eli's earth shattered. Then he found out why the rule had to go, and why the same flexibility explains how a language that nearly went extinct a thousand years ago came to dominate the world.
In this episode Why the rule against ending a sentence with a preposition had to go, how English came to dominate the world, plus 2 of Eli'...
12 Oct 2026
Why Is Everything Either Awesome or Amazing?
Vantage Point - the podcast for critical thinkers.
A thousand years from now, linguists will look back and ask what happened to all but two adjectives. Eli takes on "amazing" and "awesome," the lazy words crowding out the richest language on earth, and explains why communication remains the one skill that separates those who move forward from those who don't.
In this episode A definition and a hard look at the episode's theme, plus 2 of Eli's aphorisms, Eleanor Roosevelt from great minds, a...
8 Oct 2026
The Ethics of Progress
Vantage Point - the podcast for critical thinkers.
Every invention humans have ever made, from flight to dynamite to penicillin, has been put to both constructive and destructive use. Now AI is moving faster and reaching farther than anything before it. Eli's warning: the greatest challenge of this century isn't technology. It's ethics.
In this episode The ethics of progress versus the progress of ethics, the three dimensions of change, and six leadership lessons, plus 2 of Eli's aphorisms ...
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