Sensemaking with Wolé and Tobi
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Sensemaking (formerly titled 'The Yellow Pill') is a podcast where Wolé and Tobi navigate life, work, technology, and culture with thoughtful conversation, personal clarity, and modern insight, one honest episode at a time.
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119: Cars Weren't Supposed to Feel Like This
So a Chinese car nobody had heard of is now the best-selling vehicle in the UK. This kicked off a whole conversation about modern cars for us: why they feel off, why new doesn't mean better, and why…
118: The Case for Getting Your Hands Dirty
What begins as a DIY story turns into a conversation about why some cultures build things themselves, and others have forgotten how — and what gets lost when an entire generation grows up treating…
117: Why Your Favourite Tech Company Might Not Survive
You use their apps every day. You've watched their stock prices climb. Maybe you've even built your career around their tools. But what if the tech companies you rely on most can't actually explain…
116: When People You Rated Stop Making Sense
What happens when something you used to believe doesn’t make sense anymore? In this episode, we get into that experience of going back to people, ideas, or opinions you’ve held for a long time, and…
115: Why Reality TV Hooks Us
In this episode, we talk about reality TV. Love Island, Love Is Blind, Big Brother, The Traitors — and the strange hold these shows seem to have on people. Most of us know they’re ridiculous. And yet…
114: Living Locally in a Global Crisis
In this episode, we try to make sense of the latest tensions involving Iran, the Gulf States, and everything that seems to be unfolding around it. We’re not experts on geopolitics, but like most…
113: If We Were 18 Today, Would We Still Go to Uni?
Should you still go to university in 2026? In this episode of Sensemaking, we wrestle with a question that feels increasingly uncomfortable: Is higher education still worth it? With rising…
112: Rethinking Work, Starting With the Job Market
A simple question about today’s job market led us somewhere deeper. We began by reflecting on what we’re seeing — shifting hiring patterns, oversaturated applications, the quiet disappearance of…
111: Are We Thinking Clearly About AI?
We’re living through something strange, and nobody really knows how it ends. In this episode, we try to articulate that feeling — the sense that something massive is happening, billions are being…
110: Bro, When Did Everything Become a Subscription?
Subscriptions used to be simple. A newspaper. A gym. Maybe a DVD club if you were feeling fancy. Now they’re everywhere: apps, TV, work tools, cars, even things in your house. And somehow none of…
109: When Did Raising a Child Become a Luxury?
In this episode, Wole and Tobi try to make sense of a growing tension many people feel but struggle to articulate: why starting a family now feels economically overwhelming. Sparked by real nursery…
108: Is the Culture Moving On Without Us?
In this episode, we explore a conversation around celebrity, accountability, and mental health, using Kanye West’s public apology as a reference point. We question what public apologies actually…
107: Between Point ‘A’ and Whatever’s Next
A wide-ranging conversation on ambition, intuition, entrepreneurship, and the messy reality of building something meaningful. We talk about career uncertainty, momentum over clarity, the danger of…
106: The New Dad in Town
We’ve talked about fatherhood before, but usually in a vague, hypothetical way; looking at what it might look like, what it could require, what kind of men we'd need to become. But this time, it's…
105: Cold Starts and Fresh Hopes
In this intimate New Year catch-up, Wole and Tobi ease into the year with a raw, meandering conversation about returning to routines, grappling with unfinished goals, and adjusting expectations. They…
104: What the Diddy Story Forces Us to Confront
Familiarity does strange things to judgment. It’s surprisingly easy to feel informed about people we’ve never met. Artists, leaders, creators, public figures. When someone has been around long…
103: Are We Falling Out of Love With Social Media?
If you’ve been feeling weird about social media lately, we’d love to hear it. Send us a quick voice note on Speakpipe (http://bit.ly/sensemakingvn). Now… into the episode: . . Do you ever feel like…
102: Thinking Out Loud at About AI
You can send us a quick voice note with your thoughts on Speakpipe (http://bit.ly/sensemakingvn). . . . Artificial intelligence has gone from a niche conversation to an unavoidable presence in work,…
101: We're Back
After an 18-month break, a rebrand, a move across countries, a wedding, a baby, and a whole lot of growing up, we’re back on the mics - this time as Sensemaking with Wolé and Tobi. If you’ve been…
S10 S10E20 - The Farewell Episode
After four amazing years and 100+ unforgettable episodes, The Yellow Pill journey comes to an end 💛 It has been an incredible chapter of our lives, & we want to take a moment to express our…
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Sensemaking with Wolé and Tobi has published 197 episodes since May 2020, covering topics in Education, Society & Culture.
Sensemaking with Wolé and Tobi is currently active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 1h 3m.
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