Joe Keohane on the Benefits of Connecting with Strangers

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Joe Keohane, the author of "The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World", to discuss what happens when we talk to strangers, and why it affects everything from our own health and well-being to the rise and fall of nations. Joe Keohane is a veteran journalist who has worked as an editor at Medium, Esquire, Entrepreneur, and Hemispheres. His writing—on everything from politics, to travel, to social science, business, and technology—has appeared in New York magazine, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, Wired, Boston magazine, and The New Republic. Joe also managed to win a 2017 Screenwriter’s Colony fellowship for a comedy television pilot that remains unproduced. Born in the Boston area, he currently resides in New York City with his wife and daughter.