About the Author
Spencer Greenberg is an entrepreneur and mathematician with a specialization in psychology. He’s the founder and CEO of
Spark Wave, a psychology research organization that designs and conducts novel experiments and studies in psychology, and builds psychology related products designed to help solve problems in the world (e.g. scalable care for mental health challenges, and technology for accelerating and improving social science research). Spencer is also the host of the Clearer Thinking podcast, which is in the top 1% of podcasts globally. Through it, Spencer has interviewed many self-help figures and prominent non-fiction authors such as Scott Barry Kaufman, Loch Kelly, Kristin Neff, AJ Jacobs, Oliver Burkeman and Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman. Previously, Spencer co-founded
AskAMathematician.com, a mathematics question and answer site which had about 50,000 monthly page views. He also founded
ClearerThinking.org, which offers over 75 self-improvement tools and training programs used by hundreds of thousands of people, which are designed to help you improve decision-making, increase positive behaviors, and reduce cognitive biases.
Spencer has a PhD in applied math from NYU, with a specialty in machine learning. Spencer’s work has been featured by numerous major media outlets, such as
Forbes,
The New York Times, the
Wall Street Journal, the
Independent,
Lifehacker,
Gizmodo,
Fast Company, and the
Financial Times. Spencer also has extensive public speaking experience having done multiple talks including two TEDx talks
here and
here.
