Angus Fletcher didn’t plan to become a professor of story. He began in a neurophysiology lab at the University of Michigan, working on the dominant assumption that the brain behaves like a computer: taking in data, processing it, and outputting decisions. In the closing episode of Season Nine of Data Malarkey – the podcast about using data, smarter – master data storyteller, Sam Knowles, traces Fletcher’s unusual pivot from studying neurons under a microscope to completing a PhD in English literature at Yale, and what that journey taught him about how humans...