Daniel Levitin
Neuroscientist and author. His TED talk How to Stay Calm When You Know You'll Be Stressed translates stress neuroscience and Danny Kahneman's prospective hindsight practice into personal systems — designated places for essentials, travel document backups, and pre-mortem questions for medical decisions including NNT statistics.
The Montreal lockout story (broken window → forgotten passport → eight hours by the lavatory) is the narrative spine: cortisol-impaired thinking compounds small failures into catastrophes.