Podcasts

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Christian Angermayer advocates for "human-maxxing"—using FDA-approved drugs and technology to maximize human potential without becoming post-human. Through initiatives like the Enhanced Games, he promotes medically supervised performance enhancement, fair athlete pay, and the normalization of hormone optimization for everyday improvements from sleep to sex.

20VC with Harry Stebbings

SpaceX is launching the largest IPO in history at a $1.8 trillion valuation using a risky fixed-price mechanism that bypasses traditional price discovery, while OpenAI files confidentially to go public and venture LPs raise return expectations to 7-8x following massive liquidity events.

New York Times Podcasts

College graduates have shifted from reliable Republican voters in the 1980s to a Democratic-leaning bloc embracing economic populism, driven by skyrocketing debt, underemployment, and the perceived betrayal of the 'college promise' that failed to deliver upper-middle-class prosperity.

Impact Theory

Peter Diamandis argues that AGI has already arrived and shattered the traditional social contract of education-to-employment, creating immediate turbulence and job displacement fears while simultaneously collapsing the barriers to entrepreneurship and promising unprecedented abundance through scientific breakthroughs in health and longevity.

Huberman Lab

This video outlines science-based protocols for optimizing sleep quality by leveraging morning sunlight exposure, temperature manipulation, and strategic timing of caffeine and meals to properly anchor circadian rhythms and trigger wakefulness signals early in the day.

The David Lin Report

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe argues that stablecoins and 100% reserve blockchain banking are poised to disrupt the fractional-reserve system, creating a separation between safe custody and lending while challenging traditional banks' ability to withhold risk-free yields from depositors.

The David Lin Report

Lobo Tiggre analyzes the recent energy-driven inflation surge and the Federal Reserve's policy dilemma under Chair Kevin Warsh, warning that gold's technical pattern resembles previous major peaks while advising investors to hold cash for upcoming opportunities in oversold miners and commodities.

TED

This TED event explores how unstructured play and imagination are essential human capacities under threat from modern efficiency culture and AI dependency, arguing that reclaiming 'creative play' across work, home, and public life is necessary for societal resilience and innovation.

The David Lin Report

Chief market strategist Gareth Soloway warns that Bitcoin is testing critical double-bottom support at $60k with potential downside to $50k or $35k if it fails, while urging investors to avoid the hyped SpaceX IPO on Friday and prepare for the S&P 500 to catch down to Bitcoin's weakness as the AI trade deflates.

All-In Podcast

Senators John Fetterman and Dave McCormick discuss their bipartisan partnership to address Pennsylvania's working-class economic anxiety, defend the filibuster as essential for governance, and warn that partisan extremism and data center moratoriums threaten US competitiveness in the AI and energy races.

AI Explained

Claude Fable 5 represents a significant capability leap over Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, demonstrating expert-level biological research skills and coding prowess, though Anthropic has implemented unprecedented restrictive safeguards including invisible 'stun locks' to prevent competitor usage and biological weapon development assistance.

Stripe

Cleo founder Barney Hussey-Yeo discusses building an AI financial assistant since 2016, leveraging humor and proactive agentic technology to optimize financial decisions for the 99% of consumers living paycheck to paycheck, while arguing that vertical AI agents will outperform general LLMs in specialized domains like personal finance.