Podcasts

In Good Company (Nicolai Tangen)

Norges Bank Investment Management reported a 15% return in 2025, reaching a record value of over 25 trillion Norwegian kroner, driven by a concentrated AI-led equity rally. However, the fund warns of unprecedented concentration risk—with the top 10 holdings now representing 20% of the equity portfolio—and has published stress tests showing potential 37% losses in a 'fragmented world' scenario.

Joe Rogan Experience

Bert Kreischer and Joe Rogan explore how red light therapy has restored their vision without corrective lenses, dissect the specific viral moments that catapulted various comedians' careers, and examine how false narratives spread when interview subjects accidentally validate incorrect premises to avoid confrontation.

Stanford Online

Andy Slavitt and Stanford experts discuss how AI adoption in healthcare is accelerating faster than organizational readiness, creating a critical imperative for leaders to personally engage with the technology while new CMS payment models and FDA pathways signal a policy shift toward rapid AI integration and patient empowerment.

Cognitive Revolution

Legal scholars Kevin Frasier and Alan Rosenstein examine how frontier AI models are already outperforming median lawyers and reshaping legal practice, while exploring radical future possibilities including AI-generated constitutions, automated compliance systems, and new digital rights like the "right to compute."

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya argues that public health authorities destroyed trust during COVID-19 by enforcing harmful lockdowns and school closures without admitting uncertainty, suppressing dissent through personal attacks, and potentially covering up lab-leak origins; as incoming NIH director, he pledges to restore credibility by protecting scientific free speech and honest debate.

Lenny's Podcast

Marc Andreessen argues that 2025 represents a historically pivotal moment where AI collides with institutional collapse and demographic decline, creating an unprecedented opportunity for 'superempowered individuals' who combine deep expertise with AI tools to become spectacularly productive while traditional job roles converge.

Huberman Lab

Play activates the periaqueductal gray to release endogenous opioids while maintaining low adrenaline, creating a unique neurochemical state that makes the prefrontal cortex more plastic and capable of exploring novel contingencies, effectively serving as the most powerful portal to lifelong brain rewiring and cognitive flexibility.

Conversations with Tyler (Tyler Cowen)

Akshay Jaitly explains how Trilegal was founded in 2000 to capitalize on India's post-1991 liberalization, distinguishing itself through operational professionalism rather than legal experience while navigating three distinct phases of deal evolution from inbound foreign investment to outbound Indian expansion.

My First Million

Stanford economist Nick Bloom presents comprehensive research showing hybrid work has permanently stabilized at roughly 25% of workdays post-pandemic, with randomized controlled trials demonstrating that structured hybrid models maintain productivity while reducing employee turnover by one-third, though success requires strict output-based performance reviews and coordinated in-office scheduling.

The Pomp Podcast

Economist Dr. Bob Murphy argues gold is outperforming Bitcoin due to mounting fears of systemic crisis and societal breakdown favoring physical tangibility over digital assets, while highlighting the escalating power struggle between the Federal Reserve and the White House over control of monetary policy and government financing.

Latent Space

Andrew White recounts his journey from molecular dynamics researcher to founder of Future House and Edison Scientific, revealing how AlphaFold disrupted specialized supercomputing approaches and why current LLMs have already compressed a decade-long vision for automated science into just two years—prompting urgent policy attention at the highest levels of government.

Joe Rogan Experience

Andrew Wilson recounts his transition from robotics mechanic to political commentator during COVID lockdowns, while he and Rogan analyze the lifecycle of conspiracy theories, the biological reality behind wilderness disappearances, and the ecological consequences of predator mismanagement.