Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
Steinberger details his evolution to an 'agentic engineering' workflow using multiple CLI-based AI agents simultaneously, arguing that mastery requires developing empathy for how agents perceive limited context while embracing imperfection and concise prompts over complex orchestration.
Ben Thompson argues that AI companies should adopt Meta-style user profiling for advertising rather than contextual chat-based ads, which creates conflicts of interest and limits inventory; he also discusses Taiwan's urban convenience and how aggregators like Booking.com capture more value than suppliers.
BlackRock is buying a specific crypto token for the first time ever, while Bitcoin sits at $67k with traders preparing for high volatility around tomorrow's CPI inflation data release.
Peter Steinberger discusses OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent that exploded to over 175,000 GitHub stars by connecting messaging apps to autonomous system-level actions, featuring emergent capabilities like unprompted audio processing and self-modifying architecture that signals a fundamental shift from coding to agentic engineering.
AlphaFold2's 2020 breakthrough solved single-chain protein structure prediction using evolutionary sequence correlations, but the field still struggles with folding dynamics, protein complexes, and molecules lacking evolutionary data, while expanding to small molecules and nucleic acids.
Alex Jones claims Jeffrey Epstein was a high-level CIA operative and David Rockefeller protégé who ran global blackmail operations, while arguing Democrats are covering up their involvement in the Epstein network by focusing attention on Republicans.
Aftermath Silver CEO Michael Williams argues the silver bull market is only beginning, with structural supply deficits and industrial demand potentially driving prices to $80-$200/oz, while explaining why quality junior miners with Tier 1 assets offer superior leverage to physical metal at this stage.
Team USA's women's hockey team delivered a historic 5-0 shutout against Canada signaling a generational power shift in the rivalry, while American athletes navigate intense psychological pressure and achieve historic breakthroughs across curling and skiing at the Milan Winter Games.
Screenwriter Roger Avary analyzes Orson Welles' revolutionary techniques in 'Citizen Kane' and 'Touch of Evil,' contrasting the meticulous 'lightning in a bottle' craft of analog filmmaking with how digital production and streaming algorithms have commodified storytelling.
Veteran trader Jason Shapiro identifies extreme sugar short positioning as the market's most crowded trade with potential energy sector implications, admits his sentiment indicators failed to predict silver's recent crash, and argues Bitcoin will likely trade between the polarized predictions of $1 million or zero rather than either extreme.
Stephanie Pomboy analyzes the contradictory economic signals in early 2025, explaining why a surprisingly strong January jobs report likely reflects seasonal statistical distortions rather than genuine economic acceleration, while underlying weakness appears in accelerating corporate bankruptcies, weak retail sales, and rising consumer credit stress.
Jordan Peterson argues that human perception is fundamentally ethical and goal-directed rather than objective, filtering reality into relevant tools and obstacles based on survival needs, while emphasizing that psychological development requires integrating repressed aggression and having parents who accurately represent the world's difficulty.