Podcasts

Cognitive Revolution

Descript CEO Laura Burkhauser distinguishes 'slop'—mass-produced algorithmic arbitrage for profit—from necessary 'bad art' created while learning new mediums. She reveals a clear hierarchy in creator acceptance of AI tools: universal love for deterministic features like Studio Sound, frustration with agentic assistants like Underlord, and visceral opposition to generative video models, while outlining Descript's strategy to serve creators without becoming a content mill.

New York Times Podcasts

Author Isabel Allende reveals how writing 24,000 letters to her mother over three decades forged an unusually intimate bond and trained her literary voice, while reflecting on how her debut novel emerged from grief and exile to capture three generations of resilient women.

New York Times Podcasts

This episode breaks down how to choose swimsuits that actually fit changing bodies, explaining that brands using plus-size fit models create better proportions than those simply scaling up size 6 patterns, while specific fabric choices like textured or compressive materials address common concerns from postpartum bellies to long torsos.

In Good Company (Nicolai Tangen)

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna explains the company's strategic pivot from declining hardware and services to a hybrid cloud and AI software model, detailing the $34 billion Red Hat acquisition rationale, the spin-off of IT infrastructure services, and warning that the current AI infrastructure buildout represents a bubble that only two or three large model providers will survive.

Conversations with Tyler (Tyler Cowen)

India faces a constitutional crisis over parliamentary representation frozen to 1971 census data, creating severe malapportionment where high-population northern states are under-represented compared to southern states, while delayed censuses and political gridlock prevent resolution.

Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money

Housing analyst Melody Wright predicts a foreclosure 'dam break' in Q4 2025 as national home prices show their first spring decline since 2011, with inventory surges spreading from the Sun Belt to the Midwest and Northeast while distress sales overtake conventional transactions.

Latent Space

Physicist Alex Lubyansky discusses how GPT-5 and reasoning models like o3 have achieved superhuman capabilities in theoretical physics, solving the year-long mystery of single minus gluon tree amplitudes and reproducing complex research in minutes rather than months.

The David Lin Report

Portfolio manager Tomasz Nadrowski warns that China's dominance over critical mineral refining—controlling up to 99% of some materials—creates an immediate supply chain crisis for the West, requiring urgent reshoring of processing capacity and tariff-protected price mechanisms to break dependence accumulated over three decades.

Joe Rogan Experience

Chamath Palihapitiya argues that societal unrest stems from a structural economic imbalance where capital gains are taxed less than labor, enabled by technology that extracts value without workers, while contemporary debates about AI and UAPs distract from this core issue; Rogan counters that government incompetence and waste make taxation-based solutions untenable.

Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson explores Jean Piaget's discovery that morality develops through children's cooperative play, where unconscious behavioral patterns become conscious ethical frameworks, while examining how humans navigate between nature's devouring chaos and culture's symbolic order through sacrifice and transformative crisis.

a16z Podcast

Tony James details his 25-year journey transforming Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette from a struggling five-person team into a $29 billion Wall Street powerhouse through merchant banking and high-yield debt, while sharing insights from early investments in Costco and Starbucks and the decision to sell at the 2000 market peak.

New York Times Podcasts

As the 2026 midterm primaries intensify, Donald Trump is orchestrating a 'revenge tour' to purge Republican dissenters in Indiana, Kentucky, and Louisiana, enforcing absolute loyalty while Democrats grapple with internal crises over generational change and opposition strategy.