Podcasts

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.

AI Explained

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's new essay predicts AI will automate entire professions within 1-2 years, potentially creating a 50% underclass while enabling totalitarian surveillance states, though the narrator questions the timelines and notes potential conflicts of interest in Amodei's policy recommendations.

In Good Company (Nicolai Tangen)

Bill Winters details Standard Chartered's unique 'connector bank' model bridging emerging markets and global finance, while recounting his decade-long turnaround from regulatory crisis and massive write-downs to restored credibility, emphasizing that prioritizing regulators over shareholders and rebuilding team integrity were essential to saving the franchise.

Latent Space

OpenAI launches Prism, a free AI-native LaTeX editor powered by GPT-5.2 that eliminates context-switching for scientists by embedding reasoning capabilities directly into academic writing workflows, from converting hand-drawn diagrams to verifying complex equations.

Acquired

The NFL evolved from a violent 19th-century college ritual into America's most valuable media property by strategically legitimizing professional play through strict separation from amateur football and pioneering equal revenue sharing, while modern streaming deals and private equity investment continue to reshape the league.

80,000 Hours Podcast (Rob Wiblin)

Even perfectly aligned AI that faithfully follows human instructions could lead to gradual human disempowerment through economic, political, and cultural mechanisms, as competitive pressures and structural incentives progressively marginalize human participation in civilization.

Stanford Online

Fine-tuning large language models risks sudden catastrophic failure of safety guardrails, which break abruptly rather than gradually like capability metrics. Researchers demonstrate that dynamically segmenting training data into safe and unsafe portions—instead of binary filtering—maintains both safety alignment and model performance.

a16z Podcast

AI infrastructure deployment is unprecedented with $400B in annual capex from tech giants, while input costs have plummeted 99% and user adoption occurs 5x faster than previous tech cycles. However, energy availability and cooling technology will become the critical bottlenecks constraining growth over the next five years, even as business models evolve to capture value through price discrimination and high retention rates.

Huberman Lab

Dr. David Eagleman explains that neuroplasticity allows the human brain to constantly reconfigure its 86 billion neurons throughout life, emphasizing that maintaining this flexibility requires continuously seeking novel challenges rather than repeating mastered skills, while modern tools like AI can enhance critical thinking when leveraged through curiosity-driven inquiry.