Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
Author Raama explains why she publicly resigned from being a bridesmaid after spending thousands on three weddings, arguing that the financial strain and emotional labor of modern bridal parties have become unsustainable for many women.
Ryan Sablan shares his asymmetric value investing framework, revealing how Charlie Munger's simple mathematical insight—that you only need one winner among three bets to achieve 33% returns—combined with rigorous balance sheet analysis and position sizing, can lead to market-beating performance without requiring a high win rate.
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman recounts the company's 2015 origins competing against DeepMind's perceived insurmountable lead, the technical breakthroughs that validated the scaling hypothesis, the 2017 pivot from non-profit to for-profit to secure billions in compute, and the boardroom dynamics that led to Sam Altman's brief removal.
Xiaomi CFO Alain Lam details how the 16-year-old company leveraged localized supply chains and 'China speed' to evolve from a smartphone disruptor into an electric vehicle manufacturer, selling 50,000 EVs in 30 minutes by treating cars as integrated consumer electronics rather than traditional automobiles.
Former LinkedIn CPO Tomer Cohen explains how AI is rendering traditional functional roles obsolete in favor of "full stack builders," warns that mid-career professionals face the highest displacement risk due to change aversion, and argues that organizational survival requires adopting a beginner's mindset as technological change outpaces best practices.
Axel Merk discusses the uncertain transition from Powell to Kevin Warsh at the Fed, explains why gold remains essential despite frustrating short-term correlations with equities, and argues that current oil supply shocks pose limited recession risk due to structural economic changes.
Economist Barry Eichengreen warns that while no currency currently exists to replace the dollar, its safe haven status is more fragile than previously believed, and the Federal Reserve faces a 'nightmare scenario' of stagflationary pressure that will test its independence from political interference.
Sander Dieleman from Google DeepMind explains the technical foundations of training large-scale generative image and video models like Veo, emphasizing that meticulous data curation and learned latent representations are as critical as the diffusion architecture itself. He details how diffusion models reverse a noise corruption process through iterative refinement rather than single-step prediction.
Rogan and Gomez compare arena versus club comedy dynamics, expose systemic glyphosate contamination in American wheat processing compared to European heirlooms, and debate metabolic optimization through sobriety or substances while defending intellectual flexibility against internet dogma.
Jordan Peterson explores the necessity of maintaining flexible conceptual structures to navigate constantly transforming reality, warning that rigid ideologies fail because the map is never the territory. He further argues that a growing cognitive divide threatens societal stability, as meaningful responsibility—not leisure—is psychologically essential for human functioning.
Despite President Trump's calls for Iranians to overthrow their government during US-Israeli bombing campaigns, Iranians remained largely paralyzed by communication blackouts, regime oppression, and deep-seated trauma from decades of violent crackdowns on protesters.
The United States has reached a Gini coefficient of 0.86—just 0.01 away from the 1890 Gilded Age peak—creating a dangerous combination of extreme wealth concentration and unaffordability that historically precedes societal collapse through either structural fiscal reform or mass violence.