Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
Ali Abdaal outlines a 5-phase framework to build a $100,000/year lifestyle business within 12 months by solving expensive problems using existing skills, validating demand before building products, and scaling to $1M+ through strategic leverage.
Anthropic has surged to a $30 billion revenue run rate with training costs one-quarter of OpenAI's, while OpenAI faces significant management turnover and questions about the cash reality of its recent funding round, alongside criticism for acquiring media asset TBPN amid a supposed 'code red' focus mandate.
New York Times journalist John Keroo claims to have identified Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto as British cryptographer Adam Back with 99.5% certainty, presenting forensic linguistic evidence and archival research showing Back laid out Bitcoin's technical blueprint years before its release and disappeared from online forums whenever Satoshi appeared.
Former Senator Ben Sasse discusses his Stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis with Ross Douthat, explaining why he is spending his final months doing interviews rather than bucket-list travel, and how targeted therapy has shrunk his tumors by 76% while he faces the reality that the cancer remains terminal.
Sheriff Grady Judd argues that Trump's Iran policy corrects decades of political failure, defends the U.S. role as global police to protect economic interests, and attributes Florida's 50-year crime lows to strict mandatory sentencing and holding judges accountable for releasing dangerous offenders.
Dave Smith argues that U.S. Middle East interventions are better predicted by Israeli strategic goals and military-industrial profit motives than by presidential intentions, while cautioning against conflating valid critiques of lobbying power with collective blame that ignores individual opposition to war among Jewish Americans.
Dr. David Anderson explains how emotions are persistent, generalizable internal states controlled by specific hypothalamic circuits, revealing that estrogen receptors (not testosterone) drive aggression and that distinct neural populations compete to generate either violent or sexual behaviors.
Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Kapur argue that India's unprecedented early adoption of universal adult franchise created a 'precocious' development model where democracy served as both the glue for nation-building and a constraint on state capacity, leading to unique patterns of stability alongside inefficient redistribution captured by powerful interest groups.
Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Kapur argue that India's unprecedented adoption of universal adult franchise at low income levels created a 'precocious' development path where democracy served as the primary instrument for nation-building and macroeconomic stability, yet simultaneously fostered a fiscally vulnerable state captured by clamorous interest groups rather than the poor.
Granola co-founder Sam Stephenson shares how the $1.5B AI note-taking app achieves rapid growth through a 'surprisingly unambitious' design philosophy that prioritizes frazzled users operating in 'System 1' thinking, leveraging organic viral loops from note-sharing rather than feature bloat.
E.B. Tucker warns of an impending 'Fed 2.0' collapse and replacement with a stablecoin-supervised central bank, advising investors to ignore political headlines and instead own assets that thrive in their economic zone, particularly in cybersecurity and financial infrastructure, while recognizing that America's true competitive advantage is financialization, not manufacturing.
Anu Gupta shares his journey from a suicide attempt driven by racial trauma to developing 'Breaking Bias,' a framework that treats prejudice as a learned somatic habit curable through mindfulness and inner development rather than intellectual DEI training alone.