🎙️ Podcasts

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Transportation expert Andrew Miller predicts self-driving taxis will become as common as Uber in North American cities by 2035, potentially eliminating most of the 40,000 annual road deaths and reclaiming millions of hours of human attention, but success depends on resolving manufacturer liability and reconciling urban planning efficiency goals with American preferences for private transportation.

PBD Podcast

Susan Kokinda argues that a British imperial system combining monarchical 'soft power,' City of London finance, and intelligence networks has orchestrated US presidential assassinations and global conflicts since 1900 to suppress the 'American System' of economic sovereignty, with recent attempts on Donald Trump's life representing the latest battle in this centuries-old war between national development and financial extraction.

AI Engineer

David Gomes from Cursor details how they replaced 15,000 lines of complex git work tree management code with a 200-line markdown skill using agent primitives, drastically reducing maintenance while enabling multi-repo support and flexible model comparisons, though requiring new approaches to ensure agent isolation.

Stripe

Sam Altman discusses the recent 'takeoff' moment in AI capabilities driven by coding models crossing subjective thresholds, while outlining OpenAI's evolution into a low-margin infrastructure provider and sharing untold stories from the secret eight-month period when GPT-4 existed only inside the company.

My First Million

The world is undergoing a structural transformation from the post-WWII globalization era to a new age of geoeconomics, driven by China's revisionist rise and the collapse of the separation between economic and security policy, requiring the United States to overcome internal polarization to compete effectively.

Stanford Online

Mike Kuniavsky and Elizabeth Goodman examine how AI has revolutionized UX research by automating traditional methods while simultaneously creating an 'authenticity crisis' through synthetic users and widespread fraud, arguing that maintaining 'ground truth' through direct human contact remains essential for valid insights and organizational influence.

The David Lin Report

Veteran oil analyst Bob Ryan warns that the US-Iran standoff could push oil to $150 by Q3, as the UAE's OPEC exit and the vulnerable Strait of Hormuz create a structural supply crisis that markets are underestimating. With extreme backwardation, refiner margins collapsing, and Gulf storage capacity maxing out, even a ceasefire would take months to normalize flows, threatening corporate earnings and economic stability.

Dwarkesh Patel

Reiner Pope explains the mathematical mechanics behind LLM inference costs, demonstrating how 'Fast Mode' APIs charge premiums for smaller batch sizes that reduce latency, and why physical memory bandwidth constraints create hard limits on how fast or cheap inference can get regardless of budget.

Joe Rogan Experience

Comedian Brian Simpson recounts surviving a heart attack three months ago and clashing with medical staff over humor-based coping mechanisms, while he and Joe Rogan discuss vision improvement through red light therapy, predatory veterinary billing practices, and the untrainable nature of wolves compared to domestic dogs.

Jordan Peterson

True psychological growth requires voluntarily confronting the chaos and suffering inherent in existence through embodied listening and narrative engagement, transforming potential crisis into renewed strength rather than avoiding the discomfort of uncertainty.

AI Engineer

OpenAI's Katia Gil Guzman and Vaibhav Srivastav unveil Codex's evolution into a full software engineering agent, demonstrating new plugins that bundle workflows, automations for background task scheduling, and subagent capabilities powered by mini models to handle complex parallel development tasks.

All-In Podcast

Former Downing Street adviser Steve Hilton outlines his Republican bid for California governor, proposing a radical tax overhaul with zero state income tax for households under $100k and a 7.5% flat tax above, while arguing California's dysfunction mirrors 1970s Britain.