🎙️ Podcasts

My First Million

This episode explores how flawed decision-making stems not from mathematical errors in Bayesian updating, but from people restricting their 'model set'—the range of explanations they're willing to consider a priori. When groups socially exclude certain hypotheses, members invent increasingly convoluted interpretations to maintain their worldview rather than updating beliefs.

The Prof G Pod (Scott Galloway)

Kai Ryssdal argues the U.S. economy presents a stark paradox of soaring corporate profits and record stock markets alongside a fearful, stagnant labor market and dangerous income inequality (Gini coefficient 83), compounded by a complete vacuum of political leadership and institutional decay that threatens long-term stability.

How I Built This (NPR)

This episode covers the Winter Olympics men's hockey quarterfinals where Team USA survived a sudden-death thriller against Sweden while Canada narrowly avoided an upset, alongside reports of defective medals breaking off ribbons and emotional highlights from Mikaela Shiffrin and Jordan Stolz.

The David Lin Report

Danny Moses, the trader portrayed in 'The Big Short,' warns that current market uncertainty exceeds 2008 levels, with a weakening dollar, record debt, and hidden leverage creating conditions where the 'K-shaped' economy's wealthy tier could descend rapidly, triggering a violent reversal of the wealth effect.

Joe Rogan Experience

Michael Malice and Joe Rogan discuss the dangers of AI reinforcing extremist views and driving real-world violence, analyze newly released Epstein documents revealing deep Russian intelligence connections, and examine bizarre legal anomalies like North Carolina's 'alienation of affection' law, while warning that internet culture is descending into dangerous binary thinking and schadenfreude.

NVIDIA AI Podcast

NVIDIA Cosmos Reason 2 enables physical AI systems to interpret the physical world through structured reasoning and common sense. The session highlights Milestone Systems' deployment of fine-tuned models for smart city traffic analytics, achieving automated incident detection and reporting at city scale.

Latent Space

AI has created a unique capital flywheel where frontier model companies raise billions pre-monetization to buy compute, convert dollars directly into capabilities via scaling laws, and vertically integrate into applications—potentially outspending and absorbing the entire ecosystem built on top of them.

20VC with Harry Stebbings

Venture capital is concentrating unprecedented capital into frontier AI as Anthropic raises $30 billion at a $380 billion valuation while achieving historically unmatched 10x annual growth rates, while traditional SaaS companies face a 'gravity well' of declining valuations as Corporate America mandates AI adoption regardless of immediate ROI.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

As India becomes the world's most populous nation and fastest-growing major economy, it is pursuing a complex multi-alignment strategy—balancing historic ties with Russia, new trade deals with Europe, and fraught relations with the U.S.—to secure recognition as a great power rather than dominance like China.

New York Times Podcasts

Senator Katherine Cortez Masto, a moderate Democrat and former attorney general, explains her decision to support withholding funding from the Department of Homeland Security, citing ICE's transformation into an unaccountable force that violates constitutional rights and targets non-criminals including families of local police officers.

Impact Theory

Peter St-Onge advocates for simple investment theses while positioning the current AI boom at a 1997-1998 growth stage rather than a 2000 bubble peak, and explains how Austrian economics reveals that Federal Reserve interest rate manipulation—not random "animal spirits"—creates predictable boom-bust cycles that drive recession timing.

Lenny's Podcast

Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code at Anthropic, reveals that AI agents now write 100% of his code and predicts the software engineering profession will be completely transformed within a year, with traditional developer titles disappearing as coding becomes universally accessible through natural language.