🎙️ Podcasts

Stanford Online

Google DeepMind researcher Vivek Natarajan discusses the development of Co-Scientist, an AI system designed to act as a collaborative partner for scientific discovery by moving beyond fast System 1 thinking to rigorous System 2 reasoning, emphasizing that true scientific AI requires the generality of human cognition rather than narrow specialization.

Stanford Online

Google's infrastructure lead Amin Vahdat argues that AI's critical constraint is not raw gigawatts but value delivered per unit of power, requiring a shift from five-nines reliability to throughput-optimized systems where 99.9% uptime is acceptable if it doubles usable capacity.

The Pomp Podcast

VanEck CEO Jan Van Eck identifies distressed opportunities in private credit markets, outlines a strategic approach to gold allocation amid deficit concerns, and explains why Bitcoin's rising correlation with tech stocks is stalling institutional adoption despite long-term supply mechanics.

The David Lin Report

John D'Agostino argues that traditional bond returns offer '100% certainty' of failing to fund adequate retirements, forcing investors into risk assets, while stablecoins and tokenization represent historic opportunities to modernize financial infrastructure and democratize access to yield.

Latent Space

Alex Rives demonstrates how the 'bitter lesson' of AI scaling applies to protein biology, showing that massive transformer models trained on billions of evolutionary sequences develop emergent world models capable of predicting structure, function, and designing novel antibodies without prior biological knowledge.

Joe Rogan Experience

John McCarthy and Josh Thompson join Joe Rogan to discuss how refereeing restrictions silence valuable commentary, the dangerous patchwork of MMA rules across state commissions, and detailed technical breakdowns of Pride FC legends including Fedor Emelianenko and Mirko Crocop.

Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson explains why personal transformation requires enduring a terrifying collapse of identity and past narratives, using the Exodus story as an archetype, while detailing how the personality trait of conscientiousness drives success but becomes pathological when pushed to extremes without situational wisdom.

a16z Podcast

Marc Rowan, CEO of Apollo Global Management, argues that extreme concentration in public markets has made private markets essential for diversification, detailing how Apollo evolved from a Drexel offshoot into a $1 trillion retirement services giant bridging the gap between infrastructure borrowers and income-seeking retirees.

New York Times Podcasts

Husband and wife filmmakers Mark Duplass and Katie Aselton challenge codependency's negative stigma, arguing their nearly 20-year marriage demonstrates how intentional interdependence creates stability and creative fuel rather than pathology.

We Study Billionaires (TIP)

Satish delivers a technical masterclass tracing AI's evolution from classical statistical models to modern reasoning agents, explaining how Large Language Models function as massive linear equations with billions of parameters and why the shift to AI-driven orchestration threatens traditional software engineering roles.

Conversations with Tyler (Tyler Cowen)

On the 250th anniversary of "The Wealth of Nations," economists Peter Boettke and Chris Coyne argue that Adam Smith remains essential reading because his institutional framework for understanding prosperity contains evolutionary potential absent from modern textbooks, even as both libertarian defenders and progressive critics frequently misrepresent his nuanced views on markets and social constraints.

Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money

Despite recent price pullbacks and volatility, Andy Schectman argues gold and silver remain in a structural bull market driven by unprecedented physical migration from West to East, surging sovereign accumulation, and decaying trust in Western paper markets.