Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg analyzes how Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishbach embodies a disturbing shift among young conservatives toward overt antisemitism, driven by anti-Israel isolationism, backlash against speech restrictions, and the mainstreaming of white nationalist "groyper" ideology.
The Trump administration's FCC is threatening to revoke broadcast licenses and enforce the 'equal time rule' against late night shows to penalize critical coverage, creating a chilling effect that forced CBS to cancel a Stephen Colbert interview with a Democratic Senate candidate.
Gary Vaynerchuk warns that 100 billion hyper-realistic AI influencers will flood social media within 36 months, making vanity-based content worthless. He argues creators must immediately diversify across platforms (especially YouTube Shorts), build deep community through genuine engagement, and pivot business models toward live shopping and experiential content to survive the disruption.
Senator John Fetterman discusses his political evolution from progressive to independent Democrat, his isolation within the party for supporting Trump's Iran strikes and Israel, and criticizes the Democratic Party's direction while advocating for country-over-party governance.
Joan Price, an 82-year-old senior sex educator, shares her journey from experimental singlehood to profound love with her late husband Robert, examining how aging transforms sexuality and how grief can sever our connection to desire—and how we can reclaim it.
Caregiving for aging parents requires meticulous organization to prevent dangerous oversights like missed medications or dehydration. This episode explores specific tech tools—from Wi-Fi-enabled calendars to smart pill dispensers—that help caregivers coordinate remotely, manage daily routines, and reclaim quality time with loved ones.
Drew Cohen of Speedwell Research argues that Constellation Software's 50% drawdown due to AI fears is overblown, explaining that mission-critical vertical market software customers prioritize reliability and switching costs over marginal cost savings, making disruption by AI-generated alternatives unlikely despite the technology lowering barriers to entry.
David Schmidtz argues that rational self-governance—whether individual, corporate, or academic—requires artificially imposed constraints and mission-driven frameworks to make decision-making manageable, while criticizing universities for prioritizing student comfort over intellectual growth and risk-taking.
Anthropic's Felix Rieseberg explains why AI agents need their own virtual computers to be effective, arguing that confining Claude to chat interfaces severely limits capability. He details how this philosophy shaped Claude Cowork and why product development is shifting from lengthy planning to rapidly building multiple prototypes simultaneously.
Dustin Poirier discusses the physical toll of extreme weight cutting and advocates for more UFC weight classes, while reflecting on fighter pay disparities, the dangers of modern sparring culture, and the uncrowned legends of MMA's early era.
Rose Hadshar of Forethought explains how advanced AI could enable unprecedented power concentration not through dramatic coups, but via economic dominance and epistemic manipulation, allowing small groups to control millions of loyal AI workers while the general public loses political leverage.
Vishal Misra argues that large language models operate as compressed Bayesian inference engines—updating probability distributions through in-context learning—but remain fundamentally incapable of consciousness or novel discovery, meaning scale alone cannot achieve AGI.