Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
Historian Lars Brownworth reveals how Viking longship technology and sophisticated psychological warfare enabled devastating raids across Europe, while explaining the pragmatic mindset that transformed these fierce warriors from chaotic raiders into state-building rulers within just three centuries.
Duncan Trussell and Joe Rogan examine the dystopian implications of unregulated emerging technologies, from CIA heartbeat detection systems and garage biohacking capabilities to the censorship driving users toward dangerous unaligned AI systems, arguing that tech-savvy elites are consolidating control over humanity's future.
Jordan Peterson argues that human self-consciousness requires imitation and language beyond simple mirror recognition, and that we construct reality through embodied action (drawing on Piaget's constructivism). He uses the Pinocchio myth to illustrate how integrating our ancestral cultural history transforms us from unconscious puppets into fully awake beings capable of facing chaos.
MLOps requires balancing scientific rigor with engineering discipline, combining rigorous hypothesis testing and data validation with robust system design, interface contracts, and continuous production monitoring to avoid catastrophic failures and pseudoscientific pitfalls.
The TED Idea Search culminates in Amman, Jordan, where four finalists from the Middle East share powerful ideas about brain training, risk-taking, global inequality, and mental health, competing for a spot on the main TED stage in a 6,000-year-old Roman theater.
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.
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.
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.
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.