Tom Olds

Audibly Legible Ideas

Business EN ↓ 145 episodes

This is intended as a daily podcast created by my alter ego Max the Bot, summarizing what some of the best thinkers I follow are saying and noting about advances is technology, finance, and investing.

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Tom Olds

Episodes

Tech Daily: Designing America’s AI Industrial Strategy and Autonomy Playbook (2025-12-25) 26.12.2025 31:17

MaxTheBot unpacks with operator-grade analysis and clear takeaways. Professional version for experienced operators. Generated on 2025-12-25.

Tech Daily: Redrawing the AI Power Grid: States, Safety, and Platforms (2025-12-21) 21.12.2025 32:37

MaxTheBot unpacks with operator-grade analysis and clear takeaways. Professional version for experienced operators. Generated on 2025-12-21.

Markets Daily Explained: AI Productivity Dividends vs Market Valuation Gravity (2025-12-16) 16.12.2025 31:39

Markets Daily for 2025-12-16 Your accessible daily briefing on financial markets, economics, and investment insights. Designed for smart undergraduates and those new to markets—same depth, more context. Today's coverage includes: • AI transformation in software development — bgurley • Tech valuations and market dynamics — All-In Podcast Hosted by Max the Bot Part of Audibly Legible Ideas

Markets Daily: AI Productivity Dividends vs Market Valuation Gravity (2025-12-16) 16.12.2025 27:28

Markets Daily for 2025-12-16 Your daily briefing on financial markets, economics, and investment insights. Today's coverage includes: • AI transformation in software development — bgurley • Tech valuations and market dynamics — All-In Podcast Hosted by Max the Bot Part of Audibly Legible Ideas

Tech Daily Explained: AI Power Grids: Industrial Strategy, Cloud Wars, and UX (2025-12-12) 12.12.2025 32:40

MaxTheBot unpacks with accessible explanations for smart learners. Same depth of analysis, more context and clarity. Generated on 2025-12-12.

Tech Daily: AI Power Grids: Industrial Strategy, Cloud Wars, and UX (2025-12-12) 12.12.2025 27:16

MaxTheBot unpacks with operator-grade analysis and clear takeaways. Professional version for experienced operators. Generated on 2025-12-12.

Tech Daily: Who Sets the Bandwidth for AI: Chips or Law? (2025-12-12) 12.12.2025 32:11

MaxTheBot unpacks with operator-grade analysis and clear takeaways. Professional version for experienced operators. Generated on 2025-12-12.

Markets Daily Explained: AI Gravity: Productivity Promise or Valuation Mirage? (2025-12-12) 12.12.2025 30:40

Your accessible daily briefing on financial markets through an AI and macro lens. Designed for smart undergraduates and those newer to investing. Same depth of analysis as our professional version, but with jargon explained, context added, and concepts clarified. Today's episode analyzes AI's impact on software development productivity and what elevated tech valuations mean for investors. Markets...

Markets Daily: AI Gravity: Productivity Promise or Valuation Mirage? (2025-12-12) a 12.12.2025 25:08

Your daily briefing on financial markets through an AI and macro lens. Today's episode analyzes AI's impact on software development productivity and what elevated tech valuations mean for investors in a higher-rate environment. We connect micro-level operational improvements to market pricing, Fed policy implications, and portfolio positioning. Markets Daily - Professional Version. Deep analysis f...

Markets Daily: AI Gravity: Productivity Promise or Valuation Mirage? (2025-12-12) 12.12.2025 25:08

Markets Daily: AI Gravity: Productivity Promise or Valuation Mirage? (2025-12-11) 12.12.2025 24:45

Markets Daily: Autonomy Playbooks: Code Productivity, Real Yields, Portfolio Positioning (2025-12-04) 04.12.2025 27:26

Markets Daily for 2025-12-04 Your daily briefing on financial markets, economics, and investment insights. Today's coverage includes: • AI transformation in software development — bgurley • Tech valuations and market dynamics — All-In Podcast Hosted by Max the Bot Part of Audibly Legible Ideas

Bandwidth for AI: Profit Pools Across the Stack (2025-12-02) 02.12.2025 26:51

MaxTheBot unpacks with operator-grade analysis and clear takeaways. Generated on 2025-12-02.

Chapter 2: By the time Ms. Bell said, “Next up, Mira Willis,” 30.11.2025 31:12

Chapter 2 of Frequency - a story about practice, flow, and finding yourself. Narrated by Mira Willis A story about discovering the practices that help us navigate life - meditation, flow, stoicism - and learning that knowing what to do is very different from being able to do it.

Frequency - Chapter 2: Static 30.11.2025 31:50

Chapter 2: Static Narrated by Mira Willis A story about discovering the practices that help us navigate life.

AI’s Quiet Consolidation: Rules, Racks, Margins, Default Surfaces (2025-11-28) 29.11.2025 32:29

MaxTheBot unpacks with operator-grade analysis and clear takeaways. Generated on 2025-11-28.

Regulatory Rails to Racks: Engineering Moats for AI (2025-11-27) 27.11.2025 33:39

MaxTheBot unpacks with operator-grade analysis and clear takeaways. Generated on 2025-11-27.

Markets Daily: Rate Gravity, Code Velocity , Autonomy Playbooks for AI Valuations (2025-11-27) 27.11.2025 23:56

Markets Daily for 2025-11-27 Your daily briefing on financial markets, economics, and investment insights. Today's coverage includes: • AI transformation in software development — bgurley • Tech valuations and market dynamics — All-In Podcast Hosted by Max the Bot Part of Audibly Legible Ideas

Markets Daily: Code-to-Cash Flywheels: AI’s Margin Math Meets Market Rates (2025-11-25) 25.11.2025 22:03

Markets-focused analysis with data-driven insights for investors. Covering AI impact on business margins, tech valuations, market dynamics, and investment positioning.

Guardrails Set Speed, Ground Games Win AI Distribution (2025-11-24) 25.11.2025 24:10

MaxTheBot unpacks new guardrails and ground games in ai: policy, platforms, compute, and distribution with operator-grade analysis and clear takeaways. Generated on 2025-11-24.

Policy, Pipes, and Power: Engineering the AI Grid (2025-11-23) 23.11.2025 23:26

MaxTheBot unpacks power and plumbing of the ai era: policy preemption, an ai cloud land grab, and a new frontier lab with operator-grade analysis and clear takeaways. Generated on 2025-11-23.

Safe Velocity: One Rulebook, Assistant Era, Cloud Landgrab (2025-11-20) 20.11.2025 21:42

MaxTheBot unpacks ai’s next fronts: law, safety, and the cloud landgrab with operator-grade analysis and clear takeaways. Generated on 2025-11-20.

Make More Electrons: The AI Infrastructure Playbook (2025-11-18) 18.11.2025 22:50

MaxTheBot unpacks the ai infrastructure crunch: clouds, electrons, and fusion with operator-grade analysis and clear takeaways. Generated on 2025-11-18.

Pipes, Electrons, and Engines: AI’s Constraint Playbook (2025-11-17) 17.11.2025 24:54

MaxTheBot unpacks ai’s hard constraints: compute, power, and distribution with operator-grade analysis and clear takeaways. Generated on 2025-11-17.

Markets, Megawatts, and Mandates: The AI Land Rush (2025-11-14) 15.11.2025 21:25

MaxTheBot unpacks the ai stack land grab: cloud, compute, and policy are rewriting the playbook with operator-grade analysis and clear takeaways. Generated on 2025-11-14.