Talking Books

(1:41) What Sergey is working on at Google (5:45) Is Google chasing a "God Model"? (8:49) Thoughts on the massive AI chip buildout (12:54) Future of human-AI interaction (14:58) Changing Google's conservative product culture (18:21) Is the "Race to AGI" overblown?

0:00 How This Conversation Happened 1:03 Simon and Trevor's Latest Obsession 2:40 The Sacrifice of Friendship for Success 6:15 Addiction and Community 8:20 Are You a Good Friend? 11:30 Maintaining Friendships While Traveling 14:18 The Power of Asking for Help 15:28 Do Women Understand Friendship Better Than Men? 16:25 The Rise of Angry, Isolated Men and The Global Crisis of Loneliness 19:21 Fr...

(3:15) America's innovation problem (4:46) Thoughts on Trump (8:35) Would JD Vance have certified the election in 2020? (11:44) Increasing government efficiency, shrinking the deficit, Vance's role as VP, thoughts on EOs (19:17) Political realignment: Dick Cheney endorses Kamala Harris, winners and losers of the last 30 years (23:40) Thoughts on Lina Khan clamping down on tech M&A and...

(4:01) The Battle of Free Speech (13:03) Potential government efficiency agency (30:23) SpaceX updates, overreaching regulations (38:48) Thoughts on Boeing's culture (41:05) The 80/20 AI Future (56:41) Elon and Jason share unaired SNL skits

(1:38) Leaving New York, Dave breaks down the 2016 Chernin deal (6:42) Barstool's explosive growth after 2016, how Dave evaluates talent (12:03) Breaking down the 2020 Penn deal (18:56) Dave's persona, how he's received by both sides (23:43) Thoughts on Trump and Kamala, moving forward as a society (31:56) Buying Barstool back from Penn for $1, going Founder Mode, lessons from CPG laun...

(1:10) What is the Deep State Party, and what are their goals? (13:35) Should America leverage its power against dictators? (21:45) The China threat: avoiding the escalatory path to nuclear war (35:47) India's growing role; are China's wounds self-inflicted? (46:45) Conflict in the Middle East and the path to peace

(1:03) Why he's not financially participating in the 2024 election (6:53) US relationship with China, is defending Taiwan worth risking WW3? (16:38) State of AI: Similar to the internet in 1999 (24:03) Innovation stagnation in the US (29:42) Thoughts on the current state of the US economy (32:50) The higher education bubble (39:09) Who will win AI, Nvidia's monopoly position going forward

“Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.” I know that love can be loud and jubilant. It can be dancing in the swampy mud and the pouring rain at a festival and shouting “YOU ARE AMAZING” over the band. It’s laughing until you wheeze. It’s walking along the street together on a Saturday night and feeling an entire city is yours. I also know tha...

A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to "gobsmacking" (The Ringer) new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this "kaleidoscopic" (The New York Times) reassessment of an infamous case in American history.  Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Ta...

Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world's feudal overlords – replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that enslaves our minds, defies democracy and rewrite the rules of global power. But as Varoufakis also re...

After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders and terrorists.  Never Split the Difference  takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most...

Rory explains how we weight information that appears quickly over knowledge that really matters. To many of us, time is nothing more than a series of moments. But look at it through the eyes of a behavioural scientist and you'll see it holds untold influence. Time is me and you. Time is your customers and citizens. Time is what makes businesses thrive and brands iconic.

In the Cambridge Union interview with Robert De Niro, the actor reflects on his experiences with heroes and disappointments, sharing that he has had heroes who showed him humanity despite their flaws, such as Marlon Brando, whom he admired as a great actor but was saddened by his decision to name names during the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings. De Niro also expressed his reservati...

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character  is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman. Released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life. The anecdotes in the book are based on recorded audio conversations that Feynman had with his close friend and drumming partner Ralph Leighton.

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character  is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman. Released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life. The anecdotes in the book are based on recorded audio conversations that Feynman had with his close friend and drumming partner Ralph Leighton.

You need to outwork everyone. Motivational Speech for the Gym Music

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character  is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman. Released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life. The anecdotes in the book are based on recorded audio conversations that Feynman had with his close friend and drumming partner Ralph Leighton.

The Story.  On a sunny June morning in 1983, Steve waits at the back of a giant tent, ready to take the stage at the International Design Conference in Aspen . This year's theme is “The Future Isn't What It Used to Be,” and he is here to talk about computers to an audience of several hundred designers and design-lovers. Steve rarely attended design conferences. This was 1983, before the la...

Graham Weaver, Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Founder of Alpine Investors, shares four ways to live an asymmetric life.

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character  is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman. Released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life. The anecdotes in the book are based on recorded audio conversations that Feynman had with his close friend and drumming partner Ralph Leighton.

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character  is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman. Released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life. The anecdotes in the book are based on recorded audio conversations that Feynman had with his close friend and drumming partner Ralph Leighton.

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character  is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman. Released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life. The anecdotes in the book are based on recorded audio conversations that Feynman had with his close friend and drumming partner Ralph Leighton.

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor t...

Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's...

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character  is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman. Released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life. The anecdotes in the book are based on recorded audio conversations that Feynman had with his close friend and drumming partner Ralph Leighton.