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Back to SearchVenkatesh Rao & Tim Beiko — The Summer of Protocols
Episode 191
Tim Beiko, who runs the core protocol meetings for Ethereum, teams up with writer and consultant Venkatesh Rao to discuss their "Summer of Protocols" research program. This initiative brought togethe…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Will Schoder — On Curation, Consumption & Compression
Episode 190
Will Schoder is a video essayist who explores a diverse range of topics including psychology, meaning, re-enchantment, metamodernism, mortality, and satire. Initially known for his short-form videos,…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Ben Westhoff — Fentanyl, Inc.
Episode 189
Ben Westhoff is a best-selling investigative journalist focusing on culture, drugs, and poverty.
Ben's book Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Created the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic was t…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Roon — On Shape Rotators, AGI & Tenet
Episode 188
AI researcher, memelord extraordinaire, and techno-optimist Roon joins the show to discuss coming up with the shape rotator vs. wordcel meme, what an AGI world could become, and why Tenet is Christop…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Katherine Dee — On Attention, Astroturfing and the Nostalgia Trap
Episode 187
Katherine Dee is a writer, journalist, and internet culture reporter. A contributor to publications such as UnHerd, Tablet, and Blaze Media, she is also the proprietor of the Default Wisdom Substack,…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Derek Sivers (Part Two) — Just Do The Thing
Episode 186
The inimitable Derek Sivers returns for Part Two of our conversation.
Important Links: Part One Website Twitter Still Too Soon to Tell & Other Songs Tech Independence Show Notes: Curiosity St…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Derek Sivers (Part One) — How to Become a Picasso [BONUS EPISODE]
Episode 185
Over the years, Derek Sivers has been a musician, circus performer, computer programmer, author, public speaker, and entrepreneur.
In the 2000s, he sold his business, CD Baby, for $22 million and ga…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
John Fio — The Wizard & The Warrior
Episode 184
John Fio is an inventor and entrepreneur who has bootstrapped four products that have collectively generated hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue.
He joins the show to discuss why ideas are ha…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
James Pethokoukis — The Conservative Futurist
Episode 183
James Pethokoukis is a policy analyst, official CNBC contributor, and Dewitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also the creator and writer of the Faster, Please! newsletter, …
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Bojan Tunguz — From Physicist to Grandmaster
Episode 182
Bojan Tunguz is a senior systems software engineer at NVIDIA, quadruple Kaggle grandmaster, former top 10 Amazon reviewer, and former physicist.
He joins the show to discuss the problems that LLMs c…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago