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🎨 My chat (+transcript) with innovation expert Duncan Wardle on practical tips for corporate creativity
The future will be built on the big ideas we dare to conjure up today. We know that the most groundbreaking ideas often seemed ludicrous or simply impossible when first dreamed up, from the telephone…
Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago
✨ My chat (+transcript) with tech policy expert Neil Chilson on regulating GenAI
Washington’s initial thinking about AI regulation has evolved from a knee-jerk fear response to a more nuanced appreciation of its capabilities and potential risks. Today on Faster, Please! — The Pod…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
🏘️ My chat (+transcript) with economist Bryan Caplan on density and housing deregulation
Housing in the United States has come to be known as a panacea problem. Gone are the days when tossing the graduation cap meant picking up the keys to a front door, and the ripple effects of unafford…
Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago
✨⏩ My chat (+transcript) with ... economist Robin Hanson on AI, innovation, and economic reality
In this episode of Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I talk with economist Robin Hanson about a) how much technological change our society will undergo in the foreseeable future, b) what form we want th…
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago
🚀 My chat (+transcript) with space journalist Eric Berger on SpaceX and America's New Space Age
On October 13, SpaceX and Elon Musk successfully launched their Starship rocket into low-Earth orbit. Then, in a milestone moment for space technology, they successfully captured the rocket’s Super H…
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
💥 My chat (+transcript) with economist Eli Dourado on creating a fantastic future
Eli Dourado is on a mission to end the Great Stagnation, that half-century period of economic and technological disappointment that began in the 1970s (what I refer to in my 2023 book, The Conservati…
Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago
☀️ My chat (+transcript) with economist Noah Smith on technological progress
Some signs of tech progress are obvious: the moon landing, the internet, the smartphone, and now generative AI. For most of us who live in rich countries, improvements to our day-to-day lives seem to…
Published on 1 year ago
📖 My chat (+transcript) with Mentava founder Niels Hoven on accelerating kids’ education
When it comes to sports, everybody is basically aligned that the goal here is helping every kid reach their potential. We celebrate talent, we give athletes the resources and personalized support the…
Published on 1 year ago
⚡ My chat (+transcript) with venture capitalist Katherine Boyle on 'American Dynamism'
American global leadership is due in great part to its innovators — visionaries who drive society beyond the preconceived limits. Historically, government-led initiatives like the Manhattan Project o…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
⚠ My chat (+transcript) with BCG economist Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak on dealing with macroeconomic risk
In our highly globalized economy, exogenous shocks and unsettling headlines are everywhere. It makes sense that market forecasters should be biting their nails, but so often their prophecies of doom …
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago