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Visakan Veerasamy - Singapore, Talent, & History
Listen now | Visakan Virasamy is an eccentric Singaporean who weaves together of sparkling web of insight, wit, and positivity throughout the world of…
Dwarkesh Patel
May 18
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Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War
Listen now | Ananyo Bhattacharya is the author of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann. He is a science writer who has worked…
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May 11
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Stephen Grugett (Manifold Markets Founder) - Predictions Markets & Better Governance
Listen now (51 min) | Stephen Grugett is a cofounder of Manifold Markets, where anyone can create a prediction market. We discuss how predictions…
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May 5
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27: Stephen Grugett (Manifold Markets Founder) - Predictions Markets & Revolutionizing Governance
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26: Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World
Listen now (99 min) | Today I talk to Pradyu Prasad (blogger and podcaster) about the book "Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan" by Herbert P. Bix…
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Apr 27
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❤️ + Musings
Girard at Jamestown, VC bubbles, Elon’s ambition, big tech R&D as F1 cars, med-school mania, and the entrepreneurial middle class.
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Apr 20
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25: Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science
Listen now (63 min) | Razib Khan is a writer, geneticist, and blogger with an interest in history, genetics, culture, and evolutionary psychology. Watch…
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Apr 20
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24: Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia
Listen now (68 min) | Jimmy Soni is the author of The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley. Watch on YouTube…
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Apr 16
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The mystery of the miracle year
An interesting pattern recurs across the career of great scientists: an annus mirabilis (miracle year) in which they make multiple, seemingly…
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Apr 14
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23: Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness
Listen now (65 min) | I interview the economist Bryan Caplan about his new book, Labor Econ Versus the World, and many other related topics. Watch on…
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Apr 12
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Talent as leverage
10x engineers, tech bubbles, and the PayPal mafia
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Apr 12
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The myth of the myth of the well read person
I worked for ten years with John Tukey at Bell Labs. He had tremendous drive. One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that John…
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Mar 20
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Examples of barbell strategies
On taking advantage of both extremes of risk and reward in friendship, caffeination, reading, dating, working, and more
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Mar 10
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