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Talking Books
by DJ
Listen and hear from books. Understand more from great writers and thinkers.
Episodes
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MIT Futuretech : Training Pathways that Work
The future of work is being rewritten now. Hear how government, industry, labor, and civil society are supporting the workforce to successfully transition into AI-augmented roles that drive real impact.Angie Cooper, President, Heartland Forward Keith Sonderling, Deputy Labor Secretary, U.S....
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Robotics' End Game with Nvidia's Jim Fan
Jim Fan, who leads the embodied autonomous research group at Nvidia, walks through what he calls "the great parallel": robotics following the LLM path from pre-training to reasoning to auto research, but with world models replacing language models, egocentric video replacing teleoperation, and...
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On AI: Andrej Karpathy - From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
00:00 - Introduction 00:44 - Feeling Behind as a Coder 02:28 - Software 3.0 Explained 03:44 - Agents as the Installer 04:49 - Menu Gen vs Raw Prompts 07:37 - What’s Obvious by 2026 09:41 - Verifiability and Jagged Skills 13:39 - Founder Advice and Automation 15:46 - From Vibe Coding to Agent...
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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis
For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography. “In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God … perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all...
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The Tipping Point with Malcolm Gladwell
The "three rules of epidemics" (or the three "agents of change") in the tipping points of epidemics. The Law of the Few The Stickiness Factor The Power of Context
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Models
Models with Mark Manson
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The All-In Holiday Spectacular
(0:00) Pre-show footage for the All-In Holiday Spectacular (3:00) Year in Review (10:45) Besties on stage and a drop-in from SantaCanis! (15:50) Besties introduce the format and the "Bestie" award (17:25) Biggest Winner - Business (18:35) Biggest Loser - Business (20:11) Biggest Surprise…
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How They Broke Britain with James Brien
Something has gone really wrong in Britain. Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social divisions are growing. Our politicians seem most interested in their own careers, and much of the media only make things worse. We are living in a country almost unrecognisable from the one...
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We Who Wrestle With God
In We Who Wrestle with God, Jordan Peterson guides us through the ancient, foundational stories of the Western world, analyzing the Biblical accounts of rebellion, sacrifice, suffering and triumph that stabilize, inspire and unite us, culturally and psychologically. Adam and Eve and the eternal...
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Ingo Uytdehaage, Adyen at the All-In Summit 2024
(1:56) Ingo lays out the case for Adyen over Stripe (6:37) Building and scaling a tech company in Europe (11:43) Thoughts on stablecoins, financial deplatforming, expanding into India (17:50) AI in fintech, open-source solutions (20:31) Offering services in authoritarian countries, data in…
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Flying Cars Have Arrived! eVTOL Panel: Archer, Joby, Wisk at the All-In Summit 2024
(0:20) Joby Aviation Intro (2:01) Archer Aviation Intro (4:43) Wisk Aero Intro (8:31) The biggest consumer issues facing eVTOLs, liquidity, scalability, pro-eVTOL areas (15:57) Autonomous flight, redundancy, pilot necessity, edge cases (24:35) Acoustic issues, creating a network through scale, go...
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The AI Platform Shift and the Opportunity Ahead - Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, CMU Lecture
Sundar Pichai also emphasized the need to build AI responsibly and make it accessible to everyone, regardless of access to information or digital skills. Google's approach to AI includes focusing on improving next-generation models, making them accessible, and addressing ethical considerations.…
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Dave Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly | The All-In Interview
(2:06) The obesity problem: a global chronic health epidemic (13:07) The history of discovering GLP-1s (20:38) Impact of GLP-1s on different human functions (27:09) Understanding the commercial aspect of drug discovery, pricing for GLP-1 drugs (33:11) Responding to criticism and research of GLP-1...
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Supercommunicators with Charles Duhigg
Communication is a superpower and the best communicators understand that whenever we speak, we're actually participating in one of three conversations: practical (What's this really about?), emotional (How do we feel?), and social (Who are we?). If you don't know what kind of conversation you're...
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Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Altos Labs at the All-In Summit 2024
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte is a Spanish biochemist and developmental biologist. He is a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratories at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California since 1993. Izpisua Belmonte is a main catalyzer in one of today's most promising areas of...
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Jake Loosararian, Gecko Robotics at the All-In Summit 2024
(2:04) Jake breaks down the business of Gecko Robotics (20:42) Jake explains the sales cycle at Gecko (23:08) The crippling infrastructure of the old world (27:34) How Jake thinks about the coming wave of humanoid robots
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The Genius of Jazz with Wynton Marsalis and Jon Batiste
Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading advocate of American culture. He is the world’s first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz. Jon Batiste is a New...
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Charles Duhigg on Supercommunicators: The Science of Conversation and Connection
Why do some conversations succeed while others stumble? The neurology and psychology of communication offer surprising explanations for why human connection goes right or wrong. Join in a live experiment — and explore how the right conversation, at the right moment, can change everything.
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Thomas Laffont at the All-In Summit 2024
(3:04) Thomas presents "The State of the Unicorn Economy" (21:34) Venture capital's relative underperformance over the past decade (30:45) Fixing what's broken in startups and VC
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NASA Astronaut Woody Hoburg at the All-In Summit 2024
(10:26) Woody and Friedberg demonstrate how far the Moon is from Earth (13:51) Artemis timelines, going back to the Moon after decades, how astronaut assignments work (17:39) How NASA will use the Moon as a training ground to get to Mars
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Senator Kyrsten Sinema at the All-In Summit 2024
(0:54) Thoughts on JD Vance, the importance of bipartisanship, civil disagreements, and independent thinking (6:21) Political pressure and growing toxicity in DC, Senator Sinema's controversial filibuster vote (12:21) Money in politics, following "The Machine," the cost of a competitive Senate…
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Nikesh Arora at the All-In Summit 2024
(2:56) How to build great businesses, lessons from his time at Google (6:30) Lessons from working with Masa at SoftBank, risk tolerance (11:51) Scaling Palo Alto Networks, handicapping cybersecurity, M&A strategy (20:02) State of cyber threats (24:23) Age of AI: How agents will change consumer...
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Michael Ovitz at the All-In Summit 2024
(2:22) How Ovitz got started in Hollywood (10:06) Closing Palantir's first enterprise deal (15:56) AI's impact on film and TV, how streaming killed Hollywood's business model (23:11) Free speech and censorship in Hollywood, protecting creatives (28:11) Can Hollywood be recaptured by the auteurs?
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Aaron Sorkin and David Brooks: What's Character Got to Do with It?
Aaron Sorkin and David Brooks discuss their approaches to creating compelling characters. Sorkin emphasizes the importance of understanding a character's desires and obstacles, using examples from his own work like "The Social Network." David Brooks shares anecdotes about encounters that inspired...
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Mo Gawdat on AI: The Future of AI and How It Will Shape Our World
🤖 AI is here, and it’s evolving faster than we ever imagined. How do we adapt when the rules of the game are shifting under our feet? Is the future one of abundance, or are we heading toward disaster? 🌍 Are we missing the warning signs again? The world is changing fast, faster than we can keep...
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Foods for Protecting the Body & Mind: Dr. Neal Barnard
Dr. Neal Barnard discusses the potential benefits of eliminating certain foods from the diet for various conditions. While not everyone is sensitive to gluten or dairy, some may find relief by avoiding these foods. He suggests looking into supportive foods that can help bring the body back into...
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Jordan Peterson: From the Barricades of the Culture Wars
Jordan Peterson discusses the impact of technological revolutions on education and intellectual engagement, his motivation for writing his books, and his experiences with workplace unconscious bias training and the controversy surrounding his perceived transphobia. Peterson attributes his...
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Bari Weiss at the All-In Summit 2024
(2:19) Defining the polarizing forces in American society (5:11) How institutions like the New York Times were captured by radicals, giving up "the heroin needle of prestige" (16:39) Avoiding audience capture while building The Free Press (22:09) Sacks's strategy to find reliable media sources...
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Tekedra Mawakana at the All-In Summit 2024
(1:43) Joining Waymo, breaking down their approach vs competitors (9:57) Focus on reducing deaths, impact on Uber, creating an AV ecosystem (16:44) Thoughts on Cruise's issues in SF, operating at scale, unit economics (22:09) Selling to carmakers, US focus vs international (27:51) Hardest…
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Steve Jobs: A Biography from Walter Isaacson Part 1
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a...
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Nexus by Yuval Harari
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of...
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Travis Kalanick at the All-In Summit 2024
(2:27) What Travis is working on at Cloud Kitchens (12:32) Travis's operating playbook (16:16) Strategy at Uber: Competing with Lyft, surge pricing, dealing with bad press (26:12) Being a "War time CEO" and competing in China (34:09) Travis reflects on getting ousted as CEO of Uber and his future
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Marc Benioff at the All-In Summit 2024
(2:32) Funding Shinya Yamanaka's research (11:38) Marc on building philanthropy into Salesforce (17:15) AI's impact on enterprise software and the cloud (27:56) Salesforce's AI approach
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Megyn Kelly at the All-In Summit 2024
(1:19) Succeeding as an independent media personality (8:11) Thoughts on trans issues (15:30) Handicapping Trump's chances in 2024 vs 2016 and Kamala Harris compared to Hillary Clinton (24:05) Thoughts on legal action against Trump (30:10) How politicians have changed; improving life in America...
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The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
Dedicated to Lewis’s friend and colleague J.R.R. Tolkien... The narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior colleague engaged in his first mission on earth trying to secure the damnation of a young…
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. They can be microscopic, yet also account for the largest organisms ever recorded. They enabled the first life on land, can survive unprotected in space and thrive amidst nuclear radiation. In fact, nearly all...
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Chasing the Dragon by Jackie Pullinger Part 1
Until it was pulled down, the Walled City was Hong Kong's most foreboding territory. It was a lawless place, dominated by the Triads, and which the police hesitated to enter. Strangers were unwelcome. Drug smuggling and heroin addiction flourished, as did prostitution and pornography, extortion…
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Chasing the Dragon by Jackie Pullinger Part 2
Until it was pulled down, the Walled City was Hong Kong's most foreboding territory. It was a lawless place, dominated by the Triads, and which the police hesitated to enter. Strangers were unwelcome. Drug smuggling and heroin addiction flourished, as did prostitution and pornography, extortion…
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Conversations on love
Exploring love in all its forms from romance, friendship, and parenting to grief and heartbreak.
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Atlas of the heart
Atlas of the Heart maps out a series of human emotions and their meaning and explores the psychology behind a human's feelings and how they make up our lives.
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
A memoir by Lori Gottlieb highlighting the transformative power of therapy through Lori's personal journey and experiences working as a therapist.
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Sergey Brin at the All-In Summit 2024
(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?
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Simon Sinek & Trevor Noah on Friendship, Loneliness, Vulnerability, and More
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...
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JD Vance at the All-In Summit 2024
(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…
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Elon Musk at the All-In Summit 2024
(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
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Dave Portnoy | The All-In Interview
(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…
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John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs at the All-In Summit 2024
(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…
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Peter Thiel at the All-In Summit 2024
(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)...
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Everything I Know About Love with Dolly Alderton
“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...
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