Henry Oliver
Henry Oliver is the author of the book "Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life" and prolific blogger on literature. Episode transcript -- Timestamps (0:00:...
6 Aug 20241h 9min
Jan Swafford
Jan Swafford is an author and composer of classical music. He's written canonical biographies on Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Ives, and is a composer of works such as Landscape with Traveler, From t...
17 Jun 20241h 25min
Eli Dourado
Eli Dourado is the chief economist at the Abundance Institute and writes and thinks about how to increase the pace of American economic growth. Episode transcript -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:4...
6 Jun 20241h 12min
Sebastian Mallaby
Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Mallaby contributes to a variety of publications, including Foreign Affair...
18 Apr 20241h 15min
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Nabeel is a Visiting Scholar at the Mercatus Center focused on developing an optimistic vision for AI, but as you’ll see in this conversation his breadth of interests goes about as wide as you can ima...
12 Mar 20242h 24min
Sarah Constantin
Sarah and I talk about ultrasound neuromodluation, AI, and cancer research. -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:22) Ultrasound neuromodulation (0:02:33) Where is it in the tech lifecycle? (0:03:48) Wh...
26 Feb 20241h 10min
Alexey Guzey
Alexey and I talk about science, productivity, and utilitarianism. -- Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:23) How accessible should a good research paper be? (03:47) Good taste (07:07) What does Russia get r...
14 Feb 20241h
Noah Smith
Noah and I talk about Keynes' 15 hour work week, Piketty's r>g, economic development in Africa, Javier Milei, Anime, and more. -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:30) Noah’s intellectual influences (0...
30 Jan 20241h 18min
