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<li><strong>0:00</strong>: The 4th greatest tech company - John Gruber and Ben Thompson discussing which companies would be on the Mount Rushmore of tech. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://dithering.passport.online/member/episode/will-ai-disrupt-apple">Dithering</a> podcast)</li>
<li><strong>1:17</strong>: Why do investment bankers work long hours? - Scott Bok explains what investment bankers are doing with their time. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-04-03/what-investment-bankers-actually-do-all-day-video">Odd Lots</a> podcast)</li>
<li><strong>2:25</strong>: It takes prose to tell you that - Philip Pullman talks to Alex O&#39;Connor about the different strengths of story-telling media. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egWy_Z9nCMo">Within Reason</a> podcast on YouTube)</li>
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<li><strong>1:15</strong>: Can men have friends? - Mark Kermode reviews Project Hail Mary (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmdLi7lkC94">Kermode and Mayo&#39;s Take</a> on YouTube)</li>
<li><strong>1:52</strong>: It took 40 years for print to become economically sustainable - Ada Palmer talks to Dwarkesh Patel about the shape of technological revolutions (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAIhVfGbREA&">The Dwarkesh Podcast</a>)</li>
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<li><strong>0:29</strong>: The universe singing to us - Very satisfying Sudoku puzzle. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQGTFrTkthY">Cracking the cryptic</a> on YouTube)</li>
<li><strong>1:11</strong>: The lingua franca of LLMs - John Gruber on Markdown becoming a programming language. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2026/02/25/ep-441">The Talk Show</a> podcast)</li>
<li><strong>1:46</strong>: Communication between branches of the multiverse - Echoes of Ted Chiang&#39;s <em>Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom</em> (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx3Elz554ZM">Sabine Hossenfelder</a> on YouTube)</li>
<li><strong>4:04</strong>: Deep Blue - Simon Willison on the Oxide and Friends predictions podcast LLM-induced ennui (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVDhQMiAbR8">Oxide and Friends</a> on YouTube)</li>
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<li><strong>0:46</strong>: The Negative Income Tax - Milton Friedman describing the negative income tax. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SJQWBf6VRC0">FEE Online</a> on YouTube)</li>
<li><strong>1:47</strong>: Welcome to Saffron Hill Car Park - I thought Saffron Hill was a fictional place. Or was that Saffron Park? What about Saffron Hill Car Park? (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l_hDAIJhO4I">Russell Davies</a> on YouTube)</li>
<li><strong>2:01</strong>: Flip-Flop? - Three questions I knew the answers to on University Challenge (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002j92v">University Challenge</a> on iPlayer)</li>
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<li><strong>2:16</strong>: It feels about a third as good as the equivalent bad year feels bad - Cliff Asness on losses hurting more than gains. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/cliff-asness-surviving-the-meme-stock-bubble-ep-298/">Infinite Loops</a> podcast)</li>
<li><strong>3:17</strong>: No longer trusting the process - Jenny Wen on how UX design changes when building software becomes so inexpensive and fast. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u94juYwLLM">Hatch Conference</a> on YouTube) </li>
<li><strong>4:52</strong>: Do you feel the competency draining out of your ears? - Adam Wathan (of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://tailwindcss.com">Tailwind</a>) on the tradeoffs of using coding agents. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://hackersincorporated.com/episodes/ben-spent-600-on-amp-credits">Hackers Incorporated</a> podcast)</li>
<li><strong>6:30</strong>: Its the highest value thing that we do - Adam Wathan (of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://tailwindcss.com">Tailwind</a>) on the tradeoffs of using coding agents. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://hackersincorporated.com/episodes/ben-spent-600-on-amp-credits">Hackers Incorporated</a> podcast)</li>
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<li><strong>1:59</strong>: The halo effect - Micheal Lewis on Daniel Kahneman&#39;s design for interviewing military recruits (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781508229124-the-undoing-project">The Undoing Project</a>)</li>
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<li><strong>1:45</strong>: Odious debt - Lee Buchheit explains the concept of odious debt to Odd Lots</li>
<li><strong>4:06</strong>: Instead we&#39;re teaching trigonometry  - Annie Duke thinks we should teach probabilistic thinking much earlier (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/annie-duke-why-we-make-the-wrong-decisions-ep-296/">Infinite Loops</a> podcast)</li>
<li><strong>4:45</strong>: Why does the finance industry exist if markets are efficient? - Odd Lots pondering the efficient markets hypothesis (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/oddlots">Odd Lots</a> podcast)</li>
<li><strong>7:11</strong>: Taking our own past and haunting us with it - Adam Curtis on AI (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM9hRuy31JA">The Rest is Entertainment</a> on YouTube).</li>
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<li><strong>1:38</strong>: Just coffee, black. - Jason K Pargin discussing the need to feel normal (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@jasonkpargin/video/7557406846764584222">jasonkpargin</a> on TikTok).</li>
<li><strong>3:29</strong>: Its not about the coffee - Jason K Pargin discussing the need to feel normal (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@jasonkpargin/video/7557406846764584222">jasonkpargin</a> on TikTok).</li>
<li><strong>4:01</strong>: You could make a living - Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan talk about the impending sale of Warner Brothers (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theringer.com/podcasts/the-watch">The Watch</a> podcast)</li>
<li><strong>4:56</strong>: So much of the upside has been captured already - Matt Levine and Katie Greifeld discussing a potential Space X IPO (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-12-12/money-stuff-podcast-best-and-final-wbd-ipo-bnpl">Money Stuff</a> podcast)</li>
<li><strong>8:05</strong>: Each book feels like another startup - Michael Lewis talks with Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal about the differences between podcasting versus book writing. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/10-years-of-acquired-with-michael-lewis">10 Years of Acquired</a>)</li>
<li><strong>10:18</strong>: Why aren&#39;t there more Acquireds? - Michael Lewis talks with Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal about the ingredients of the Acquired podcast. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/10-years-of-acquired-with-michael-lewis">10 Years of Acquired</a>)</li>
<li><strong>11:45</strong>: You have incentives, but you don&#39;t have bosses - Michael Lewis talks with Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal about creating scarcity in creative work and only doing it if its great. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/10-years-of-acquired-with-michael-lewis">10 Years of Acquired</a>)</li>
<li><strong>13:00</strong>: Your business has low enterprise value - Michael Lewis talks with Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal about Aquired&#39;s business model. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/10-years-of-acquired-with-michael-lewis">10 Years of Acquired</a>)</li>
<li><strong>13:36</strong>: Refusing to shut up and calculate - Einstein and Bohr&#39;s differences over quantum mechanics have been misunderstood. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIk_0AW5hFU">Veritasium</a> on YouTube)</li>
<li><strong>14:24</strong>: We can cut time like a ribbon - Live coded music from Switch Angel using the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://strudel.cc/">Strudel</a> software package. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KVouvdlUtGQ">@Switch-Angel</a> on Youtube)</li>
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<li><strong>1:38</strong>: Back to 1989 - Andrej Karpathy on improvements in AI (the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathy">Dwarkesh Podcast</a>)</li>
<li><strong>3:05</strong>: Ensorcelled by mega scale - Craig Mod on working at the right scale (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3dPRkyNbj8">The Tim Ferriss Show</a> podcast)</li>
<li><strong>5:27</strong>: 3 rules of 3 - Alan Alda&#39;s tips on communication (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrOnk0JnXW4">Big Think</a> on Youtube) via <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://undermanager.ghost.io/alan-alda-on-speaking-in-threes/">Russell Davies</a>.</li>
<li><strong>7:45</strong>: You just think you have the knowledge - Andrej Karpathy on learning by building (the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathy">Dwarkesh Podcast</a>)</li>
<li><strong>8:24</strong>: My favourite noodle is universal healthcare - Craig Mod discussing how his travel recommendations went viral (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3dPRkyNbj8">The Tim Ferriss Show</a> podcast)</li>
<li><strong>9:17</strong>: Olson on the PDP-1 - Olson by Boards of Canada played on the PDP-1 computer (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubkrBd3-gg">Joe Lynch</a> on YouTube)</li>
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<li><strong>0:57</strong>: Anaesthetics, mitochondria and consciousness - Nick Lane, interviewed by Dwarkesh Patel (The <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/nick-lane">Dwarkesh Podcast</a>)</li>
<li><strong>3:04</strong>: The Y chromosome is basically saying GROW FAST - Nick Lane, interviewed by Dwarkesh Patel, referencing the work of Ursula Mittwoch (The <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/nick-lane">Dwarkesh Podcast</a>)</li>
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<li><strong>6:28</strong>: That sounds like a bubble - Katie Greifeld and Matt Levine discuss the possibility of the AI bubble</li>
<li><strong>9:18</strong>: Constantly misdiagnosing the problem - Gary Stevenson on diagnosing the problem (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgzn2AsFULE">Gary&#39;s Economics</a> on Youtube)</li>
<li><strong>10:21</strong>: What message do I want to leave? - Some of Jane Goodall&#39;s last words (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfLKHY52ERc">Famous Last Words</a> on Youtube)</li>
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<li><strong>0:39</strong>: Scooping everyone along - Grant Sanderson interviewing Paul Dancstep on his work at the Exploratorium and how he created <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://jamesking.io/2025/09/10/incomplete-open-cubes">this video</a> (Grant Sanderson on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEeM2ABUMoo">Youtube</a>)</li>
<li><strong>2:50</strong>: Speculators may do no harm - Phil Armstrong quoting Keynes (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://pileusmmt.libsyn.com/201-anything-we-can-actually-do-we-can-afford-the-anti-austerity-conference-with-phil-armstrong-part-2">The MMT Podcast</a>)</li>
<li><strong>3:17</strong>: Once every 25 years - Richard Seymour on David Graeber (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-debt-to-david-graeber/id510327102?i=1000724779781">The LRB Podcast</a>)</li>
<li><strong>7:08</strong>: Wall of sound (2) - A reporter witnessing a very fast Maglev train in Japan (posted by Jenny Frecklington-Jones on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/profile/joneshowdareyou.bsky.social/post/3lxuxfroljk2r">Bluesky</a>)</li>
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<li><strong>1:33</strong>: ChatGPT psychosis  - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@pearlmania500">Pearlmania500</a></li>
<li><strong>3:51</strong>: Can you farm? - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://vimeo.com/349391498">Mitch Hedberg</a> on Vimeo. Via <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/profile/digthatdata.bsky.social">David Marx</a>.</li>
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<li><strong>4:29</strong>: Live AI as a visual interpreter - Victoria Song interviewing a live-AI user (The Verge on Tik Tok)</li>
<li><strong>5:31</strong>: Increase the luck of others - Derek Muller on luck. (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LopI4YeC4I">Veritasium</a> on Youtube)</li>
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<li><strong>4:56</strong>: We don&#39;t know whats important - Steven Strogatz on Goldbach’s Conjecture (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x32Zq-XvID4">Veritasium</a> Youtube channel)</li>
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<title>Being real points</title>
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<title>Extremely athletic learning</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<li><strong>3:26</strong>: He succeeded in the aggregate  - Messing With Models (The Money Stuff Podcast)</li>
<li><strong>6:26</strong>: What could be more absurd? - Roger Penrose on quantum mechanics and consciousness (The Institute of Art and Ideas)</li>
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