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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jan 25, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersFrank Slootman on Focus, Performance and Leading a BoardGuest Frank Slootman · Host Harry StebbingsSnowflake’s then-CEO discusses diagnosing problems, creating urgency, evaluating performance and giving capable teams room to act.
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Lex Fridman· Jan 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersFocused Protection, Not Lockdowns: Jay Bhattacharya on What Public Health Got WrongGuest Jay Bhattacharya · Host Lex FridmanThe Stanford physician and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration tells Lex Fridman why age-stratified risk, seroprevalence data, and the ignored costs of isolation pointed to a different COVID strategy.
3:23:42ENLex Fridman· Dec 31, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersBeauty will save the world — Michael Malice's New Year's case for hopeGuest Michael Malice · Host Lex FridmanOn New Year's Eve 2021, Lex Fridman and Michael Malice talk through Dostoevsky, evil, Austin, anarchism, and why a cheap GoBot on a Brooklyn shelf still counts as proof.
1:32:38ENLex Fridman· Dec 25, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersRay Dalio’s Big Cycle: Empires Fall When They Get Rich, Indebted, and at War With ThemselvesGuest Ray Dalio · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio about the 500-year rise and fall of reserve-currency empires, the U.S.–China contest, and the personal recipes that outlast any cycle.
1:08:04ENLex Fridman· Dec 18, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersBreakthroughs Run on Speed. Trust Runs on Patience.Guest Albert Bourla · Host Lex FridmanPfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks with Lex Fridman about the November 2020 unblinding, a $2.3 billion all-in bet, and why a historic vaccine still divided the public.
1:46:47ENLex Fridman· Oct 29, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA Perfect Rapid Test Would Fail the FDA. Michael Mina Explains Why That Is the PointGuest Michael Mina · Host Lex FridmanThe Harvard immunologist tells Lex Fridman that paper-strip antigen tests answer the only public-health question that matters—are you infectious right now—and that one presidential sentence could unlock them.
3:42:43ENLex Fridman· Sep 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersHe Fought for Eight Minutes and Didn't Get a Single VoteGuest Travis Stevens · Host Lex FridmanTravis Stevens on judo, Olympic heartbreak, weight cutting as engineering, and the silver medal that arrived after he stopped treating winning as a goal.
2:48:18ENLex Fridman· Aug 11, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersHumans are the only species that skip sleep on purposeGuest Matt Walker · Host Lex FridmanBerkeley sleep scientist Matt Walker talks with Lex Fridman about why we sleep, what caffeine and dreams actually do, and whether passion can justify the health cost of staying up.
1:57:38ENLex Fridman· Jul 4, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Best Leadership Uses the Least ForceGuest Jocko Willink · Host Lex FridmanRetired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink talks with Lex Fridman about just war, ego, Musk and Jobs, 4 a.m. discipline, and what jiu jitsu taught him about command.
2:43:09ENLex Fridman· Apr 25, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersGeorges St-Pierre Never Liked FightingGuest Georges St-Pierre · Host Lex FridmanThe two-division UFC champion tells Lex Fridman how he scripted confidence, tested fasting like a lab experiment, and why a single night cannot settle who is best.
3:00:11ENLex Fridman· Mar 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersAsk the Right Questions and Every Path Ends on the Middle FingerGuest Ryan Hall · Host Lex FridmanRyan Hall walks Lex Fridman through a finger game that always lands on the middle finger, then treats jiu-jitsu as a problem of systems, beliefs, and first principles.
3:16:29ENLex Fridman· Mar 13, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersSaagar Enjeti Thinks Washington Runs on Autopilot — and Nobody Is Playing ChessGuest Saagar Enjeti · Host Lex FridmanThe Rising co-host walks Lex Fridman through Hitler, the Oval Office, stimulus checks, conspiracy, Lenin, Shackleton, and why personnel is policy.
1:16:12ENLex Fridman· Jan 9, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersDan Gable Won the Olympics 57–0. He Still Talks About the Match He LostGuest Dan Gable · Host Lex FridmanThe Iowa wrestling legend on Russian technique, American toughness, the murder of his sister, and why he took the word choice out of his life.
2:59:53ENLex Fridman· Dec 6, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersFor Every Triumph, Many Souls Must Be TrampledGuest John Clarke · Host Lex FridmanJohn Clarke, Lex Fridman's jiu-jitsu coach, on why most people who train are not martial artists, and what excellence actually costs.
2:35:30ENLex Fridman· Nov 16, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersOn a Perfectly Flat Floor, Heights Still WorkGuest Andrew Huberman · Host Lex FridmanStanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman talks with Lex Fridman about fear circuits, matching inner arousal to outer demand, and why the first minutes after sleep should not belong to someone else's timeline.
2:23:38ENLex Fridman· Oct 4, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Brain That Never Touches the WorldGuest Lisa Feldman Barrett · Host Lex FridmanNeuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett tells Lex Fridman why your skull is a dark box, why emotions are constructed like money, and why empathy is a metabolic bill.
3:56:24ENLex Fridman· Sep 8, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Tic-Tac Knew We Were ThereGuest David Fravor · Host Lex FridmanNavy commander David Fravor tells Lex Fridman what four Super Hornet aircrew saw off the USS Nimitz in 2004, why he does not buy a secret human aircraft, and how an unexplained object never made anyone's to-do list.
1:10:16ENLex Fridman· May 15, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMost People See the Black Dress. Stephen Schwarzman Sees the White Lint.Guest Stephen Schwarzman · Host Lex FridmanThe Blackstone co-founder on pattern recognition, why entrepreneurship is a team sport, and why the United States cannot afford to sleepwalk through AI.
37:49ENLex Fridman· Mar 21, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersYou cannot finish first in a game that has no finish lineGuest Simon Sinek · Host Lex FridmanSimon Sinek on finite versus infinite games, the legacy a career leaves, and why passion cannot be demanded.
17:19ENLex Fridman· Mar 17, 2020PodcastMoney Is a Game of Points: Vitalik Buterin on Coordination, Public Goods, and Quadratic FundingHost Lex FridmanVitalik Buterin explains money as a social point system, why value can survive without physical backing, and how quadratic funding tries to fix public-good underfunding.
20:44ENLex Fridman· Jan 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Staff Job That Became a Dictatorship: Stalin's Improbable Road to PowerGuest Stephen Kotkin · Host Lex FridmanStephen Kotkin traces how war, revolution, contingency, and a new administrative post let Stalin build a personal dictatorship inside the Bolshevik regime.
1:37:22ENLex Fridman· Jan 3, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersLenin Wanted an Assistant. Stalin Built a DictatorshipGuest Stephen Kotkin · Host Lex FridmanPrinceton historian Stephen Kotkin talks with Lex Fridman about Stalin’s rise, Putin’s popularity, and why checks on power are a feature, not a bug.
1:30:20ENLex Fridman· Dec 2, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe 1982 Crash Was the Best Thing That Happened to Ray DalioGuest Ray Dalio · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the Bridgewater founder about truth, shapers, credit, AI, and why pain plus reflection equals progress.
14:55ENLex Fridman· Oct 29, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersKasparov on Deep Blue, AlphaZero, and Why Machines Win Closed Systems but Humans Still Choose the QuestionsGuest Garry Kasparov · Host Lex FridmanGarry Kasparov revisits the 1997 loss to Deep Blue, explains why machines beat humans in closed systems, and argues that the human role is to pick the right questions and not interfere with superior machine knowledge.Load moreShowing 24 of 200