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Lex Fridman· May 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersBobby Lee Was Not Invited to the WeddingGuest Bobby Lee · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the comedian about a snub that still stings, twelve-hour Skyrim grinds, sex robots, Khalyla, relapse, and the chances he never asks for.
1:52:39ENLex Fridman· May 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersEmpathy Is Not Sympathy: Oliver Stone on Putin and the War in UkraineGuest Oliver Stone · Host Lex FridmanThe filmmaker argues that nuclear power is safer than its reputation, that the Ukraine war did not begin on February 24, and that understanding a leader is not the same as excusing him.
3:32:24ENLex Fridman· May 14, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersGlenn Loury Does Not Disagree With Affirmative Action. He Hates It.Guest Glenn Loury · Host Lex FridmanA three-and-a-half-hour conversation with Lex Fridman on King, slavery, Black patriotism, cancel culture, IQ research, Obama, and how to wear a history without being trapped by it.
4:14:40ENLex Fridman· May 11, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersHard Money Is the Control Knob of CivilizationGuest Saifedean Ammous · Host Lex FridmanSaifedean Ammous tells Lex Fridman why the hardness of money sets a society’s time preference, and why he thinks Bitcoin is the hardest money yet invented.
2:55:05ENLex Fridman· May 8, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersExtinction awareness is the human trait Mason wants to carry to the starsGuest Chris Mason · Host Lex FridmanCornell geneticist Chris Mason on why seeing our own end creates a duty to engineer life for other worlds — and what a 500-year plan would actually require.
3:32:42ENLex Fridman· May 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Yanomamö Said the Only Sensible Reason for War Was WomenGuest David Buss · Host Lex FridmanEvolutionary psychologist David Buss talks with Lex Fridman about sex differences, jealousy, mate switching, and why human mating is a competitive process played out in language.
2:04:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 29, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWe're Not Homo Sapiens Anymore, Grimes Says. Call Us Homo TechnoGuest Grimes · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman rarely records after midnight. This episode is the exception: Grimes, eight hours late, on music, memes, motherhood, and why consciousness might be sacred even if humans are not.
1:09:10ENLex Fridman· Apr 27, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Same Snapdragon That Flies on Mars Powers a Galaxy PhoneGuest Cristiano Amon · Host Lex FridmanQualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon talks with Lex Fridman about 5G, Snapdragon, cars, the chip shortage, and how to map the border of your own competence.
4:05:22ENLex Fridman· Apr 24, 2022PodcastIf We Cannot Say What Life Is, We Cannot Recognize AliensHost Lex FridmanAstrobiologist Sara Walker and chemist Lee Cronin argue that the hunt for alien life is really a hunt for a physics of memory, objects, and time.
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Jane Street· Apr 20, 2022Doug Patti on State Machine Replication at Jane StreetYaron Minsky, Doug Patti · Jane StreetHow Concord and Aria use ordered logs and deterministic state machines to build recoverable trading services.
2:29:08ENLex Fridman· Apr 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersStarvation Is a Weapon. Skye Fitzgerald Still Puts the Camera Down.Guest Skye Fitzgerald · Host Lex FridmanNearly 811 million people are hungry today, and 45 million stand at the edge of famine across 43 countries — while the food to feed them already exists.
3:25:22ENLex Fridman· Apr 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersAndrew Huberman Lets No One Near Him for Two Hours Before a PodcastGuest Andrew Huberman · Host Lex FridmanThe Stanford neuroscientist talks with Lex Fridman about building mental states, heat and cold, visual focus, and the four arrows of a relationship.
3:56:54ENLex Fridman· Apr 14, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWhen You Inflate Money at 7% and Call It 2%, You Are Bleeding the PatientGuest Michael Saylor · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor argues that inflation is a vector, economics deserves a failing grade, and Bitcoin is the first ethical block of digital energy.
2:04:16ENLex Fridman· Apr 10, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPlease Don't Say That: Rick Rubin on Protecting the Room Where Art HappensGuest Rick Rubin · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the producer about listening blank, ruthless editing, Johnny Cash's "Hurt," and why a compliment can break a session.
3:21:29ENLex Fridman· Apr 7, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWhen something in the mind breaks, you see what it was forGuest Karl Deisseroth · Host Lex FridmanStanford psychiatrist Karl Deisseroth talks with Lex Fridman about depression, schizophrenia, optogenetics, and why you can treat one symptom without a theory of everything.
2:48:27ENLex Fridman· Apr 3, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersMost Rivals Loathe Each Other in PeaceGuest Chris Blattman · Host Lex FridmanUniversity of Chicago economist Chris Blattman tells Lex Fridman why prolonged violence is rare, costly, and usually a bargaining failure — recorded in the fifth week of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
3:47:25ENLex Fridman· Mar 27, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Original Internet Godfather Built Trust Among CybercriminalsGuest Brett Johnson · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Brett Johnson about ShadowCrew, social engineering, prison, and why most attacks still use holes everyone already knows about.
1:46:49ENLex Fridman· Mar 23, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersAriel Ekblaw on Self-Assembling Habitats and Why the Real Space Cities Will FloatGuest Ariel Ekblaw · Host Lex FridmanThe MIT Space Exploration Initiative director talks swarm tiles, lunar ants, and why Mars is a research station rather than a backup Earth.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Mar 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersSid Sijbrandij on GitLab’s Remote Work, Feedback and BoardsGuest Sid Sijbrandij · Host Harry StebbingsGitLab’s co-founder discusses the practices and trade-offs behind distributed work, leadership coaching and more useful board meetings.
2:10:56ENLex Fridman· Mar 16, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersGod Cannot Be Expressed, Only AddressedGuest David Wolpe · Host Lex FridmanRabbi David Wolpe talks with Lex Fridman about Judaism’s many pictures of God, friendship with atheists, and why a living tradition can argue with its own book.
4:05:51ENLex Fridman· Mar 11, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersLife is the universe developing a memoryGuest Lee Cronin · Host Lex FridmanChemist Lee Cronin tells Lex Fridman why life looks inevitable, how assembly theory could detect it on any world, and why silicon may never hold enough states for consciousness.
59:29EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Mar 11, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersHarley Finkelstein on Shopify, Leadership and Learning to Be Present at HomeGuest Harley Finkelstein · Host Harry StebbingsThe Shopify president discusses communication, anxiety and the lessons he and his wife have learned about partnership and parenting.
2:49:41ENLex Fridman· Mar 5, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersNazi Science Was Not Anti-Science. It Was Science with a Purity QuestGuest Robert Proctor · Host Lex FridmanStanford historian Robert Proctor on how ideology, tobacco, and the taxonomic impulse turn scientists into widget-builders.
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GOTO Conferences· Mar 2, 2022Agility at Scale: Alignment, Autonomy and Two MindsetsDaniel Terhorst-North, Anna UrbaniakDaniel Terhorst-North and Anna Urbaniak discuss coordination and learning in large organizations.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,480