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Lex Fridman· Jun 13, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersLess Impressed, More Involved: Matthew McConaughey on Messy Love and a Live LifeGuest Matthew McConaughey · Host Lex FridmanThe Oscar-winning actor talks with Lex Fridman about his parents' violent romance, the death of his father, green lights, and why some wounds should be kicked off the curb.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 24, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersKevin Scott Seized Microsoft's GPU Budget, Bet on OpenAI, and Still Didn't See ChatGPT ComingHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFive months after ChatGPT launched, Microsoft's CTO walked No Priors through the all-in bet, the Copilot stack, and why he is still bullish on jobs.
1:51:12ENLex Fridman· May 15, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHarvey Silverglate Would Fire 95 Percent of Harvard's AdministratorsGuest Harvey Silverglate · Host Lex FridmanThe FIRE co-founder, running as a write-in for Harvard's Board of Overseers, tells Lex Fridman why hate speech is more useful than love speech and why discomfort is the price of a free campus.
52:11ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 20, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersJensen Huang: For 25 Years, 99 Percent Were Right. NVIDIA Bet on the 1 PercentHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe NVIDIA CEO tells No Priors how CUDA survived a decade without customers, why the company tries to stay lazy, and what he wants built for drugs and climate.
2:10:17ENLex Fridman· Mar 10, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersEmpathy without agreement: Chris Voss on talking to kidnappers and anyone elseGuest Chris Voss · Host Lex FridmanThe former FBI hostage negotiator tells Lex Fridman why feelings, not reason, close deals — and why “that’s right” is the sentence he hunts for.
2:50:03ENLex Fridman· Mar 6, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAll I see is silverGuest B-Team Jiu Jitsu · Host Lex FridmanCraig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan on winning, the Death Squad split, and why a brown belt still will not take a black belt.
1:52:15ENLex Fridman· Mar 2, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWhen Ginni Rometty Took IBM, Only Two in Ten Had the Skills the Future RequiredGuest Ginni Rometty · Host Lex FridmanThe former IBM CEO talks with Lex Fridman about changing a century-old company, hiring for curiosity, and using power without turning cold.
2:13:07ENLex Fridman· Feb 25, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHe Worked Scientology Full-Time and Never Learned What It Believed at the TopGuest Aaron Smith-Levin · Host Lex FridmanFormer Sea Org member Aaron Smith-Levin walks Lex Fridman from thetans and Dianetics to billion-year contracts, OT levels, and the family-destruction policy he uses to call it a cult.
2:59:53ENLex Fridman· Jan 25, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Civil War, Jeremi Suri argues, never actually endedGuest Jeremi Suri · Host Lex FridmanA UT Austin historian tells Lex Fridman why American institutions still carry the exclusions of the 17th through 19th centuries — and why stories, not arguments, are what move people.
4:05:21ENLex Fridman· Dec 12, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe men who trained Mexico's new police later became the ZetasGuest Ed Calderon · Host Lex FridmanEd Calderon tells Lex Fridman what counter-narcotics work in Tijuana taught him about corruption, cartels, and why honesty can be a liability.
2:57:24ENLex Fridman· Nov 15, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Skill a Child Learns Under a Tree Is How to Calibrate ViolenceGuest Chamath Palihapitiya · Host Lex FridmanChamath Palihapitiya talks with Lex Fridman about a violent childhood, money, poker, energy, startups, and why happiness is not behind the velvet rope.
3:19:25ENLex Fridman· Nov 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPutin Is Rational in His Own Context. Fiona Hill Spent a Lifetime Learning ItGuest Fiona Hill · Host Lex FridmanThe Durham miner's daughter who advised three U.S. presidents tells Lex Fridman how a collapsing coalfield, a Donbas scholarship, and the 2019 impeachment circus taught her to read Vladimir Putin — and why the West keeps missing him.
2:26:29ENLex Fridman· Oct 24, 2022PodcastYe said schools should teach only engineering. Then he spent an hour rewriting history.Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman’s podcast in October 2022, the artist formerly known as Kanye West talked design, family, and a theory about Jewish control that the host would not let stand.
4:48:38ENLex Fridman· Oct 10, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersJohn Danaher: A Broken Team, a Year of Grind, and Why Confidence Isn't MentalGuest John Danaher · Host Lex FridmanAfter ADCC 2022, the New Zealand coach walks through a rebuild that began with no gym and ended with the event's strongest team showing—then ranges into Gordon Ryan, animal combat, and the metaphor of the knife.
2:15:36ENLex Fridman· Sep 14, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe War That Invented the Modern American CitizenGuest Christopher Capozzola · Host Lex FridmanMIT historian Christopher Capozzola tells Lex Fridman how World War I rewired American citizenship, surveillance, and the war machine — and why those patterns still shape elections, platforms, and foreign policy.
3:03:33ENLex Fridman· Aug 19, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersBeauty Points Up: Jordan Peterson on God, Tyranny, and How to LiveGuest Jordan Peterson · Host Lex FridmanIn a long conversation with Lex Fridman, the psychologist follows Dostoevsky's claim that beauty will save the world into God, science, power, fame, and the small work of putting a life in order.
3:53:09ENLex Fridman· Aug 8, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe CIA Serves One Customer, and That Customer Is the PresidentGuest Andrew Bustamante · Host Lex FridmanFormer covert officer Andrew Bustamante walks Lex Fridman through how American intelligence actually works — from the President's Daily Brief to Ukraine, Snowden, and a bar wall in Alabama.
3:37:34ENLex Fridman· Jul 9, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe KGB taught Jack Barsky to vanish. His daughter taught him to stay.Guest Jack Barsky · Host Lex FridmanA former illegal resident tells Lex Fridman how East German ambition, tradecraft, and an 18-month-old in Queens undid a life built on other people's names.
1:59:43ENLex Fridman· Jun 28, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersFavorite happy songs get 175 plays. The sad ones get 800.Guest Susan Cain · Host Lex FridmanSusan Cain talks with Lex Fridman about introvert energy, bittersweet creativity, and why the longing itself is the cure.
2:38:30ENLex Fridman· Jun 21, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersYou Will Not Have the Landscape ClearedGuest Douglas Murray · Host Lex FridmanDouglas Murray tells Lex Fridman that a campaign to empty the West of its heroes leaves only the 20th century’s unlearned idea still standing.
2:46:26ENLex Fridman· Jun 15, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersApple Was a $5 Billion Company in Debt When Tony Fadell Built the iPodGuest Tony Fadell · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Tony Fadell, co-creator of the iPod, iPhone, and Nest Thermostat, about the decisions, fights, and luck behind those products.
2:41:09ENLex Fridman· May 25, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPutin inherited Stalin’s rooms, not Stalin’s powerGuest Stephen Kotkin · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Stephen Kotkin tells Lex Fridman why the war in Ukraine is a strategic choice born of Russian weakness, resentment, and a West that kept letting Moscow get away with murder.
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.
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.Load moreShowing 24 of 254