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Aishwarya and Kiriti on AI Products
Alan Taylor on Revolutionary Ironies and the Continental Civil War
Alex Komoroske on Strategy and Complexity
Ami Vitale on Photojournalism and Wildlife Conservation
Amjad Masad on Replit
Andrej Karpathy on AGI Timelines, RL's Limits, and the Future of Education
Within Reason
Annie Duke on Better Decisions, Kill Criteria, and When to Quit
Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Deterrence, and Government Secrecy
Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Intelligence Operations, and Conspiracy Realities
Anthony Kaldellis on the Roman Empire, Byzantium, and the Rise and Fall of Empires
Any Austin on the Hermeneutics of Video Games
April Dunford on Product Positioning
April Dunford on Sales Pitch
Aravind Srinivas on Perplexity and the Future of Search
Arielle Jackson on the Art of Building Legendary Brands
Richer, Wiser, Happier
Arthur Brooks on Reinvention, Religion, and the Science of Happiness
Asha Sharma on Product as Organism, Post-Training, and the Agentic Society
Aswath Damodaran on Story-to-Numbers Valuation, ESG Scepticism, and the Option to Abandon
Austan Goolsbee on Central Banking as a Data Dog
Benedict Evans on the 1997 of AI, Task vs Job, and Where AI Value Accrues
Benjamin Mann on Anthropic and AGI
Benjamin Moser on the Dutch Masters, Brazil, and Cultural Icons
Blake Scholl on Supersonic Flight and Fixing Broken Infrastructure
Bob Moesta on Jobs to Be Done
Bob Moesta on Jobs to Be Done 2.0
Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and the Art of Biography
Boris Cherny on Claude Code
Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work
Bret Taylor on Sierra
Brian Chesky on Airbnb and Product
Brian Winter on Brazil, Argentina, and the Future of Latin America
Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI
Cat Wu on AI Product
Chandra Janakiraman — An Operator's Guide to Product Strategy
Chip Conley — Brian Chesky's 52-year-old mentor who scaled Airbnb
Chip Huyen on AI Engineering
Chris Arnade on Walking Cities
Christian Idiodi on Product Management
Christina Wodtke on OKRs, Radical Focus, and Why They Go Wrong
Christopher Kirchhoff on Military Innovation and the Future of War
Christopher Lochhead on Category Design, the Better Trap, and Languaging
Claire Butler on Figma's Go-to-Market and the IC-First Growth Model
Claire Hughes Johnson on Scaling People and the Company Operating System
Claire Vo on OpenClaw
Coleman Hughes on Colorblindness, Jazz, and Identity
Craig Newmark on Institutional Maintenance, Giving Away Control, and the Internet We Were Promised
Crystal Widjaja on Growth at Gojek, Analytics Failure, and Scrappy Experimentation
Cursor Team on the Future of Programming
Dalton Caldwell on Startup Survival, Pivots, and Tarpit Ideas
Dan Houser on Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and the Craft of Open-World Storytelling
Dan Shipper on Every, AI-Native Company Building, and the Allocation Economy
Dario Amodei on Claude, AGI and the Future of AI
Dario Amodei on the End of the Exponential, AI Diffusion, and the Economics of AGI
Dave Baszucki on Roblox, Teen Entrepreneurs, and the Future of Play
Dave Plummer on Windows, Task Manager, and the Craft of Systems Programming
David Brooks on Audacity, AI, and the American Psyche
David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States
David Placek on Brand Naming, Sound Symbolism, and the Art of the Bold Name
David Robertson on Conducting, Pierre Boulez, and Musical Interpretation
David Singleton on Stripe
Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
Demis Hassabis on AI, AlphaFold, and Simulating Reality
Dharmesh Shah on HubSpot, Culture as Product, and the Science of Zigging
DHH on Ruby on Rails, Programming, and the Future of the Web
Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Buddhism
Dr. Fei Fei Li on World Models
Dylan Patel and Nathan Lambert on DeepSeek and China AI
Ed Barnhart on Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America
Edward Gibson on Human Language, Psycholinguistics, and LLMs
Edwin Chen on AI Data Quality
Elon Musk and the Neuralink Team on Brain-Computer Interfaces, the N1 Implant, and the First Patient
Eric Ries on Incorruptible, Financial Gravity, and Mission-Controlled Companies
Ethan Evans on the Magic Loop, Career Growth, and Lessons from Amazon
Ethan Smith on Answer Engine Optimisation, LLM Search, and the Citation Playbook
Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda
From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
Gary Marcus on AI's Overstated Intelligence, LLM Economics, and the Limits of Scaling
Gaurav Kapadia on New York City, Investing, and Contemporary Art
Geoffrey Moore on Crossing the Chasm, the Technology Adoption Lifecycle, and B2B Go-to-Market
George Hotz on AI, Tinygrad, and Civilisational Risk
George Selgin on the New Deal, Regime Uncertainty, and What Really Ended the Great Depression
Gibson Biddle on Product Strategy
Gregory Aldrete on Ancient Rome, the Roman Legions, and Military History
Gregory Clark on Social Mobility, Migration, and Assortative Mating
Guillaume Verdon on Effective Accelerationism and Thermodynamic Intelligence
Gustav Söderström on Spotify, the Curation-to-Generation Shift, and Building at Scale
Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar on Evals
Hamilton Helmer on 7 Powers
Heidi Helfand on Dynamic Reteaming, the Five Patterns of Team Change, and Transparency in Reorgs
Helen Castor on Medieval Power and Personalities
Henry Oliver on Measure for Measure, Late Bloomers, and the Smartest Writers in English
How I Use LLMs
Howie Liu on the IC CEO, Fast and Slow Thinking Teams, and Airtable's AI-Native Refounding
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
The Jim Rutt Show
Ian Leslie on McCartney, Lennon, and the Greatest Creative Partnership of All Time
Ilya Sutskever on the Age of Research, Continual Learning, and Alignment
Intro to Large Language Models
Irving Finkel on Ancient Mesopotamia, Cuneiform, and the Ark Tablet
Itamar Gilad on Evidence-Guided Product
Jack Clark on AI's Uneven Impact
Jack Weatherford on Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
Jackson Shuttleworth on Duolingo Streaks, Retention Mechanics, and 600 Experiments
Jag Duggal on Building Fanatical Customers, the Sean Ellis Score, and Nubank's Product Strategy
Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky on Make Time, the Highlight Framework, and Defeating Distraction
Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky on the Foundation Sprint, Differentiation, and Finding What Clicks
James Holland on World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, and the Biggest Battles
Janna Levin on Black Holes, Wormholes, and Quantum Mysteries
Jason Cohen on Diagnosing Stalled Growth, the Hidden Multipliers Framework, and the Elephant Curve
Jason Feifer on Getting Press, Pitching Journalists, and Opportunity Set B
Jason Fried on 37signals, Bootstrapping, and the Shape Up Methodology
Jason M Lemkin on Building a B2B Sales Team, Sales-Product Tension, and the VP of Free
Jeanne DeWitt Grosser on Go-to-Market Engineering, the Buying Journey as Product, and Building Sales Teams Engineers Trust
Jeetu Patel on Cisco, AI at Enterprise Scale, and the Right to Win
Jeff Bezos on Amazon, Blue Origin, and Decision-Making
Lex Fridman Podcast
Jeff Weinstein on Customer Obsession, Zero-Support-Tickets, and Compounding Relationships
Jeffrey Pfeffer on the Seven Rules of Power, the Knowing-Doing Gap, and Why Power Is a Learnable Skill
Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Modern China, the CCP, and Hong Kong
Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, and the History of Free-Market Ideas
Jennifer Pahlka on Reforming Government
Jenny Wen on Designing Claude, the Legibility Framework, and the Three Designer Archetypes
Jensen Huang on NVIDIA, AI, and the Future of Computing
Jensen Huang on Nvidia's Supply Chain Moat, Accelerated Computing vs TPUs, and the China Chip Debate
Jeremy Henrickson on Velocity at Scale, the Compound Startup Model, and Why MVPs Can Be Harmful
Jerry Colonna on Radical Self-Inquiry, the Leadership Equation, and Why Teams Fail
Jessica Livingston on Social Radar, Reading Founders, and the YC Origin Story
Jim Grant on the AI Bubble, Decadent Finance, and the Lessons of History
Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia, Neutrality, and the Governance of Knowledge
Joanne Paul on Thomas More and the Tudor World
Joe Boyd on the Birth of Rock, World Music, and Being There for Everything
Joel David Hamkins on Infinity, Gödel Incompleteness and the Mathematical Multiverse
John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Sports
John Arnold on Trading, Energy, and Evidence-Based Philanthropy
OCCA Oxford — The Veritas Forum
Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media
Jonny Steinberg on South African Crime and Punishment, the Mandelas' Marriage, and the Post-Apartheid Era
Joscha Bach on Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI and the Future of Humans
Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Intellectual Legacy
Julia Schottenstein on M&A Strategy, dbt Labs, and Why Worse Is Better
Julia Shaw on False Memory, Eyewitness Testimony, and the Psychology of Evil
Julian Shapiro on Product-Led Acquisition, Retention Mechanics, and the Creativity Faucet
Karina Nguyen on Model Training and AI Product
Karri Saarinen on Linear, the Linear Method, and Craft-Driven Product Development
Katie Dill on Design Quality, the ROI of Design, and Operationalising Excellence
Keith Coleman and Jay Baxter on Community Notes, the Bridging Algorithm, and Fixing Misinformation
Kevin Aluwi on Gojek, Super Apps, and Building in Southeast Asia
Kevin Weil on OpenAI and the Future of AI Products
Keyu Jin on China's Economy, Industrial Policy, and State Capitalism
Kim Scott on Radical Candor, Ruinous Empathy, and the Art of Direct Feedback
Kunal Shah on Delta 4, the Dharma of Founders, and Building CRED
Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media
Lars Brownworth on Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla, and the Viking Age
Lazar Jovanovic on Vibe Coding as a Profession, the Genie Framework, and PRD-Driven Development
Lee Cronin on Assembly Theory, the Origin of Life, and Alien Detection
Lisa Randall on Dark Matter, Physics, and Extinction
Lulu Cheng Meservey on Making Ideas Spread, Cultural Erogenous Zones, and Going Direct
Manik Gupta on the Consumer Stack, Company Product Fit, and Building Consumer Products
Marc Andreessen on AI and Dynamism
Marc Andreessen on Preference Falsification, Institutional Power, and the AI Race
Marc Raibert on Boston Dynamics, Legged Robots, and the Future of Robotics
Marc Rowan on Financial Market Evolution and University Governance
Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America
Mark Zuckerberg on the Metaverse, Codec Avatars, and the Future of Presence
Masaaki Suzuki on Interpreting Bach
Matt Dixon on the JOLT Effect, the Challenger Sale, and Overcoming Indecision
Matt MacInnis on Extraordinary Efforts, Power Law and Entropy, and Building Rippling
Matthew Dicks on Storyworthy, Homework for Life, and the Five-Second Moment
Matthew McLennan on Variegation, Positional Assets, and Resilient Wealth
Max Schoening on Malleable Software, Agency, and Building Products in the AI Era
Melanie Perkins on Canva, Column B Thinking, and Crazy Big Goals
Melissa Perri on Strategy Deployment, the Missing Middle, and When to Hire a CPO
Michael Saylor on Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money
Michael Truell on Cursor and the World After Code
Mike Krieger on Anthropic, AI Timelines, and Product in a 90% AI-Written Codebase
Mike Maples Jr. on Pattern Breakers, Inflections, and Founder-Future Fit
Molly Graham on Giving Away Your Legos, the Waterline Model, and Scaling Yourself
Musa al-Gharbi on Elite Wokeness, Islam, and Social Movements
Nabeel Qureshi on Palantir and Forward Deployed Engineering
Nan Yu on Speed, IC-First Product Design, and the Extreme Version Method
Naomi Gleit on Facebook Growth, Canonical Thinking, and the Naomi-isms
Naomi Ionita on Monetisation, Freemium Strategy, and the Modern Growth Stack
Nate Silver on Life's Mixed Strategies
Nate Silver on Risk-takers, Politicians, and Poker Players
Nathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka on State of AI in 2026
Naval Ravikant on How to Get Rich, Specific Knowledge, and the Four Types of Leverage
Neal Stephenson on History, Spycraft, and American-Soviet Parallels
Nick Turley on ChatGPT
Nicole Forsgren on AI, Developer Experience, and the Frictionless Framework
Nicole Forsgren on DORA, SPACE, and Measuring Developer Productivity
Nikita Bier on Viral Consumer Apps, Latent Demand, and Building for Teens
Nima Shayegh on Roots and Branches, Lou Simpson, and Surrendering to Uncertainty
Noah Weiss on Slack, Complaint-Storms, and the Self-Service Plateau
Norman Ohler on Drugs in Nazi Germany, Blitzkrieg, and the History of Psychedelics
Patrick Campbell on Pricing, Retention, and Bootstrapping ProfitWell
Patrick McKenzie on Navigating Complex Systems
Paul Millerd on the Pathless Path, the Default Path, and Designing Work Around Life
Paula Byrne on Thomas Hardy’s Women, Jane Austen’s Humor, and Evelyn Waugh’s Warmth
Pavel Durov on Building Telegram, Privacy, and Platform Independence
Peter Deng on the Five PM Archetypes, Scaling from Zero to Billions, and the Six-Month Rule
Peter Thiel on Political Theology
Philip Ball on the Interplay of Science, Society, and the Quest for Understanding
Phyl Terry on Candidate Market Fit, the Job Search Council, and Never Search Alone
Pieter Levels on Building Startups Solo, Nomad Life, and Shipping Fast
Rahul Vohra on Superhuman's PMF Engine, Game Design in Product, and the Switch Log
Ravi Mehta on the Product Strategy Stack, Twelve PM Competencies, and Selective Micromanagement
Rebecca F. Kuang on National Literatures, Book Publishing, and History in Fiction
Robby Stein on Google AI Mode, Instagram Stories, and Relentless Improvement
Robert Hagstrom on Pragmatic Truth, Multi-Disciplinary Investing, and the Concentrated Portfolio
Roman Yampolskiy on AI Uncontrollability and p(doom)
Ross Douthat on Why Religion Makes More Sense Than You Think
Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate
Sam Altman on OpenAI, GPT-5, and the Road to AGI
Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence
Sander Schulhoff on AI Security and Guardrails
Sander Schulhoff on Prompt Engineering and Red Teaming
Sara Walker on the Physics of Life, Time, Complexity and Aliens
Sarah Tavel on the Hierarchy of Engagement, the Hierarchy of Marketplaces, and Market Currents
Scott Belsky on the First Mile, Doing Half, and the Messy Middle
Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema
Seamus Murphy on Photographing Patterns Across Cultures
Sean Carroll on General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes and Aliens
Serhii Plokhy on Russia, Ukraine, and the History of Their Relationship
Seth Godin on This Is Strategy, the Four Critical Choices, and Why a Brand Is a Promise
Shaun Clowes on PLG, B2B SaaS Lock-in, and the Bingo Card Career
Sheilagh Ogilvie on Epidemics, Guilds, and the Persistence of Bad Institutions
Simon Willison on Agentic Engineering and the Future of Code
Sri Batchu on Ramp's Growth, the Cap Table Strategy, and Failing Conclusively
Conversations with Tyler
Stewart Butterfield on Product Craft, Utility Curves, and Why We Don't Sell Saddles
Tanguy Crusson on Incubating New Products, the Point A Framework, and Protecting Ugly Babies
Terence Tao on the Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics and the Future of AI
ThePrimeagen on Programming, Addiction, and Pursuing Mastery
Tim Sweeney on Unreal Engine, Fortnite, and the App Store Wars
Tobi Lütke on Creating Shopify for Americans as a German in Canada
Tobi Lütke on First Principles Thinking, Maximising Human Potential, and Product Delight
Todd Jackson on Product-Market Fit Levels, Customer Discovery, and the Four Ps
Tom Tugendhat on Modernizing the UK and Political Reform
Tomer Cohen on the Full Stack Builder Model, AI-Native Teams, and LinkedIn's Internal Agents
Tristan de Montebello on Ultraspeaking, Speaking as Flow State, and the Accordion Method
Vejas Liulevicius on Communism, Fascism, and the Machinery of Totalitarianism
Vikrama Dhiman on the Three W's, PM Career Growth, and Operating as a Product Leader
Walter Isaacson on Genius, Creativity, and the Craft of Biography
Wes Kao on Executive Communication, MOO, and the CEDAF Delegation Framework
Will Larson on Engineering Strategy, Systems Thinking, and Writing Consistently
Yann LeCun on Meta AI, LLMs, and the Path to AGI
Yuval Noah Harari on Shared Fictions, Intelligence, and Power
Zevi Arnovitz on Vibe Coding as a PM, Multi-Model Review, and Building with Claude Code