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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

Anil Seth on Consciousness, Machine Sentience, and Why Intelligence Isn't Awareness

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

Arnold Van Den Berg on Survival, the Subconscious Mind, and a Life Well Lived

Arthur Brooks on Reinvention, Religion, and the Science of Happiness

Asha Sharma on Product as Organism, Post-Training, and the Agentic Society

Aswath Damodaran - Valuation Lessons, Investing, and Life

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

Bill Miller on Amazon, Bitcoin, and Buying at a Discount to Future Value

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

Chandra Janakiraman on Product Strategy

Chip Conley on Intergenerational Collaboration and the Modern Elder

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

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

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

Howard Marks on Avoiding Disaster, Risk Posture, and the AI Bubble

Howard Marks on the Value-Growth Divide, Investing in Uncertainty, and Living Well

Howie Liu on the IC CEO, Fast and Slow Thinking Teams, and Airtable's AI-Native Refounding

Iain McGilchrist on Consciousness, Attention, and the Nature of Reality (TOE)

Ian Leslie on McCartney, Lennon, and the Greatest Creative Partnership of All Time

Ilya Sutskever on the Age of Research, Continual Learning, and Alignment

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

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 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

Jeff Bezos on Amazon, Blue Origin, and Decision-Making

Jeff Kaplan on World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming

Jeff Weinstein on Customer Obsession, Zero-Support-Tickets, and Compounding Relationships

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

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

Joel Greenblatt on Special Situations, the Magic Formula, and Paying Up for Quality

John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Sports

John Arnold on Trading, Energy, and Evidence-Based Philanthropy

John Lennox on AI as God, Deepfakes, and Consciousness

John Lennox on Science, God, and the Rationality of Belief

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 How to Build 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

Mohnish Pabrai on Charlie Munger, Cloning, and Ethics as Competitive Advantage

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 Steinberger on OpenClaw, Agentic Engineering, and the Future of Apps

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

Steven Pinker on Coordination, Common Knowledge, and the Retreat of Liberal Enlightenment

Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence

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