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“I think that lovable is where it is right now because of the founder socials that Anton has really leaned into and has done at the beginning.”
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“I really mean where you start building in public and you encourage your employees to build in public and grow their social followings and really reach your customer through your own team's voices. I t…”
“I just published a book this this past week called Startup Ecosystems. >> I just ordered mine.”
“What I'm really trying to take a look at is everyone, if you're familiar with Brad Feld's Startup Communities from about 15 years ago, e easily the the the definitive or or the first book that that re…”
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“I think granola has done a wonderful job and uh from the products perspective I see the uh whisper flow also spreading like fire across many people and again It's mostly like a people talking about it…”
“In your latest book, Super Agers, you write that we're at a unique moment in medicine where we've seen a quote historic convergence of breakthroughs end quote, particularly around anti-aging science.”
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“He is the author of several influential books, including the obesity code, the diabetes code, and his latest book, The Hunger Code.”
“He is the author of several influential books, including the obesity code, the diabetes code, and his latest book, The Hunger Code.”
“He is the author of several influential books, including the obesity code, the diabetes code, and his latest book, The Hunger Code.”
“I'm sure. I I'm uh also a um a big fan of Timothy Shalabay and Doom part 3 is coming out. I also like Avengers Doomsday.”
“Doom part three. I love Doom one and two so so much. Two was great. I think one was a little bit of Doomsday will be good. Doomsday actually I go with that. Avengers Doomsday is going to be I think fa…”
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“GitHub's official status page does look a bit better, to be fair, but still not great.”
“GitHub stopped updating its status page with aggregate uptime numbers some time ago. If you use it regularly, you might have a feeling why. This is the missing version. We rebuild platform-wide and pe…”
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“Tyler is an economist at George Mason University, the co-founder of my personal favorite blog, Marginal Revolution, and a true polymath.”
“In this episode, we discuss his new book, Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think.”
“I really think only mindfulness gives you the capacity to make these choices moment to moment. I mean if if you really and if you don't know what I mean by mindfulness then there's really nothing ther…”
“I shared, you know, I'm not an expert in this area, but I shared it with my good friend Paul Codlage, who's an eminent scholar on on on uh on ancient Athens, and he's, you know, he was blown away by t…”
“I shared, you know, I'm not an expert in this area, but I shared it with my good friend Paul Codlage, who's an eminent scholar on on on uh on ancient Athens, and he's, you know, he was blown away by t…”
“Second, Claude 4.5 is amazing. It's just out. I've only had it a few days, but I suspect it will have a very low rate of hallucination.”
“my father, who's also a scientist, is an enormous fan of your waking up app.”
“If I bring on someone who I know I'm going to agree with, but who just knows much more about certain details than I do, I bring on someone like Anne Applebaum, right, who can just give me the view fro…”
“I mean like I'm I'm going to talk to someone like Hassan Would that be fun? But maybe not really. I mean, it just I I don't think I don't think anyone should be listening to this guy, right?”
“I mean, so I'm gonna talk to Ben Shapiro. I I anticipate that being a a potentially uh bad conversation, at least on for half of it.”
“Would I talk to Candace Owens? I I don't don't think so. I mean, she's got an even larger audience, but she's a total lunatic, right?”
“I mean apart from I mean I you know I could I could approach it the way I approached the um the conversation with Doug Wilson, you know, the pastor who I knew just how far out he was as a as a you kno…”
“I you know, my conversation with Ross Dou that right like we did not agree that was had the quality of a debate about religion. I think he's more of a a religious extremist than people people apprecia…”
“I mean, you know, the monk debates, I I think I think it was they asked me to to um debate Tucker Carlson and I was I was surprised to find myself saying yes without any reservation really because Tuc…”
“Rogan has said he doesn't want to talk to you publicly until you've debated Brett Weinstein. Is that something you consider doing? Oh, well, no. I mean, for the for the same reasons I wouldn't debate …”
“Marshall Rosenberg's nonviolent communication. He has a book and a framework.”
“The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leaders”
“I love Designing Your Life by Bill Brunett.”
“The Selfish Gene is like one of my favorite books.”
“road less traveled I've read more than once”
“I actually have a new series coming out on CNN called Cara Swisser Wants to Live Forever, which I focus on experts like Dr. Toppel.”
“hopefully \n medications like the GLP-1 drugs have outperformed any expectations and they have become realistically \n the most potent way to knock down inflammation in the brain and throughout the bo…”
“Things like red light therapy or hyperbaric chambers. I tried ketamine, GLP-1s, VO2 max, space stuff in Korea, new robotics exoskeletons. I'll try anything [music] to see how it works and then I'm goi…”
“Things like red light therapy or hyperbaric chambers. I tried ketamine, GLP-1s, VO2 max, space stuff in Korea, new robotics exoskeletons. I'll try anything [music] to see how it works and then I'm goi…”
“I tried ketamine, GLP-1s, VO2 max, space stuff in Korea, new robotics exoskeletons. I'll try anything [music] to see how it works and then I'm going to run down the science for you to show you what wo…”
“I tried ketamine, GLP-1s, VO2 max, space stuff in Korea, new robotics exoskeletons. I'll try anything [music] to see how it works and then I'm going to run down the science for you to show you what wo…”
“I tried ketamine, GLP-1s, VO2 max, space stuff in Korea, new robotics exoskeletons. I'll try anything [music] to see how it works and then I'm going to run down the science for you to show you what wo…”
“I tried ketamine, GLP-1s, VO2 max, space stuff in Korea, new robotics exoskeletons. I'll try anything [music] to see how it works and then I'm going to run down the science for you to show you what wo…”
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“Please everybody do watch Carus Wish wants to live forever. It is gripping and it's fun too.”
“I'd undoubtedly choose to use Solid Works.”
“I just reread um I'm blanking on the name. Um the Underground Railroad. I just reread that amazing book. Um >> Oh, yeah. Coulson. >> Yes. Uh I just reread it.”
“I love um uh North Woods uh which I love that. I love that author. Um he's amazing. Um I just love it. It's such a beautiful book about time and I love time tra it's a little bit of it's just wonderfu…”
“if if I recommend anything, Rachel Matto did an amazing series of podcasts called Ultra where you get a sense of what happened here and she just did one on the Japanese internment.”
“if you do strength training while you're taking these \n drugs combination I end up interviewing a woman who lost several hundred pounds started off as an obesity drug but then they gave her a whole p…”
“I wanted to, you know, point out this book or highlight this book, this wonderful book that you have, these strange new minds, how AI learned to talk and what it means.”
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“if you're interested, and I have read some of this stuff about his time in tech and and how he got into this whole world. Um, his Substack uh Michael Wolfenyc.substack.com is called Howl. Um, and ther…”
“I am launching a new live event called Cameron Journal Salons where I'm going to bring together the best of the guests from the Cameron Journal in one panel discussion um in some evenings starting thi…”
“So not too long ago the two of you published a paper titled Mathematical Methods and Human Thought in the age of AI. What problems or areas urged this and why now of all times?”
“But, what I recommend people who want to learn more about it is is read Dario Amodei's two essays.”
“He's written two really really thoughtful and essays on firstly the machine's loving grace which talks about the aspirations of AI and how much it can opportunities.”
“Introducing Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning”
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“This paper presents the NCCLX collective communication framework, developed at Meta, engineered to optimize performance across the full LLM lifecycle, from the synchronous demands of large-scale train…”
“Folks who don't know you, they may know you through your Otter test, which has also been very fun to follow over the years. Tell us what that is because the it's gotten it's gotten quite impressive re…”
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“The seminal paper on the meaning of the vector potential by E. J. Konopinski is revisited.”
“Then you have Claude came out with Co-work this week. Incredibly powerful. People are kind of losing their minds over it. I've been playing with it for the last 40 hours. Truly impressive.”
“There's this one nice thing that we came out in our healthcare practice called the decision orchestrator. What it proves is that by assigning roles right so investigator, data analyst, domain expert j…”
“So the the product that just came out recently that everyone's kind of going crazy over is the latest iteration of clawed code uh which is uh powered by uh anthropics uh opus 4.5 model which seems to …”
“So the the product that just came out recently that everyone's kind of going crazy over is the latest iteration of clawed code uh which is uh powered by uh anthropics uh opus 4.5 model which seems to …”
“Moonshot thinking is designed to reverse that pattern. I literally wrote the book on this. My book on moonshot thinking called Think Like a Rocket Scientist became a number one bestseller.”
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“Build your personal brand right now. If software is becoming a commodity and agencies are closing, the person who wins is not the fastest coder or the cheapest freelancer. It's the person people feel …”
“So, Bedrock Agent Core now has uh out of beta or pre-release or whatever they call it, preview uh evaluations, which was really cool. So now you can essentially evaluate the agents and their responses…”
“the the next one uh another thing that we've talked a lot about is the DevOp Dev Ops agent. It's now in GA.”
“there's the segue into the next agent that we've talked about a lotier agent announced at uh reinvent was the security agent and >> again this confuses me a little bit because they very specifically s…”
“Um, what have I done over the last week? So, what I'm working on right now is I've been doing a lot of reading about, you know, I've been reading Vibe Coding by Jean Kim and Steve and reading a bunch …”
“This idea of personalized software. I had a coffee with somebody today and they were showing me >> the app they made for their phone >> and phone apps. It's unbelievable. It's just like what you and I…”
“The Next Era of Nuclear Arms Control”
“Telos, which is an interesting skill that came along with PII, which was kind of about uh exploring your worldview and how you feel about things and stuff and I it was a quite a fun exercise to go thr…”
“Fragrance free is what you want.”
“there's an outof print book called the uh the UFOs and USOs of a Santa Catalina channel and it's all about how people have seen these things that have gone into and out of the ocean in extremely simil…”
“I've written about this a lot on PressWatch, pressatchers.org, where I do not defend the New York Times.”
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“I want to start off with a disclaimer that okay, Docker sandboxes we just launched last week. MCP toolkit is not yet integrated with that sandbox product. Okay. Um it's just not quite there yet. Um st…”
“MCP toolkit is not yet integrated with that sandbox product. Okay. Um it's just not quite there yet. Um stay tuned. It's coming soon. Um just hasn't happened yet. So what I'm going to be showing you …”
“I want to start off with a disclaimer that okay, Docker sandboxes we just launched last week. MCP toolkit is not yet integrated with that sandbox product. Okay. Um it's just not quite there yet. Um st…”
“Uh welcome to you know the second day of this conference the agentic AI conference run by data science dojo.”