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Clear all filters- The Economist20 min
In sickness and in stealth: threats to America’s CDC
Rosie Bloor, Jason Palmer, Rebecca Jackson, Josh Roberts, David Benin
Following the inauguration of the Trump administration, the CDC has faced severe operational disruption through Executive Orders targeting DEI initiatives, a mass termination campaign involving 750 employees, and the imposition of restrictive communication protocols by the acting director and DOGE-affiliated entities. Simultaneously, silver market dynamics have shifted as institutional demand surged with Russia adding reserves to holdings and industrial requirements for solar manufacturing drove a 50% increase in consumption, outpacing gold in recent returns. In the entertainment sector, a resurgence of live album releases has emerged among major artists like Dua Lipa and The Cure, driven by post-pandemic appreciation for raw performance energy and a strategic pivot away from the studio-centric production models that dominated the late 20th century.
- The Diary Of A CEO2h 17m
The Speaking Coach: The One Word All Liars Use! Stop Saying This Word, It's Making You Sound Weak!
This presentation redefines conflict resolution by advocating for the "unraveling" of disputes rather than the pursuit of victory, positioning effective communication as a decisive competitive advantage. It details three core techniques for maintaining control, assertiveness, and connection, including physiological regulation, strategic pausing, and the reframing of apologies as gratitude. The session concludes by demonstrating how leaders can transform adversaries into allies through vulnerability and storytelling, ultimately breaking cycles of toxic interaction to establish a lasting legacy of positive influence.
- Lex Fridman3h 18m
Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India - Power, Democracy, War & Peace | Lex Fridman Podcast #460
Prime Minister Narendra Modi articulates a leadership philosophy rooted in the collective strength of 1.4 billion Indians, Vedic traditions, and a lifetime of spiritual fasting and service that shaped his governance. Drawing on his upbringing in poverty, his nomadic Himalayan youth, and his RSS background, he outlines a foreign policy of peace and a domestic focus on education reform and AI development. Modi concludes by rejecting personal fear of mortality and emphasizing that true leadership requires viewing every citizen as equal, framing his tenure as a commitment to the welfare of humanity rather than individual power.
- a16z1h 36m
Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
Ankit Kumar, Anjney Midha, Maya
Sesame is developing a voice-first "companion" interface using a talent-dense team of fewer than fifteen engineers to prioritize natural conversational dynamics over general-purpose utility. The company has open-sourced its Conversational Speech Model base weights while withholding character-specific implementations, aiming to evolve toward a full duplex architecture capable of native audio understanding and real-time interruption handling. By targeting smart glasses as the optimal hardware form factor and employing qualitative human evaluation rather than standard metrics, Sesame seeks to build a long-term memory layer that acts as an emotionally resonant mediator for multi-step tasks.
- All-In Podcast1h 39m
Fixing the American Dream with Andrew Schulz
Andrew Schulz, Friedberg, Gavin Newsom, Trump, Jason Calacanis
In a May 3 Miami event featuring comedian Andrew Schulz, hosts Jason Calacanis and David Sack discussed advanced IVF technologies, the strategic implications of Governor Gavin Newsom's new podcast, and critiques of President Trump's tariff policies. The dialogue extended to economic solutions such as investing the Social Security Trust Fund in equities to prevent 2032 insolvency, while analyzing housing market distortions and the psychological drivers behind modern conspiracy theories. Panelists also shared personal investment origins, evaluated the Department of Government Efficiency's potential under Elon Musk, and highlighted JD Vance's political trajectory as a key figure in future American leadership.
- Goldman Sachs24 min
What's behind the US equity underperformance?
Tony Pasquarello, Josh Schifrin, Dominic Wilson
Josh Schifrin and Dominic Wilson have revised their U.S. year-on-year growth forecast down to 1.7% due to policy uncertainty and weak first-quarter data, anticipating a delay in Federal Reserve rate cuts until June. While the team expects the yield curve to steepen and favors front-end fixed income positions to hedge against economic pain, they caution that "U.S. exceptionalism" is fading as European markets like Germany gain traction through significant fiscal expansion. Ultimately, the strategists predict a volatile near-term environment where short-term labor data may deteriorate further before a recovery emerges, challenging the prevailing thesis that the administration will maintain a growth floor.
Arielle Zuckerberg, "The Rizz & Tiz" Winning Founder Recipe
Arielle Zuckerberg, Molly O'Shea, John Doerr
Long Journey Ventures, led by Arielle Zuckerberg, distinguishes itself by targeting "magically weird" founders characterized by the "Ris and Tis" balance of magnetic charisma and neurodivergent intensity. The firm deploys up to $25 million in follow-on capital into top performers, prioritizing "adult frat" culture and founder-centric mentorship over standard thesis-driven views. While navigating a volatile AI market, Long Journey focuses on high-velocity deal sourcing through private networks to support non-traditional companies like Autopallet and Superpower.
- The Economist25 min
Wheels of justice: the ICC gets Duterte at last
Duterte, Jason Palmer, Aaron Connolly, John Joe Devlin, Cassio de Gea, Tobias Adielson, Charmec Elmi, Anne Rowe
The International Criminal Court successfully transferred former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to The Hague for trial on crimes against humanity related to his "war on drugs," a move enabled by a political rift between his family and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Concurrently, Sweden confronts an unprecedented surge in gang violence involving coordinated bombings and the recruitment of vulnerable minors, prompting legislative changes regarding wiretapping and intensified debate over immigration policies. In a separate development, celebrated apartheid-era playwright Athol Fugard passed away at age 92, leaving a literary legacy that chronicled the moral complexities of South African oppression and the enduring resilience of its people.
- Y Combinator38 min
Figma's Dylan Field: Exploring the idea maze, vibe coding, and the power of “locking in”
Co-founded by Dylan Field, Figma evolved from a series of early pivots into a dominant collaborative design platform that successfully integrated engineers and product managers alongside traditional designers. The company's trajectory was shaped by a user-driven roadmap that birthed features like FigJam and an internal culture of "Maker Weeks," which emphasized rapid iteration over long-term planning. Field's current strategy leverages AI strictly as a capability-enhancing tool to lower participation barriers while acknowledging its inability to replicate human judgment in complex design contexts.
- The Economist22 min
When the levy doesn’t break: a trade-war world adjusts
Rosie Bloor, Jason Palmer, Rachana Shanbhog, Owen Winter, Lane Green
Markets and investors are reacting to a shift in Donald Trump's protectionist agenda, characterized by broader steel and aluminum tariffs and a predicted trade war with Canada and Mexico that threatens to raise costs without boosting domestic production. Simultaneously, hard-right political parties in Europe have gained significant ground, now securing 24% of the continental vote and breaking post-war voting records in Germany, driven largely by economic insecurity and immigration anxieties. Complementing these geopolitical and economic shifts, new research by Michael Erard debunks cultural myths regarding the significance of first words and deathbed statements, reframing them as products of specific societal expectations and medical realities rather than universal truths.
- The Diary Of A CEO1h 51m
Secret To Living Without Fear & Anxiety Forever! Your Mind Can Heal Itself! - Dr. Joe Dispenza
This event synthesizes neuroscience and quantum field theories to demonstrate how transitioning from survival emotions to elevated states like gratitude can biologically dismantle chronic trauma and reprogram identity. Through collective practice in a one-week retreat setting, participants reportedly achieve physiological transformations, including altered gene expression, enhanced immune function, and a shift from high-beta to gamma brainwave states that surpass typical pharmaceutical success rates. The framework positions this biological reset as a pathway to "super consciousness," enabling the dissolution of the egoic past and the manifestation of a new reality through the synchronization of heart coherence and neural intention.
- Dwarkesh Patel1h 54m
Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution
Joseph Henrich's research posits that human progress relies on a "collective brain" where cultural knowledge and institutional frameworks like the Roman Catholic Church's dissolution of kinship systems drove Europe's Industrial Revolution. This perspective reframes human history as a series of expansion-collapse cycles where population density, social interconnectedness, and the offloading of cognitive tasks into culture determine innovation rather than individual intelligence or genetic mutations. By contrasting stable but isolated societies with fragmented, mobile populations, the analysis highlights how institutional erosion and the forced integration of strangers create the conditions necessary for scientific and technological breakthroughs.
- Jane Street1h 0m
Finding Signal in the Noise: Machine Learning and the Markets with In Young Cho
Inyoung Cho details her transition from biology to Jane Street, where she now leads machine learning initiatives that leverage thousands of GPUs and terabytes of daily market data to navigate the anti-inductive nature of financial signals. Her presentation contrasts the firm's direct client trading model, which mitigates market impact through human interaction, with modern research pipelines that prioritize data discipline over model interpretability to prevent overfitting in high-frequency environments. Looking forward, Cho outlines how Jane Street is applying deep learning and foundation models to extract signals from multimodal data while refining internal tools through structured training that balances rapid exploration with robust production systems.
Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race
Niklas Östberg, Harry Stebbings
Delivery Hero CEO Max Osberg reflects on past strategic errors, including unsustainable overexpansion in Thailand and missed equity opportunities during the 2018-2019 peak, which contributed to significant capital losses and a subsequent 50% stock decline. The discussion outlines a shifted operational philosophy prioritizing unit economics and internal execution over market share expansion, alongside the successful integration of the Glovo acquisition despite initial accounting losses. Looking ahead, the company plans to leverage robotics and generative AI for efficiency while navigating a challenging European regulatory landscape to achieve long-term profitability across its global portfolio.
- The Economist25 min
Thirty-day trial? A Ukraine-ceasefire proposal
Jason Palmer, Rosie Bloor, Oliver Carroll, Shashank Joshi, Sophie Petter, Ainsley Johnston
Ukrainian officials accepted a US-brokered proposal for a reciprocal 30-day ceasefire and immediate negotiations to end the conflict, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Michael Watts leading constructive bilateral talks that secured President Zelensky's public endorsement. While the agreement paves the way for resuming American military assistance, the final outcome remains contingent on Moscow's response to demands for Ukraine's neutrality and potential territorial concessions. Parallel to these diplomatic developments, a new longitudinal study using UK Biobank data identifies chronic loneliness as a primary predictor of early death, carrying a mortality risk equivalent to physical inactivity and outweighing genetic factors in overall longevity.