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Clear all filters- The Economist24 min
Joe Biden wins: what next for America?
Joe Biden, Sarah Collinson, Zannie Minton-Beddoes, John Prudhoe
Joe Biden secured the presidency with a decisive victory, winning the popular vote by approximately 4 million votes while facing a divided government as Republicans retain control of the Senate. Although legal challenges to the results lack traction due to Biden's substantial margins in key swing states, the election exposed significant polling errors and deep national divisions driven by mutual animosity. Looking forward, the incoming administration plans to govern through legislation and executive orders to reverse Trump-era policies, while the Republican Party prepares to shed Donald Trump's personal divisiveness to maintain its populist platform for future elections.
- Lex Fridman2h 36m
Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #137
Renowned astronomer Alex Filippenko discusses the accelerating expansion of the universe driven by dark energy, a discovery that earned his teams the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics while highlighting the limitations of current three-recipient award models. The presentation connects this cosmological mystery to historical scientific paradigms, existential threats ranging from asteroid impacts to climate change, and the pragmatic challenges of interplanetary colonization via robotics. Filippenko further explores the Fermi Paradox, the rare necessity of stellar explosions for biological life, and the philosophical imperative for humanity to remain curious and self-defined in the face of cosmic uncertainty.
- Jane Street1h 3m
An Inside Look at Jane Street’s Tech Internship with Jeanne Van Briesen, Matt Else, and Grace Zhang
Jeanne Van Briesen, Matt Else, Grace Zhang, Ron Minsky
Jane Street's internship program recruits diverse candidates without requiring prior OCaml knowledge, grounding them in a boot camp before assigning them to dual-team rotations on production-critical infrastructure. Recent projects by interns such as Grace Yang and Matt Els have directly implemented risk management features and redesigned API systems, while a rigorous code review culture ensures these contributions are safely integrated into live environments. The transition from intern to full-time engineer involves navigating a steep technical learning curve and balancing feedback dynamics within a community that actively pursues demographic diversity across non-traditional feeder schools.
- All-In Podcast3h 0m
E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner, Chamath, Michael Newman, Jon Cohen, Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, David Sacks
Financial markets rallied and betting odds flipped violently as Donald Trump secured critical victories in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, driven by voter backlash against COVID-19 lockdowns and unexpected demographic shifts. While major media networks initially misjudged the election dynamics, the results projected a "soft landing" scenario where a potential Biden presidency coincides with a Republican Senate to ensure government gridlock and fiscal stability. Key swing states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona remain statistically tight, creating uncertainty over whether a clear winner will be declared or if a contested election will extend into early December.
- Lex Fridman2h 24m
Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America | Lex Fridman Podcast #135
The speaker synthesizes diverse insights ranging from cinematic analysis of rapid-fire dialogue and world-building to empirical findings on behavioral predictability derived from infrared sensor data. They challenge current academic hiring biases and ranking systems while arguing that true artificial intelligence requires interactive, lifelong learning rather than simple model scaling, and that AI can bridge social silos by mapping shared experiential distributions. The discourse further connects these technical and sociological observations to personal narratives of racial segregation in Atlanta and Boston, a computationalist philosophy emphasizing precise problem definition, and a final perspective on mortality that locates meaning in the collective impact on future generations.
- Goldman Sachs11 min
What’s Next for Brazil
Maria Silvia Bastos Marques, Liz
Brazil's economy, having weathered a deeper-than-expected recession through targeted liquidity support, is projected to resume growth despite lingering fiscal concerns and uneven investment confidence. The financial landscape has accelerated digital transformation via the Central Bank's PIX instant payment system and upcoming open banking, while the private sector maintains robust ESG commitments to sustain its agribusiness dominance. Concurrently, corporate strategies are increasingly prioritizing diversity and inclusion as essential performance drivers, aligning national economic recovery with social and environmental responsibility.
- Goldman Sachs12 min
Kris Jenner, CEO of Jenner Communications
Kris Jenner, CEO of Jenner Communications, chronicles the evolution of the Kardashian-Jenner brand from the 2007 premiere of *Keeping Up with the Kardashians* to its 2021 conclusion, attributing their global dominance to relentless work ethic and innovative social media utilization. She details how the family transformed real-time digital engagement into a strategic "instant focus group" to validate products, ultimately fostering a business ecosystem where individual ventures collectively amplify family value. As the series concludes, Jenner outlines a forward-looking strategy focused on rapid product cycles and fast fashion, while advising entrepreneurs to prioritize interpersonal relationships over contracts to navigate an increasingly transient market.
- Goldman Sachs19 min
John Foley, Founder and CEO of Peloton
Peloton founder John Foley disrupted the home fitness market by pivoting from art to digitize the industry through a direct-to-consumer hardware and software platform that has achieved continuous year-over-year growth since launch. Facing 400 institutional rejections during fundraising, the company scaled its workforce from a small team to 7,000 employees by recruiting top talent from major tech firms and executing a strict non-partisan social advocacy strategy. With a vision to capture 100 million subscribers and expand globally, Foley projects the organization could evolve into a trillion-dollar entity within 15 years by combining operational efficiency with a distinct corporate culture.
- Goldman Sachs10 min
Jean Hynes, Managing Partner of Wellington Management
Jean Hines assumes the role of CEO at Wellington Management in July 2021, leveraging her expertise as a leading healthcare portfolio manager to guide the firm's $1.2 trillion asset portfolio across 50 distinct investment boutiques. Hines outlines critical long-term investment drivers, including global population aging and biomedical innovation, while emphasizing an "open collaborative platform" that grants portfolio managers autonomy within a unified research framework. Her leadership transition reflects a strategic shift toward integrating forward-looking regulatory and macroeconomic analysis, a methodology refined through her own career experiences and a commitment to cultivating deep, continuous learning for future investors.
- Goldman Sachs22 min
Michaël Jérémiasz, Paralympian and Former Professional Wheelchair Tennis Player
Michaël Jérémiasz, Marilyn Mertz
Former world number one wheelchair tennis player and 2024 Paris Olympic Games ambassador Michael Jeremias leverages his personal journey from a snowboarding-induced spinal cord injury to championing universal accessibility and systemic inclusion. Drawing on his experience as a two-time Paralympic medalist and his observations of media representation gaps, he advocates for a societal shift where disability is treated as a common human issue rather than a niche concern. Jeremias combines his athletic credentials with recent life reflections from the pandemic to promote a future where diversity is naturally integrated into infrastructure and culture.
- Jane Street1h 4m
Building a Functional Email Server with Dominick LoBraico
Faced with the security risks and operational rigidity of a legacy mail server, Jane Street engineers replaced the system with MailCore, a homegrown server implemented in OCaml where configuration is expressed as composable code. To ensure safety during the one-year migration, the team deployed a parallel shadow instance that continuously diffed outputs against the legacy system, effectively reverse-engineering implicit knowledge while eliminating memory-safety bugs common in C-based alternatives. This architectural shift transformed email management into a software culture practice, allowing generalist engineers to safely modify routing and filtering logic using standard OCaml tools rather than relying on specialized knowledge of opaque custom domains.
- Goldman Sachs21 min
Bernardine Evaristo, Author of "Girl, Woman, Other"
Author Bernadine Averisto crafted the Booker Prize-winning novel *Girl, Woman, Other* over five years to highlight the scarcity of Black British women in adult fiction, employing her unique "fusion fiction" style to connect twelve diverse characters across a century-long narrative. Her historic victory, facilitated by a judging panel with significant female and minority representation, helped dismantle industry tokenism and coincided with the cultural shifts of the Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements. Following the award, the publishing sector actively audited its exclusionary practices, leading to a surge in engagement with works on race and gender while elevating emerging voices like poet Derek Owusu and theatre directors Ola Ince and Lynette Linton.
- Dwarkesh Patel1h 52m
Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty | The Lunar Society #10
Charles Murray outlines his five-year research project *Human Accomplishment*, which utilizes historiometric data to demonstrate that elite human achievement is driven by a left-skewed distribution of work, fanatical work ethic, and historical cultural incentives rather than mere talent or eccentricity. The work argues that Western dominance in knowledge creation stemmed from specific theological and technical shifts, while contemporary societal decline is attributed to regulatory sclerosis, cultural decadence, and the erosion of free speech in social sciences. Murray concludes with a dual strategy for future progress: advocating for civil disobedience to dismantle the regulatory state and urging young professionals to cultivate a "carving for the eye of God" mentality to achieve genuine, non-derivative success.
- The Diary Of A CEO2h 6m
Overcoming Depression, Burnout, Anxiety and Insomnia with Dan Murray-Serter | E54
Serial entrepreneur Dan details a transformative journey from bulimia and existential depression to recovery through ayahuasca retreats and a new business model centered on his brain health venture, Heights. He outlines his strategic evolution in managing burnout, building a personal brand rooted in vulnerability on LinkedIn, and applying rigorous OKRs to maintain a healthy marriage. By rejecting the fear of death and embracing Ikigai, Dan aims to foster a community where entrepreneurs can authentically confront their struggles while pursuing continuous personal growth.
- Lex Fridman2h 35m
Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease | Lex Fridman Podcast #133
A paradigm shift in human genetics has replaced traditional model organisms with massive-scale analysis of six million natural genetic variants across billions of individuals to decode complex disease mechanisms. Researchers now utilize a rigorous six-step pipeline to link non-coding variants to specific regulatory motifs and target genes, as demonstrated by discoveries in Alzheimer's microglia activation, obesity thermogenesis pathways, and synaptic pruning in schizophrenia. Powered by CRISPR-based editing and single-cell profiling, this systems medicine approach is accelerating the timeline from genomic discovery to targeted therapeutics from decades to approximately a decade.