October 31, 2025 • #
Wes Montgomery, Live in ‘65.
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October 29, 2025 • #
Ahmad Jamal live in France, 1971.
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The Abstraction of AI
October 1, 2025 • #✦
Essay Architecture
April 18, 2025 • #A framework for thinking about writing
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March 12, 2025 • #
Great interview with the author of one of my favorite books from the last several years, Joe Henrich. The WEIRDest People in the World is a fascinating look at the origins of human culture and the evolution of human psychology.
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March 6, 2025 • #
MF DOOM / Ghostface Killah - Angelz, 2004.
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March 5, 2025 • #
Firefly Aerospace became the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon when Blue Ghost lunar lander touched down on the moon on March 2nd.
What an incredible achievement – and that 4K video from the lunar surface is just mesmerizing.
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Dana Gioia on Writing
March 3, 2025 • #An extended interview with Dana Gioia on poetry, opera, writing, and his creative process.
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New Space
February 18, 2025 • #A documentary film about the new space race
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Things Hidden
December 31, 2024 • #Things Hidden, a documentary on the life and ideas of Rene Girard.
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December 10, 2024 • #
The Headhunters perform “Sly”, 1974.
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How Shellac is Made
April 18, 2024 • #The weird backstory of a common substance.
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March 9, 2024 • #
Amor Towles is one of the most articulate and interesting writers working. I loved this conversation from EconTalk. The discussion on constraints and the meaning hidden in “inconveniences” was great.
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February 14, 2024 • #
The absolute most wild woodshop anyone’s ever built.
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Madvillainy's Secret Ingredient
October 27, 2023 • #Breaking down one of the greatest albums of all time, track by track.
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Nick Pedulla's Roubo Workbench
October 23, 2023 • #Nick builds the most beautiful workbench you've ever seen.
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Interview with Richard Rhodes, on the Making of the Atomic Bomb
May 23, 2023 • #An interview with author Richard Rhodes on the Manhattan Project, nuclear weapons, AI, and more.
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Patrick Collison and Sam Altman at Sohn 2023
May 10, 2023 • #Patrick Collison interviews OpenAI's Sam Altman at the Sohn 2023 Conference.
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The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart
May 8, 2023 • #On the biogeographic boundary between Asia and Oceania, the Wallace Line.
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Starship Flight Test
April 20, 2023 • #The first flight test of the full-size Starship platform.
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Starship Mission to Mars
April 14, 2023 • #Inspiring stuff from SpaceX.
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37signals Live Design Review
March 22, 2023 • #Behind the scenes of a design review process.
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Devon Zuegel on Inflation, Argentina, and Crypto
October 19, 2022 • #A fascinating look into the effects of decades-long inflation problems in Argentina.
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The Spread of Writing
October 12, 2022 • #An animated map visualization of the spread of writing through cultures around the world.
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Chris Spiek and Ryan Singer on Shape Up
September 28, 2022 • #Chris Spiek and Ryan Singer talk about the Shape Up product team process at fintech_devcon.
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Steve Jobs on Ideas vs. Products
September 19, 2022 • #From an interview with Steve Jobs, on the importance of execution over ideas.
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Tools and Craft with Andy Matuschak
May 13, 2022 • #The latest episode of Tools and Craft, Devon Zuegel talks with Andy Matuschak.
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My Analog Journal’s Jazz from Japan
May 9, 2022 • #A new genre of music from a cool YouTube channel.
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Making Cast Iron
July 27, 2021 • #Lodge's process for making cast iron cookware.
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Constitution of Knowledge
June 22, 2021 • #An interview with Jonathan Rauch on his new book.
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DeFi Explainers
May 4, 2021 • #DeFi topic explainer videos, by Finematics.
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Hammock-Driven Creativity
March 2, 2021 • #On getting out of your normal work environment to spur creative thinking.
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Intro to Areography
February 7, 2021 • #Areography is 'geography' on Mars. This is a brief lesson in Mars's topography.
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The Forest Cube
November 2, 2020 • #Building a cube in the forest.
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The 1980s Dream of a Free and Borderless Virtual World
October 15, 2020 • #Phil Salin, Tim May, and the birth of the cypherpunk movement.
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Clyde Stubblefield
October 7, 2020 • #The funky drummer, most sampled artist of all time.
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Project Natick
September 21, 2020 • #Microsoft's Project Natick is deploying datacenters underwater.
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Pogačar's Climb
September 20, 2020 • #Tadej Pogačar's amazing time trial victory in the 2020 TdF.
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Off Grid Cabin
September 18, 2020 • #Four guys build a cabin off-the-grid.
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Tiago Learns Roam
September 2, 2020 • #Tiago Forte and Conor White-Sullivan form a truce to the knowledge management feud, and Tiago's first use of Roam Research.
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Talk Notes: Spolsky on Pluralism
August 19, 2020 • #Notes from Joel Spolsky's 2016 talk on the History of Management.
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Digital Organization with Roam Research
July 24, 2020 • #Ali Abdaal's overview of Roam.
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The Best of The Blue Train: 2001 L'Alpe d'Huez
July 19, 2020 • #The Move podcast look back at classic stages from the US Postal years.
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Weekend Reading: Quarantine Talks
July 11, 2020 • #A few recent talks I've bookmarked on YouTube.
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Wood Whisperer
July 6, 2020 • #The Wood Whisperer on YouTube.
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Kenji's First Person Cooking
June 19, 2020 • #Kenji Lopez-Alt's first-person cooking videos during quarantine.
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The Torch of Progress with Tyler Cowen
June 11, 2020 • #Video interview with Tyler Cowen on human progress.
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War, Revolution, Socialism
June 7, 2020 • #Stephen Kotkin looks back on the 1917 Russian Revolution.
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Tank!
May 26, 2020 • #The Seatbelts play a remote session of the Cowboy Bebop theme.
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Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power
May 25, 2020 • #An interview with Stephen Kotkin on the Artificial Intelligence podcast.
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The Revolt of the Public in 10 Minutes
May 20, 2020 • #Martin Gurri gives a brief overview of his book.
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Live Writing with Jason Fried
May 8, 2020 • #An interesting experiment where Jason Fried of Basecamp shows his writing process.
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Sönke Ahrens on How to Take Smart Notes
May 3, 2020 • #Presentation from Sönke Ahrens on his book 'How to Take Smart Notes'.
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Roam I and Roam E
April 24, 2020 • #A prototype for enhancements to Roam Research.
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The Pseudonymous Economy
April 19, 2020 • #@balajis on pseudonymity in media, finance, investment, and more.
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David Deutsch on Brexit and Error Correction
April 3, 2020 • #On resilience, error correction, Brexit, Karl Popper, and more.
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Bill Gates on Coronavirus
March 29, 2020 • #Bill Gates interview with TED on coronavirus pandemic.
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Funky 4 + 1, 1980
March 23, 2020 • #Rare live footage.
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The UNIX System
March 5, 2020 • #Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, and Ken Thompson from Bell Labs on UNIX.
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The 5 Revolutions in Cancer Treatment
March 2, 2020 • #Jonathan Lim on the latest treatments for cancer.
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Weekend Reading: Figma's Typography, Xerox Alto, and a Timeline of CoVID
February 29, 2020 • #Figma's attention to typographic detail, restoring a Xerox Alto, and mapping the spread of CoVID-19.
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Inventing on Principle
February 19, 2020 • #Bret Victor's talk from 2012.
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Innovator's Dilemma in Video
February 13, 2020 • #Clayton Christensen in video format.
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The Tech History Playlist
February 5, 2020 • #Creating a list of videos on tech history.
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Tech in 2020: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
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1917
January 31, 2020 • #Watching 1917.
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Dissolving Realities
January 30, 2020 • #Point clouds, photogrammetry, and 3D photography combined for gorgeous visuals.
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Daniel Kahneman on AI Podcast
January 21, 2020 • #Interview with psychologist Daniel Kahneman.
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Some Reflections on Early History by J.C.R. Licklider
January 17, 2020 • #JCR Licklider talk from the ACM conference, 1986.
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Wernher von Braun and the Moon Landing
January 13, 2020 • #Scientist Wernher von Braun explains how we might one day reach the moon.
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The Magic of Hong Kong
January 10, 2020 • #Cool drone footage above Hong Kong.
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Microgravity Will Change How We Make Everything
December 4, 2019 • #Using space and microgravity as a new center of manufacturing.
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The Mother of All Demos
November 24, 2019 • #Doug Engelbart's famous demo.
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A Network of Science
November 22, 2019 • #Visualizing the interconnected record of 150 years of scientific research.
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Checking In On Tool Restoration YouTube
November 13, 2019 • #Revisiting videos of restoring antique tools.
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Mount Rainier Timelapse
November 10, 2019 • #Beautiful footage of Mount Rainier and its surroundings.
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The History of Steel
October 10, 2019 • #A presentation on the history of steel-making, from the SF progress studies meetup.
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4 Amazing Things About Language
September 25, 2019 • #Dialect expert Erik Singer and 4 amazing things about languages.
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Green Tech Bringing Life Back to the Sea
September 22, 2019 • #An Israeli startup building a new kind of marine-safe concrete.
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Russ Roberts on Key Economic Concepts for Founders
September 12, 2019 • #An interview with EconTalk's Russ Roberts on the Y Combinator podcast.
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Adobe Wall Hut
September 8, 2019 • #Checking in with Primitive Technology, this time he builds an adobe brick wall.
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Kind of Blue 60th Anniversary
September 4, 2019 • #Miles Davis's Kind of Blue 60th anniversary.
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Steve Jobs in 1981
August 23, 2019 • #Steve Jobs on Nightline in 1981.
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Growth, Sales, and a New Era of B2B
August 12, 2019 • #Martin Casado on growth B2B go-to-market strategy.
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Cairo to Cape Town on a Bike
July 30, 2019 • #Mark Beaumont's ride 6,700 miles across Africa.
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The Bacteria Light of the Future
July 25, 2019 • #A startup company is working on light generation using bacterial sources of bioluminescence.
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THEMOVE Podcast for the Tour
July 24, 2019 • #THEMOVE podcast covers the Tour de France for 2019.
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Neuralink
July 17, 2019 • #Neuralink's launch event for their brain-computer interface device.
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The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
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Watch Karl Friston Explain Free Energy
June 28, 2019 • #Neuroscientist Karl Friston explaining the free energy principle.
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Interview with Naval Ravikant
June 11, 2019 • #“Interesting interview with tech investor and founder Naval Ravikant.”
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Primitive Technology
June 6, 2019 • #Building Stone Age tools and structures with Primitive Technology.
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Liverpool's Comeback
May 8, 2019 • #Liverpool staged an amazing comeback against Barcelona to head to the Champions League Final.
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The Deadly Logistics of Everest
May 3, 2019 • #A short video documentary with an overview of the logistics of Mount Everest.
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Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
April 28, 2019 • #Steven Sinofsky gives the history of Clippy, Microsoft's original assistant
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2,650' Rappel off El Capitan
April 12, 2019 • #A climber rappels down El Cap.
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Product is Hard
April 5, 2019 • #A talk from product management expert Marty Cagan.
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David Foster Wallace Interview with Charlie Rose
March 17, 2019 • #“An insightful interview with the late David Foster Wallace.”
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Intuition, Expertise, and Learning
March 13, 2019 • #Psychologist Daniel Kahneman on human bias, decisions, and noise.
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Adam Silver at the MIT Sloan Conference
March 10, 2019 • #“Great interview with NBA commissioner Adam Silver on a wide range of basketball topics.”
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How Google Sets Goals
March 8, 2019 • #Video workshop put on by GV's Rick Klau on how Google implements OKRs.
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How Investors Think About Ideas
March 4, 2019 • #A good overview from YC’s Kevin Hale on how to break down startup ideas.
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Keith Rabois on This Week in Startups
February 20, 2019 • #An interesting interview with VC and founder Keith Rabois on This Week in Startups.
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A Live Experiment in Disassembling a Map
February 7, 2019 • #Cartographer Daniel Huffman breaks down how he builds his map designs.
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Peter Attia and Zubin Damania Conversation
January 23, 2019 • #Interesting conversation between Drs. Peter Attia and Zubin Damania.
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Aerial Video for Geography Nerds
January 21, 2019 • #Relaxing video content with aerial shots of amazing landscapes.
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The Earth in 8K
January 17, 2019 • #Mesmerizing 8K footage of the Earth from the air.
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The History of the World on One Map
January 14, 2019 • #Visualizing all of human history as a time lapse on a map.
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Restoring Antique Tools
January 6, 2019 • #Videos from 'Black Beard Projects', from a guy that restores old tools, crafts knives, and even does leather work.
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Envisioning the Next Fifty Years
January 3, 2019 • #“Interesting interview with Bruce Sterling on futurism.”
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The Incredible Inventions of Intuitive AI
January 2, 2019 • #TED talk on deep learning and generative AI.
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This is Water
December 26, 2018 • #“A commencement address from David Foster Wallace, 2005.”
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The World's Most Remote Buildings
December 18, 2018 • #A great mini documentary about some of the most remote structures humans have ever built.
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China is Erasing its Border with Hong Kong
December 17, 2018 • #“Part of Vox’s ‘Borders’ series, on the China-Hong Kong border.”
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Language and Progress
December 11, 2018 • #“A conversation with Steven Pinker and John McWhorter on linguistics, and much more.”
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Dave Attell & Jeff Ross
December 6, 2018 • #“Jeff Ross and Dave Attell on Joe Rogan’s show talking about their new Netflix special.”
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Francis Fukuyama on The Origins of Political Order
November 29, 2018 • #Fukuyama presentation on the Origins of Political Order.
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The End of the Beginning
November 25, 2018 • #Benedict Evans's latest talk from the a16z Summit on the state of tech.
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Ray Dalio on Career, Market Cycles, China Debt
November 20, 2018 • #Ray Dalio interview on Bloomberg's Masters in Business show.
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Orbiting the Earth, and Other Zen Videos
November 8, 2018 • #Videos to get you relaxed and mesmerized.
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Angel Dust
October 18, 2018 • #Gil Scott-Heron live.
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Gary Neville on Mourinho
October 15, 2018 • #“Former United right back calls out the club for wanting to sack Mourinho.”
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Technique Critique
October 12, 2018 • #“A film dialect coach critiques actors’ renditions of regional accents.”
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The Electricity Metaphor
October 9, 2018 • #“Jeff Bezos makes a prescient comparison between the early Internet and the early years of electrification.”
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How the Economic Machine Works
October 6, 2018 • #A concise explanation of an economy.
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Simple Made Easy
July 15, 2016 • #Rich Hickey on the differences between simple and complex, easy and hard.
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Clarity & Simplicity
March 12, 2013 • #On clarity and simplicity in communication.
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Reflections of a Video Game Maker
March 6, 2013 • #Gabe Newell talks about his process in game development.
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Software Pricing and SaaS
July 23, 2012 • #A fantastic talk from Twilio's Jeff Lawson on SaaS and pricing.
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Double Fine: Making Games
February 26, 2012 • #Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer have a conversation about adventure games.
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