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- Intuition, Expertise, and Learning
The legendary psychologist Daniel Kahneman (author of Thinking, Fast and Slow in his wheelhouse, talking about human biases, decision making, and signal vs. noise.
- Adam Silver at the MIT Sloan Conference
A fantastic one-on-one conversation between NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and Bill Simmons from the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference: Adam Silver is one of the most thoughtful, enthusiastic, and interesting guys i…
- How Google Sets Goals
I’ve been thinking and reading more about OKRs and how I might be able to implement them effectively — both professionally and personally. The idea of having clearly defined goals over bounded timelines is something w…
- How Investors Think About Ideas
A good overview from YC’s Kevin Hale on how to break down startup ideas: The “solution looking for a problem” trap is all too easy to fall into, and to justify your way out of even if you fall prey to it. I love the a…
- Keith Rabois on This Week in Startups
When I first heard about his company Opendoor (a real estate startup with the goal of creating faster liquidity for home sellers), I started following Keith Rabois. His Twitter account is a good follow. This discussio…
- A Live Experiment in Disassembling a Map
This was a cool idea from cartographer Daniel Huffman. He live-streamed a walkthrough taking apart one of his map projects in Illustrator to see how he puts it all together. I love this idea and am excited to see him…
- Peter Attia and Zubin Damania Conversation
I’ve listened to a few of Peter Attia’s The Drive podcast episodes. This one was a stand-out conversation between him and Dr. Zubin Damania. It’s a wide-ranging discussion about the health care system, diet, creativit…
- Aerial Video for Geography Nerds
I’ve discovered a phenomenon on YouTube of these types of videos — long many-hour clips of calm scenery or environments for the purposes of relaxation or background ambience. Like I said in a post about cycling a few…
- The Earth in 8K
{% include video-vimeo.html id="240106846" title="The Earth in 8K" %} Mesmerizing, hypnotic video shot in 8K pointed straight down from an airplane. It looks like these were originally shot for Apple to use as their "…
- The History of the World on One Map
Every year since the pre-Stone Age area, visualized as a time lapse on a map. This is amazing and puts into context what was developing where over time. I know when I read the history of one culture, like Ancient Gree…
- Restoring Antique Tools
This guy has an interesting channel with metalwork, restoration, and blacksmithing. In a day I watched all of his tool restoration videos. This one is a massive 500lb vise he found, dating from the 18th century in an…
- Envisioning the Next Fifty Years
One of my favorite science fiction authors, now a self-described "futurist", Bruce Sterling, on how to think about the future.
- The Incredible Inventions of Intuitive AI
This talk on "generative AI" was interesting. One bit stuck out to me as really thought-provoking: Dutch designers have created a system to 3D print functional things in-place, like this bridge concept. Imagine that y…
- This is Water
This is a 2005 commencement address delivered by the late David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College. Worth going back and listening to from time to time.
- The World's Most Remote Buildings
From one of my new favorite YouTube channels, The B1M, comes this list of the most remote buildings. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is straight out of science fiction. I was curious, so I went and tracked down each on…
- China is Erasing its Border with Hong Kong
Part of Vox's Borders video series. Hong Kong is such a fascinating and unique place, as is today's China, though for massively different reasons. How China treats HK will be one of the indicators of the wider Chinese…
- Language and Progress
A wide-ranging conversation on linguistics, human scientific advancement, and enlightenment thinking with Steven Pinker and John McWhorter. Linguistics is endlessly fascinating. I might be an outlier, but I absolutely…
- Dave Attell & Jeff Ross
I loved this recent podcast with Dave Attell and Jeff Ross, promoting their new Netflix special Bumping Mics. This is a great freeform conversation (like most of Rogan's shows) with three veteran comedians with a lot…
- Francis Fukuyama on The Origins of Political Order
Francis Fukuyama's The Origins of Political Order was one of the most interesting books I've read in the last 5 years. It traces the history of human social hierarchy and government from antiquity to the French Revolu…
- The End of the Beginning
An excellent talk from a16z’s Benedict Evans on what’s next for tech and the internet.
- Ray Dalio on Career, Market Cycles, China Debt
A great long-form conversation with Ray Dalio on his experiences and thoughts on the current state of economic conditions and relationships. I'm in progress reading Principles, which I find interesting, but perhaps a…
- Orbiting the Earth, and Other Zen Videos
This is a 92 minute 4K video taken from the International Space Station as it orbits Earth, in real-time: If you've got an Apple TV and used their "Aerial" screensavers, this'll look familiar. Most of those ones are d…
- Angel Dust
Gil Scott-Heron is high on the list of live acts I wish I was around for in his prime.
- Gary Neville on Mourinho
Gary Neville’s thoughts on the rumors of a Jose Mourinho firing: The Premier League’s fickleness with management is astonishing. It would be unbelievable to see the same level of volatility and shortsightedness in oth…
- Technique Critique
This series with dialect coach Erik Singer is great, I could watch dozens of these. He critiques renditions of different accents, some of them specific regional dialects: Maybe it's related to my interest in geography…
- The Electricity Metaphor
During this TED talk from 2003, Jeff Bezos compares the Internet revolution to the early years of electrification. Even 15 years ago he was already describing the core philosophy behind his future products, like Amazo…
- How the Economic Machine Works
Learn the foundations of how an economy works, in only 30 minutes. This piece from Ray Dalio (hedge fund manager and author of Principles and hedge fund manager) breaks down an entire Econ 101 class in a concise, grap…
- Simple Made Easy
An entertaining talk from Rich Hickey, creator of the Clojure programming language. He talks about the value of simplicity in software design, and spends a decent amount of time refining the semantic differences betwe…
- Clarity & Simplicity
I've gotten interested recently in how people and businesses communicate ideas, in the contexts of work, project management, product marketing, education, et cetera. Late in 2012 I read a book called Made To Stick, a…
- Reflections of a Video Game Maker
If you enjoy hearing stories from visionaries, listen to this talk that Gabe Newell (founder of Valve) gave at UT Austin: In it he discusses economies within Steam), where Steam is headed as a central core of APIs for…
- Software Pricing and SaaS
Jeff Lawson of Twilio gave this talk on SaaS pricing at the Business of Software conference last year: Everyone in the SaaS product business should watch this. Great approach to thinking through putting prices on your…
- Double Fine: Making Games
Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer have a conversation about adventure games. This was just before Double Fine raised $2.2MM on Kickstarter to fund a new adventure game.