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Science + Longevity

Sleep, nutrition, training, and the medicine of living longer — from the scientists who study it.

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Huberman Lab

Jared Diamond on Leadership: Why Charisma Isn't Required

Charisma is optional for great leadership, biologist and historian Jared Diamond argues, pointing to the uncharismatic dictators Stalin and Pinochet as proof (00:26). Diamond, 89, applies a 'natural experiment' method from biology to politics, religion, business, and sports, showing only 2 of 22 modern political leaders stepped down voluntarily and that coaches and CEOs get too much credit or blame for outcomes that are mostly random (95:37).

October 19, 2026 · 6 min read

BETTER! with Dr. Stephanie Estima

How to Build Glutes Without Growing Legs

Hip dips are permanent anatomy, not a fitness failure, says glute researcher and hip thrust inventor Bret Contreras. He explains why horizontal moves like hip thrusts and kickbacks are gentler on joints than squats, how women recover faster than men, and how a five-month training rotation builds glutes while sparing the legs.

October 19, 2026 · 6 min read

The Peter Attia Drive

Siddhartha Mukherjee on Cancer's New Science

Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee tells Peter Attia that cancer's old "bad luck" story is being replaced by a more precise one: inflammation acts as the trigger that wakes dormant, mutation-carrying "sleeper cells" into tumors, which reframes prevention, treatment, and how we think about aging itself.

October 19, 2026 · 6 min read

You Are Not Broken

Building Muscle in Midlife: Hormones Explained

Heavy resistance training, not cardio, rebuilds muscle lost in perimenopause, say physicians Kelly Casperson and Rebeccah Hertel. They cite data showing testosterone cuts hip fracture risk in women by about 50%, estrogen patches can help bone density well past age 60, and widely used lab ranges and 1990s-era studies understate hormone therapy's safety.

October 18, 2026 · 7 min read

The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show

How Much Protein Do You Really Need?

The standard protein recommendation of 0.8 grams per kilogram prevents deficiency, not optimal health. Researchers at Protein Summit 3.0 debated a higher range, 1.1 to 1.6 grams per kilogram, for better metabolic outcomes, noting needs shift by age, activity, and health status (07:15).

October 15, 2026 · 6 min read

Huberman Lab

Neuralink Trials for Quadriplegia: What Comes First

Neuralink's head neurosurgeon Matt MacDougall explains that the implant's first job is letting quadriplegic patients move a cursor and type by thought alone, not reconnect limbs. He also covers the robotic surgery that makes this possible, the safety case made in pigs and monkeys, and his own subdermal RFID chip.

October 15, 2026 · 7 min read

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Builders + Strategy

Founders, investors, and operators on how companies and capital actually get built.

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My First Million

Low-Frequency Investing: The 2.9-Decision Portfolio

A retail investor who made only 2.9 decisions a year beat the S&P 500 in 11 of 11 years, averaging 21.8% annual returns versus 13.5%. The hosts run his brokerage history through the AI assistant Claude, then widen out to Jack Dorsey's 140-reason pre-mortem, Mark Zuckerberg's talent-density bet, Elon Musk's 24-hour rebuilding rule, and a four-step method called DARE for panic and fear.

October 19, 2026 · 7 min read

The Twenty Minute VC

Sameer Dholakia on Bessemer's AI Investing Playbook

Bessemer's Sameer Dholakia explains why his firm paid roughly 150x ARR for Anthropic, and why capital itself is now a moat in AI investing. He prices deals on next-twelve-months revenue, targets 10 to 15 times NTM multiples, and says Bessemer's new $5.75 billion in funds reflects venture splitting into giant platforms and extreme specialists.

October 19, 2026 · 6 min read

How I Built This

Sweet Loren's Cookie Dough Success Story

Loren Castle turned a cookie stand at Brooklyn's Smorgasburg market into Sweet Loren's, a cookie dough brand now in more than 30,000 stores. After surviving Hodgkin's lymphoma at 22, she built the business slowly, then rebuilt it entirely around allergen-free recipes once customer demand made clear that was the real opportunity, reaching profitability in 2018.

October 19, 2026 · 7 min read

Acquired

The Business Economics Behind Seinfeld

A 1970s FCC rule let two broke comedians own 15% each of a show NBC almost didn't air, and refusing to resolve any plot or character arc made it endlessly rewatchable and endlessly resellable. Seinfeld has now generated an estimated $7 billion on a $250 million production cost, and still draws 72 million US viewers a year.

October 19, 2026 · 6 min read

Lenny's Podcast

How AI Models Actually Think

Anthropic researcher Emmanuel Ameisen explains that language models are grown through training, not programmed line by line, so even their creators cannot read their internal logic directly. Interpretability research shows models form internal plans, share universal concepts across languages, and sometimes fixate on wrong answers when training data rewards them incorrectly (01:45, 15:31, 37:14).

October 18, 2026 · 7 min read

The Twenty Minute VC

Harrison Chase on Why AI Agents Are So Hard to Build

LangChain founder Harrison Chase says AI agents break because models are unpredictable black boxes, not because they are weak. The fix, he argues, is a model-neutral 'harness,' the code layer that routes tasks, manages memory and controls token costs, with vertical, domain-specific agents built to outperform horizontal ones.

October 17, 2026 · 7 min read

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AI + Tech

How AI works, where it is going, and what that changes — explained by the people building it.

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All-In Podcast

CoreWeave Debt Crisis and the AI Bubble, Explained

CoreWeave's bond selloff this week signaled real doubt about AI infrastructure debt, even as demand for GPUs stays red hot. Anthropic posted $16.8 billion in Q3 revenue, Sacks called its warnings about small AI models a move against open-source rivals, and Chamath named electricity as AI's real bottleneck.

October 17, 2026 · 7 min read

All-In Podcast

Billy Evans on Elizabeth Holmes: Trial, Prison, Hemantis

Billy Evans, Elizabeth Holmes's husband, says the Theranos founder was acquitted on every patient-fraud count tied to 12.5 million blood tests but convicted of defrauding three investors, a conspiracy charge that let the judge add outside victims like Rupert Murdoch and push her sentence to 11.25 years (00:27, 19:52, 21:31).

October 15, 2026 · 7 min read

All-In Podcast

Martin Shkreli: Quantum Computing Fraud, Pharma Deals

Martin Shkreli argues quantum computing is mostly a business mirage because today's machines run at only hundreds of hertz. He says photonic chips, which multiply matrices with light, could make Nvidia's GPUs obsolete within twenty years, and he describes turning a $2 million drug deal into a $6 billion pharmaceutical company.

October 12, 2026 · 6 min read

The Cognitive Revolution

How AI Models Actually Decide: Critical Tokens

Goodfire researcher Eric Bigelow finds that an AI model's final answer can hinge on one random token, not step-by-step logic. He also warns that reinforcement learning erodes chain of thought reliability, pushing models toward compressed shorthand that is hard to monitor, even as interpretability funding lags far behind capability spending.

October 10, 2026 · 7 min read

All-In Podcast

Anthropic Lobbied the Pope on AI Consciousness

Anthropic lobbied religious leaders, including the Pope, on whether Claude is conscious, then coded that belief into the model's training itself. The same episode covers OpenAI's single-day release of 700 math papers, France's debt-fueled riots, and why headless AI agents are erasing the value of software intellectual property.

October 10, 2026 · 8 min read

The Cognitive Revolution

AI Token Spend Now Beats Human Salaries

A frontier lab executive told podcast host Nathan Labenz that humanity probably shouldn't exceed some future level of AI intelligence. He said he'd accept a flop cap on the next pretraining run, and the episode also covers a 4.5x jump in AI memory prices, Positron's new inference chip, and why Latent Space's Shawn Wang says most SaaS software is 'cooked.'

October 8, 2026 · 7 min read

Category

Psychology

How minds work: decisions, habits, emotions, and the science of a good life.

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Hidden Brain

How Sleep Deprivation Affects Decisions

Sleep deprivation degrades ethical judgment and decision-making in novel situations, contributing to disasters from train crashes to BP's 2005 explosion. Chronic pain, meanwhile, is reshaped by fear, relationships, and mindset as much as by tissue damage, per sleep researcher Chris Barnes and pain psychologist Rachel Zoffness.

October 19, 2026 · 8 min read

The Mel Robbins Podcast

5 Skin Habits From a Mayo Clinic Dermatologist

Mayo Clinic dermatologist Saranya Wyles argues skin is a check engine light for the whole body, not a beauty scorecard, and shares five pillars (sleep, diet, movement, stress, topicals) that measurably change how skin ages, from barrier recovery after sleep to facial volume loss on GLP-1 drugs.

October 19, 2026 · 6 min read

The Mel Robbins Podcast

The One Skill That Makes People Like You More

Mel Robbins says empathy means understanding, not mind-reading, and everyone gets nine daily chances to practice it (07:19). She outlines four habits: asking instead of guessing, sending small gestures called pebbling, offering concrete help without being asked, and waving first, drawing on research from Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Toronto.

October 17, 2026 · 7 min read

We Can Do Hard Things

Allison Russell on Healing Childhood Trauma

Singer-songwriter Allison Russell, raised by a white supremacist abuser after Quebec's child-protection system returned her to her mother's custody, describes how chosen family, art, and motherhood helped her return to her body after trauma. She frames scars as proof of survival, reframes PTSD as a bodily response rather than an inner demon, and ties her healing to activism against gun violence and minority rule in Tennessee (41:53, 55:35).

October 15, 2026 · 6 min read

The Mel Robbins Podcast

Ina Garten's Advice for Career Reinvention

Ina Garten left a federal budget job at 30 to buy a 400-square-foot Hamptons food store that grossed just $87 on its first day, and calls her approach working scared. On Mel Robbins's podcast, the Barefoot Contessa founder explains why jumping in before you feel ready, reframing boring tasks, and running small experiments beat waiting for a perfect plan.

October 15, 2026 · 7 min read

Conversations with Tyler

The Panic of 1873 and Its 20-Year Political Toll

Historian Liaquat Ahamed argues the Panic of 1873 did not collapse the world economy, it poisoned its politics for twenty years. Growth held near 2.5% through a long deflation (02:10), but the fallout helped end Reconstruction (07:06), fueled Gladstone's Egyptian bond windfall (09:44), and let Bismarck wreck bimetallism (14:16).

October 14, 2026 · 7 min read

Every great episode,
written down properly.

Science + Longevity

Jared Diamond on Leadership: Why Charisma Isn't Required

How to Build Glutes Without Growing Legs

Siddhartha Mukherjee on Cancer's New Science

Building Muscle in Midlife: Hormones Explained

How Much Protein Do You Really Need?

Neuralink Trials for Quadriplegia: What Comes First

Builders + Strategy

Low-Frequency Investing: The 2.9-Decision Portfolio

Sameer Dholakia on Bessemer's AI Investing Playbook

Sweet Loren's Cookie Dough Success Story

The Business Economics Behind Seinfeld

How AI Models Actually Think

Harrison Chase on Why AI Agents Are So Hard to Build

AI + Tech

CoreWeave Debt Crisis and the AI Bubble, Explained

Billy Evans on Elizabeth Holmes: Trial, Prison, Hemantis

Martin Shkreli: Quantum Computing Fraud, Pharma Deals

How AI Models Actually Decide: Critical Tokens

Anthropic Lobbied the Pope on AI Consciousness

AI Token Spend Now Beats Human Salaries

Psychology

How Sleep Deprivation Affects Decisions

5 Skin Habits From a Mayo Clinic Dermatologist

The One Skill That Makes People Like You More

Allison Russell on Healing Childhood Trauma

Ina Garten's Advice for Career Reinvention

The Panic of 1873 and Its 20-Year Political Toll

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