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Michael Truell, CEO of Cursor, sits down with Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe and an investor in Anysphere, to talk about Collison’s history with Smalltalk and Lisp, the MongoDB and Ruby decisions Stripe still lives with 15 years later, why he’d spend even more time on API design if he could do it over, and whether AI is actually showing up in economic productivity data. This episode originally aired on Cursor’s podcast.

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Most of us spend our lives in conversation – yet very few of us are ever taught how to communicate well. Whether it’s with our partners, colleagues, family or friends, we often assume that being heard is the same as being understood. But true communication isn’t just about the words we use – it’s about the tone, timing and energy behind them.

Feel Better Live More Bitesize is my weekly podcast for your mind, body, and heart. Each week I’ll be featuring inspirational stories and practical tips from some of my former guests.

Today’s clip is from episode 571 with trial lawyer, sought after public speaker and author of the book, The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More –  Jefferson Fisher

Jefferson believes that better communication can transform not only our relationships, but our health and happiness as well.

In this clip, he shares the three essential principles to better communication, and how to shift from reaction to reflection by making your first word your breath.

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Existing drugs can sometimes be repurposed to treat rare diseases. But making that match can be hard — and the financial incentives are weak. Guest host Steve Levitt tries to solve the puzzle.

• SOURCES:
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  • David Fajgenbaum, co-founder and president of Every Cure, physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Heather Stone, health science policy analyst at the Food & Drug Administration.
  • Sarrin Chethik, senior policy analyst at the Market Shaping Accelerator.

• RESOURCES:
  • Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope into Action; A Memoir, by David Fajgenbaum (2019).
  • Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases, by Michael Kremer and Rachel Glennerster (2016).
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  • CURE ID Registry.

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What do golf, grit, and gratitude have to do with college success? Renee Fluker answers that question with 25 years of proof. As the founder of Detroit’s College Career & Beyond | Midnight Golf Program, Renee has helped more than 3,000 students—many written off by traditional systems—develop the life skills, discipline, and confidence to thrive in college and beyond.

In this episode, Guy Kawasaki sits down with Renee to unpack how a small, food-fueled experiment turned into a nationally recognized pipeline to higher education, why rules and respect still matter, and how love—paired with structure—can change the trajectory of a young person’s life. Renee’s story is raw, practical, and deeply hopeful, offering a blueprint for anyone who believes opportunity should be taught, not assumed.

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Guy Kawasaki is on a mission to make you remarkable. His Remarkable People podcast features interviews with remarkable people such as Jane Goodall, Marc Benioff, Woz, Kristi Yamaguchi, and Bob Cialdini. Every episode will make you more remarkable.

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In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, my guest is Jeff Cavaliere, MSPT, CSCS, a physical therapist, strength coach and the founder of ATHLEAN-X, an online training platform.

We explain the foundations of an effective training program, including how to structure your weekly workouts and recovery to match your goals and schedule. We also discuss effective warm-ups and stretching, strategies to reduce injury risk and practical nutrition principles without strict calorie counting. Jeff’s science-based approach offers clear, actionable guidance for anyone looking to improve fitness, physique and overall health.

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(00:36:47) Post-Training Meal, Protein; Pre-Workout Supplements

(00:39:04) Acknowledgements

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(1:11:07) – How to code with AI agents
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(1:48:45) – GPT Codex 5.3 vs Claude Opus 4.6
(1:57:52) – Best AI agent for programming
(2:19:52) – Life story and career advice
(2:23:49) – Money and happiness
(2:27:41) – Acquisition offers from OpenAI and Meta
(2:44:51) – How OpenClaw works
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(3:10:50) – Will AI replace programmers?
(3:22:50) – Future of OpenClaw community

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Episode 798: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) tell the story of the all-inclusive resort king.

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(19:19) China’s genius program

(38:47) the Michelangelo effect

(41:00) Dad Corner™

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The Supreme Court has spoken. Those big, sweeping tariffs that President Trump imposed early last year? They’re illegal. 

On today’s show: Why were those tariffs struck down? Will anyone get refunds? And …what about this new 10 percent tariff the President just announced today? 

Plus — a growing market for tariff refunds.

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– Worst. Tariffs. Ever. 
– Tariffs: What are they good for? 
– What “Made in China” actually means
– The 145% tariff already did its damage 
– Are Trump’s tariffs legal?
– Days of our Tariffs 
– Trump’s backup options for tariffs 
– What would it mean to actually refund the tariffs? 

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When Elon Musk started Neuralink in 2016, he tapped leading neurosurgeon Ben Rapoport to join as a co-founder. But two years later, citing safety and scalability concerns, Rapoport left to co-found a rival company: Precision Neuroscience. Today, we speak with his co-founder, Michael Mager, about what sets Precision apart, the future of brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), and what Precision has already been able to achieve with over 70 implanted patients. 

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Rhonda Patrick is a biomedical scientist known for translating complex health research into practical insights. In this moment, she explores how creatine behaves under conditions of stress, including sleep deprivation, and why emerging findings are prompting researchers to rethink who may benefit most from it. She explains why creatine continues to appear in research far beyond muscle growth and gym performance, particularly in studies of brain energy and cognitive demand.

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Sean talks to Atlantic writer Tyler Austin Harper about the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, and why liberals are missing the point about American gun culture and the right to bear arms. 

Beyond that, Tyler asks an important question: If you really believe we’re sliding toward authoritarianism, how can you argue that the public should disarm? 

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Episode 97: How close are we to a world where AI-generated videos are indistinguishable from reality? Matt Wolfe (https://x.com/mreflow) and Joe Fier (linkedin.com/in/joefier) dive deep into Seedance 2.0—ByteDance’s new AI video model that could outpace giants like Sora and Veo. Joe, a marketing and business expert known for his hands-on approach and insights into AI’s rapid evolution, helps to break down the five most fascinating developments in the AI space this week.

They tackles game-changing AI advances: Seedance 2.0’s mind-blowing video generation for ads and motion graphics, the rollout of Google’s Veo 3.1 in Google Ads, the GPT-5.3 Codex Spark coding model built on specialized inference chips, Gemini’s DeepThink model for scientific research, and the early rollout of ChatGPT ads.

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Show Notes:

• (00:00) Seedance 2.0 arrives – AI video generation blurs reality, ad creation moves fast.

• (03:03) Google’s Veo 3.1 powers video ads, advertisers can now generate clips directly from image uploads.

• (05:33) Comparison of Runway, Kling, Veo, and Sora—head-to-head prompt showdown.

• (07:00) Motion graphics and explainers—AI’s take on the creative industry.

• (08:35) US vs. China—Copyright, IP, and training data debates.

• (12:10) Deepfake and video authenticity—why we now default to skepticism.

• (13:30) Google’s edge in visual AI via YouTube’s massive corpus.

• (14:39) The next frontier: Longer, more consistent video generation.

• (15:14) Where do humans fit in? Taste, storytelling, and creative direction.

• (18:30) GPT-5.3 Codex Spark—coding models on Cerebras inference chips, demo generating a website in 18 seconds.

• (24:34) AI tool comparisons—Codex vs. Cursor vs. Claude Code.

• (25:12) Speed as the key bottleneck breaker in creative and technical workflows.

• (28:02) Google’s Gemini DeepThink—state-of-the-art research, advanced coding and physics capabilities.

• (32:52) Gemini demo attempt—3D-printable STL file and solving the three-body problem.

• (33:20) ChatGPT rolls out ads—impact on monetization and user trust.

• (40:02) Google’s ad history—how “sponsored” is becoming harder to distinguish.

• (44:02) Democratizing AI access via ad-supported models.

• (45:03) Matt Schumer’s viral article—why AI is moving even faster than most people realize.

• (51:11) Tools that build tools—AGI’s path and the new role for humans.

• (53:12) Real-world skills and taste—where humanity still wins (for now).

• (54:01) Final thoughts—wake up, pay attention, and stay on the leading edge.

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Billboards are timeless.

And they remain a successful advertising strategy even with the rise of digital technology.

With that said, you probably never imagined that a solopreneur could rake in $30,000 a month from it (part-time!).

But that’s exactly what Chris Brown from Signs of Good and wantmore.org has done for the past decade.

Chris retired early at the age of 42 and now owns approximately 30 billboards around Bentonville, Arkansas.

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• how to fill that ad space
• how passive it is once you’re up and running

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Timestamps

• [00:00:00] Who is Tish Rabe?
• [00:00:24] How an opera major became a bestselling children’s author and songwriter.
• [00:03:12] Tish’s trashy debut on television treasure Sesame Street.
• [00:03:36] Pitching a childhood memory to dead silence — and landing book number one.
• [00:07:27] The value of writing a story’s ending first.
• [00:09:42] Jim Henson: The kind, gentle giant with a mind of steel.
• [00:10:58] Keeping kids and their parents entertained with double-level humor.
• [00:11:38] How Tish put her music training to work with Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.
• [00:18:56] From nine-note auditions to signing on with Sesame Street‘s mission to level the kindergarten playing field.
• [00:22:48] Churning out children’s books and writing bangers about animal gestation periods and lumber measurement for 3-2-1 Contact.
• [00:26:56] The zero-rhyming genius of Joe Raposo’s “Bein’ Green” and why it works.
• [00:29:59] Curriculum is king: Focus groups, orange Oscar, and making sure the kids aren’t lost.
• [00:32:16] Random House rejected her book, but the late Dr. Seuss took a second look.
• [00:37:17] Accepting the Widow Seuss’s challenge to write a book for babies in utero and ending up with a bestseller.
• [00:40:39] The secret to perfect rhyme in Dr. Seuss’s paradigm.
• [00:44:14] Is rhyming a part of Tish’s DNA, or did she learn it along the way?
• [00:48:12] The time Tish transformed a planet from pizza into nickels to make her deadline.
• [00:49:45] Has music as a mission preserved Tish’s cognition?
• [00:55:10] What does Tish aim to do with the company she started in her 70s?
• [01:01:18] Sometimes Apart, Always in My Heart: A military kid’s book born from a POW father’s legacy and a high-five traced on paper.
• [01:05:30] Alaska the stuffed dog, financial literacy bunnies, hallucinated seagulls, and 843 acres of Central Park in 24 pages.
• [01:12:54] Tish’s campaign to get free books to kids in underserved neighborhoods.
• [01:14:02] Advice for aspiring children’s book authors.
• [01:15:42] Tish doesn’t get derailed by writer’s block — she prepares for it.
• [01:17:24] When Michelle Obama added 16 pages to a book Tish thought would be boring.
• [01:19:37] Big Bird in China, 1982: One hand-painted costume, 13 days of rain, zero coffee, and a five-year-old who memorized the wrong script.
• [01:23:41] Tish’s billboard.
• [01:24:38] Kindness is Caring, Friendship is Sharing and other parting thoughts.

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