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  • How Warren Buffet Built His Legacy By Finding Value No One Else Could See from Business History

    Throughout the next few weeks, every Monday we’ll be sharing some of our favorite episodes from Jacob’s other show Business History. We hope you enjoy them and if you want to hear more, subscriber to…


  • Every Cell in Your Body Has a Clock

    Circadian rhythm isn’t just controlled by your brain. Every cell in your body runs on a 24-hour cycle, including your muscle cells.  Karyn Esser is the chair of the department of physiology and aging at…


  • How a Bad Boss Kickstarted Silicon Valley… from Business History

    Throughout the next few weeks, every Monday we’ll be sharing some of our favorite episodes from Jacob’s other show Business History. We hope you enjoy them and if you want to hear more, subscriber to…


  • Solving the Trust Problem in AI Shopping

    Note: Today’s show is sponsored by PayPal. Kartik Hosanagar is a professor at the Wharton School. The problems he studies include: What will it take for people to trust AI agents to buy stuff for…


  • Can a Robot Build Better, Cheaper Houses?

    Jason Ballard is the co-founder and CEO of ICON. Jason’s problem is this: Can you use 3-D printing to build houses that are cheaper, better and more interesting than the houses we build now? In…


  • Did AI Write This?

    Celebrated novelists, countless students and at least one billionaire have recently been accused of using AI in their writing. The most commonly cited AI detector in these cases is called Pangram.  Max Spero is the…


  • Blockers | A Preview of Michael Lewis’s New Audiobook

    I’m here with a preview of Blockers, a new audiobook from Michael Lewis, the author of Liars Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and more. In Blockers, Lewis tells the story of a handful of people…


  • Can We Defeat Deepfakes?

    We’ve all heard that nothing ever gets deleted from the internet. Luke Arrigoni says that just isn’t true. His company deletes thousands of deepfakes every day. Luke is the founder and CEO of Loti, and…


  • The Printing Press: The Invention Built on Debt and Sin… from Business History

    Before 1450, books were written out by hand. It was slow and expensive. But Johannes Gutenberg borrowed a ton of money to create a printing press that could crank out Bibles and pamphlets and documents…


  • Should We Pause AI?

    Everybody’s worried about the risks of AI. So we called up one of the most insightful writers we know on the subject: Zvi Mowshowitz. Zvi writes about AI and AI risks at his substack, Don’t…


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