Marc Benioff at the All-In Summit 2024
(2:32) Funding Shinya Yamanaka's research (11:38) Marc on building philanthropy into Salesforce (17:15) AI's impact on enterprise software and the cloud (27:56) Salesforce's AI approach
Sep 22, 2024•41 min
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Megyn Kelly at the All-In Summit 2024
(1:19) Succeeding as an independent media personality (8:11) Thoughts on trans issues (15:30) Handicapping Trump's chances in 2024 vs 2016 and Kamala Harris compared to Hillary Clinton (24:05) Thoughts on legal action against Trump (30:10) How politicians have changed; improving life in America through community
Sep 21, 2024•37 min
The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
Dedicated to Lewis’s friend and colleague J.R.R. Tolkien... The narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior colleague engaged in his first mission on earth trying to secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a Christian. Although the young man initially looks to be a willing victim, he changes his ways and is ‘lost’ to the young devil.
Sep 21, 2024•4 hr
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. They can be microscopic, yet also account for the largest organisms ever recorded. They enabled the first life on land, can survive unprotected in space and thrive amidst nuclear radiation. In fact, nearly all life relies in some way on fungi. These endlessly surprising organisms have no brain but can solve problems and manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In giving us bread, alcohol and lif...
Sep 21, 2024•9 hr 32 min
Chasing the Dragon by Jackie Pullinger Part 1
Until it was pulled down, the Walled City was Hong Kong's most foreboding territory. It was a lawless place, dominated by the Triads, and which the police hesitated to enter. Strangers were unwelcome. Drug smuggling and heroin addiction flourished, as did prostitution and pornography, extortion and fear.
Sep 21, 2024•4 hr 13 min
Chasing the Dragon by Jackie Pullinger Part 2
Until it was pulled down, the Walled City was Hong Kong's most foreboding territory. It was a lawless place, dominated by the Triads, and which the police hesitated to enter. Strangers were unwelcome. Drug smuggling and heroin addiction flourished, as did prostitution and pornography, extortion and fear.
Sep 21, 2024•3 hr 59 min
Conversations on love
Exploring love in all its forms from romance, friendship, and parenting to grief and heartbreak.
Sep 21, 2024•7 hr 51 min
Atlas of the heart
Atlas of the Heart maps out a series of human emotions and their meaning and explores the psychology behind a human's feelings and how they make up our lives.
Sep 21, 2024•8 hr 29 min
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
A memoir by Lori Gottlieb highlighting the transformative power of therapy through Lori's personal journey and experiences working as a therapist.
Sep 21, 2024•14 hr 21 min
Sergey Brin at the All-In Summit 2024
(1:41) What Sergey is working on at Google (5:45) Is Google chasing a "God Model"? (8:49) Thoughts on the massive AI chip buildout (12:54) Future of human-AI interaction (14:58) Changing Google's conservative product culture (18:21) Is the "Race to AGI" overblown?
Sep 20, 2024•21 min
Simon Sinek & Trevor Noah on Friendship, Loneliness, Vulnerability, and More
0:00 How This Conversation Happened 1:03 Simon and Trevor's Latest Obsession 2:40 The Sacrifice of Friendship for Success 6:15 Addiction and Community 8:20 Are You a Good Friend? 11:30 Maintaining Friendships While Traveling 14:18 The Power of Asking for Help 15:28 Do Women Understand Friendship Better Than Men? 16:25 The Rise of Angry, Isolated Men and The Global Crisis of Loneliness 19:21 Friendship vs. Success: Prioritizing People Over Work 22:01 How Ignoring Friendships Affects Romantic Rela...
Sep 19, 2024•24 min
JD Vance at the All-In Summit 2024
(3:15) America's innovation problem (4:46) Thoughts on Trump (8:35) Would JD Vance have certified the election in 2020? (11:44) Increasing government efficiency, shrinking the deficit, Vance's role as VP, thoughts on EOs (19:17) Political realignment: Dick Cheney endorses Kamala Harris, winners and losers of the last 30 years (23:40) Thoughts on Lina Khan clamping down on tech M&A and her impact on the startup ecosystem (25:37) Fixing the Southern Border (31:58) How to practically approach d...
Sep 19, 2024•46 min
Elon Musk at the All-In Summit 2024
(4:01) The Battle of Free Speech (13:03) Potential government efficiency agency (30:23) SpaceX updates, overreaching regulations (38:48) Thoughts on Boeing's culture (41:05) The 80/20 AI Future (56:41) Elon and Jason share unaired SNL skits
Sep 18, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Dave Portnoy | The All-In Interview
(1:38) Leaving New York, Dave breaks down the 2016 Chernin deal (6:42) Barstool's explosive growth after 2016, how Dave evaluates talent (12:03) Breaking down the 2020 Penn deal (18:56) Dave's persona, how he's received by both sides (23:43) Thoughts on Trump and Kamala, moving forward as a society (31:56) Buying Barstool back from Penn for $1, going Founder Mode, lessons from CPG launches (42:41) Impact of sports betting, Dave's hot streak and gambling habits (50:40) Caitlin Clark vs Angel Rees...
Sep 18, 2024•1 hr 1 min
John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs at the All-In Summit 2024
(1:10) What is the Deep State Party, and what are their goals? (13:35) Should America leverage its power against dictators? (21:45) The China threat: avoiding the escalatory path to nuclear war (35:47) India's growing role; are China's wounds self-inflicted? (46:45) Conflict in the Middle East and the path to peace
Sep 17, 2024•54 min
Peter Thiel at the All-In Summit 2024
(1:03) Why he's not financially participating in the 2024 election (6:53) US relationship with China, is defending Taiwan worth risking WW3? (16:38) State of AI: Similar to the internet in 1999 (24:03) Innovation stagnation in the US (29:42) Thoughts on the current state of the US economy (32:50) The higher education bubble (39:09) Who will win AI, Nvidia's monopoly position going forward
Sep 17, 2024•46 min
Everything I Know About Love with Dolly Alderton
“Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.” I know that love can be loud and jubilant. It can be dancing in the swampy mud and the pouring rain at a festival and shouting “YOU ARE AMAZING” over the band. It’s laughing until you wheeze. It’s walking along the street together on a Saturday night and feeling an entire city is yours. I also know that love is a pretty quiet thing. It’s lying on the sofa together drinking coffee, talking about where you...
Sep 11, 2024•8 hr 34 min
CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to "gobsmacking" (The Ringer) new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this "kaleidoscopic" (The New York Times) reassessment of an infamous case in American history. Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order -- t...
Sep 05, 2024•16 hr 15 min
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism from Yanis Varoufakis
Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world's feudal overlords – replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that enslaves our minds, defies democracy and rewrite the rules of global power. But as Varoufakis also reveals, technofeudalism contains new opportunities to thwart and overturn it, bringing into focus more cl...
Sep 02, 2024•7 hr 39 min
Never split the difference: negotiating as if your life depended on it by Chris Voss
After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders and terrorists. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most - when people's lives were at stake. Rooted in the real-life experiences of an intelligence profession...
Sep 01, 2024•8 hr 7 min
Rory Sutherland – Are We Now Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
Rory explains how we weight information that appears quickly over knowledge that really matters. To many of us, time is nothing more than a series of moments. But look at it through the eyes of a behavioural scientist and you'll see it holds untold influence. Time is me and you. Time is your customers and citizens. Time is what makes businesses thrive and brands iconic.
Aug 14, 2024•31 min
Robert De Niro Speaks at the Cambridge Union
In the Cambridge Union interview with Robert De Niro, the actor reflects on his experiences with heroes and disappointments, sharing that he has had heroes who showed him humanity despite their flaws, such as Marlon Brando, whom he admired as a great actor but was saddened by his decision to name names during the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings. De Niro also expressed his reservations about the use of CGI to bring dead actors back to life in films and shared his thoughts on who s...
Aug 13, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Part 12
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman. Released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life. The anecdotes in the book are based on recorded audio conversations that Feynman had with his close friend and drumming partner Ralph Leighton.
Aug 09, 2024•32 min
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Part 11
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman. Released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life. The anecdotes in the book are based on recorded audio conversations that Feynman had with his close friend and drumming partner Ralph Leighton.
Aug 08, 2024•1 hr
YOU NEED TO OUTWORK EVERYONE - Motivational Speech for the Gym Music
You need to outwork everyone. Motivational Speech for the Gym Music
Aug 06, 2024•22 min
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Part 10
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman. Released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life. The anecdotes in the book are based on recorded audio conversations that Feynman had with his close friend and drumming partner Ralph Leighton.
Aug 06, 2024•1 hr
Steve Jobs: The Objects Of Our Life (1983)
The Story. On a sunny June morning in 1983, Steve waits at the back of a giant tent, ready to take the stage at the International Design Conference in Aspen . This year's theme is “The Future Isn't What It Used to Be,” and he is here to talk about computers to an audience of several hundred designers and design-lovers. Steve rarely attended design conferences. This was 1983, before the launch of the Mac, and still relatively early days of Apple. I find it breathtaking how profound his understand...
Aug 05, 2024•55 min
Stanford: “How to Live an Asymmetric Life” - Graham Weaver
Graham Weaver, Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Founder of Alpine Investors, shares four ways to live an asymmetric life.
Aug 05, 2024•33 min
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Part 9
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman. Released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life. The anecdotes in the book are based on recorded audio conversations that Feynman had with his close friend and drumming partner Ralph Leighton.
Aug 04, 2024•1 hr
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Part 8
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman. Released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life. The anecdotes in the book are based on recorded audio conversations that Feynman had with his close friend and drumming partner Ralph Leighton.
Aug 03, 2024•1 hr
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