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  Glenn Luk has worked as an investment banker, private equity investor, and startup founder. He has closely analyzed aspects of the Chinese...

  I've been listening to Hidden Forces with Demetri Kofinas for years now. He's an excellent interviewer with interests in finance, ...

  David Paul Goldman is an American economic strategist and author, best known for his series of online essays in the Asia Times under the p...

  Tim Palmer is Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics, and a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Martin Institute. He is interested i...

  Raghu Parthasarathy is the Alec and Kay Keith Professor of Physics at the University of Oregon. His research focuses on biophysics, explor...

  Great discussion and insider views of AI/ML research.  Academics think of themselves as trailblazers, explorers — seekers of the truth.  ...

Steve and Corey talk with theoretical physicist turned hedge fund investor Vineer Bhansali. Bhansali describes his transition from physics...

Kaja Perina is the Editor in Chief of Psychology Today. Kaja, Steve, and Corey discuss so-called Dark Triad personality traits: Narcissism...

Dom has seized the controls, but now has to operate the giant robot. This is a unique situation: someone who understands the power of m...

Manifold Show Page    YouTube Channel James Cham is a partner at Bloomberg Beta, a venture capital firm focused on the future of work....

I don't know whether Arnold ever read Nietzsche , but he certainly developed the Will to Power early in life. I quite like the video ...

A great ~20 minutes starting at ~1:01 with UFC 155 contender Kevin Lee. Lee talks about self-confidence, growing up in an all-black part o...

The arXiv paper below looks at stochastic dynamical models that can transform initial (e.g., Gaussian) talent distributions into power law o...

I don't work in Big Tech so I don't know whether his numbers are realistic. If they are realistic, then I'd say careers in Big...

A VC-funded genomics startup I am familiar with is searching for someone to apply computational methods to complex human traits (e.g., po...

In the future there will be two kinds of jobs. Workers will either Tell computers what to do     or Be told by computers what to do ...

Highly recommended! I blogged about this guy 5 years ago here: From physics to Goldman to Y Combinator . The book is hilarious and pretty...

After 25+ years in theoretical physics research, the pattern has become familiar  to me. Talented postdoc has difficulty finding a perma...

In one of his early blog posts, Terence Tao (shown above with Paul Erdos in 1985) wrote Does one have to be a genius to do maths? The...

MSU will be hiring over 100 new professors (beyond ordinary hiring such as retirement replacements), primarily in science and technology...