Here's my conversation with Annaka Harris about the nature of reality, free will, and consciousness, from the perspectives of physics and neuroscience. This was a fun and an eye-opening conversation! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6zEzZCtkXw

Here's my conversation with Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess), the internet's chess teacher. This was a fun and wide-ranging conversation, and yes we cover the chess cheating saga... The podcast speaks for itself. 😎 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSMpTmibeDw

Humans killed by sharks every year: 6-10
Sharks killed by humans every year: 100+ million

Most people think the first number is much higher, and don't think about the second number at all.

Facts like these make me wonder how many blindspots we have about the truth of the world.

When I program, I'm leveraging the work of millions of other people, including code in libraries, compilers, operating systems, computer networks, and the complex web of hardware infrastructure that makes the whole thing run. It's fun being 1 curious human among 8 billion others.

We all evolved from one single-celled organism that lived 3.5 billion years ago 🤯

Sometimes a kind word from a stranger can make me completely forget whatever concerns were weighing heavy on my heart. Kindness like that is a small gift that can make the biggest difference. I was lucky to get that today. I'll try to pass it on tomorrow.

Here's my conversation with Kate Darling, human-robot interaction and robot ethics researcher at MIT and author of The New Breed, a book in which she explores what our past with animals reveals about our future with robots. Kate is amazing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFntEFXKDHM

Relatable 🤣

Here's my conversation with Hikaru Nakamura, one of the best chess players in the world and a top chess streamer. We talk about his games with Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Garry Kasparov & others, plus psychology of chess and the cheating scandal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJNvxYEcVAY

Here's my conversation with Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis). We talk for almost 8 hours about how to fix government, social media, science, and the FDA. This was a wild and fascinating ride through ideas of how to build systems that empower human flourishing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeH7qKZr0WI

Kindness and empathy is not weakness, it's strength.

History of life on Earth is full of love and suffering. I believe that in the long-run: love wins.

Here's my conversation with Kanye 'Ye' West. Given my family history in the 20th century, this was difficult but important. I believe in the power of tough, honest, empathetic conversation to increase the amount of love in the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AWLcxTGZPA

Here's my conversation with Andrej Karpathy, a legendary AI researcher, engineer, and educator, and former director of AI at Tesla. This was super fun, technical, and inspiring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiD-9MMpb0

Listen to people's pain, not their anger and hatred.

Here's my conversation with Abbas Amanat, a historian at Yale specializing in the modern history of Iran. We talk about the Iran protests, the death of Mahsa Amini, abuses of power, nuclear weapons, and the history & future of Iran and the Middle East. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYsYgzzsdT0

Back in my day... 🤣

Here's my conversation with Fiona Hill, presidential advisor to Donald Trump on Russia. She is a foreign policy expert who has served 3 presidents. We talk about Putin, Trump, and the geopolitics of US, Russia, and Ukraine over the past 30 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNhSCF9i8Qs

There is a lot of loneliness and pain in this world. If you're feeling down tonight, I'm with you. We're in this together.