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May 2025 Roundup: What I am Reading, Watching and Listening To

May 2025 Roundup: What I am Reading, Watching and Listening To

Nanowerk: Programmable Shape-shifting Materials Explores groundbreaking developments in materials that can alter their shape in response to environmental stimuli, with potential applications across robotics, biomedicine, and aerospace.

Discover Magazine: Quantum Sensors Navigate by Earth's Magnetic Field Highlights new quantum sensors that could revolutionize navigation systems by using Earth's magnetic field, eliminating the need for GPS.

Google Research Blog: Teaching Machines the Language of Biology Discusses how large language models are being adapted to understand biological data at the single-cell level, enabling breakthroughs in healthcare and biology research.

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 April 2025 Roundup: What I am Reading, Watching and Listening To

April 2025 Roundup: What I am Reading, Watching and Listening To

Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America
Marc Andreessen is an entrepreneur, investor, co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Paul Singer - In Good Company
This week, Nicolai Tangen sat down with Paul Singer, legendary investor and founder of Elliott Investment Management, one of the world's most influential activist investors. 

Singer shares insights from his remarkable career spanning several decades, discussing how activist investing works, why companies need external pressure for change, and his philosophy of never losing money. He opens up about major investment cases, while offering sharp observations on current markets, which he sees as "just about as risky as I've ever seen."

Naval Ravikant with Chris Williamson
Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, investor and co-founder of AngelList. What does it mean to win at the game of life? Is it tons of wealth, pure happiness, infinite time, or a loving family?

Today we explore the timeless question of what it means to truly live well. Expect to learn the true price of success, whether sacrificing your happiness is worth it, what advice Naval would give to his younger self, what the true source of unhappiness is for most people, how to overcome low self-esteem, what Naval would add to his ‘How To Get Rich’ thread, how to become comfortable being unapologetically selfish, what Naval sees as the next big trends in science and technology, his take on the escalating culture wars, how to get comfortable with death and overcoming grief, the best and worst ways to spend your wealth and much more.

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March 2025 Roundup: What I am Reading, Watching and Listening To

March 2025 Roundup: What I am Reading, Watching and Listening To

Seth Godin on Playing the Right Game and Strategy as a Superpower
Seth Godin is the author of 21 internationally bestselling books, translated into more than 35 languages, including Linchpin, Tribes, The Dip, and Purple Cow. His latest book is This Is Strategy.

Amit Kukreja - Brett Adcock: Humanoid Robots
In less than three years since its inception, Figure has built versions 01 and 02 of their humanoids, developed a foundation model called Helix AI to reason like humans, and shipped robots into the factories of their commercial customers.

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