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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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August 2024 Roundup of what I am Reading, Watching, Listening To

August 2024 Roundup of what I am Reading, Watching, Listening To

Dr. Jim Loehr: Change the Stories You Tell Yourself
What if reaching the next level of success wasn't determined by another skill, degree, or course but by something that changed on the inside? 

New anti-ageing therapy extends life of mice by 25%
Scientists have discovered that deactivating a protein called IL-11 can extend the healthy lifespan of mice by nearly 25%, raising the potential for similar benefits in humans.

The Folly of Certainty
Sometimes things go as people expected, and they conclude that they knew what was going to happen. And sometimes events diverge from people’s expectations, and they say they would have been right if only some unexpected event hadn’t transpired. But, in either case, the chance for the unexpected – and thus for forecasting error – was present. In the latter instance, the unexpected materialized, and in the former, it didn’t. But that doesn’t say anything about the likelihood of the unexpected taking place.

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