Rob Henderson is one of my favorite up-and-coming writers. I like him because he's one of those people who doesn't fit into a category. He's a Ph.D. candidate in psychology, but I met him in a book club about technological stagnation. He's spen

Chrisman Frank and Ana Lorena Fabrega: How Childhood Education Will Change

May 17th, 2021 1h 14m

This week, I have two guests. Both are affiliated with Synthesis, a new kind of online school where kids learn through games and simulations. One is Chrisman Frank, the CEO of Synthesis. The other is Ana Lorena Fabrega, who is their Chief Evang

Ash Fontana: Building Artificial Intelligence

May 7th, 2021 1h 8m

Ash Fontana is an entrepreneur, investor, and author. As an entrepreneur, he was only of the early employees at an online investing platform called AngelList. From there, he became the Managing Director at Zetta, the first investment fund focus

Li Jin: Creating the Creator Economy

Feb 16th, 2021 1h 22m

My guest today is Li Jin, the founder and managing partner at an early-stage venture capital firm called Atelier. She's known for her extensive writings about the Passion Economy. Her essays explore how people can make a living from their passi

Zena Hitz: Liberal Arts Thinking

Feb 1st, 2021 1h 18m

My guest today is Zena Hitz, a tutor at St John’s and the author of an excellent book called Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life. Her book explores the meaning and the value of learning for its own sake, through images

Tiago Forte and Will Mannon: Building Cohort-Based Courses

Jan 25th, 2021 1h 44m

I have two guests today: Tiago Forte and Will Mannon. Tiago is my business partner and the creator of an online course called Building a Second Brain. The two of us record a podcast like this every year to reflect on what we’ve learned about th

Gagan Biyani: Building Silicon Valley Startups

Jan 25th, 2021 1h 48m

My guest today is Gagan Biyani, the current CEO of an education startup (where I’m both an investor and an advisor) that helps teachers run Cohort-Based Courses on the Internet and has students from around the world. Gagan also founded a multi-

Trevor Bauer: Playing Professional Baseball

Dec 21st, 2020 1h 14m

My guest today is Trevor Bauer, who is arguably the very best pitcher in Major League Baseball. In 2020, he had the lowest Earned Run Average of any pitcher and won the National League Cy Young Award, which goes to the top pitcher in the game.

Nik Sharma: Building DTC Companies

Nov 16th, 2020 2h 1m

My guest today is Nik Sharma, the founder of Sharma Brands and an advisor to companies like Judy and Cha Cha Matcha. Nik is one of my very best friends and my go-to person for all things commerce. Since we first met, we've spent hours exploring

Kevin Kelly: Seeing the Future

Nov 9th, 2020 1h 34m

My guest today is Kevin Kelly, who co-founded Wired Magazine in 1993 and served as its Executive Editor for the first seven years. As one of the most important futurists of our generation, he's published a number of books including The Inevitab

Will Ahmed: Founding WHOOP and the Future of Wearables

Nov 2nd, 2020 1h 4m

Will Ahmed is the Founder and CEO of WHOOP, which has developed next-generation wearable technology for optimizing human performance and health. I found him through an excellent interview he hosted with Rory McIlroy, a winner of four major cham

Seth Godin: Writing Every Day

Oct 26th, 2020 46m 43s

My guest today is Seth Godin, the author of nineteen international bestsellers that have been translated into more than 35 languages. My all-time favorite is Purple Cow, which I discovered in college and became my nickname. This is my second in

David Nemetz: Founding Bleacher Report

Oct 19th, 2020 1h 16m

My guest today is Dave Nemetz, the Founder of Bleacher Report, which was one of my favorite media companies as a kid. During his time there, Dave oversaw video, business development, and business operations. He helped grow the audience to more

Rabbi David Wolpe: Jewish Wisdom

Oct 12th, 2020 1h 10m

Newsweek Magazine once called Rabbi Wolpe the most influential rabbi in America. He is the Senior Rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and he's the author of eight books including one about King David and another gem called Why Be Jewish? I don

Joe Henrich: What Makes Society Smart?

Oct 5th, 2020 1h 57m

My guest today is Joseph Henrich, a professor at Harvard and an expert on the evolution of human cooperation and culture. I am a big fan of his book, "The Secret of Our Success" and he just published a new one called the Weirdest People in the

Grant Sanderson: Math For The Masses

Sep 28th, 2020 1h 20m

My guest today is Grant Sanderson, the man behind one of the world's largest math-focused YouTube channels: 3blue1brown. He has more than 3 million subscribers and his videos have been watched more than 150 million times. Before making videos h

Eric Jorgenson: Lessons from Naval Ravikant

1 Sep 14th, 2020 54m 36s

My guest today is Eric Jorgenson, a Product Strategist at Zaarly and the author of the Almanack of Naval Ravikant: a guide to wealth and happiness. The book collects and curates Naval's wisdom from Twitter, podcasts, and essays over the past de

Morgan Housel: Writing for the Internet

Sep 7th, 2020 59m 12s

Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund and a former columnist at The Motley Fool and The Wall Street Journal. He's the author of The Psychology of Money, where he shares 19 stories about the strange ways people think about money a

Claire Lehmann: Building an Internet Media Company

Aug 31st, 2020 1h 7m

My guest today is Claire Lehmann, the founder and editor-in-chief of Quillette, a for-profit online magazine that publishes essays on topics like politics, science, and academia. We started our conversation talking about Quilette's business mod

Balaji Srinivasan: Living in the Future

1 Aug 24th, 2020 1h 47m

My guest today is Balaji Srinivasan, an angel investor and entrepreneur. When it comes to the future, he's the single most creative person I know because he's so technical, innovative, and polymathic. Talking to him is an experience unlike talk

Nadia Eghbal: Open-Source Software

Aug 17th, 2020 1h 7m

My guest today is Nadia Eghbal, an independent researcher and the author of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software. She currently works on the writer experience team at Substack. She did a lot of her research at P

Matthew Kobach: Social Media Brands

Aug 10th, 2020 1h 10m

My guest today is Matthew Kobach, the Director of Content Marketing at Fast and the former Manager of Digital and Social Media at the New York Stock Exchange. Matthew and I met on Twitter, where he shares actionable strategies for building bran

David Brittain: Designing iPad Apps

Aug 3rd, 2020 1h 4m

David Brittain is the CEO of Concepts, my favorite iPad app. It's marketed as a "flexible sketching" app and geared towards people in the early stages of the thinking process. I use it to visualize my ideas, many of which I share on Twitter and

Tyler Cowen: Production Function

Jul 20th, 2020 1h 26m

Tyler Cowen is an economics professor at George Mason University. He runs the Mercatus Center, which bridges the gap between academic ideas and real-world problems. He’s published a new post every day for the past 17 years on his blog called

Patrick McKenzie: Internet Famous

Jul 6th, 2020 1h 19m

My guest today is marketer and software engineer Patrick McKenzie, who writes mostly about software-as-a-service businesses. He currently works for Stripe as a writer and an overall software business expert. I remember when I signed up for Stri