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Technology, culture, and religion from a lapsed Cuban Jewish(ish) technologist
The Pull Request
English, Finance, 1 season, 40 episodes
The Pull Request
English, Finance, 1 season, 40 episodes
Miami Tech Week edition, with Delian of Founders Fund
On memeing Miami onto the tech map with a single tweet
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9/24/2022 • 0
Laura Shin and the history of Ethereum
The author of “The Cryptopians” on Vitalik, crypto-utopians, and the chaos of creation
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9/15/2022 • 0
Marshall Kosloff of ‘Realignment’ podcast
What’s broken, why, and how to fix it (or do we just move to Balaji’s network state?)
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9/5/2022 • 0
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr on Elon’s Starlink
Or, why the government doesn’t like SpaceX
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9/2/2022 • 0
Tim O’Reilly and ‘WTF’ is going on
The tech publishing titan on his latest book.
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8/24/2022 • 0
The network state, post-liberalism, monarchy, and LARPing
Prof. Jon Askonas on the weird politics of today
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8/16/2022 • 0
Packy McCormick on the boom/crash cycle
Noted crypto investor and Substacker on whether the world is really ending
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7/29/2022 • 0
Startup nations: Dryden Brown of Praxis
On raising venture capital to create a new nation, with a flag, territory, laws, and all the rest
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7/26/2022 • 0
Corbin Barthold on tech freedom, anti-trust, and the DC policy swamp
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7/21/2022 • 0
Balaji Srinivasan and the ‘Network State’
The eminent futurist-provocateur on the future of politics.
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7/7/2022 • 0
Aaron Ginn of Hydra Host, Founders Fund’s latest bet
On making the Internet resilient to censorship, all the way down the stack
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7/5/2022 • 0
Chia, proof of space and time, and NFTs
The Chia Network leadership team on what’s happening in crypto
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6/14/2022 • 0
The state of gun policy in the US, with Stephen Gutowski
The author of “The Reload” on gun control and the latest tragedy
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5/26/2022 • 0
Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross on their new book ‘Talent’
How to recruit and keep the best, and why you should ask what they do on weekends
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5/19/2022 • 0
Emil Michael is not super pumped about ‘Super Pumped’
Uber’s business guy and Travis’ right-hand man on the real story behind the book and Showtime series
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5/14/2022 • 0
Renee DiResta on Elon, free speech, and the Internet
We will finally figure this out once and for all
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5/11/2022 • 0
Douglas Murray on “The War on the West”
The polemical bestselling author on the war the West is waging on itself.
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4/30/2022 • 0
Jeff Kosseff on the right to anonymity
The author of “The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet” on Section 230 talks about his new book: “The United States of Anonymous”
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4/15/2022 • 0
Clay Routledge on the psychology of nostalgia and patriotism
A prominent social psychologist on human existential anxiety, and how we grapple with it
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4/10/2022 • 0
Carolyn Chen on God and startups
Professor and Author of “Work, Pray, Code”
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3/26/2022 • 0
Pull Request in Ukraine
Random impressions on the ongoing conflict
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3/17/2022 • 0
Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, David Sacks, and Luke Nosek, with author Jimmy Soni
The original PayPal Mafia in conversation with the author of “The Founders”, an epic new book
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3/12/2022 • 0
Rob Henderson (NYT, Unherd, etc), unplugged
On ‘luxury beliefs’, why Asians have gone woke, and our great national weirding
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3/7/2022 • 0
On wordcels and shape rotators
Interview with Roon, the meme man of the moment
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2/9/2022 • 0
Chamath and the Uighurs, with Asia correspondent Geoffrey Cain
Or, how to look like a complete asshole to just about everybody
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1/26/2022 • 0
The Hereticon review, with Liz Wolfe of Reason
On getting Hereticovid, why libertarians are weird, and what it’s like when all your Twitter mutuals show up in one place
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1/21/2022 • 0
January 6th and ‘Four Hours at the Capitol’
Conversation with the creators of the new HBO special on the taking of the Capitol
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1/6/2022 • 0
Patrick Stanley from CityCoin on NYCCoin, MiamiCoin and more
How New York, Miami, and other cities are creating their own citizen crypto (with special co-host Balaji!)
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12/22/2021 • 0
Michael Shellenberger on how progressives ruin cities
The author and activist discusses his new book “San Fransicko”
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12/18/2021 • 0
Batya Ungar-Sargon on the woke media, along with Balaji and Ashley Rindberg
Newsweek editor and author on how some media sold out the working class (and truth)
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12/7/2021 • 0
Jacob Helberg, author of “The Wires of War”
Former News Policy director for Google on the brewing information war with China and Russia
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12/2/2021 • 0
Michael Eisenberg, VC and author
One of Israel’s leading VCs on his new book ‘Tree of Life and Prosperity’, on what the Torah can teach us about business
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11/29/2021 • 0
Balaji Srinivasan on the Metaverse
How we need to redesign the physical to follow the virtual
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11/12/2021 • 0
Ryan Holiday on courage
The bestselling author on his new book “Courage Is Calling”
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10/29/2021 • 0
Zaid Jilani explains American politics
Wherein I try to pin down the most indecipherable writer today
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10/20/2021 • 0
Dara Horn, author of “People Love Dead Jews”
The author discusses her polemical and viral new book
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10/19/2021 • 0
Kmele Foster of the Fifth Column podcast
Critical Race Theory, why dog walking in NYC produces so many cancelation videos, and more
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10/9/2021 • 0
The strange case of the Facebook whistleblower
Frances Haugen and the dangers of product managers (with David Sacks!)
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10/9/2021 • 0
NYT columnist Ross Douthat on his latest book “The Deep Places”
The author live on his latest work
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9/29/2021 • 0
Blake Masters on Pull Request
COO at Thiel Capital and Senate candidate for AZ
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9/22/2021 • 0