Semafor

Putting Employees at the Center with BCG's Kristy R. Ellmer at Semafor World Economy

When we look at the gap, what we recognize is a lot of the C-suite have the ability to shape the transformation or the change. And they have a lot to gain from it typically. So there's sort of built-in incentive for them to be excited about change and historically they've usually done well in change. That's how they've gotten to where they have. When you look at sort of the employee base, they have a lot less agency in it. So they aren't necessarily deciding on the change or part of the process. They're sort of the receivers of it. And anytime we don't have agency then we start to sort of buy in less to the change.

Compound Interest

Anthony Pompliano Thinks You're Smarter Than Your Financial Advisor

You can drastically outperform the advice coming from somebody whose job is to not get fired.

Throughline

Prediction markets are making a 150-year comeback | Throughline

Because you have the option to bet on bombs being dropped, on people dying, events that will have huge impacts on real people's lives.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Musk v Altman: Much ado about nothing

In a courtroom full of untrustworthy, unreliable people all fighting with each other, did anyone even have a reputation left to lose?

The a16z Show

Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, with Tony James

culture, incentives, and alignment ultimately determine whether an organization compounds or stagnates

EconTalk

Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)

Smith emerges as a penetrating psychologist who understood that our deepest hunger isn't for wealth but for respect--and that this hunger, left unexamined, leads individuals and societies alike into serious trouble.

The Business of Tech

Why big companies kill good ideas – and how to save them

When people have to pitch a story, not a fifty page business case, and justify why their ideas deserve another few million dollars, they suddenly start thinking like founders instead of managers.

TBPN

Meta Drops New Model, Mythos, RoboLamp

As long as it's helping us at some point they'll shift their focus towards profit.

Freakonomics Radio

Ten Myths About the U.S. Tax System (Update)

Nearly everything that politicians say about taxes is at least half a lie. They are also dishonest when it comes to the national debt.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Alan Waxman - Private Credit and the Modern Financial System - [Invest Like the Best, EP.466]

Alan thinks about the financial system the way a historian would, studying the incentives, guardrails, and market structure that determine how things play out.

The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

What To Do In The Most Uncertain Market In Years | Prof G Markets

The 0.1% have their own transportation. They don't give a shit about 4-hour TSA lines. They have their own police forces. They live in buildings in neighborhoods that are of incredible security. They have their own health care. So what is their vested interest?

Fresh Air

An exposé of the plastic industry

Plastic is another revenue stream when you drill for oil and gas. It's another source of money.

TED

What Makes an Idea Stick? | Singapore | TED Idea Search

The financial-services industry, as it currently exists, is really only set up and incentivized to help, well, the already wealthy.

Office Hours

The Rise of the Grifter Economy | Office Hours

I think wanting to make money and help people are not mutually exclusive. I think there are a lot of people who do really good work and make a really good living doing it.

Prof G Markets

Why the Pentagon Is Hiring Wall Street Bankers | Prof G Markets

The lesson out of that which is sort of a textbook lesson which is that you don't want government picking winners and losers cuz a it's not very good at it and b even if it is good at it like to whom does that benefit a crew?

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Prediction markets want to be the news

Prediction market players want to be the news, and they've even devised new, frankly unconvincing frameworks for why they should be considered legitimate sources of information — instead of just anything-goes casinos.

Semafor

Blackrock Infrastructure Summit: Federal Priorities | Semafor Media Partner

Fights sell ratings. And so you see that, I think, on the media oftentimes. Talking heads are on radio. But the reality is the collegiality that exists between members.

TBPN

Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN

If you think that you will immediately be cut down in your society, you don't actually go out and hunt. You actually don't go out and bring back the the the big deer or whatever you're hunting the bacon. You don't bring home the bacon in the first place. You don't even try because you're so worried about this tall poppy syndrome in your society.

Acquired

Formula 1 (Audio)

Formula One is three competitions in one: a 200mph battle of the world's best race car drivers, the world cup of engineering where thousand-plus person teams spend hundreds of millions designing cars from scratch, and — as one listener put it — the Real Housewives of the Garage, a soap opera of billionaire egos, team politics, and paddock drama.

The New York Times

How Jeffrey Epstein Used Doctors to Control Women

This is how it is. These doctors know that I'm paying. They want to keep me happy.

Cheeky Pint

Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime

For most major cities, if a human is not physically hurt, the crime goes to the bottom of the list.

Freakonomics Radio

The Most Powerful People You’ve Never Heard Of (Update)

Just beneath the surface of the global economy, there is a hidden layer of dealmakers for whom war, chaos, and sanctions can be a great business opportunity.