Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Cliff Sosin - Owning the Complements to Intelligence - [Invest Like the Best, EP.497]

Intelligence is not sufficient for success. The world is full of intelligent people who don't succeed, and the reason is that intelligence has complements — things like drive, emotional stability, the ability to work with others, and good judgment — and those complements are often more important than intelligence itself.

It's Been a Minute

Denée Benton wants the freedom to feel good | It's Been a Minute

I think that I was always the kid who was getting sent to the principal's office for like having too many opinions and it feels like as an adult it's paying off, you know, like I was like a little producer in training.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Why Peacock is making a huge bet on YouTube

Comcast is splitting off NBCU into an entirely separate company. That's a lot to have going on all at once — and Matt's the guy who has to make sure broadcast, Peacock, and every other platform keeps making you watch.

The Prof G Pod

Heather Cox Richardson: The GOP No Longer Exists and It Looks Like the 1850s

The Republican party no longer exists. It has become a mega movement and it's tied itself to Donald Trump, which was always a bad idea. He was always mercurial. He was always uh really a salesman more than a politician.

Daily Stoic

How To Use The 48 Laws of Power In Your Career | Robert Greene

Your job is not about your ego. It's not about getting attention. It's not about making yourself look great. It's about making that person you're working for look great and making their life easier

The Prof G Pod

"We Blew It After 9/11" — Timothy Snyder on the Lesson Trump Learned

When you think about a terrorist attack or any historical turning point, it's not the thing that happens. It's how you react to it like that shows your freedom and your and your character and I I just think we have to recognize that we blew it and that the the next time that there's a crisis, we have to react better than that

The New York Times

Why Israeli Expats Are Flying Back to Vote

I lost trust with the government because they need to own the failures. They need to take responsibility. And now it's my turn to use my voice.

The a16z Show

What It Takes to Win as a Founder | Ben Horowitz

the best entrepreneurs aren't defined by a lack of weaknesses, but by having a strength or insight that's genuinely exceptional

Pivot

So Why Is Elon Musk Going After Kara Swisher This Time?

You get to say what you want, he gets to say what he wants. The difference is when you're the president of the United States or the wealthiest man in the world and you have this cult-like following, I think you need to be a little bit more mindful of the potential knock-on effects of if you have a couple hundred million people that follow you religiously and have bought into your selfproclaimed views of yourself as a Jesus-like figure. You have to recognize that there's there's a non-zero probability that saying something like that about someone else might result in physical harm to them or their their family.

Fresh Air

Inside the Musk/Bezos space race

So you have an individual controlling a company and essentially he has supranational capabilities. And what we discovered is that when you outsource that capability to an individual, you're at the mercy of their whims.

The Prof G Pod

Will the Real Winners of AI Be Us? Scott Galloway and Ethan Mollick

If you're a middle manager, you get this advantage of a junior person who's desperate to prove themselves, who is willing to work really hard, but isn't very good, but will be. And they write deal memos over and over again, and they get yelled at or given nice feedback, and eventually they learn how to write a deal memo. And that's how we teach people. You don't have to be good at managing for them to learn. Ideally, you're good at teaching, but you don't have to be. But that's all broken down.

TBPN

Muse Wonder, Anjney Sizes Up, Neal Stephenson Joins, Social Reckoning Review, Eli Manning Live

It feels like a time capsule from a completely different era. Um, Mark Zuckerberg has so thoroughly reinvented himself that it felt like I was like, who is who is Jeremy Strong playing?

TED

How to Start Any Conversation the Right Way | Chris Fenning | TED

Every time we communicate, we have an opportunity to create clarity or confusion. And clarity begins from the very first minute. If you get the first minute right, you set your conversation up for success.

Fresh Air

How Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought the culture wars to the military

Usually Secretaries of Defense do everything they can to protect the military from our divisive politics and those culture wars. Hegseth was really the first Secretary of Defense I've seen in my lifetime who invited that into the Pentagon, and made it a central plank of his identity and leadership.

Fresh Air

How Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought the culture wars to the military

Usually secretaries of defense do everything they can to sort of protect the military from our sort of divisive politics and those culture wars. And Hegseth was really the first secretary of defense I've seen in my lifetime who invited that into the Pentagon and made it a central plank of his identity and leadership.

The a16z Show

How Valon Rebuilt a $13 Trillion Industry From Scratch

deploying the technology into large regulated enterprises is ultimately as much a change-management challenge as a technical one

TED

Why the Future is Human … Plus AI | Esther Perel and Sal Khan

Relationship skills and relational intelligence, even in the workplace, has always been considered soft skills. And soft skills used to be seen as feminine skills. And feminine skills are often highly regarded in principle and disregarded in reality.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.491]

The great businesses that we've all admired and that have created enormous wealth for shareholders are ones that have been run by people who are relentlessly focused on the needs of customers, who don't spend a lot of time worrying about competitors, who don't spend a lot of time worrying about Wall Street, who don't spend a lot of time worrying about the press.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.491]

The great companies are able to attract people who are very good at what they do but who, if they weren't working at the company, would be doing something very similar outside the company. And I think that's the mark of a great company — when you get people who are just so consumed by what they're doing that the boundaries between work and non-work just dissolve.

Pivot

Why Kara Swisher Finds Pete Hegseth's Unhinged Speech So "Terrifying"

You can take your roided up macho w you know WWE e you know warrior and give me a 90 lb man or woman in thick glasses with a drone and a hellfire missile and a command module. Let's see who wins. We fight wars now not as much with brawn but with brains and with people who have a certain level of discipline, a certain level of respect for each other.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.491]

The ones that have succeeded enormously are the ones that have had a very simple and easily expressible mission that everybody in the company understands — whether that's somebody who's answering the phones, whether it's somebody who's writing code, whether it's the chief executive. The ones that lose their way are the ones where that clarity of mission has been lost.

Diet TBPN

Cambridge AI Safety Plan, Instinct CEO on Invest Like the Best, Zuck Hires MongoDB CEO | Diet TBPN

The biggest thing he can do is to stop uh smiling when he's talking about really bad devastating things.

Book of the Day

'Profiles in Cowardice' argues leaders failed to push back against President Trump

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Diet TBPN

Cambridge AI Safety Plan, Instinct CEO on Invest Like the Best, Zuck Hires MongoDB CEO | Diet TBPN

You can go the opposite way, the the Mark Zuckerberg way and rip it and just be like, "Yeah, I'm having fun with AI." Which is honestly like it feels like people are like, "Yeah, I kind of want that energy a little bit. Just give me the white pill."

Decoder with Nilay Patel

The SaaSpocalypse that wasn't, with Atlassian's CEO

I think the world will move from where do you work in an office, to which time zone you work in. And that's something we've been living with. We've had offices in a dozen countries or more. So we've had that for a very long time. And so the transition hasn't been that difficult for us.

Founders

#435 Mark Zuckerberg's Empire

One day they will be out of office and eventually dead, while Zuckerberg, whose majority control of Meta's voting power makes his removal effectively impossible, could in fifty years still be ruler of his empire.

Throughline

Forty years of what if

I thought to myself, would I be the only one in this room who would disagree with a launch decision? I asked myself in my mind, do I have the courage to say that?

Founders

#435 Mark Zuckerberg's Empire

"One day they will be out of office and eventually dead, while Zuckerberg, whose majority control of Meta's voting power makes his removal effectively impossible, could in fifty years still be ruler of his empire."

The a16z Show

Building a Team at AI Speed | Harvey’s Maggie Landers

For people accustomed to being the "A student," that can mean learning to experiment, make mistakes, and course-correct quickly.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Can Cloudflare save the web from AI?

Over the last decade, Matthew has had to make the call when to stop providing service to websites like those, even as he's championed Cloudflare as a bastion of free speech and a tool used by journalists, activists, and dissidents in authoritarian regimes. It is a profound balancing act, and you'll hear me ask Matthew how he thinks about making those types of decisions and the company values he says drives them.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.491]

The thing that's really hard to appreciate unless you've been involved in it is how difficult it is to build a great company. People on the outside assume that it's a lot easier than it actually is, and most people who've tried to build great companies will tell you that it's one of the most excruciating, painful, difficult things they've ever attempted.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

I have some questions for Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook's motto was once, famously, 'Move fast and break things.' Its new one might be closer to Move fast, break things, move on.

Fresh Air

Global power, rivalry, and A.I.; a preview of the U.S./China summit

What we saw was China received the full force of American economic coercion, and for the first time, could completely turn that force back against the U.S. and get the U.S. to back down. President Xi wasn't just playing his cards. He was playing the player, as we might say in poker, and he figured out Trump's number.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Can John Ternus find Apple's next big thing?

The one thing I will say that did feel slightly different is that Ternus came out swinging with a point of view on AI. The first thing he came out with was about the intelligent personal hub. Now, here's the big difference between Tim Cook and John Ternus in terms of their management style. You're inside Apple, you're an executive, you'll come to him with an idea, you'll come to him with a viewpoint, a decision, an opinion, and he'll just pepper you with more questions. He won't make a singular decision in many cases. It's very much communal decision-making, collaborative decision-making. John Ternus, if you come to him and you want him to make a decision, he'll make a decision.

TBPN

Andreessen Horowitz Launches Horowitz Andreessen, New Models, Human Powered Agents, McLaren Rebrand

The hardest thing about building harvey is doing what's best for our customers despite immense pressure to do what's easy the easy thing would have been to force our customers into consumption pricing before they were ready and serve them worse models to protect our margins We chose to help our customers transition on a timeline that works for them and give them the best models in the meantime, even though it hurt our margins.

The a16z Show

Why a16z is Building a New School for the AI Era | Ben Horowitz

why failure can be valuable when it produces real learning, and what it takes to develop the judgment and people skills that can't simply be learned from a textbook.

TED

Meet the Youngest-Ever Mayor in Japan’s History | Ryosuke Takashima | TED

If someone speaks up and others agree with it, that personal issue becomes social issue. Citizens created the vision by themselves and we, local government, supported the process, because [a] city is citizens -- [a] city is not the government.

TED

Meet the Youngest-Ever Mayor in Japan’s History | Ryosuke Takashima | TED

People tend to think that the ones who make society better are the government or someone else, and not ourselves. I want to change that mindset. It is everyone. It's every single person who can make society better and who can contribute to making society better.

Semafor

Why Most CEOs Are Doing AI Transformation Wrong, with Kai-Fu Lee

AI workers are becoming more capable than human workers in many aspects. So one must plan for that. And in the future as AI workers swarm into the company and is uh taking over and doing a better job than human workers. The organization needs to change.

TED

The Four Steps to Hearing Hard Feedback Gracefully | Chris Wheatley | TED

There is no substitute for a tough piece of feedback from someone who cares about us. And when we can make it safe enough for the people in our lives to tell us those hard things, it not only benefits us, it can spark transformation in our workplaces and in our families.

TED

The Four Steps to Hearing Hard Feedback Gracefully | Chris Wheatley | TED

And the feedback is that when I'm not at my best, I come across as arrogant, condescending, self-righteous and a know-it-all -- which is a really nice combination and a great way to make friends, if you're interested.

Daily Stoic

9 Stoic Lessons From Roman Politics

Because if wise people, if good people, if people who try to live and act with virtue, if they don't seek public office, if they don't participate in public life, if they don't vote, if they don't speak out, you know what is happening? They're ceding that floor to the people who are not.

Book of the Day

Marking 25 years since Sept. 11 with 'All the Presidents' Wars' and 'Scattered Steel'

You got to plan for the day after otherwise that then you're going to lose the peace even if you've won the war.

Fresh Air

Stories of survival & loss at Ground Zero

Every fiber in my being was screaming at me to get out of this building. Every second that we wasted was one second closer to us not getting out of the building. But that's not what firemen do. We were there to save people's lives. And that culture, that firefighter culture, overtook whatever personal need I felt to get out of the building.

Book of the Day

Sen. Ted Cruz's new book 'Going Further' praises Justice Clarence Thomas

The reason I don't want to be a judge is a principal judge stays out of politics and stays out of policy fights. And if I were a judge, I'd do that. I'd stay out of those fights. I don't want to stay out of those fights.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

How Sonos rebooted itself

When I came in the door, one of my earliest observations was that the company behaved like it was 100 percent hardware, but we're really 100 percent hardware and 100 percent software. And if you get either one of those even a little bit wrong, the impact is tremendous.

TED Intersections

Why Is It So Hard for Men to Open Up? A Journalist and an Entrepreneur Answer | TED Intersections

Nothing that happens after the question is your responsibility. Your responsibility is have the curiosity, the integrity, the thoughtfulness, and the humility to ask what's on your mind and not bite your tongue because well, it might be uncomfortable. Well, what are they going to say? Let that be their problem.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Walter Russell Mead - How America Keeps Winning - [Invest Like the Best, EP.490]

Walter lays out the five step playbook that carried the Dutch, then the British, then America to global leadership, and why the same pattern keeps beating centralized continental powers.