The Perfect Summary Podcast
Every summary, narrated: the GIST of great conversations and books in minutes, so you can decide if you want the REST.
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MIT robot ethicist Kate Darling explains why robots are more like animals than humans, the risks of social robots, and what the Epstein scandal taught her.
NYU professor Adam Alter shares a research-based roadmap for getting unstuck: find your friction, set a signal goal and take the smallest next step.
Andrej Karpathy talks transformers, Software 2.0, Tesla's vision-only bet, Optimus, aliens, AGI and how he works and learns with Lex Fridman.
Andrew Huberman explains how the brain and immune system talk to each other, with tools from nasal breathing to cyclic hyperventilation and sauna.
Bioinformatics professor Dmitry Korkin explains protein domains, the SARS-CoV-2 shell, what AlphaFold 2 really solved, and the odds of alien life.
Vice co-founder Shane Smith and Joe Rogan talk media, staying small, money and happiness, AI and jobs, surveillance, immigration and UFOs.
Teen thinker Zev Weinstein on why deep thinking is dangerous yet vital in stagnant times, plus truth, free will, music and his father.
MIT physicist Max Tegmark on understandable AI, alignment, algorithmic news bubbles, killer drones, consciousness and our place in the cosmos.
Mel Robbins explains three painful triggers, jealousy, being called out and playing small, and how to turn each into fuel for action.
Huberman explains why gratitude lists fall short and builds a brief, story-based gratitude practice grounded in neuroscience and immune research.
Pastor and author Sarah Jakes Roberts tells Mel Robbins how to stop punishing yourself for the past, use every part of your story, and step into your power.
Mel Robbins shares three truths about adults: if they wanted to they would, you can't make anyone change, and stop being mad at who they aren't.
Chamath Palihapitiya tells Lex Fridman about an abusive childhood, why mistakes drive success, early Facebook, zero-cost energy and feeling equal.
UCLA's Jack Feldman explains how the brain controls breathing, why we sigh, how breathing shapes emotion and cognition, and simple breathwork to try.
Hospice physician Dr. Zach Bush shares his near-death experience and what the dying teach us about wholeness, fear and living without performing.
On the eve of the 2024 election, Elon Musk and Joe Rogan discuss X and free speech, immigration, government waste, tariffs, AI and robots.
Stanford psychologist Alia Crum explains how beliefs about food, exercise, stress, and side effects change what happens in the body.
Matthew Hussey joins Mel Robbins to answer listener questions on taking partners for granted, compromise, hard conversations and dating without burning out.
Python creator Guido van Rossum explains readability, the 3.11 speedup, type hints, the GIL, Python 4, Copilot and stepping down as BDFL.
Mel Robbins draws five life lessons from the Paris Olympics: feel your visualization, compare down, stay enthusiastic, quit wisely and know what you want.
Recorded on election day 2024, Joe Rogan and comedian Tim Dillon riff on the race, the media, foreign money, AI and the future of humans.
Roger Gracie breaks down his win over Buchecha, why mount beats back control, practicing your weaknesses, and never quitting.
Mel Robbins runs a workshop on the Five Whys, with her sister-in-law and daughter showing how the surface want often hides a deeper one.
Meta AI's Noam Brown explains how Libratus and Pluribus beat poker pros and how Cicero learned to negotiate with humans in Diplomacy.
Fraud investigator Coffeezilla breaks down the FTX collapse, SafeMoon, MLMs and fake gurus, and what it takes to hold powerful people to account.
Stanford psychiatrist David Spiegel explains the brain science of hypnosis and how self-hypnosis can ease stress, pain, insomnia, phobias and trauma.
Harvard stress expert Dr. Aditi Nerurkar shares simple habits, from shopping the grocery perimeter to a fake commute, that lower stress fast.
Michael Malice and Lex Fridman, in Santa suits, trace Soviet terror from Lenin to Gorbachev and argue that cynicism is a choice, not realism.
Andrew Huberman explains how the brain senses salt, how sodium drives thirst, stress and neuron firing, and how to find the salt intake that fits you.
Comedian Jeff Dye and Joe Rogan riff on discipline, self-improvement, group thinking, politics, cowboys and the craft of stand-up.