The Perfect Summary Podcast

Cardiologist Dr. Tara Narula explains how stress can cause heart attacks and shares her toolkit for building resilience in adults and kids.

OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba on GPT-3, Codex and Copilot, the Rubik's cube robot hand, consciousness as compression, meditation and love.

Mel Robbins and her 18-year-old son Oakley answer listener questions on getting teens to open up, cliques, bullying, phones, anxiety and dyslexia.

Cyc founder Douglas Lenat explains how his team spent decades hand-encoding common sense so AI can reason, explain itself and stop making absurd mistakes.

Myron Golden on wealth as a matter of belief and identity, selling without chasing, faith, loss and raising capable kids.

Grimes talks with Lex Fridman about music production, becoming a mother, optimistic futures, AI, consciousness and why we are now Homo techno.

Dr. Ramani explains narcissism as a rigid personality style built on entitlement, busts four myths, and shows how to spot love bombing early.

Mel Robbins walks through six findings on who we spend time with across life, and how to be intentional with family, friends, partners, kids and yourself.

Neuralink's first human patient explains how he moves a cursor with his thoughts, what went wrong, and why he chose to go first.

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon explains 5G, how Snapdragon packs a computer into a phone, the chip shortage, and Qualcomm's push into cars and PCs.

A leading reproductive epidemiologist explains why sperm counts in the West have halved in forty years, what everyday chemicals have to do with it, and what you can change at home.

A Nobel-winning biologist and a health psychologist explain how stress, sleep, exercise, food, relationships and surroundings shape the telomeres that set the pace of cellular aging.

Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt argue that three bad ideas and a culture of overprotection are leaving a generation of students more fragile, more anxious and more divided.

Donald Knuth recalls his first programs, literate programming, John Conway, the giant component problem, open source and staying curious.

Mel Robbins takes listeners backstage in Dallas to share how she beat her fear of public speaking, plus Michelle Poler's 100-fears lessons.

Mel Robbins shares six words that interrupt catastrophizing, plus the Buddhist two-arrows teaching and research on how worry hurts.

Dr. Russell Kennedy answers listener questions on nighttime anxiety, anxious parents and racing thoughts, with body-first tools for healing the alarm.

Cognitive scientist Jay McClelland recalls the birth of neural networks with Rumelhart and Hinton and explains how mind emerges from simple units.

Cal Newport argues that the inbox has become a broken way of organising work, and lays out four principles for doing knowledge work without the constant chatter.

A former New York Times reporter argues that marijuana causes psychosis and violence and that legalization has outrun the science, a case many experts dispute.

Body language expert Janine Driver teaches Mel Robbins how to spot deception, use words and posture to project confidence, and trust your intuition.

Twin sisters explain why stress stays stuck in the body, why women burn out in a rigged game, and the simple, shared ways to recover.

VR pioneer Jaron Lanier and Lex Fridman debate AI, social media's incentives, data dignity, Bitcoin, freedom, music, death and meaning.

Jon Kabat-Zinn's gentle classic on mindfulness: how to stop living on autopilot and pay attention to the only moment you have, on the cushion and at the kitchen sink.

Psychologist Dr. Thema Bryant explains psychological homelessness, its warning signs, and practical steps to heal and come home to yourself.

Dr. Scott Lyons explains the signs of being addicted to drama, why stress feels good, and practical ways to stop revving and find peace.

James Lindsay and Joe Rogan discuss border strategy, ESG, China's rise, queer theory in schools, cult psychology, Boeing and degrowth, often in 'tinfoil hat' mode.

Stanford's Jo Boaler explains why math should be visual, creative and collaborative, and how one teacher's belief can change a student's path.

Donnell Rawlings and Joe Rogan talk heckling into comedy, auditioning for The Corner, AI's threat to Hollywood, co-parenting, zoo monkeys and his special.

NIST physicist Jeff Shainline explains brain-inspired hardware built from superconductors and light, and why the universe may be tuned for technology.