Best Packy McCormick Podcasts (2024)

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How Notion Cofounder Simon Last Builds AI for Millions of Users - Ep. 37 with Simon Last 55:51

26m ago55:51

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Notion cofounder Simon Last told me everything he’s learned from integrating an AI application into a platform that has over 100 million users. Simon likes to keep a low profile, even though he’s the driving force behind Notion AI, one of the most widely scaled AI applications in the world. In this episode, we get into how AI changes the way he bui…

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How Union Square Ventures Built an AI Brain for Venture Capital - Ep. 36 with Matt Cynamon 1:09:10

2h ago1:09:10

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Union Square Ventures is building an AI operating system to support their investment team. But it’s not what you think: It’s a constellation of AI tools that captures and synthesizes the firm's collective wisdom. It’s evolving every day, and Matt Cynamon is the mad scientist in charge Matt calls himself a “regular” at USV. In practice that means he…

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Building AI That Builds Itself - Ep. 35 with Yohei Nakajima 58:09

16d ago58:09

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Yohei Nakajima⁠ leads a double life. By day, he’s a general partner of a small venture firm, ⁠Untapped Capital⁠. By night, he’s one of the most prolific internet tinkerers in AI. (He also sometimes works on ⁠automating his job as a venture capitalist.) He’s the creator of BabyAGI (@babyAGI_), the first open-source autonomous agent that went viral i…

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How to Use AI to Become a Learning Machine - Ep. 34 with Simon Eskildsen 1:13:44

2M ago1:13:44

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Simon Eskildsen is a learning machine. I first interviewed him in 2020 about how he leveled up from being an intern at Shopify to becoming the company’s director of production engineering by reading and applying insights from hundreds of books. A lot has changed over the last four years. Language models have made it possible to access and contextua…

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How to Supercharge Your Writing With AI Tools - Ep. 33 with Evan Armstrong 1:35:24

2M ago1:35:24

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If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X: https://twi…

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The Browser Company Is Building a Brand That Drives Viral Growth - Ep. 32 with Nashilu Mouen-Makoua 1:09:29

2M ago1:09:29

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The Browser Company isn’t just building a browser, they’re building a formidable brand—and they’re doing it with AI. The Browser Company has driven viral user growth, a $550 million valuation, and close to 100,000 YouTube subscribers. Its brand centers people, not products. It’s messy, authentic, and refreshing—and it seeps into everything the team…

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Building an AI Media and Software Empire - Ep. 31 with Brandon Gell 1:56:27

2M ago1:56:27

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We’re building a mini-AI media and software empire at Every. Today on AI & I, Brandon Gell joins the show to turn the tables on me and act as podcast host to explore what we’re doing as a company, how we got here, and where we’re going. Brandon is Every’s first entrepreneur in residence, and he was the perfect person to host, because he’s one of th…

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How to Be a Smarter Reader in the Age of AI - Ep. 30 with Alex Wieckowski 1:19:44

3M ago1:19:44

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Alex Wieckowski is on a mission to make you fall in love with reading again—and he thinks AI can help. Alex, who writes a newsletter that captures lessons from books he’s read and tips to become a better reader, Alex & Books, is a creator with over 1 million followers across social platforms. He’s also the author of a book of quotes that will inspi…

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How Packy McCormick Finds His Next Big Idea - Ep. 29 1:13:30

3M ago1:13:30

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One of the most influential voices in tech explains how AI helps him write and invest. This episode is sponsored by Create. If you want to maximize your gains, both with your body and with ChatGPT, try creatinine gummies from Create. Place your order through this link to get a 30 percent discount: https://trycreate.co/products/creatine-monohydrate-…

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How a Top Podcaster Rides the AI Wave - Ep. 28 with Nathaniel Whittemore 1:09:20

3M ago1:09:20

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Keeping up with AI is Nathaniel Whittemore’s full-time job—and I spent an hour with him to understand how he does it. Nathaniel is the host of a top-ranked AI podcast on the technology charts, The AI Daily Brief, which breaks down the most important news in AI every day. He is also the founder and CEO of Superintelligent, a platform that teaches yo…

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Dwarkesh Patel’s Quest to Learn Everything - Ep. 27 1:13:09

3M ago1:13:09

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This episode is sponsored by Command Bar, an embedded AI copilot designed to improve user experience on your web or mobile site. Find them here: https://www.commandbar.com/copilot/ Dwarkesh Patel is on a quest to know everything. He’s using LLMs to enhance how he reads, learns, thinks, and conducts interviews. Dwarkesh is a podcaster who’s intervie…

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The Internet Creator's Guide to the Future - Ep. 26 with Steph Smith 1:19:16

4M ago1:19:16

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Steph Smith is the ultimate internet explorer. I spent an hour talking to her about the future of creating on the internet in the age of AI. She’s our first-ever repeat guest, and if you watch the episode you’ll see why: It’s a curious, fun, experimental romp through the best of the digital world. We try out four underrated AI products, go through …

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The AI-powered Era of Scientific Discovery Is Here - Ep. 25 with Dr. Bradley Love 58:41

4M ago58:41

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Dr. Bradley Love is building a tool that can predict the future. Dr. Bradley Love is transforming neuroscience research with AI. He's the creator of BrainGPT, a large language model that can predict the results of neuroscience studies—before they’re conducted. And it performs better than human experts. We spent 90 minutes exploring how AI is reshap…

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She Built an AI Product Manager Bringing in Six Figures—As A Side Hustle - Ep. 24 with Claire Vo 1:04:48

5M ago1:04:48

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Claire Vo built ChatPRD—an on-demand chief product officer powered by AI. It’s now used by over 10,000 product managers and is pulling in six figures in revenue. The best part? Claire has a demanding day job as the CPO at LaunchDarkly. So she built all of ChatPRD herself—over the weekend—with AI. I sat down with Claire to talk about how ChatPRD wor…

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What Do LLMs Tell Us About the Nature of Language—And Ourselves? - Ep. 23 with Robin Sloan 53:49

5M ago53:49

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An interview with best-selling sci-fi novelist Robin Sloan One of my favorite fiction writers, New York Times best-selling author Robin Sloan, just wrote the first novel I’ve seen that’s inspired by LLMs. The book is called Moonbound, and Robin originally wanted to write it with language models. He tried doing this in 2016 with a rudimentary model …

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Is NotebookLM—Google's Research Assistant—the Ultimate Tool For Thought? - Ep.22 with Steven Johnson 56:16

5M ago56:16

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We use it to find bestselling author Steven Berlin Johnson’s next project. I sat down with bestselling author Steven Johnson to see if we could come up with a concept for his next project—using AI. The results were amazing. We loaded 200,000 words of NASA transcripts and all of Steven’s reading notes since 1999 into NotebookLM, Google’s personalize…

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Trailer: What is AI & I? 1:45

5M ago1:45

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Learn how the smartest people in the world are using AI to think, create, and relate. Each week I interview founders, filmmakers, writers, investors, and others about how they use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Midjourney in their work and in their lives. We screen-share through their historical chats and then experiment with AI live on the sho…

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Kevin Roose Has 18 New Best Friends—And They're All AIs - Ep. 21 49:38

6M ago49:38

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New York Times journalist Kevin Roose has 18 new friends—none of whom are human. Kevin formed a collection of “friends”—AI personas with distinct personalities and backstories—using apps like Kindroid and Nomi. Among these were fitness guru Jared, San Francisco-based therapist Peter, and pragmatic trial lawyer Anna. He talked to them every day for …

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Is Prompting the Future of Coding? - Ep. 20 with Nick Dobos 57:25

6M ago57:25

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Nick Dobos, maker of the #1 programming GPT, on prompt-gramming with AI You can go from having an idea to deploying a live website in minutes. All you have to do is prompt Grimoire, the number-one custom GPT for programming, with an image or even a single word about your idea. As you watch the LLM process your request, Grimoire works with a web hos…

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He Built an AI Model That Can Decode Your Emotions - Ep. 19 with Alan Cowen 56:13

6M ago56:13

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The future of AI technology isn’t just faster or more powerful—it’s empathetic. My guest for this episode, Alan Cowen, is leading the charge with the first-ever emotionally intelligent AI. Alan is the co-founder and CEO of Hume, an AI research laboratory developing models trained to identify and measure expressions of emotion from voice inflections…

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Reid Hoffman on How AI is Answering Our Biggest Questions - Ep. 18 with Reid Hoffman 1:00:58

7M ago1:00:58

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Learn how to use philosophy to run your business more effectively Reid Hoffman thinks a masters in philosophy will help you run your business better than an MBA. Reid is the cofounder of LinkedIn, a partner at venture capital firm Greylock Partners, the host of the Masters of Scale podcast, and a prolific author. But before he did any of these thin…

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This Best-selling Author Wrote a Book in 30 Days—With ChatGPT - Ep. 17 with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz 1:14:27

7M ago1:14:27

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Seth-Stephens Davidowitz wrote a book in 30 days—and he did it with ChatGPT. Seth is a data scientist, economist, and author who challenged himself to write a book—Who Makes the NBA?—in less than 1 month after realizing how fast he could work by using ChatGPT plugin Advanced Data Analysis. But along the way he discovered something else: Writing wit…

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Take Your Business From Zero to One With AI - Ep. 16 with Nicholas Thorne 1:00:49

7M ago1:00:49

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Nicholas Thorne is building Squarespace for the AI age. It’s called Audos, and it’s an AI chatbot to help any entrepreneur go from idea to: - Pitch deck - Working website - Custom GPT - User interviews with real customers All in just a few minutes. And he did it using ChatGPTapp. It’s AI all the way down—and it’s one of the most impressive AI busin…

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Prozac and ChatGPT: How Technology is Changing the Way We See Ourselves - Ep. 15 with Peter D. Kramer 1:04:58

8M ago1:04:58

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Antidepressants changed my life. I have OCD and antidepressants did what nearly a decade of therapy, meditation, and supplements couldn’t: they allowed me to live my life without being in a 24/7 spiral. (Bonus: they actually made therapy and meditation far more helpful once they started to work.) I think antidepressants are seriously misunderstood.…

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How to Run a Profitable One-person Internet Business Using AI - Ep. 14 with Ben Tossell 1:15:48

8M ago1:15:48

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You can build and run a one-person internet business that earns half a million in annual revenue—with AI. Ben Tossell showed me exactly how in this episode. Ben is the founder of Ben’s Bites—one of the best daily AI newsletters out there, which I love reading every day—and an investor in a number of promising early-stage AI startups. Ben is also an…

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Can Gemini 1.5 Pro Beat Our Best Stock Trade? - Ep. 13 with Jesse Beyroutey 1:36:45

8M ago1:36:45

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I made the greatest trade of my life with Jesse Beyroutey in 2019. We bought Nvidia shares when they were trading at $33. They’re worth nearly $800 today. I sat down with Jesse to top that trade in 90 minutes using Gemini Pro 1.5’s incredible 1 million token context window—and make a $1,000 trade live on the show. Jesse is a managing partner at IA …

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How a Hollywood Director Uses AI to Make Movies - Ep. 12 with Dave Clark 1:05:23

8M ago1:05:23

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You can break into Hollywood with a movie you made alone in your room without using a single camera. Dave Clark showed me how live on this show. Dave Clark is a film director and commercial director with experience working with brands like HP and Intel who is now experimenting with cutting-edge AI technology. He recently produced a popular sci-fi s…

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She’s Running a Business, Writing a Book, and Getting a PhD—with ChatGPT - Ep. 11 with Anne-Laure Le Cunff 1:28:38

9M ago1:28:38

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Are you a curious person with a lot of ideas and little time? Anne-Laure Le Cunff can show you how to do it all. Anne-Laure is the founder of one of my favorite internet communities for curious minds, Ness Labs, a prolific writer, and a neuroscience PhD candidate. She’s also writing a book, Liminal Minds, that’ll be out later this year. And she sai…

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How to Find Your Next Big Idea Hiding on the Internet - Ep. 10 with Steph Smith 1:59:14

9M ago1:59:14

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The next big idea is hiding in plain sight. It’s right here, scattered across the internet in incoherent fragments. Steph Smith, my guest for this episode, knows how to connect the dots. Steph Smith is a prolific online creator, host of the a16Z podcast, author of a book about building a successful blog called Doing Content Right, and creator of In…

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How to Make a Video Game With ChatGPT in 60 Minutes - Ep. 9 with Logan Kilpatrick 1:45:09

9M ago1:45:09

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You can make a video game without writing a single line of code. Logan Kilpatrick uses ChatGPT to show me how. Logan is OpenAI’s first developer relations and advocacy hire. A big part of Logan’s job is supporting the community of builders using ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the OpenAI API. He’s also deeply invested in growing this community, convinced that…

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ChatGPT for Radical Self-betterment - Ep. 8 with Gena Gorlin 1:22:41

9M ago1:22:41

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Dr. Gena Gorlin (https://twitter.com/Gena_I_Gorlin) is a clinical psychologist at UT Austin whose goal is to raise the ceiling on human potential. I sat down with her to discuss how ChatGPT has become a key tool in her quest for radical self-betterment. In this episode, she feeds ChatGPT a list of her old journal entries, and it conducts the most t…

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Economist Tyler Cowen on How ChatGPT Is Changing Your Job - Ep. 7 with Tyler Cowen 1:07:27

10M ago1:07:27

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Tyler Cowen is an economist who has been thinking about the impact of technology on life, work, and the economy for the past decade. He is a prolific writer behind the leading economic blog Marginal Revolution, a professor of economics at George Mason University, and the author of 17 books. In this episode, I dive deep with him on how ChatGPT will …

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Bonus: Mass Manufacturing Micro-sized Nuclear Reactors with Jordan Bramble and Julia DeWahl of Antares 42:44

10M ago42:44

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Here's our full-length interview with Jordan Bramble and our own Julia DeWahl, co-founders of Antares, where we dive deep into how Antares plans on manufacturing in mass micro-sized nuclear reactors to provide abundant energy for all. 🔥 Apply to join over 400 founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj…

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How David Perell Uses ChatGPT to Write for Millions - Ep. 6 with David Perell 1:27:13

10M ago1:27:13

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David Perell is one of the best known internet writers of his generation. He’s amassed almost a half million followers on X, hosts the popular podcast How I Write, and founded Write of Passage, which has taught thousands of students how to be digital writers. We go deep on using ChatGPT to: Doing deep reading of old books Finding anecdotes that spr…

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Bonus: A World with Abundant Fusion Energy with David Kirtley of Helion Energy 51:08

10M ago51:08

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Here's our full-length interview with David Kirtley, founder of Helion Energy, where we dive deep into the need for fusion as a replacement for fossil fuels. 🔥 Apply to join over 400 founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj SPONSORS: RIPPLING SPEND | WEIGHTS AND BIASES | GIVEWELL | ANROK Imagine tot…

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You Can Build an App in 60 Minutes with ChatGPT - Ep. 5 with Geoffrey Litt 1:05:18

10M ago1:05:18

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This show might be a first in the history of podcasts: Researcher ⁠Geoffrey Litt⁠ and I built an app together using ChatGPTapp and Replit in under 60 minutes—while we talked. We wanted to show how AI and ChatGPT change who gets to build software and how they usher in a world where everyone can ⁠modify⁠ and ⁠remix⁠ the apps they use every day. So we…

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Bonus: Unlocking Nuclear Power at Scale with Bret Kugelmass of Last Energy 47:19

10M ago47:19

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Here's our full-length interview with Bret Kugelmass, founder of Last Energy, where we dive deep into nuclear manufacturing and the importance of manufacturing efficiency. 🔥 Apply to join over 400 founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj SPONSORS: RIPPLING SPEND | WEIGHTS AND BIASES | GIVEWELL | ANR…

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Bonus: Building Nuclear for the Moon with Tyler Bernstein of Zeno Power 41:12

10M ago41:12

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We're kicking off the first of our bonus episodes with Tyler Bernstein, founder and CEO of Zeno Power, where he shares in-depth how they're creating radioisotope power systems for lunar applications. 🔥 Apply to join over 400 founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj SPONSORS: RIPPLING SPEND | WEIGHTS…

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E10: Energy for an Age of Miracles 37:50

10M ago37:50

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We can live in an Age of Miracles, but it’s going to take a lot of work. Energy abundance is the most important thing we can work towards as a species. More than simply surviving climate change, we have the opportunity to unlock a new level of human thriving if we can successfully navigate this transition. That’s why we chose to do the first season…

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How to Use ChatGPT as a Copilot for Learning - Ep. 4 with Nathan Labenz 1:13:04

11M ago1:13:04

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Sometimes ChatGPT is a copilot, sitting beside you, taking directions, and guiding you as you fly through your work. At other times, it’s a subordinate. It’s not just an assistant or a companion, but a trusted deputy, someone—or something—that’ll heed instructions and complete tasks. This is how our guest, Nathan Labenz, thinks about ChatGPT. In th…

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E9: Fusion Founders 1:15:15

11M ago1:15:15

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In the bizarro relay marathon that is the fusion race, the baton is firmly in the hands of the startups. The outcome, to be sure, is still uncertain, but the question isn’t whether humanity will achieve commercial fusion, but which companies will, with which approaches, when? Fusion, many believe, will be one of humanity’s greatest triumphs: we wil…

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How an AI Researcher Uses ChatGPT and Notion AI - Ep. 3 with Linus Lee 1:14:19

11M ago1:14:19

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TL;DR: Today we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast How Do You Use ChatGPT? I go in-depth with Notion research engineer Linus Lee on how he uses ChatGPT and Notion AI to maximize creative control. Watch on X, YouTube, or Spotify. You might think that being an AI researcher would mostly involve solving complicated programming problems and thin…

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E8: The Fusion Marathon 55:22

11M ago55:22

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There’s this joke that fusion is always 30 years away. 50 years ago, it was 30 years away. 20 years ago, it was still thirty years away. Today, though… we might be within a decade. We spent the first half of the season on nuclear fission, and the last episode on many of the other energy sources that will play a role in meeting humanity’s growing en…

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Using ChatGPT for Writing and Recommending Books - Ep. 2 with Nat Eliason 40:53

11M ago40:53

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How Nat Eliason uses ChatGPT to write books:Nat Eliason is a shape-shifter.He’s a writer with a book deal from Random House, a crypto trader, a Roam Research aficionado, a marketer, a book podcaster, a parent, and a seed oil iconoclast. He's amassed thousands of newsletter subscribers, 70,000 followers on X, and 110,000 on TikTok. His secret weapon…

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E7: The Case For All the Other Energy Sources 1:53:13

11M ago1:53:13

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Packy and Julia have spent the first five episodes of Age of Miracles diving into the past and present of nuclear fission—before jumping from the yin to the yang and covering nuclear fusion in the second half of this season, today we wanted to take a step back and talk about all the non-nuclear energy sources out there. We ask this icebreaker quest…

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E6: Nuclear Mailbag 59:13

11M ago59:13

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This week, Packy and Julia take a break from our regularly scheduled narrative programming to look back on the past five episodes we've published focused on nuclear fission—and address news stories, feedback, and listener questions collected through this season so far. We cover: Illinois pushing back on the nuclear moratorium, Nuscale's cancelled c…

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E5: Fission Founders, Part 2: Designing Advanced Nuclear Reactor Startups 2:04:53

12M ago2:04:53

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Let's dive into the world of advanced nuclear startups—where founders are playing entrepreneurship on hard-mode, and navigating how to build new reactor designs, sell to new markets, and forge new regulatory pathways. This episode is the second focused on nuclear fission startup founders—while last week Packy and Julia spoke with entrepreneurs who …

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Buying a Building with ChatGPT - Ep. 1 with Sahil Lavingia 47:02

12M ago47:02

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About the show I believe that ChatGPT is the most important creative tool of the decade. I think it can help us write better, create art, efficiently ship products, build great businesses, make smart decisions, and even learn something about ourselves,. But it’s still so early. Most of us don’t even really know how to use ChatGPT. We have a feeling…

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E4: Fission Founders, Part 1: Manufacturing Nuclear 56:53

12M ago56:53

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What if we treated building nuclear more like a manufacturing challenge than a construction challenge? How could nuclear benefit from the tried-and-true methodologies of other large industrial industries like ship-building and oil and gas to make nuclear as cheap as solar and wind to produce? In this episode – the first of two with leading nuclear …

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E3: Nuclear Economics 1:23:23

12M ago1:23:23

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If we just tried to implement and scale the technology we have today for large scale nuclear reactors, with no innovation on reactor designs or business models, could we do it? How hard (or expensive) could it really be? In this episode, Packy and Julia dig into the nitty gritty of these issues and look at what it actually takes to build a plant in…

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