Best Packy McCormick Podcasts (2025)

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How Nat Eliason Made $200,000 in a Week Teaching AI - Ep. 48 59:22

6d ago59:22

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Nat Eliason’s career arc is borderline absurd—but it works. In the last five years, he ran an SEO agency, got into crypto, made $600,000 from a course on the note-taking toolRoam Research, flipped real estate in Austin for a 6x return, and published abook with Random House. He’s now writing a book of science fiction and running a viralcourse about …

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Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch on What Comes After Coding - Ep. 47 56:15

13d ago56:15

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Guillermo Rauch is one of the most prolific coders of this generation. But he doesn’t think of himself as a coder anymore. Coding, he says, is a specific skill that AI is becoming great at. Instead, he thinks the future of coding is more holistic, full-stack engineers who can ideate, design, and execute all together. Guillermo is the founder and CE…

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How to Prepare for AGI According to Reid Hoffman - Ep. 46 1:09:23

20d ago1:09:23

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AGI is coming. Reid Hoffman just wrote the book on how to prepare. According to Reid, every major tech breakthrough (the written word, the printing press, the telephone) triggered mass fear. But, contrary to our worries, new technology tends to enhance human agency—even more so, if you know how to use it well. Reid is the cofounder of LinkedIn, Inf…

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The Venture Capitalist Who Finds the Best AI Products—Before They Win - Ep. 45 with Nabeel Hyatt 1:01:35

27d ago1:01:35

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Nabeel Hyatt is looking for the “Japanese toilets” of AI—products that delight users in unexpected ways. As a partner at Spark Capital, that investment philosophy has paid off. Despite making only 1-2 investments a year, he’s picked some of the biggest winners in AI so far: Descript, Cruise, and Granola. We spent an hour unpacking: How much “leash”…

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An Inside Look at Building an Email Client in 3 Months - Ep. 44 with Kieran Klaassen, Brandon Gell 1:15:21

1M ago1:15:21

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Building an email client used to take many years and millions of dollars. But Every’s Kieran Klaassen built Cora—a totally new way to manage your inbox with AI—in just 3 months. He even shipped the original MVP of the product in a single day—something that just wasn’t possible before the current state of generative AI. Now, there are almost 10,000 …

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How AI Will Change Science Forever - Ep. 43 with Alice Albrecht 1:00:02

2M ago1:00:02

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AI is going to change science forever.Small scale studies will give way to large scale open data gathering efforts. We’ll shift from seeking broad general theories to making contextual predictions in individual cases. The traditional research paper will change fundamentally.That’s why I had Alice Albrecht on the show. Few people straddle the worlds…

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The Secret to Building Sticky AI Products - Ep. 42 with Chris Pedregal 1:00:48

2M ago1:00:48

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Chris Pedregal knows how to build AI products that people love. Chris is the cofounder and CEO of Granola, an AI notepad for meetings. We use it all the time at Every—Granola listens in on a meeting and, when it ends, generates notes and a shareable transcript for anyone who missed it. Granola is one of my favorite consumer AI products because it’s…

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Do 60-Minute Coding Tasks in 60 Seconds—With AI - Ep. 41 with Steve Krouse 1:01:12

3M ago1:01:12

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Here’s the most compelling benchmark of AI progress: A task that took 60 minutes a year ago now takes 60 seconds. In January 2024, Geoffrey Litt and I spent an hour coaxing ChatGPT and Replit to build an app live on my podcast.12 months later, Steve Krouse and I built the same app with one prompt in less than a minute. Steve is the cofounder and CE…

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How We Incubate and Launch New Products With AI - Ep. 40 with Danny Aziz, Brandon Gell 1:00:47

3M ago1:00:47

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Over the last few months at Every, we’ve: Launched two AI products Acquired tens of thousands of users Released a new incubation in private alpha The weird thing is: We’re a media company with < 10 full-time employees, and we’re mostly bootstrapped. That’s not how things are supposed to work in startups. When we started our product incubation arm s…

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His GPT Wrapper Has Half a Million Users—And Keeps Growing - Ep. 39 with Vicente Silveira 1:03:25

3M ago1:03:25

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Everyone told Vicente Silveira that his startup—a GPT wrapper—would fail. Instead, one year later, it’s thriving—with about 500,000 registered users, nearly 3,000 paying subscribers, and over 2 million conversations in the GPT store. Vicente is the cofounder and CEO of AI PDF, a tool that can help you summarize, chat with, and organize your PDF fil…

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How to Win With Prompt Engineering - Ep. 38 with Jared Zoneraich 1:02:08

3M ago1:02:08

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Prompt engineering matters more than ever. But it’s evolving into something totally new: A way for non-technical domain experts to solve complex problems with AI. I spent an hour talking to prompt wizard Jared Zoneraich, cofounder and CEO of PromptLayer, about why the death of prompt engineering is greatly exaggerated. And why the future of prompti…

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How Notion Cofounder Simon Last Builds AI for Millions of Users - Ep. 37 with Simon Last 55:50

3M ago55:50

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This episode is sponsored by Notion. I’ve been using Notion to manage my professional and personal life for almost 10 years. As a company, they pay attention to the craft and ideas underlying the software they build, and that comes through in the experience of using Notion every day. If you’re a startup, get up to 6 months of Notion Plus with unlim…

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

4M ago1:09:09

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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 58:08

4M ago58:08

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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 in Ma…

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How to Use AI to Become a Learning Machine - Ep. 34 with Simon Eskildsen 1:13:43

5M ago1:13:43

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This episode is sponsored by Reflect. It’s the ultra-fast note-taking app that’s about to change the way you take notes. To boost your productivity with advanced features like custom prompts and voice transcripts, give Reflect a try by clicking on this link: https://reflect.app/?utm_source=every&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_campaign=september2024 Sim…

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How to Supercharge Your Writing With AI Tools - Ep. 33 with Evan Armstrong 1:35:23

6M ago1:35:23

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How do two professional writers use AI to do the best work of their lives? In today’s show, Every’s lead writer Evan Armstrong and I conduct an expert workshop on how we use ChatGPT, Claude, AI-powered word processor Lex, and the prompt builder that Every launched, Spiral, to feed our obsession with words—and help us write for more than 78,000 read…

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The Browser Company Is Building a Brand That Drives Viral Growth - Ep. 32 with Nashilu Mouen-Makoua 1:09:28

6M ago1:09:28

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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. I sat down with Nashilu Mouen-Makoua, the head of storytelling at The Browser Company, to talk about how they tell stories that capture the cultural zeitgeist and connect authentically with their users—and how she integrates AI into …

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Building an AI Media and Software Empire - Ep. 31 with Brandon Gell 1:56:26

6M ago1:56:26

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The journey to a calm, profitable business in the AI age 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 …

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How to Be a Smarter Reader in the Age of AI - Ep. 30 with Alex Wieckowski 1:19:43

6M ago1:19:43

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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 1:13:29

6M ago1:13:29

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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 1:09:19

7M ago1:09:19

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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 1:13:08

7M ago1:13:08

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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

7M 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 a …

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The AI-powered Era of Scientific Discovery Is Here - Ep. 25 with Dr. Bradley Love 58:40

7M ago58:40

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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 1:04:47

8M ago1:04:47

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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 works…

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What Do LLMs Tell Us About the Nature of Language—And Ourselves? - Ep. 23 with Robin Sloan 53:48

8M ago53:48

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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 56:15

9M ago56:15

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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? 1:44

9M ago1:44

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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 49:37

9M ago49:37

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The NYT’s Kevin Roose has 18 new friends—none of whom are human. His new friends are AI personas that he made with Noma, Kindroid, and other AI companion apps. There’s fitness guru Jared, therapist Peter, trial lawyer Anna, and over a dozen more. Kevin talked to them every day for a month, sharing his feelings, asking for parenting advice, and even…

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Is Prompting the Future of Coding? - Ep. 20 with Nick Dobos 57:24

10M ago57:24

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Nick Dobos, maker of the #1 programming GPT, on prompt-gramming with AI Nick Dobos showed me how to ship a website with two words and a single click. He’s the creator of Grimoire, the #1 custom GPT for programming that has been used for over 1 million chats. All he gave Grimoire was two words: “coffee website.” Just a minute later, Grimoire built t…

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He Built an AI Model That Can Decode Your Emotions - Ep. 19 with Alan Cowen 56:12

10M ago56:12

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This AI can read emotions better than you can. It was created by Alan Cowen, the cofounder and CEO of Hume, an AI research lab developing models that can read your face and your voice with uncanny accuracy. Before starting Hume, Alan helped set up Google’s research into affective computing and has a Ph.D. in computational psychology from Berkely. H…

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Reid Hoffman on How AI is Answering Our Biggest Questions—Ep. 18 with Reid Hoffman 1:00:57

10M ago1:00:57

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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 a founder, investor, podcaster, and author. But before he did any of these things, he studied philosophy—and it changed the way he thinks. Studying philosophy trains you to think …

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This Best-selling Author Wrote a Book in 30 Days—With ChatGPT - Ep. 17 with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz 1:14:26

10M ago1:14:26

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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 1:00:48

11M ago1:00:48

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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 1:04:57

11M ago1:04:57

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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 1:15:47

11M ago1:15:47

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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 1:36:44

12M ago1:36:44

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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 1:05:22

12M ago1:05:22

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You can break into Hollywood with a movie you made alone in your room. Dave Clark can show you exactly how in < 60 minutes. He’s a film director with a body of work that includes both feature films and commercials for brands like Google. His latest achievement is a stunning sci-fi short that got Hollywood’s attention, one that Dave made exclusively…

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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 1:28:37

12M ago1:28:37

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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 1:59:13

1y ago1:59:13

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Steph Smith is the host of the a16z podcast and a prolific online creator. Steph sees the internet through a high-definition lens that gives her a deep understanding of what people want. She can isolate a clear signal from the noise, which she uses to build wonderfully creative, useful things. In this episode, I dive deep with Steph on how she uses…

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How to Make a Video Game With ChatGPT in 60 Minutes - Ep. 9 with Logan Kilpatrick 1:45:08

1y ago1:45:08

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You can build a video game without writing a single line of code. Logan Kilpatrick and I use ChatGPT and GPT Builder to make our own video game in less than 60 minutes—live on this show. Logan is OpenAI’s first dev relations and advocacy hire and is committed to empowering more people to build using AI. It’s only fitting that we explore the depths …

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ChatGPT for Radical Self-Betterment - Ep. 8 with Dr. Gena Gorlin 1:22:40

1y ago1:22:40

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Dr. Gena 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 @ChatGPTapp 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 thorough and insightful annual r…

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Economist Tyler Cowen on How ChatGPT Is Changing Your Job - Ep. 7 with Tyler Cowen 1:07:26

1y ago1:07:26

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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

1y 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 1:27:12

1y ago1:27:12

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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

1y 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 1:05:17

1y ago1:05:17

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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 did i…

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

1y 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

1y 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

1y 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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