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• Craig Newmark on Institutional Maintenance, Giving Away Control, and the Internet We Were Promised (Live at 92NY) 2026-04-29
  Craig Newmark's career, in retrospect, looks like a series of deliberate subtractions: he kept Craigslist plain, stepped aside as CEO early on, gave…
• Blake Scholl on Supersonic Flight and Fixing Broken Infrastructure - Live at the Progress Conference 2025-11-19
  Blake Scholl is one of the leading figures working to bring back civilian supersonic flight. As the founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, he's…
• Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference 2025-11-05
  Register for the Austin listener meetup Sam Altman makes his second appearance on the show to discuss how he's managing OpenAI's explosive growth,…
• David Brooks on Audacity, AI, and the American Psyche (Live at 92NY) 2025-08-20
  David Brooks returns to the show with a stark diagnosis of American culture. Having evolved from a Democratic socialist to a neoconservative to what…
• Gregory Clark on Social Mobility, Migration, and Assortative Mating (Live at Mercatus) 2025-02-19
  How much of your life's trajectory was set in motion centuries ago? Gregory Clark has spent decades studying social mobility, and his findings…
• John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race (Live at Mason) 2020-03-11
  Who can you ask about the Great American Songbook, the finer Jell-O flavors, and peculiar languages like Saramaccan all while expecting the same…