I set aside time to learn every day and I'm always looking for ways to improve myself both personally and professionally.

Blog / Newsletter Recommendations

A handful of the resources that I take the time to read regularly and strongly recommend:

Podcasts

Dwarkesh Patel has proven himself to be the best tech interviewer of this generation. For every episode, he seems to do a Ph.D.-level deep dive into the reference material to be able to investigate more deeply than any other host. He's simultaneously kept the focus on tech (especially AI) and history without getting sucked into the all-consuming black hole of politics.

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ChinaTalk by Jordan Schneider covers technology policy, economic statecraft, defense, and many other topics in addition to US-China relations.

The episode cadence is prodigious given the quality of the content.

  • "WarTalk/Second Breakfast" recurring format episodes are my go-to for immediate analyses on military/defense
  • Deep dives on Chinese political economy and history go well beyond the standard policy-podcast register
  • Multipart, long-form book discussions are a joy
  • Chips and AI episodes connect the tech to economics, defense, and Zhongnanhai politics simultaneously


Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: perhaps the best long-form narrative history podcast. Episodes routinely run four to six hours with multipart series stretching past twenty hours. Pick a series and check it out!


Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11): Patrick interviews the people who build the institutions and infrastructure underneath modern finance, technology, and government. The premise of the show is that these systems are complicated but not unknowable, and each episode pulls apart a black box (ACH, fraud, compliance, drug approvals) and shows you the how it works.

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