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Besties, THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!!! Latisha sits down with Seb to talk through the ENGAGEMENT. This is one you DON'T want to miss! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Bevor Ben Schwarzmaler zur Maschine gegriffen hat, hatte er die Dose in der Hand. Graffiti in Frankfurt, Wände in Kassel, Workshops mit Kids aus Vierteln, die man gerne „sozial schwach" nennt – „Kanalarbeiter" haben sie sich damals selbst genannt, weil es darum ging, Frust in etwas Produktives umzuleiten. Eine Ausbildung zum Mediengestalter hatte er auch, nur war ihm der Job zu unehrlich: einem Teufel eine Maske bauen, damit ihn alle für einen Engel halten – das wollte er nicht. Heute, gut zwölf Jahre und etliche Studios später, macht er Black & Grey Realistik und Lettering, führt zwei Läden im hessischen Nirgendwo und bildet aus, weil er das Lehrersein ehrlich feiert. Seb und er reden über Freehand und Stencil, über KI als Werkzeug statt als Feindbild, über die Frage, wo Inspiration aufhört und Klauen anfängt, über Conventions von der familiären Invite-only-Runde in Dublin bis zum Testosteron-Backofen in Rom – und über die Sorte Kollegen, die die ersten zwei Google-Seiten „kleine Tattoos" ausdruckt und damit Häuser bezahlt.Dabei wird es auch unbequem: übersättigter Markt, zerfressene Preiskultur, Studios, die niemanden anmelden, und ein Publikum, das kein Unikat will, sondern einen Look, den schon jemand anders trägt. Bens Prognose ist trotzdem erstaunlich versöhnlich – der Markt siebt sich aus, übrig bleibt, wer es liebt. Eine Folge über Handwerk, Haltung und die Frage, was von einem Tattoo bleibt, wenn der Hype weg ist.@ben_schwarzmaler[ WERBUNG ]Bei unseren Werbepartnern könnt ihr richtig sparen - darunter bei Neonsfeer, Murostar, Killer Ink, Cheyenne Tattoo Equipment, CoalBlack oder Caos Nero! Alle Infos auf www.tftn-podcast.com.
From transfer distractions to frustrating performances in Aston Villa's curtain raiser for the 2026/2027 Premier League season, Sunday's loss to Brighton had it all. Join Cole, Simon and Seb as they chat hours after the final whistle about the 4-0 defeat and where the football club goes from here.There's still time to join in on the fun and sign up for our FPL league, The Holtecast Cup, for your chance to win a prize: https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/ndaioeYou can listen for FREE on Acast, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify - dig in!WHAT DO WE DISCUSS?Ugh...we haven't missed that feeling!No striker = Big problem.How much of a distraction has the transfer window become for Villa?Joao Gomes' debut to forget...What can be made of the Ollie Watkins saga?STAY CONNECTED:Email: holtecast@gmail.comX: @HoltecastPodThreads: HoltecastBluesky: @holtecastpod.bsky.social Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ősszel lesz a félidős választás Amerikában. Az iráni háború drága és népszerűtlen. Gyengülhet-e Izrael és Amerika speciális szövetsége? Véget ért-e a “neoliberális” modell? Interjú Sebők Miklós közgazdász-politikatudóssal, aki fogadni merne, hogy a republikánusok ősszel elveszítik a többséget a törvényhozásban.00:00 Szilárd és Matyi: háború és infláció Amerikában09:40 Összeállítás: hogy lett kampánytéma az izraeli befolyás?17:44 Szilárd és Matyi: "szocializmus" Amerikában?22:48 Trump fölött gyűlnek a fellegek - Sebők Miklóssal beszélgetünk32:20 A kifulladt, AI-ban bízó amerikai gazdaságpolitikáról Sebők Miklóssal—Legyél rendszeres támogató! https://cause.lundadonate.org/partizan/adomanyPartizán webshop:https://shop.partizan.hu/—Írj nekünk!Ha van egy sztorid, tipped vagy ötleted:szerkesztoseg@partizan.huBizalmas információ esetén:partizanbudapest@protonmail.com(Ahhoz, hogy titkosított módon tudj írni, regisztrálj te is egy protonmail-es címet.)Támogatások, események, webshop, egyéb ügyek:info@partizan.hu—Csatlakozz a Partizán közösségéhez, értesülj elsőként eseményeinkről, akcióinkról!https://csapat.partizanmedia.hu/forms/maradjunk-kapcsolatban—Legyél önkéntes!Csatlakozz a Partizán önkéntes csapatához:https://csapat.partizanmedia.hu/forms/csatlakozz-te-is-a-partizan-onkenteseihez—Iratkozz fel a Szignálra: https://csapat.partizanmedia.hu/forms/iratkozz-fel-a-szignalra-a-partizan-kulpolitikai-hirlevelere/Iratkozz fel a Partizán Szerkesztőségi Hírlevelére!https://csapat.partizanmedia.hu/forms/iratkozz-fel-a-partizan-szerkesztoinek-hirlevelere
Has AI actually helped you make more placements this year, or has it just been noise? Before you dive in, this is your last call for The Recruiting Agents Workshop with Seb Sharp, August 25 and 26. Two live build-along sessions where you will create an autonomous lead agent, a placement agent, and connect your entire tech stack, plus recordings, templates, and a week of Slack access to Seb after the sessions end. Grab your seat now: https://the-recruiting-agents-workshop.heysummit.com/ In this episode Benjamin Mena sits down with Dan McCarthy, Senior Talent Engineer at Zapier and one of the founding members of the a16z Talent Engineer Fellowship, to break down recruiting's newest role and how you can step into it before the rest of the industry catches on. Dan's path into this seat is anything but typical. He was a jazz musician, a New York bartender, a wine educator, and a CrossFit gym owner in Brooklyn before Shopify hired him into tech recruiting at 40 years old. He had never heard of an org chart. By his own telling, he led the entire engineering recruiting team in hires his very first quarter. Two layoffs later he landed at Zapier, where he was handed a blank canvas: build our talent intelligence function. What he built instead of dashboards is the heart of this conversation. Dan walks through the talent intelligence MCP he assembled in about a month using completely free APIs, including Indeed Hiring Lab, the Department of Labor, O*NET, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and WARN Act data, so recruiters walk into every intake call armed with real compensation numbers, competitor hiring activity, and talent pool data. Then he gets specific about the agency version: what a solo recruiter or a two person shop can stand up over a single weekend to change their next client pitch. Benjamin and Dan also get into the ego build problem on LinkedIn and why screenshots of tools built yesterday are making everyone feel further behind than they actually are, the difference between building to learn and building to ship, who is reviewing your code and updating your API keys, whether a three person agency could really bill five to ten million dollars with a builder in one of the seats (Dan's honest answer: possible, but probably not in the next six to twelve months), the sales engineer ratio that may be coming to recruiting teams, and why Dan completely changed his mind about AI interview screens. If you have ever felt too far behind to start building, this episode is your permission slip. As Dan puts it, nobody is behind. This is day one. ⚡ The Recruiting Agents Workshop with Seb Sharp (August 25-26): https://the-recruiting-agents-workshop.heysummit.com/
Es gibt Gäste, die erzählen ihre Erfolgsgeschichte. Und es gibt Christoph Adam. Der Hagener tätowiert seit 1999, hat sich das Handwerk zwischen selbstgelöteten Nadeln und Spulenmaschinen praktisch selbst beigebracht und mit dem 101 einen Laden aufgebaut, vor dem die Leute bis auf den Parkplatz Schlange standen, nur um einen Termin abzugreifen – bei 18 Monaten Vorlaufzeit und Preisen, die er aus Prinzip fair gehalten hat. Seb und Christoph graben sich durch eine Zeit, in der dir Kollegen morgens vor der Haustür standen, um dir deine Maschinen wieder abzunehmen und dir noch schnell den Reifen aufzustechen. Es geht um das Ruhrgebiet, um Graffiti-Dosen aus dem Baumarkt, um die Tattoo-Touristen der TV-Show-Ära und um die ehrliche Frage, was von diesem Beruf eigentlich übrig bleibt, wenn er sich in eine Richtung entwickelt, mit der man selbst nichts mehr anfangen kann.Der zweite Teil geht dahin, wo die wenigsten Folgen hingehen. Christoph erzählt, wie er sein Klamottenlabel Altes Eisen ausgerechnet dann beerdigt hat, als es zu gut lief – und wie danach Trennung, alleinerziehender Vater, Ladenschließung, Corona und Insolvenz nacheinander eingeschlagen sind, während ein Großteil des Umfelds daneben stand und zugeguckt hat. Wie man da wieder rausklettert, warum er heute mit Ain't Like You, Ruhrcoast und einem Job mit Urlaubszettel ziemlich im Reinen ist und weshalb er das Wort „Lebensplanung" für einen Irrglauben hält, macht diese Folge zu einer der ehrlichsten am Tisch.@christoph_motherfucker[ WERBUNG ]Bei unseren Werbepartnern könnt ihr richtig sparen - darunter bei Neonsfeer, Murostar, Killer Ink, Cheyenne Tattoo Equipment, CoalBlack oder Caos Nero! Alle Infos auf www.tftn-podcast.com.
Best of de l'été : Le 14 février 2026, alors que personne ne l'attendait là, Sébastien Raichon s'élançait en secret dans les forêts du Tennessee pour sa troisième Barkley Marathons. Un pied de nez à la Saint-Valentin — et à ceux qui l'avaient cru rangé des voitures.Coureur d'ultra aguerri, aventurier dans l'âme, Seb est de retour au micro de Course Épique pour débriefer une édition anniversaire qui n'avait rien d'un cadeau. Difficulté du parcours revu à la hausse, deux premières boucles imposées dans le sens anti-horaire — le plus lent, le plus technique — et une tempête annoncée, inévitable.Une édition conçue pour briser les ambitions. La sienne en est sortie renforcée.Ce qu'on retient de cet épisode, c'est d'abord l'image de cinq Français qui partent ensemble, vivent ensemble pendant huit jours dans une grande maison du Tennessee, partagent leurs cartes, leurs connaissances, leur fatigue.Une fraternité rare dans une course qui ne fait de cadeau à personne. Guillaume Calmette, Aurélien Sanchez, Mathieu Blanchard, Ronan Pierre et Seb — chacun avec son rôle, chacun avec ses limites. Et puis, au livre trois de la troisième boucle, le moment charnière : Mathieu s'envole vers son rêve de finish, Damien fait sa course, et Seb se retrouve seul. Juste après, la tempête.Il décrit ce troisième tour comme le plus beau et le plus difficile de sa vie en ultra-trail. Des pentes à 50 degrés transformées en champs de boue, une descente à flanc de falaise accrochée aux arbres, un doigt peut-être cassé qu'on laisse de côté parce qu'on n'en a pas besoin pour déchirer les pages. Tout ça, jusqu'au bout. Fun run bouclée en 38h05, dans des conditions que même les organisateurs n'avaient pas anticipées.Il y a dans cet épisode quelque chose de rare : un homme de presque 54 ans qui regarde en face ce que la course lui a donné — et ce qu'elle ne lui donnera sans doute jamais. Avec lucidité, sans amertume. Et l'envie, malgré tout, de continuer à rêver grand.Et de nous faire rêver avec lui.***Course Épique, c'est le podcast running et trail qui vous fait vivre dans chaque épisode une histoire de course à pied hors du commun.Pour ne rien manquer de notre actualité et vivre les coulisses du podcast, suivez-nous sur Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/courseepique.podcast/Retrouvez également Course Epique en vidéo sur YouTube : https://bit.ly/courseepique_youtubeCourse Épique, un podcast imaginé et animé par Guillaume Lalu et produit par Sportcast Studios Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
Die Kurbel fällt ab, Adrian schiebt das Rad, steigt ohne Ticket in die U-Bahn und wird von niemandem beachtet. Seb sagt: einfach festschrauben. Danach: zu langsames Internet, das man jetzt mit Messungen beweisen muss, und eine Verpackungsverordnung, die kleine Anbieter zermürbt. Beide denken über Freiheit, weniger Verantwortung und zweite Staatsbürgerschaften nach – für den Fall, dass es eng wird. Die Folge endet, weil Seb auf die Toilette muss.
Vad lovar partierna och vad kostar det? Det går allt bättre för Sverige, säger ekonomerna. Men politikerna pratar om tuffa tider och stödåtgärder. Vilka löften och valfläsk brukar gå hem hos väljarna? Och hur påverkas ekonomin av vem som vinner? Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Flörtar med hushållen – som är rikare än någonsinSocialdemokraterna, Moderaterna, Sverigedemokraterna och Vänsterpartiet går till val med slogans som ”Dags att ta Sverige på allvar”, ”För ett rättvisare Sverige”, ”Vi gör Sverige till Sverige igen” och ”På din sida”. ”De är försök till slagkraftiga slogans som ska skapa intresse”, säger professor Niklas Bolin.Och löftena till hushållen är många i den här valrörelsen. ”Det är ett stort fokus på kortsiktiga plånboksfrågor”, konstaterar Christina Nyman, chefekonom på Handelsbanken. Samtidigt har ”hushållens plånböcker aldrig varit tjockare än idag”, säger Andreas Wallström, prognoschef på Swedbank. Kritik från ekonomerDen stora frågan är om satsningarna verkligen behövs, och hur de ska betalas. ”Underskott är okej ett tag, men man kan inte fortsätta på det spåret”, säger SEB:s chefekonom Jens Magnusson.Så ser partiernas ekonomi utÅrets valkampanjer skiljer sig från tidigare. De sociala mediejättarna Meta och Google har stoppat politisk annonsering och Socialdemokraterna har sålt sin lotteriverksamhet som dragit in stora pengar till partikassan. Samtidigt räknas Centerpartiet som ett av världens rikaste partier. Programledare och producent:Hanna MalmodinMedverkande och röster i programmet: Niklas Bolin, professor statsvetenskap Mittuniversitetet Knut Kainz Rognerud, ekonomikommentator EkotAlbin Kainelainen, generaldirektör KonjunkturinstitutetAnders Dybelius, universitetslektor Jönköping universityAndreas Wallström, prognoschef SwedbankJens Magnusson, chefekonom SEBChristina Nyman, chefekonom Handelsbanken ekonomiekotextra@sverigesradio.se
4X Growth While Everyone Watched Their Inbox Die. Want to actually make money with AI instead of just talking about it? Join me and Seb Sharp for The Recruiting Agents Workshop, August 25th and 26th. Two live build-along sessions where you will create your own autonomous lead agent and placement agent, connect your entire tech stack, and walk away with recordings, templates, and a week of Slack access to Seb. Grab your spot: https://the-recruiting-agents-workshop.heysummit.com/ And mark your calendar for the Finish The Year Strong 2026 Virtual Summit, September 28th through October 5th. The best in the industry sharing exactly how they plan to close out the year on top so you can do the same. Register free: https://recruiters-finish-the-year-strong.heysummit.com/ This episode is brought to you by Atlas, the CRM that actually understands context. Atlas captures every interview, client call, LinkedIn message, email, and WhatsApp automatically, then tells you the next action to take. Atlas customers are reporting 50 percent higher candidate response rates, 35 percent more new clients won, and 15 hours saved every week. Check it out at https://recruitwithatlas.com/ Everyone watched their inbox die. The cold emails that used to land now get deleted in half a second because hiring managers can smell AI from a mile away. While most agencies doubled down on the very channel that was failing them, Brian Abrams took his boutique project management staffing firm in the completely opposite direction. He went old school. Real handshakes, real conversations, real presence. The result? He 4Xd his revenue over the last few years, and he now attributes 30 to 40 percent of his gross profit to one channel almost no staffing firm takes seriously: industry conferences. In this episode Brian lays out his entire conference playbook with zero secrets held back. You will hear the four part system he has refined over a decade: how he builds his year long conference slate and decides which events actually deserve his marketing dollars, the pre work almost nobody does including the exact no pressure LinkedIn message he sends 30 days out, how he works the floor and captures every quality conversation before it evaporates, and the follow up cadence that turned a thirty second booth chat into one of his biggest clients ever. You will also hear the story behind the legendary Run PMO shirts, why 1,500 of them disappear by day two of every conference, the moment a flight attendant asked Brian if he had just come from a concert, and the sneak peek at what his team is bringing to Detroit this fall. Plus the honest stuff: the mistakes that cost him money, the booth tactics that flopped, why being memorable beats being everywhere, and his advice for any recruiter thinking about going out on their own. If your BD strategy is drowning in an ocean of ignored AI messages, this is the episode that shows you the door everyone else forgot exists. Because while your competitors fight for inbox attention, the decision makers are standing right there at the conference in your niche, waiting to meet someone real. Finish The Year Strong 2026 Virtual Summit: https://recruiters-finish-the-year-strong.heysummit.com/ The Recruiting Agents Workshop: https://the-recruiting-agents-workshop.heysummit.com/
Today we sit down with Seb Harding and talk about three Georgian Houses that you can visit in London: Spencer House, Strawberry Hill and Dennis Severs' House.All three have fascinating stories. Let's dig in!Welcome, Seb!Find and Follow Seb:https://www.instagram.com/sebhardinglondon/https://sebhardinglondonhouses.substack.com/aboutFind Baroque: https://www.instagram.com/ifitaintbaroquepodcast/https://www.instagram.com/natalieisahistorybuff/https://www.tiktok.com/@ifitaintbaroquepodcasthttps://x.com/BaroquePodcasthttps://www.tiktok.com/@reignoflondonhttps://bsky.app/profile/ifitaintbaroquepod.bsky.socialhttps://www.threads.com/@ifitaintbaroquepodcastSupport Baroque: https://www.patreon.com/c/Ifitaintbaroquepodcast/https://buymeacoffee.com/ifitaintbaroqueIf you would like to join Natalie on her walking tours with Reign of London:RMS Titanic: https://www.getyourguide.com/en-gb/london-l57/london-rms-titanic-walking-tour-t1246693/Saxons to Stuarts:https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-the-royal-british-kings-and-queens-walking-tour-t426011/Tudors & Stuarts:https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/royal-london-tudors-stuarts-walking-tour-t481355/The Georgians:https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/royal-london-the-georgians-walking-tour-t481358/Naughty London: https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-unsavory-history-guided-walking-tour-t428452/For more history fodder please visit https://www.ifitaintbaroque.com/ and https://www.reignoflondon.com/ . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The 2026/2027 season is nearly underway for the mighty Villa and with that in mind, Cole, Simon and Seb are back for their annual season preview show ahead of Wednesday's UEFA Super Cup clash against PSG. Join in on the fun and sign up for our FPL league, The Holtecast Cup, for your chance to win a prize: https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/ndaioeYou can listen for FREE on Acast, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify - dig in!WHAT DO WE DISCUSS?Well then, how are we all feeling about Villa heading into the new season?Is it safe to say that Villa are in a better position heading into this season compared to this time last term?Are we all happy with the looks of the squad?What would be deemed as a successful season for the football club?Our "Barkley's 6 Delightful" predictions are shared...let's see how they turn out this season!STAY CONNECTED:Email: holtecast@gmail.comX: @HoltecastPodThreads: HoltecastBluesky: @holtecastpod.bsky.socialCole Pettem: @TalkAstonVillaSebastian Bacon: @SebastianBacon8Simon O'Regan: @SiORegan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Seb and Anton are joined by Henrique Martins to talk about his Mono Red Ponza deck in Premodern.
Before we get into it: The Recruiting Agents Workshop with Seb Sharp is happening August 25th and 26th. Two live build-along sessions where you will build an autonomous lead agent, a placement agent, and wire your entire tech stack together, with recordings, templates, and a full week of Slack access to Seb included. Sign up here: https://the-recruiting-agents-workshop.heysummit.com/ This episode is sponsored by Atlas, the CRM that actually understands context. Atlas captures every interview, client call, email, and LinkedIn message automatically, then tells you the next action to take. Atlas customers are reporting 50% higher candidate response rates, 15 hours saved every week, and monthly billings jumping 85%. Learn more at https://recruitwithatlas.com/ What happens when the only way forward is outworking every degree in the room? David Fishman spent eight years in the Coast Guard, started on a temp desk, and launched Sparrow Company in 2009 when the alternative was going broke. Thirty years into the business, his desk regularly produces $1.5 million a year, his longest client relationship has lasted three decades, and he recently ran a streak where ten straight presentations turned into ten placements. First candidate presented, first candidate hired, ten times in a row. In this conversation, David breaks down how he built all of it without a college degree and why the chip on his shoulder became his biggest advantage. He shares the intake questions that shape every search, explains why he reads a resume like a photograph, and reveals how patience let him win back clients he lost three or four times by simply outliving the tenure of the HR leaders who cut him. He also unpacks why he stopped tracking dollars and started tracking deals, how the wave cycles of recruiting punish anyone who gets comfortable, and why the first three days of your week decide whether you have any momentum left by the next Monday. You will also hear how David expanded into the temp business by recruiting his own business partner, what it means to have his son and daughter working inside the company, and why at 58 he still wakes up feeling like something is chasing him. What You'll Learn: The resume-reading method behind a 10-for-10 presentation-to-placement streakThe intake questions that tell you if the wind is at your back or you are digging through mudHow to win back a lost client by outliving the tenure of the person who cut youWhy tracking deals instead of dollars protects you from the summer complacency trapThe Monday-through-Wednesday work rhythm that keeps your momentum aliveHow to turn a no-degree chip on your shoulder into a 30-year career Sign up for The Recruiting Agents Workshop (Aug 25-26):
SEB:s ekonomer ser tillbaka på sommarens viktigaste händelser för ekonomi och marknader, och blickar framåt för att se vad som väntar under hösten i Sverige och världen. Det saknas inte orosmoln, men chefsekonom Jens Magnusson slår tillsammans med kollegorna Robert Bergqvist och Olle Holmgren an en positiv ton.
Es gibt Gespräche, in denen jemand die Hosen runterlässt – und genau das passiert hier. Jessica Svartvit ist zurück im TFTN-Stuhl, diesmal nicht zwischen Messelärm und Factory Day, sondern von Zuhause aus, mit abgelaufenem Bier und erstaunlich viel Ehrlichkeit im Gepäck. Nach zwölf Jahren Tätowieren hat sie in diesem Jahr etwas verstanden, das viele in der Branche erst dann kapieren, wenn der Körper schon streikt: dass ihr Wert nichts mit ihrer Produktivität zu tun hat. Sie erzählt von dem Studio, das die Elbe geküsst hat, vom Svarthaus, das nach nur zwei Jahren wieder zumachte, und davon, wie sich das gefeierte Privatatelier für sie irgendwann wie ein goldener Käfig anfühlte – ohne Input, ohne Feedback, ohne jemanden, der sagt, ob man die Dinge eigentlich noch richtig macht. Dazwischen: Trauer, die sie mit sieben Arbeitstagen am Stück weggeschoben hat, ein Burnout, das nah genug war, um es zu riechen, und die Erkenntnis, dass ein Tag im Wald dem nächsten Backpiece mehr bringt als der zehnte Tag vor der Leinwand.Aber das hier ist keine Abrechnung, sondern ein Neuanfang mit Ansage. Jessica erzählt von der Kollabo mit Thorsten May in Tallinn – einem Blind-Date-Backpiece, das aus einem Wellnesshotel-Q&A entstand und richtig übel hätte schiefgehen können –, von ihrem freiwilligen Schritt zurück auf Anfang: ab Oktober arbeitet sie in Barcelona bei einem Argentinier, der seit 30 Jahren ausschließlich Full Body Suits sticht, quasi eine zweite Lehre. Sie und Seb nehmen außerdem den Contest-Zirkus auseinander, reden über schlafende Juroren, JOMO statt FOMO, das Content-Brain, das jede Kreativität kastriert, und einen Regenbogen in Kalifornien, den sie 2017 vierzig Minuten lang gefilmt statt angeschaut hat. Zum Schluss gibt's den vielleicht besten Tipp der Folge: einmal im Jahr etwas komplett Neues lernen.@jessicasvartvit[ WERBUNG ]Bei unseren Werbepartnern könnt ihr richtig sparen - darunter bei Neonsfeer, Murostar, Killer Ink, Cheyenne Tattoo Equipment, CoalBlack oder Caos Nero! Alle Infos auf www.tftn-podcast.com.
Alla vill fixa bostadsmarknaden men vad är problemet? Är det för mycket reglering, eller för lite? Frågan splittrar partierna, även inom blocken. Samtidigt drar hösten och flyttsäsongen igång. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Marknaden ”funkar inte”Bostadsmarknaden fungerar inte, säger politiker från alla partier. Men alla verkar oense om vad som är det stora problemet och hur det ska lösas. ”Från höger vill man ha en marknad som styrs mer av utbud och efterfrågan, medan vänstersidan vill att staten ska gå in och ta ett större ansvar”, säger Ekots politikreporter Pontus Mattsson.Marknadshyror och fastighetsskatt – två röda skynken Bostadsfrågan är inte heller en fråga man vinner röster på, säger Tor Borg, analyschef på Citymark. Trots att det är en så kallad plånboksfråga. ”De flesta är nöjda med sitt boende. Det är en ickefråga för många”, säger han. ”Marknadshyror och fastighetsskatt är ord som skrämmer, och det där vet politikerna”, säger Pontus Mattsson.Hushållen förväntar sig stigande priserFör bostadsletare drar en av årets högsäsonger igång nu, efter en julimånad då lägenhetspriserna gick ner. ”Det är ganska normalt för juli”, säger Hans Flink på Svensk mäklarstatistik. Villapriserna steg däremot och framåt tror hushållen på stigande bopriser, enligt SEB:s boprisindikator. Det finns några specifika faktorer som avgör om det blir så.Programledare och producent:Hanna MalmodinMedverkande och röster i programmet:Tor Borg, analyschef Citymark Pontus Mattsson, politikreporter EkotMarcus Widén, ekonom SEBHans Flink, affärsutvecklingschef Svensk Mäklarstatistikekonomiekotextra@sverigesradio.se
We welcome Jenny Meinen, a German psychologist, mental health coach, and founder of the Her Next Era journal. With a deep focus on somatic experiencing, subconscious belief work, and attachment theory, Jenny helps self-aware individuals regulate their nervous systems, break subconscious self-sabotage, and raise their standards in life, career, and relationships.In this deep-dive conversation with Seb, Jenny breaks down why our brains prioritize familiarity over safety, leading many to stay stuck in struggle and toxic patterns. She shares actionable somatic techniques to move from panic into regulation (including the power of pausing, breathwork, and EFT tapping) and provides a clear framework for differentiating between the high-pitched panic of fear and the calm, grounded guidance of intuition. Finally, Jenny explains how a regulated nervous system unlocks emotional availability, deeper relationships, and the confidence to take risks in business and life.Topics DiscussedAddiction to Struggle: Why your body chooses familiar pain over peace.Nervous System Hijacking: How subconscious beliefs trigger physical stress.Fear vs. Intuition: Differentiating high-pitched panic from calm clarity.Somatic Tools: Quick reset techniques using pauses, breathwork, and tapping.Taking Thoughts to Court: A CBT method to challenge spiraling beliefs.Emotional Availability: Why you can't be available without regulation.Capacity for Discomfort: How sitting with discomfort unlocks career growth.Faith & Surrender: Letting go of outcomes and trusting the process.Connect with Jenny on InstagramConnect with Sebastian on InstagramSebastianNaum.com
Le 18 juillet 2026, Andrew et Tristan Tate sont arrêtés par le U.S. Marshals Service à Miami, alors qu'ils se rendent à un événement de combat à mains nues. L'arrestation est liée à de nouvelles charges de viol et de traite d'êtres humains, portant sur une période allant de 2010 à 2017. Les frères sont placés en détention en Floride dans l'attente d'audiences devant un tribunal fédéral, chargé de déterminer s'ils remplissent les conditions pour une extradition vers le Royaume‑Uni.Seb et Emile reviennent sur leur histoire ainsi que sur leur ascension vers les sommets de la masculinité toxique.TW : Épisode susceptible de vous choquer.Voyez le film Undertone de A24, dans une salle québécoise dès le 13 mars 2026!nordvpn.com/distorsion : Rabais exclusif sur ton abonnement + plus 4 mois gratuits!ÉrosEt Compagnie : 15% de rabais avec le code DistorsionPatreon | Site Web | Boutique Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
Vakar, 3. augustā, sasauktā nacionālās lidsabiedrības "airBaltic" obligāciju īpašnieku sapulce tā arī nenotika. Nebija kvoruma. Nākamā tiek organizēta augusta vidū. Faktiski tas ir viss, ko mēs šobrīd zinām. Kompānijas jaunā stratēģija esot izstrādāta, bet tā tiek turēta noslēpumā, un lidsabiedrības padome to vēl nemaz nav apstiprinājusi. Krustpunktā runājām martā par to, ka vasarā būs jāpieņem viens vai otrs lēmums. Vasara tuvojas noslēgumam. Gan no premjera biroja, gan Satiksmes vai Finanšu ministrijas atbildīgie nav gatavi pagaidām nākt un skaidrot tālākos notikumus. Vienīgais, ko var saprast no publiski izskanējušā, joprojām tiek izmisīgi meklēti naudas devēji. Esam šoreiz lūguši trīs no dalībniekiem, kas piedalījās mūsu iepriekšējā raidījumā, atnākt uz Krustpunktā vēlreiz, lai dalītos ar savu redzējumu no malas. Situāciju analizē "Grant Thornton Baltic" vadošais partneris Latvijā Raitis Logins, ekonomists Aivars Strakšas un SEB bankas ekonomists Dainis Gašpuitis.
Vakar, 3. augustā, sasauktā nacionālās lidsabiedrības "airBaltic" obligāciju īpašnieku sapulce tā arī nenotika. Nebija kvoruma. Nākamā tiek organizēta augusta vidū. Faktiski tas ir viss, ko mēs šobrīd zinām. Kompānijas jaunā stratēģija esot izstrādāta, bet tā tiek turēta noslēpumā, un lidsabiedrības padome to vēl nemaz nav apstiprinājusi. Krustpunktā runājām martā par to, ka vasarā būs jāpieņem viens vai otrs lēmums. Vasara tuvojas noslēgumam. Gan no premjera biroja, gan Satiksmes vai Finanšu ministrijas atbildīgie nav gatavi pagaidām nākt un skaidrot tālākos notikumus. Vienīgais, ko var saprast no publiski izskanējušā, joprojām tiek izmisīgi meklēti naudas devēji. Esam šoreiz lūguši trīs no dalībniekiem, kas piedalījās mūsu iepriekšējā raidījumā, atnākt uz Krustpunktā vēlreiz, lai dalītos ar savu redzējumu no malas. Situāciju analizē "Grant Thornton Baltic" vadošais partneris Latvijā Raitis Logins, ekonomists Aivars Strakšas un SEB bankas ekonomists Dainis Gašpuitis.
Bitcoin hätte man früher kaufen müssen, Quantencomputer machen es kaputt, und Adrian kann keine Sonderzeichen tippen. Seb kommt zu spät, erklärt es mit ADHS, Adrian findet das trotzdem falsch. Dazwischen: schlechte Dienstleister, schwierige Tätowier-Kunden und die Frage, wie viel Leistungsdruck ein System vertragen soll. Am Ende: Befehlsverweigerung bei Angriffskriegen.
He spent five years delivering groceries in California, ten hours a day in his car, when an idea hit him on a train between Switzerland and Liechtenstein — documentaries about tattoo artists from all over the world. Dakota Weik aka Inked Abroad tells Seb how a failed clothing brand, 200 videos that went nowhere, and an account he almost deleted turned into one of the biggest voices in tattooing — and why a globe he spun tens of thousands of times handed him 110,000 followers practically overnight. Dakota is refreshingly honest about the flip side of those numbers, about buying a camera on credit without ever having filmed anything in his life, and about why he can't stand the word "influencer" even though he knows it sticks to him.The second half goes deeper: Dakota talks about his new six-part series "Indigenous Revival" and the journey to Apo Whang-Od's grandnieces high up in the Philippine mountains, about why he builds friendships instead of conducting interviews, and why 500 of the right viewers mean more to him than millions of views. Plus: his unfiltered take on the Ignorant Style, the reality of his apprenticeship under Philo, hours spent on fake skin, the passport stamp signature style he's building for himself — and the upcoming Bosnia documentary on Sicanje, an almost forgotten tattoo practice Christian women used as protection against the Ottoman Empire. An episode about obsession, self-doubt, and the question of who a story really belongs to.@inkedabroad[ ADVERTISEMENT ]You can save big with our advertising partners — including Neonsfeer, Murostar, Killer Ink, Cheyenne Tattoo Equipment, CoalBlack and Caos Nero! All the info at www.tftn-podcast.com.
Our Summer Slasher Season is here, and this year we're hitting up the sororities for some slasher scares. To kick start the season, the boys both give 3 sorority slasher recommendations to get you into the mood and give a little tease at a couple of the films to come this season. Robbie brings some 2000s cult classics whilst Seb keeps it classic with some 80s fun and an extremely deep cut from the 30s. Be sure to pledge to the Cast Me To Hell sorority this summer, and be sure to join us as we cover the chills, thrills and all the kills that our films have to offer Remember to hit that subscribe button and leave us a lovely review. There're new episodes every week, and we cover horror movies from new releases with spoiler filled and spoiler free reviews, to old classics and B movie gems. You can find us on twitter and instagram @cmthpodcast or check out our website at https://castmetohell.podbean.com Theme by Dan Motti
This is a super fun talk with two very likeable and dynamic young men, the incredible brother duo Sebastian and Gabriel Becerra. Seb and Gabe swept into Deia and in short shrift became important members of the Deia landscape and community. Their young energy and intelligent observations makes this talk very entertaining.
On s'est amusé à tenter un nouveau format de vidéo (disponible en version audio ici), dans le style vlog documentaire. Laissez-nous savoir si vous aimez le format, et on va en faire d'autres, avec Seb aussi, bien entendu! Bonne écoute!Voici donc l'histoire incroyable de Sister Hong, la plus grosse arnaque amoureuse de Chine! Il y a une femme qui a piégé plus de 1600 hommes pendant QUATRE ANS via des sites de rencontres en ligne. Pendant tout ce temps, les "visiteurs" de Sister Hong ont été filmés et les images ont été publiées sur des sites Internet accessibles à tous. L'histoire a causé tout un tolé en Chine, en plus de briser plusieurs couples et familles. Pire encore, il se trouve que Sister Hong n'est pas exactement qui elle prétend être...Crédits: Julie Michaud - montage, design, habillageVoyez le film Undertone de A24, dans une salle québécoise dès le 13 mars 2026!nordvpn.com/distorsion : Rabais exclusif sur ton abonnement + plus 4 mois gratuits!ÉrosEt Compagnie : 15% de rabais avec le code DistorsionPatreon | Site Web | Boutique Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
Niall Dennehy's first bank account was opened in 1987, when his mother walked him ten metres from their front door to the credit union in Ballydesmond, Co. Cork — a branch named for Nora Herlihy, the local schoolteacher who helped found the Irish credit union movement. He still gets the statement every month. Nearly four decades on, having co-founded blockchain company AID:Tech and gone through Techstars, he's a father of four in Dublin building NestiFi: an AI-powered platform that lets whole families, wherever they've scattered, invest together in a child's future.In this conversation, we get into:The 1987 credit union account Niall still gets statements for, and how it became the blueprint for NestiFiWhy the cash-stuffed-envelope economy shortchanges kids, and how a tap in the family WhatsApp chat can put relatives anywhere in the world into a child's investment accountThe tax reliefs most Irish parents have never heard of, including the small gift exemption worth up to €108,000 per child over 18 years from parents aloneTrump accounts in the US, and Niall's lobbying push to get the Irish government to seed every newborn's account the same wayWhat 1–2% in annual fees quietly does to 30 years of compounding, and why credit unions are best placed to win back the next generation from Revolut and RobinhoodIf you're a parent, a grandparent, or anyone thinking about the next generation's financial future, this episode is a practical look at how families can start compounding early.$84 trillion is expected to change hands in the US over the next 20 years; roughly €3.5 trillion in Europe by 2030 (figures Niall cites on tape).$2,500 seeded at birth plus $75/month from the wider family ≈ $40,000 by age 18 and $106,871 by age 30 (NestiFi's illustration; assumes a 7.35% average annual return compounded monthly).Niall Dennehy is the CEO and co-founder of NestiFi. Originally from Ballydesmond, Co. Cork, he co-founded AID:Tech, the blockchain company that delivered international aid transparently through digital identity, and went through Techstars in 2016. His earlier career spanned publishing, education and fintech, including roles with HP, Ericsson, LG Mobile, AIB and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He lives in Dublin with his wife and four children — the original test users for NestiFi. [Confirm bio with Niall — drafted from the recording and public sources; no formal bio provided.]NestiFi is a Dublin-headquartered, AI-powered family wealth platform that financial institutions deploy under their own brand. It lets parents, grandparents and relatives anywhere in the world contribute to a child's investment account from a link in the messaging apps families already use, with an AI advisor (“Seb”) and gamified financial literacy built in. A B2B2C play targeting credit unions and community banks on both sides of the Atlantic, NestiFi is backed by Enterprise Ireland as a High Potential Start-Up, closed a 108% oversubscribed crowdfunding round on Spark Venture Funding in July 2026, and has announced a partnership with Vyrdia, a credit union service organization whose network spans more than 30 US credit unions with $6.5 billion in combined assets.Want to get in contact with the Digital Irish team? Email us at podcast@digitalirish.comKey StatsAbout Niall DennehyAbout NestiFi
This week Josh is joined by Seb to try and understand why we can't play 4 quarters? When we take the game on we look great, but are we scared?Follow the socials to get your thoughts read out on the podcast!Instagram: @furthernorthpodFacebook: Further North PodcastEmail: furthernorthpod@gmail.comTikTok: @furthernorthpodLeave a 5 star review on Apple or Spotify, you the real MVP! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matt Davies is joined by Dan Storey for his final World Cup diary along with Seb Hutchinson and Steve Battlemuch as we reflect on the culmination of the tournament with Dan and Seb in the US. We also discuss the latest Nottingham Forest transfer topics on Morgan Gibbs-White, Lucas Bergvall and Ousmane Diomande, plus fresh developments on the City Ground expansion plan. #nffc #nottinghamforest
PLOT: As the players start to return to Hotspur Way for preseason, the guys discuss the laest Spurs news, how the Tonali signing has changed the perception of Spurs as a force in the league and how much that has rattled other fans. CREW: Bren hosts and is joined by Seb and HG PRODUCTION: Produced, recorded and edited by Bren Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We're diving into Into the Woods at Cape Playhouse, where Joe shares what it's been like revisiting Jack a decade after first playing the role, how his perspective on the beloved Stephen Sondheim musical has evolved, and why this production has been such a meaningful experience. We also talk about growing up in Pittsburgh, finding his love for performing, his journey from the University of Michigan to High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, the impact Seb had on fans, and his advice for young performers learning to embrace what makes them unique.
Que faut-il vraiment mettre dans sa valise pour une croisière plongée en mer Rouge ?A quelques semaines du départ, Lucie et Gabin passent aux choses concrètes : les billets d'avion sont réservés, mais la limite de poids des bagages est stricte. Heureusement, Seb Salingue est là pour nous aider à faire le tri entre l'indispensable et le superflu.Après avoir parlé de l'itinéraire Nord des croisières en mer Rouge, puis de la croisière Longitude 34 de Diving Attitude — sur laquelle on retrouvera Seb aux côtés de Steven Weinberg —, cet épisode s'attaque aux questions terre-à-terre que tout plongeur se pose avant d'embarquer.Côté climat, pas besoin d'anorak en juillet : il fait chaud jour et nuit. Mais un sweat ou une polaire restent utiles... surtout dans l'avion, véritable frigo climatisé, où l'on risque plus d'attraper un rhume qu'en mer. Seb insiste aussi sur un point souvent négligé : bien s'hydrater dès le trajet pour commencer les plongées dans de bonnes conditions.Côté protection solaire, le t-shirt anti-UV manches longues peut faire l'essentiel du travail, mais attention aux zones critiques comme la nuque ou l'arrière des genoux. La crème solaire, elle, doit impérativement être choisie non nocive pour les coraux — un principe qui vaut aussi pour le savon et le shampoing, car même stockées dans des cuves, les eaux usées finissent malheureusement en mer, tôt pour tard. L'alternative maligne : la combinaison intégrale fine type Lycra, qui protège tout le corps.Côté matériel de plongée, Seb détaille les équipements de sécurité à prévoir — parachute, lampe, miroir pour se faire repérer par le bateau — et rappelle que tout est disponible à bord. Il tranche aussi le débat shorty contre intégrale : l'intégrale, toujours, pour se protéger du soleil comme des rencontres urticantes (méduses, poissons pierres, poissons scorpions, corail de feu). Sans oublier les chaussons, indispensables pour palmer une semaine sans finir avec des cloques dès le deuxième jour.Et dans la valise ? Deux maillots de bain, quelques t-shirts, et une trousse à pharmacie personnelle : paracétamol, désinfectant, remède contre les désagréments intestinaux et traitement contre les otites, car trois plongées par jour mettent les oreilles à rude épreuve. Ajoutez de quoi vous protéger la tête du soleil, et le tour est joué.L'épisode se termine par les questions pratiques : prises électriques 220 volts comme en France, forfaits téléphoniques... avec un piège à connaître absolument : près de l'Arabie saoudite, votre téléphone peut basculer tout seul sur un réseau hors forfait. Verrouillez-le sur le réseau égyptien, Seb en a fait l'amère expérience !
We welcome Hannah Pérez, founder of SEEQ Supply, one of the earliest brands to pioneer the clear protein category in the U.S. Scrappy operator, and community-first builder who turned a counterintuitive product into a brand now stocked at Target, Walmart, and Sam's Club.In this unfiltered conversation, Hannah and Seb get into what scaling actually looks like from the inside. From navigating the most uncomfortable truth in growth; the people who got you from 0 to 10 million won't always be the ones who take you to 50; to building genuine community around a brand that sells protein, Hannah delivers a brutally honest blueprint for staying grounded when everything around you is accelerating. She speaks openly as a queer founder with Venezuelan roots, and makes the case that for her, business and activism have never been separate things.Topics DiscussedStop calling it a "busy week": how to raise your threshold instead.The unsexy reality of scaling fast: people management at every level.Why the team that gets you to 10M can't always get you to 50M.Pioneering a category and holding your ground as competitors flood in.Why brands without emotional resonance don't last, and how to build it on a lean budget.Queer identity, Venezuelan roots, and community as the core of the business.High involvement, low attachment: Hannah's philosophy for moving fast without burning out.Connect with Hannah on InstagramConnect with Seeq on InstagramConnect with Sebastian on InstagramSebastianNaum.com
Get double the episodes, and keep FUT Weekly going (for just £3 a month) by becoming a Patreon over at bit.ly/morepod. This includes an exclusive supporter podcast this week! Seb joins Josh and Ben on this weeks public episode to talk about VAR in FC, the World Cup and a brief review of Glory Hunters! Chapters (please note, as Spotify inserts ads into run time, these timestamps will usually be behind when the topics starts): 00:00 Intro 04:46 Should We Have VAR In FC? 16:23 World Cup Round of 32 Pet Peeves 17:34 England vs DR Congo Thoughts 23:07 Winning At The Azteca Is Easy... 28:08 The US Are Good Now? 36:36 Glory Hunters - Is It Good? 43:19 The Change Required For Playstyles Lab To Work 50:18 Player Reviews and SBC's To Complete 58:21 Evo's vs Playstyles Lab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We welcome Steve Phillips, CEO coach and strategic planning veteran with over 25 years transforming the way companies grow, lead, and win. Former SVP at a billion-dollar organization, he's the behind-the-scenes architect trusted by Microsoft, PepsiCo, Boeing, and the LA Clippers, and the author of 7 published books on leadership and organizational performance.In this sharp, no-fluff conversation, Seb and Steve dismantle the way most entrepreneurs think about goal setting, starting with the uncomfortable truth that it actively destroys 25% of people. Steve shares his full business-planning framework live, walks through the real strategic plan he built for the Clippers when Ballmer first took over, and closes with a hands-on demo that proves, once and for all, why a realistic, challenging goal will always outperform one that's too easy or too hard.Topics DiscussedWhy goal setting only works for 75% of peopleWhy solopreneurs are holding 5 or 6 jobs at 20% capacityThe complete business planning framework: vision, mission, values, purpose, and value driversWhat actually makes your company more valuable (it's not revenue)The LA Clippers case study: a real strategic plan from Steve's offsiteWhy McKinsey-style top-down planning fails and the alternative that worksMassive action, habit stacking, and the neuroscience of visualizationWhy corporate bonuses are wired to produce sandbagged goalsThe live can demo: physical proof that a 50/50 goal always outperforms the restConnect with Steve on LinkedInConnect with Sebastian on InstagramSebastianNaum.com
The Orlando Pride will get back to business on Friday night with a big road game on the other side of the country against Angel City. It'll be great to have the team back in action after a month's interruption to the season.Before we get into talking shop about the NWSL, Orlando Pride Head Coach Seb Hines returns to the show to discuss the state of the club, working with Caitlin Carducci, the team's horrible injury luck this season, putting banger-scorer Cori Dyke at striker (OK, not his idea, but it was discussed), what could happen in the transfer window, and more. Big thanks to Seb for joining us. It's always great to chat with him, even if Dave wasn't available to be part of the questioning.This week's mailbagbox asked us about timing in soccer, why stoppage minutes aren't counted in player stats, what we'd ask PRO referees, and more. Remember, you can ask us anything by hitting us up on Twitter at either @TheManeLand or @SkoPurpSoccer and using the hashtag #AskSkoPurp. You can use that same hashtag and hit @TheManeLand.bsky.social up on Bluesky. Or you can visit our show page, scroll down, and fill out the handy form. We'd also appreciate any ratings or reviews you can leave wherever you get your podcasts, and if you do that on Apple Podcasts, we'll find them easily and read them on the show.Finally, we looked ahead to the Angel City match late Friday night in California. The Pride will be playing their third consecutive California-based team while looking to make it three straight. Meanwhile, Angel City will be playing its first game under a new manager. We look at the teams' places in the standings, provide our key matchups, and give you our score predictions.If you'd like to support our independent writing and podcasting efforts, we'd love to have you as a subscriber or donor over at our Buy Me a Coffee site.Here's how Episode 127 went down:3:36 – Seb Hines joins us to discuss the state of the Pride.26:59 - The mailbagbox asks about timing.37:46 - A look ahead to the Pride's trip to play Angel City.
We welcome Tony Cho, founder of Future of Cities, visionary developer, and eco-spiritual pioneer. Transforming Miami's urban landscape into a hub for forward-thinking communities, Tony is now steering the global trajectory of regenerative placemaking.In this sharp conversation, Seb and Tony deconstruct the traditional boundaries of business. From embedding nature-first biophilic architecture into urban design to leveraging radical frameworks that treat community as medicine, Tony lays out the definitive blueprint for maximizing conscious enterprise. He delivers a masterclass on mission-driven, long-range scaling, while offering a grounded critique of corporate wellness-washing and explaining why a genuine connection to nature is our ultimate weapon against capitalistic greed.Topics DiscussedRapid-fire reactions to real estate labels and wellness trends.Why regenerative urban development models are highly profitable.Aligning capitalistic growth with conscious intent for positive change.The fundamental principles of eco-spiritual and biophilic architecture.Why authentic human connection beats traditional corporate data.Miami's massive evolution from "Paradise Lost" to a wellness capital.Using personal mindfulness as a tool to navigate high-stakes business.Connect with Tony on InstagramConnect with Sebastian on InstagramSebastianNaum.com
We welcome Rebecca, Co-CEO of Badger, ethnobotanist, and seasoned operational visionary. Bringing years of experience transforming her family's second-generation business into a certified B-Corp powerhouse, Rebecca is now steering the global trajectory of a market-dominating natural skincare collective.In this sharp conversation, Seb and Rebecca deconstruct the traditional boundaries of business. From embedding Badger's core DNA into a holistic ecosystem of a waterless, five-ingredient crystallization chemistry to leveraging radical 10% profit-sharing equally distributed across all employees. Rebecca lays out the definitive blueprint for maximizing conscious enterprise potential. She delivers a masterclass on mission-driven, long-range scaling, while offering a grounded critique of the modern corporate obsession with greenwashing and explaining why genuine workplace culture is our ultimate weapon against standard capitalistic greed.Topics DiscussedRapid-fire Smash or Pass on corporate culture and scaling trends.Proof that ethical businesses can be hyper-profitable.Leading with a core mission to do more good than harm.The radical science behind a 4-ingredient sunscreen.Why going values-first beats traditional consumer data.Navigating pandemics, family boardrooms, and leadership handoffs.Radical profit sharing as the ultimate antidote to turnover.Connect with Rebecca on LinkedInConnect with Sebastian on InstagramSebastianNaum.com
Last 4 days before regular tickets sell out at AI Engineer World's Fair - this is the single biggest gathering of AI Engineers, Founders, Leaders, and Researchers in the world. Attendees get >$5000 worth of sponsor credits and talk tracks are looking FANTASTIC. Join us!The AI scaling debate always focuses on the question of “how do we get more GPUs?” but the better question may be: how do we make the most of ones we already have.The fact that a frontier lab like xAI could be running at sub-10% MFU (Model FLOPs Utilization) is just a hint at what the real problem may be.For context, older frontier-scale training runs were already much higher than 10%. GPT-3 was around 21% MFU. Gopher was around 32%. Megatron-Turing NLG was around 30%. PaLM reached around 46%. And our guest Anjney says best-in-class MFU today is closer to 60–70%.It's not necessarily that xAI is uniquely incompetent (it's clear they have talented folks) but rather the priorities may be flipped in the GPU arms race.While GPU access is a bottleneck, simply increasing CapEx won't automatically translate to better models as frontier AI is increasingly a systems problem: scheduling, utilization, networking, kernels, frameworks, data pipelines, parallelism, cluster reliability, and the thousand small decisions that determine whether your theoretical FLOPs become real training progress.From building Discord's developer platform and backing frontier AI companies like Anthropic, Mistral, Black Forest Labs, and Periodic Labs to now building AMP's independent compute grid, Anjney Midha has spent years close to the real bottlenecks of AI scaling. In this episode, Anjney joins swyx at Periodic Labs to unpack why the AI race is not just about buying more GPUs, why 95% utilization would have been considered an outage at Google, and why the next era of AI infrastructure has to be more aligned, more efficient, and more responsible.We go deep on AMP's vision for a compute grid that makes FLOPs flow like megawatts, the difference between full-stack AI labs and horizontal pooling, why AI data centers need community buy-in, and how compute markets could evolve into something closer to an independent system operator. Anjney also explains why DeepMind's unpublished research points to a market failure, why end-of-life prediction remains one of the most important AI applications he has thought about for fourteen years, and why “output maxing” may become a new discipline for frontier systems.We also discuss Anthropic's culture, why “luck favors the prepared mind” in coding models, how Claude cracked coding, why too much capital too early can make AI labs fragile, what Periodic Labs is trying to do with science and superconductors, why great researchers can become great CEOs, and why Silicon Valley is both deeply missionary and deeply mercenary.We discuss:* Why 95% utilization was considered an outage at Google* Why AI infrastructure waste compounds at frontier-lab scale* Why “move fast and break things” does not work for AI data centers* How data center backlash, power grids, and community incentives shape AI scaling* AMP's vision for making FLOPs flow like megawatts* Why compute needs an independent system operator* How interruptible demand and dynamic prioritization worked inside Google* Why DeepMind research hoarding creates negative externalities* AMP's 1.2GW base-load ambition and the need for 6GW of spike capacity* Why end-of-life prediction could become one of AI's most important healthcare applications* Frontier Systems, output maxing, and full-stack alignment* Why APIs and abstraction layers become lossy as organizations scale* Superconductors, standards, and the dream of lossless systems* SF Compute, open protocols, and the future of compute marketplaces* Why non-NVIDIA chips can still benefit from NVIDIA's reference architecture* Trust boundaries and why chip startups need visibility into future model architectures* Why VCs often underestimate researchers as CEOs* Scientists as star athletes of the mind* Why great CEOs need to be confrontational up and down the stack* Why leading the frontier matters more than “winning”* How Anthropic cracked coding* Why culture is fragile, not a permanent moat* Why hardship was a feature, not a bug, for Anthropic* Why Anthropic's P0 was coding from day one* Periodic Labs, physics as the constraint, and technical reality* Silicon Valley mercenaries, missionary teams, and what happens after a breakthroughAnjney Midha* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anjney* X: https://x.com/AnjneyMidhaAMP PBC* Website: https://amppublic.com/* X: https://x.com/amppublicTimestamps00:00:00 Introduction00:00:09 Why AI Compute Is Being Wasted00:03:17 Responsible Infrastructure and Data Center Backlash00:06:07 AMP Grid: Making FLOPs Flow Like Megawatts00:12:41 Foundry, Frontier Labs, and Research Hoarding00:14:42 Gigawatt-Scale Compute and End-of-Life Prediction00:24:08 Frontier Systems, Output Maxing, and Alignment00:27:38 Compute Markets, SF Compute, and Non-NVIDIA Chips00:32:57 Trust Boundaries, Co-Design, and Researcher CEOs00:38:17 AI Coachella and First-Principles Thinking00:42:43 Leading vs Winning in Frontier AI00:45:54 How Anthropic Cracked Coding00:48:25 Culture, Hardship, and Anthropic's P000:54:03 Periodic Labs, Physics, and Silicon Valley Mercenaries00:56:26 Rishi Valley, Singapore, and Money as a Measure00:58:47 Closing ThoughtsTranscriptIntroduction: Anjney Midha, AMP, and Compute WasteSwyx [00:00:00]: We're in Periodic Labs with Anjney Midha, CEO, founder of AMP. Welcome.Compute Utilization: Node Allocation, MFU, and AlignmentAnjney [00:00:09]: Thanks for having me. At Google, there are two types of utilization usually, right? That you're measuring in these clusters. One is node allocation, and then the other's MFU. Node utilization is usually like what percentage of cards in the data center are just, used, and that, if it's not at, 95%-Swyx [00:00:29]: There is no excuseAnjney [00:00:29]: There's no excuse, right? I think 95% at Google, which is where my co-founder, Seb, came from, he built the Borg, PBorg/GQM scheduler at Google, and there I think 95% was considered an outage, so 96% node utilization is, should be standard. And most single-tenant clusters are not running at that. So that's one. And then MFU should be, I would say the best in class today is somewhere between 60 and 70%. I think this is a leadership question, right? Fundamentally it's an alignment question, which is are the people who are funding the cluster and then deploying the cluster actually aligned? And sometimes theoretically they are, but in practice the number of people in the chain, the supply chain between, the capital and all the way to whoever's managing the cluster and then whoever's measuring what the output is, are just so many, degrees of separation away that, the, The Have you ever heard the radian metaphor, which is at the beginning of an arc, if you have two arcs that are two lines that are just off by a few degrees, that-Swyx [00:01:33]: It spreads outAnjney [00:01:34]: It spreads out, right? Or at scale. And I think what's happening is a lot of cluster implementations and infrastructure, a lot of frontier labs and other teams, that's what's happening, is they're, they initialize the plan, which is kind of like North Star with a team that wants to do good, but then they're, required to scale so fast instead of iteratively that the wastage just compounds really fast at scale. And so I think we know the answer, which is just do iterative bring ups. If you spend time with people who've been in the semiconductor industry or the DSN industry for a long time, this is not new, and I don't think AI should be an excuse. Sure. Something What is new? Okay. We have a lot of new capabilities, but that doesn't mean just abandon common sense. Common sense should always be in fashion. ? AI scaling doesn't change the in fact, if anything, AI scaling should be putting a premium on the value of common sense and infrastructure because the margin of error now is so much lower and the costs of wastage are so much higher. And the cost of wastage, by the way, is not just economic. I'm, obviously I'm, I'm an investor, or I'm an investor by background. Over the last few years now we're running an AI infrastructure business called, AMP. And I think that it's okay to say this time is different on the capabilities front. We are genuinely getting capabilities at, of the, of a kind we haven't had before. That doesn't give you an excuse to say this time is different for everything, especially infrastructure. So look, I love the hacker mindset and the hustler mindset. Now, that's great for the startup mindset, but you remember this moment where Zuck went from saying, “Move fast, break things” to, move-Responsible Infrastructure and Data Center BacklashSwyx [00:03:10]: Fast and stable infrastructureAnjney [00:03:11]: Move fast with stable infrastructure. I think now we need to move fast with, responsible infrastructure. People are going to ask where the impact is. There was a really In our class yesterday, Scott Nolan, who's the founder of General Matter, came by at Stanford to speak about energy bottlenecks. And he had a phenomenal idea. He said, “if you look at the marginal unit economics of compute per hour,” he goes, “let's call it, $4 an hour. If you're having to bring up a new data center in a new community, why not just say we're going to charge 4.50 an hour, and that marginal impact or that marginal increase, we just literally take that and give it to the local community as cash?” I can tell you as a customer of that compute, I would love that. I'd be happy to pay an additional 50 cents per hour at scale.Swyx [00:03:57]: Wow. Yeah.Anjney [00:03:58]: Because if that means the public benefit is so clear to the communities that the data centers are coming up in, I'm going to feel like that compute is much more reliable. Up to 20% of all data centers this year in the US, my understanding is are at risk.Swyx [00:04:13]: Of community backlash?Anjney [00:04:14]: Correct. Of not getting the community support they need to get brought up.Swyx [00:04:19]: Wow. That's a huge number.Anjney [00:04:20]: Yeah. Now, we, I think we should dig into what that number is. I think it's a little bit of overstated. These things can get over-reported, but it-Swyx [00:04:27]: They don't just care about jobs. They care about all the other stuff around it, right? They care about power grid, they care about environments-Anjney [00:04:33]: Power grid, permitting, and so on. And imagine I think if you said there's a new AI deal. If we're bringing up a data center in your community, we're actually going to reduce the cost of your electricity bill. Okay, now we're talking. Right? The community's going, “Okay. Now this is a deal. I feel like a partner in this.” Right now that's not happening. There will be audits, there will be investigations, and when the, when the regulators come, I don't know when it's going to be, the folks who are moving fast and breaking things in the name of AI progress better be prepared. That's certainly not how we're procuring compute. Or we're, we're trying as much as we can to work with partners who have long-term track records. Many of whom, by the way, are not, AI providers. I think this whole idea of neoclouds being somehow this new category is a lot of marketing speak. There are really good, reliable, trusted data center providers in America who've been around 20 plus years. I love those folks. They know how to Sure. Are they sponsoring happy hours at NeurIPS? No. Are they legibly listed in Build? No. Are they hanging out in my, in, situational awareness parties? No. But they're adults. I trust them.Swyx [00:05:44]: They can run LAN. They can run power.Anjney [00:05:45]: They can run LAN, power, and shell. They have credit histories. We sit down, we have a conversations. Many of them live in Silicon Valley. They've, they've had to deal with the boom and bust cycles of the internet, and I love those folks. They are stable infrastructure partners and thinkers. And I think there's a lot of short-term thinking going on in the compute layer, and it's going to catch up to us. It's not going to be good.AMP Grid: Making FLOPs Flow Like MegawattsSwyx [00:06:07]: You talk about aligning incentives, and, I would think that aligning incentives means you have the full stack in one company, which is xAI and OpenAI, right? So you as a standalone infrastructure layer, why are you somehow more aligned to your portfolio companies than people who just own the whole thing?Anjney [00:06:28]: In systems design, right, there's, there's two regimes of, architecture, right? You have integration, and then you have pooling and utilization, right? So the Or rather, the way to increase utilization often is you can do systems integration where you collapse a lot of process into one node, or you can pull out a process from a node and share that amongst various That resource amongst several different nodes. And so we see the AMP grid, which is, the, what, the system we're building here, which is basically a compute grid. We're trying to do for compute what the electric grid-Swyx [00:07:02]: PowerAnjney [00:07:02]: Yeah, what the power grid did for electricity. It-- this is a pooling and utilization layer across clouds, And so we're actually the opposite of a full stack integration like approach.Swyx [00:07:12]: Super horizontal.Anjney [00:07:13]: Where it's much more horizontal and it's, it's multi-cloud, it's multi-silicon. The goal is to try to make FLOPs flow like megawatts, and that is very hard to do today for many reasons. There's stranded pools of compute all over the place and there's no fungibility. And so right now we do it at the level of scheduling, and we often do it at the economic layer. But as we start to announce what we're working on, it's extraordinary like how many folks are coming out of the woodworks and saying, “Hey, I'm actually working on a way to make compute fungible at this part of the stack and that part of the stack.” And as a grid, we'd like all of these folks to participate on the grid. There's, people often ask me, “Andra, are you a new cloud?” And I go, “No, actually neoclouds are suppliers.” sometimes they'll ask, “Are you a venture capital firm?” I go, “No, actually they are, they are demand like sort of off-takers of the grid.” We see ourselves as what's called an independent system operator. So if you study the history of the electric grid, once it became legible to a lot of factories and industrial sort of participants that, hey, actually it turns out pooling is a good idea. We should pool our generators instead of all having a generator running at half capacity in our backyard. There was a need for an independent entity who could coordinate all these parties. Transmission line, power generation, facilities, transmission lines, factories, and that neutral coordination mechanism is very critical. In order-- If you study like the history of grids, the most enduring ones were those that never owned their own assets. They were ones that had, or often started with long-term anchors who are uncorrelated sources of demand, a steel factory, a shoe mill or whatever in a particular town who weren't competitive, where the steel factory want to spike up at night, the shoe mill wanted to spike up during the day. So then you pool and you share, right? So each of you is guaranteed some base load, but then you kind of schedule your spikes to drive a peak utilization across the town. The gold standard, so to speak, historically, has been these utility companies like PJM Interconnect in the northeast of America, where they, over many years became this what's called an ISO, an independent system operator of the grid. So that's how we see ourselves. Economically, that's what we are. From a technical perspective, we started at the scheduling layer because Seb and Mihai, who, run engineering here, built that at-Swyx [00:09:28]: Did your schedulingAnjney [00:09:28]: They did that at Google. And, -Swyx [00:09:32]: And you have infra shops from Discord as well.Anjney [00:09:35]: I have some.Swyx [00:09:35]: I don't know, I don't know if Discord is like the primary identity, but what-whatever, I'm just kind of-Anjney [00:09:39]: No, D-Discord was-Swyx [00:09:40]: Choosing a well-known name.Anjney [00:09:42]: Well, I So I was running the developer platform there. The internal infrastructure I was not responsible for. That was actually a guy by the name of Mark Smith, who was extraordinary. And yes, Discord did pool So Discord is actually a counter example. I had the chance to learn a lot about fully, full stack infra there because-Swyx [00:09:56]: It's the same thing, yeahAnjney [00:09:57]: It's the, it's the other architecture which is, Discord built its own WebRTC vo-voice and video infra. So like Discord did not use-Swyx [00:10:08]: For the calls, yeah.Anjney [00:10:09]: Yeah, did not For communication, Discord did not use third party infra. It was all built in-house. And then the way you maximize utilization was you pool demand from the world's 200 million plus monthly active gamers, right? And so that's, that's how those stacks were constructed. Again, in systems design, the two concepts that keep coming up over and over again are abstraction and composition, right? And-Swyx [00:10:31]: Bundling and unbundlingAnjney [00:10:33]: Bundling and unbundling, abstraction, composition, like verticalization and-Swyx [00:10:36]: HorizontalAnjney [00:10:36]: Horizontalization. So in that sense, AMP is an independent system operator of the grid. We pool demand, we pool supply from a number of partners we trust At about 1.3 gigawatt scale over four years. And then we pool demand from some of the world's best, research labs and so on. We're sitting at one, periodic labs who need extraordinary long-term demand. And the idea is that, each of them is guaranteed base load on the grid, but they can spike up and down flexibly on, for compute, with much shorter timelines as needed. That was roughly the design of the program I came up with at a16z called Oxygen. The same-- That was the same design of the GQM, BorgX, Borg GQM implementation at Google that Mihai and Seb had built. Which was that how do you allow, teams inside of Google, on the internal infrastructure to be guaranteed capacity, for their base workloads? But when they need to spike up on research, how could they ensure that was sufficiently there? And of course, the big innovation that was not discovered, but kind of implemented in the space, this infra space maybe three, four years ago at Google was the idea of interruptible demand, right? Where you just queue up a bunch of jobs and through this like sort of credit system, there can be a bidding mechanism.Swyx [00:11:53]: Like priorities.Anjney [00:11:54]: It's a dynamic prioritization Basically. And jobs can get interrupted based on somebody else who's saying, “what? I have 10 tokens, 10 credits I want to spend on this job.” Another like team lead, research lead is “Genie 3 or whatever is only worth five, credits, and NanoBanana2 is worth 10 credits,” and so the NanoBanana job gets priority. That's a, that's a made up example.Swyx [00:12:15]: It's very real. Brain Marketplace was real. And, we've, we've covered this on the pod with David Luan, who was-Anjney [00:12:20]: Oh, great. OkaySwyx [00:12:20]: Was there. And the criticism is that, well, actually sometimes you need central command to go all in on a thing. And actually sometimes capitalism via credits doesn't work. Not, this is not a criticism of AMP. I'm just saying, this is a thing that has been tried, internally within Google, and it led to Google missing GPT.Foundry, Frontier Labs, and Research HoardingAnjney [00:12:41]: Like, we structured ourself essentially very similarly to Google. We are structured as a holdings company. So, Alphabet holdings is Alphabet holdings, and then they've got these subsidiaries called Google and-Swyx [00:12:51]: Other betsAnjney [00:12:52]: Other bets and so on. We've got, AMP holdings, and we've got our infrastructure business, and then we've got a capital business called Foundry that incubates new frontier AI labs or invests in them as venture capital, like Periodic. We put a few hundred million dollars into Anthropic from our fund earlier this year. So wherever we feel like teams are making progress, especially researchers and so on who've pushed the frontier inside of existing labs like DeepMind, I find, there comes a point where they feel misaligned with the dictatorship of Alphabet holdings. And at that point, sometimes the dictatorship doesn't want them anymore. And they're “Thank you. You've done your job here. You've kind of helped us through the zero to one phase, and for whatever reason, we're going to deprioritize your amazing, omni model or whatever it is, and instead we're going to prioritize coding.” And, I think that's a tragedy, but I get it. They're Sergey and team are running their own business there. But that doesn't mean we the rest of us should sit around waiting for that progress to get unlocked for the rest of the world and humanity. If you think about how much extraordinary research has happened inside of DeepMind over the last 10 years, I, Demis and Sergey and those guys did such a great job. But at the end of the day, so much of that has never seen the light of day?Swyx [00:14:00]: Or they're like papers only, but they never actually shipped it to production or-Anjney [00:14:03]: What's worse is the paper is actually not even being published anymore ‘cause there's a six-month embargo inside of DeepMind, right? We've heard about this where a paper comes out, and then I think there's a six-month embargo window where if anybody on the business team says, “This could be interesting” It's embargoed for life.Swyx [00:14:18]: Exactly. So the stuff that gets published is the stuff that's not good enough.Anjney [00:14:21]: There's an adverse selection problem, basically. Yeah. At this point-Swyx [00:14:25]: It's, it's a common complaint at NeurIPS, by the way, that's “Well, why would I look at the papers that are the trash of GDM?”Anjney [00:14:31]: Again, I think it's a tragedy. I get it. They're running their business, but the rest of the I think there's negative externalities of research being hoarded, and so that'there's a market failure. And somebody needs to unlock that research, and we can't do it on our own. We only have 1.2 gigawatts of compute. That's nothing. That's about $40 billion of cloud spend. We're going to need a lot-Gigawatt-Scale Compute and End-of-Life PredictionSwyx [00:14:51]: By the way, is that's a new number. I haven't, haven't come across that gigawatt number. That's huge.Anjney [00:14:56]: Yeah. And to be clear, we haven't secured all of it. That's how much demand we have started to secure. I think publicly we haven't actually confirmed how much we have for this year. In order-Swyx [00:15:04]: Where do you want to get to?Anjney [00:15:06]: I think the steady state would be that we have a base load pool Of 1.2 gigawatts at all times Of base load capacity. For spike capacity, right now my estimate is we need roughly six gigawatts over the next four years for all our teams to feel like they were able to keep moving the frontier, whatever they're working on, whether it's, like superconductor discovery over here. There's a new investment we're working on right now, which is in the end of life prediction space in healthcare. It's extraordinary how much you can, you can give this was actually my graduate school work. I went to grad school for bioinformatics at Stanford Med. And I know we-Swyx [00:15:40]: Econ, MCS, bio.Anjney [00:15:41]: So my-- I was this really weird cat where, I was never satisfied with my major options. So at one point I was an econ major, then I was a CS major, then I was a MCS major called mathematical computational science, and they decided they were going to end that major. So I took all that coursework, and I applied it to grad school, my graduate degree in bioinformatics, which was the master's program, and then I thought I was going to do a PhD. I never ended up doing it. I dropped out and went to work at Kleiner. But I was lucky enough to apprentice with this professor at, Stanford Med. His name is Nigam Shah, and he was working on end of life prediction. Stanford is one of the only research facilities in America that has a longitudinal patient data set that's larger at scale. I think it's at least 12 million patient lives. The only larger data set is at the VA, the Veterans Affairs, of America. And to do research, like do any deep learning and so on that data set, it was called the STRIDE data set at that time, you had to be a Stanford Med School affiliate, which is why I went and enrolled in the bioinformatics department. End of deep learning was early. Nigam Shah had the visibility-- the vision to see that, you could do end of life prediction to help palliative care. In America, the, over 30% of all Medicare, Medicaid spend, at least at that time, was spent on end of life care. And what's we grew up in Asia, so we all-- Yeah, at least I won't speak for you, but I have A very different relationship with death than I find folks who grew up in America do. In America, spiritually and culturally, especially in Western societies where Christianity, the Christian tradition sort of frames death as this terminal point, there's often a judgment day and so on. The way we view death is with a finality. In Indian culture, in Hindu culture, death is one-Swyx [00:17:35]: Also, he's Buddhist as well.Anjney [00:17:36]: You're Buddhist, yeah. So it's one, it's one step in a journey of many lives, right? And so, I grew up in this city called Chennai in the south of India, and when people die, you dance on the street. There's like a procession where your body is carried to be cremated and your family, like celebrates and there's drums and so on. It's this huge thing. And, It's because the idea is that you're going to be reincarnated. You've been liberated from the responsibilities of this life, and now you're onto your next. It's a new It's like going off to a new college or whatever, right? And so it was so alien to me when I got here as an undergrad- That the medical system works backwards from that assumption that we have to view death as this terminal thing and delay it, postpone it's a bad thing. And so at the time, clinical decision support in the United States was this very primitive field. Even to this day, physicians in the United States often will tell you when you have a terminal disease, this is your, we've diagnosed you, which is great. Our ability to diagnose you is extraordinary. You have somewhere between six months to six years to live. What do you do with that information? The error bars are so high that then you In times of uncertainty, we default to culture, and when the culture is let's-- this is a bad thing, I've got to prolong my life, then you start doing things like And just to, just sort of from a systems perspective, what's going on there is Physicians often feel like they need to provide such high error bars because there's always some uncertainty in end of life diagnosis, and if you provide the wrong Diagnosis or recommendation to your patient, you can be sued for medical malpractice. And then your license can be taken away. It can be catastrophic for your career. In contrast, if in countries where that's not the case, what you often observe is that patients, physicians are quite prescriptive with their recommendation. They say, “Hey, this is your condition. The literature says that you probably have this much time on Earth left. My expert opinion is that you are an outlier or whatever.” And they try to be more prescriptive, and that empowers a patient, right? ‘Cause then a patient can say, “I trust my doctor. They said on average, I have six months to live, but if I do these things, I may have a shot because of my particular predispositions or my genetic history or whatever.” And that empowers you to go about your life in a actually more scientific way than leaning on religion, culture, spirituality, and so on. In contrast, here, because of that medical malpractice sort of thing looming over your head, a physician never gives you a clear recommendation. So instead you say, “Okay, Doc, well, let's try it all.” And then you start a whole regime of drugs and therapies, and then you often spend weeks and weeks in the hospital, and that deteriorates your quality of life. And when that deteriorates your quality of life, you instead of spending your last few days doing the things you love with your family, you're spending it on a hospital bed. And that ends up being thirty percent of Medicare and Medicaid. So it's worse for the patients. The doctors feel terrible. The American taxpayer is paying a huge amount of money. And so this is why Nigam Shah, who was this professor at Stanford, said, “Anjney, if there's “ I kind of sat down with him. I was this young, I'd, I was twenty-one, and I was “I want to work on a big problem.” He's “The big problem is end of life care.” And so we tried to do deep learning to say, to-- So we started trying to run deep learning on these tried patient data sets to say, “Could you have an AI system make a recommendation that is orders of magnitude more precise about how much time you have left once you've been diagnosed with a terminal condition than a human?” And then if we can get that precision to be high enough, then you can empower the patient. And it turns out the tech works. Like it's-- Once you get the data set, like RL works. Honestly, even regression models work. You don't need to get that fancy. At the time, we were just trying, doing like very simple neural nets.Swyx [00:21:54]: Simple solutions, yeah.Anjney [00:21:54]: Today, what we can do with RL is extraordinary. The problem remains then and now is regulatory, because you actually can't shift the burden of the wrong clinical diagnoses from the physician to the AI system. And so at that time, I got quite disillusioned ten years ago for, twelve years ago where, ‘cause I felt I just didn't have the resources to influence regulation. Today, I'm very lucky. I'm in a different place. I've, I'm a lot older, and so I've been spending a lot of time on my next incubation, which is how can we unlock the, patient empowerment by training AI models to do end of life prediction much, with much more precision and ac-Swyx [00:22:37]: Oh, wow. You're still focused on this the whole time.Anjney [00:22:40]: The-- I haven't been able to get, this out of my mind a single day for the last fourteen years. This is the hill I want, I would like to die on. There's two, I would say. What? I actually, I'd prefer not to die.Swyx [00:22:51]: Yeah, exactly.Anjney [00:22:52]: But I think two bipartisan issues, I think two issues that should be bipartisan in America are how do we empower patients to make the right clinical decisions at the end of their life, such that we're reducing the taxpayer burden with science? It's just good old science, and AI can help here. And the second is, net positive data centers, ‘cause I think that's the biggest critical bottleneck on training and good enough AI models to help people at the end of their life. So there's sort of two sides of the, of the same scaling bottleneck curve, but those two, we formed AMP as a public benefit corporation. My wife and I, who you've met, you've met Viv. Her passion is education. Her family is a long line of educators and so on, and, of physicists. And so this class is my attempt to stop being the black sheep of the family and be a, an educator. But if I'm not educating, the thing I would be doing is working, on these two problems, whether on the political spectrum or as a researcher back at, in some lab. And my hope is if anyone's listening to this podcast, if they're passionate about either of those two topics, I'd love to hear from them. We'll, we'll we can share the contact in the show notes, but, we're looking for people to join both of those missions on the, on the political side as well as on the medical side, on the research side.Frontier Systems, Output Maxing, and AlignmentSwyx [00:24:08]: You said, this is a discipline that you want to form. You call it's called variously called Frontier System. It's variously called One Person Frontier Lab. What is the ideal name or shape of this? Like the, what is the mission?Anjney [00:24:24]: Of the class?Swyx [00:24:26]: Of the discipline that you're, exploring, right? I The class is called Frontier Systems. But like for me, maybe one phrase is you're, you're just anti-waste, right? Which is wasting GPUs, wasting in human and Medicare. But is there, is there a broader theme that I'm, that maybe you can encapsulate more succinctly?Anjney [00:24:45]: Yeah. The, from an engineering perspective, it's very simple. It's output maxing. It's the, it's the department of output maxing.Swyx [00:24:51]: Making the most of what we have.Anjney [00:24:52]: Exactly. I'm a huge believer in optimal outcomes. I think both in America and other countries, we are losing our appreciation for nuance, and this is the thing of And AI is the same case, right? Oh, the bitter lesson holds. Okay, fine. But that doesn't mean you just like throw 500 GB300, 500,000 GB300s at your suboptimal model scaling and you waste a bunch of compute. It also doesn't mean that, the most optimal is to have like 50 different architectures where there isn't enough standardization. One of the reasons Anthropic has had extraordinary sort of velocity is ‘cause they picked the transform architecture and said, “This is simple. Let's double down on it,” right? And now luckily there's enough investment going to the space that we can afford other architectures, but at the time, investment was just too fragmented into other architectures, so that arguably unlocked scaling. So I think there's a philosophy. I think we all owe it to ourselves to do output maxing with a new capability called AI on a global level. I think if I was starting a new department at Stanford, depending on how fuzzy or technical I wanted to be, I'd probably call it the Department of Alignment. Like-Swyx [00:25:59]: It's an overloaded termAnjney [00:26:01]: But it is, But alignment really Is a hard problem. And I think when you unlock it, full stack alignment is super hard in any organization and in any system. Like in a, in a venture capital firm, if you can have full stack alignment between your limited partners and your, the founders who are creating the value and ultimately the public that owns the IPO stock, that is a gift that keeps giving. And when you study the history of these systems, when they start off, they usually start out small scale where the feedback loop is actually so tight that there's alignment. And then the more you try to scale, the more division of labor happens, the more specialization happens, and at each step you add abstractions. And wherever there's an API interface, there's like loss. There's communication loss. And so I think a really cool thing would be for us to figure out is there a way for us to have our cake and eat it too as an engineering discipline? Is there a way to actually scale up and scale out Without losing any alignment, without lossy transmission?Swyx [00:27:01]: You mean standards?Anjney [00:27:02]: So standards is one way. The other way is you just have net new capabilities. So like what we're trying to do here is discover new superconductors. A room temperature superconductor would be a lossless transmission mechanism for energy. We would have flying cars. We are right within a few years of having a new room temperature superconductor. So I think those are the two. You either have to standardize On protocols or API specs that allow lossless communication, or you can come up with a whole new capability that unlocks so much abundance, the standardization doesn't matter ‘cause you just unlock net new capacity. This, the, so this is what I spend my days thinking about these days.Compute Markets, SF Compute, and Non-NVIDIA ChipsSwyx [00:27:38]: No, I think every infra person at, who wants scale and wants to output max does eventually end up thinking about this. We don't have time to go into it, but we have done an episode with SF Compute-Anjney [00:27:50]: Oh, coolSwyx [00:27:50]: That is trying to standardize The futures contract for compute. I don't, I don't know how that's going by the way, but like at some point this will be public.Anjney [00:27:57]: Oh, I think Evan is awesome and SF Compute is the kind of effort that I hope we can accelerate because what often happens is these exchanges are very hard to get, they, it's hard to bootstrap them, right? Because they often require-- There's many inefficiencies between parties. There's trust boundary inefficiencies in infrastructure because you don't trust, one part of the stack doesn't trust another part of the stack to give them visibility. There's capital markets inefficiencies, there's operational efficiencies. So if you can inject like a single shock to the system of a ton of compute demand or supply, then you can accelerate, these new flywheels. And so my hope is one day, or soon, if SF Compute needs extra like has excess capacity, they just hook it up to the grid and they get flooded with demand from us. And on the other side, if they have a ton of demand but they don't have supply, they just again hook up to the grid and it's a two-way protocol where they can just hook up to our capacity. And I don't think we're too far from that. Today our working implementation of it is mostly through a group of labs, universities, and a few sort of trusted parties who are, who all feel like they're in alignment to borrow an over sort of used word. But our hope is to just have it be an open protocol that anyone can hook up to on-Swyx [00:29:20]: Hook up for demand or hook up for supply? In primarily demand, it sounds like. Like you-Anjney [00:29:25]: No, bothSwyx [00:29:26]: You would want to offer demand.Anjney [00:29:27]: Both. Yeah. Unfortunately, what's happened in the last six weeks is, we thought we'd have a bunch of excess capacity by the end of this year. It's all gone.Swyx [00:29:37]: It's exploding.Anjney [00:29:38]: It, yeah. It's all gone. And so I have, my text messages are full of friends, we know many of these people, these are founders who've raised billions of dollars in San Francisco going, “Oh, any chance you have like 50 nodes in the next few weeks?”Swyx [00:29:51]: What is the scope for, non-Nvidia, right? You have Lisa Su coming and, Rainer Pope as well. And so There is a lot of demand for, more performance Alternative architectures and all that. At the same time, this hurts your standardization.Anjney [00:30:11]: I don't think so. So actually Rainer's a great example, right? Rainer is a CEO and founder of, MatX. I actually had him by for office hours in the class earlier today, and there was an insight he brought up that I hadn't considered before, which is when they decided to pick the standard For their data center, they picked the NVIDIA reference architecture. So the MatX chips Just plug in to any site that has an NVIDIA bring up planned. And, the-Swyx [00:30:42]: It's just software then. It's, it's not the-Anjney [00:30:44]: A-Swyx [00:30:44]: Hardware.Anjney [00:30:46]: Well, from an input and IO perspective It's the same footprint as an NVIDIA rack.Swyx [00:30:52]: That makes sense.Anjney [00:30:53]: Where they have done, innovated a bunch from what I can tell is on systems co-design. Which is where a lot of the gains are to be had. And so he picked He was “Anjney, we, there's just so much work to do when you're building a new chip company.”Swyx [00:31:08]: Can't fight every front.Anjney [00:31:08]: You just can't fight on every front. So my question to him was, “Well, you're working on this new chip. Their tape-out is next year. What, who are you going to partner with to host the chips?” And he said, “Whoever will host them. That's just not, that's not my focus.” And I said, “But how did you “ you decided back to our earlier systems design question, he decided that, he didn't want to be a full, fully integrated chip provider. The bottleneck they're focused on is the logic die, and they, he feels they can crank out a ton of performance gains through co-design there. But then that means you delegate, to our question earlier, it, you he's the data center provider is a different part of the stack, and so then he's dependent on that part of the ecosystem to host his chips to get the performance gains to the customer. So now you have another abstraction, and you might have loss. So I asked him, “How do you prevent loss?” And back to your point, he said, “I just picked the NVIDIA standard ‘cause I didn't want to Like I wanted to piggyback off of an existing protocol.” And that, what's great about NVIDIA is that reference architecture is known.Swyx [00:32:15]: Open.Anjney [00:32:15]: It's open. They've published it. So Jensen's actually enabled someone like Rainer to build a chip company like MatX, and I don't see them as competitive. The compute demand is so high. Like, I don't I think NVIDIA's not able to meet the demands of production, so we just need more chips. And I think it's very smart what MatX has done, which is say, “We're just going to we're not going to innovate on the data center design ‘cause actually, thank you, Jensen, you've done all the hard work. Where we can innovate is somewhere else.” And I think that's, that's very healthy. I think that's how we unblock new bottlenecks. And my view is these, the, chip teams like MatX, who have arrived at the insight that co-design is the way, The primary bottleneck for them is trust boundary. To do co-design well, you need visibility into the next model generation as soon as possible ‘cause it takes two years to tape out. So if by the time I bring my chip to market, your model architecture's changed, I'm host. Now, when he was inside Google, he was sitting next to the Gemini team. He was on Palm or whatever.Trust Boundaries, Co-Design, and Researcher CEOsSwyx [00:33:19]: His co-founder was the, was one, was one of the Palm guys, I think.Anjney [00:33:23]: Yes. Yes, exactly. So when you're inside the trust boundary of Google, then your systems co-design loop is super tight. When you leave as a founder, one of the biggest risks you take is now you're outside the trust boundary. And so what I love doing is helping chip teams who can help us unlock more capacity for the independent ecosystem access to trust. Because when I If I've been, involved with a lab from day one, and I was lucky enough to work with Anthropic, and then I'm on the board of Mistral and helped Black Forest Labs get started. I think at this point I'm on six or seven different teams.Swyx [00:33:57]: Only six? I feel like my mental number was going to be 13, but yeah, it's-Anjney [00:34:02]: No, I go deep with one at a time.Swyx [00:34:04]: You're founding CEO of Arena.Anjney [00:34:07]: Nah, that was an, that was an-Swyx [00:34:08]: Administrative CEOAnjney [00:34:09]: It was an administrative five-month gig where Whalen and Anastasios were graduating from their PhDs, and they didn't need a product team. So I helped recruit the head of engineering product and design. But Anastasios has always been the CEO of that company. I played a pinch-hitting I'm an intern. I was CEO intern For five months. -Swyx [00:34:33]: I interviewed him, and he's he's very well-spoken. I think he's a debate, former debate, champion. But also very quantitative and mathematical, which is-Anjney [00:34:41]: He-Swyx [00:34:41]: Such a unicorn.Anjney [00:34:43]: See, what's amazing about him? If you look at his output, he's an output maxer. By the time he was graduating from his PhD, which he only graduated last year, he had published more work with a citation count than, people twice his age. But at the same time, he'd already started a project called LLM Arena that was being used by millions of people As a side project. And time and time again, what I've realized is venture capitalists suck at seeing human beings as, dynamic agents where-Swyx [00:35:14]: They want to put you in a boxAnjney [00:35:15]: They want to put you in a box.Swyx [00:35:15]: This is your thing.Anjney [00:35:16]: So the first time I got introduced to Anastasios, somebody had told me “Oh, he's amazing, but he's a researcher.” I was “what? What do you mean he's a researcher?” That's what-Swyx [00:35:28]: Like he's not a CEO, not a founder.Anjney [00:35:29]: Not a CEO, exactly. I was “Are you crazy? Do you Have you met Dario?” Dario's a scientist. He's gone from zero to, what will soon be a trillion-dollar company in four years. Being a CEO, nominally speaking, is not that hard. Being a good CEO is hard. Being a great CEO actually requires a level of performance that scientists who have already published at the top of their field have accomplished. It is super hard to be a competitive scientist. To publish in academia over the last 20, 30 years, to make it to the top of your discipline at a place like Berkeley, you are a star athlete. Like, you are an athlete of the mind, and you perform at the highest levels. And to get there, whether you're, Anastasios or Whalen at Berkeley, or you are Robin, who-Swyx [00:36:23]: BFL, yeahAnjney [00:36:24]: With Black Forest, who created Stable Diffusion, or if you're, like Guillaume at Meta, who created Llama before he started Mistral. The amount of human leadership you have to demonstrate to get the resources, like get the trust of the organization, publish it, put it up. I would just fund researchers all day Right? If who have contributed already to the field. If they've, if they've put SOTA out there, they're, they're star athletes already. If they haven't done SOTA Look, they can still be good CEOs, but then I find the failure mode is that they just don't want to be CEOs, they primarily want to publish, and that's okay, too. One of the things we do with the AMP Grid is we donate excess compute. We have two nonprofits, like university labs. We carved out like a couple thousand H100s. But I do think there's extraordinary research being done on university campuses. My father-in-law's a physicist. He's a professor. Extraordinary work in physics, and we need that. But if you want to be a CEO, what you need to be willing To do is be super confrontational, outside of science. Like within the scientific community, some of the best researchers are very confrontational about their convictions, right? This architecture is right. To be a great CEO, you basically have to be willing to be confrontational up and down the stack.Swyx [00:37:41]: To your own team.Anjney [00:37:42]: To your own team-Swyx [00:37:43]: To customersAnjney [00:37:43]: Hiring, recruiting customers. Well, I would say, Yeah, pretty much to everyone Everybody. Of course-Swyx [00:37:50]: I see, I feel a little bit of that in my own work, but yeah, I can't imagine the stakes that Dario has had to go through. It's, it's pretty insane.Anjney [00:37:56]: No, I don't think the stakes are that different From how you're feeling it, right? Stakes are personal scaling vectors, right? The stakes that seem so low to you, like having this podcast where you can talk to somebody and just have a you're an extraordinary communicator, right? Like already in this conversation, you've pulled more out of me than most people, and I've been on 12 podcasts in the last two weeks.AI Coachella and First-Principles ThinkingSwyx [00:38:17]: I think I, we've just seen each other enough that there's some base trust.Anjney [00:38:20]: There's base trust.Swyx [00:38:20]: And I think, and I know that you, that I've done my homework and like I know that trust is a big deal for you, so.Anjney [00:38:27]: I think trust is about consistency, and you and I have seen each other In the community for years, right? Like, I remember the first time we met was at NeurIPS in New Orleans. I don't know if you remember that, luncheon.Swyx [00:38:38]: Oh my God.Anjney [00:38:39]: Reiko had set up this Reiko's amazing, and he set up this luncheon and-Swyx [00:38:43]: Yeah, I was “Who's this Discord guy?” I'm “Okay.” But-Anjney [00:38:45]: No, you weren't-Swyx [00:38:46]: You were just “You made some investments.”Anjney [00:38:47]: You were much less polite. You were “Who's this VC?” You're like-Swyx [00:38:51]: No, I Was I? Oh my God.Anjney [00:38:53]: It was-Swyx [00:38:53]: I'm so sorryAnjney [00:38:53]: It was visible on your face.Swyx [00:38:54]: I'm so sorry. But you weren't, you weren't The introduction was bad. I was I didn't know who you were.Anjney [00:39:00]: The, see, this is the thing about context, right? Like, but then I think I heard your accent. And I was “Are you-”Swyx [00:39:06]: Singapore, yeahAnjney [00:39:06]: “Are you Singaporean?” And you're “Yeah.” And I said, “I went to high school, JC, in Singapore.” And then the ice broke. But This is the there are in the scientific community, sometimes the stakes are very high for people who haven't had the emotional, what is called EQ Coaching and mentorship, right? Which is like to have scientific impact, you often need to be a extraordinary emotional, like emotionally in tune person with the folks you're trying to influence. And so what comes so naturally to you is actually a super high stakes thing to other people. And so I wouldn't assume that Dario's more stressed out than you. These things are you'd be surprised how similar and small sometimes the problems are to you That some of the world's biggest, leaders are facing. And that's what I've learned from this class. The guest speakers are Sam, Satya, Jensen.Swyx [00:40:01]: AI Coachella.Anjney [00:40:02]: Yeah. It's AI Coachella, right? So we got to get all the headliners, and they're I'm very lucky that some of these people have either mentored me over the years or I've done business with them. And when you, take the performative stuff out and any assumptions you may have about these people that you read in the press or on Twitter, We're all just humans. We're all trying to get along. And what's so special about this moment is AI is forcing, like scaling, the bitter lesson is forcing a lot of people to revise their assumptions for how the world works and go back to first principles or go and educate themselves. So the kind of people I was, I won't name who this person is, but I was at an event last week in Texas and, ran to somebody who said, “Anjney, I came across the class. What do you think about real time action prediction models?” And I was, don't know how happy it made me feel when they asked me that question. I know they've done the work. They've challenged themselves. I'm, they didn't ask me, “What do you think of world models?” They said, “What do you think of n-”Swyx [00:41:04]: Real time action predictionAnjney [00:41:05]: “action, real time action prediction models?” World models, don't get me wrong, are cool and everything, but you and I both know that is a layer of abstraction that is sometimes not usefully precise enough. Right? Ours-Swyx [00:41:16]: There's like four different kinds of world models.Anjney [00:41:17]: Yes, exactly.Swyx [00:41:18]: We've done the part with general intuition, by the way, which is very focused on, -Anjney [00:41:22]: Oh, cool. Yes. I love Pim. Pim is great. And this is what I love about people who've done that level of work. They realize they're not in competition with people who the rest of the world thinks they're in competition with.Swyx [00:41:34]: Because they're not in the category, they're in the specific thing they're trying to do.Anjney [00:41:37]: They're focused on their mission, and they have a systems understanding of the bottleneck they're trying to solve. And when somebody else says, “I'm working on real time, action prediction models too,” Pim goes, “Oh, I love that person. I want, I can learn from them.” But the minute they're “Oh, that person's a world model person,” it's “like which type of world model person?” But mostly they're just trying to figure out if it's a waste of their time, because we don't have enough time. So, Pim, for example, is super, loves this other company I work with we've talked about called Black Forest Labs. And he's mentioned to me multiple times that he's so, He thinks what Flux is doing is really cool. Andy Blattman came by and spoke in the class. And what I find over and over again is for people who do the work, who can be usefully precise enough about like what is actually going on in the world of frontier research, The sense of camaraderie is still well and alive, but it gets lost sometimes when you have to like abstract The technical complexities in, business terms And then the VCs are “How are you different from that world model?” I'm going to say Where do I even start to explain this stuff? And then the misalignment creeps in.Leading vs. Winning in Frontier AISwyx [00:42:43]: This is good. Yeah, I think, people listening get a sense of, what it is like to operate at a real level, like yourself, rather than at, the journalist level, where you have to sort of put everyone in, a rough category and create a narrative of competition, and who's winning today, who's behind.Anjney [00:42:58]: It-- this idea of winning is so Weird to me.Swyx [00:43:03]: You do want to win. You want you want competitiveness.Anjney [00:43:06]: No, I think you want to lead.Swyx [00:43:07]: You want SOTA.Anjney [00:43:07]: No, I think you want to lead. Yes, so you want to push the frontier. You want to push the SOTA. You want to do something that hasn't been done before. You want to capture value, but you don't want to capture so much value that, people think you're unaligned with your mission or trying to do what's best for the world. You want to capture enough value that you can keep innovating, right? And I think that people want to lead, they don't really This idea of winning and losing, again, I love Jensen. He's a, he's a leader. The mindset that he talked about on Dwarkesh's podcast, right? He's “I didn't wake up with a loser mindset.” I think that was awesome, right? Because he's, he's an engineer. Dwarkesh has done the work. So there's at least-- even though the, to me, it was very obvious they're talking about the same thing, they just passed each other. They just had to basically, Jensen has this, five-layer cake abstraction of how the industry works. And Dwarkesh had, I think from that podcast, had more of, a pre-training, mid-training, post-training systems loop concept.Swyx [00:44:04]: It's just a factor of who he talks to, right? Again, it's very clear.Anjney [00:44:06]: It's the systems It's the abstraction, the mental models, the It's the whole-- Dude, so much of the problem in the world is reasoning by analogy. And then the assumptions that are held invisibly.Swyx [00:44:19]: Yeah, I've, I've said, this is actually the best time in human history for first principles thinkers. Because everything you think will happen is actually now coming true.Anjney [00:44:28]: Correct. And the venture capital community is, notorious for this, where people look-- In times of uncertainty, they, cling to axioms that ended up being true from the previous era, and they kind of like proclaim them with confidence as if they're truths, but they're not. And it's very important to see the distinction between a heuristic and an axiom. An axiom can be proven-Swyx [00:44:55]: Like from internal consistency point of viewAnjney [00:44:56]: With internal consistency. A heuristic is a way you kind of a shortcut. And my God, the number of people I have had to put up with over the last few years who proclaim-- use heuristics As axioms to judge people, to judge which companies are going to succeed or the number of people who are “Oh, yeah, Anthropic, they're just training models right now,” but this one continue.Swyx [00:45:22]: Because that's a B2B SaaS?Anjney [00:45:23]: Yeah, the, like Which over the fullness of time, if you squint at it, maybe. But the way you arrive there is so important that you can-- you just, you can dismiss people. Here's what happened, right? What happened is Anthropic basically achieved takeoff in October of last year. That training run-Swyx [00:45:41]: Whatever, three seven?Anjney [00:45:42]: I forget the numbers now, but whatever that checkpoint was-Swyx [00:45:45]: We saw the cognition.Anjney [00:45:46]: Yeah. Right? You probably-- The, to those of us in the community, especially once post-training was done and it was released in December-Swyx [00:45:52]: Yeah. Can I sneak a sneaky question in there? I don't know if you have a perspective, maybe you don't, I just The number one question is how did Anthropic crack coding, right? Because Claude One, Claude Two, okay, like it was part of it, but it wasn't a big deal. And the leading hypothesis, it's a lucky dice roll that was then compounded, right? Like it was like Mildly better, but then they saw it and they were “Okay, let's really invest.”How Anthropic Cracked CodingAnjney [00:46:17]: I had this very annoying teacher. I went to this boarding school called Rishi Valley in India, which is like this, bird preserve. It's like three hundred and fifty acres of bird preserve in rural India, and there was no technology for seven years. There was this teacher, I won't name them, but they would have this-- I hated it every time he said this to me. He was “Luck fa-favors the prepared mind,” which is like a common saying, but the way he delivered it, always grated me, ‘cause he was always I was always one of those kids who got, a good grade without trying very hard. ‘Cause like high middle school is not that hard if you, if you're generally, paying attention and so on. And there was this one time where I-- But then I would get an eighty percent grade, and he would keep pushing me to say “The reason you didn't get the ninety-five plus percent is because you're not that lucky.” And I would say, “What do you mean?” ‘Cause I would think that I deserved that grade, and I would sometimes argue with him. And he'd say, “You didn't have a prepared mind. If you want to get lucky again “ There was basically one time where I got like ninety-five or ninety-six on this, on this subject, and I, now that I felt entitled. I was “Okay, I'm going to keep doing this,” and I didn't. And then he was “Luck favors a prepared mind. You got lucky last time, but you got to stay prepared.” And I didn't understand what he meant. Now, as I'm older, I'm okay, these adults actually knew a thing or two. Anthropic has been the most prepared company for four years. And so then when the right, context data comes in, the right developers start sending in, the right context diffs, Sure, you could say you got lucky, but if you ask me, they're pr-pretty damn prepared with paranoia for like four years. And you have to remember, it was so hard for them to get going early on that they had to do so much more with so much less that you just have to be prepared to be so efficient.Swyx [00:48:06]: Yes. There's numbers on their burn compared to OpenAI. I've, I've written about it, but they are so much more efficient in their, in their tech stack.Anjney [00:48:14]: It's not even It's not funny.Swyx [00:48:14]: Not even close.Anjney [00:48:15]: Yeah. But it's so clear, right? Like how to output max for the world. They have been prepared, and you could call that luck, but Luck favors the prepared mind.Culture, Hardship, and Anthropic's P0Swyx [00:48:25]: This is one of those things that I was going over some of your old lectures and, you were data, people think it's a moat and actually it's culture and actually it's team Actually. And I, it's-- there's different levels of moats, and this is the ultimate one that determines everything else. Which you can then compoundAnjney [00:48:43]: You're saying culture is the ultimate moat? Yeah. But the thing about culture is it's very fragile. So moats, I don't think they're-- there's very few moats I found that are actually moats. They're-- It's, it's a nice concept, but in reality, you have to replenish your culture. Ben Horowitz was, the speaker in CS153 on Tuesday, and I asked him this question about the culture bottleneck in teams because, there are several AI teams-Swyx [00:49:09]: His book, Hard Things About Hard ThingsAnjney [00:49:11]: Hard Thing About Hard Things. But more concretely, there are so many AI labs today that have all the cash they need, they have all the compute they need, and they're still not able to ship anything SOTA. And then you start seeing people leave and so on, and my diagnosis, it's, is it's the culture. And so I asked him, Ben, they're-- He's been one of the most aggressive investors in AI labs. He goes back to this thing which resonates in my mind a lot. It-- When I used to work at a16z, I would, book a conference room, and right outside the conference room, which is closest to the toilet ‘cause it was the fastest way for me to go use the bathroom between Zoom meetings-Swyx [00:49:45]: Oh my God, I'll put maxing my toilet optimization. Okay, never mind.Anjney [00:49:48]: It was not healthy in hindsight, but maybe this is TMI. But anyway, outside that conference on the wall was this quote that was printed that said, “Culture is not a set of beliefs, it's a set of actions.” And it's by Bushido, is this, Japanese philosopher. And if you stop taking the actions that demonstrate the mission alignment to what you've said to your team and to your-- the world matters to you, then your culture starts to fray. So it's not actually a moat, I would say. It's a very brittle, fragile thing that requires daily tending to like a garden. But if you figure out the system to keep that garden tended, which I think ultimately comes down to knowing yourself ‘cause you most naturally, if you're authentic and so on, you'll naturally make trade-offs that seem effortless to you, but that reinforce your culture. And then That becomes this very hard thing for other people to catch up to. And at Anthropic, from day one, there was this mission like-- missionary like zeal and belief that, hey, these capabilities will scale. These systems are stochastic, not deterministic. There will be error bars, and until we crack interpretability, there's risk. And at some point, people will go-- stop using Claude just for coding. They'll use it in some mission-critical context where there's-- it'll throw off a bug, and then people are going to come blame them, and they want to be on the right side of history where they said, “Yes, this is a powerful technology. We think it's going to change the world, And we want to be very measured and scientific about the fact that, ‘Hey, guys, these are stats models, statistical models.' That's how statistics works.” ultimately, when you're training neural nets, it is just a statistical system. And I think that Belief that safety is important and that it might seem toy-like in the early days, and sometimes, you could say, “Anjney, they totally over-exaggerated the risk,” like two years ago when they said, “Let's not launch Claude One,” or whatever. Well, okay, maybe in hindsight, but hindsight is twenty/twenty. And at the time, they didn't know how that model would be used, and to them it felt existential if somebody came and said, “You weren't responsible. It-- This wrote a bug.” The liability associated with that is massive. So how do you prevent against that? Well, day in, day out, you say safety. And when you start deviating from that, you have the team hold you accountable, you have the world hold you accountable, and I think that becomes a moat over time. At some point, that moat will get challenged and so on, and then it become fragile. I hope it endures because that's the beauty of having founders run the show, ‘cause they can make really hard trade-offs to do mission alignment. The hardest part is in the earliest days when you don't have a group of people who are going through difficulty, stress, crisis together, then your culture doesn't get defined sharply enough, and that's what I'm worried about right now, is there's so much money going to these labs. There's no hardship. There's no-Swyx [00:52:50]: To anyone who knowsAnjney [00:52:51]: There's no to anyone who knows. And that, in hindsight, was a feature, not a bug for Anthropic. The number of people who said no, the number of people who said, “Sorry, we're all doing investors in OpenAI,” that is competitive difference. It forces you to really understand, what is the hill you want to die on at the expense of everything else. What's the P zero? And there, P zero from day one was coding. The reason, the mechanism system there was if we crack coding, Then we will crack AGI. Our mission is AGI. We want to get there safely. If we focus on codin
We welcome Marc Mastronardi, President of Equinox and seasoned operational visionary, recorded live in a hard-hitting hot seat at the Wellist Wellness Week Miami 2026. Bringing over 25 years of experience leading major corporate transformations, Marc is now steering the global trajectory of the world's premier luxury lifestyle collective.In this sharp conversation, Seb and Marc deconstruct the traditional boundaries of fitness. From embedding Equinox's core DNA into a holistic ecosystem of Movement, Nutrition, Regeneration, and Community (MNRC) to leveraging hyper-personalized data at a molecular level, Marc lays out the definitive blueprint for maximizing human potential. He delivers a masterclass on high-performance living, while offering a grounded critique of the modern biohacking obsession and explaining why genuine community is our ultimate weapon against isolation.Topics DiscussedRapid-Fire "Smash or Pass" on Wellness TrendsDismantling the "Just a Gym" MisconceptionThe "Why Equinox" Narrative and the Core Mission of LongevityHyper-Personalization at a Molecular Level (Without the Extra Gadgets)The Biohacking Overcorrection: When Endless Optimization Becomes StressfulExecutive Vitality and the Realities of the 4:30 AM ClubCommunity as the Ultimate Antidote to Modern IsolationConnect with Marc on LinkedInConnect with Sebastian on InstagramSebastianNaum.com
Get double the episodes, and keep FUT Weekly going (for just £3 a month) by becoming a Patreon over at bit.ly/morepod. This includes an exclusive supporter podcast this week! Nate The FUT Accountant and Seb join Josh for this weeks public episode! With the first week of Tokens finished, they review the system and give their world cup predictions! Chapters (please note, as Spotify inserts ads into run time, these timestamps will usually be behind when the topics starts): 00:00 World Cup Thoughts So Far 04:01 Thoughts on Tokens after a full week cycle 14:11 What To Spend Your Tokens On 18:11 Has Tokens Made Us Play More? 25:43 Pound for Pound Powerhouse 34:30 Path To Glory Team 2 Highlights and Lowlights 39:18 Path To Glory Upgrades Reviewed 48:20 What SBC's To Look Out For This Week 56:22 A Brief Overview of Evo's 59:56 World Cup Predictions, Dark Horse, Early Exits and Winners Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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We took a week off because we were busy, and we thought it was a slow news week. That, however, was not the case this week. We have a agenda chock-full of news. Topic include: Advance In-Person Voting Is Underway for the June 16 Primary Runoff. The tone of the Governor's runoff seems to have softened, slightly. Jackson Ad featuring Kemp riles Team Jones Rep Brent Cox featured in an ad attacking Jones over the property tax bill - Rep Ridley has words for him. Trump to have telephone town hall to support Jones Thursday night. Dueling polls: Cygnal says Jackson up 12. CivicLens, from June 1, says Jones up 9. What we are hearing about the special session: Why are they having a special session, anyway? It's not a given that they redraw the maps. Can lawmakers fix SB 189's QR-code problem without reigniting election conspiracy politics? Oh yeah... property and gas taxes. Other Items Of Interest: Dems create false narrative about pay to play with Kemp and Dooley, as media goes all in. Could a GOP candidate win a special election in Gwinnett's SD7? MARTA safety becomes a statewide political issue. Dr. Janice Johnston steps down from SEB, replaced by Carolyn Roddy. Thank you for "the peach jam and the hot pickle." GOP Nominee to Challenge Sanford Bishop, Matt Day, threatens to drop out. If you're not paying attention to World Cup Visitor's Twitter, you're missing out. Please be sure to like and subscribe to Peach Pundit the Podcast™ for free wherever you listen to podcasts—some people like Spotify, some like Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Pandora, or Amazon. We are on all of them and many more, so listen however you prefer. Turn on your notifications so you never miss an episode. If you are inclined to offer financial support to Peach Pundit voluntarily, you may sign up to be a Patreon here. In the second tier, you can watch our recording sessions live, giving you access to extra, unedited content. And trust us, it is worth it.
We welcome Shelly Kapoor Collins, founder of Shatter Fund, powerhouse venture capitalist, and policy advisor, recorded live in a fast-paced, hard-hitting hot seat at the Wellist Wellness Week Miami 2026. Named one of Forbes' “40 Women to Watch Over 40” and a prominent tech advisor to the Obama and Harris administrations, Shelly is on a mission to rewrite the traditional venture capital playbook.In this brief but powerful conversation, Seb and Shelly deconstruct the deep-seated biases of traditional VC funding and explore why "pattern recognition" is broken. From her contrarian investment strategy at the Shatter Fund to why she views energy and intuition as legitimate business data, Shelly delivers a masterclass on finding alpha in untapped markets and tackling society's trillion-dollar bottlenecks.Topics DiscussedRapid-Fire "Smash or Pass" for FoundersUncovering Alpha by Ignoring VC PatternsAccess as the Ultimate Innovation LeverEnergy and Reiki in High-Stakes BusinessThe Trillion-Dollar Mental Health Productivity DrainMoving Beyond the "Female Founder" LabelThe Non-Profit Missing Piece for True SuccessConnect with Shelly on LinkedInConnect with Sebastian on InstagramSebastianNaum.com
Russia 2018 was the World Cup that changed everything for England. In one summer alone, the mood changed, the pressure lifted, and arguably for the first time since Euro 1996, the fans fell in love with the England men's national team once more. To look back on that time, Rick Edwards is joined by Ceylon, Seb and Dan, who were swept along by it – so much so, that two of them ended up in Moscow for that fateful semi-final. They share their stories and emotions from a truly special summer.01:46 - Pre-tournament expectations for the 2018 World Cup 06:30 - A new relationship with the England team 12:08 - England hitting Panama for six 15:20 - The Colombia game and England's first shootout victory at a World Cup 17:55 - What Gareth Southgate got so right in those early years 22:36 - Seb and Dan's journey to the semi-final 27:30 - How the semi-final vs Croatia unfolded 30:40 - The feeling after England's defeat 33:53 - A new relationship with Englishness 39:40 - The legacy of this World Cup
Download SAILY in your app store and use our code 'LWOS' at checkout to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase! For further details go to https://saily.com/lwos Host Ricky Sacks and co-host Billie T are joined by German Football Correspondent and Tottenham Hotspur supporter Seb Stafford-Bloor, Seb last joined us during the Pochettino years on Last Word On Spurs, as we opened up about where the club currently finds itself and their pursuit of a new Director Of Football. Given Seb's background in German Football, he provides incredible insight into Sebastian Kehl who has been linked with the role and whether he is a viable candidate, with talk that Spurs have now changed their stance and are looking for a 'World-Class operator' we discuss whether someone of Dougie Freedman's ilk could be persuaded to take the job. Independent Multi-Award Winning Tottenham Hotspur Fan Channel (Podcast) providing instant post-match analysis and previews to every single Spurs match along with a range of former players, manager, special guests. We also dive deep into Luka Vušković's last 12 months on loan at Hamburger SV, a player that Seb has watched up close and personal, providing his view as to whether in his opinion if the Croatian player is ready for Premier League football with Spurs. It's been a crazy last 24/48 hours around the Tottenham Hotspur rumour mill we quiz Seb on what he makes of the goalkeeping department as Vicario looks set to leave the Club to join a Serie A side in Italy, has Antonín Kinsky done enough to earn a chance to become the Club's number one. We get Seb's take on Ben Davies set to sign a new contract extension. Davies has made more than 350 appearances for Spurs and has represented the football club for over 12 years. Pedro Porro looks likely to remain after Dumfries has received the 'Here We Go' to join Real Madrid. If Cristian Romero leaves and Tottenham Hotspur decide they need an established right-sided centre-back to replace him, Jan Paul van Hecke has been mooted, we ask Seb whether he could be up to the potential task. Roberto De Zerbi is understood to have held further talks with Joao Palhinha and ‘reiterated his desire' to keep him. Palhinha also has apparently given Spurs first refusal on his signature permanently, can Spurs do better or does the player just make logical sense for Spurs to sign. It's been a week where already the Club have been linked with reviving a move for Morgan Gibbs-White, we discuss with Seb what that could look like and whether Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis would dare think about letting him come to Spurs this summer. Tottenham Hotspur are understood to be looking at winger options with Savinho a top priority and a move getting closer, we debate whether long-term the signing makes sense and why the Club can't afford to turn up their noses to the likes of Harry Wiilson. Independent Multi-Award Winning Tottenham Hotspur Fan Channel (Podcast) providing instant post-match analysis and previews to every single Spurs match along with a range of former players, manager, special guests. WEBSITE: www.lastwordonspurs.com #THFC #TOTTENHAM #SPURS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We welcome Steven Meiner, Mayor of Miami Beach, recorded live in a fast-paced hot seat at the Wellist Wellness Week Miami 2026. A champion of modern governance, Steven shares how he is cutting through bureaucratic noise to transform a high-stakes tourist hub into a premier global wellness capital.In this brief but hard-hitting conversation, Seb and Steven deconstruct the intense trade-offs of rapid city expansion. They explore the strategy behind replacing chaotic spring break crowds with health festivals, the reality of chasing Blue Zone accreditation, and the "worst-case scenario" principle for making tough leadership decisions under pressure.Topics Discussed"Smash or Pass" City LogisticsThe Spring Break TransformationThe Infrastructure of Perception (FAR & Density)Hacking Late-Night Emails for GovernanceLaw & Order vs. Unlimited GrowthThe "Worst Case Scenario" Leadership PrincipleBlue Zone Accreditation: Project vs. RealityGlobal Fitness Capital vs. Bureaucratic FrictionThe Epicenter of South Florida TourismThe Compassionate City ParadoxConnect with Steven on InstagramConnect with Sebastian on InstagramSebastianNaum.com
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