there are a lot of brilliant people doing amazing things

Posted on: December 20, 2023 at 09:58:31 CT

all over the world, but you have to seek out sources to learn about them because they aren't on the nightly news. If you are accustomed to being spoon fed your understanding of the world in 3 minute sound bites, it can be a challenge to gain a true understanding of important topics.

I've recently started listening to Lex Fridman's podcast and I've learned a lot of fascinating (to me) things by digging in and researching some of his guests' work. These tend to be people who (I believe) will have big effects on future humans.

He recently interviewed Jeff Bezos and things he is doing with Blue Origin. We going to the moon y'all!

Some of his recent guests I've found really interesting:

Lisa Randall
Neri Oxman
Neil Gershenfeld
Eliezer Yudkowsky