This morning, I woke up at 5:30, stared out at the blue ocean, and settled into my ice bath like a true modern-day Stoic. Breakfast? Two glasses of ice water with a dash of salt—for optimal ionic flow. As I sipped my electrolyte masterpiece, I pondered life’s great mysteries: “Google, what’s Andrew Huberman’s most famous research?” Turns out, it’s a 2011 paper in the journal, Trends in Neurosciences, on mice and vision systems. So, before you scurry off into your maze of polyamorous research, maybe hit play on this episode first.

Before Lex Fridman became the podcasting superhero, cat-rescuer, and jiu-jitsu blackbelt we know today, he earned his PhD in electrical and computer engineering at Drexel. Interestingly, his entire dissertation focused on disrupting the cookie market. No, not the kind you eat. Tune in to hear Lex’s innovative ideas around digital authentication and fingerprints. It’s almost like he’s channeling another evil genius Lex? mwa·ha·ha·ha

Some might say this memoir reads like it was co-authored by William Faulkner and James Dickey. Just as, Faulkner’s "As I Lay Dying" gives us 15 narrators each spinning their own take on the same story, this here podcast follows two friends, Zack and Chris, on their adventure through Montana and Yellowstone. It’s a day-by-day journal, with both guys giving their unique perspectives on fishing, hiking, and sightseeing. And yes, there’s a sprinkle of James Dickey's Deliverance in there, but don’t worry—this time, it’s all scenery and serenity, no squealing required.

“Ilya!!! Et tu, Ilya?”

Friends, colleagues, Youtube influencers, lend me your ears: before Ilya’s almost coup, he wrote a PhD dissertation that still gives me nightmares—reliving my first year of grad school, waking up in a cold sweat, haunted by visions of Hessian matrices. Honestly, scarier than any failed boardroom drama. #OpenAI #Shakespeare

Ever notice how some people have that magical ability to make you feel heard, seen, and genuinely interesting, whether you’re pitching in a boardroom or flirting on a date? These freaks of human interaction are what Charles Duhigg calls “Supercommunicators.” (I’m pretty sure he coined it, but let’s be real—Tony Robbins probably trademarked it in the ’90s.)

What's their secret to being world-class empaths? Maybe it's genetics? Maybe it's upbringing? Maybe it's Maybelline?

Welcome to Book Club—it’s like Fight Club, but instead of Project Mayhem, we’ll be methodically working our way through Duhigg’s wisdom, one conversation at a time. Stay tuned for Part 1: The 3 Kinds of Conversations.

This is the paper that kicked it all off. The Genesis chapter of AI. Today, we’re diving into Transformer architecture. Sure, we’ve all heard about tokens and vectors—yawn—but did you really get what multi-head attention does? Spoiler: it’s not just an AI with commitment issues. #AI #google

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

What's that name for that crazy mathematical theory where a drop of water on Laura Dern's hand causes genetically engineered dinosaurs in Costa Rica to go on a killing rampage? In this episode, we’re talking about a final tool in the data scientist’s toolkit—a tool so mystical, every recent PhD attempts to apply it to show off how well rounded they are, but few can actually convince a VP with an MBA that it is not sorcery.

Panel Data is basically like having a time machine for statistics, but minus the DeLorean.

Did you know cigar smokers have a higher mortality rate than cigarette smokers? And people driving a Subaru WRX with tinted windows have a 100% chance of vaping? It’s science. In this podcast, we tackle the issues confounding causal inference and offer a simple solution: matching. It’s my go-to tool because we can crank out quick and dirty directional results in 24 hours and hand them to the CEO—without spending weeks writing a Master’s thesis. Because let’s face it, nobody has time for that.

I went to Jack-in-the-Box after the latest minimum wage hike, and let me tell you, the franchise fast food business model is falling apart. It took over 20 minutes to get my Jumbo Jack® Cheeseburger because they had one poor employee running both the drive-thru and the counter. Multitasking, sure, but not in a good way. This podcast dives into a data science technique called Difference in Differences—because apparently, solving wage issues with stats is faster than getting your burger these days. #minimumwage #aca