Podcast Notes Playlist: Latest Episodes

Because of the podcast I get to meet a lot of super successful people. I'm always asking them "Who is the smartest person you know" and "Who do you think has the best business?". "Ken Griffin" is a very common answer. I've heard Ken described in two ways: "Winner" and "Killer".  For years I've come across interesting anecdotes about Ken. Like when he appears as a 19 year old kid in Ed Thorp's excellent autobiography A Man For All Markets. Or when John Arnold describe Ken's intense competitive drive following the blowup of Enron. And then consider the fact that I'm obsessed with people who run their business for decades (Ken founded Citadel 35 years ago and Citadel Securities 23 years ago) — and I knew I had to make an episode about his life and work. The only problem was there's no great biography of Ken. So to make this episode I transcribed this talk that Ken gave at Yale. And for additional context I read the book Ken recommends: Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win. 

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(0:00) The Besties welcome Gavin Baker back on the show!

(1:20) Nvidia balance sheet questions, CoreWeave IPO, M&A/IPO bounce back

(16:22) US vs China in AI: Manus, China building its own Nvidia, and more

(28:37) The Administration's endgame for tariffs

(53:05) Signalgate: context and fallout

(1:09:42) El Salvador deportations

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Referenced in the show:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/coreweave-planning-cut-us-ipo-size-price-below-range-source-says-2025-03-27

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-adds-dozens-entities-export-restriction-list-2025-03-25

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-plots-charging-20-000-a-month-for-phd-level-agents?rc=pxkrxo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8wJc7vHcTs

https://x.com/JohnArnoldFndtn/status/1905296181208416744

https://x.com/chamath/status/1904547884877701610

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/invocation-of-the-alien-enemies-act-regarding-the-invasion-of-the-united-states-by-tren-de-aragua

https://www.statista.com/statistics/696152/homicide-rate-in-el-salvador

https://x.com/Sec_Noem/status/1905034256826408982

Rudyard Lynch runs the popular YouTube channel WhatIfAltHist. We're both into applied history — namely, studying the past to forecast the future — and everything we spoke about fell under that rubric. We cover alchemy vs technology, left vs right, nature vs nurture, China vs America, communism vs wokeness, and (of course) networks vs states.Our overarching goal with the pod is to learn about the world to build new startup societies. If these ideas interest you, we're putting theory into practice at Network School, so do apply at https://ns.com.

OUTLINE

00:00 - Intro to WhatifAltHist and counterfactual history

03:52 - The idea in alchemy: everyone is competing on vibes

07:12 - Nature/nurture = hardware/software

09:37 - Why the left often wins: equality builds scalable militaries

11:30 - The idea from Balaji that most influenced Rudyard: God, State, or Network?

13:25 - What is the most powerful force in the world: God, State, or Network

20:28 - Only 4% of Democrats marry Republicans

22:24 - The purpose of alchemy: how early alchemy lead to modern tech

33:25 - We have entered the age of the phrase

42:33 - The reading list: genetics books you should read

43:07 - Communism was based on economics denial, wokeness is genetics denial

50:49 - The Vitruvian Man: our moral responsibility to accelerate technology

57:42 - We are on the verge of global instability

1:20:43 - Internet community becomes physical community: The Network School (ns.com)

1:23:08 - Both Soviet and American empires were built on false premises

1:28:16 - Bitcoin is the strongest new identity

1:32:55 - The total military dominance of the Chinese drone armada

LINKS

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(0:00) Chamath and Friedberg welcome Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick!

(1:10) Howard describes his 30+ year relationship with President Trump and his road from business to politics

(14:44) Running Trump's transition team, DOGE origin story, what it's like working for Trump

(38:01) Balancing the budget and fixing GDP

(52:21) Tariff history and strategy, global trade

(1:10:34) Trump Cards, building better government software, AI thoughts

(1:22:49) Sovereign Wealth Fund strategy

(1:37:16) How his family reacted to his new role

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How to make progress, and know it. Featuring a few of Plutarch's critiques of some Stoics of his day - whether fairly or unfairly, you can decide.

Also featuring: Diogenes the Cynic, Aeschylus the Poet, Brasidas the Spartan Commander. 

Also featuring: ZEAL