Talking Books

The future of work is being rewritten now. Hear how government, industry, labor, and civil society are supporting the workforce to successfully transition into AI-augmented roles that drive real impact.Angie Cooper, President, Heartland Forward

Keith Sonderling, Deputy Labor Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor

Jessica Garner, Managing Director, Innovative Learning, ISTE+ASCD

Elisabeth Jacobs, Associate Vice President, Urban Institute

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Jim Fan, who leads the embodied autonomous research group at Nvidia, walks through what he calls "the great parallel": robotics following the LLM path from pre-training to reasoning to auto research, but with world models replacing language models, egocentric video replacing teleoperation, and world action models replacing the VLA paradigm. Along the way: why he thinks we'll pass the physical Turing test within 2–3 years, why "compute now equals environment equals data," and why this generation was born just in time to solve robotics.

00:00 Introduction

00:30 DGX One Origin Story

01:42 The Great Parallel

03:31 Robotics Endgame Setup

03:39 Why VLA Falls Short

04:32 Video World Models

06:09 DreamZero World Action

07:46 Scaling Data Collection

11:06 EgoScale And Scaling Laws

15:39 DreamDojo And The Roadmap

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00:00 - Introduction

00:44 - Feeling Behind as a Coder

02:28 - Software 3.0 Explained

03:44 - Agents as the Installer

04:49 - Menu Gen vs Raw Prompts

07:37 - What’s Obvious by 2026

09:41 - Verifiability and Jagged Skills

13:39 - Founder Advice and Automation

15:46 - From Vibe Coding to Agent Engineering

25:17 - Agents Everywhere and Learning

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For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography.

“In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God … perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.” Thus Lewis describes memorably the crisis of his conversion.

‘Surprised by Joy’ reveals both that crisis and its momentous conclusion that would determine the shape of Lewis’s entire life.

The "three rules of epidemics" (or the three "agents of change") in the tipping points of epidemics.

The Law of the Few

The Stickiness Factor

The Power of Context

Models with Mark Manson

(0:00) Pre-show footage for the All-In Holiday Spectacular

Something has gone really wrong in Britain.
Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social divisions are growing. Our politicians seem most interested in their own careers, and much of the media only make things worse. We are living in a country almost unrecognisable from the one that existed a decade ago. But whose fault is it really? Who broke Britain and how did they do it?

In We Who Wrestle with God, Jordan Peterson guides us through the ancient, foundational stories of the Western world, analyzing the Biblical accounts of rebellion, sacrifice, suffering and triumph that stabilize, inspire and unite us, culturally and psychologically. Adam and Eve and the eternal fall of mankind; the resentful and ultimately murderous war of Cain and Abel; the cataclysmic flood of Noah, the spectacular collapse of the Tower of Babel; Abraham’s terrible adventure, and the epic of Moses and the Israelites: What could such stories possibly mean? What force wrote and assembled them, over the long centuries? How did they bring our spirits and the world together, and point us in the same direction?
It is time for us to understand such things, scientifically and spiritually; to become conscious of the structure of our souls and our societies – to see ourselves and others as if for the first time.
Join Elijah as he discovers the Voice of God in the dictates of his own conscience, and Jonah, confronting hell itself, in the belly of the whale, because he failed to listen and act. Set yourself straight in intent, aim and purpose, as you begin to more deeply understand the structure of your society and your soul. Journey with Jordan Peterson through the greatest stories ever told.