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a16z Podcast
The $100B Niches Hiding Inside Payments
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Making Sense
#491 — The Suicide of the Left
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Imperial Ambitions: The Rise of Presidential Power
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All-In Podcast
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#501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux
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Odd Lots: Why AI Might Create More Work for Lawyers (Podcast)
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Exponential View
Why AI isn’t showing up on your bottom line
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a16z Podcast
The next payments battleground is the agent, not the card
Max Levchin and Alex Rampell argue that payment economics are governed less by transaction value than by conversion, trust, and network critical mass. Affirm became valuable when financing moved upstream into product choice, and AI agents may therefore reshape how people pay before they reshape what people decide to buy.
Read deeply →Making SenseWhen failed political boundary-setting weakens the whole coalition
Sam Harris and James Kirchick argue that the American centre-left risks empowering right-wing populism if it cannot draw a visible boundary around the DSA’s radical platform. The analytically useful question is not the label attached to one politician, but how status incentives and coalition logic suppress liberal boundary-setting.
Read deeply →Ezra Klein ShowThe creative bottleneck is the environment of attention
Rick Rubin treats the artist as a receiver and translator rather than the sole owner of ideas. Through Neil Young and Johnny Cash, he argues that quality comes from slow attention, environmental design, and cultivated taste rather than more input—although the prescription assumes unusual autonomy over time.
Read deeply →a16z PodcastThe other side of the AI bubble debate: compute scarcity
Gavin Baker argues that AI infrastructure is more exposed to chronic compute undersupply than to overbuilding. By connecting an estimated $180 billion of revenue from fewer than 10 million heavy users with short data-centre paybacks, he challenges the consensus that token prices must keep falling.
Read deeply →Fareed Zakaria GPSPresidential power is a cumulative structure, not an aberration
Fareed Zakaria’s special report treats Donald Trump not as an isolated exception but as the outcome of executive power expanding through crisis, gridlock, and partisanship since Truman. The key mechanism is a ratchet: each congressional bypass becomes precedent for the next president, then doctrine and practice harden the expansion.
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