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Tom Bilyeu
In his book *Recapture the Rapture*, Jamie Wheal argues that humanity faces a profound crisis of meaning caused by the collapse of both divine authority and benign secular institutions, leaving a vacuum filled by conflicting narratives of exponential progress versus doom. This disconnect has created …
Lex Fridman
Peter Wang, a physicist turned philosopher and leader in the Python community, reflects on what makes his chosen language so expressive: its first-class support for types and functions allowed him to move beyond the difficulties of C++ templates in the 1990s. He credits Steve Jobs' concept of "taste …
Lex Fridman
In this episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast, John Vervaeke explores the intersection of cognitive science, philosophy, and psychology to address what he terms the modern "meaning crisis," characterized by rising depression, loneliness, and cynicism in contemporary society. Vervaeke distinguishes betw …