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27:01Matt Talks About WordPress Situation
211K views • 2 years ago
The PrimeTime
Matt Mullenweg joins ThePrimeagen's Twitch stream to discuss the WordPress and WP Engine dispute, including trademark use and contributions.
3:19Steve Jobs on privacy, Steve Jobs at the D8 Conference (Video)
172K views • 16 years ago
iwasjojo
A short clip of Steve Jobs at the 2010 D8 conference, interviewed by Walt Mossberg, defining privacy as people knowing what they are signing up for, in plain English and repeatedly. The discussion centered on location data.
2:38Steve Jobs Content vs Process
119K views • 13 years ago
Bo Manton
A three-minute clip of Steve Jobs arguing that great products come from people who care about content rather than process. He says process-focused people take over and cause decline, citing IBM as an example.
30:18Noam Chomsky on Propaganda - The Big Idea - Interview with Andrew Marr
293K views • 14 years ago
k1mk1mk1m
A 1996 BBC interview in which Noam Chomsky explains his propaganda model of the media to Andrew Marr, including how filters shape what journalists report and the role of self-censorship.
2:31Designer's Digest - Steve Jobs on the role of product and marketing people.
212K views • 7 years ago
Designer's Digest
A three-minute excerpt of a Steve Jobs interview in which he describes how monopolies let sales and marketing people displace product people, rotting a company's product sensibility, with Xerox as the example.
16:30Martin Shkreli on Drug Price Hikes and Playing the World’s Villain
4M views • 10 years ago
VICE
A VICE interview with Martin Shkreli about the 5000 percent price hike on a drug for AIDS-related infections and his role as the world's villain.
2:49The First Principles Method Explained by Elon Musk
2.3M views • 12 years ago
Innomind
A short excerpt of Elon Musk, interviewed by Kevin Rose, explaining first-principles reasoning with the example of the car versus improving horse carriages. He warns it takes much more mental energy than reasoning by analogy.
1:55Ira Glass on the Creative Process (www.getoutthebox.org)
1.9M views • 15 years ago
Getoutthebox1
A two-minute video of Ira Glass on the creative process, describing the gap between taste and skill when starting out and urging you to keep producing until your work matches your taste.
1:40Steve Jobs: Sale/Marketing People vs. Product People
34K views • 9 years ago
Think Multiply
A short clip of Steve Jobs explaining how sales and marketing people take over mature companies from product people, leading to product decline.
0:34Steve Jobs on Privacy (2010)
8K views • 5 years ago
Kenneth Friedman
A one-minute clip of Steve Jobs in 2010 saying companies should ask users before tracking them, and that people's personal data is like their diary.
8:158/28/2006 Peter Schiff On Kudlow & Co: Predicts The US Economic Collapse
560K views • 18 years ago
PhilDeCarolis
A 2006 television appearance in which Peter Schiff warns on Kudlow & Co about the housing bubble and an approaching US economic collapse.
13:18The Real Product Market Fit by Michael Seibel
237K views • 7 years ago
Y Combinator
YC partner Michael Seibel discusses his essay on real product-market fit, why founders wrongly believe they have it, and how building a company is not a single-variable problem, drawing on Justin.tv and Socialcam.
5:50Steve Jobs : Great idea doesn't always translates into great product
106K views • 6 years ago
Investors Archive
A six-minute excerpt from Steve Jobs' 1995 Lost Interview on why a great idea does not automatically become a great product. He says ideas change substantially once you actually build them.
1:34:44Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70
742K views • 6 years ago
Lex Fridman
Lex Fridman interviews legendary chip architect Jim Keller about Moore's Law, microprocessor design, and first-principles thinking. Keller draws on his work at AMD, Apple, Tesla and Intel, discussing instruction sets, transistor budgets, and self-driving.
5:14:51John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309
1.9M views • 4 years ago
Lex Fridman
A five-hour Lex Fridman interview with John Carmack covering Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, programming, games and rockets.
1:13:11Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains
979K views • 5 months ago
JetBrains
JetBrains interviews Zig creator Andrew Kelley about why Zig has no 1.0 after a decade, why the project left GitHub, and why it bans AI contributions. He also covers what makes Zig better than C and his views on open source.
Topic match · C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages
48:42Elon Musk - CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX | Entrepreneurship | Khan Academy
7M views • 13 years ago
Khan Academy
Sal Khan interviews Elon Musk in a 2013 Khan Academy entrepreneurship series. Musk discusses PayPal, rocket efficiency and reusability, and how he approaches education and learning.
31:24Billion Dollar Bully: Yelp documentary producers Kaylie Milliken & Mellissa Wood
138K views • 8 years ago
Louis Rossmann
Louis Rossmann interviews Kaylie Milliken and Mellissa Wood, producers of the documentary Billion Dollar Bully, about Yelp's alleged practices toward businesses.
2:42:41Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131
594K views • 6 years ago
Lex Fridman
Lex Fridman's long interview with Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM and Swift, covering the future of computing and programming languages. It touches on compilers, hardware, and his work at Apple, Tesla, Google and SiFive.
8:47Apple CEO Tim Cook: The VICE News Tonight Interview (HBO)
579K views • 8 years ago
VICE News
A 2018 VICE News Tonight interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook, in which he discusses privacy as a core company value, the Facebook breach, and Apple's iCloud arrangement in China.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
5:02Jerry Seinfeld Interview: How to Write a Joke | The New York Times
3.1M views • 13 years ago
The New York Times
In a New York Times interview, Jerry Seinfeld describes the anatomy of his Pop-Tart joke, still a work in progress, and shows his longhand writing process.
Topic match · Stand-up & sketch comedy
29:56Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism
52.2M views • 8 years ago
Channel 4 News
Channel 4 News's full interview with Jordan Peterson, in which Cathy Newman presses him on the gender pay gap, patriarchy, campus protests and postmodernism. It was widely discussed for its confrontational style.
4:11George RR Martin asks Stephen King: "How do you write so Fast?!"
6.9M views • 8 years ago
Aegon Targaryen
A short clip of George R.R. Martin asking Stephen King on stage how he writes so fast. King describes setting daily page goals, around six pages a day, and keeping focused hours.
Topic match · Productivity & self-improvement
11:46Apple’s Software Chief Explains ‘Misunderstood’ iPhone Child-Protection Features (Exclusive) | WSJ
365K views • 5 years ago
The Wall Street Journal
A WSJ interview in which Apple's Craig Federighi explains Apple's CSAM scanning and child-safety features, including neural hashes and safety vouchers, and defends them against backlash.
27:26reddit.com Interviews Peter Norvig
47K views • 16 years ago
Reddit
Peter Norvig answers the top questions submitted by reddit users in a 27-minute interview. Topics include programming language choice, AI, and workplace design.
Topic match · Programming language design
3:08Noam Chomsky Stumps Andrew Marr
275K views • 10 years ago
Unapproved Narratives
A three-minute clip of Noam Chomsky in an exchange with BBC journalist Andrew Marr about media filtering and self-censorship. Chomsky argues that people reach positions precisely because they would not say things that conflict with the system.
Topic match · Media, journalism & propaganda
33:14Government Surveillance: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
38.7M views • 11 years ago
LastWeekTonight
John Oliver interviews Edward Snowden about NSA surveillance, including street interviews showing people have not thought about what the government can see. The segment famously frames the issue through private photos.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
1:29:58Abolish Copyrights and Patents? A Soho Forum Debate
93K views • 4 years ago
ReasonTV
A Soho Forum debate in which patent lawyer Stephan Kinsella argues for abolishing copyright and patents against law professor Richard Epstein. Both come from libertarian perspectives.
Topic match · Law, policing & justice
22:47Freeman Dyson on the Global Warming Hysteria April, 2015
471K views • 11 years ago
1000frolly PhD
A 2015 interview in which physicist Freeman Dyson, then 91, argues that global warming concerns are exaggerated, that CO2 is beneficial and that climate models oversimplify complex systems. It is posted on a channel that opposes climate consensus.
48:59Elon Musk Interview: 1-on-1 with Sandy Munro
3.5M views • 5 years ago
Munro Live
Sandy Munro interviews Elon Musk at Boca Chica about Tesla production, mega-castings, seats, structural battery packs and the difficulty of mass production.
Topic match · Manufacturing & industrial processes
1:10:27Journalist Vincent Woo reflects on his piece, "Lambda School's Misleading Promises" | E1039
162K views • 6 years ago
This Week in Startups
Journalist Vincent Woo discusses his New York Magazine piece on Lambda School's misleading promises, including its income share agreements and placement claims, in an interview on This Week in Startups. The host questions him pointedly.
1:48:50The War on Sensemaking, Daniel Schmachtenberger
534K views • 7 years ago
Rebel Wisdom
Daniel Schmachtenberger discusses why the information ecology is damaged and what healthy public sensemaking would take. The conversation ties this to the meaning crisis and to improving discourse.
Topic match · Media, journalism & propaganda
3:15:51Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341
1.8M views • 3 years ago
Lex Fridman
A roughly three-hour Lex Fridman podcast conversation with Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python. Topics include Python's design, the GIL, asyncio, the future of programming and AI coding tools.
6:23Simon Peyton Jones - Haskell is useless
385K views • 14 years ago
bunidanoable
A short clip of Simon Peyton Jones talking about the future of programming languages, saying Haskell is useless in the sense that pure programs cannot have effects, while mainstream languages are useful but unsafe. He describes languages converging, with ideas such as STM and LINQ moving between them.
Topic match · Programming language design
1:39:56Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #75
126K views • 6 years ago
Lex Fridman
Lex Fridman interviews Marcus Hutter of DeepMind about universal artificial intelligence, AIXI, Kolmogorov complexity, Solomonoff induction and the idea of intelligence as compression.
Topic match · Information theory & signal processing
1:57:02How We Prevent the AI’s from Killing us with Paul Christiano
63K views • 3 years ago
Bankless
A Bankless podcast interview with Paul Christiano of the Alignment Research Center on the AI alignment problem and possible solutions. It also covers his views on how an AI takeover might unfold.
26:43Elon Musk and Kevin Rose
478K views • 14 years ago
Kevin Rose
Kevin Rose interviews Elon Musk in 2012 about his companies PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla. It includes Musk's short explanation of reasoning from first principles versus by analogy.
Topic match · Startups & entrepreneurship
6:17Warren Buffett: Bitcoin Is An Asset That Creates Nothing | CNBC
1.3M views • 8 years ago
CNBC
In a CNBC interview with Becky Quick, Warren Buffett explains why he sees bitcoin as an asset that produces nothing. He contrasts it with productive assets such as a farm.
Topic match · Cryptography
0:34Steve Jobs on Virtual Reality (D3, 2005)
133K views • 5 years ago
Milan Lajtoš
A one-minute clip of Steve Jobs at the D3 conference in 2005 discussing virtual reality. He compares VR headsets to headphones for video, an analogy later applied to Apple's Vision Pro.
Topic match · VR, AR & spatial computing
24:05Edsger Dijkstra interview
35K views • 8 years ago
Hans Otten
A 24-minute interview with Edsger Dijkstra, the Dutch computer scientist, including his views on writing programs by hand and keeping errors out of them. It is part of a longer Dutch TV interview.
Topic match · Software practice, open source & careers