Podcast Episode Recommendation: Lex Fridman and Tim Urban
I want to share a podcast episode that had my brain turning all week long. It’s a conversation between Lex Fridman, an MIT research scientist, and Tim Urban, author of the popular blog Wait But Why.
The two brilliant minds explore questions like:
Do we understand more about how big things can get (observable universe) or how small they can get (subatomic particles)?
How will we organize and govern on Mars?
Why do we listen to music we love over and over again, but we tend to take a different approach with movies (first watch is typically the most enjoyable)?
From two people who know Elon Musk closely, what is it that makes him so special?
If you read for thirty minutes each night how many books will you read in fifty years?
And my favorite — If we lost all of our materials goods (all buildings, clothes, and items disappear instantly), but we kept all of our individual and collective knowledge, how long would it take us as a species to (re)build the most recent version of the iPhone? I’ve been thinking about this question for days now. How would we organize, communicate, find raw materials, eat, build factories, etc? How many years would it take us?
The episode runs 2.5 hours so you may need to break it up across a few drives or walks.
And if you end up falling in love with their work, both are on Patreon.
https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman
https://www.patreon.com/waitbutwhy
Enjoy.