Looking down at New York from the plane

Today is a romantic French-style café

Did you exercise today? #swim

After a busy day, find a quiet corner to sit down

The plan to escape New York

A century old bank coffee shop

A movie night to remember against a backdrop that never fades

Thanks Lex!

View of Earth from 900 million miles away, with Saturn's rings in the image, taken by Cassini spacecraft. That dot is us, all 8 billion of us. It's all an insanely lucky miracle. I'm grateful for all of it & all of you. Love you all! ❤️ PS: Now, I'm off to partake in the great American Thanksgiving tradition of over-eating while getting into a heated philosophical argument with family 🤣

Lex, thank you for the discussion!! Was great to see you.

Doing a long, super-technical podcast on the state-of-the-art in AI. Let me know if you have question, topic suggestions. Everything from details of LLM training pipeline & architectures, to coding, robotics, scaling, compute, business, geopolitics, etc. Besides topics & questions... add papers, blogs, posts, rants, perspectives that you'd like to see covered.

Here's my conversation with Paul Rosolie, his 3rd time on the podcast, about his intense recent experience in the Amazon Jungle of a full-on encounter with the warriors of an uncontacted tribe. We show never-before-seen footage of this encounter. It's one of the most incredible things I've ever seen, and the whole story is fascinating. Long-form video upload on X doesn't seem to be working at the moment, so only YouTube, Spotify, RSS for now: YouTube: piped.video/watch?v=Z-FRe5AK… Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0B… Podcast: lexfridman.com/podcast Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 1:08 - Introduction 3:59 - Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon Jungle 11:45 - Intense recent encounter 34:51 - Never-before-seen footage of tribe warriors 48:07 - The mysteries of the jungle 1:02:42 - Tribe's diet: Monkeys, turtles, and turtle eggs 1:12:18 - Jane Goodall 1:18:30 - Advice for young people 1:27:44 - Cartel, Narco-traffickers & assassination attempts 1:49:44 - Climbing the giant tree 2:00:42 - Giant anaconda 2:18:00 - Rescuing a spider monkey 2:24:04 - Dangerous animal encounters 2:34:12 - Writing, journaling, and great writer inspirations

I got to train with Khabib Nurmagomedov (@TeamKhabib) yesterday. This was an honor of a lifetime for me. He's a great fighter & leader and a great human being. From a grappling perspective, I don't think I've ever experienced this much top pressure in my life. I'll post the footage of the training in a few days. And also we'll do a long podcast (and dub it in multiple languages). In general, it was an incredible experience to train with the team and get to know many of the fighters from Dagestan. All are great people.

It was long conversation in podcast with @lexfridman Podcast will be out in couple of weeks 🎙️ Думаю получилась интересная беседа, через пару недель выйдет подкаст.

this was an honor! Also took all day 😅

It was an honor to hang out with Jensen Huang, CEO of @nvidia, and do a long-form podcast with him. Really fun & fascinating technical deep-dive conversation on & off the mic. One of the most brilliant & thoughtful human beings I've ever met. NVIDIA is the most valuable company in the world by market cap and is the engine powering the AI revolution. Podcast probably out tomorrow (Monday) unless I get stuck in too many interesting conversations while running around in SF ;-) PS: I haven't checked my messages in days. Sorry for slow replies 🙏 Trying to stay deeply focused at in overwhelmingly intense time & barely hanging on. Love you all ❤️

I got to spend all day today with Jensen in Taiwan: talking with thousands of engineers and eating street food at a night market. Jensen is received as a rockstar in Taiwan, like it's Beatles in the 60's. It's mind-blowing and fun to watch. But most importantly, through all the interactions and all my conversations with him, he remained the same humble, kind, thoughtful, funny guy he always was, even as a kid who went to these same night markets many years ago. Btw, we tried a crazy amount of different street food. It's legit some of the most delicious food I've ever had. I can't wait to share video of it, including a ton of our conversations and hangout. When I can pause for a moment from all the travel to edit the video, I'll post it. Can't wait to continue talking to Jensen and engineers at Computex this week, and exploring more of Taiwan, and of course roaming the night markets for some more delicious street food. Days like these, even more than usual, I feel like the luckiest kid in the world. Love you all! ❤️

La première expansion outre-mer des États-Unis n'a pas été motivée par la défense du monde libre, la ruée vers l'or ou la quête du pétrole. Elle a été déclenchée par une crise mondiale de fientes d'oiseaux. Au milieu du 19ème siècle, la population américaine explose. Pour nourrir le pays, l'agriculture tourne à plein régime, mais les sols s'épuisent à une vitesse alarmante. Les rendements s'effondrent. L'économie entière est menacée. Il existe pourtant une solution miracle : le guano. C'est un engrais naturel surpuissant, issu de l'accumulation millénaire de fientes d'oiseaux marins sur certaines îles isolées. Le problème est purement commercial. Le Pérou détient un monopole quasi absolu sur les meilleures réserves mondiales. Conscient de son avantage, le gouvernement péruvien dicte ses conditions et fixe des prix d'exportation exorbitants. L'agriculture américaine se retrouve prise à la gorge, totalement dépendante de ce fournisseur unique. Plutôt que de subir la loi du marché, le Congrès américain décide de la briser par une simple pirouette juridique. En 1856, il vote le Guano Islands Act. Le principe est d'un cynisme total. Cette loi autorise n'importe quel citoyen américain à annexer officiellement n'importe quelle île dans le monde, au nom des États-Unis. Les seules conditions : l'île ne doit pas appartenir à une nation reconnue, et elle doit être recouverte de guano. C'est la légalisation d'une conquête territoriale express dans le seul but de sécuriser une chaîne d'approvisionnement agricole. L'État fédéral s'engage même à utiliser sa propre marine militaire pour protéger les exploitants privés qui iront gratter ces rochers. Grâce à ce texte de loi, les États-Unis s'approprient brutalement près d'une centaine d'atolls à travers le monde. Ils ne le savent pas encore, mais en annexant ces rochers à fientes, ils viennent de pré-positionner leur futur empire militaire. Des décennies plus tard, lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et de la Guerre froide, ces cailloux isolés vont se révéler inestimables pour dominer le Pacifique. L'atoll Johnston sera artificiellement agrandi au bulldozer pour devenir une base aéronavale vitale, un site d'essais nucléaires spatiaux, puis un immense centre de destruction d'armes chimiques. L'atoll de Palmyra sera dynamité par l'US Navy pour y construire une base aérienne capable de verrouiller la route maritime entre Hawaï et l'Australie. Les îles Baker et Howland, ainsi que le récif Kingman, seront transformés en pistes d'atterrissage stratégiques et en stations radar pour bloquer l'avancée japonaise. L'Amérique n'a pas bâti son empire insulaire sur une grande vision géopolitique ou stratégique. Elle l'a fait par pure urgence comptable, pour détruire un cartel sud-américain sur le marché du fertilisant.

42 The answer to life, the universe, and everything.

A Clarity Act cloture filing today puts market structure on the floor Friday. Nothing today means nothing until September. I want America to lead the next wave of financial innovation. Let’s start to debate the bill.