People
People on Ideas & Essays
Sputnik aggregates podcasts and newsletters. These are some of the most interesting people talking on them.
Angela Duckworth
Psychologist and MacArthur Fellow, the Rosa Lee and Egbert C...
Arvind Narayanan
Co-author of AI as Normal Technology and AI Snake Oil
Azeem Azhar
AI and exponential technologies.
Bill Ackman
Quoted on The Knowledge Project (Shane Parrish)
Bill Gates
Director, ASU Mechanics of Democracy Laboratory. Former Chai...
Carlo Rovelli
Quoted on Within Reason
Chris Barnes
Quoted on Hidden Brain
Collin Hogue-Spears
Wrote a book on how AI is built and deployed in China, and a...
Cynthia Graber
Radio producer and print journalist covering science, techno...
Dara Horn
Novelist and essayist with a PhD from Harvard, author of Peo...
Daron Acemoglu
Quoted on Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Darren Lipomi
Chairs an engineering department and argues, on Into the Imp...
David Baszucki
CEO of Roblox, explaining on The Knowledge Project why the c...
David Krakauer
Quoted on StarTalk Radio
David Robinson
Quoted on The Ezra Klein Show
David Rubenstein
Quoted on Freakonomics Radio
Debbie Millman
Host of the podcast Design Matters; Chair, SVA Masters in Br...
Derrell Peel
Quoted on Freakonomics Radio
Elliot Kaufman
Quoted on Conversations with Coleman
Ethan Mollick
I am a professor at the Wharton School of the University of...
Ezra Klein
Columnist at The New York Times and co-founder of Vox, writi...
Francis Halzen
Quoted on Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
George Loewenstein
Quoted on Hidden Brain
Gita Gopinath
Quoted on Conversations with Tyler
Helen Toner
AI, national security, China. Part of the founding team at G...
Jack El-Hai
Quoted on Science History Podcast
Janet Soskice
Quoted on In Our Time (BBC)
Janna Levin
SCIENCE = CULTURE
Jared Diamond
Quoted on Conversations with Coleman
Jenna Weiss-Berman
Quoted on Freakonomics Radio
Jennet Conant
Quoted on Radiolab
Jensen Huang
Co-founder, president and CEO of Nvidia, the company he star...
Jerry Z. Muller
Quoted on Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
Jessica Ware
An entomologist and curator at the American Museum of Natura...
Joanne Paul
Writer (The House of Dudley, Thomas More), broadcaster and h...
John Gertz
He is president and CEO of Zorro Productions and a longtime...
John Mullan
Quoted on In Our Time (BBC)
Joscha Bach
Quoted on Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Justin Hopper
Quoted on Hermitix
Kate Bowler
NYT bestselling author. Duke prof. Podcast host. Human with...
Kevin Rose
Partner: True Ventures; 350+ teams, 3.8B invested.
Kristen Lippincott
Quoted on In Our Time (BBC)
Liaquat Ahamed
Quoted on Prof G Markets
Luis Garicano
Professor of Public Policy at the London School of Economics...
Matt Kielty
Radiolab producer and reporter who works on the show's scien...
Matt O'Dowd
Is an astrophysicist and associate professor at Lehman Colle...
Megan Phelps Roper
Quoted on Conversations with Coleman
Michael Pollan
Author, Professor at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journa...
Michelle Nyhaus
Quoted on Gastropod
Nathaniel Philbrick
Quoted on The Daily Stoic
Niels Hoven
Niels Hoven is the founder and CEO of Mentava, a company bui...
Nikolai Yakovenko
Works on frontier AI models and their real-world limits, fro...
Paul Kedrosky
Co-founder and managing partner at SK Ventures, an early-sta...
Roland Fryer
Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where in 2007...
Roman Yampolskiy
Quoted on Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Ryan Serhant
Quoted on The Knowledge Project (Shane Parrish)
Sherry Turkle
Professor at MIT and a licensed clinical psychologist who ha...
Steve Strogatz
Quoted on Radiolab
Steven Pinker
Cognitive scientist and Johnstone Family Professor of Psycho...
Steven Pressfield
Writes about the resistance that keeps people from creative...
Tamler Sommers
Philosopher who works on moral responsibility, free will, cu...
Theo Jaffee
Host at MTS, chronicling the singularity.
Tim Ferriss
Author, early-stage technology investor and podcaster whose...
Tim Naftali
A historian of the Cold War, the presidency, and American co...
Will Page
Quoted on Freakonomics Radio