Talking Books
DJ
Listen and hear from books. Understand more from great writers and thinkers.
Episodes
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Oct 30, 2026 • 3h 33min
King of Kings Part I
The King of Kings History
Oct 29, 2026 • 5h 26min
Death Throes Of The Republic Part Six
The fall of the republic is here
Oct 28, 2026 • 1h 26min
Death Throes Of The Republic Part Five
The end of Sulla's reign brings new ambitious Roman politics to the forayDeath Throes Of The Republic Part Five
Oct 23, 2026 • 1h 25min
Death Throes Of The Republic Part Four
On the fall of the Roman republicThe fall of the Roman Republic
Oct 21, 2026 • 1h 38min
Death Throes Of The Republic Part Three
Death Throes Of The Republic Part ThreeThe fall of the Roman Republic
Oct 21, 2026 • 1h 35min
Death Throes of the Republic Part Two
Death Throes of the Republic Part TwoThe Fall of the Roman Republic.
Oct 20, 2026 • 1h 22min
Death Throes Of The Republic - Part One (Reupload)
On the fall of the Roman republic - This Too Shall Pass
Oct 20, 2026 • 1h 22min
Death Throes Of The Republic I
On the fall of the Roman republic - This Too Shall Pass
May 15, 2026 • 38min
MIT Futuretech : Training Pathways that Work
The future of work is being rewritten now. Hear how government, industry, labor, and civil society are supporting the workforce to successfully transition into AI-augmented roles that drive real impact.Angie Cooper, President, Heartland ForwardKeith Sonderling, Deputy Labor Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor Jessica Garner, Managing Director, Innovative Learning, ISTE+ASCDElisabeth Jacobs, Associate Vice President, Urban InstituteLet me know what you want. DM or email me at https://talkwithbooks.substack.com/ so I can send you the wisdom and resources you would like :)
May 14, 2026 • 20min
Robotics' End Game with Nvidia's Jim Fan
Jim Fan, who leads the embodied autonomous research group at Nvidia, walks through what he calls "the great parallel": robotics following the LLM path from pre-training to reasoning to auto research, but with world models replacing language models, egocentric video replacing teleoperation, and world action models replacing the VLA paradigm. Along the way: why he thinks we'll pass the physical Turing test within 2–3 years, why "compute now equals environment equals data," and why this generation was born just in time to solve robotics.00:00 Introduction00:30 DGX One Origin Story01:42 The Great Parallel03:31 Robotics Endgame Setup03:39 Why VLA Falls Short04:32 Video World Models06:09 DreamZero World Action07:46 Scaling Data Collection11:06 EgoScale And Scaling Laws15:39 DreamDojo And The RoadmapLet me know what you want. DM or email me at https://talkwithbooks.substack.com/ so I can send you the wisdom and resources you would like :)
