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Amazon VP: Questions On Corporate Politics But They Get Increasingly Darker | Ethan Evans
In this episode, I asked Ethan Evans (ex-Amazon VP) question about common situations in corporate politics but they get increasingly dark.
 • Ryan Peterman
3:07:53
OpenAI & Meta Distinguished Eng (IC9): The Psychology Behind Tech Career Peaks | Philip Su
Philip Su grew quickly to a Distinguished Engineer at Facebook and OpenAI. We discussed the psychology of peaking in your career.
 • Ryan Peterman
44:21
Update on Quitting My Job
How it went
 • Ryan Peterman
Casey Muratori: Surprises In Computer History And Where Bad Code Comes From
In this episode, my goal was to record a conversation that was completely free of any “AI doom” content.
 • Ryan Peterman
1:57:50
How Anthropic Builds And How Engineering Will Change Soon | Thariq Shihipar
When I talk with my friends who work at Anthropic it always surprises me how far ahead they are in adopting AI within their processes and workflows.
 • Ryan Peterman
1:10:55

August 2026

Creator of Scala: Comparing Languages And How AI Will Impact Them | Martin Odersky
There are so many choices every programming language creator makes while navigating engineering tradeoffs in building one.
 • Ryan Peterman
57:30
Sergey Levine: Current State of Humanoid Robotics, China & Future Predictions
Sergey Levine is one of the world’s top robotics researchers and co-founder of Physical Intelligence.
 • Ryan Peterman
57:38
Creator of TypeScript: 10x Faster Typescript, Why AI Won't Replace SWEs | Anders Hejlsberg
It was interesting talking to Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of TypeScript and C#, about all the technical details behind rewriting the TypeScript…
 • Ryan Peterman
1:05:57
Creator of Lean: Handwritten Math Will Change Dramatically | Leonardo de Moura
In 2024, AlphaProof from Google Deepmind broke through in competition math achieving a silver-medal in Interational Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).
 • Ryan Peterman
1:08:06
Creator of Lua: Scripting, Programming Languages, Predictions | Roberto Ierusalimschy
When I worked at Instagram, most of the codebase was in Python but occasionally I’d see these bindings into C++.
 • Ryan Peterman
1:05:16

July 2026

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