Lex Fridman Podcast

Historian Andrew Scull discusses the crisis in modern psychiatry, tracing its evolution from the optimistic asylum era to the dark ages of eugenics and Nazi collaboration.

Lex Fridman interviews David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and the Amache Linux distribution, about his rapid shift from AI skepticism to embracing agentic engineering.

Lex Fridman interviews UFC legend Khabib Nurmagomedov in Russian, discussing the Spartan training conditions in Dagestan that forged his undefeated career.

Lex Fridman interviews historian Gary Gallagher about the American Civil War’s causes, focusing on slavery’s expansion and the political collapse of the 1850s.

Lex Fridman interviews historian Anthony Kaldellis, who argues that the Byzantine Empire was simply the continuous Eastern Roman Empire, not a distinct entity.

Lex Fridman interviews Fermilab physicist Don Lincoln, who explains the history of unifying physical laws from Newton to Einstein.

Lex Fridman interviews VLC president Jean-Baptiste Kempf and FFmpeg contributor Kieran Cunha about the open-source software powering global video infrastructure.

Lex Fridman interviews historian Lars Brownworth about the Viking Age, exploring their origins, naval technology, and the psychological terror of raids like Lindisfarne.

Lex Fridman interviews NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang about the company’s shift to extreme co-design, optimizing entire data center racks rather than just individual GPUs.