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The Portal Podcast #035: Balaji Srinivasan – The Heretic & The Virus

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Investor Balaji Srinivasan is a highly original thinker in Silicon Valley on Biotech to Blockchain and everything in between. Most recently, he was quite early in warning us about the Coronavirus and was ridiculed for his efforts…

The Importance of Taste

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This essay appears in audio format at the beginning of The Portal Podcast, Episode 34. Hello, it's Eric with a few thoughts for this week. I want to talk about a topic that is surprisingly dangerous: taste. Now, taste doesn't sound like…

Wealth Transfer

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This essay appears in audio format at the beginning of The Portal Podcast, Episode 33. Hello, this is Eric with a few thoughts to share that have been on my mind this week before we get to this episode's conversation. I want to share…

The Portal Podcast #030: Ross Douthat – The Rave Before the Fall

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Just before the great indooring due to the Pandemic of 2020, Eric sat down with conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to discuss his book "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success." Over champagne…

The Portal Podcast #025: The Construct, Jeffrey Epstein

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Over half a year ago, immediately following the reported death of Jeffrey Epstein, Eric recorded a solo episode that he never released in hopes that its subject matter would be overtaken by investigative journalism. As this has not happened,…

The Portal Podcast #020: Sir Roger Penrose – Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy

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Roger Penrose is arguably the most important living descendent of Albert Einstein’s school of geometric physics. In this episode of The Portal, we avoid the usual questions put to roger about quantum foundations and quantum consciousness.…