Naval Ravikant is a businessman and investor from India. He is AngelList’s co-founder, chairman, and former CEO. He has invested in over 200 startups at the early stage, including Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, Wish.com, Poshmark, Postmates, Thumbtack, Notion, SnapLogic, Opendoor, Clubhouse, Stack Overflow, Bolt, OpenDNS, Yammer, and Clearview AI, with over 70 total exits and more than ten Unicorns. Ravikant holds an Edmund Hillary Fellowship. As a podcaster, he gives advice on seeking health, money, and pleasure. Every Episode of The Naval Podcast | How to Get Rich (Lessons in Life, Entrepreneurship, and Building Wealth from Naval Ravikant) This podcast is a discussion between Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi on Naval’s famous How to Get Rich tweetstorm.
A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film directed by Ron Howard. Written by Akiva Goldsman, its screenplay was inspired by Sylvia Nasar’s 1997 biography of the mathematician John Nash. The film stars Russell Crowe as Nash, along with Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, and Christopher Plummer. One of his students, Alicia Larde, asks him to dinner, and they fall in love. Nash fears for his life after surviving a shootout between Parcher and Soviet agents, learns Alicia is pregnant but is forced to continue his assignment.
Frustrated with the side effects of his antipsychotic medication, he secretly stops taking it and starts seeing Parcher again. In 1956, Alicia discovers Nash has resumed his “assignment” in a shed near their home. Dr. Rosen refuses to restart his medication, believing he can deal with his symptoms himself. Over the next two decades, Nash learns to ignore his hallucinations and is allowed to teach again. In 1994, Nash is awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his revolutionary work on game theory.
After producer Brian Grazer read an excerpt of Sylvia Nasar’s book A Beautiful Mind in Vanity Fair magazine, he immediately purchased the rights to the film. He eventually brought the project to his long-time partner and director Ron Howard. Howard asked Goldsman to emphasize the love story of Nash and his wife; she was critical to his being able to continue living at home. Dave Bayer, a professor of mathematics at Barnard College, Columbia University, was consulted on the mathematical equations that appear in the movie. Greg Cannom was chosen to create the makeup effects for A Beautiful Mind, specifically the age progression of the characters.
Each character’s stages of makeup were broken down by the number of years that would pass between levels. Cannom stressed subtlety between the stages, but worked toward the ultimate stage of “Older Nash”. The production team originally decided that the makeup department would age Russell Crowe throughout the film, but at Crowe’s request, the makeup was used to push his look to resemble the facial features of John Nash. The film was shot 90% chronologically. Three separate trips were made to the Princeton University campus.
During filming, Ron Howard decided that Nash’s delusions should always be introduced first audibly and then visually. The historic John Nash had only auditory delusions. The filmmakers developed a technique to represent Nash’s mental epiphanies.
The film’s narrative differs considerably from the events of his life, as filmmakers made choices for the sense of the story. Few of the characters in the film, besides John and Alicia Nash, correspond directly to actual people. No mention is made of Nash’s homosexual experiences at RAND, though both Nash and his wife deny this occurred. The film does not touch on the revolutionary work of John Nash in differential geometry or his proof of Hilbert’s nineteenth problem. It was released in December 2001, receiving positive reviews, and was later released in the United States on January 4, 2002.
A Beautiful Mind has received positive reviews from critics, with a Metacritic score of 72 out of 100 based on 33 reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “A-” on an A+ to F scale. The film went on to gross $170,742,341 in the United States and Canada and $313,543,341 worldwide. During the five-day weekend of the limited release, A Beautiful Mind opened at the #12 spot at the box office.
Laurie Renee Santos is a cognitive scientist and Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She has been listed in Popular Science as one of their “Brilliant Ten” young scientists in 2007. In 2018, her course Psychology and the Good Life became the most popular course in Yale’s history, with approximately one-fourth of Yale’s undergraduates enrolled. In June 2016, Santos was named the head of Silliman College, one of the 14 undergraduate residential colleges at Yale. Her course, “Psychology and the Good Life,” has become the most popular class in Yale history.
As of November 2018, over 170,000 people from at least 170 countries have enrolled in the online course. Santos’ scientific work has been published in journals such as Psychological Science, Animal Cognition, Developmental Science, Current Biology, Animal Behavior, and Cognition. Santos was featured in Popular Science as one of the magazine’s “Brilliant Ten” young scientists in 2007. She has won numerous awards for her podcast, which has spent 126 days on the U.S. Podcasts Chart, peaking at No. 3.
In 2018, she received a Genius Award from the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey. She appeared in the 2018 Netflix documentary The Most Unknown on scientific research directed by Ian Cheney.
The Happiness Lab Podcast
Santos has presented the podcast The Happiness Lab since September 2019, which investigates the most recent scientific studies on variables influencing human well-being and happiness. In November 2019, the show finished its first 10-episode season and spent 126 days on the US Podcasts Chart, peaking at No. 3. Santos continued to make podcast episodes. The podcast is produced by Pushkin Industries, a media firm founded by former Slate journalists Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg.
Fridman was born in Chkalovsk, Russia, Soviet Union, and raised in Moscow. He graduated from Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, Illinois in 2001. Fridman is a research scientist and lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His work involves research into human-centered artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicle research, deep learning, and personal robotics.
The Lex Fridman Podcast (originally titled Artificial Intelligence Podcast) began in 2018 and discusses “AI, science, technology, history, philosophy, and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power.” The Artificial Intelligence Podcast was part of the 2018 MIT course 6.S099 called Artificial general intelligence. The name was then changed to the Lex Fridman Podcast to allow for greater flexibility in the topics covered. Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Jack Dorsey, Ray Dalio, and Mark Zuckerberg have all appeared as guests. Fridman’s third discussion with Elon Musk included topics such as space exploration and cryptocurrencies.
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