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The future belongs to those who prepare like Dwarkesh Patel

How the rising star of podcasting eschews the breadth v. depth dilemma and is quickly becoming known as ‘the new Lex Fridman.’

I ask him about his strategy in leading podcast episodes, specifically if he ever feels torn between a breadth-first and a depth-first' approach — concepts borrowed from the two search algorithms that nearly every CS student learns at some point. Stripe figured out how to do thousands of deploys a day on their API but also run an extremely reliable set of internal tests to make sure that they’re all secure. AI holds most of Patel’s focus and curiosity these days, serving as a thematic center that informs all his episodes — even those that draw heavily from other disciplines, like history or economics.

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