No idea how Fridman manages to bring on the type of high profile guests that he does. Guy does not ask good questions and has the charisma of a wet rag,

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NitpickLawyer an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Huh, I'm the exact opposite. With the exception of Hannah Fry's work at deepmind (where she acts as a charismatic proxy for the more nerdy guests), he is by far the best interviewer on technical stuff (AI stuff mostly, but some early robotics stuff as well). He knows the field, he asks pertinent questions and more importantly he knows when to just let the speaker speak.

Compared to someone like Dwarkesh, it's night and day. There's a fine line between pushing the guest and just interrupting them every 2nd thought to inject your own "takes".

	▲	written-beyond 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Saying he "knows the field" is kind of pushing it. He's good at conversations and that's about it, his actual merits are questionable at best. Best interviewer is Primagen, a senior engineer with balanced takes that has seen both extremes of life.

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Powdering7082 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah I loved the guests he had, but eventually had to stop listening to him

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dandersch 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Guests don't care about charisma, they care who your previous guests were. He early on got Elon Musk as a guest (AFAIK by writing a paper that was overly favorable to Tesla) and managed to snowball that into a big podcast.

Also guests agreeing to go on your show means they already want to talk about something, so in a way it's more important to shut up than ask good questions.

	▲	lern_too_spel 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		But then he gets guests spewing utter nonsense and just agrees with them instead of following up. It's unlistenable.