<p>Emile Riachi is an aspiring lawyer, active Lebanese citizen, and curious traveller. Join us as we catch up and cover:</p>
<ul>
 <li>Field notes from Delhi, India</li>
 <li>Emile’s unique travel style</li>
  <li>Coming-of-age in Lebanon</li>
  <li>Comparing higher ed systems in France vs. the US</li>
  <li>International arbitration—what is it and why does it exists</li>
  <li>What separates a great litigator from a merely good one</li>
  <li>Lebanon’s current political landscape &amp; a vision for the future</li>
  <li>Reflections on early political activism, what it’d takes to enact change</li>
  <li>Road safety &amp; Ralph Nader’s legacy</li>
  <li>What he’s learned from the leadership of Charles de Gaulle</li>
  <li>Taking care of your mental health</li>
  <li>…and more!</li>
</ul>

Jeson Lee on Ikigai, idle talent, and choosing good quests

Sam Altman calls current AI infra buildout the “biggest joint industrial project in human history.”

Across the world, companies are building infrastructure with urgency: big tech spending hundreds of billions on data centers, semiconductor fabs investing as much in new capacity, energy providers signing multi-gigawatt power contracts to power AI clusters.

The Scaling Era tells the stories behind this buildout. We talk to chip designers, roboticists, data center operators, and founders across the value chain—the builders whose efforts determine whether AI scales or stalls.