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What does my audience care about most?

Put another way: if nearly two million subscribers to my newsletter voted with their clicks, what most caught their attention thus far in 2023?

The 25 items below are the most-clicked links from my weekly 5-Bullet Friday newsletter so far this year, which I then further curated for this blog post.

5-Bullet Friday is a short email of five bullet points sent out each Friday, and it has become somewhat famous for crashing websites and selling things out (a.k.a. “the hug of death,” as some readers have put it). Each newsletter describes the five coolest things I’ve found or explored that week, often including books, gadgets, tech workarounds, tricks from experts, strange experiments, and weird stuff from all over the world. My subscribers have seen many things before they’ve gone mainstream.

If you haven’t subscribed, it’s free, and you can click here to sign up in a few seconds. It’s easy to unsubscribe anytime.

Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy the below list as much as I did!

The items were shuffled in no particular order, as more clicks doesn’t automatically mean more valuable, and I didn’t want to bias people towards a few links at the top.

Here we go…

#1: Coffee gadgets I’m using daily

​Jura ENA 4 (Cost: $999). This was gifted to me by my friend Brad L. He is a die-hard coffee nerd and swore it was the best cup of coffee you could have without a professional barista. Just feed it whole beans, and it handles the rest. This attractive machine also imbues the coffee with a creamy texture that is hard to describe.
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​AeroPress Original (Cost: The 4-Hour Chef: “This is now, bar none, my favorite brewing method. Remember the Aerobie, the amazing UFO-like disc that you could throw farther than a football field, 20 times farther than a standard Frisbee? Alan Adler, a mechanical engineer and Stanford University lecturer, created it. After conquering the 1980s toy market, he began to obsess over coffee. The result was the AeroPress, which debuted in 2006. Quickly adopted by the specialty coffee community, it offers a simple way to prepare a small amount of excellent coffee, and it’s great for travel. Armed with an AeroPress and a tiny manual hand grinder like the Hario MSS-1B Mini Mill [or the more recently recommended Comandante], you can even make world-class coffee on an airplane meal tray! No mess and no fuss.” If you want to use a beefier and automated burr grinder at home, I now use the Baratza Encore.

[Published in the May 12th newsletter]

#2: List of questions I’m perusing

“Questions” by Alexey Guzey. The English is a little rough in places, but I found some of these questions to be excellent reminders and many others to be outstanding brain food.

[Published in the August 4th newsletter]

#3: New blog post I’m excited to share

“Revisiting Warren Buffett’s Advice to Me in 2008 (Plus: 7 Lessons for Young Investors).” An old video recently resurfaced on social media. It’s yours truly asking Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger a question at the 2008 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting. I was intensely nervous, and the audio makes that clear. This clip went viral, and a number of media outlets (Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, etc.) reached out to me for comment, asking me questions like “What advice would you give a 30-year-old now who’d just amassed their first million?” I decided to take a few of my longer answers that didn’t make it into the pieces and write a blog post with more context.

[Published in the March 3rd newsletter]

#4: Fast and easy game that I’m loving

​Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza. You can learn how to play in less than a minute. The game is fast, fun, addictive, hilarious, and suitable for all ages. It scrambles brains to the delight of all. Hat tip to game Jedi Elan Lee (@elanlee) for introducing me to this gem!

[Published in the March 26th newsletter]

#5: What I’m excited to share with you

​A 5-Bullet Friday exclusive! A short motivational video from Arnold Schwarzenegger, just for you. For more motivation and tactical advice from Arnold, click here to sign up for his daily newsletter called The Pump Daily. On the linked-to page, you’ll also get a free ebook describing how Arnold sets and achieves goals, a simple home-based workout, and his hardcore 1970s chest and back workout for anyone who wants to risk a trip to the hospital.

And by the way… Arnold handwrites his emails. Check out this gem from earlier this week, shared with permission:

[Published in the January 13th newsletter]

#6: Portable cold plunge I’m enjoying

​The Cold Pod. For anti-inflammation and mood elevation, cold is the simplest solution I’ve found. I desperately wanted to cold plunge while at an Airbnb, but what to do that doesn’t leave a chest freezer behind? I found this inflatable Cold Pod on Amazon, and it works surprisingly well. Yes, you need to refill with ice, but it’s been a godsend. Pro tip: the less water you use, the less ice you need to lower the temperature.

[Published in the August 4th newsletter]

#7: What I’m rereading

“100 Tips for a Better Life” by Conor Barnes (@Ideopunk). This is a surprisingly good list, despite the generic headline. Thanks to Ryan Holiday (@RyanHoliday) for the recommendation.

[Published in the July 21 newsletter]

#8: Winter jacket that’s saving my ass

​Stio’s Environ XT Jacket. I recently replaced my old ski jacket/shell with this, and I’m thrilled that I did. It’s lightweight, durable, and has made even windy negative temperatures easy to handle with a proper base layer and midlayer. The Stio Environ XT is one of SKI Magazine’s “Best Men’s Ski Jackets of 2023,” and I chose Afternoon Azure for color. Here’s the description from the website: “Primed and ready for sidecountry hits, all-day tours, and storm laps in the resort, this jacket is for the minimalist who never uses his powder skirt and the purist who knows exactly what he needs.”

[Note: If the Stio jacket is sold out (it’s popular!), this Men’s Shralpinist Stretch Recycled Jacket from Jones Snowboards is a great alternate. Hat tip to Brad for the recommendation.]

[Published in the February 3rd newsletter]

#9: Article I’m rereading

“Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think.” This remains one of the most empowering articles I’ve read in recent years. It’s hilarious and amazing. For double trouble, pair it with my interview with the author, Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy).

[Published in the February 3rd newsletter]

#10: List I’m studying

“The 50 Best Places to Travel in 2023.” I am planning my next adventures, both in the U.S. and abroad, and this list had some unexpected gems.

[Published in the July 21st newsletter]

#11: Device I’m still using weekly to save my back and neck

​The Body Back Buddy, which was originally recommended to me by Dustin Moskovitz (@moskov), co-founder of Asana and Facebook. Here’s how Dustin answered my “best purchase for Tribe of Mentors: “The Back Buddy by the Body Back Company is my favorite purchase from the past five years, bar none. Most basically, it allows you to administer self-massage anywhere on your back with the full leverage of two hands, but I’ve also really gotten to know and appreciate all the little knobs and other features over the years. I’ve even learned how to manipulate parts of my skeletal structure (i.e., self-chiropracty) and incorporate it into my yoga practice.”

[Published in the August 18th newsletter]

#12: Science fiction short story I’m reading

“The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov. This 10–15-minute read is really spectacular. DO NOT read anything about this story before digging in, as even a small spoiler can ruin it. Special thanks to Adam Robinson (@IAmAdamRobinson) for sending it to me.

[Published in the April 21st newsletter]

#13: Book that I couldn’t put down

​Saga: Compendium One. This is a raucous masterpiece! After two close friends recommended it within 48 hours, I bit the bullet. I haven’t read graphic novels in ages, but this NSFW gem blew me away. I tore through it in two days. It’s rare that both the writing and artwork grab me, but this did it. Deep bow and “More please!” to Brian K. Vaughan (@briankvaughan), Fiona Staples (@fionastaples), and FONOGRAFIKS. Don’t let the page count scare you, as it moves quickly with the artwork. Think of it as a 150–175-page book.

[Published in the March 31st newsletter]

#14: YouTube summary I’m sharing with friends

“A Massive Upgrade To ChatGPT! (This is Crazy).” This short summary of new ChatGPT features really underscores how explosively the scope of AI tools is expanding. It looks like ChatGPT could quickly become WeChat on steroids for the English-speaking world. Thanks to NP for sharing this.

[Published in the March 24th newsletter]

#15: What I’m reading

“Why AI Won’t Cause Unemployment” by Marc Andreessen (@pmarca). Even if you don’t read this, take a second to look at the primary graph.

[Published in the April 21st newsletter]

#16: Magic trick I’m watching

​Infinite Chocolate Bar Trick. Special thanks to Simon Coronel, world champion of magic, for making me aware of this.

[Published in the April 28th newsletter]

#17: Article I’m reading

“How My Father and I Drew a New Life” by Brian Frazer for The New York Times. This is a truly remarkable essay with lessons for all readers. Short and easy. If you’re having trouble accessing the essay at the above link, try this one.

[Published in the June 23rd newsletter]

#18: What I’m watching

“The drawing advice that changed my life.” This video has great advice for anyone looking to expand their creativity. It also has pithy and powerful principles (alliteration!) for anyone looking to procrastinate less.

[Published in the May 26th newsletter]

#19: What I’m wearing for skiing and touring

​ORTOVOX Merino Thermovent Hoody. From the description: “The HOODY is made of 99% fine merino wool. Thanks to the mesh structure in the torso and arm areas, this super-lightweight base layer wicks moisture away perfectly and provides ventilation. And the air pockets in the special structure make it particularly warm. Merino wool is naturally temperature- and moisture-regulating. A small pack size and ideal weight-to-warmth ratio will delight all tourers who value comfort and low weight.”

[Published in the January 27th newsletter]

#20: What I’m using for better sleep

​Nayoya Acupressure Mat. This was originally introduced to me by acrobat phenom Andrii Bondarenko, but I’ve realized that the smaller portion intended for the neck is perfect for helping calm low-back stiffness and muscle spasms. I’ll lie on this for 5–10 minutes as I read before bed then ditch and go to sleep. It seems to substantially reduce tightness and discomfort throughout the night, and the neck-roll portion is much easier to pack for travel.
[Note: If the Nayoya mat is sold out (it’s popular!), you can find similar products online, like this mat from Sivan with 4.3/5 stars and 1900+ ratings.]

[Published in the August 25th newsletter]

#21: What I’m reading

“How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Choosing Presence Over Productivity” by Maria Popova (@brainpicker).

[Published in the May 12th newsletter]

#22: Comic book series I’m loving

​Tokyo Ghost, written by Rick Remender, drawn by Sean Murphy, and colored by Matt Hollingsworth. Lazarus #1, written by Greg Rucka, drawn by Michael Lark, and colored by Santi Arcas. Reckless, written by Ed Brubaker, illustrated by Sean Phillips, and colored by Jacob Phillips. I posted the covers on Instagram for those who’d like to take a gander.

[Published in the May 12th newsletter]

#23: What I’m watching

“Michael Jackson on Fire Diorama.” This is the best thing I’ve seen on the Internet in a looong time. Keep watching. It just gets weirder. Huge thanks to Oli for sending this to me. I have no idea how he tracked this down on a YouTube channel with five videos, but what a gift! First, you see an amazing craftsman, and then…

[Published in the April 7th newsletter]

#24: Short video that’s making me laugh

“Letterkenny Problems Ep. 1.” This clip is only 90 seconds long and will offend at least 69% of you. Consider yourselves warned. Description: “Two good old boys from Letterkenny, Ontario, tell you their problems.” Hat tip to Dr. Montucky for this gem, which I needed in the midst of a serious week.

[Published in the March 17th newsletter]

#25: Article I’m reading

“The four-hour workday” by Oliver Burkeman. Hat tip to Cal Newport for this one. I love Oliver’s perspective and writing style. From the essay: “Something I’ve long understood about myself is that whenever I get stressed about the number of things on my plate, or anxious about the challenges of a specific project, it’s an excellent idea to do the opposite of what comes naturally to me.” For a perfect pairing, also take a look at Parkinson’s Law, a satirical but practical concept I explored a lot in The 4-Hour Workweek.

[Published in the August 4th newsletter]

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Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is my job to deconstruct world-class performers to tease out the routines, habits, et cetera that you can apply to your own life. 

This is a special inbetweenisode, which serves as a recap of the episodes from last month. It features a short clip from each conversation in one place so you can easily jump around to get a feel for the episode and guest.

See it as a teaser. Something to whet your appetite. If you like what you hear, you can of course find the full episodes below or at tim.blog/podcast. 

Please enjoy! 

Timestamps:

Co-Founder and CEO of Asana Dustin Moskovitz: 00:03:08:14

Visionary entrepreneurs Daniil and David Liberman: 00:10:41:03

Award-winning game designer Justin Gary: 00:15:27:08

Legendary physical therapist Dr. Shirley Sahrmann: 00:20:04:20

Included episodes:

Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder of Asana and Facebook — Energy Management, Coaching for Endurance, No Meeting Wednesdays, Understanding the Real Risks of AI, Embracing Frictionless Work with AI, The Value of Holding Stories Loosely, and More (#686)

The Brothers Who Live One Life — The Incredible Adventures of David and Daniil Liberman (#689)

Justin Gary — Taking the Path Less Traveled, The Phenomenon of “Magic: The Gathering,” How Analytical People Can Become “Creative” People, Finding the Third Right Answer, and How to Escape Your Need for Control (#687)

Dr. Shirley Sahrmann — A Legendary PT Does a Deep Dive on Tim’s Low-Back Issues, Teaches How to Unlearn Painful Patterns, Talks About Movement as Medicine (or Poison), and More (#685)

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“Intention is fine, but attachment is bad.”

— Arthur C. Brooks

Arthur C. Brooks (@arthurbrooks) is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public and Nonprofit Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership and happiness. He is also a columnist at The Atlantic, where he writes the popular “How to Build a Life” column. Brooks is the author of 13 books, including the 2022 #1 New York Times bestseller From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life and his newest Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier with co-author Oprah Winfrey. He speaks to audiences all around the world about human happiness and works to raise well-being within private companies, universities, public agencies, and community organizations.

Please enjoy!

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Want to hear another episode with someone who leads the world toward greater kindness by example? Have a listen to my most recent conversation with Jack Kornfield in which we discussed the point of consciousness, yogic swoons and anesthetic autopiloting, how the Buddha might deal with anxiety, the dimensions of meditation, reliably eliciting the non-self, cultivating a more joyful mind, and much more.

#684: Jack Kornfield — How to Reduce Anxiety and Polish the Lens of Consciousness

What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Arthur C. Brooks:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok

Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier by Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey | Amazon From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks | AmazonHow to Build a Life by Arthur C. Brooks | The AtlanticThe Secret to Happiness, According to This Harvard Professor: A Reverse Bucket List | Inc.comThe 3 Equations for a Happy Life, Even During a Pandemic by Arthur C. Brooks | The AtlanticWhy Are Rhumb Lines (Loxodromes) a Constant Track Direction? | GIS GeographyHow Thich Nhat Hanh Taught the West about Mindfulness by Arthur C. Brooks | The Washington PostFestschrift | EtymonlineThree Different Paths of Buddhism | The Namchak CommunityCatholicism: Beliefs, Practices, History | Learn ReligionsThe Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation by Thích Nhất Hạnh | AmazonMemories from the Root Temple: Washing Dishes | Plum VillageHow to Pray the Rosary | Rosary Center & ConfraternityWhat Is Transmission Meditation? How Meditation Moves Between Us | About MeditationBuild Strength and Muscle Fast with Occlusion Training | Scientific AmericanAre There Benefits with Occlusion Training? | Mind Pump ShowOcclusion Training Cuffs | AmazonYour Body, Your Health, and Your Happiness | The Art of Happiness with Arthur C. BrooksArthur Brooks: French Horn Taught Me Everything I Needed to Know | SurtilConfessions of a Catholic Convert to Capitalism | America MagazineBasilica of Saint Mary of GuadalupeThe Miraculous Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe | The Catholic CompanyArthur Brooks | Harvard UniversityWheaton College, ILComplicated and Complex Problems In The Conservative Heart | What Would Spidey Do?Three Identical Strangers | Prime VideoRoots of Major Depression Revealed in All Their Genetic Complexity | Yale NewsSpark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey and Eric Hagerman | AmazonExercise Promotes the Expression of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Through the Action of the Ketone Body β-Hydroxybutyrate | eLifeChanging Our Brains, Changing Ourselves | APAPositive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) | Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and HappinessMeasuring Your Happiness Can Help Improve It by Arthur C. Brooks | The AtlanticPANAS Lesson Plan and Questionnaire | Arthur BrooksOprah Winfrey and Arthur Brooks on Social Media’s Destructive Power | CBSHow to Stop Being So Envious by Arthur C. Brooks | The AtlanticThe Three Macronutrients of Happiness | Arthur Brooks, TikTokIs Pornography Addictive? | APAChoose Enjoyment Over Pleasure by Arthur C. Brooks | The AtlanticHow Wanting Less Leads to Satisfaction by Arthur C. Brooks | The AtlanticThe 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | AmazonRolling Stones: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction | The Ed Sullivan ShowThe Neurobiology of Homeostasis | Knight Lab, UCSFThe Hedonic Treadmill — Are We Forever Chasing Rainbows? | Positive PsychologyThe Four Idols: Money, Power, Pleasure, and Fame | The Curiosity ChronicleThe Happiness Revolutionary | Harvard MagazineHedy Lamarr (Mar 31, 1957) | What’s My Line?The Summa Theologiæ of St. Thomas Aquinas | New AdventFame is Prison | Lady Gaga, TwitterThe Demon Mara, Who Challenged the Buddha | Learn ReligionsTim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression and His Tools for Warding Off the Darkness | The MarginalianFentanyl Awareness | DEABetter Call Saul | Prime VideoFinding Nemo | Prime VideoThe Benefits of ‘Forest Bathing’ | TIMEMeditation, Mindset, and Mastery | The Tim Ferriss Show #201When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career | HBS Working KnowledgeWhat is Stoicism? | Daily StoicKings of Kings | Hardcore HistoryAshes to Ashes Dust to Dust: Behind the Saying | LoveToKnowHow to Find Good Places to Stargaze | NASA Solar System ExplorationThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky | AmazonMeditations by Marcus Aurelius | AmazonMoney (Actually) Can Buy Happiness | Harvard Business SchoolHigh Income Improves Evaluation of Life but Not Emotional Well-Being | PNASIncome and Emotional Well-Being: A Conflict Resolved | PNASGive Your Money. Give Your Time. Don’t Tell Anyone. by Arthur C. Brooks | The AtlanticOpinion: Let’s Restart the Adoption Movement by Arthur C. Brooks | The New York TimesBabylonian Talmud: Tractate Sanhedrin | Jewish Virtual Library“These Go to 11.” | Spinal TapLosing Their Religion? New Report Shows Spaniards Are Turning Their Backs on Faith | El País EnglishThe Silence of the Lambs | Prime VideoThe Science of Happiness and Wellbeing | Harvard UniversityHow Does Jewish Matchmaking Work? | My Jewish LearningThe One Ring | Tolkien GatewayThe Paradox of Choice | The Decision LabDo Opposites Attract? Here’s What Science Says | BetterHelpYoung Love | Arthur Brooks, InstagramThe Kind of Love That Makes People Happiest by Arthur C. Brooks | The AtlanticLove, Actually: The Science behind Lust, Attraction, and Companionship | Science in the NewsThink About Your Death and Live Better by Arthur C. Brooks | The AtlanticShining the Light of Death on Life: Maranasati Meditation (Part I) | Barre Center for Buddhist StudiesShining the Light of Death on Life: Maranasati Meditation (Part II) | Barre Center for Buddhist StudiesNine Stages of Decay | WikipediaHistory of Memento Mori | Daily StoicPremeditatio Malorum | Daily StoicMeaning and Purpose in Life and Work | The Art of Happiness with Arthur BrooksWhat Is Nihilism? | Verywell MindExistentialism | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyTabula Rasa | WikipediaThe Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche | AmazonWhat an Ayahuasca Retreat Showed Me about My Life | VoxStart With Why by Simon Sinek | AmazonOpinion: The Father’s Example by Arthur C. Brooks | The New York TimesDoes Arthur Brooks Have the Secret to Happiness? | GQHow to Get Ahead: Faith, Friends, Family and Work | Independent.ieThe 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonReached Your Peak? Now Teach and Be Happy, Says Arthur Brooks | 24LifeHappiness in This Life is Impossible — Arthur Brooks Explains Why That’s Actually the Best News Ever | The Sunday PaperLibrary of Tibetan Works and ArchivesThe Leadership and Happiness Laboratory | Center for Public Leadership — Harvard Kennedy SchoolThe Twelve Steps | Alcoholics AnonymousA Higher Power for Atheists and Agnostics: Six Alternatives to God | The Freedom CenterAristotle’s 10 Rules for a Happy Life | The AtlanticQuit Lying to Yourself by Arthur C. Brooks | The AtlanticThe Best Friends Can Do Nothing for You by Arthur C. Brooks | The AtlanticYPO Forum | YPOWhy So Many Men Feel Lonely Today | Psychology TodaySurprising Differences between Lonely Women and Lonely Men | PsychCentralSimon Sinek: Feedback is a Gift | FourBlockDon’t Objectify Yourself by Arthur C. Brooks | The AtlanticArthur Brooks: Strength to Strength | Super SoulThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon | AmazonWinston Churchill and His ‘Black Dog’ of Greatness | The ConversationClif Bar Variety Pack | AmazonBrazil Nuts and Testosterone: Is There a Link? | HealthlineWhat Is Exposure Therapy? | APAIsaiah 50:7 | Bible GatewayHow to Be Happy After You Fail by Arthur C. Brooks | The AtlanticSHOW NOTES

Editor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly.

The reverse bucket list.Intention without attachment.Writing Thích Nhất Hạnh’s obituary.Buddhist views through a Catholic lens.Occlusion training and physical fitness over 40.Arthur’s semi-mystical teenage experiences in Mexico.Arthur’s academic dad on complex vs. complicated.Happiness hygiene for genetically baseline gloominess.Happiness and unhappiness: hand in hand.Being effective with one’s affects.The three macronutrients of happiness.Identifying (and learning to live with) our idols.Secularly securing transcendent perspective.Money doesn’t buy happiness — it lowers unhappiness.Tithing and adoption.How Arthur and his wife met, and how their values aligned over time.Advice for seeking love in the modern world.Death meditation.Finding personal purpose and meaning.Four fundamental micronutrients of happiness.Translating a need for change into action.Aristotle’s secrets to happiness.Real friends help us put the kibosh on self-deception.Reflecting on the repercussions of living for the mirror’s approval.Collaborating with Oprah on Build the Life You Want.The point Arthur hopes people don’t miss in Build the Life You Want.Reading recommendation: The Noonday Demon.Exposure therapy: making pain part of one’s medicine.A practical way to be grateful for life’s bad things.Parting thoughts.MORE ARTHUR C. BROOKS QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Happiness is not the goal and unhappiness is not the enemy. Getting happier is the goal.”

— Arthur C. Brooks

“Physical fitness, for me, is a way to manage my negative affect. It’s actually a happiness technique for me. It doesn’t make me happier. It makes me less unhappy. That’s what physical fitness will do — it’ll buy you less unhappiness.”

— Arthur C. Brooks

“The best marriages are completely honest, but the honesty is a gift and never a weapon.”

— Arthur C. Brooks

“Most learning doesn’t happen when the professor talks about something. If you understand everything the professor says, it’s not a hard enough class, and you don’t have a very good professor. He has to blow your mind with something, and you’ve got to go away and think about it. And then you learn it through your own thinking. That’s analytical meditation, or mental prayer.”

— Arthur C. Brooks

“The number one thing that Oprah and I will be very disappointed about is that people don’t actually become more fully alive through the transcendent passage of both happierness and the unhappiness that is a part of what it means to be a real person.”

— Arthur C. Brooks

“My goal is training [people] to be happiness teachers. … Understand, change your habits, share with others.”

— Arthur C. Brooks

“Intention is fine, but attachment is bad.”

— Arthur C. Brooks

“It is the voyage itself that is the adventure of life, not actually reaching the particular destination — whether it’s the original one or one that turns out to be better or worse or wherever you wind up. And that’s the way you’ve got to live your life.”

— Arthur C. Brooks

“One of the things that I teach my students at HBS is that I would never invest in the firm of an entrepreneur who’s unwilling to give her or his heart away. Because it’s the single most risky entrepreneurial thing that you can do, putting every bit of capital at risk. If you’re not willing to give your heart away, I’m not going to put my money in your fund.”

— Arthur C. Brooks

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“If you must panic, panic early.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Uncertainty is actually a reason for precaution rather than just throwing caution to the wind and just saying, ‘Well, we don’t know, so what the hell? Let’s just keep going.'”

— Scott Patterson

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) spent 21 years as a risk-taker (quantitative trader) before becoming a researcher in philosophical, mathematical, and (mostly) practical problems with probability.

Taleb is the author of a multivolume essay, the Incerto (The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, The Bed of Procrustes, and Skin in the Game), covering broad facets of uncertainty. His work has been published into 49 languages.

In addition to his trader life, Taleb has also written, as a backup of the Incerto, more than 70 technical and scholarly papers in mathematical statistics, genetics, quantitative finance, statistical physics, medicine, philosophy, ethics, economics, and international affairs around the notion of risk and probability (grouped in the Technical Incerto).

Taleb is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering (retired). His current focus is on the properties of systems that can handle disorder (“antifragile”).

*

Scott Patterson (@pattersonscott) is an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal, currently based in Washington DC, working on climate and energy policy. His new book is Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis, a profile of the rise of “black-swan traders,” such as Nassim Taleb and Mark Spitznagel, as well as a survey of the many perils the world faces today—and how we might fix them.

Scott has covered everything from Berkshire Hathaway to stock exchanges to high-speed traders to the financial regulators. His first book, The Quants, describes the rise of mathematical finance and delves into its role in the 2008 financial blowup. Dark Pools, his second book, tells how computer traders took control of the US stock market, starting from the birth of computer trading in the 1980s to the explosion of high-frequency trading in the late 2000s.

Please enjoy!

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. You can watch the interview on YouTube here.

Brought to you by AG1 all-in-one nutritional supplement, Helix Sleep premium mattresses, and LinkedIn Jobs recruitment platform with 900M+ users.

The transcript of this episode can be found here. Transcripts of all episodes can be found here.

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This episode is brought to you by AG1! I get asked all the time, “If you could use only one supplement, what would it be?” My answer is usually AG1, my all-in-one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in The 4-Hour Body in 2010 and did not get paid to do so. I do my best with nutrient-dense meals, of course, but AG1 further covers my bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health and the immune system. 

Right now, you’ll get a 1-year supply of Vitamin D free with your first subscription purchase—a vital nutrient for a strong immune system and strong bones. Visit DrinkAG1.com/Tim to claim this special offer today and receive your 1-year supply of Vitamin D (and 5 free AG1 travel packs) with your first subscription purchase! That’s up to a one-year supply of Vitamin D as added value when you try their delicious and comprehensive daily, foundational nutrition supplement that supports whole-body health.

This episode is brought to you by Helix Sleep! Helix was selected as the best overall mattress of 2022 by GQ magazine, Wired, and Apartment Therapy. With Helix, there’s a specific mattress to meet each and every body’s unique comfort needs. Just take their quiz—only two minutes to complete—that matches your body type and sleep preferences to the perfect mattress for you. They have a 10-year warranty, and you get to try it out for a hundred nights, risk-free. They’ll even pick it up from you if you don’t love it. And now, Helix is offering 25% off all mattress orders plus two free pillows at HelixSleep.com/Tim. The 25% off offer is valid until September 10th.

This episode is brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs. Whether you are looking to hire now for a critical role or thinking about needs that you may have in the future, LinkedIn Jobs can help. LinkedIn screens candidates for the hard and soft skills you’re looking for and puts your job in front of candidates looking for job opportunities that match what you have to offer.

Using LinkedIn’s active community of more than 900 million professionals worldwide, LinkedIn Jobs can help you find and hire the right person faster. When your business is ready to make that next hire, find the right person with LinkedIn Jobs. And now, you can post a job for free. Just visit LinkedIn.com/Tim.

Want to hear an interview with someone else who history will remember as much more than a successful hedge fund manager? Listen to my most recent conversation with Ed Thorp in which we discussed music as stress reduction, avoiding unnecessary risks, how to become more numeracy literate, the value of long-term thinking, the price of short-term thinking, making the best financial decisions with unknown variables, how to have fun learning about probability and statistics, and much more.

#604: Master Investor Ed Thorp on How to Think for Yourself, Mental Models for the Second Half of Life, How to Be Inner-Directed, How Basic Numeracy Is a Superpower, and The Dangers of Investing Fads

What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

SCROLL BELOW FOR LINKS AND SHOW NOTES…

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Nassim Nicholas Taleb:

Website | Twitter

Connect with Scott Patterson:

Website | Twitter

Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis by Scott Patterson | Amazon The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It by Scott Patterson | AmazonDark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the US Stock Market by Scott Patterson | AmazonIncerto by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | AmazonThe Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | AmazonFooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | AmazonAntifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | AmazonThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | AmazonSkin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | AmazonStatistical Consequences of Fat Tails: Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications (Technical Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | AmazonHoagie HavenThe Wall Street JournalEmpirica Capital | WikipediaUniversa Investments LPThe Collapse of Lehman Brothers: A Case Study | InvestopediaUnderstanding Tail Risk and the Odds of Portfolio Losses | InvestopediaSilent Risk: Lectures on Fat Tails, (Anti)Fragility, Precaution, and Asymmetric Exposures by Nassim Nicholas TalebBlack Monday: Definition in Stocks, What Caused It, and Losses | InvestopediaS&P 500 Returns since 2007 | Official Data FoundationDid Bruce Lee Say This About the Value of Practice? | SnopesWhat Is a Put Option?: A Guide to Buying and Selling | BankrateSystemic Risk of Pandemic via Novel Pathogens – Coronavirus: A Note | New England Complex Systems InstituteThe Pandemic Isn’t a Black Swan but a Portent of a More Fragile Global System | The New YorkerDid Justinian Create the First Pandemic? | Montana State UniversityBiological Warfare at the 1346 Siege of Caffa | Emerging Infectious DiseasesGreat Plague of 1665-1666 | The National ArchivesHow Five of History’s Worst Pandemics Finally Ended | HistoryTail Risk of Contagious Diseases | Nature PhysicsDon’t Look Up | NetflixEmperor Joseph’s Solution to Coronavirus | University of MinnesotaThe Lazarettos | Experience DubrovnikRevealed: Singapore’s Strategic Secrets for Staying Ahead | GovInsiderManaging the Crisis: Chronological Overview — Chapter Five: 1982 | FDICA Bob Rubin Trade | Fundamental Finance PlaybookRobert Rubin, Former Exec at Citigroup, Apologizes over Financial Crisis | The Seattle TimesNassim Taleb: My Rules for Life | The GuardianEight Terrific Tactics for Dealing with Haters, According to Tim Ferriss | MaximA Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Charlie Munger about Ethics | 25iqIdentifying the Highest and Best Uses of Capital | CitadelTaleb-Asness Black Swan Spat Is a Teaching Moment | Yahoo!Existentialism | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyIrrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy by William Barrett | AmazonCatch-22 by Joseph Heller | AmazonKurt Vonnegut’s Remembrance of Joseph Heller in The New Yorker | Scripting NewsWhat Is Stoicism? A Definition & 9 Stoic Exercises To Get You Started | Daily StoicThe Opiates of the Middle Classes by Nassim Taleb | EdgeSkepticism | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyWe’re in a ‘Polycrisis’ — A Historian Explains What That Means | World Economic ForumPrecautionary Principle | WikipediaThe Precautionary Principle | New England Complex Systems InstituteThe Precautionary Principle Explained by Nassim Taleb | Atlas GeographicaIs Nassim Taleb Right About Monsanto Company and GMOs? | The Motley FoolMediocristan and Extremistan: The Two Categories of Random Events | Coffee and JunkFat Tails | American ScientistWhere Do Thin Tails Come From? by Nassim N. Taleb | arXiv: Risk ManagementOn Fox News, Dr. Phil Said 360,000 Americans Die in Swimming Pools Every Year. He’s Wrong by Magnitudes. | PoynterRE: Drowning in Swimming Pools | Nassim Nicholas Taleb, TwitterMini Lecture 12: How to Look at the Risks of COVID Vaccines | N.N. Taleb’s Probability MoocsAfter The Bomb: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Share Their Stories | TimeKuru: Causes, Symptoms, and Diagnosis | HealthlineThe Monsanto Saga and Launch of “Toxic Exposure” with Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Healthcare UnfilteredAnother ‘Too Big to Fail’ System in GMOs | The New York TimesThe Regulation of GMOs in Europe and the United States | Council on Foreign RelationsAnalysis: Mixed Message on Weed-Killer Reflects Reality of Scientific Uncertainty | ReutersDavid Cameron in Conversation with Nassim Taleb | RSAKarl Popper Debate | BC Forensic League SocietyWhat Did Richelieu Mean by His “Six Lines” Quote? | History Stack Exchange“The Dose Makes the Poison.” | Chemical Safety FactsUnderstanding is a Poor Substitute for Convexity (Antifragility) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | EdgeSeven Things You Need to Know About Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac | Center for American ProgressPlaza Accord: Definition, History, Purpose, and Its Replacement | InvestopediaProfit and Loss Statement (P&L) | InvestopediaThe Blow-Up Artist | The New YorkerHow Did George Soros Break the Bank of England? | InvestopediaFat Tails, Ellipticality, and Diversification | Bloomberg Professional ServicesIs Globalization a Black Swan? | Mr. GlobalizationHow Lee Kuan Yew Engineered Singapore’s Economic Miracle | BBC NewsSoviet Influence on the Peace Movement | WikipediaThe History behind Germany’s Nuclear Phase-Out | Clean Energy WireThe Source of Germany’s Nuclear Aversion | The Breakthrough InstituteLessons and Doubts from the Chernobyl Disaster | IFRFHedge Funds Since the Financial Crisis: From Boom to Bust | InvestopediaUS Regulator Calls for Greater Scrutiny of Hedge Funds after Bond Turmoil | Financial TimesThe Tale of the Fed and Long-Term Capital Management | Barron’sHow Tech Startups Have Behaved as New Age Ponzi Schemes by Kirti Dixit | LinkedInWorking with Convex Responses: Antifragility from Finance to Oncology | EntropyHeart Rate Variability: A New Way to Track Well-Being | Harvard HealthIntermittent Fasting 101 — The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide | HealthlinePrincipia Politica Third Draft | Nassim Nicholas TalebDoes ‘Black Swan’ Author Taleb Think ChatGPT Is An Idiot? | BenzingaWhat Is the Talmud? | My Jewish LearningAncient Jewish History: Aramaic | Jewish Virtual LibraryThe Summa Theologiæ of St. Thomas Aquinas | New AdventThe Professor Helping Guide Billions in Climate Spending | WSJ12 Ways the Inflation Reduction Act Will Benefit Birds and People | AudubonRepublicans in the US ‘Battery Belt’ Embrace Biden’s Climate Spending | The GuardianSHOW NOTES

Editor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly

How Scott and Nassim first connected.Why Nassim would rather be remembered as a scholar than a trader.You can’t forge a new friendship without breaking a few eggs.Silent risk, tail events, and one-trick ponies.What prompted Scott to write Chaos Kings?Pseudo-efficiency, pseudo-optimization, and pseudo-sorries.The joy of writing a preemptive resignation letter.Developing resilience against criticism.Recurring patterns in successful investors.Nassim: contrarian, or simply independent?Jiving with skeptical turkeys.Living in the polycrisis.The precautionary principle.Fat tails, thin tails, and the COVID vaccine.GMO risks and Monsanto intimidation tactics.Implementing the precautionary principle at a large scale.Uncertainty and the climate crisis.Convexity in the face of financial crisis.Are investors overpowered in an interconnected world?Utilizing the precaution principle in the real world (for better and worse).The flow-on effect of having skin in the game.The ponzification of startups and an overdue reckoning.What convexity at the center of all things conveys.Where to find Scott and Nassim.What Nassim is working on now.New insights from ancient words.Parting thoughts.MORE QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“On my grave, I don’t want to be known as a trader, but as a scholar.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“If you must panic, panic early.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Uncertainty is actually a reason for precaution rather than just throwing caution to the wind and just saying, ‘Well, we don’t know, so what the hell? Let’s just keep going.'”

— Scott Patterson

“It’s what I call pseudo-optimization: If you drive a Ferrari 500 kilometers per hour, you’re not going to get there faster than if you ride a bicycle, because obviously you’re never going to get there.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I came into Wall Street and started reading about how there’s this belief that people are irrational and the markets are rational and they are predictable because of this. And I thought that is just crazy. To me, I look at financial markets and I see black swans, I see fear and greed. That to me is what drives markets, not rational behavior, rational expectations.”

— Scott Patterson

PEOPLE MENTIONEDNeil ChrissMark SpitznagelSeth RobertsBruce LeeJustinian IYaneer Bar-YamJoseph W. NormanPeter HoPasquale CirilloRobert RubinCharlie MungerRonald ReaganKenneth C. GriffinEd ThorpCliff AsnessFyodor DostoevskyJoseph HellerKurt VonnegutSeneca the YoungerPierre Daniel HuetJoseph Justus ScaligerPierre BayleDavid HumeAl-GhazalBaruch SpinozaAdam ToozeGeorge SorosKarl PopperWarren BuffettElon MuskRupert ReadPhil McGrawDavid CameronVictor NiederhofferLee Kuan YewVladimir PutinJohn MeriwetherAdam SmithAristotleNoahThomas AquinasJoe Biden

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Illustration via 99designs

“If you must panic, panic early.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Uncertainty is actually a reason for precaution rather than just throwing caution to the wind and just saying, ‘Well, we don’t know, so what the hell? Let’s just keep going.'”

— Scott Patterson

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) spent 21 years as a risk-taker (quantitative trader) before becoming a researcher in philosophical, mathematical, and (mostly) practical problems with probability.

Taleb is the author of a multivolume essay, the Incerto (The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, The Bed of Procrustes, and Skin in the Game), covering broad facets of uncertainty. His work has been published into 49 languages.

In addition to his trader life, Taleb has also written, as a backup of the Incerto, more than 70 technical and scholarly papers in mathematical statistics, genetics, quantitative finance, statistical physics, medicine, philosophy, ethics, economics, and international affairs around the notion of risk and probability (grouped in the Technical Incerto).

Taleb is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering (retired). His current focus is on the properties of systems that can handle disorder (“antifragile”).

*

Scott Patterson (@pattersonscott) is an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal, currently based in Washington DC, working on climate and energy policy. His new book is Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis, a profile of the rise of “black-swan traders,” such as Nassim Taleb and Mark Spitznagel, as well as a survey of the many perils the world faces today—and how we might fix them.

Scott has covered everything from Berkshire Hathaway to stock exchanges to high-speed traders to the financial regulators. His first book, The Quants, describes the rise of mathematical finance and delves into its role in the 2008 financial blowup. Dark Pools, his second book, tells how computer traders took control of the US stock market, starting from the birth of computer trading in the 1980s to the explosion of high-frequency trading in the late 2000s.

Please enjoy!

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. You can watch the interview on YouTube here.

Brought to you by AG1 all-in-one nutritional supplement, Helix Sleep premium mattresses, and LinkedIn Jobs recruitment platform with 900M+ users.

Listen onApple Podcasts[image error]Listen onSpotify[image error]Listen onOvercast#691: Nassim N. Taleb & Scott Patterson — How Traders Make Billions in The New Age of Crisis, Defending Against Silent Risks, Personal Independence, Skepticism Where It (Really) Counts, The Bishop and The Economist, and Much More

This episode is brought to you by AG1! I get asked all the time, “If you could use only one supplement, what would it be?” My answer is usually AG1, my all-in-one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in The 4-Hour Body in 2010 and did not get paid to do so. I do my best with nutrient-dense meals, of course, but AG1 further covers my bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health and the immune system. 

Right now, you’ll get a 1-year supply of Vitamin D free with your first subscription purchase—a vital nutrient for a strong immune system and strong bones. Visit DrinkAG1.com/Tim to claim this special offer today and receive your 1-year supply of Vitamin D (and 5 free AG1 travel packs) with your first subscription purchase! That’s up to a one-year supply of Vitamin D as added value when you try their delicious and comprehensive daily, foundational nutrition supplement that supports whole-body health.

This episode is brought to you by Helix Sleep! Helix was selected as the best overall mattress of 2022 by GQ magazine, Wired, and Apartment Therapy. With Helix, there’s a specific mattress to meet each and every body’s unique comfort needs. Just take their quiz—only two minutes to complete—that matches your body type and sleep preferences to the perfect mattress for you. They have a 10-year warranty, and you get to try it out for a hundred nights, risk-free. They’ll even pick it up from you if you don’t love it. And now, Helix is offering 25% off all mattress orders plus two free pillows at HelixSleep.com/Tim. The 25% off offer is valid until September 10th.

This episode is brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs. Whether you are looking to hire now for a critical role or thinking about needs that you may have in the future, LinkedIn Jobs can help. LinkedIn screens candidates for the hard and soft skills you’re looking for and puts your job in front of candidates looking for job opportunities that match what you have to offer.

Using LinkedIn’s active community of more than 900 million professionals worldwide, LinkedIn Jobs can help you find and hire the right person faster. When your business is ready to make that next hire, find the right person with LinkedIn Jobs. And now, you can post a job for free. Just visit LinkedIn.com/Tim.

Want to hear an interview with someone else who history will remember as much more than a successful hedge fund manager? Listen to my most recent conversation with Ed Thorp in which we discussed music as stress reduction, avoiding unnecessary risks, how to become more numeracy literate, the value of long-term thinking, the price of short-term thinking, making the best financial decisions with unknown variables, how to have fun learning about probability and statistics, and much more.

#604: Master Investor Ed Thorp on How to Think for Yourself, Mental Models for the Second Half of Life, How to Be Inner-Directed, How Basic Numeracy Is a Superpower, and The Dangers of Investing Fads

What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

SCROLL BELOW FOR LINKS AND SHOW NOTES…

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Nassim Nicholas Taleb:

Website | Twitter

Connect with Scott Patterson:

Website | Twitter

Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis by Scott Patterson | Amazon The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It by Scott Patterson | AmazonDark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the US Stock Market by Scott Patterson | AmazonIncerto by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | AmazonThe Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | AmazonFooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | AmazonAntifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | AmazonThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | AmazonSkin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | AmazonStatistical Consequences of Fat Tails: Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications (Technical Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | AmazonHoagie HavenThe Wall Street JournalEmpirica Capital | WikipediaUniversa Investments LPThe Collapse of Lehman Brothers: A Case Study | InvestopediaUnderstanding Tail Risk and the Odds of Portfolio Losses | InvestopediaSilent Risk: Lectures on Fat Tails, (Anti)Fragility, Precaution, and Asymmetric Exposures by Nassim Nicholas TalebBlack Monday: Definition in Stocks, What Caused It, and Losses | InvestopediaS&P 500 Returns since 2007 | Official Data FoundationDid Bruce Lee Say This About the Value of Practice? | SnopesWhat Is a Put Option?: A Guide to Buying and Selling | BankrateSystemic Risk of Pandemic via Novel Pathogens – Coronavirus: A Note | New England Complex Systems InstituteThe Pandemic Isn’t a Black Swan but a Portent of a More Fragile Global System | The New YorkerDid Justinian Create the First Pandemic? | Montana State UniversityBiological Warfare at the 1346 Siege of Caffa | Emerging Infectious DiseasesGreat Plague of 1665-1666 | The National ArchivesHow Five of History’s Worst Pandemics Finally Ended | HistoryTail Risk of Contagious Diseases | Nature PhysicsDon’t Look Up | NetflixEmperor Joseph’s Solution to Coronavirus | University of MinnesotaThe Lazarettos | Experience DubrovnikRevealed: Singapore’s Strategic Secrets for Staying Ahead | GovInsiderManaging the Crisis: Chronological Overview — Chapter Five: 1982 | FDICA Bob Rubin Trade | Fundamental Finance PlaybookRobert Rubin, Former Exec at Citigroup, Apologizes over Financial Crisis | The Seattle TimesNassim Taleb: My Rules for Life | The GuardianEight Terrific Tactics for Dealing with Haters, According to Tim Ferriss | MaximA Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Charlie Munger about Ethics | 25iqIdentifying the Highest and Best Uses of Capital | CitadelTaleb-Asness Black Swan Spat Is a Teaching Moment | Yahoo!Existentialism | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyIrrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy by William Barrett | AmazonCatch-22 by Joseph Heller | AmazonKurt Vonnegut’s Remembrance of Joseph Heller in The New Yorker | Scripting NewsWhat Is Stoicism? A Definition & 9 Stoic Exercises To Get You Started | Daily StoicThe Opiates of the Middle Classes by Nassim Taleb | EdgeSkepticism | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyWe’re in a ‘Polycrisis’ — A Historian Explains What That Means | World Economic ForumPrecautionary Principle | WikipediaThe Precautionary Principle | New England Complex Systems InstituteThe Precautionary Principle Explained by Nassim Taleb | Atlas GeographicaIs Nassim Taleb Right About Monsanto Company and GMOs? | The Motley FoolMediocristan and Extremistan: The Two Categories of Random Events | Coffee and JunkFat Tails | American ScientistWhere Do Thin Tails Come From? by Nassim N. Taleb | arXiv: Risk ManagementOn Fox News, Dr. Phil Said 360,000 Americans Die in Swimming Pools Every Year. He’s Wrong by Magnitudes. | PoynterRE: Drowning in Swimming Pools | Nassim Nicholas Taleb, TwitterMini Lecture 12: How to Look at the Risks of COVID Vaccines | N.N. Taleb’s Probability MoocsAfter The Bomb: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Share Their Stories | TimeKuru: Causes, Symptoms, and Diagnosis | HealthlineThe Monsanto Saga and Launch of “Toxic Exposure” with Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Healthcare UnfilteredAnother ‘Too Big to Fail’ System in GMOs | The New York TimesThe Regulation of GMOs in Europe and the United States | Council on Foreign RelationsAnalysis: Mixed Message on Weed-Killer Reflects Reality of Scientific Uncertainty | ReutersDavid Cameron in Conversation with Nassim Taleb | RSAKarl Popper Debate | BC Forensic League SocietyWhat Did Richelieu Mean by His “Six Lines” Quote? | History Stack Exchange“The Dose Makes the Poison.” | Chemical Safety FactsUnderstanding is a Poor Substitute for Convexity (Antifragility) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | EdgeSeven Things You Need to Know About Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac | Center for American ProgressPlaza Accord: Definition, History, Purpose, and Its Replacement | InvestopediaProfit and Loss Statement (P&L) | InvestopediaThe Blow-Up Artist | The New YorkerHow Did George Soros Break the Bank of England? | InvestopediaFat Tails, Ellipticality, and Diversification | Bloomberg Professional ServicesIs Globalization a Black Swan? | Mr. GlobalizationHow Lee Kuan Yew Engineered Singapore’s Economic Miracle | BBC NewsSoviet Influence on the Peace Movement | WikipediaThe History behind Germany’s Nuclear Phase-Out | Clean Energy WireThe Source of Germany’s Nuclear Aversion | The Breakthrough InstituteLessons and Doubts from the Chernobyl Disaster | IFRFHedge Funds Since the Financial Crisis: From Boom to Bust | InvestopediaUS Regulator Calls for Greater Scrutiny of Hedge Funds after Bond Turmoil | Financial TimesThe Tale of the Fed and Long-Term Capital Management | Barron’sHow Tech Startups Have Behaved as New Age Ponzi Schemes by Kirti Dixit | LinkedInWorking with Convex Responses: Antifragility from Finance to Oncology | EntropyHeart Rate Variability: A New Way to Track Well-Being | Harvard HealthIntermittent Fasting 101 — The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide | HealthlinePrincipia Politica Third Draft | Nassim Nicholas TalebDoes ‘Black Swan’ Author Taleb Think ChatGPT Is An Idiot? | BenzingaWhat Is the Talmud? | My Jewish LearningAncient Jewish History: Aramaic | Jewish Virtual LibraryThe Summa Theologiæ of St. Thomas Aquinas | New AdventThe Professor Helping Guide Billions in Climate Spending | WSJ12 Ways the Inflation Reduction Act Will Benefit Birds and People | AudubonRepublicans in the US ‘Battery Belt’ Embrace Biden’s Climate Spending | The GuardianSHOW NOTES

Editor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly

How Scott and Nassim first connected.Why Nassim would rather be remembered as a scholar than a trader.You can’t forge a new friendship without breaking a few eggs.Silent risk, tail events, and one-trick ponies.What prompted Scott to write Chaos Kings?Pseudo-efficiency, pseudo-optimization, and pseudo-sorries.The joy of writing a preemptive resignation letter.Developing resilience against criticism.Recurring patterns in successful investors.Nassim: contrarian, or simply independent?Jiving with skeptical turkeys.Living in the polycrisis.The precautionary principle.Fat tails, thin tails, and the COVID vaccine.GMO risks and Monsanto intimidation tactics.Implementing the precautionary principle at a large scale.Uncertainty and the climate crisis.Convexity in the face of financial crisis.Are investors overpowered in an interconnected world?Utilizing the precaution principle in the real world (for better and worse).The flow-on effect of having skin in the game.The ponzification of startups and an overdue reckoning.What convexity at the center of all things conveys.Where to find Scott and Nassim.What Nassim is working on now.New insights from ancient words.Parting thoughts.MORE QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“On my grave, I don’t want to be known as a trader, but as a scholar.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“If you must panic, panic early.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Uncertainty is actually a reason for precaution rather than just throwing caution to the wind and just saying, ‘Well, we don’t know, so what the hell? Let’s just keep going.'”

— Scott Patterson

“It’s what I call pseudo-optimization: If you drive a Ferrari 500 kilometers per hour, you’re not going to get there faster than if you ride a bicycle, because obviously you’re never going to get there.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I came into Wall Street and started reading about how there’s this belief that people are irrational and the markets are rational and they are predictable because of this. And I thought that is just crazy. To me, I look at financial markets and I see black swans, I see fear and greed. That to me is what drives markets, not rational behavior, rational expectations.”

— Scott Patterson

PEOPLE MENTIONEDNeil ChrissMark SpitznagelSeth RobertsBruce LeeJustinian IYaneer Bar-YamJoseph W. NormanPeter HoPasquale CirilloRobert RubinCharlie MungerRonald ReaganKenneth C. GriffinEd ThorpCliff AsnessFyodor DostoevskyJoseph HellerKurt VonnegutSeneca the YoungerPierre Daniel HuetJoseph Justus ScaligerPierre BayleDavid HumeAl-GhazalBaruch SpinozaAdam ToozeGeorge SorosKarl PopperWarren BuffettElon MuskRupert ReadPhil McGrawDavid CameronVictor NiederhofferLee Kuan YewVladimir PutinJohn MeriwetherAdam SmithAristotleNoahThomas AquinasJoe Biden

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Technologist, serial entrepreneur, world-class investor, self-experimenter, and all-around wild and crazy guy Kevin Rose (@KevinRose) rejoins me for another episode of The Random Show!

We discuss affordable luxuries, creative offsites, brain stimulation, OCD, ADHD, tokenizing humans via a bonding curve, cold therapy on a budget, phone data strategies for international travelers, Toshiba’s low-carb rice cooker, and much, much more!

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Want to hear the last time Kevin and I put on a Random Show? Listen to our conversation here, in which we discussed affordable luxuries for priceless lives, suiting up for a visit to the Magic Castle, Eliza Ivanova’s art, my secret for supple skin, nineteenth-century Nintendo, Balaji’s bet, the science of #hangover remedies, Moonbirds over Tokyo, an unexpected Sanbo Zen inquisition, Japanese death poems, escape rooms, high-fidelity immersive sound, Nanoblocks, and much more.

#670: The Random Show with Kevin Rose — The $1M Bitcoin Bet, Japanophilia, Rare IPAs, Preventing Hangovers, AI Companions, Fringe Discords, Affordable Luxuries, High-Fidelity Audio, and Much More

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Here Are Episodes 1 and 2 | The Tim Ferriss ShowCity of Versailles, KYImpressions about Vintage 2021 | Domaine TempierWhen It’s Okay to Add Ice to Your Wine, According to Experts | VinePair‘Godspeed, John Glenn’ | Merriam-WebsterDay-Date | RolexSpeedmaster Moonwatch Professional | OmegaSwatch X Omega to the Planets with the Bioceramic Moonswatch Collection | SwatchApple iPhone from 2007 Sells for $190,000 | CNN BusinessElon Musk Interview | The Kevin Rose ShowKevin’s Thoughts on Ethereum in Early 2014 | The Tim Ferriss Show #24The World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game | Dungeons & DragonsThe World’s Premier Trading Card Game | Magic: The GatheringA Fictional World Built for These Chaotic Times | The Legend of CØCKPUNCHNFT Royalty Fees Dropped by OpenSea | The VergeFunding Cutting-Edge Scientific Research | Saisei FoundationEpicureanism | Routledge Encyclopedia of PhilosophyThe Simple, Powerful, and Fun Way to Edit | DescriptWhat Is Google’s Hiring Process like and What Really Happens behind the Scenes after an Interview? | QuoraObsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) | American Psychiatric AssociationAttention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) | American Psychiatric AssociationAccelerated TMS: Moving Quickly into the Future of Depression Treatment | NeuropsychopharmacologyGeneralized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) | Johns Hopkins MedicineExperimental Depression Treatment Is Nearly 80% Effective in Controlled Study | Stanford MedicineRain Man | Prime VideoThe DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics by Dennis O’Neil | AmazonStories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang | AmazonArrival | Prime VideoLord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien | AmazonThe Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman | AmazonThe Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie | AmazonEthan Hawke: Give Yourself Permission to Be Creative | TED TalkThe Marketplace for Your Friends | friend.techEx-App Store Director: ‘Apple Had a Problem with Crypto from Day One’ | DecryptIs friend.tech a Friend or Foe? A Dive Into the New Social App Driving Millions in Trading Volume | CoinDeskSupport Your Favorite Creators | OnlyFansBest Way for Artists and Creators to Get Sustainable Income and Connect with Fans | PatreonPussy RiotPearl JamMuay Thai History, Benefits, and Rules | Yokkao‘Boxing Is a Mess’: The Darkness and Damage of Brain Trauma in the Ring | The GuardianTony Hawk Announces His Mother Has Died after a Long Battle with Alzheimer’s | CNNPsychedelic Psilocybin Clinical Trial in Parkinson’s Nears End | Parkinson’s News TodayInside Ibogaine: A Promising and Perilous Drug for Addiction | TimeMycoMedica Life Sciences, PBC Secures $60 Million in Funding to Fuel Fungi-Based Drug Development for Prevention and Treatment of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders | Globe NewswirePaul Stamets: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World | TED TalkReturning Ancestral Lands to Indigenous Hands | Amazon Conservation TeamWhat are the Benefits of Cold Therapy? | Wim Hof MethodTony Robbins’s Three Steps to Creating a Breakthrough | Inc.comThe Cold Pod 85-Gallon Cold Plunge Tub | AmazonYeti Tundra 65 Cooler | AmazonHorton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss | AmazonHaiku (or Hokku) | Poetry FoundationDevotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver | AmazonDream Work by Mary Oliver | AmazonGold by Rumi | AmazonTime Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong | AmazonNight Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong | AmazonJapanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death by Yoel Hoffmann | AmazonThree Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku by Natalie Goldberg | AmazonWriting Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg | AmazonBeyond the Haiku Moment: Basho, Buson & Modern Haiku Myths | New Zealand Poetry SocietyThe Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets by Sam Hamill | AmazonThe Morning Glory! by Fukuda Chiyo-ni | All PoetryPutting Up My Hair by Fukuda Chiyo-ni | All PoetryAgain the Women by Fukuda Chiyo-ni | All PoetryChiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master by Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi | AmazonCoyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores | AmazonMike Phillips — How to Save a Species | The Tim Ferriss Show #383Mark Twain’s Description of a Coyote | Coyote YippsHuman Growth Hormone (HGH): Does It Slow Aging? | Mayo ClinicFecal Transplant | Johns Hopkins MedicineKetamine HCL 30 mg Suppository | McGuff Compounding PharmacyHydrolyzed Collagen | FoundMyFitnessGreat Lakes Wellness, 2 Pk Collagen Hydrolysate Unflavored Beef Protein Kosher 16 Oz Cans | AmazonQuality Bone Broth | BrodoThe Healthiest Red Meat on the Planet | Maui Nui VenisonNutrient Density Study | Van Vliet LabAesop Resurrection Rinse-Free Hand Wash | AmazonNow Foods Kre-Alkalyn | AmazonDelicious Brews for Discerning Cocks | CØCKPUNCH CoffeeMiami Vice | NBCOneSkin | AmazonProMix Nutrition | AmazonToshiba Induction Low Carb Rice Cooker | AmazonIncredibly Moist and Easy Carrot Cake | Inspired TasteBrilliant Martini | Boodles GinBest Espresso Martini Recipe | DelishThe Alice in Wonderland Omnibus by Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel | AmazonLocal and Regional eSIMs for Travellers | AiraloA Simple, Wireless Phone Plan With Unlimited Data | Google Fi WirelessWireless, Internet, TV, and Phone Services | VerizonVUSXX: Vanguard Treasury Money Market Fund | VanguardWill Nvidia Be a $2 Trillion Stock by 2030? | The Motley FoolDollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) | InvestopediaWhy Nvidia’s Stock Surge Should Worry AMD Investors | Seeking AlphaFacebook Will Make Its Latest Llama AI Model Free to Use | The Washington PostNTDOY Stock Price | MarketWatchThe Super Mario Bros. MovieThe Legend of Zelda Movie Reportedly Green-Lit After Super Mario Bros. Movie Success | MoviewebThe Night Lord of the Rings Swept the Board | EmpireHanafuda: The History and Popularity of the Japanese Flower Card Game | JapanbasedSHOW NOTES[04:41] Drinks? Heck, it’s 3:00 p.m. Friday somewhere.[08:36] Affordable (and unaffordable) luxuries.[14:42] Kevin’s relaunching his podcast.[17:37] Celebrating creative CØCKPUNCH collaboration.[26:56] Overcoming delegation consternation.[36:23] OCD & ADHD[42:55] Tolkien never said “CØCKPUNCH.”[47:55] Inspirational formats and fictions.[53:26] Brain stimulation banter.[55:23] Tokenizing humans via a bonding curve.[1:03:24] Mitigating brain damage over time.[1:11:47] Cold therapy on a budget.[1:17:41] Climbing up the poet tree.[1:26:31] Coyotes and wolves and Twain.[1:30:34] A free idea for Audible: synchronous book clubs?[1:32:02] Supplements.[1:34:35] Brodo kudos.[1:36:44] Aesop.[1:37:12] Caffeine and creatine with a chance of disaster pants.[1:41:15] CØCKPUNCH Coffee.[1:44:49] Three cheers for OneSkin.[1:47:50] One out of one Dr. Peter Attias recommends ProMix.[1:48:51] A low-carb rice cooker? Thanks, Toshiba.[1:52:14] We like our cake like we like our martinis: without carrots.[1:54:50] Dating in the 21st century.[1:57:31] Phone data strategies for international travelers.[2:01:28] Why Kevin doesn’t buy individual bonds (and what he does instead).[2:03:00] What stocks attract Kevin’s investment dollars these days?[2:06:57] Parting thoughts.PEOPLE MENTIONEDJay-ZDarya RoseNeil ArmstrongElon MuskEpicurusFrankenstein’s MonsterNolan WilliamsDaniel HenriquesDennis O’NeilTed ChiangPatrick RothfussNeil GaimanJoe AbercrombieEthan HawkeAdam GazzaleyMatthew WalkerNadya TolokonnikovaTony HawkNancy Elizabeth HawkRhonda PatrickLaird HamiltonPaul StametsTony RobbinsMary OliverJalal al-Din RumiHaleh Liza GaforiOcean VuongHenry ShukmanNatalie GoldbergMatsuo BashōYosa BusonFukuda Chiyo-niDan FloresMark TwainPeter AttiaMarco CanoraJames BeardDavid SinclairBugs Bunny

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“It’s not failure. It’s an attempt. 60 percent, 70 percent of those attempts are going to end up with zero, so just move on. Start the next one. You’ll be successful later.”

David Liberman and Daniil Liberman (@DaLiberman) are visionary entrepreneurs and investors with a close partnership spanning 16 years. They gained valuable experience at Snap, contributing to projects involving avatars, bitmoji, animation, and product operations. They are currently based in Los Angeles, where their primary focus is on building Product Science, a service dedicated to optimizing mobile apps.

Moreover, the Liberman brothers have established The Libermans Company, referred to as a People Company. Through their commitment to the Founders Pledge, they have allocated all future earnings and economic value for the next three decades to LibermansCo, including founder shares of Product Science and potential returns from future investments.

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Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform .

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Want to hear another episode with someone who runs their business with the symbiotic assistance of a sibling? Listen to my conversation with Patrick Collison (who started payment company Stripe with his brother John), in which we discussed great books, the importance of giving ideas time to fail, succeeding in an oversaturated market, driving organic traction, developing a mindset resilient to inevitable downswings, growing up free-range, equalizing happiness around the world, making quicker decisions, and much more.

#353: Patrick Collison — CEO of Stripe

What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

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Libermans.co | Humanism.is | Twitter | YouTube | Instagram | LinkedIn

Is Selling Shares in Yourself the Way of the Future? | The New YorkerThe Siblings Selling Shares in Their Future Shed Light on How We See Our past | Financial TimesHumanism Would Let People Invest in Humans Like Companies | Fast CompanyOpinion: What if You Could Give Start-Up Money to People, Not Companies? | The New York TimesConsequences of the Collapse of the Soviet Union | Norwich University OnlineWhen Bricks Were Rubles | Planet MoneyBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto | BitcoinBitTorrentWhy Transparency Wins by Daniil and David | YouTubeCorruption in Russia | WikipediaAnti-Corruption Foundation | WikipediaAleksei Navalny, Putin Critic, Was Poisoned at Hotel, His Team Says | The New York TimesRussian Dissident Alexei Navalny Has Been Sentenced to 19 More Years of Prison | Weekend EditionUltima OnlineMake Anything You Can Imagine | RobloxExplore. Discover. Create. | Second LifeDoom Legend John Romero — The Path to Prolific Innovation and Making 130+ Games, How to Find the Soul of the Work, Audacious Ambition, and Building in Monk Mode | The Tim Ferriss Show #681World of WarcraftWhat Does WAR’s Success or Failure Mean for the MMORPG Market? | Online Games Are a Niche MarketCall of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Blasts Blockbuster Record | Business Chief North AmericaBelieve In Online | Sibilant Interactive (via Wayback Machine)Mult Lichnosti Playlist | YouTubeChannel One Russia | WikipediaRussia’s FSB Has Been Accused of Covering Up, Rather Than Solving, Crimes | The New York TimesIs a California Noncompete Agreement Legal? | Labor LawyerWilliam Morris Endeavor (WME)The Simpsons Predictions: 30 Times the Fox Show Forecasted the Future | The Hollywood ReporterHere Comes a Special Boy: ‘Achewood’ Is Back, but TV Isn’t Ready | The VergeCrazytown | IMDbEverything You Need to Know About the Cyprus Bank Disaster | The AtlanticAbout Frank Money, Inc. | F6SA Woman on TikTok Says Boomers Are ‘So Confused’ as to Why Young Americans Don’t Share the Same Work Ethic or Goals — Here Are 3 Reasons Why Their Priorities Have Changed | Yahoo! FinanceFinding “Unicorns:” Questions to Ask Before You Invest in a Startup | Tim FerrissWill Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse Lead to a Financial Crisis? | BrookingsVipassana MeditationFor Math Fans: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Number 42 | Scientific AmericanThe Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Boxset by Douglas Adams | AmazonWhat Is Hypermnesia? | Psychology DictionaryWalkway Plan to Link Tim and Helena’s Separate Homes | London Evening StandardInsight PartnersKylie Jenner ‘Sooo Over’ Snapchat – And Shares Tumble | BBC NewsA Refresher on A/B Testing | Harvard Business ReviewHow the Liberman Siblings Saved Snapchat | AnecdotageHow Snapchat Makes Mini Movies in Augmented Reality | The New York TimesYou Don’t Understand Compound Growth | Who Is Nnamdi?Key Performance Indicator (KPI) | Investopedia“Sports Do Not Build Character; They Reveal It” | Quote Investigator®Natural Computation and Its Limits: Efim Liberman at the Dawn of a New Science | BiosystemsNeuron Quantum Computers and a Way to Unification of Science: A Compendium of Efim Liberman’s Scientific Work | BiosystemsMorse Code | WikipediaHopes Fade for ‘Room Temperature Superconductor’ LK-99, but Quantum Zero-Resistance Research Continues | The ConversationRead > Understand ) Profit * | SpeakCoding | “An interactive course for non-technical professionals, entrepreneurs and those looking to start their transition to tech.”Free and interactive coding book (Simply need to log in to access for free.)The 2007–2008 Financial Crisis in Review | InvestopediaWhat Is a Credit Default Swap and How Does It Work? | InvestopediaThe Risks Hidden in Public Pension Funds | The New York TimesCalifornia Public Employees’ Retirement System ( CalPERS)Why Is College in America So Expensive? | The AtlanticIt’s Not Enough to Get Paid for Not Working: These L.A. Police and Firefighters Figured Out How to Double It | ReasonVisualizing US Wealth by Generation | Visual CapitalistHow Finding a Home in America Became So Absurdly Expensive | The GuardianMoneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis | AmazonThe Padres Owe Fernando Tatís Jr. $340 Million. He Owes an Investment Fund Millions From His Payday. | WSJInvesting in the Careers of Athletes | Big League AdvantagePower Laws: How Nonlinear Relationships Amplify Results | Farnam Street BlogSlow VenturesA Former Facebook VP Thinks Investing in Humans Is the Future of VC | Vice10 Benefits Showing Why Education Is Important to Our Society | Habitat for HumanityIs Free College a Good Idea? Increasingly, Evidence Says Yes | BrookingsMexican Soap Opera Has Russian Fans in a Lather: ‘The Rich Also Cry’ Tops the TV Charts and Turns Potato Farmers into Couch Potatoes. | Los Angeles TimesThe Center for Consciousness Studies | The University of ArizonaWhat Is Sustainable Investing? | HBS OnlineHow Environmentally Conscious Investing Became a Target of Conservatives | The New York TimesSHOW NOTES

Editor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly.

Childhood.The influence of scientist parents on curious kids.The perils of pursuing anti-corruption innovation in post-Soviet Russia.Building a business with cables and crossbows.Lessons learned by bankrupting a gaming studio.Moscow-style investment recovery.A lucky break in the darkness of debt.Streamlining production through decentralization, parallelization, and a DJ connection.When playing the fools is the smart move.Coming to America.Building momentum with animation in Los Angeles.Divorce lawyer power dynamics.Another unforeseen financial hurdle.To Silicon Valley and nonprofit transparency.How are David and Daniil able to pivot between different ideas so quickly?The formation, advantages, and drawbacks of the Liberman hive mind.Separation pros and cons.How does external romance fit into this arrangement?The Dalai Lama, Jerry Murdock, and Snap.Reversing Snapchat’s 2018 decline by adapting to data and fixing real problems.Applying principles of compound growth to life.How working with family has helped with logistics.The value of interdisciplinary synthesis.How the Libermans might teach people to code.A data-driven look at our current financial crisis.What’s the Liberman solution?Incentivizing adoption of such a solution.A real-world test.Who/what makes for a good investment in this model?Do we reduce or elevate the potential for success by minimizing suffering?How to invest in people (and why you should).Parting thoughts.MORE QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“The struggle will come. It doesn’t matter if you have millions of dollars, you will always be struggling because you strive to achieve more.”

“If someone just claims something and you cannot really prove it for yourself with data, probably something is missing and you need to dig deeper.”

“Previous generations got a lot from society … almost-free college education. New generations are being hammered with student debt. They don’t really feel that society gives them much, but they still donate the same portion.”

“We will all win. The market will win, society will win. Humanity will win from the fact that we will use this power law for wider groups of people to invest in them, provide them capital, and provide them a chance to get a higher education to try to start a business.”

“It’s not failure. It’s an attempt. 60 percent, 70 percent of those attempts are going to end up with zero, so just move on. Start the next one. You’ll be successful later.”

“Competition is always a struggle, and there will always be competition.”

PEOPLE MENTIONEDEfim LibermanSvetlana MininaAnna Liberman WoodfordMasha LibermanStuart HameroffRoger PenroseSatoshi NakamotoIngeborga DapkūnaitėKonstantin ErnstDmitry MedvedevVladimir PutinJimmy FallonJon StewartMark ZuckerbergVoltronPatrick CollisonJohn CollisonBatman/Bruce WayneRobinThe AvengersTim BurtonHelena Bonham CarterThe Dalai LamaGyétrul Jigmé Norbou RinpotchéJerry MurdockKim KardashianKylie JennerMatt MullenwegLeBron JamesFernando Tatís Jr.Marc AndreessenChris DixonJoshua KushnerSam LessinMarina Mogilko

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“It can be way worse to win the wrong game than to lose one that you actually enjoy playing.”

— Justin Gary

Justin Gary (@Justin_Gary) is an award-winning designer, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. He is CEO of Stone Blade Entertainment and creator of the innovative and award-winning Ascension deck-building game series. Prior to designing games, Justin was the youngest ever Magic: The Gathering US National Champion. He has studied creativity and applied the principles of design to create dozens of products over his 20 years in the industry for brands that include Marvel, World of Warcraft, and the Wharton School of Business. Today, he designs, consults, and teaches creativity around the world as a digital nomad.

Justin is also the author of Think Like a Game Designer: The Step-By-Step Guide to Unlocking Your Creative Potential and host of the Think Like a Game Designer podcast.

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Right now, you’ll get a 1-year supply of Vitamin D free with your first subscription purchase—a vital nutrient for a strong immune system and strong bones. Visit DrinkAG1.com/Tim to claim this special offer today and receive your 1-year supply of Vitamin D (and 5 free AG1 travel packs) with your first subscription purchase! That’s up to a one-year supply of Vitamin D as added value when you try their delicious and comprehensive daily, foundational nutrition supplement that supports whole-body health.

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Want to hear another episode with someone who makes games for a living? Listen to my conversation with Doom co-creator John Romero in which we discussed developing 13 games in one year, hyperthymesia, early innovations in 3D gaming, designing games with movable and removable parts in mind, the ups and downs of starting a new gaming company, and much more.

#681: Doom Legend John Romero — The Path to Prolific Innovation and Making 130+ Games, How to Find the Soul of the Work, Audacious Ambition, and Building in Monk Mode

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Website | Twitter | LinkedIn | Stone Blade’s Instagram | Stone Blade’s Discord

Think Like a Game Designer: The Step-By-Step Guide to Unlocking Your Creative Potential by Justin Gary | Amazon Think Like a Game Designer Podcast Stone Blade EntertainmentAscension | AmazonSolForge Fusion | AmazonThe World’s Premier Trading Card Game | Magic: The GatheringThe World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game | Dungeons & DragonsLincoln-Douglas (LD) Debate Format | Debate DrillsThe Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 | Lincoln Home National Historic SiteRevenge of the Nerds Magic Is Played with Cards. It’s Wildly Popular. It’s Tough to Explain | Sports Illustrated VaultJustin Gary UR Aggro — 1st US Nationals 1997 Deck | MTG GoldfishJustin Gary | MTG WikiMonopoly | AmazonThe Dojo | MTG WikiDungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History by Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, and Sam Witwer | AmazonRichard Garfield | Think Like a Game Designer #11Richard Garfield | Think Like a Game Designer #31Top 50 Most Powerful Magic: The Gathering Cards | NerdMuch?Play Tic-Tac-ToeRock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. the Computer | The New York TimesKeep or Mull? The History Of The Mulligan In Magic: The Gathering | AetherHubNYU School of Law20 Things a Good NYC Subway Commuter Should Know | Time OutUpper Deck Company | WikipediaZuckerberg to Leave Harvard Indefinitely | The Harvard CrimsonFear-Setting: The Most Valuable Exercise I Do Every Month | Tim FerrissA Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative by Roger von Oech | AmazonThe Surprising Magic of Setting a Deadline | Hacking Your ADHDCreative Whack Pack Deck by Roger von Oech | AmazonGary Arant | Think Like a Game Designer #47George Does the Opposite | SeinfeldAre There Any Benefits or Drawbacks to Releasing a Book in Hardcover Only? | QuoraHow to Become a Game Designer | Justin GaryCore Design Loop Step 1: Inspiration | Justin GaryCore Design Loop Step 2: Set Parameters | Justin GaryCore Design Loop Step 3: Brainstorming | Justin GaryCore Design Loop Step 4: Prototyping | Justin GaryCore Design Loop Step 5: Test | Justin GaryCore Design Loop Step 6: Iteration | Justin GaryA Fictional World Built for These Chaotic Times | The Legend of CØCKPUNCHHalo WaypointWorld of WarcraftGrand Theft Auto VWarhammer Age of Sigmar | Games WorkshopThis American LifeSerialThe Joe Rogan Experience | SpotifyA Simpler Way to Organize Your Work | WorkflowyYour Connected Workspace for Wiki, Docs, and Projects | NotionA Beginner’s Guide: How to Rent Your Ideas to Fortune 500 Companies with Stephen Key | Tim FerrissKISS (Keep it Simple, Stupid): A Design Principle | IxDFDominion Big Box 2nd Edition | AmazonDraft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee | AmazonAscension Prototype Designs | Justin GaryThe Sunk Cost Fallacy | The Decision LabYu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game | WikipediaUpper Deck World of Warcraft Miniatures Core Set | AmazonThe 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | Amazon80/20 Rule (Pareto Principle) | InvestopediaRichard Koch on Mastering the 80/20 Principle, Achieving Unreasonable Success, and the Art of Gambling | The Tim Ferriss Show #466How to Negotiate as a Freelancer | Harvard Business ReviewTeaching by the Case Method | Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning, Harvard Business SchoolSailing on a Rising Tide of Juice; The Almost Accidental Success of Nantucket Nectars | The New York TimesHotel BironTime to Penis / TTP | Know Your MemeCØCKPUNCH CoffeeJustin Gary AMA | Bakugan TCG SubredditGame Manufacturers Association (GAMA) ExpoArt Supplies, Crafts, and Framing | MichaelsPlay Reimagined | Toy FairGen ConBad Beets Official How to Play Video | Stone BladeArnold Sports FestivalIronMind Captains of Crush (COC) Hand Gripper | AmazonHow Viagra Was Discovered by Accident | BBCGame Testing Questions | Justin GaryNeil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing | The MarginalianGen Con: The History of the World’s Oldest Tabletop Gaming Convention | BooksBrushes&BalrogsBurning ManAscension Tactics: The Deckbuilding Miniatures Game by Stone Blade Entertainment | KickstarterBakugan | Spin MasterPAX (Events) | WikipediaSolForge Digital Trading Card Game by Stone Blade Entertainment | KickstarterThe Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy by Chris Bailey | AmazonThe Rule of Three | Chris BaileyLevel Up Journal | Stone Blade EntertainmentYour Digital HQ | SlackManage Your Team’s Work, Projects, & Tasks Online | AsanaA New Way of Working | MondayThailand Travel Guide | National GeographicSHOW NOTES[07:43] An origin story steeped in Magic.[11:23] A debatable past.[16:38] The life of a full-time Magic competitor.[18:24] A philosophy major.[19:45] Monopoly lessons learned from a family of lawyers.[23:28] Innovations that made Magic an instant success.[26:40] Magic game balance considerations.[30:06] Justin exits his Magic career with an altered mindset.[36:43] Too cool for law school.[41:34] Risk is relative.[43:39] From playing games to designing games.[46:10] A Whack on the Side of the Head.[49:53] Surfacing our assumptions.[54:47] The core design loop and effective brainstorming.[1:00:20] Brainstorming tools.[1:02:01] Prototyping.[1:06:26] The value of ugly first drafts.[1:09:37] From company man to entrepreneur.[1:15:45] Fear-setting and contingency planning.[1:18:13] The early stages of startup life.[1:24:05] TTP.[1:25:21] Taking the company to the next level.[1:31:43] Gaming GAMA and other trade shows.[1:37:02] Eliciting feedback at the playtesting stage.[1:42:32] Ascension debuts at Gen Con.[1:47:04] The finances of game production.[1:51:27] The pros and cons of selling a game to another company.[1:53:54] Favorite failures.[1:59:17] Maintaining relationships through failures.[2:00:45] Lessons learned through trial and error.[2:03:39] Putting the rule of three to work.[2:05:21] Why Justin’s team communicates via Discord.[2:07:49] How a trip to Thailand helped Justin escape his need for control.[2:11:25] Justin’s billboard.[2:12:49] Parting thoughts.MORE JUSTIN GARY QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Cultivate comfort with uncertainty and impermanence.”
— Justin Gary

“It can be way worse to win the wrong game than to lose one that you actually enjoy playing.”
— Justin Gary

“Deadlines are magic. It doesn’t matter if you have no idea what you’re doing, you have a deadline.”
— Justin Gary

“Most of the times we take risks, we’re not jumping off cliffs or into burning buildings. It’s just your career takes a different path or you’re behind in school or whatever. It’s a very low cost.”
— Justin Gary

“There’s nothing that differentiates a creative person from a not-creative person other than process.”
— Justin Gary

“It’s actually net negative for you to invest in making something ‘pretty’ early on in the process.”
— Justin Gary

“If you really, really think about the worst case scenarios, 99 times out of 100, they’re totally recoverable within a year. It’s often way less.”
— Justin Gary

“Imagine you’re building a house, and before you’ve even laid the foundation, you’re worrying about the paint color on the walls and where the furniture goes. You’re not going to get very far. You’re wasting a lot of time. Make sure you’ve got a solid foundation first. Worry about the paint color later. I think a lot of designers start by worrying about the paint color being wrong and they’re never going to finish a house that way.”
— Justin Gary

“Nobody knows what they’re doing. I cannot know what I’m doing at least as well as anybody else. This idea that the difference between a leader and somebody else is not that they know something or that they have some special access. It’s that [they’re] just willing to make some assertions and own the consequences. That’s it. That’s the difference.”
— Justin Gary

PEOPLE MENTIONEDRichard GarfieldReid HoffmanMark ZuckerbergRoger von OechDerek SiversRichard BransonElan LeeStephen KeyJeremy CranfordBabe RuthMichael JordanTiger WoodsEd ZschauRob DoughertyEric SabeeTodd McFarlaneArnold SchwarzeneggerNeil GaimanTaylor SwiftChris Bailey

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“Imagine [AI as] the world’s greatest project manager that’s integrated into every team, and it knows all the best practices from everything, and it knows the context of the specific project you’re working on. And that means you can let go of a lot of things that cause continual partial attention disorder.”

— Dustin Moskovitz

Dustin Moskovitz (@moskov) is co-founder and CEO at Asana, a leading work-management platform for teams. Asana’s mission is to help humanity thrive by enabling all teams to work together effortlessly. Prior to Asana, he co-founded Facebook and was a key leader within the technical staff, first in the position of CTO and then later as VP of Engineering. Dustin attended Harvard University as an economics major for two years before moving to Palo Alto, California, to work full time at Facebook.

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Do you want to hear the episode Dustin said he was “very delighted” to hear? Have a listen to my most recent conversation with Jack Kornfield, in which we discussed yogic swoons, the point of consciousness, how the Buddha would deal with anxiety, the dimensions of meditation, reliably eliciting the non-self, cultivating a more joyful mind, and much more.

#684: Jack Kornfield — How to Reduce Anxiety and Polish the Lens of Consciousness

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Dustin’s Book Recommendations | Google Docs Template: Time Budget | Google Sheets Manage Your Team’s Work, Projects, & Tasks Online | AsanaA Publication for Teams Who Aspire to Do Great Things Together | Wavelength by AsanaBack Buddy Classic | AmazonAspercreme Max Strength Lidocaine Pain Relief Patches | AmazonThe Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo | AmazonDustin Moskovitz Shares His Lessons on Leadership | WavelengthThe Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz | AmazonObjectives and Key Results (OKR) | WikipediaHow to Take Back Your Productivity with No Meeting Wednesday | WavelengthMaker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule | Paul GrahamThe Brady Bunch Opening and Closing Theme 1969-1974 | TeeVees GreatestThe Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch | AmazonThe 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Warner Klemp | AmazonAlex Gendler: The Myth of Sisyphus | TED-EdThe Work | Byron KatieWhat is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? | American Psychological AssociationNonviolent Communication: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values by Marshall B. Rosenberg | AmazonGödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R Hofstadter | AmazonWhat Is Status Quo Bias and How Does It Affect the Workplace? | Wharton OnlineHistory and Future of Rare Earth Elements | Science History InstitutePeak Oil: Predictions and Possible Consequences | InvestopediaEffective Altruism Is About Doing Good Better | Effective AltruismCari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz: Young Silicon Valley Billionaires Pioneer New Approach to Philanthropy | The Washington PostYou Have $8 Billion. You Want to Do as Much Good as Possible. What Do You Do? | VoxHelping Humanity Thrive | Open PhilanthropyEarning to Give | WikipediaMalaria in Africa | UNICEFChicken Is the Most Popular Meat in the World. And We’re Expected to Eat Much More of It. | VoxMeat Substitutes: The Startups Ditching Animals from Meat | Wired UKWhere to Buy Impossible Products Near You | Impossible FoodsOne of Philanthropy’s Biosecurity Leaders Steps Up Emergency Pandemic Giving | Inside PhilanthropyA Facebook Founder’s Pandemic Battle | PuckNew Type of Ultraviolet Light Makes Indoor Air as Safe as Outdoors | Columbia University Irving Medical CenterCOVID-19 Serosurveys for Public Health Decision Making | The Lancet Global HealthThe COVID-19 Pandemic Almost Didn’t Happen, a New Genetic Dating Study Shows | CNNWastewaterSCAN DashboardPausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by Eliezer Yudkowsky | TimeDoomer-as-a-Service | DoombaseYuddite | Urban DictionaryWhat the Luddites Really Fought Against | Smithsonian MagazineAnthropic’s Claude Is Competing With ChatGPT. Even Its Builders Fear AI. | The New York TimesAnthropic’s Dario Amodei Discusses Building Safer AI and More at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 | TechCrunchGuarding the Future: The Essential Role of Guardrails in AI | Unite.AIMeta, Google, and AI Firms Agree to Safety Measures in Biden Meeting | The New York TimesWhy Would AI Want to Do Bad Things? Instrumental Convergence | Robert Miles AI SafetyDavid Deutsch: Preserving the Means of Error Correction Is “Morality” | *FaircompaniesDavid Deutsch and Naval Ravikant — The Fabric of Reality, The Importance of Disobedience, The Inevitability of Artificial General Intelligence, Finding Good Problems, Redefining Wealth, Foundations of True Knowledge, Harnessing Optimism, Quantum Computing, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #662Eric Schmidt — The Promises and Perils of AI, the Future of Warfare, Profound Revolutions on the Horizon, and Exploring the Meaning of Life | The Tim Ferriss Show #541Asana CEO: ‘The Way We Work Right Now Will Soon Look Vestigial. Here’s How AI Will Make Work More Human’ | FortuneThe Jetsons | Prime VideoContinuous Partial Attention — Not the Same as Multi-Tasking | BusinessWeekGetting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen | AmazonMount Tamalpais | Golden Gate National Parks ConservancyA Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times by Jack Kornfield | AmazonOther Books by Jack Kornfield | AmazonChurchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts | AmazonBooks by Ron Chernow | AmazonBooks by Robert A. Caro | AmazonIf You Want to Work Hard, Live Well by Dustin Moskovitz | MediumThe Japanese Call This Practice Tsundoku, and It May Provide Lasting Benefits | Big ThinkThe Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile | AmazonEnneagram of Personality | WikipediaThe Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t by Julia Galef | AmazonSelf-Preservation Six | Enneagram CentralJack Kornfield — How to Reduce Anxiety and Polish the Lens of Consciousness | The Tim Ferriss Show #684SHOW NOTES[08:17] The Back Buddy.[12:38] A user’s guide to Dustin.[15:49] Coaching for endurance.[18:43] Making quicker decisions.[20:45] Avoiding paradox of choice.[23:20] Difficult but desirable delegation.[25:08] The time-saving spreadsheet.[29:12] No Meeting Wednesdays.[33:34] Weekly architecture.[35:33] Why Dustin prefers in-person meetings.[36:55] The 15 Commitments to Conscious Leadership.[40:55] Working with Diana Chapman.[45:10] Clearing conversations.[48:09] Nonviolent Communication.[49:43] Feel your feelings.[51:10] The Beginning of Infinity.[53:50] Effective altruism.[1:00:43] On being directionally vegetarian.[1:02:32] Funding future pandemic preparation.[1:07:33] AI risks and Yuddites.[1:13:43] Most promising avenues of AI defense.[1:17:19] Incentivizing AI safety compliance.[1:19:12] Further AI threats.[1:23:21] What the AI-amplified decade ahead might look like.[1:28:59] Asana’s forthcoming AI integrations.[1:37:04] Blocking personal time.[1:40:41] Recommended reading.[1:43:14] Dustin’s billboard.[1:47:46] Parting thoughts.MORE DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“The thing that is most likely to shut off the computers is the humans. And so if you have a sufficiently powerful system that has gathered enough resources, it might decide to contain that threat just as part of achieving some other goal, which maybe we gave it in the first place.”

— Dustin Moskovitz

“This thing sounds human because it’s a language model and it’s meant to sound as human as possible. We’ve asked it to maximize that goal in itself, but it is not human. It is very alien-like under the surface. We don’t know how it works and we can’t even get it to do some simple constraints like not threaten to kill the end user in a chat script or not give the recipe for napalm if you coax it out in the right way.”

— Dustin Moskovitz

“Imagine [AI as] the world’s greatest project manager that’s integrated into every team, and it knows all the best practices from everything, and it knows the context of the specific project you’re working on. And that means you can let go of a lot of things that cause continual partial attention disorder.”

— Dustin Moskovitz

“Part of the reason we built Asana is people carry around their task list in their heads, or it’s in their email inbox, and they’re rescanning their email inbox all the time. And if you can get it into a system that you trust to show you those things at the right time or sending you reminders at the right time, you can let go of it in the active memory and get more space for presence. And I think AI can be doing this at a much higher level of abstraction for entire teams and entire companies.”

— Dustin Moskovitz

PEOPLE MENTIONEDJulie ZhuoAnna BinderCari TunaLauren ShivelyBarry SchwartzPaul GrahamDavid DeutschNaval RavikantDiana ChapmanJack KornfieldByron KatieSisyphusJim DethmerMarshall RosenbergEliezer YudkowskyDario AmodeiSam AltmanAdam D’AngeloEric SchmidtDavid AllenWinston ChurchillRon ChernowRobert CaroTobi LütkeJulia Galef

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“Usually the problem is that motion that’s problematic is occurring during all of your activities. The body follows the rules of physics. It takes the path of least resistance. So if it’s easy to move there, it keeps moving there, and that’s what you’re trying to change to make it easier to move at other places where you should be moving more.”

— Dr. Shirley Sahrmann

Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Physical Therapy at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her bachelor’s degree in physical therapy and her masters and doctorate degrees in neurobiology from Washington University, where she joined the physical therapy faculty and became the first director of their PhD program in movement science.

Shirley became a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association in 1986 and in 1998 was selected to receive the Mary McMillan Award, the Association’s highest honor. She is a recipient of the Association’s Marion Williams Research Award, the Lucy Blair Service Award, the Kendall Practice Award, and the Inaugural John H.P. Maley Lecturer Award.  

She has also received Washington University’s Distinguished Faculty Award, the Distinguished Alumni Award, the School of Medicine’s Inaugural Distinguished Clinician Award, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Indianapolis. She has also received the Bowling-Erhard Orthopedic Clinical Practice Award from the Orthopaedic Academy of the APTA. She has served on the APTA Board of Directors and as president of the Missouri Chapter.

Her first book, Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes, has been translated into seven languages. Her second book, Movement System Impairment Syndromes of the Cervical and Thoracic Spines and the Extremities, has been equally influential in promoting movement diagnoses.

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Want to hear an episode with someone who considers Dr. Sahrmann’s work a great influence? Listen to my conversation with performance coach Eric Cressey in which we discussed why pinpointing the cause of lower back pain can be so challenging, how seemingly unrelated meds can exacerbate pain, addressing and correcting suboptimal patterns of movement, improving thoracic mobility, defusing deskbound damage, how to ask the right questions when seeking treatment for what ails you, and much more.

#675: Eric Cressey, Cressey Sports Performance — Tactical Deep Dive on Back Pain, Movement Diagnosis, Training Principles, Developing Mobility, Building Power, Fascial Manipulation, and Rules for Athletes

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Essential Anatomy 5 iOS appEssential Anatomy 5 Android appDiagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes by Shirley Sahrmann | AmazonMovement System Impairment Syndromes of the Extremities, Cervical and Thoracic Spines by Shirley Sahrmann | AmazonThe Shoulder Joint | TeachMeAnatomyBecoming a Physical Therapist | APTAWhat is Translational Research? | UAMS Translational Research InstituteThe Vertebral Column | TeachMeAnatomyIlium | PhysiopediaLumbosacral Transitional Vertebrae: Classification, Imaging Findings, and Clinical Relevance | American Journal of NeuroradiologyPelvic Tilt | PhysiopediaLumbar Spinal Stenosis | Johns Hopkins MedicineTraction: Types, Risks, and Aftercare | HealthlineRelative Stiffness: What You Know, What You Don’t, and Why It Matters | MedBridge BlogTensor Fascia Latae (TFL) | PhysiopediaHip Flexors | PhysiopediaHip Abductors | PhysiopediaHip Adductors | PhysiopediaPiriformis | PhysiopediaThe Finer Points of the Quadruped Position | Functional Movement SystemsHow to Wall Sit: Techniques, Benefits, Variations | Verywell HealthProne vs. Supine vs. Prostrate | Merriam-WebsterHuman Movement System: Our Professional Identity | Physical TherapyWhat Is Metabolic Syndrome? | Johns Hopkins MedicineLumbopelvic Rhythm | PhysiopediaAnatomy Of The Psoas & Iliacus Muscles | Dr. Nabil EbraheimFemoroacetabular Impingement | AAOSA Comprehensive Guide to the Infrasternal Angle & Compensation Layers | Conor HarrisPump Handle Motion and Bucket Handle Motion | MedicoPhysio ActorsShould Lumbar Support Be Positioned on Your Higher or Lower Back? | AutonomousMoving Precisely? Or Taking the Path of Least Resistance? | Physical TherapyPilates: What It Is and Health Benefits | Cleveland ClinicAnterior Superior Iliac Spine (ASIS) | WikipediaQuadratus Lumborum | PhysiopediaExternal Abdominal Oblique | PhysiopediaParaspinal Muscles | PhysiopediaChronic Pain | Johns Hopkins MedicineLinda Van Dillen’s Research Profile | Washington University School of MedicineEnhancing The Movement System | Performance In MotionPeter Attia & Beth Lewis on Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS) | The Peter Attia DriveDr. Shirley Sahrmann: Midlife Evaluation | St. Louis MagazineShirley Sahrmann’s Lumbar Flexion Syndrome | PhysiopediaThe Confusing Concept of “Poor Posture” | Mobility Fit Physical TherapySerratus Anterior | PhysiopediaLatissimus Dorsi Muscle | PhysiopediaHow to Train Your Trapezius Muscle: Exercises & Workout | StrengthLogStretching 101: Advantages and Disadvantages of Stretching | The Movement AthleteKyphosis | Johns Hopkins MedicineStretches for the Rectus Abdominis | eHowFitnessHip Bridges Are One of the Best Glute-Burning Moves — Here’s Why | ByrdieShirley Sahrmann on Exercise and Aging Well | PhysiospotFlexor Digitorum Profundus | PhysiopediaHow to do a Modified Push-Up | NASMAnterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injuries | AAOSIn-Toeing and Out-Toeing: Femoral Anterversion & Retroversion | SIM PhysiotherapyWhat Is The Par Terre Position? | SportsLingoScheuermann’s Kyphosis | PhysiopediaLordosis, Kyphosis, and Scoliosis: Know the Differences | SkoliosisAMA #41: Medicine 3.0, Developments in the Field of Aging, Healthy Habits in Times of Stress, and More | The Peter Attia Drive #231SHOW NOTES

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Why Shirley’s first book is so influential among physical therapists.The correlation between lifestyle and health hasn’t always been obvious.Low back pain: not a diagnosis, but a symptom.The trouble with overdeveloped abdominals.What’s my problem?The Movement Systems Syndromes (MSS) approach.The wrong walk home.Correcting bad habits.Psoas it goes.Other common culprits.Pump handle and bucket handle.The body follows the path of least resistance.Anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS)How Shirley examines a new patient.Assessing athletes vs. non-athletes.Dynamic neuromuscular stabilization (DNS)Collapso-smasho and squeezo-smasho.Correcting low shoulders.Stretching: yes or no?Addressing my abdominal stiffness.When the spine doesn’t want to go along for the ride.How has Shirley made it to 86 with her physical and mental health intact?What men should know about femoral retroversion.If it walks like a duck…Managing symptoms of Scheuermann’s disease.Parting thoughts.MORE SHIRLEY SAHRMANN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“One of the things I always loved doing with patients was saying, ‘So, who taught you to walk?’ They say ‘Nobody.’ I say, ‘That’s the problem.’ Just because you’re doing it doesn’t mean you’re doing it right. You’re just doing it.”
— Dr. Shirley Sahrmann

“Exercise won’t change the way you move. You have to change the way you move, and that can improve how muscles function.”
— Dr. Shirley Sahrmann

“Nothing is more scary than ‘Here comes the pain. What did I do? How did I do it? How do I get out of it?” And if you’re showing people, if you go this way, it hurts, if you do it this other way, it doesn’t hurt … they’re in charge of [their symptoms], and they know what to do to decrease them.”
— Dr. Shirley Sahrmann

“Usually the problem is that motion that’s problematic is occurring during all of your activities. The body follows the rules of physics. It takes the path of least resistance. So if it’s easy to move there, it keeps moving there, and that’s what you’re trying to change to make it easier to move at other places where you should be moving more.”
— Dr. Shirley Sahrmann

“You want to chase your center of gravity, not pull it.”
— Dr. Shirley Sahrmann

“It’s not inevitable what’s going to happen to you. you can do things via lifestyle to improve what your outcome’s going to be.”
— Dr. Shirley Sahrmann

“At least 70 percent of the people with back pain, it’s because their hip’s not moving optimally.”
— Dr. Shirley Sahrmann

PEOPLE MENTIONEDEric CresseyLinda Van DillenRobbie OhashiJohn O. HolloszyPeter AttiaGLOSSARY

Pathology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathology

Glenohumeral joint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_joint

Glenoid cavity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenoid_fossa)

Humerus https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humerus)

Facet joint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facet_joint

Iliac crest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliac_crest

Stenosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenosis

SI joint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacroiliac_joint

Tensor fasciae latae (TFL) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_fasciae_latae_muscle

Iliotibial band https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliotibial_tract

Piriformis muscle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piriformis_muscle

Psoas major https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psoas_major_muscle

Psoas minor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psoas_minor_muscle

Infrasternal angle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasternal_angle

Lumbar spine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumbar_vertebrae

Thoracic spine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic_vertebrae

Intercostals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercostal_muscles

Labrum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenoid_labrum

Quadratus lumborum (QL) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratus_lumborum_muscle

Paraspinal muscles https://www.physio-pedia.com/Paraspinal_Muscles

Latissimus dorsi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latissimus_dorsi_muscle

Rhomboids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhomboid_muscles

Kyphosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyphosis

Lordosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordosis

Rectus abdominis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectus_abdominis_muscle

Supine vs. prone position: Supine is lying on your back. Prone is lying on your stomach.

Gluteus medius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluteus_medius

Medial rotation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_terms_of_motion

Lateral rotation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_terms_of_motion

Femoral retroversion https://www.hss.edu/condition-list_hip-femoral-retroversion.asp

Scheuermann’s disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheuermann%27s_disease

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