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July 28, 2023
Jack Kornfield — How to Reduce Anxiety and Polish the Lens of Consciousness (#684)
Illustration via 99designs“Can you be in this world and can you love it with all its imperfections? And can you bring that spirit of care and love in the middle of what’s tragic and what’s beautiful? That’s a liberated heart.”
— Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield (@JackKornfield) trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to have introduced Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West.
Jack co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, and Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. Current projects include CloudSangha.co, which offers practice groups for all; The Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, which has trained 7,000 mindfulness teachers in 75 countries; and Wisdom Ventures, a fund investing in companies that promote compassion.
His books have been translated into 22 languages and sold 2 million copies. They include The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology; A Path with Heart; After the Ecstasy, the Laundry; Buddha’s Little Instruction Book; The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace; and his most recent book, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are.
Jack is also co-founder of Cloud Sangha, and they offer a quick and free Mindfulness Test to gauge your mindfulness levels. As a conscious online community, Cloud Sangha brings people together to create meaningful human connections and integrate mindfulness into everyday life.
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Want to hear Jack Kornfield’s previous interview on the podcast? Have a listen to our conversation in which we discuss apathy and polarization, truth beneath anger, contractor-ese, retuning the tone of rage, coping with trauma-induced hypervigilance, out-of-body experiences, guided meditation for recapturing the adventure and joy of childhood, and much more.
#601: Jack Kornfield — How to Overcome Apathy and Find Beautiful PurposeWhat 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 Jack Kornfield:Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
A Weekly Meditation Group for Practical Support | Cloud Sangha Free Mindfulness Test | Cloud Sangha No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are by Jack Kornfield | AmazonOther Books by Jack Kornfield | AmazonJack Kornfield — How to Overcome Apathy and Find Beautiful Purpose | The Tim Ferriss Show #601Jack Kornfield — How to Find Peace Amidst COVID-19, How to Cultivate Calm in Chaos | The Tim Ferriss Show #414Jack Kornfield — Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy in the Present | The Tim Ferriss Show #300Tranquility. Wisdom. Compassion. | Insight Meditation SocietyAn Insight Meditation Center | Spirit RockMindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program | MMTCPBuilding a Future of Greater Human Connection and Well-Being | Wisdom VenturesAbout Holotropic Breathwork | Grof Transpersonal TrainingThe Grateful DeadThe Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri | AmazonPatanjali’s Yoga Sutras: The 8 Limbs of Yoga | Sukhavati Ayurvedic Wellness RetreatThe Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali | AmazonCan You Control What You Say After Wisdom Teeth Removal? | HealthlineWhat Anesthesia Can Teach Us About Consciousness | The New York TimesConsciousness | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyWhat is Lila? | Yogapedia“If You Don’t Realize the Source…” — Lao Tzu | GoodreadsTao Te Ching by Lao Tzu | AmazonZen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryū Suzuki | AmazonKarma | WikipediaThe Day Nelson Mandela Walked Out of Prison | NPRThe Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness by Stanislav Grof | AmazonThe Buddha and His Frenemy | Melting-Pot DharmaI Am an Old Man and Have Known a Great Many Troubles, But Most of Them Never Happened | Quote InvestigatorThe Work | Byron KatieSohbet: Sermon of Divine Inspiration | Ansari Qadiri Rifai TariqaMysticism | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyNon-Profit Meditation, Practice Mindfulness Online | InsightLAWhat Is a Whirling Dervish and Why Is It Called That? | Istanbul Dervish CeremonyJhāna: The Spice Your Meditation Has Been Missing | TricycleMatthew 6:22-23 | King James Version (KJV)A Seeker’s Guide to Samadhi | Yoga InternationalThe Color Purple by Alice Walker | AmazonEinstein on Widening Our Circles of Compassion | The MarginalianThomas Merton Square | Thomas Merton CenterConjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton | AmazonBrief Instructions for Loving-Kindness Meditation | Metta InstituteAudio: Loving-Kindness Meditation | Jack KornfieldThe Way of the Animal Powers (The Historical Atlas of World Mythology, Vol. 1 by Joseph Campbell | AmazonI Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj | AmazonWhat Did Nisargadatta Maharaj Mean? | RedditDr. Mark Plotkin on Ethnobotany, Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America | The Tim Ferriss Show #469Shamans vs. Synthetics | The Scientist MagazineCultivating Grace: Ease and Irrational Joy | Easing AwakeA Brief For The Defense by Jack Gilbert | The Sun MagazineBritain’s Appointment of a “Minister of Loneliness” Is No Laughing Matter | The New YorkerLoneliness Minister: “It’s More Important than Ever to Take Action” | GOV.UKMinyan: The Congregational Quorum | My Jewish LearningWhat is Satsang? | YogapediaThe Meaning of Sangha | TricycleTranscendental MeditationBe Here Now by Ram Dass | AmazonTransforming Lives by Restoring Sight | Seva FoundationThe Glance Of Mercy | Community Life ChurchRam Dass Here and Now Podcast Archives | Be Here Now NetworkWhen the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Realities by Stanislav Grof | AmazonSensed Presence without Sensory Qualities: A Phenomenological Study of Bereavement Hallucinations | Phenomenology and the Cognitive SciencesSensing the Dead Is Perfectly Normal – And Often Helpful | The ConversationWorld as Lover, World as Self by Joanna Macy | AmazonThe Great Turning | The Center for EcoliteracyJoanna Macy — A Wild Love for the World | The On Being ProjectThinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings by John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess | AmazonCouncil of All Beings | The Eco-Institute at Pickards MountainWebsite for the Academic Study of Religion and Nature & Religion and Ecology | Religion and NatureSHOW NOTESEditor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly.
Stan Grof.Yogic swoons and anesthetic autopiloting.What’s the point of consciousness?A big story or no story at all?The Cosmic Game.How would the Buddha deal with anxiety?The stories anxiety tells.Mystics and the mystery.Jhana practice and the dimensions of meditation.Achieving altered states: a matter of confidence or capacity?What is love?Wise guys.Reliably eliciting the non-self.Sifting out the charlatans.Atisha’s instructions.Cultivating a more joyful mind.Living “social, not solo” and Cloud Sangha.Ram Dass flunking the course.Connection, climate, and justice.Parting thoughts.MORE JACK KORNFIELD QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“If we’re actually to become wise, we need to direct our attention to body, to emotions, to relationships, to thought. We actually need to become wise in those major dimensions of our life. And we can’t expect that of people just because they have a certain title or robe or anything else.”
— Jack Kornfield
“Can you be in this world and can you love it with all its imperfections? And can you bring that spirit of care and love in the middle of what’s tragic and what’s beautiful? That’s a liberated heart.”
— Jack Kornfield
“People think spiritual life is a grim duty. … It’s not meant to be a grim duty. If you don’t have some joy and pleasure in it, that’s the wrong direction, maybe. It’s really an invitation to quiet and calm, to bring in care and compassion, and to find a joy.”
— Jack Kornfield
“You don’t have to fix the whole world, but you can reach and mend the places that you can touch.”
— Jack Kornfield
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July 19, 2023
Bill Gurley Interviews Tim Ferriss — Reflecting on 20+ Years of Life and Business Experiments (#682)
Illustration via 99designsWelcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is usually my job to deconstruct world-class performers to tease out the routines, habits, et cetera that you can apply to your own lives.
This is a special episode and a turning of the tables. This time, legendary investor Bill Gurley interviews me, and the recording is from earlier this year at SXSW in Austin, TX. The conversation explores some of my lessons learned and favorite findings over the last two decades in areas like entrepreneurship, tech, and podcasting. I throw in some favorite books and other spice to keep things interesting.
Bill Gurley (@bgurley) has spent more than 20 years as a general partner at Benchmark. Before entering the venture-capital business, Bill spent four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at Credit Suisse First Boston. Over his venture career, he has worked with such companies as GrubHub, Nextdoor, OpenTable, Stitch Fix, Uber, and Zillow.
For more takeaways from his incredible investing career, you can find my interview with Bill at tim.blog/billgurley.
As a side note, my 2007 SXSW speech that I mention in the interview is what started it all, in many senses. It’s what put my first book, The 4-Hour Workweek, on the radar of influential bloggers and bigger media outlets, ultimately landing it on The New York Times Best Sellers list, where it stayed, more or less, for the next seven years. It’s been a wild ride.
You can hear that 2007 presentation at tim.blog/sxsw.
One last thing: Hugh Forrest, if you’re listening, thank you again for giving me a shot way back in the day!
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#651: Legendary Investor Bill Gurley on Investing Rules, Finding Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Must-Read Books, Creating True Competitive Advantages, Open-Source Strategies, Adapting Mental Models to New Realities, and MoreWhat 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 Bill Gurley:Featured Session: Turning the Tables on Tim Ferriss: A Conversation with Bill Gurley | SXSW 2023Legendary Investor Bill Gurley on Investing Rules, Finding Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Must-Read Books, Creating True Competitive Advantages, Open-Source Strategies, Adapting Mental Models to New Realities, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #651Department of East Asian Studies | Princeton UniversityThe 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | AmazonHobee’s Stanford | YelpThe 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonTimothy Ferriss and the ‘4-Hour’ Exit | The Globe and MailAngel Investing: What It Is and How to Start | NerdWalletTim Ferriss’ Angel Investing Profile | SignalGoodbye, StumbleUpon, One of the Last Great Ways to Find Good Things Online | The VergeTim Ferriss’s Favorite Investment Is Uber (Video) | The Business JournalsHow to Increase Your Luck Surface Area | Codus OperandiFrom SF to Shenzhen: How Tech Hubs Are Built by Tanay Jaeel | LinkedInLost Generation: Paris, 1920s | Scott and ZeldaA Fictional World Built for These Chaotic Times | The Legend of CØCKPUNCHThe Lost Presentation That Launched The 4-Hour Workweek — “Secrets of Doing More with Less in a Digital World” from SXSW 2007 | The Tim Ferriss Show #548Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPressThe 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonTim Ferriss Episodes | The Joe Rogan PodcastTim Ferriss | ID10T (Formerly The Nerdist Podcast) Episode 72Tim Ferriss | WTF with Marc Maron Episode 355Tim Ferriss | The Adam Carolla ShowEntrepreneurial Thought Leaders | Six Degrees to Joe Rogan: A Podcast Network AnalysisDan Carlin’s Hardcore History PodcastInside the Actors Studio | Bravo TV10 Best Films That Tackle Toxic Influencer Culture | Screen RantWelcome to 5-Bullet Friday | Tim FerrissDungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History by Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, and Sam Witwer | AmazonTo Be Clear: Do Not Build Your Brand House on Land You Don’t Own | John Battelle’s Search BlogFinding the One Decision That Removes 100 Decisions (or, Why I’m Reading No New Books in 2020) | Tim FerrissHow I Built This with Guy Raz | WonderyThis American LifeThe 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout | AmazonLex Fridman PodcastAn Update on Changes to Spotify’s Podcast Business, June 2023 | SpotifyHow Spotify’s Podcast Plan Went off the Rails | The Verge“I’ll DM You Now” | Tim Ferriss, TwitterTribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonSponsored InMail | LinkedIn Marketing SolutionsComplexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop | AmazonScience for a Complex World | Santa Fe InstituteMr. China: A Memoir by Tim Clissold | AmazonThe Tao of Seneca: Letters from a Stoic Master (aka The Moral Letters to Lucilius) | Tim FerrissAwareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality by Anthony de Mello | AmazonThe Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez | AmazonEight of the Very Best Nail Clippers 2023 | The StrategistRaynaud’s Disease Symptoms and Causes | Mayo ClinicHotHands Hand Warmers | AmazonMittens | AmazonThe Truth About the New York Times and WSJ Bestseller Lists | ObserverPublishing Industry Data | NPD BookScanToday’s Book: The 4-Hour Workweek | ScobleizerNonviolent Communication: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values by Marshall B. Rosenberg | AmazonSHOW NOTES[06:32] From Princeton to podcasting.[07:39] How a disenchanted entrepreneur became a reluctant author.[14:22] Angel investing and The 4-Hour Body.[16:40] Investing rulesets and takeaways.[19:09] How a choice location maximizes serendipity.[20:42] Why did I back away from angel investing?[22:28] Entering the blogosphere.[27:02] Why podcasting?[28:33] Early and enduring lessons for improving the craft.[31:37] What makes a successful podcaster?[34:57] The power of direct communication with one’s audience.[38:48] Leveraging a lean infrastructure.[40:34] Helpful steps for effective interview prep.[45:08] Respected podcasting peers.[48:00] Spotify’s foray into podcasting territory.[50:09] Twitter and LinkedIn.[53:15] Books most gifted.[55:31] Most positively effective purchase of $100 or less.[55:30] Favorite failure.[57:50] Billboard.[58:49] Best investment ever made.[59:30] Most life-improving new belief, behavior, or habit.PEOPLE MENTIONEDDr. EvilEd ZschauMike Maples, Jr.Garrett CampDanny MeyerHugh ForrestJoe RoganChris HardwickMarc MaronAdam CarollaDan CarlinGenghis KhanRichard P. FeynmanMax HeadroomMichael MauboussinShaquille O’NealGuy RazLex FridmanPatrick OShaughnessyBill SimmonsTim ClissoldSenecaAnthony de MelloHafezKevin KellyA.C. NielsenRobert ScobleMarshall B. RosenbergThe post Bill Gurley Interviews Tim Ferriss — Reflecting on 20+ Years of Life and Business Experiments (#682) appeared first on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss.
July 12, 2023
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 (#681)
Illustration via 99designs“So I played for a little while and I noticed that there were only probably two students in the room, and I said, ‘Well, what are they doing on the computer, because it doesn’t look like they’re playing?’ He goes, ‘Oh, no, they’re programming.’ And I’m like, ‘What is that?’ He said, ‘Well, that’s actually what you do to make these games. You have to learn how to tell the computer how to put stuff on the screen and what to do, how to think.’ And I’m like, ‘I want to do that.'”
— John Romero
Computer and video game legend John Romero (@romero) has designed and published more than 130 games since his first sale at the age of 16. A teenage programming prodigy, his major achievements include co-inventing a series of revolutionary computer games—DOOM, Quake, Wolfenstein 3-D, and Commander Keen—that launched the industry’s most popular genre, the first-person shooter.
The memoir DOOM GUY: Life in First Person is his first book.
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Want to hear another episode with someone who takes the business of creating fun seriously? Listen to my conversation with Exploding Kittens co-founder Elan Lee in which we discuss core gameplay loops, internet archaeology, converting casual fans into superfans, building a game from scratch quickly, making Jar Jar Binks’ neck, clothing the vote, designing games with kids, dealing with investor expectations, defying the algorithms, and much more.
#653: Elan Lee, Co-Creator of Exploding Kittens — How to Raise Millions on Kickstarter, Deconstructing Mega-Successes, Secrets of Game Design, The Power of Positive Constraints, The Delights of Craftsmanship, and The Art of Turning Fans into SuperfansWhat 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 John Romero:Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
Doom Guy: Life in First Person by John Romero | AmazonThe Book That Inspired the Birth of Reddit by Alexis Ohanian | LinkedInMasters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner | AmazonDive Into Anything | RedditOculus Rift | WikipediaPascua Yaqui Tribe | NCAIWhy Revered Developers John and Brenda Romero Started a Game Studio in Ireland | The Washington PostAggressor Squadron | WikipediaTop Gun | Prime Video50 Years of BASIC, the Language That Made Computers Personal | TimeCromemco System Three | Old ComputersOpening Minds. Opening Doors. | Sierra CollegeHunt the Wumpus | OSRICStar Trek Text Game | SladeRadio Shack TRS-80 Model 1 Microcomputer | National Museum of American HistoryMasters of Doom: 10 Things You Never Knew About John Romero | Game RantThe Invention of Battlezone | IEEE SpectrumAfter 25 Years, Might and Magic 6 Reminds Us What It’s Like to Have Fun | EurogamerWizardry | WikipediaUltima | WikipediaEGA/VGA Graphics Deep Dive | The Rasteriid SoftwareSuper Mario History | NintendoHovertank One | My AbandonwareJohn Romero’s Secrets of Success: No Prototypes, Great Tools, Default Bagels | MCV/DEVELOPCastle Wolfenstein | WikipediaWolfenstein 3D | Internet ArchiveParty Card Games, Puzzles, Greeting Cards, and More | Exploding KittensSpear of Destiny | RetroGamesShadowCaster | My AbandonwareUltima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss | RetroGamesPrerelease: Doom (PC, 1993) | The Cutting Room FloorHyperthymesia (HSAM): What Is It? | HealthlineCommander Keen 1: Invasion of the Vorticons | DOS GamesQuake | WikipediaThe World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game | Dungeons & DragonsDangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion | RetroGamesSmashing Pumpkins into Small Piles of Putrid Debris | Giant BombDOOM Creator John Romero Plays the Infamous MyHouse.WAD | PCGamesNDOOM Eternal | BethesdaQuake III Arena | WikipediaThe Quake III Algorithm That Defies Math, Explained | Attack of the FanboyDOOM II | WikipediaDoom Engine | WikipediaDoom Engine Source Code Review | Fabien SanglardThe History of Ion Storm | PC GamerBlackroom | WikipediaThe Color Of Money | Prime VideoSHOW NOTESEditor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly.
Childhood.Aggressor Squadron.John’s first exposure to computers and coding.Early innovations in 3D gaming.The id Software team.Side-scrolling games.Developing 13 games in one year. How?Designing with movable and removable parts in mind.Warning the world of its inevitable DOOM.Hyperthymesia.Working on two games at once.Creative direction.When John realized DOOM would be a hit.Why John moved on from id Software.What is a gaming engine?Starting a new company.What prompted John to write DOOM Guy: Life in First Person?The origin of DOOM‘s name.Parting thoughts.MORE JOHN ROMERO QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“The bigger the team gets, the harder and longer it takes to make one vision come out the right way. But with four people [having] very distinct jobs to do, it works really, really well.”
— John Romero
“I’m going through this level, and I’m hearing these monsters moving around. I don’t know where they’re at, but I don’t like that they’re coming for me somehow. And it was great, because I finally got to feel the game experience the way that people would feel when they’re playing it.”
— John Romero
“We never thought that DOOM was going to be living actively for 30 years. Stuff is [still] being made for the game on a daily basis.”
— John Romero
“So I played for a little while and I noticed that there were only probably two students in the room, and I said, ‘Well, what are they doing on the computer, because it doesn’t look like they’re playing?’ He goes, ‘Oh, no, they’re programming.’ And I’m like, ‘What is that?’ He said, ‘Well, that’s actually what you do to make these games. You have to learn how to tell the computer how to put stuff on the screen and what to do, how to think.’ And I’m like, ‘I want to do that.'”
— John Romero
PEOPLE MENTIONEDAlexis OhanianChristian DivineJohn CarmackTom HallAdrian CarmackElan LeeKevin CloudLarry MillerSandy PetersenAmerican McGeeTom CruiseThe post 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 (#681) appeared first on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss.
July 5, 2023
Richard Koch — Revisiting the 80/20 Principle, The Power of Optimistic Journaling, Studying History to Improve Investing, and The Grand Beliefs of Winners (Plus: The Toxic Beliefs of Losers) (#680)
Illustration via 99designs“M. Scott Peck wrote a book which starts, ‘Life is difficult.’ This is one of the great things about life. If you understand this, you can transcend it, because you anticipate that things are going to be difficult, and you can take pride in overcoming difficulties. But if you expect there are going to be no difficulties, obviously you are going to be disillusioned.”
— Richard Koch
Richard Koch (@RichardKoch8020) is an entrepreneur, investor, former strategy consultant, and author of several books on business and ideas, including four on how to apply the 80/20 principle in all walks of life.
His investments have grown at 22 percent compounded annually over 37 years and have included Filofax, Plymouth Gin, Belgo, Betfair, FanDuel, and Auto1. He has worked for Boston Consulting Group and was a partner at Bain & Co. before joining Jim Lawrence and Iain Evans to start LEK, which expanded from three to 350 professionals during the six years Richard was there.
In 1997, Richard’s book The 80/20 Principle reinterpreted the Pareto Rule—which states that most results come from a small minority of causes—and extended it beyond its well-known application in business into personal life, happiness, and success. The book, rewritten in 2022, has sold more than a million copies, been translated into roughly 40 languages, and has become a business classic. It was named by GQ as one of the top 25 business books of all time. Richard’s latest book is Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It.
He has two upcoming books: 80/20 Beliefs, which identifies the very few beliefs in our lives that strongly influence what we do, and, therefore, the results we get, as well as 80/20 Daily, a collection of 365 short daily readings using the 80/20 philosophy to achieve the good life.
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#466: Richard Koch on Mastering the 80/20 Principle, Achieving Unreasonable Success, and the Art of GamblingWhat 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 Richard Koch:THE OXFORD EXPERIENCE at WADHAM COLLEGE, OXFORD | Contact formRichard Koch on Mastering the 80/20 Principle, Achieving Unreasonable Success, and the Art of Gambling | The Tim Ferriss Show #466Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It: Unlocking the 9 Secrets of People Who Changed the World by Richard Koch | AmazonThe 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch | AmazonThe Simplest Way to Talk about Location | What3WordsGlastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing ArtsFear-Setting: The Most Valuable Exercise I Do Every Month | Tim FerrissHow to Increase Your Luck Surface Area | Codus OperandiTranche: Definition in Finance, Purposes, and Examples | InvestopediaBetfair | WikipediaBookmaker | WikipediaWhat Is Vig and Overround? | Matter of StatsFilofax Company Turnaround Strategy (Richard Koch) | Planet PerryBelgo | WikipediaIs Plymouth Gin the Unluckiest Spirits Brand Ever? | Just DrinksMackerel | The Art of Tasting PortugalCounterfactuals | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyCounterfactual History and the Outbreak of World War I | American Historical Association“No Lenin, No Hitler?” Reflections on Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Bolshevik Revolution Counterfactual | The Counterfactual History ReviewExpected Value Definition, Formula, and Examples | InvestopediaGlobal Management Consulting Firm | Bain & CompanyStrategic Management Consulting | Boston Consulting GroupWhat Is the Growth Share Matrix? | Boston Consulting GroupDoes Marriage Actually Make People Happier? | Psychology TodayHarvard Professor: Winning the Lottery Won’t Make You Happier in Life | CNBCLiving Longer: Historical and Projected Life Expectancy in the United States, 1960 to 2060 | US Census BureauA Research-Based Approach to Relationships | The Gottman InstituteWhere Will You Be Happiest? | Richard KochCape Town TourismDoris Day: Que Sera, Sera | YouTubeThe Pros and Cons of Moving to Portugal as an Expat | PortugalThe Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck | AmazonTom Magliozzi: Happiness is Reality Minus Expectations | The Knoxville News SentinelMeditations by Marcus Aurelius | AmazonChurch or Cult? Inside the Moonies’ ‘World of Delusion’ | Financial TimesStrategy Consulting Firm | L.E.K. ConsultingMental Toughness Training for Sports: Achieving Athletic Excellence by James E. Loehr | AmazonRumble in (British) English Slang | Able2KnowBasic Buddhism: The Theory of Karma | BuddhaNetThe Lost Religion of Love and Optimism | Richard KochThe Log Song | The Ren & Stimpy ShowEngland World Cup 1966 Stamp | Exploring StampsExperts Forecast Cancer Research and Treatment Advances | American Association for Cancer ResearchEnglish Patriotic Song: The Spanish Armada | English Folk ProjectChurchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts | Amazon“I Shall Be the One to Save London” | The Churchill ProjectFanDuel | WikipediaEurope’s Largest Wholesale Platform for Used Cars | AUTO1The Oxford Experience | Oxford University Department for Continuing EducationWadham College, University of OxfordThe Oxford Tutorial | Oxford Study Abroad ProgrammeTHE OXFORD EXPERIENCE at WADHAM COLLEGE, OXFORD Contact formFlexible Work Options | L.E.K. ConsultingStep Brothers | Prime VideoGather with Purpose: How to Host a Jeffersonian Dinner | Purpose GenerationDialogUnderstanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud (Note: Tim considers the first three chapters a bit slow, so he suggests skipping around.) Pablo Picasso in Eight Periods | DailyArt MagazineColin Smith | Tate BritainWhat Steve Jobs Learned from the Bauhaus | ArtsyWhy Steve Jobs’s Passion for Calligraphy Is an Important Example for You | EntrepreneurDan Carlin’s Hardcore History PodcastThe Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman | AmazonSHOW NOTES[06:18] What3Words.[12:59] Upbeat fish pond reflections.[15:04] Journaling toward optimistic investment.[17:14] Betfair vs. bookmakers.[27:42] How history ties in with investment strategy.[33:47] Assigning probabilities.[36:56] The cows, the stars, and the question marks.[45:41] 80/20 happiness.[57:36] A qué será, será quandary.[1:06:48] Toxic beliefs and terrible templates.[1:11:24] A meeting with Bill Bain.[1:14:41] Charm school.[1:15:08] Why Bain & Company was a better fit than BCG had been.[1:17:34] The formula.[1:25:04] Identifying one’s own toxic beliefs.[1:35:04] Opposites to toxic beliefs.[1:41:53] Churchill’s helpful delusion.[1:47:46] The formation of grand beliefs.[1:51:06] How grand beliefs can become toxic.[1:53:37] Pattern interruption.[1:56:08] The Oxford Experience for 99/1 people.[2:09:04] A bespoke request for hands-on art.[2:11:33] Useful beauty.[2:18:55] Parting thoughts.MORE RICHARD KOCH QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“The 80/20 principle runs … through the whole of my thinking. In terms of my own success or money, but also things like happiness, I’m trying to think, ‘What are the few things that I need to do in order to attain what I want?'”
— Richard Koch
“I go around asking people, ‘Who are your best five friends in the world?’ And people come up with a list. And then I say, ‘Who are the five people that you spend most time with?’ And very often, the lists are completely different. And that tells you that that person, they might be happy, but they’re certainly going against the grain.”
— Richard Koch
“M. Scott Peck wrote a book which starts, ‘Life is difficult.’ This is one of the great things about life. If you understand this, you can transcend it, because you anticipate that things are going to be difficult and you can take pride in overcoming difficulties. But if you expect there are going to be no difficulties, obviously you are going to be disillusioned.”
— Richard Koch
“Delusions can be very helpful sometimes.”
— Richard Koch
“Happiness is probably the least selfish thing that you can pursue, because if you’re happy, you’re going to make a lot of other people happy, as well. If you’re miserable, you’re going to make other people miserable.”
— Richard Koch
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June 28, 2023
Simon Coronel, World Champion of Magic — Quitting the Day Job, The Delights of the Magic Castle, Finding Glitches in Reality, Learning How to Use Your Own Brain, and Worshiping at the Altar of Wonder (#679)
Illustration via 99designs“If there’s no right time, then sooner is better than later.“
— Simon Coronel
Simon Coronel (simoncoronel.com) is legally classified as an “Alien of Extraordinary Ability” by the United States Government for his skills as a magician and illusionist. Simon discovered magic in 1999 as a first-year student at Melbourne University. He then spent five years working full time in management consulting while juggling his “secret” performance career.
He’s currently a jigsaw puzzle designer for The Magic Puzzle Company, which has the #1-backed puzzle on Kickstarter of all time, and is a regular performer at the Magic Castle in Hollywood.
Simon has appeared twice on the hit TV show Penn & Teller: Fool Us. He has won over a dozen international awards for magic, including being crowned the World Champion of Magic in 2022 at FISM, the Olympics of magic.
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Want to hear a podcast episode with someone Simon once fooled? Listen to my interview with Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller fame) in which we discussed practicing skepticism without cynicism, compensating for weak visual memory, youthful meanderings, making several grand per week as a technically homeless street performer, de-escalating hostility with wits and a milkshake, losing 0.9 pounds a day for four months, hanging out with the legendary Richard Feynman, and much more.
#405: Penn Jillette on Magic, Losing 100+ Pounds, and Weaponizing KindnessWhat 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 Simon Coronel: Website The Magic Puzzle Company Magician Makes History on Penn & Teller Fool Us — Surprise Judgement! | YouTubeCan Simon Coronel Fool Penn and Teller a Second Time? | YouTubeThe Magic Castle | The Academy of Magical ArtsMagic Castle Battles Back From a Halloween Fire. Was it a Message From Houdini? | L.A. WeeklyBest Suits for Men | Hollywood SuitsFaster Than the Eye Can See! | Animation MagazineLiberty Larsen — Growing up in the Magic Castle | Behind the Page: The Eli Marks Podcast18 Best Silicon Valley Startup Movies and TV Shows | ExpressVPN BlogVisit Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaWhat is Neurodiversity? | Harvard HealthKnow Thyself by Meghan O’Gieblyn | The Paris ReviewThe University of MelbourneNokia 3310 Dual SIM Basic Phone | NokiaArchimedes’ Lever: How You Can Move the World | Eric KimIllusionist Wows Glens Falls Audience by Defying Nature | SaratogianComplete List of Winners throughout the Decades | FISM World ChampionshipIn Medias Res | WikipediaThe X-Files | Prime VideoRick and Morty | Prime VideoWhy Olympic Bronze Medalists Are Happier than Silver Medalists | Boing BoingRocky | Prime VideoHow Does a Caterpillar Turn into a Butterfly? | Scientific AmericanAward-Winning Magician Simon Coronel on Paying People to Give Him Negative Feedback | Amantha ImberMuses | WikipediaAll Models Are Wrong | Farnam Street BlogTim Ferriss | TEDDom Chambers Will Blow Your Mind! | America’s Got Talent 2019The World Championship of Magic! (FISM 2022) | Alex BoverSimon Coronel Just Won the Most Prestigious Prize in Magic | Melbourne Magic FestivalFISM World Championship of Magic: Complete Guide (with Categories) | Magician MasterclassImposter Syndrome: Why You May Feel Like a Fraud | Verywell MindFrench 75 Cocktail Recipe | LiquorHow Does a Magician Trick Other Magicians? We Went to Find Out. | National GeographicLet There Be Change | AccentureWhat Is Asperger Syndrome? | Autism SpeaksWhy Autistic People Can Struggle in the Workplace | Psychology TodayCirque du SoleilWhat Are Golden Handcuffs? | InvestopediaBJ Miller — The Man Who Studied 1,000 Deaths to Learn How to Live | The Tim Ferriss Show #153K-Everything: The Rise and Rise of Korean Culture | The GuardianMentalism | WikipediaNeuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) | WikipediaGolden Rule | WikipediaDerren Brown: Miracle | NetflixPenn & TellerSimon Coronel – Seven Secrets of Visual Magic | MAGIC LiveWhiplash | Prime VideoThe Prestige | Prime VideoHiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear by Jim Steinmeyer | AmazonArrested Development | Prime VideoA Magician named GOB | YouTubeThe Incredible Burt Wonderstone | Prime VideoThis Is Spinal Tap | Prime VideoDealt | Prime VideoAn Honest Liar | Prime VideoGospel Magic | WikipediaInfinite Chocolate Illusion Explained | Mind Your DecisionsMagic Puzzles by Magic Puzzle Company | KickstarterMistakes Xerox Made That Led to Its Failure | FailfectionSHOW NOTES[06:12] Radical earliness.[08:23] The Magic Castle.[17:27] Catching the magic bug at age 18.[19:56] Acknowledging neurodivergence.[28:16] Glitches in Reality.[30:53] The road to winning the 2022 FISM World Championship of Magic.[53:04] Workshopping out the kinks before the competition.[57:59] The muse and the Shoot seal of approval.[1:01:31] Gauging audience perception and finding balance pre-game.[1:05:49] The big day.[1:18:45] Categories of stage magic.[1:20:15] Ugly crying through victory.[1:30:10] The immediate aftermath.[1:34:03] A homecoming drink at the Magic Castle.[1:36:37] Why a later start in magic was lucky.[1:39:13] How working at Accenture played into Simon’s weaknesses.[1:45:30] Making the decision to do magic full-time.[1:52:34] Hotbeds of magical innovation.[1:55:57] Mentalism misgivings.[2:01:13] Why learning magic can be so daunting for a beginner.[2:07:29] How Simon teaches magic.[2:10:45] Magic in the media.[2:14:35] Is atheism a prerequisite for the modern magician?[2:16:14] Jigsaw puzzles.[2:23:26] Parting thoughts.MORE SIMON CORONEL QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“Fear and enthusiasm battled. And fear kept winning.”
— Simon Coronel
“If there’s no right time, then sooner is better than later.”
— Simon Coronel
“Magic is so much broader and so much deeper than people ever realize. There are so many different rooms in the house of magic, you could spend 10 lifetimes on it and not even get close to everything there is to know and learn.”
— Simon Coronel
“If you know how it’s done, that illusion doesn’t happen. And so the tree falls in the woods and there is no sound because there is no magic without the mystery.”
— Simon Coronel
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June 21, 2023
Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning (#678)
Illustration via 99designs“We’re asking our team members to be snipers, rally car drivers, CrossFit athletes, butchers. The people we have on our teams just have these extraordinary skill sets. It’s the funnest thing to watch a guy in his first week.”
— Jake Muise
Jake Muise (@mauinuivenison) is CEO at Maui Nui Venison, a company he co-founded in 2017 that works to balance invasive axis deer populations on the island of Maui, channeling that management into incredible nutrient-dense food. Maui Nui was selected for Fast Company’s “Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Agriculture of 2023,” and its venison has been served in restaurants across the country, including Alinea, The French Laundry, and Saison. Prior to Maui Nui, Jake was executive director of the Axis Deer Institute for 12 years, part of a two-decades-long project focused on axis deer and their long-term management in Hawai’i.
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Want to hear an episode with someone else who hunts with a mindset of conservation? Listen to my interview with MeatEater‘s Steven Rinella, in which we discuss how he got me to overcome a lifetime of negative association with hunting and hunters, why a decline in hunting and fishing license sales in the United States is worrisome, the role of hunters in ensuring prey species remain plentiful, the problem with conservation efforts that become overly politicized, recommendations for reconnecting with nature, and much more.
#470: Steven Rinella on Hunting (and Why You Should Care), Reconnecting with Nature, Favorite Trips, and MoreWhat 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 Jake Muise:Maui Nui Venison | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
HHS User Guide | Maui Nui Venison HHS Worksheet and Examples | Maui Nui Venison (PDF) HHS Worksheet and Examples | Maui Nui Venison (Excel) The 10 Most Innovative Companies in Agriculture of 2023 | Fast CompanyThe 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonAlineaThe French LaundrySaisonFissure 8 Fast-Flowing Lava | Big Island TVMordor | The Lord of the Rings WikiAnimals Rescued and Airlifted Over Raging Lava River (2018 Eruption) | Hot Seat Hawai’iHow Did the Hawaiian Islands Form? | National Ocean ServiceVolcano Watch — Maui Nui, the Bigger Island | US Geological SurveyMaui | Hawai’i Tourism AuthorityMoloka’i | Hawai’i Tourism AuthorityLānaʻi | Hawai’i Tourism Authority22 Hawaiian Phrases to Learn Before You Visit Hawaii | Ambassador Hotel WaikikiThe Arrival of Māori | 100% Pure New ZealandWhy Referring to New Zealand as Aotearoa Is a Meaningful Step for Travelers | Condé Nast TravelerStructure and Growth of the Leeward Kohala Field System: An Analysis with Directed Graphs | PLoS OneLoko I’a: A Manual on Hawaiian Fishpond Restoration and Management by Graydon “Buddy” Keala with James R. Hollyer and Luisa Castro | University of Hawai’i at MänoaAhupuaʻa System | Independent & Sovereign Nation State of HawaiiThe Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World by Wade Davis | AmazonChital (Axis Deer) | WikipediaAxis Deer in Hawai’i | Coordinating Group on Alien Pest SpeciesRainfall partitioning and cloud water interception in native forest and invaded forest in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park | Wiley Online LibraryThe Big Island | Hawai’i Tourism AuthorityFirst Axis Deer Removed from Hawai’i Island | Hawai’i Invasive Species CouncilWhat Are Transects, and Why Are They Important for Monitoring Natural Resources? | US National Park ServiceThermal Imaging, Night Vision, and Infrared Camera Systems | Teledyne FLIRFLIR (Forward-Looking Infrared) Drone Footage via Maui Nui Venison | Tim Ferriss, InstagramMongoose | Hawaii Invasive Species CouncilKaua’i | Hawai’i Tourism AuthorityHawaii’s Feral Chickens Are Out of Control | The AtlanticUsing Distance Sampling to Estimate Wildlife Populations | US National Park ServiceAustin Powers: International Man Of Mystery | Prime VideoWayne’s World | Prime VideoWhat Is a Confidence Interval and How Do You Calculate It? | InvestopediaWhy is Volleyball the Fifth Most Popular Sport on the Planet? | VolleyCountryJake Muise: Men’s Volleyball | University of Hawai’i at Manoa AthleticsStan Sheriff Center | University of Hawai’i at Manoa AthleticsThe Town of Naval Heroes and Treasuries | Harlingen, The NetherlandsCost of Living in Hawaii 2023 | Affording ParadiseMoon-Fluence | Maui Nui Venison, InstagramKey Performance Indicator (KPI) | InvestopediaFederal Meat Inspection Act | USDAThe Struggle to Contain, and Eat, the Invasive Deer Taking over Hawaii | Modern FarmerMad Max | Prime VideoRanger UTVs (Utility Task Vehicles) | PolarisWhy Meat from Scared Animals Tastes Worse | Gastro ObscuraThe Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues by Patrick Lencino | AmazonWhat Is a 360 Review in the Workplace? | The Balance CareersMental Toughness Training for Sports: Achieving Athletic Excellence by James E. Loehr | AmazonConfessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything by Hermann Simon | AmazonThe Road Less Stupid: Avoiding the Dumb Mistakes That Sabotage Growth, Profits, and Business Success by Keith J. Cunningham | AmazonAG1 (Formerly Athletic Greens)Delicious, Sustainable Food & Recipes | Patagonia ProvisionsDr. Stephan van Vliet: Comparing the Nutrient Density of Grass-Fed vs. Grain-Fed Meat | The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin #158Nutrient Density Study | Van Vliet LabSoils of Hawai’i | University of Hawai’i at MānoaSoil Orders of the Hawaiian Islands | USDAHostess Twinkies Nutritional Information | FitbitJohn List — A Master Economist on Strategic Quitting, How to Practice Theory of Mind, Learnings from Uber, Optimizations to Boost Donations, the Primitives of Decision-Making, and How Field Experiments Reveal Hidden Realities | The Tim Ferriss Show #566Clawback | InvestopediaPinterestFight Club | Prime VideoGiving Thanks Can Make You Happier | Harvard HealthWant More Gratitude in Your Life? Embrace the Present | GoodTherapyMaking a Time Machine: 8 Steps (with Pictures) | InstructablesTribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonRic Elias: Earning the Gift of Life | The Peter Attia Drive #79Raising Teenagers is a Tug-of-War That Ultimately You Must Lose | P.S. I Love YouThe Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness by Jeffrey Gitomer | AmazonSHOW NOTES[06:05] Lava cowboys.[14:00] What does Maui Nui mean?[15:07] A Hawai’i history primer.[22:26] The problem with (and delicious solution to) axis deer in Hawai’i.[30:18] The three-year hunt that became the Maui Nui springboard.[43:54] The life-changing power of volleyball and free pizza.[52:18] Seven on, seven off.[57:01] Processes, metrics, and moon-fluence.[1:00:41] Surpassing USDA regulations — in the wild.[1:07:59] A typical night of harvesting.[1:15:09] The humble, hungry, and smart way to build a world-class team.[1:21:46] Feedback that separates the As and Bs from the Cs.[1:30:21] Assigned and recommended reading.[1:35:01] Nutrient density.[1:46:10] Clawback allowances.[1:49:20] Secret Pinterest boards.[1:52:59] The old lady on the couch game.[1:57:06] Tug of war.[1:59:57] Can the business sustainably scale up without selling out?[2:03:57] Jake’s billboard.[2:06:00] Parting thoughts.MORE JAKE MUISE QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“We’re asking our team members to be snipers, rally car drivers, CrossFit athletes, butchers. The people we have on our teams just have these extraordinary skill sets. It’s the funnest thing to watch a guy in his first week.”
— Jake Muise
“We have to pick up every single one of these animals and carry them on our backs because you’re not allowed to drag them. You can either introduce contaminants and/or bruise the meat. And it’s actually one of my favorite parts of the night, as it is the complete opposite of the rest of the meat industry. After you’ve killed this animal for food, you’re carrying this animal on your back into its next stage of life with the food. And there’s an individual connection with each one of these animals. And it’s something that every guy on our team really takes pride in—being able to pick up these giant, 250-pound animals across razor sharp lava.”
— Jake Muise
“At Maui Nui … we find the balance that’s best for all of our communities—ecosystem communities, food system communities, our human communities, nearshore fisheries.”
— Jake Muise
“Kids are your greatest joy, and they will frustrate you more than anybody on the planet can.”
— Jake Muise
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Jake Muise — The Lava Cowboys’ Rescue Mission, Lessons from a Three-Year Hunt, How to Build Exceptional Teams, Repairing Ecosystems, and Tactics for Relationship and Parenting Success (#678)
Illustration via 99designs“We’re asking our team members to be snipers, rally car drivers, CrossFit athletes, butchers. The people we have on our teams just have these extraordinary skill sets. It’s the funnest thing to watch a guy in his first week.”
— Jake Muise
Jake Muise (@mauinuivenison) is CEO at Maui Nui Venison, a company he co-founded in 2017 that works to balance invasive axis deer populations on the island of Maui, channeling that management into incredible nutrient-dense food. Maui Nui was selected for Fast Company’s “Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Agriculture of 2023,” and its venison has been served in restaurants across the country, including Alinea, The French Laundry, and Saison. Prior to Maui Nui, Jake was executive director of the Axis Deer Institute for 12 years, part of a two-decades-long project focused on axis deer and their long-term management in Hawai’i.
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Want to hear an episode with someone else who hunts with a mindset of conservation? Listen to my interview with MeatEater‘s Steven Rinella in which we discuss how he got me to overcome a lifetime of negative association with hunting and hunters, why a decline in hunting and fishing license sales in the United States is worrisome, the role of hunters in ensuring prey species remain plentiful, the problem with conservation efforts that become overly politicized, recommendations for reconnecting with nature, and much more.
#470: Steven Rinella on Hunting (and Why You Should Care), Reconnecting with Nature, Favorite Trips, and MoreWhat 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 Jake Muise:Maui Nui Venison | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
HHS User Guide | Maui Nui Venison HHS Worksheet and Examples | Maui Nui Venison (PDF) HHS Worksheet and Examples | Maui Nui Venison (Excel) The 10 Most Innovative Companies in Agriculture of 2023 | Fast CompanyThe 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonAlineaThe French LaundrySaisonFissure 8 Fast-Flowing Lava | Big Island TVMordor | The Lord of the Rings WikiAnimals Rescued and Airlifted Over Raging Lava River (2018 Eruption) | Hot Seat Hawai’iHow Did the Hawaiian Islands Form? | National Ocean ServiceVolcano Watch — Maui Nui, the Bigger Island | US Geological SurveyMaui | Hawai’i Tourism AuthorityMoloka’i | Hawai’i Tourism AuthorityLānaʻi | Hawai’i Tourism Authority22 Hawaiian Phrases to Learn Before You Visit Hawaii | Ambassador Hotel WaikikiThe Arrival of Māori | 100% Pure New ZealandWhy Referring to New Zealand as Aotearoa Is a Meaningful Step for Travelers | Condé Nast TravelerStructure and Growth of the Leeward Kohala Field System: An Analysis with Directed Graphs | PLoS OneLoko I’a: A Manual on Hawaiian Fishpond Restoration and Management by Graydon “Buddy” Keala with James R. Hollyer and Luisa Castro | University of Hawai’i at MänoaAhupuaʻa System | Independent & Sovereign Nation State of HawaiiThe Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World by Wade Davis | AmazonChital (Axis Deer) | WikipediaAxis Deer in Hawai’i | Coordinating Group on Alien Pest SpeciesThe Big Island | Hawai’i Tourism AuthorityFirst Axis Deer Removed from Hawai’i Island | Hawai’i Invasive Species CouncilWhat Are Transects, and Why Are They Important for Monitoring Natural Resources? | US National Park ServiceThermal Imaging, Night Vision, and Infrared Camera Systems | Teledyne FLIRFLIR (Forward-Looking Infrared) Drone Footage via Maui Nui Venison | Tim Ferriss, InstagramMongoose | Hawaii Invasive Species CouncilKaua’i | Hawai’i Tourism AuthorityHawaii’s Feral Chickens Are Out of Control | The AtlanticUsing Distance Sampling to Estimate Wildlife Populations | US National Park ServiceAustin Powers: International Man Of Mystery | Prime VideoWayne’s World | Prime VideoWhat Is a Confidence Interval and How Do You Calculate It? | InvestopediaWhy is Volleyball the Fifth Most Popular Sport on the Planet? | VolleyCountryJake Muise: Men’s Volleyball | University of Hawai’i at Manoa AthleticsStan Sheriff Center | University of Hawai’i at Manoa AthleticsThe Town of Naval Heroes and Treasuries | Harlingen, The NetherlandsCost of Living in Hawaii 2023 | Affording ParadiseMoon-Fluence | Maui Nui Venison, InstagramKey Performance Indicator (KPI) | InvestopediaFederal Meat Inspection Act | USDAThe Struggle to Contain, and Eat, the Invasive Deer Taking over Hawaii | Modern FarmerMad Max | Prime VideoRanger UTVs (Utility Task Vehicles) | PolarisWhy Meat from Scared Animals Tastes Worse | Gastro ObscuraThe Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues by Patrick Lencino | AmazonWhat Is a 360 Review in the Workplace? | The Balance CareersMental Toughness Training for Sports: Achieving Athletic Excellence by James E. Loehr | AmazonConfessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything by Hermann Simon | AmazonThe Road Less Stupid: Avoiding the Dumb Mistakes That Sabotage Growth, Profits, and Business Success by Keith J. Cunningham | AmazonAG1 (Formerly Athletic Greens)Delicious, Sustainable Food & Recipes | Patagonia ProvisionsDr. Stephan van Vliet: Comparing the Nutrient Density of Grass-Fed vs. Grain-Fed Meat | The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin #158Nutrient Density Study | Van Vliet LabSoils of Hawai’i | University of Hawai’i at MānoaSoil Orders of the Hawaiian Islands | USDAHostess Twinkies Nutritional Information | FitbitJohn List — A Master Economist on Strategic Quitting, How to Practice Theory of Mind, Learnings from Uber, Optimizations to Boost Donations, the Primitives of Decision-Making, and How Field Experiments Reveal Hidden Realities | The Tim Ferriss Show #566Clawback | InvestopediaPinterestFight Club | Prime VideoGiving Thanks Can Make You Happier | Harvard HealthWant More Gratitude in Your Life? Embrace the Present | GoodTherapyMaking a Time Machine: 8 Steps (with Pictures) | InstructablesTribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonRic Elias: Earning the Gift of Life | The Peter Attia Drive #79Raising Teenagers is a Tug-of-War That Ultimately You Must Lose | P.S. I Love YouThe Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness by Jeffrey Gitomer | AmazonSHOW NOTESEditor’s note: timestamps will be added shortly.
Lava cowboys.What does Maui Nui mean?A Hawai’i history primer.The problem with (and delicious solution to) axis deer in Hawai’i.The three-year hunt that became the Maui Nui springboard.The life-changing power of volleyball and free pizza.Seven on, seven off.Processes, metrics, and moon-fluence.Surpassing USDA regulations — in the wild.A typical night of harvesting.The humble, hungry, and smart way to build a world-class team.Feedback that separates the As and Bs from the Cs.Assigned and recommended reading.Nutrient density.Clawback allowances.Secret Pinterest boards.The old lady on the couch game.Tug of war.Can the business sustainably scale up without selling out?Jake’s billboard.Parting thoughts.MORE JAKE MUISE QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“We’re asking our team members to be snipers, rally car drivers, CrossFit athletes, butchers. The people we have on our teams just have these extraordinary skill sets. It’s the funnest thing to watch a guy in his first week.”
— Jake Muise
“We have to pick up every single one of these animals and carry them on our backs, because you’re not allowed to drag them. You can either introduce contaminants and/or bruise the meat. And it’s actually one of my favorite parts of the night is it is the complete opposite of the rest of the meat industry. After you’ve killed this animal for food, you’re carrying this animal on your back into its next stage of life with the food. And there’s an individual connection with each one of these animals. And it’s something that every guy on our team really takes pride in, is being able to pick up these giant, 250-pound animals across razor sharp lava.”
— Jake Muise
“At Maui Nui … we find the balance that’s best for all of our communities: ecosystem communities, food system communities, our human communities, nearshore fisheries.”
— Jake Muise
“Kids are your greatest joy, and they will frustrate you more than anybody on the planet can.”
— Jake Muise
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June 14, 2023
HERESIES — Exploring Animal Communication, Cloning Humans, The Dangers of The American Dream, and More (#677)
Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show. I’m very excited to publish this episode. This is an experimental format, and we are calling it HERESIES.
The objective of this format is to encourage and celebrate independent thinking.
Please enjoy!
Bios of the co-hosts and guests:
Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) helped launch and edit Wired magazine. He has written for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among many other publications. You can find my most recent interview with him at tim.blog/kevinkelly.
He is the author of the new book Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier. Other books by Kevin Kelly include Out of Control, the 1994 classic book on decentralized emergent systems; The Silver Cord, a graphic novel about robots and angels; What Technology Wants, a robust theory of technology; Vanishing Asia, his 50-year project to photograph the disappearing cultures of Asia, and The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, a New York Times bestseller.
Kevin is currently co-chair of The Long Now Foundation, which is building a clock in a mountain that will tick for 10,000 years. He also has a daily blog; a weekly podcast about cool tools; and a weekly newsletter, Recomendo, which is a free, one-page list of six very brief recommendations of cool stuff. He is also a Senior Maverick at Wired. He lives in Pacifica, California.
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Noah Feldman (@NoahRFeldman) is a Harvard professor, ethical philosopher and advisor, public intellectual, religious scholar and historian, and author of 10 books, including his latest, The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America. You can find my interview with him at tim.blog/noah.
Noah is the founder of Ethical Compass, which helps clients like Facebook and eBay improve ethical decision-making by creating and implementing new governance solutions. Noah conceived and designed the Facebook Oversight Board and continues to advise Facebook on ethics and governance issues.
Noah is host of the Deep Background podcast, a policy and public affairs columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, and a former contributing writer for The New York Times. He served as senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and subsequently advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of Iraq’s interim constitution.
He earned his A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard, finishing first in his class. Selected as a Rhodes Scholar, he earned a DPhil from Oxford University, writing his dissertation on Aristotle’s Ethics. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School and clerked for Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court.
He is the author of 10 books, including Divided by God: America’s Church-State Problem—and What We Should Do About It; What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building; Cool War: The United States, China, and the Future of Global Competition; Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices; and The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President.
His upcoming book is Bad Jew: A Perplexed Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People, which is currently available for pre-order.
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Maggie Spivey-Faulkner is an anthropological archaeologist and practitioner of Indigenous archaeology, currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. She also serves as an assistant chief of the Upper Georgia tribal town of the Pee Dee Indian Nation of Beaver Creek, a state-recognized Native American group in South Carolina. Her work focuses on using anthropological data to upend harmful misconceptions of Native American peoples embedded in public policy, science, and the public consciousness.
Maggie was raised in a tight-knit extended family in rural Hephzibah, Georgia. She is an international fellow of The Explorers Club, a former junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, and a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018 and her A.B. from Harvard College in 2008.
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Joshua L. Steiner is a partner at SSW, a private investment firm, and a senior adviser at Bloomberg, L.P., where he was previously Head of Industry Verticals. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Steiner co-founded and was co-president of Quadrangle Group, LLC, a private equity and asset management firm. Before co-founding Quadrangle, he was a managing director at Lazard. From 1993 to 1995 he served as chief of staff for the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
He serves on the boards of Yale University, the International Rescue Committee, and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Steiner received a B.A. in history from Yale and an M.St. in modern history from Oxford University.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEHeresy Definition & Meaning | Merriam-WebsterOpinion: Talk Less. Listen More. Here’s How. | The New York TimesHow to Become a Better Listener | Harvard Business ReviewExcellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier by Kevin Kelly | AmazonUtopia by Thomas More | AmazonStudy Design 101: Randomized Controlled Trial | The Himmelfarb Health Sciences LibraryStrawman | Your Logical Fallacy IsHephzibah, Georgia | WikipediaWhy Sharing Stories Brings People Together | Psychology TodayConstitution of the United States (1787) | National ArchivesPerspectives on the Constitution: Constitutions Around the World | Constitution CenterBritain’s Unwritten Constitution | The British LibraryThe Powerful Iroquois Confederacy of the Northeast | Legends of AmericaHaudenosaunee ConfederacyWampum | Onondaga NationBurning Man1789: Madison, Speech Introducing Proposed Amendments to the Constitution | Online Library of LibertyNumber of State Constitutional Amendments in Each State | BallotpediaThe Rise of the American Dream and the Forces That Made America | Al JazeeraHow The Post-War Home Reflects the Changing American Dream | The AtlanticThe Rage of the Incels | The New YorkerViolence Has Grown Since California Incel Shooting | Southern Poverty Law CenterAddiction: Why Is Drug Use in America on the Rise? | KolmacWhat Are the Cultural Differences between Europe and United States? | QuoraAmerican Modernism | WikipediaWhat Should We Understand about Urbanization in China? | Yale InsightsIndian Migrations: Indians Are Leaving the Country in Droves. Here’s Where They Are Headed and Why | The Economic TimesWhy Does American Culture Have No Rite of Passage? | QuoraKeeping up with the Joneses (Idiom) | WikipediaA Reminder That College Ranking Is Pretty Much Meaningless | RedditChasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari | AmazonLost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression — And the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari | AmazonJohann Hari’s Journey of Discovery About Depression | FilterHousing, Family, and Life‐Course in Post‐Growth Japan | Japan Architectural ReviewWhy More Americans Are Choosing to Live In Multigenerational Housing | On PointBritish Centre for Durkheimian Studies (BCDS) | Faculty of Theology and ReligionHow America Fell into Toxic Individualism | Psychology TodaySoHo | The Official Guide to New York CityIs Moving Closer to Work Financially Worth It? | The Christian Science MonitorElections: Why Fascism Still Has a Hold on Italy | Al JazeeraTrump Scammed $250 Million from Supporters Over Election Fraud Claims | Rolling StoneHow Americans Say Their Priorities Changed during COVID-19 | Pew Research CenterWhat Is a Right-to-Work Law, and How Does It Work? | InvestopediaOpinion: SC Auto Industry Is Rolling into the Future | Greenville OnlineBoeing South CarolinaWhy Aza Raskin Is Building AI to Talk to Animals | TimeDecoding Non-Human Communication with AI | Earth Species ProjectHow to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals by Tom Mustill | AmazonAre We on the Verge of Chatting with Whales? | Hakai MagazineCould This Futuristic Vest Give Us a Sixth Sense? | Smithsonian MagazineI Feel Love: MDMA for Autism and Social Anxiety by Rachel Nuwer | Tim FerrissDog Tips and Training with Tim Ferriss | YouTubeWhat Is It Like to Be a Bat? by Thomas Nagel | The Philosophical ReviewChimps Have Own ‘Dialects’ But Can Learn Others | ABC ScienceCan Artificial Intelligence Really Help Us Talk to the Animals? | The GuardianKiller Whales Can Learn to “Speak Dolphin” | Discover MagazineHow Bunny the Dog Is Pushing Scientists’ Buttons | The VergeKoko the Gorilla’s Best Moments: From Sign Language to Meeting Mister Rogers | Inside EditionChiribiquete National Park: “The Maloca of the Jaguar” | UNESCO World Heritage CentreThe Persuasive Power of the Wolf Lady | The New YorkerMike Phillips — How to Save a Species | The Tim Ferriss Show #383How Can Animal Communicators NOT be Vegan? | Listen To Your HorseWhy Am I, An Animal Communicator, Not Vegetarian? | InnerSelf.comMultispecies Constitution Project | Berggruen InstituteLogic and Ontology | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyStrengthening Animal-Human Relationships as a Doorway to Indigenous Holistic Wellness | EcopsychologyIs This Monkey the Inspiration for Dr. Seuss’ Lorax? | ScienceThe Lorax by Dr. Seuss | AmazonThe Intelligent Plant | The New YorkerOpinion: The Lost Cultures of Whales | The New York TimesMan Was Made to Mourn: A Dirge by Robert Burns | Robert Burns CountryWorld’s Worst Genocides | Borgen MagazineHow the Fijians Cook and Eat “Long Pig” | Pilot (1882)We Already Have Human Clones: Identical Twins | Because Science20 Years after Dolly the Sheep’s Debut, Americans Remain Skeptical of Cloning | Pew Research CenterPublic Perspectives on Human Cloning | The Wellcome TrustOp-Ed: The Dangers of Cloning | Fung Institute for Engineering LeadershipGattaca | Prime VideoThey Went to a Renowned Fertility Doctor. He Secretly Impregnated Them with His Own Sperm | CBC DocumentariesH. Rept. 108-18 – Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2003 | Library of CongressUnderstanding the Risks of IVF Twins and Multiples | Fertility InstituteThe Distinctive ‘Habsburg Jaw’ Was Likely the Result of the Royal Family’s Inbreeding | Smithsonian MagazineInbred Family: The Whittakers | Soft White UnderbellyEugenics and Scientific Racism | National Human Genome Research CenterThe Matrix | Prime VideoSHOW NOTES[11:34] Defining “heresy.”[14:22] Josh’s heresy: We need to teach listening over talking.[32:48] Noah’s heresy: Constitutions are overrated.[55:01] Maggie’s heresy: American middle-class culture is ruining everything.[1:14:54] Tim’s heresy: We’re on the cusp of meaningfully communicating with animals.[1:35:23] Kevin’s heresy: Human cloning is OK. PEOPLE MENTIONEDAntoinette DelruelleThomas MoreJames MadisonBilly CrystalElon MuskJohann HariÉmile DurkheimDon DraperSilvio BerlusconiGiorgia MeloniDonald TrumpAza RaskinTom MustillDavid EaglemanRachel NuwerThomas NagelB.F. SkinnerBunnyKokoMichael PollanAlbert EinsteinUsain BoltHouse of HabsburgThe post HERESIES — Exploring Animal Communication, Cloning Humans, The Dangers of The American Dream, and More (#677) appeared first on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss.
HERESIES with Co-Hosts Kevin Kelly and Noah Feldman (#677)
Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show. I’m very excited to publish this episode. This is an experimental format, and we are calling it HERESIES.
The objective of this format is to encourage and celebrate independent thinking.
Please enjoy!
Bios of the co-hosts and guests:
Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) helped launch and edit Wired magazine. He has written for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among many other publications. You can find my most recent interview with him at tim.blog/kevinkelly.
He is the author of the new book Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier. Other books by Kevin Kelly include Out of Control, the 1994 classic book on decentralized emergent systems; The Silver Cord, a graphic novel about robots and angels; What Technology Wants, a robust theory of technology; Vanishing Asia, his 50-year project to photograph the disappearing cultures of Asia, and The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, a New York Times bestseller.
Kevin is currently co-chair of The Long Now Foundation, which is building a clock in a mountain that will tick for 10,000 years. He also has a daily blog; a weekly podcast about cool tools; and a weekly newsletter, Recomendo, which is a free, one-page list of six very brief recommendations of cool stuff. He is also a Senior Maverick at Wired. He lives in Pacifica, California.
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Noah Feldman (@NoahRFeldman) is a Harvard professor, ethical philosopher and advisor, public intellectual, religious scholar and historian, and author of 10 books, including his latest, The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America. You can find my interview with him at tim.blog/noah.
Noah is the founder of Ethical Compass, which helps clients like Facebook and eBay improve ethical decision-making by creating and implementing new governance solutions. Noah conceived and designed the Facebook Oversight Board and continues to advise Facebook on ethics and governance issues.
Noah is host of the Deep Background podcast, a policy and public affairs columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, and a former contributing writer for The New York Times. He served as senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and subsequently advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of Iraq’s interim constitution.
He earned his A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard, finishing first in his class. Selected as a Rhodes Scholar, he earned a DPhil from Oxford University, writing his dissertation on Aristotle’s Ethics. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School and clerked for Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court.
He is the author of 10 books, including Divided by God: America’s Church-State Problem—and What We Should Do About It; What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building; Cool War: The United States, China, and the Future of Global Competition; Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices; and The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President.
His upcoming book is Bad Jew: A Perplexed Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People, which is currently available for pre-order.
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Maggie Spivey-Faulkner is an anthropological archaeologist and practitioner of Indigenous archaeology, currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. She also serves as an assistant chief of the Upper Georgia tribal town of the Pee Dee Indian Nation of Beaver Creek, a state-recognized Native American group in South Carolina. Her work focuses on using anthropological data to upend harmful misconceptions of Native American peoples embedded in public policy, science, and the public consciousness.
Maggie was raised in a tight-knit extended family in rural Hephzibah, Georgia. She is an international fellow of The Explorers Club, a former junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, and a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018 and her A.B. from Harvard College in 2008.
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Joshua L. Steiner is a partner at SSW, a private investment firm, and a senior adviser at Bloomberg, L.P., where he was previously Head of Industry Verticals. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Steiner co-founded and was co-president of Quadrangle Group, LLC, a private equity and asset management firm. Before co-founding Quadrangle, he was a managing director at Lazard. From 1993 to 1995 he served as chief of staff for the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
He serves on the boards of Yale University, the International Rescue Committee, and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Steiner received a B.A. in history from Yale and an M.St. in modern history from Oxford University.
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Listen onApple Podcasts[image error]Listen onSpotify[image error]Listen onOvercast#677: HERESIES with Co-Hosts Kevin Kelly and Noah FeldmanThis 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 their Vitamin D Liquid Formula 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 the free Vitamin D Liquid Formula (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 all-in-one daily greens product.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEHeresy Definition & Meaning | Merriam-WebsterOpinion: Talk Less. Listen More. Here’s How. | The New York TimesHow to Become a Better Listener | Harvard Business ReviewExcellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier by Kevin Kelly | AmazonUtopia by Thomas More | AmazonStudy Design 101: Randomized Controlled Trial | The Himmelfarb Health Sciences LibraryStrawman | Your Logical Fallacy IsHephzibah, Georgia | WikipediaWhy Sharing Stories Brings People Together | Psychology TodayConstitution of the United States (1787) | National ArchivesPerspectives on the Constitution: Constitutions Around the World | Constitution CenterBritain’s Unwritten Constitution | The British LibraryThe Powerful Iroquois Confederacy of the Northeast | Legends of AmericaHaudenosaunee ConfederacyWampum | Onondaga NationBurning Man1789: Madison, Speech Introducing Proposed Amendments to the Constitution | Online Library of LibertyNumber of State Constitutional Amendments in Each State | BallotpediaThe Rise of the American Dream and the Forces That Made America | Al JazeeraHow The Post-War Home Reflects the Changing American Dream | The AtlanticThe Rage of the Incels | The New YorkerViolence Has Grown Since California Incel Shooting | Southern Poverty Law CenterAddiction: Why Is Drug Use in America on the Rise? | KolmacWhat Are the Cultural Differences between Europe and United States? | QuoraAmerican Modernism | WikipediaWhat Should We Understand about Urbanization in China? | Yale InsightsIndian Migrations: Indians Are Leaving the Country in Droves. Here’s Where They Are Headed and Why | The Economic TimesWhy Does American Culture Have No Rite of Passage? | QuoraKeeping up with the Joneses (Idiom) | WikipediaA Reminder That College Ranking Is Pretty Much Meaningless | RedditChasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari | AmazonLost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression — And the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari | AmazonJohann Hari’s Journey of Discovery About Depression | FilterHousing, Family, and Life‐Course in Post‐Growth Japan | Japan Architectural ReviewWhy More Americans Are Choosing to Live In Multigenerational Housing | On PointBritish Centre for Durkheimian Studies (BCDS) | Faculty of Theology and ReligionHow America Fell into Toxic Individualism | Psychology TodaySoHo | The Official Guide to New York CityIs Moving Closer to Work Financially Worth It? | The Christian Science MonitorElections: Why Fascism Still Has a Hold on Italy | Al JazeeraTrump Scammed $250 Million from Supporters Over Election Fraud Claims | Rolling StoneHow Americans Say Their Priorities Changed during COVID-19 | Pew Research CenterWhat Is a Right-to-Work Law, and How Does It Work? | InvestopediaOpinion: SC Auto Industry Is Rolling into the Future | Greenville OnlineBoeing South CarolinaWhy Aza Raskin Is Building AI to Talk to Animals | TimeDecoding Non-Human Communication with AI | Earth Species ProjectHow to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals by Tom Mustill | AmazonAre We on the Verge of Chatting with Whales? | Hakai MagazineCould This Futuristic Vest Give Us a Sixth Sense? | Smithsonian MagazineI Feel Love: MDMA for Autism and Social Anxiety by Rachel Nuwer | Tim FerrissDog Tips and Training with Tim Ferriss | YouTubeWhat Is It Like to Be a Bat? by Thomas Nagel | The Philosophical ReviewChimps Have Own ‘Dialects’ But Can Learn Others | ABC ScienceCan Artificial Intelligence Really Help Us Talk to the Animals? | The GuardianKiller Whales Can Learn to “Speak Dolphin” | Discover MagazineHow Bunny the Dog Is Pushing Scientists’ Buttons | The VergeKoko the Gorilla’s Best Moments: From Sign Language to Meeting Mister Rogers | Inside EditionChiribiquete National Park: “The Maloca of the Jaguar” | UNESCO World Heritage CentreThe Persuasive Power of the Wolf Lady | The New YorkerMike Phillips — How to Save a Species | The Tim Ferriss Show #383How Can Animal Communicators NOT be Vegan? | Listen To Your HorseWhy Am I, An Animal Communicator, Not Vegetarian? | InnerSelf.comMultispecies Constitution Project | Berggruen InstituteLogic and Ontology | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyStrengthening Animal-Human Relationships as a Doorway to Indigenous Holistic Wellness | EcopsychologyIs This Monkey the Inspiration for Dr. Seuss’ Lorax? | ScienceThe Lorax by Dr. Seuss | AmazonThe Intelligent Plant | The New YorkerOpinion: The Lost Cultures of Whales | The New York TimesMan Was Made to Mourn: A Dirge by Robert Burns | Robert Burns CountryWorld’s Worst Genocides | Borgen MagazineHow the Fijians Cook and Eat “Long Pig” | Pilot (1882)We Already Have Human Clones: Identical Twins | Because Science20 Years after Dolly the Sheep’s Debut, Americans Remain Skeptical of Cloning | Pew Research CenterPublic Perspectives on Human Cloning | The Wellcome TrustOp-Ed: The Dangers of Cloning | Fung Institute for Engineering LeadershipGattaca | Prime VideoThey Went to a Renowned Fertility Doctor. He Secretly Impregnated Them with His Own Sperm | CBC DocumentariesH. Rept. 108-18 – Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2003 | Library of CongressUnderstanding the Risks of IVF Twins and Multiples | Fertility InstituteThe Distinctive ‘Habsburg Jaw’ Was Likely the Result of the Royal Family’s Inbreeding | Smithsonian MagazineInbred Family: The Whittakers | Soft White UnderbellyEugenics and Scientific Racism | National Human Genome Research CenterThe Matrix | Prime VideoSHOW NOTES[11:34] Defining “heresy.”[14:22] Josh’s heresy: We need to teach listening over talking.[32:48] Noah’s heresy: Constitutions are overrated.[55:01] Maggie’s heresy: American middle-class culture is ruining everything.[1:14:54] Tim’s heresy: We’re on the cusp of meaningfully communicating with animals.[1:35:23] Kevin’s heresy: Human cloning is OK. 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June 7, 2023
David Maisel of Marvel Studios Fame — Never-Before-Heard Tales of Hollywood Dealmaking, The Art of Aiming Big, Lessons from Power Broker Michael Ovitz, Combining Business Smarts with Street Smarts, The Making (and Importance) of Iron Man, Selling to Disney
Illustration via 99designs“It’s having the vision and then going there and making it happen with whatever dials I need to turn— creatively or business or political or financing—to get it done.”
— David Maisel
David Maisel (@maiseldavid) is the Founder of Mythos Studios and the former Founding Chairman of Marvel Studios. In 2003, David pitched Marvel on his idea of Marvel financing and producing its own movies in a connected cinematic universe. He went on to executive produce Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, and The Angry Birds Movie. In 2009, David arranged the sale of Marvel to Disney for $4 billion.
David is currently the Founder of Mythos Studios, an IP entertainment studio. The Ekos Genesis Art Collection, all 1/1 original hand-crafted digital art, is the first offering in the forthcoming Ekos Universe.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with David Maisel:Connect with Mythos Studios/Ekos:Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
Movies, Characters, Comics, TV | MarvelCreative Artists Agency (CAA)Strategic Management Consulting | Boston Consulting GroupWho Is Michael Ovitz? Portfolio’s Adrian Zackheim Sheds Light | Penguin Random HouseThe Talent Behind the Hollywood Deal | The Washington PostSoftware Is Eating the World | Andreessen HorowitzTheater Studies | Duke ArtsGlobal Management Consulting | McKinsey & CompanyStar WarsA New Film Studio from the Moguls Behind Justin Bieber and Marvel | The New York TimesThe Flash Final Trailer | DCThor | Prime VideoAOL | WikipediaFrom a Comic Fan to Marvel Movie Maker | Financial TimesWho Is Michael Ovitz? by Michael Ovitz | AmazonThe Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood by Thomas R. King | AmazonThe Hollywood ReporterVarietySeagram-Vivendi Deal | The Canadian EncyclopediaDisney to Acquire Marvel Entertainment | The Walt Disney Company1999 Tony Winner: Fosse (Musical) | PlaybillWilliam Morris Endeavor (WME)Personality: The Lloyd Price MusicalAll That Jazz (The Criterion Collection) | AmazonCabaret | Prime VideoStage Types: Proscenium Arch | Theatre DesignFosse/Verdon: Inside Ann Reinking and Gwen Verdon’s Unlikely Friendship | Vanity FairHow a Spider-Man Musical Became a Theatrical Disaster | BBC CultureMarvel Cinematic Universe | FandomWayne’s World | Prime VideoMonsterVerse | WikipediaX-Men | Prime VideoSpider-Man | Prime VideoThe Filmmaking Process for Beginners | NYFAWhat Exactly Is the Role of a Movie Studio in a Movie and Why Do Multiple Companies Often Collaborate to a Make a Movie? | QuoraThe 10 Largest Film Studios in the United States | ZippiaThe Apprentice | IMDbMichael Jackson: Thriller (Official 4K Video) | YouTubeHow Do Asset Bubbles Cause Recessions? | InvestopediaMarvel Entertainment Is Down…But Not Out | CNN MoneyWealth Management and Financial Services | Merrill LynchAngry BirdsHow ‘Avengers’ Was Assembled, Before Marvel Was Mighty | The New York TimesAvengers: Endgame | Prime VideoAAA | InvestopediaIron Man | Prime VideoThe Avengers (UK) | Prime VideoThe Black Panther Party: Challenging Police and Promoting Social Change | National Museum of African American History and CultureShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Prime VideoAsgard | Marvel Cinematic Universe WikiHulk (2003) | Prime VideoThe Incredible Hulk (2008) | Prime VideoHulk Hands | Amazon“Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist” Clip | The Avengers (2012)The Mandalorian | Disney+Swingers | Prime VideoElf | Prime VideoZathura | Prime VideoThe Dark Knight | Prime VideoGoogle’s New L.A. Office Has Left Cool Coworking Spaces Speechless | Inc42Why The Spruce Goose Only Flew Once | Simple FlyingLionsgate Sets ‘Invincible Iron Man’ | The Hollywood ReporterMarvel Animated Features | WikipediaHit Filmmaker Jon Favreau’s Techniques and Routines | The Tim Ferriss Show #71Master of the Universe | Vanity FairMCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards | AmazonMarvel Wants to Flex Its Own Heroic Muscles as a Moviemaker | The New York Times“Iron Man” Shows Strength at the Box Office | CNBC“Iron Man” Tops $100 Million in Opening Weekend | The New York TimesWorld Famous Dining Experience | Mr. ChowThe Hub Network | Discovery Press WebIron Man 2 | Prime VideoBob Iger on How He Convinced Steve Jobs to Sell Pixar to Disney | CNBCApple Cofounder Steve Jobs Had Major Role in Disney Buying Marvel | Business InsiderRalphsStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein | AmazonDC Universe | WikipediaJames Gunn Unveils DC Slate with Batman, Superman, and More | The Hollywood ReporterAvatar | Prime VideoThe 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 | The Tim Ferriss Show #670Top 10 Clay Tobacco Pipe Finds from the River Thames | Nicola White MudlarkNirvanaStranger Things | NetflixThe Butterfly Effect: Everything You Need to Know About This Powerful Mental Model | Farnam Street BlogSHOW NOTES[09:25] Michael Ovitz.[17:00] How David became Michael’s right-hand man.[25:12] Creative interests.[26:14] When David fell in love with comic books.[28:34] Early Hollywood lessons — learned and taught.[35:43] Resources for people aspiring to work in the entertainment industry.[39:20] How Marvel enters the picture.[48:11] A detour to Broadway theater.[54:51] Making the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).[1:28:26] Why start the MCU with Iron Man?[1:31:56] Decisions between development and deployment.[1:36:18] Biggest challenges.[1:39:45] Animated feature films.[1:41:14] Not just another pretty suit.[1:47:20] Five stars for Favreau.[1:48:48] Why hasn’t David done more PR until recently?[1:53:24] The surprise success of Iron Man.[1:59:45] Wheeling and dealing with Bob Iger.[2:08:50] Ron Burkle.[2:10:35] Finalizing the big sale to Disney.[2:14:36] Recommended reading.[2:15:17] Building new mythologies and legacies in a post-MCU landscape.[2:21:12] Parting thoughts.MORE DAVID MAISEL QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“Part of managing creativity is knowing when to exert yours and when to get the best out from others”
— David Maisel
“It’s having the vision and then going there and making it happen with whatever dials I need to turn—creatively or business or political or financing—to get it done.”
— David Maisel
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