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Dr. Andrew Huberman — The Foundations of Physical and Mental Performance, Core Supplements, Sexual Health and Fertility, Sleep Optimization, Psychedelics, and More (#660)

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“Sleep, nutrients, exercise, light, relationships—those really establish the foundation of what I consider to be all of the elements that create our ability to move as seamlessly as possible between the states that we happen to be in and the states we desire to be in.”
— Dr. Andrew Huberman

Andrew Huberman, PhD (@hubermanlab), is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University’s School of Medicine. He has made numerous important contributions to the fields of brain development, brain function, and neural plasticity. Work from the Huberman Laboratory at Stanford Medicine has been consistently published in top journals including Nature, Science, and Cell.

Andrew is the host of the podcast Huberman Lab, which is often ranked as one of the top five podcasts in the world by both Apple and Spotify. The show aims to help viewers and listeners improve their health with science and science-based tools. New episodes air every Monday on YouTube and all podcast platforms.

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Want to hear another episode with Andrew? Have a listen to our last conversation, in which we discussed visual considerations for optimizing sleep quality, morning mood elevation, shifting the circadian clock to avoid jet lag and the consequences of shift work, melatonin alternatives, the value of non-sleep deep rest, exit cage diving with great white sharks, counteracting the effects of caffeine, the perils of testosterone replacement therapy, and much more.

#521: Dr. Andrew Huberman — A Neurobiologist on Optimizing Sleep, Enhancing Performance, Reducing Anxiety, Increasing Testosterone, and Using the Body to Control the Mind

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“If we don’t actually take the time to figure out what’s going on in our head, how can we really trust that we’re on the best path?”
— Dr. Andrew Huberman

“Sleep, nutrients, exercise, light, relationships—those really establish the foundation of what I consider to be all of the elements that create our ability to move as seamlessly as possible between the states that we happen to be in and the states we desire to be in.”
— Dr. Andrew Huberman

“The state that we’re in on Monday has a lot to do with what we did on Sunday.”
— Dr. Andrew Huberman

“If you’re on a plane and you’re bouncing your knee, it’s actually a meaningful—it’s not a replacement for exercise, but in terms of its metabolic impact, is meaningful. I find that really interesting and perhaps of all the things that we’ll discuss today, if you’re unwilling to try that, then your bar for entry is just way too high.”
— Dr. Andrew Huberman

PEOPLE MENTIONEDTim Armstrong Joe Strummer Rick Rubin Oliver Sacks Matthew Walker Peter Attia David Goggins Paul Conti Charles Scott Sherrington Andy Galpin Homer Simpson Kílian Jornet Burgada Charles Poliquin Wolverine Dorian Yates Ben Patrick G.I. Joe Kelly Starrett Brad Schoenfeld Laird Hamilton Danny Way Brian Mackenzie Joe Rogan Charlie Hoehn Ben Bruno Justin Timberlake Jerzy Gregorek Aniela Gregorek Carol Dweck Robert Sapolsky David Spiegel Diego V. Bohorquez Charles S. Zuker Howard Hughes Justin L. Sonnenburg Christopher Gardner Louie Simmons Archilochus Shanna Swan Michael Eisenberg Nolan Williams Matthew W. Johnson Robin Carhart-Harris Roland Griffiths Michael Pollan Rick Perry Rick Doblin Claudio Naranjo Chris Hutchins

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Published on March 08, 2023 15:05

Revisiting Warren Buffett’s Advice to Me in 2008 (Plus: 7 Lessons for Young Investors)

“The four most expensive words in the English language are ‘this time it’s different.’”
— Sir John Marks Templeton, dubbed “the greatest global stock picker of the century” in 1999

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:

“Hi, my name is Timothy Ferriss, and I’m a Guest Lecturer at Princeton University twice a year…”

Before @tferriss was “Tim,” a slightly nervous “Timothy” asked Charlie & Warren in 08 to advise a newly successful 30-yr old, non-investment professional how best to invest.
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— Compound248 (@compound248) February 18, 2023

I was intensely nervous, as the quavering voice makes clear.

This clip went viral, and a number of media outlets (Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, etc.) reached out to me for comment, asking questions like “What advice would you give a 30-year-old now who’d just amassed their first million?”

Given space constraints, my full answers couldn’t be included.

I decided to write this blog post to share some expanded thoughts.

First things first: how on earth did I actually get a coveted mic and ask the Oracle of Omaha a question? It took some planning. Here’s the full story and strategy. For those interested, I also shared my highlighted notes from the event.

The first headline and subhead of the recent WSJ piece looked like this when I saw it:

Fair enough. I’ve studied Warren for a long time, read nearly all of his letters, and invested a lot according to his principles, so this made sense.

But then we have this curious development…

Since the above headline was used in the print edition, I’ll quickly clarify a few things.

The WSJ piece makes some great points and highlights hubris we all need to watch for in ourselves, but I do not identify as a Warren Buffett wannabe.

In fairness, the piece doesn’t directly describe me as such, but casual readers might conclude that based on the headline. I have indeed modeled him for a lot, and I highly recommend the books Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger and A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers from Warren Buffett, even if you don’t consider yourself an investor. But I don’t aspire to be Buffett in all things. I’ve also strongly advised against anyone trying to copy my investing approach with tech, so I’m more anti-cheerleader than cheerleader.

But perhaps most important, the print edition stated, “Mr. Ferriss ignored these pearls of wisdom [to invest in low-cost index funds].” The WSJ was kind enough to update the digital version, but in case you missed it, here’s the correction: I did put a decent portion of my money into low-cost index funds, as I fully accepted I was an amateur in public equities and had no competitive advantage. For me, this is true in almost all asset classes.

There is one exception. I decided to “go pro” with early-stage angel investing in tech. That ended up returning far more than if I had put all of my savings in a low-cost index fund in 2008.

I would highly advise against this for 99.99% of people, but I did approach it systematically, and I’ll share more on that below. It’s also worth reading The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future, which will give you an idea of how this world functions, how the economics work or don’t work, and what assumptions are made with investment strategies. Particularly for angel investors who don’t have the benefit of receiving management fees, “wins” generally mean that you end up with a substantial portion of your net-worth in 1–3 companies.

Is that anti-Buffett? Nope. In the same 2008 meeting, Buffett repeated a few things that he’s said and written many times in some form, including:

“Diversification is for the know-nothing investor.”
“There have been several times I had 75% of my net worth in one situation.”
“I mean, you will see things that …—if you’re working with smaller sums—it would be a mistake not to have half your net worth in.”

But… these only apply if you are willing to do a lot of heavy lifting.

If someone asked me to give investing advice to a 30-year-old today who had just made their first million, I would first point them somewhere else. I’m not a financial advisor and don’t think I’m qualified to give anyone financial advice. The particulars matter too much. But if they insisted, I might say:

(1) If you want to play in early-stage tech investing (or anything high-risk, high-reward), ensure you have a plan for developing an ENORMOUS informational advantage. Aim to develop new skills and relationships through portfolio companies so that you can win over time, even if you “fail” with many bets going to zero. Only bet what you are comfortable losing and what you can recoup in other ways. Though my angel investing snowballed, I began with $10K checks and advising for sweat equity. Think of this as tuition for a real-world MBA. Are you willing to move to the hub of activity to ensure the best possible information and deal flow, as I did when I moved to SF lifetimes ago? Or make commensurate commitments or sacrifices to ensure you are in a position to win? If not, I’d suggest choosing a different game. Other people will take the initiatives that you won’t, and they will beat you. Much of early-stage investing is cooperative, but let’s not kid ourselves, a lot of it is competitive, and not everyone will podium finish.

(2) For the rest—which could be everything—follow Buffett’s advice. Keep it simple.

One cautionary example of doing the opposite: I spotted the COVID curve ball early, and I made a lot of very “sophisticated” (complicated) decisions related to investing, and the associated research, diligence, phone calls, and so on chewed up an unbelievable amount of time and energy. Eighteen to twenty-four months later, I’d done very well but decided to look at how passive S&P 500 returns would’ve added up over the same period, and… they were roughly the same. Of course, you can’t always bank on this outcome, but beware of seeking complexity if you’ve been rewarded for problem-solving throughout your life. Looking back over the last 15+ years, the handful of investment decisions that made all the difference have been simple and were somewhat obvious to me, no major gear-grinding required.

(3) Knowing when to buy isn’t enough. Have policies and rules for when you will sell, or the universe will punish you with very bad and very expensive decisions.

(4) Don’t discount luck, including lucky timing. I started angel investing seriously in 2008 and hit a golden window of converging trends, cheap valuations (by today’s standards), and an uncrowded playing field. The financial crisis had culled the herd of a ton of investors and fair-weather founders. It was a target-rich environment, even for someone with very little to invest. Micro-VCs were just cracking out of their shells, and the big players hadn’t started assailing the seed stage stuff. In retrospect, it was a wildly rare combo of things. I don’t believe I could replicate what I did in 2008–2012 now.

(5) Personally, I’ve largely stepped back from angel investing to double down on writing and the podcast (The Tim Ferriss Show, soon to hit 1B downloads). This comes from a desire for more predictability and less stress. I love the excitement of startups, and I’ve had some lucky wins, but I don’t find it nearly as interesting as developing creative muscles that bring in forecastable revenue year after year. For me, that has compounded more reliably than the all-or-nothing bets. Massive ups and downs in sectors like crypto also take a toll that reduces my creative batteries. In this chapter of my life, I think simplicity is the name of the game (e.g., finding one decision that removes 100 decisions).

(6) Over-optimizing is just as bad, if not worse, than under-optimizing. Past a certain point, buying extra Skittles just doesn’t fucking matter. So, a note to self: stop fiddling around with your goddamn spreadsheets and get more interesting hobbies on the calendar. What hobbies? Exactly.

(7) If we assume the point of investing is ultimately to improve your quality of life and the quality of life of those you most care about, investments that consistently add stress over long periods of time probably don’t make sense. Money is traded for things or experiences that catalyze certain feelings. If your investments are generating the opposite spectrum of feelings, it might be time to reassess.

It’s easy to miss the forest for the trees. Money is a means, not an end.

And in the end, most things matter very, very little. Do what helps you sleep at night and wake up with a low heart rate. To me, those are the hallmarks of a world-class investor who gets the big picture.

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Published on March 03, 2023 16:17

Michael Mauboussin — How Great Investors Make Decisions, Harnessing The Wisdom (vs. Madness) of Crowds, Lessons from Race Horses, and More (#659)

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“Wall Street, even to this day, is replete with lots of rules of thumb and sort of old wives’ tales and shorthands for how to do things. And some of these things, when I would sit there and listen to them and try to cobble it all together, just didn’t make sense. And so for me it was this idea of the beginner’s mind and really saying, ‘How does this stuff really work?'”
— Michael Mauboussin

Michael Mauboussin (@mjmauboussin) is Head of Consilient Research on Counterpoint Global at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.

Prior to joining Counterpoint Global, Michael was Director of Research at BlueMountain Capital, Head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse, and Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management. Michael originally joined Credit Suisse in 1992 as a packaged food industry analyst and was named Chief U.S. Investment Strategist in 1999.

Michael is the author of The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing, Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, and More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places. More Than You Know was named one of “The 100 Best Business Books of All Time” by 800-CEO-READ, one of the best business books by BusinessWeek (2006), and best economics book by Strategy+Business (2006). Michael is also co-author, with Alfred Rappaport, of Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns.

Michael has been an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School since 1993 and is on the faculty of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing. He received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009 and 2016 and the Graham & Dodd, Murray, Greenwald Prize for Value Investing in 2021.

Michael earned an A.B. from Georgetown University. He is chairman emeritus of the board of trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, a leading center for multidisciplinary research in complex systems theory.

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Want to hear another episode with an investor of cutting-edge insight? Listen to my conversation with Benchmark’s Bill Gurley, in which we discussed sell-side analysts versus buy-side analysts, financial models, repurposing good ideas for alternative applications, the conviction of network effects, undervalued competitive advantages, cultivating anti-tribalism, America’s future, and much more.

#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 More

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Michael Mauboussin:

Website | Twitter

The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing by Michael Mauboussin | Amazon Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition by Michael Mauboussin | Amazon More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places by Michael Mauboussin | Amazon Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns by Michael Mauboussin and Alfred Rappaport | Amazon Santa Fe Institute History of the Royal Society | Royal Society Creating Shareholder Value: A Guide for Managers and Investors by Alfred Rappaport | Amazon Michael Mauboussin, Interview No. 4 | Farnam Street Blog Drexel Burnham Lambert | Wikipedia Stokely Approves Quaker Bid | The New York Times Sports Science to Fuel Athletes | Gatorade Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by E.O. Wilson | Amazon Consilient Observer | Morgan Stanley Who Actually Invented the Wheeled Suitcase? | Interesting Engineering WALL-E | Prime Video Complex Adaptive System | Wikipedia Embracing Complexity | Harvard Business Review The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki | Amazon Teams Solve Problems Faster When They’re More Cognitively Diverse | Harvard Business Review The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies by Scott E. Page | Amazon The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy by Scott Page | Amazon Michael Mauboussin 20th Year Tribute Video | Andrew Mauboussin How to Unleash the Wisdom of Crowds | The Conversation Market Efficiency and the Bean Jar Experiment | Financial Analysts Journal The Asch Conformity Experiments | Verywell Mind How to Manage a Team to Make Good Decisions | Credit Suisse The Future Divined by the Crowd | The New York Times How a Guessing Game Can Make You a Better Leader by Jake Wilder | The Startup Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein | Amazon Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street by Peter L. Bernstein | Amazon Bionomics: Economy as Business Ecosystem by Michael Rothschild | Amazon More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature’s Economics by Philip Mirowski | Amazon Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop | Amazon The Economy As An Evolving Complex System: The Proceedings of the Evolutionary Paths of the Global Economy Workshop, Held September, 1987 in Santa Fe, New Mexico by Philip W. Anderson | Amazon Value Investing | Investopedia Invest Like the Best with Patrick O’Shaughnessy Private vs. Public Company: What’s the Difference? | Investopedia What Is a Buyout? | Investopedia Venture Capital | Investopedia How Interest Rates Affect the US Markets | Investopedia Base Rate | Wikipedia Daniel Kahneman: Beware the ‘Inside View’ | McKinsey Triple Crown Teachings | Credit Suisse Think Twice: An Interview with Michael J. Mauboussin | Emerald Publishing Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky | Amazon Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping by Robert M. Sapolsky | Amazon The 2007–2008 Financial Crisis in Review | Investopedia Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis | Amazon Performing a Project Pre-Mortem | Harvard Business Review Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals by Niall Ferguson | Amazon Hindsight Bias | The Decision Lab The Dangers of “Creeping Determinism” | The Space Review Skill Stacking: How to Combine Your Talents for Greater Success with David Epstein | Chase Jarvis Photography Construct Validity in Psychological Tests by Cronbach & Meehl (1955) | Classics in the History of Psychology Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? by Philip E. Tetlock | Amazon The Wisdom of Crowds and The Expert Squeeze | Farnam Street Blog Principles of Naturalistic Decision Making | Naturalistic Decision Making Association Prospect Theory | Investopedia Conditions for Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree | American Psychologist System 1 and System 2 Thinking | The Decision Lab The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin | Amazon Chunking Theory in Chess | Bill Wall Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee | Amazon Dr. Matthew Walker, All Things Sleep Continued — The Hidden Dangers of Melatonin, Tools for Insomnia, Enhancing Learning and Sleep Spindles, The Upsides of Sleep Divorce, How Sleep Impacts Sex (and Vice Versa), Adventures in Lucid Dreaming, The One Clock to Rule Them All, The IP Addresses of Your Memories, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #654 Game of Thrones | HBO The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris | Amazon No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality by Judith Rich Harris | Amazon Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children by Thomas Gordon | Amazon Free-Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow by Lenore Skenazy | Amazon 12 Years After Free-Range Kids, How Has Childhood Changed? | Reason Yellowstone National Park | US National Park Service Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell | Amazon Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner | Amazon Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards J. Heuer | Amazon Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards J. Heuer (PDF) | CIA Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Amazon Expectations InvestingSHOW NOTES[07:12] Latin roots.[09:14] No business education? No problem![12:15] The best food industry analyst.[15:36] Consilience.[19:58] Complex adaptive systems.[23:26] Diversity.[26:23] The wisdom of crowds.[32:42] The minimum effective dose of cognitive diversity.[36:02] Designing experiments.[43:49] Against the Gods and Complexity.[49:56] Value investing and the Santa Fe Institute.[53:57] A brief 21st-century asset class tour.[57:47] Base rates and horses.[1:06:16] Good vs. great investors.[1:13:22] Expanding options when making decisions.[1:18:56] Favorite failures.[1:20:35] Counteracting overreliance on experts.[1:24:34] Intuition.[1:34:15] Time management tenets.[1:40:59] Parental resources.[1:43:42] Perspectives gained by learning about complex adaptive systems.[1:46:12] Recommended reading.[1:47:32] Michael’s billboard.[1:50:33] Parting thoughts.MORE MICHAEL MAUBOUSSIN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Wall Street, even to this day, is replete with lots of rules of thumb and sort of old wives’ tales and shorthands for how to do things. And some of these things, when I would sit there and listen to them and try to cobble it all together, just didn’t make sense. And so for me it was this idea of the beginner’s mind and really saying, ‘How does this stuff really work?'”
— Michael Mauboussin

“How do I parse what I think would lend itself to where pattern recognition will be effective versus where it’s unlikely to be effective?”
— Michael Mauboussin

“As I always like to say in organizations, ‘What’s bad about young people is they don’t know anything. And what’s good about young people is they don’t know anything.'”
— Michael Mauboussin

PEOPLE MENTIONEDCarl Friedrich Gauss Charlie Munger Alfred Rappaport Michael Milken Alan Greditor Bill Gurley E.O. Wilson James Surowiecki Scott E. Page Francis Galton Charles Darwin Jack L. Treynor Solomon Asch Philip E. Tetlock M. Mitchell Waldrop Peter L. Bernstein Daniel Bernoulli Johann Bernoulli Jacob Bernoulli Nicolaus II Bernoulli Johann II Bernoulli Michael Rothschild Philip Mirowski Isaac Newton W. Brian Arthur Bill Miller Benjamin Graham Josh Wolfe Josh Waitzkin Patrick O’Shaughnessy Daniel Kahneman Big Brown Steve Crist Secretariat Robert Sapolsky Billy Beane Roelof Botha Gary Klein Niall Ferguson David Epstein Gregory Northcraft Paul E. Meehl John Vervaeke Michelle Mauboussin John McPhee Michael Lewis Matthew Walker Judith Rich Harris Thomas Gordon Jonathan Haidt Melanie Mitchell John Henry Holland Dan Gardner Richards Heuer Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Published on March 03, 2023 06:26

CEO Coach Matt Mochary — Live Coaching with Tim, Why Fear and Anger Give Bad Advice, How to Perform Personal Energy Audits, The Power of Accountability Partners, Delegation Tips, Strategies for Hiring the Right People, and More (#658)

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“Fear and anger give bad advice.”
— Matt Mochary

Matt Mochary (@mattmochary) coaches the heads of top Silicon Valley tech investment firms and companies on how to be the best leaders and build the best organizations possible. His philosophy and method are captured in both the Mochary Coaching Methodology (which is available as a free Google Doc) and in his book The Great CEO Within, which is available on Amazon and online (also as a free Google Doc).

As a former founder, CEO, and investor, Matt knows firsthand the challenges of those roles as well as solutions to the most commonly encountered problems. His coaching is not questions-only; there is real guidance. Matt specializes in helping CEOs and their companies (or investment firms) transition from freewheeling startups to dominant enterprises.

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

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Want to hear an interview with another world-class coach? Listen to my first conversation with Jerry Colonna, in which we discuss being complicit in creating the conditions in life we don’t really want, nagging self-doubt, finding time for self-discovery, confronting the difficulty most of us have with saying “no,” acknowledging compassion from a distance, journaling, guilt versus remorse, and much more.

#585: Professor Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality, Beyond Spacetime, Rethinking Death, Panpsychism, QBism, and More

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

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Mochary Method Curriculum | Google Docs The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building by Matt Mochary, Alex Maccaw, and Misha Talavera | Amazon The Great CEO Within | Google Docs Fear and Anger Give Bad Advice | Google Docs The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | Amazon The Rise of Modern Stoicism: Is Keeping Calm a Healthy Option? | Elle Stoicism Resources and Recommendations | Tim Ferriss 11 Reasons Not to Become Famous (or “A Few Lessons Learned Since 2007”) | Tim Ferriss My Healing Journey After Childhood Abuse (Includes Extensive Resource List) | The Tim Ferriss Show #464 All About the INTJ Personality Type | Truity Virtual Coworking for Getting Anything Done | Focusmate Change the Way You Work | Clipboard Health Who: Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart and Randy Street | Amazon Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers | Amazon How to Conduct an Energy Audit and Why It Matters | Mochary Method Class #4 Finding the One Decision That Removes 100 Decisions (or, Why I’m Reading No New Books in 2020) | Tim Ferriss Jeff Bezos: This Is the ‘Smartest Thing We Ever Did’ at Amazon | CNBC How We Run Our Board Meetings to Benefit the Board and Brex | Brex How Matt Mochary Became the Preeminent Tech-World CEO Coach | Fast Company Forget New Year’s Resolutions and Conduct a ‘Past Year Review’ Instead | The Tim Ferriss Show #559 Azores | Visit Portugal Shut Up! | Loud Austin How to Say “No” When It Matters Most (or “Why I’m Taking a Long ‘Startup Vacation'”) | Tim Ferriss The Alpinist | Prime Video Dropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign)Chief of Staff: Why You Need One | Mochary Method Tactical Resources for Founders, Execs, and Chiefs of Staff by Regina Gerbeaux | Notion Favela Rising | Prime Video The Gloves (Full Movie) | Matt Mochary My Fair Lady Pronunciation | YouTube Rikers Island | Wikipedia After Leaving Prison, This Man is Helping End Recidivism | Good Good Good Real Second Chances Start Here | FreeWorld Introducing ChatGPT | OpenAI Hoʻakeolapono Trades Academy and Institute Onboard Yourself in 30 Days | Regina Gerbeaux The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday | Amazon The Tao of Seneca: Letters from a Stoic Master (aka The Moral Letters to Lucilius) | Tim FerrissSHOW NOTES

Editor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly.

Fear and anger give bad advice.Dispelling dating dread.The power of prediction.Next actions.Turning conversations into action items.Accountability for introverts and extroverts.What is Focusmate?Separating decision from implementation.Firing well.Effective and efficient recruiting.Getting honest feedback from past managers.The energy audit.Running effective and efficient meetings.Reducing and removing energy-depleting obligations from the calendar.Assistance with assistants.Why did Matt stop making documentaries?Why Matt’s building a startup.Rules, guide rails, and exit protocols.Downregulating anger and feeling the pain.Parting thoughts.MORE MATT MOCHARY QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Fear and anger give bad advice.”
— Matt Mochary

“When I coach someone, I become their manager, period, end of story. And if by the third meeting they feel more successful, more engaged, more empowered, then they know the system works. And it’s all written out, so they can just copy, paste, use with their team members, and then it works with their team members as well.”
— Matt Mochary

“In any organization, there’s a human that you are prioritizing. So if it’s a company, you’re probably prioritizing the customer. If it’s an investment firm, you’re probably prioritizing your LPs. If it’s your own personal life, you need to be prioritizing you.”
— Matt Mochary

“I find that generally, humans are not incompetent … they’re uninterested. But if you can find a place where they’re interested, suddenly they become very competent.”
— Matt Mochary

“I would say the most valuable thing about recruiting is first, learn how to fire well. And if you can do that, now the pressure is off, and you can take a little bit more chance on people you have intuition about that you really like, but maybe they’re inexperienced, maybe they’re young. And I find those people are often insanely good performers.”
— Matt Mochary

“Allow yourself to feel pain.”
— Matt Mochary

PEOPLE MENTIONEDNaval Ravikant Brian Armstrong Sam Altman Ryan Holiday Ayn Rand Seneca Marcus Aurelius Gay Hendricks Katie Hendricks Steve Huffman Wei Deng Derek Sivers Diana Chapman Pedro Franceschi Henrique Dubugras Regina Gerbeaux Eliza Doolittle Jason Wang

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Published on March 01, 2023 14:00

Professor John Vervaeke — How to Build a Life of Wisdom, Flow, and Contemplation (#657)

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“Knowledge is about overcoming ignorance. Wisdom is about overcoming foolishness.”
— Professor John Vervaeke

John Vervaeke (@vervaeke_john) is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He currently teaches courses on thinking and reasoning with an emphasis on cognitive development, intelligence, rationality, mindfulness, and the psychology of wisdom.

Vervaeke is the director of UToronto’s Consciousness and Wisdom Studies Laboratory and its Cognitive Science program, where he teaches Introduction to Cognitive Science and The Cognitive Science of Consciousness, emphasizing the 4E model, which contends that cognition and consciousness are embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended beyond the brain.

Vervaeke has taught courses on Buddhism and Cognitive Science in the Buddhism, Psychology, and Mental Health program for 15 years. He is the author and presenter of the YouTube series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis” and his brand new series, “After Socrates.”

Please enjoy!

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

Brought to you by Wealthfront high-yield savings account, Basecamp refreshingly simple project management, and Eight Sleep’s Pod Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating.

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

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Want to hear another interview that ponders the nature of our relationship with reality? Have a listen to my conversation with Professor Donald Hoffman here, in which we discuss the science of consciousness, how perception may influence the physical world, the holographic model of the universe, panpsychism (and influential panpsychists), cosmological polytope, the use of hallucinogenic drugs to tap into deeper reality and interact with conscious agents, QBism, the probability of zero that humans evolved to see reality in full, and much more wild stuff.

#585: Professor Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality, Beyond Spacetime, Rethinking Death, Panpsychism, QBism, and More

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 John Vervaeke:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube

“Knowledge is about overcoming ignorance. Wisdom is about overcoming foolishness. So you understand wisdom by understanding foolishness, and you understand foolishness as not identical to ignorance.”
— John Vervaeke

“Stop demonizing any faculty and stop deifying any faculty. Your intuition will lead you as much wrong as your reason, as much wrong as your emotions, as much wrong as your logic.”
— John Vervaeke

“The very processes that make us intelligent problem solvers [and] make us so adaptive are the very same processes that make us prone to self-deceptive, self-destructive behavior.”
— John Vervaeke

“We pick up on all kinds of complex patterns that are not real and we form intuitions around them, but when we don’t like our intuition, we don’t call it intuition, we call it bias or prejudice or racism or sexism or a whole bunch of other things.”
— John Vervaeke

“Logic does not tell you how to go from a weaker logic to a stronger logic. I can do all the possible manipulations within predicate logic and it won’t get me to motor logic. I have to do something outside of that to actually increase my logical competence. So there’s no panacea.”
— John Vervaeke

“Yes, your emotions can lead you astray, but try living without them and see how rational you can be.”
— John Vervaeke

“I don’t like the argument that goes, ‘Consciousness is weird, quantum is weird, therefore consciousness is quantum.’ That’s just ridiculous. Now, panpsychism is a different thing. And you don’t have to be convinced about quantum stuff to be a panpsychist.”
— John Vervaeke

PEOPLE MENTIONEDRené Descartes Josh Waitzkin Socrates Usain Bolt Aristotle Roger Zelazny Hermann Hesse Robertson Davies Plato Leonardo Ferraro Allen Newell Herbert A. Simon Nelson Goodman Jerry Fodor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Robin M. Hogarth Arthur S. Reber Antisthenes Guy Sengstock Christopher Mastropietro Barbara Fredrickson Buddha Ran Lahav Baruch Spinoza Martin Buber Euclid Maximus the Confessor William James William Blake Thomas Aquinas Henry Corbin Plotinus Johannes Kepler Galileo Galilei Albert Einstein Thomas Plant Robert Duvall Pierre Hadot Jonathan Rowson Jules Evans Rainer Maria Rilke Gerard Manley Hopkins William Butler Yeats John Coltrane Jalal al-Din Rumi Haleh Liza Gafori Dan Chiappe Read Montague Evan Thompson Ludwig Wittgenstein Steve Jurvetson António Damásio Michael Anderson David Chalmers Thomas Nagel Chad Foreman Roger Penrose Stuart Hameroff William Seager Michael Levin Jordan Peterson Jesus Jonathan Pageau Jacques Derrida Michel Foucault Rafe Kelley John Kennedy James J. Gibson Wade Davis Arthur Versluis

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Professor John Vervaeke — On Cultivating Wisdom, Finding Flow States, The Power and Perils of Intuition, The Four Ways of Knowing, Learning to Fall in Love with Reality, and More (#657)

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“Knowledge is about overcoming ignorance. Wisdom is about overcoming foolishness. So you understand wisdom by understanding foolishness, and you understand foolishness as not identical to ignorance.”
— Professor John Vervaeke

John Vervaeke (@vervaeke_john) is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He currently teaches courses on thinking and reasoning with an emphasis on cognitive development, intelligence, rationality, mindfulness, and the psychology of wisdom.

Vervaeke is the director of UToronto’s Consciousness and Wisdom Studies Laboratory and its Cognitive Science program, where he teaches Introduction to Cognitive Science and The Cognitive Science of Consciousness, emphasizing the 4E model, which contends that cognition and consciousness are embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended beyond the brain.

Vervaeke has taught courses on Buddhism and Cognitive Science in the Buddhism, Psychology, and Mental Health program for 15 years. He is the author and presenter of the YouTube series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis” and his brand new series, “After Socrates.”

Please enjoy!

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

Brought to you by Wealthfront high-yield savings account, Basecamp refreshingly simple project management, and Eight Sleep’s Pod Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating.

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This episode is brought to you by Basecamp! Basecamp combines everything you need to manage your team and projects into one simple platform. Optimize your business with Basecamp and cut your inboxes and calendars in half. You can save time and money. Right now, Basecamp is offering a free 30-day trial. Plus, listeners of The Tim Ferriss Show get an exclusive discount: get 10% off your first year’s annual subscription when you sign up at Basecamp.com/Tim.

This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep! Eight Sleep’s Pod Cover is the easiest and fastest way to sleep at the perfect temperature. It pairs dynamic cooling and heating with biometric tracking to offer the most advanced (and user-friendly) solution on the market. Simply add the Pod Cover to your current mattress and start sleeping as cool as 55°F or as hot as 110°F. It also splits your bed in half, so your partner can choose a totally different temperature.

Go to EightSleep.com/Tim and save $250 on the Eight Sleep Pod Cover. Eight Sleep currently ships within the USA, Canada, the UK, select countries in the EU, and Australia.

This episode is brought to you by Wealthfront! Wealthfront is an app that helps you save and invest your money. Right now, you can earn 4.05% APY—that’s the Annual Percentage Yield—with the Wealthfront Cash Account. That’s more than twelve times more interest than if you left your money in a savings account at the average bank, according to FDIC.gov.

It takes just a few minutes to sign up, and then you’ll immediately start earning 4.05% interest on your savings. And when you open an account today, you’ll get an extra fifty-dollar bonus with a deposit of five hundred dollars or more. Visit Wealthfront.com/Tim to get started.

Want to hear another interview that ponders the nature of our relationship with reality? Have a listen to my conversation with Professor Donald Hoffman here, in which we discuss the science of consciousness, how perception may influence the physical world, the holographic model of the universe, panpsychism (and influential panpsychists), cosmological polytope, the use of hallucinogenic drugs to tap into deeper reality and interact with conscious agents, QBism, the probability of zero that humans evolved to see reality in full, and much more wild stuff.

#585: Professor Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality, Beyond Spacetime, Rethinking Death, Panpsychism, QBism, and More

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 John Vervaeke:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube

“Knowledge is about overcoming ignorance. Wisdom is about overcoming foolishness. So you understand wisdom by understanding foolishness, and you understand foolishness as not identical to ignorance.”
— John Vervaeke

“Stop demonizing any faculty and stop deifying any faculty. Your intuition will lead you as much wrong as your reason, as much wrong as your emotions, as much wrong as your logic.”
— John Vervaeke

“The very processes that make us intelligent problem solvers [and] make us so adaptive are the very same processes that make us prone to self-deceptive, self-destructive behavior.”
— John Vervaeke

“We pick up on all kinds of complex patterns that are not real and we form intuitions around them, but when we don’t like our intuition, we don’t call it intuition, we call it bias or prejudice or racism or sexism or a whole bunch of other things.”
— John Vervaeke

“Logic does not tell you how to go from a weaker logic to a stronger logic. I can do all the possible manipulations within predicate logic and it won’t get me to motor logic. I have to do something outside of that to actually increase my logical competence. So there’s no panacea.”
— John Vervaeke

“Yes, your emotions can lead you astray, but try living without them and see how rational you can be.”
— John Vervaeke

“I don’t like the argument that goes, ‘Consciousness is weird, quantum is weird, therefore consciousness is quantum.’ That’s just ridiculous. Now, panpsychism is a different thing. And you don’t have to be convinced about quantum stuff to be a panpsychist.”
— John Vervaeke

PEOPLE MENTIONEDRené Descartes Josh Waitzkin Socrates Usain Bolt Aristotle Roger Zelazny Hermann Hesse Robertson Davies Plato Leonardo Ferraro Allen Newell Herbert A. Simon Nelson Goodman Jerry Fodor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Robin M. Hogarth Arthur S. Reber Antisthenes Guy Sengstock Christopher Mastropietro Barbara Fredrickson Buddha Ran Lahav Baruch Spinoza Martin Buber Euclid Maximus the Confessor William James William Blake Thomas Aquinas Henry Corbin Plotinus Johannes Kepler Galileo Galilei Albert Einstein Thomas Plant Robert Duvall Pierre Hadot Jonathan Rowson Jules Evans Rainer Maria Rilke Gerard Manley Hopkins William Butler Yeats John Coltrane Jalal al-Din Rumi Haleh Liza Gafori Dan Chiappe Read Montague Evan Thompson Ludwig Wittgenstein Steve Jurvetson António Damásio Michael Anderson David Chalmers Thomas Nagel Chad Foreman Roger Penrose Stuart Hameroff William Seager Michael Levin Jordan Peterson Jesus Jonathan Pageau Jacques Derrida Michel Foucault Rafe Kelley John Kennedy James J. Gibson Wade Davis Arthur Versluis

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Published on February 23, 2023 06:36

In Case You Missed It: January 2023 Recap of “The Tim Ferriss Show” (#655)

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:

James Clear: 00:03:05

Rick Rubin: 00:08:08

Dr. Matthew Walker: 00:13:47

Bill Gurley: 00:31:05

Wade Davis: 00:36:36

Included episodes

James Clear, Atomic Habits — Simple Strategies for Building (and Breaking) Habits, Questions for Personal Mastery and Growth, Tactics for Writing and Launching a Mega-Bestseller, Finding Leverage, and More (#648)

Rick Rubin, Legendary Producer — Timeless Methods for Unlocking Creativity, Secrets Hidden in Plain Sight, The Future with AI, Helpful Distractions, Working with Strong Personalities, Breaking Out of “The Sameness,” and More (#649)

Dr. Matthew Walker, All Things Sleep — How to Improve Sleep, How Sleep Ties Into Alzheimer’s Disease and Weight Gain, and How Medications (Ambien, Trazodone, etc.), Caffeine, THC/CBD, Psychedelics, Exercise, Smart Drugs, Fasting, and More Affect Sleep (#650)

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 More (#651)

Famed Explorer Wade Davis — How to Become the Architect of Your Life, The Divine Leaf of Immortality, Rites of Passage, Voodoo Demystified, Optimism as the Purpose of Life, How to Be a Prolific Writer, Psychedelics, Monetizing the Creativity of Your Life, and More (#652)

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Dr. Matthew Walker, All Things Sleep Continued — The Hidden Dangers of Melatonin, Tools for Insomnia, Enhancing Learning and Sleep Spindles, The Upsides of Sleep Divorce, How Sleep Impacts Sex (and Vice Versa), Adventures in Lucid Dreaming, The One Clock t

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“At the moment when we analyze the data, and I’m sitting there with a student or I’m analyzing data, and we finally run the statistics, at that moment in time, if I’m lucky, I know something that has never been understood in the entirety of human civilization, and I cannot tell you how much of a thrill and a privilege that is. And so is science hard? It’s brutally hard, but just that alone, the hedonic rush that you get from de novo knowledge, gosh, it’s never left me, and I don’t think it ever will.”
— Dr. Matthew Walker

Matthew Walker, PhD (@sleepdiplomat), is professor of neuroscience at the University of California Berkeley and founder and director of the school’s Center for Human Sleep Science. Dr. Walker is the author of the New York Times and international bestseller Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, which was recently listed by Bill Gates as one of his top five books of the year. His TED Talk, “Sleep is Your Superpower,” has garnered more than 17 million views.

He has received numerous funding awards from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and is a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2020, Dr. Walker was awarded the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Achievements. Dr. Walker’s research examines the impact of sleep on human health and disease. He has been featured on numerous television and radio outlets including 60 Minutes, Nat Geo TV, NOVA Science, NPR, and the BBC. Dr. Walker is also scientific advisor to Oura, a sleep-tracking ring.

Dr. Walker hosts the 5-star-rated podcast The Matt Walker Podcast, which is all about sleep, the brain, and the body.

And one last thing. UC Berkeley has given the rare approval for Matt’s newly opened Sleep Center at the University to be named by an individual donor, or a named company, in perpetuity. If you are interested, please reach out to Matt and note that this opportunity is in the 7-figure range.

Please enjoy!

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

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Want to hear the first time Dr. Matthew Walker was on this podcast? Have a listen to our conversation here in which we discussed the relationship between sleep and Alzheimer’s disease, why our deep sleep declines as we age, ideal exercise for promoting deep sleep, fainting goats, the psychological value of emergency sleep medicine for insomniacs, how sleep affects food intake and weight fluctuation, perilous polypharmacy, and much more.

#650: Dr. Matthew Walker, All Things Sleep — How to Improve Sleep, How Sleep Ties Into Alzheimer’s Disease and Weight Gain, and How Medications (Ambien, Trazodone, etc.), Caffeine, THC/CBD, Psychedelics, Exercise, Smart Drugs, Fasting, and More Affect Sleep

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

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“At the moment when we analyze the data, and I’m sitting there with a student or I’m analyzing data, and we finally run the statistics, at that moment in time, if I’m lucky, I know something that has never been understood in the entirety of human civilization, and I cannot tell you how much of a thrill and a privilege that is. And so is science hard? It’s brutally hard, but just that alone, the hedonic rush that you get from de novo knowledge, gosh, it’s never left me, and I don’t think it ever will.”
— Dr. Matthew Walker

“The goal of education, in my mind, is twofold. The first is to brainwash you into thinking for yourself. The second is for you to gain long-term information.”
— Dr. Matthew Walker

“Life is to be lived. Have a drink, of course, I’m not being puritanical, but if you are, let’s say, a student or you’ve been learning new information for a new job or you’ve been learning a new skill for a new particular sport and you know when you’ve been learning and you know when you probably want to have a night out, restructure those things to implement them in the smartest way possible for optimizing outcomes.”
— Dr. Matthew Walker

PEOPLE MENTIONEDHugh Grant Stephen LaBerge Richard Linklater John Smith Deadmau5 Carlyle Smith Bruce McNaughton Ken Paller Matthew A. Wilson Christopher Nolan Peter Attia

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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 Superfans (#653)

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” I don’t want a game to be in the spotlight. I want the players to be in the spotlight.”
— Elan Lee

Elan Lee (@elanlee) is the co-creator and chief executive officer of Exploding Kittens, a leading gaming and entertainment company. Under his leadership, Exploding Kittens has expanded its portfolio to nearly 30 different games with more than 20 million games sold in more than 50 countries since its founding in 2015.

Before founding Exploding Kittens, Lee was the chief design officer at Xbox Entertainment Studios, where he led the Interactive Entertainment Portfolio. Prior to that, he was the founder and chief creative officer of Fourth Wall Studios and co-founder of 42 Entertainment. He began his career at Microsoft Games Studios as a lead designer on the original Xbox.

Lee has won a Primetime Emmy for the series Dirty Work; Game Innovator of the Year for Exploding Kittens; a Peabody Award for the world’s first alternate reality game, The Beast; and an IndieCade Trailblazer Award for a distinguished career in interactive entertainment, among others.

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Poetry for Neanderthals NSFW Edition | Amazon How to Play Poetry for Neanderthals | Exploding Kittens Is It Neander-TAL or Neander-THAL? | Discover Magazine Elan Lee | Think Like a Game Designer with Justin Gary #20 Hand-to-Hand Wombat | Amazon How to Play Hand-to-Hand Wombat | Exploding Kittens Hand-To-Hand Wombat Developer Interview | Exploding Kittens UNO | Amazon Why the Core Gameplay Loop is Critical For Game Design | Game Developer ORD Camp Alien | Prime Video Jaws | Prime Video Jaws in Space: Powerful Pitching for Film and TV Screenwriters by Charles Harris | Amazon Exploding Kittens NSFW Edition | Amazon How to Play Exploding Kittens | Exploding Kittens Russian Roulette | Wikipedia Exploding Kittens Is the Most-Backed Project of All Time | Kickstarter Alternate Reality Game | Wikipedia Comics by Matthew Inman | The Oatmeal ‘The Oatmeal’: An Eisner Surprise | CBR Tacocat Spelled Backwards | Amazon How to Play Tacocat Spelled Backwards | Exploding Kittens 1,000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly | The Technium Appetite For Destruction by Guns N’ Roses | Amazon Music Elan Lee: Exploding Kittens & The Key to Running a Successful Kickstarter | Talks at Google Moneyballing the Movies: How the Box Office Became a Sport | The Ringer Secrets and Cost to Make iPhone Box Revealed | Process Minted Producer of Custom Dice, Poker Chips, Dominoes, and Game Sets and Parts Since 1906 | Game Parts The Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) Model: A Complete Guide for 2023 | The Motley Fool Connect 4 | Amazon Monopoly | Amazon Iron Chef | Wikipedia What It Truly Means to Be a Manga Artist | The Rift Apostrophe Games Blank Playing Cards | Amazon Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Real Workout Plan | Steel Supplements The World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game | Dungeons & Dragons AD&D Player’s Handbook by Gary Gygax | Amazon AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide by Gary Gygax | Amazon Stranger Things | Netflix Chess | Amazon Backgammon | Amazon Shogi | Amazon Go | Amazon Pokémon GO Cards Against Humanity | Amazon What Do You Meme? | Amazon Joking Hazard | Amazon Apples to Apples | Amazon Dominion: 2nd Edition | Amazon Pokémon Assorted Cards | Amazon Magic: The Gathering 2021 Arena Starter Kit | Amazon Throw Throw Burrito | Amazon How to Play Throw Throw Burrito Original Edition | Exploding Kittens SET | Amazon Catan Base Game | Amazon Settlers of Catan Is One of the Best Family Board Games | Playtonic BattleTech: A Game of Armored Combat | Amazon Crimson Skies | Wikipedia BattleTech Center (1992) | Discovery Channel Beyond 2000 Xbox Games | Xbox Industrial Light & Magic Star Wars: The Phantom Menace | Prime Video Jar Jar Binks Was Nearly a Practical Suit and a CG Head | Befores & Afters Halo: Combat Evolved for Xbox | Amazon edoc Laundry Interview | The Guardian edoc Laundry | Shane Small Hey! What’s That On Your Shirt? | Wired 2024 Starts Now | Rock the Vote A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Prime Video The Beast, A.I. Transmedia Experience | The Peabody Awards The Beast (Game) | Wikipedia Candy Land | Amazon Pixar Animation Studios Ed Catmull, President of Pixar, on Steve Jobs, Stories, and Lessons Learned | The Tim Ferriss Show #22 Russia Prohibited and Restricted Items | FedEx Cross Border Exploding Kittens: Interview with Game Designer Elan Lee by Meagan J. Meehan | Medium TCG Invests in Companies That Define Culture | The Chernin Group Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head | Prime Video King of the Hill | Hulu The Office | Prime Video Office Space | Hulu ‘Exploding Kittens’ Game and Animated Show Coming to Netflix | Netflix Tudum Exploding Kittens Official Game Trailer | Netflix Food Community, Recipes, Kitchen‌ & Home Products, Cooking Contests | Food52 Your Link to the Food Chain | MeatEater Steven Rinella on Hunting (and Why You Should Care), Reconnecting with Nature, Favorite Trips, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #470 Hodinkee Barstool Sports Rooster Teeth Scopely Hello Sunshine Support | Exploding KittensSHOW NOTES[06:00] Poetry For Neanderthals and collaborating with creative cohorts.[16:41] Kitty Test Pilots and core gameplay loops.[22:21] Crowdfunding, alternate reality games, and internet archaeology.[25:54] Matthew Inman and The Oatmeal millions.[32:18] The perils of operating faster than the speed of Gmail.[34:06] Converting casual fans into superfans.[34:51] What not to do when your Kickstarter goes better than expected.[36:51] The budget of production needs to fit the fun.[43:01] Does size matter?[44:44] From direct-to-consumer sales to being featured in big box stores.[47:07] Building a game from scratch quickly.[52:26] Guiding principles.[56:37] Foundational game recommendations for beginners.[1:05:10] Is Settlers of Catan the game you think it is?[1:07:35] Lessons learned from game design veteran Jordan Weisman.[1:08:50] If you built Jar Jar Binks’ neck, they practically let you run the place.[1:11:38] If you can’t rock the vote, then clothe the vote.[1:15:35] Other practical Jordanisms.[1:16:55] Steven Spielberg and The Beast.[1:23:19] Hate playing Candy Land with your kids? Design new games with them.[1:28:02] Growing Exploding Kittens from a game into a company.[1:32:56] International shipping nightmares.[1:36:13] Why an open-door policy had to be shut.[1:38:27] Employees and their roles.[1:41:50] Milestones.[1:43:06] When big asks get big results.[1:47:18] Investor expectations.[1:52:15] What kind of retirement does someone who makes fun for a living envision?[1:56:07] Dance partners, algorithm defiance, and other parting thoughts.MORE ELAN LEE QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“When I was growing up, the biggest frustration I had with games was, first and foremost, the instructions. I don’t have the patience to even read 20 minutes, let alone the seven hours to get into those crazy games. And so I really wanted to make games that 10-year-old me would really get a kick out of.”

— Elan Lee

“A game should be beautiful. You should look at a game and smile. It should be a source of joy. These things should be dopamine engines, and part of that is you want to hold the thing and show it to all your friends.”

— Elan Lee

” I don’t want a game to be in the spotlight. I want the players to be in the spotlight.”

— Elan Lee

“I once took a week-long skydiving course, and at the end of it, I asked the instructor, ‘Do you ever get bored of this?’ And he said, ‘Do you ever get bored of having sex?’ And I thought, that’s exactly it. That’s how I feel about games. That’s how I feel about this job. It’s not a thing with an expiration. It’s a little dopamine factory for me and the people who get to have these experiences. I don’t know how you get bored of that. That’s just eternal.”

— Elan Lee

“I only care about one question. In fact, we do all these play tests, we don’t even give out surveys anymore. There’s only one question we ask, which is, ‘When you finish playing the game, did you want to play again?’ And a game is done when 100 percent of the people say ‘Yes.'”

— Elan Lee

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Famed Explorer Wade Davis — How to Become the Architect of Your Life, The Divine Leaf of Immortality, Rites of Passage, Voodoo Demystified, Optimism as the Purpose of Life, How to Be a Prolific Writer, Psychedelics, Monetizing the Creativity of Your Life,

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“The purpose of life is not to triumph over evil, but to keep pushing the wheel of justice forward. And when you realize that that is the end point, you then never expect to win. And if you never expect to win, you’re not disappointed when you lose. And because of that, you can keep fighting with the same idealism, the same energy when you’re 69 years old, as I am today, that I had when I was 20 years old and marching against the war in Vietnam.”
— Wade Davis

Wade Davis (@wadedavisofficial, daviswade.com) is Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Between 2000 and 2013, he served as Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. Named by the NGS as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, he has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet, and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.”

An ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker, Wade holds degrees in anthropology and biology and a PhD in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. Mostly through the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent over three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among 15 indigenous groups while making some 6000 botanical collections. His work later took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies, an assignment that led to his writing The Serpent and the Rainbow, an international bestseller, later released by Universal as a motion picture. In recent years, his work has taken him to East Africa, Borneo, Nepal, Peru, Polynesia, Tibet, Mali, Benin, Togo, New Guinea, Australia, Colombia, Vanuatu, Mongolia, and the high Arctic of Nunavut and Greenland.

Wade is the author of 375 scientific and popular articles and 23 books, including One River, The Wayfinders, Into the Silence, and Magdalena. His photographs have been widely exhibited and have appeared in 37 books and 130 magazines, including National Geographic, Time, Geo, People, Men’s Journal, and Outside. He was curator of “The Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes,” first exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. In 2012 he served as guest curator of “No Strangers: Ancient Wisdom in the Modern World,” at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles. He was curator of “Everest: Ascent to Glory,” Bowers Museum, February 12–August 28, 2022. National Geographic has published two collections of his photography: Light at the Edge of the World (2001) and Wade Davis: Photographs (2018).

His 40 film credits include Light at the Edge of the World, an eight-hour documentary series written and produced for National Geographic. His most recent film, El Sendero de la Anaconda, a 90-minute feature documentary shot in the Northwest Amazon, is available on Netflix.

A professional speaker for 30 years, Wade has lectured at over 200 universities and 250 corporations and professional associations. In 2009 he delivered the CBC Massey Lectures. He has spoken from the main stage at TED five times, and his three posted talks have been viewed by 8 million. His books have appeared in 22 languages and sold approximately one million copies.

Wade, one of 20 Honorary Members of the Explorers Club, is Honorary Vice President of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and recipient of 12 honorary degrees. He has been awarded the 2009 Gold Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, the 2011 Explorers Medal, the 2012 David Fairchild Medal for botanical exploration, the 2015 Centennial Medal of Harvard University, the 2017 Roy Chapman Andrews Society’s Distinguished Explorer Award, the 2017 Sir Christopher Ondaatje Medal for Exploration, and the 2018 Mungo Park Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018 he became an Honorary Citizen of Colombia.

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The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist’s Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic by Wade Davis | Amazon The Serpent and the Rainbow | Prime Video One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest by Wade Davis | Amazon The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World by Wade Davis | Amazon Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis | Amazon Magdalena: River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia by Wade Davis | Amazon Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures by Wade Davis | Amazon Wade Davis: Photographs by Wade Davis | Amazon Light at the Edge of the World | YouTube El Sendero De La Anaconda | Netflix Wade Davis TED Talks | YouTube Archives: CBC Massey Lectures | CBC Radio The Ice Maiden | NEH Essentials Humans Are All More Closely Related Than We Commonly Think | Scientific American Hōkūleʻa | Polynesian Voyaging Society Marine Chronometers: Clocks Which Changed the Course of Globalization | My Modern Met The Lapita People | Amura World Dead Reckoning | Wikipedia Kogi People of Colombia | Atlas of Humanity The Culture of the Wiwa, an Indigenous Colombian Tribe in the Sierra Nevada | Culture Trip Arhuaco | Minority Rights Group Kankuamo | Minority Rights Group Tairona Heritage Trust Aluna: An Ecological Warning from the Kogi People Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) | FSI The Arhuacos: A Message from the Mamos, the Prophets of the Sierra Nevada | Pulitzer Center Erythroxylum Novogranatense | Wikipedia Erythroxylum Coca | Wikipedia Mambe Medicine Coca | Alma Healing Center Ypadu | Wikipedia Origins of Coca: Museum Genomics Reveals Multiple Independent Domestications from Progenitor Erythroxylum Gracilipes | Systematic Biology Coca Leaf: Myths and Reality | Transnational Institute A Review of How Prohibition Conditioned the Course of Colombia’s History | MamaCoca Weed of the Month: Jimson Weed | Brooklyn Botanic Garden Tetrodotoxin (TTX) | Encyclopedia MDPI Medicine: Zombies: Do They Exist? | Time Does the Haitian Criminal Code Outlaw Making Zombies? | In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress How to Make a Zombie (Seriously) | Live Science The Tonton Macoutes: The Central Nervous System of Haiti’s Reign of Terror | COHA West African Vodun | Wikipedia Haitian Vodou | Wikipedia African Diaspora Religions | Wikipedia Jan. 1, 1804: Haitian Independence | Zinn Education Project Toxic Toad, Known as Bufo, Cane, Marine, or Giant Toad | ENNDS Museum of Comparative Zoology | Harvard University From Russia, with Love by Ian Fleming | Amazon Dr. No: A Novel by Ian Fleming | Amazon D-Tubocurarine | American Chemical Society The Appealing and Potentially Lethal Delicacy That Is Fugu | The New York Times Masonic Symbolism in Haitian Vodou | Argentvive Acute Poisoning Due to Ingestion of Datura Stramonium – A Case Report | Romanian Journal of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Scopolamine: World’s Scariest Drug (Documentary Exclusive) | Vice Aguaruna | Atlas of Humanity Xavante | Indigenous Peoples in Brazil Xerente | Indigenous Peoples in Brazil Advancing Indigenous Peoples’ Rights & Cultures Worldwide Since 1972 | Cultural Survival Boasian Anthropology | Wikipedia The 8 Most Important Voodoo Gods | Learn Religions Maloca | Wikipedia Gitxsan Nation | American Museum of Natural History Wade Davis ’71 | Brentwood College School Courage Is the Most Important Virtue, Says Writer and Civil Rights Activist Maya Angelou at Convocation | Cornell Chronicle Apollo 8: Earthrise | NASA The Problem of Evil | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Rite of Passage | Wikipedia Brutal Rite of Passage: Why Do They Endure ‘Sucking Up Pain’ and Mind Games? The Lure of Being in the Military’s Most Elite Commando Force | Los Angeles Times The Power of Myth — The Hero’s Adventure with Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers | The Tim Ferriss Show #456 Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park | BC Parks Go Haida Gwaii About Clearcutting | Sierra Club Tap-Taps | Travel Adventures Our Territory | Tahltan Central Government Smithsonian Folklife Festival Opinion: Should Young Americans Be Required to Give a Year of Service? | The New York Times Inside the Darién Gap, One of the World’s Most Dangerous Jungles | The Manual Wade Davis on the Art of Exploring | Financial Times Looking into Black Jaguar’s Eyes | Polish Dr. Dolittle What’s the Difference Between Ayahuasca and Yagé? | Psychable Ayahuasca Ceremonies in Peru | Ayahuasca Foundation The Yagé Letters by William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg | Amazon Colombia’s Countercultures: The Beat Generation’s Bad Trip | Colombia Reports Keynote Speech: The Ethnosphere and the Academy by Wade Davis | Where There Be Dragons Myth and Metaphor: Managing Nature in the Colombian Amazon by Wade Davis | ReVista Diplopterys Cabrerana | Wikipedia Curare – A Curative Poison: A Scientometric Analysis | PLoS One Useful Plants of the Siona and Secoya Indians of Eastern Ecuador by William T. Vickers and Timothy Plowman What is Aboriginal Dreamtime? | Artlandish Echinopsis Pachanoi (San Pedro Cactus) | Wikipedia Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Palpa | UNESCO World Heritage Centre ‘What Does It Mean to Be Human?’: Wade Davis and the Spirit of Diversity | The Leader Tobacco and Shamanism in South America by Johannes Wilbert | Amazon Giving Dogs Psychedelics: Practices in Indigenous Tribes | Reality Sandwich The Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia by Stephen Hugh-Jones | Amazon From the Milk River: Spatial and Temporal Processes in Northwest Amazonia by Christine Hugh-Jones | Amazon A Staple Starch: Cassava, Manioc & Yuca | Kitchn Psychedelics 101: Books, Documentaries, Podcasts, Science, and More | Tim Ferriss Set and Setting: Why Preparation Matters | DoubleBlind Q&A: What Is the Vedic Tradition? | Yoga International Ranking the Beatles’ Albums in Order of Greatness | Far Out The Complete I Ching | Amazon Psychedelics May Lessen Fear of Death and Dying, Similar to Feelings Reported by Those Who’ve Had Near Death Experiences | Johns Hopkins Medicine 42nd Street (Original Cast Recording) | Amazon The Rucksack Man by Sebastian Snow | Amazon The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell | Amazon The Swooper/Basher Dichotomy | Steven R. Southard Rongbuk Monastery | Wikipedia The Synthetic Rubber Project | The Library of Congress Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings | AmazonSHOW NOTES[06:34] The Wayfinders.[17:01] The Earth’s caretakers of Northern Colombia.[25:31] Coca and mambe.[34:17] Zombies, mysterious elixirs, and a sorcerer pimp.[49:35] The social implications of zombification and dangers of datura.[57:57] David Maybury-Lewis, Richard Evans Schultes, and living exploration.[1:02:13] Why helping young people is a top priority for Wade.[1:07:43] Pessimism is an indulgence. Choose optimism.[1:13:10] Rites of passage.[1:17:26] The night Wade had to light himself on fire.[1:20:37] The scar Wade doesn’t regret.[1:23:41] Raising kids to be better citizens of the world.[1:31:02] Wade’s own hero’s journey.[1:34:19] Ayahuasca origin stories and uses alternative to healing.[1:47:34] The real tragedy of coca.[1:50:29] Dosed dogs, provocative gardens, and the cosmology of bitter manioc.[1:53:41] What psychedelics gave Wade earlier in life vs. later on.[2:06:34] How did Wade teach himself to write well?[2:18:50] Work points and outlining the course of a book.[2:28:26] Parting thoughts.MORE GUEST QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Storytellers change the world.”

— Wade Davis

“Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: what does it mean to be human and alive? And when the peoples of the world answer that, they do so in the 7,000 different voices of humanity. And all those answers kind of collectively become our human repertoire.”

— Wade Davis

“We’re living through an era where half of humanity’s intellectual, social, spiritual, even ecological knowledge is at risk. And at the same time, we’re living through an era where geneticists have finally proven it to be true what philosophers and poets have always dreamt to be true, that we really are all brothers and sisters. “

— Wade Davis

“There is no hierarchy in culture.”

— Wade Davis

“If you took all of the genius that allowed us to put a man on the moon and applied it to an understanding of the ocean, what you would get is Polynesia.”

— Wade Davis

“Coca is to cocaine what potatoes are to vodka.”

— Wade Davis

“I’ve always believed that nothing is beneath you. Nothing is a waste of time unless you make it so. A cab driver can have as much to teach you as a professor at university if you’re open to the possibility.”

— Wade Davis

“Be patient, never compromise, give your destiny time to find you. Bitterness always comes to those who look back on a life of choices imposed upon them from the outside. You may not make all the right decisions, but if you own those decisions, they all become the right ones because, together, they become the path of your own creation and you become the architect of your own life.”

— Wade Davis

“How can you not be optimistic? I mean, that’s the purpose of life itself.”

— Wade Davis

“What generation has ever come of age in a world at peace, a world without troubles?”

— Wade Davis

“The purpose of life is not to triumph over evil, but to keep pushing the wheel of justice forward. And when you realize that that is the end point, you then never expect to win. And if you never expect to win, you’re not disappointed when you lose. And because of that, you can keep fighting with the same idealism, the same energy when you’re 69 years old, as I am today, that I had when I was 20 years old and marching against the war in Vietnam.”

— Wade Davis

“It’s empathy and love, it’s not bravado.”

— Wade Davis

“If you’re being given food almost anywhere in the world, it means some child is probably not eating that day. And even if you know, and there’s been many times when I’ve known because of the circumstances, that if I eat a plate offered to me, without doubt, I’ll contract giardia or amoebic dysentery, I always eat the food. Because you can always treat the illness; you can never rekindle the trust that you’ve shattered, not just between you and the person, but between that person and the next outsider who will come along.”

— Wade Davis

“There’s no reason whatsoever that our government in the United States shouldn’t be able to mobilize resources that would make available to every young American boy and girl the opportunity to travel within America, to know another face of America, another section of the country. Californians to Iowa, Kansans to Miami, and so on. And give them work to help make us a better country, whether it’s picking up plastic or caring for the elderly, whatever it is. Again, giving young people a sense that they’re not the center of the universe. That they live to help others. That we do exist as a community. That you have to be humble. And just because you believe it doesn’t mean it’s true.”

— Wade Davis

“Young people have to learn that there’s something bigger than themselves that they need to be loyal to. And that’s not necessarily a country, it’s a concept. It’s the idea of community.”

— Wade Davis

“When the people say ‘The plants teach us,’ I’m quite prepared at this point in my life to take them at their word.”

— Wade Davis

“Her parents said, ‘Don’t take these things, you’ll never come back the same.’ And the poor parents didn’t understand that was the entire point of the exercise. We didn’t want to come back the same. We wanted to come back transformed.”

— Wade Davis

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