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Dr. Andrew Weil — The 4-7-8 Breath Method, Cannabis, The Uses of Coca Leaf, Rehabilitating Demonized Plants, Kava for Anxiety, Lessons from Wade Davis, The Psychedelic Renaissance, How to Emerge from Depression, Tales from 50+ Visits to Japan, Matcha Benef

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“[The 4-7-8 breath] is the most powerful method I’ve found to access the relaxation response, and it’s the most powerful anti-anxiety measure I’ve ever come across.”
— Dr. Andrew Weil

Andrew Weil, MD (@DrWeil) is a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine. He has been named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.

Dr. Weil received a degree in biology (botany) from Harvard College in 1964 and an MD from Harvard Medical School in 1968. From 1971 to 1975, as a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs, Dr. Weil traveled widely in North and South America and Africa, collecting information on drug use in other cultures, medicinal plants, and alternative methods of treating disease. From 1971 to 1984 he was on the research staff of the Harvard Botanical Museum and conducted investigations of medicinal and psychoactive plants.

Dr. Weil is the founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he also holds the Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Medicine and is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health. Through its fellowship and Integrative Medicine in Residency curricula, the Center is now training doctors and nurse practitioners around the world.

A New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Weil written 15 books on health and well-being, including Mind Over Meds; Fast Food, Good Food; True Food; Spontaneous Happiness; Healthy Aging; and 8 Weeks to Optimum Health. He is also co-founder of the restaurant chain True Food Kitchen and co-founder of Matcha.com, which offers extremely high-quality matcha that is difficult to find outside of Japan.

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Want to hear the most recent time Dr. Weil was on the podcast? Listen to our conversation here, in which we discussed go-to plants for food and medicine, trying to score mescaline from Aldous Huxley’s source, the importance of taking a shamanistic approach toward the research of healing science, how Dr. Weil shed a lifetime of cat allergies in one sitting, the intrinsic nature of non-ordinary states of consciousness in human beings, the healing power of dogs, and much more.

#350: Dr. Andrew Weil — Optimal Health, Plant Medicine, and More

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The Andrew Weil Center Center for Integrative Medicine Authentic Matcha Tea | Matcha.com Matcha Kari | Instagram Seasonal Restaurant & Scratch Bar | True Food Kitchen Weil Foundation Mind Over Meds: Know When Drugs Are Necessary, When Alternatives Are Better, and When to Let Your Body Heal on Its Own by Andrew Weil, M.D. | Amazon Fast Food, Good Food: More Than 150 Quick and Easy Ways to Put Healthy, Delicious Food on the Table by Andrew Weil, M.D. | Amazon True Food: Seasonal, Sustainable, Simple, Pure by Andrew Weil, M.D. and Sam Fox | Amazon Spontaneous Happiness by Andrew Weil, M.D. | Amazon Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being by Andrew Weil, M.D. | Amazon 8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body’s Natural Healing Power by Andrew Weil, M.D. | Amazon The Natural Mind: A Revolutionary Approach to the Drug Problem by Andrew Weil, M.D. | Amazon From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs by Andrew T. Weil, M.D. and Winifred Rosen | Amazon Health and Healing: The Philosophy of Integrative Medicine and Optimum Health by Andrew T. Weil, M.D. | Amazon Dr. Andrew Weil — Optimal Health, Plant Medicine, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #350 Dr. Weil Explains How to Do His 4-7-8 Breathing Technique | Matcha.com 4-7-8 Breathing: How It Works, How to Do It, and More | Healthline Clinical and Psychological Effects of Marijuana in Man | International Journal of the Addictions The New Politics of Coca | The New Yorker Coca Leaf: Myths and Reality | Transnational Institute A Bridge to the Relinquished Parts of Self and Society | The RiverStyx Foundation Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative (IPCI)Ephedra | NCCIH Khat: Effects, Risks, and How to Get Help | Verywell Mind The Opium Poppy | UNODC Biologically Active Compounds Present in Tobacco Smoke: Potential Interactions Between Smoking and Mental Health | Frontiers In Neuroscience Tobacco and Shamanism in South America by Johannes Wilbert | Amazon Kava Kava | Healthline Generation 3 | Oura Ring Kratom: Is It Safe? | Healthline Neurobiology of Kratom and Its Main Alkaloid Mitragynine | Brain Research Bulletin Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Take a Sleeping Pill Every Night | Time Kratom: The Forbidden Leaf | Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia The Psychedelic Toad | Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia Bufo Alvarius: The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert by Ken Nelson, Expanded and Updated Edition by Hamilton Morris | Department of Information Identity of a New World Psychoactive Toad | Ancient Mesoamerica Hamilton Morris on Iboga, 5-MeO-DMT, the Power of Ritual, New Frontiers in Psychedelics, Excellent Problems to Solve, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #511 Saguaro National Park | US National Park Service Herbaria & Libraries | Harvard University One River: Explorations and Discoveries In the Amazon Rain Forest by Wade Davis | Amazon Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ethnobotany, Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America | The Tim Ferriss Show #469 The Serpent and the Rainbow | Prime Video 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 OEB 59. Plants and Human Affairs | Harvard University Center for the Environment Flashback Friday: Yoco, The Natural Caffeine High | High Times What’s Funny About Turning 72? | Dr. Weil Catch Me If You Can | Prime Video The Harvard Lampoon At Harvard, Psychedelic Drugs’ Tentative Renaissance | The Harvard Crimson Set and Setting: Why Preparation Matters | DoubleBlind A Long-Term Follow-Up to Dr. Timothy Leary’s 1961-1962 Concord State Reformatory Rehabilitation Study | MAPS The Crimson Takes Leary, Alpert to Task | The Harvard Crimson Why Is Everyone Smoking Toad Venom? | Town & Country Psychedelics 101: Books, Documentaries, Podcasts, Science, and More | Tim Ferriss Marcela Ot’alora — How to Become a Psychedelic Therapist | The Tim Ferriss Show #396 Some Thoughts on For-Profit Psychedelic Startups and Companies | Tim Ferriss Andrew Weil | Psychedelic Science Review Psilocybe Weilii | Trufflemagic Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World | The Tim Ferriss Show #340 Lophophora Williamsii (Mescal, Mescal Buttons, Peyote) | North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox The Origins of the Naming of Lophophora Williamsii | Cactus Conservation Institute Dysthymia | Johns Hopkins Medicine An Interview with Dr. Andrew Weil | Green Living Magazine Keio University Urawa, Saitama | Wikipedia Okinawa, Japan | Blue Zones Ogimi Village – A Village of Longevity Set in a Beautiful Natural Environment | Okinawa Island Guide On US Fast Food, More Okinawans Grow Super-Sized | The New York Times Okinawan Fermented Turmeric Tea Powder | Matcha.com Japanese Chado Matcha Green Tea Ceremony | TEALEAVES A Guide to Chasen — The All-Important Matcha Whisk | Tezumi Seven Proven Health Benefits of Matcha Tea | Healthline L-Theanine: Dosage, Benefits, and Side Effects | Healthline Farm-Direct Japanese Gyokuro Loose-Leaf Tea | Matcha.com Mescaline | The Vaults of Erowid Psilocybe | Wikipedia The Random Show – Drinking Urine, Exploring Japan, and Figuring Out Life | The Tim Ferriss Show #224 Norikura Kogen Travel Guide | Japan Guide The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor’s Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine by Joseph Tafur | Amazon Can LSD Treat Food Allergies? We Don’t Know, But It’s Already Been Patented | ViceSHOW NOTES[07:56] What is the 4-7-8 breath?[10:15] As an early advocate, what is Dr. Weil’s current relationship with cannabis?[11:28] Overcoming the stigma of coca leaves to realize their medical benefits.[14:17] What is The Beneficial Plants Research Association?[16:30] Thoughts on kava and its effect on sleep quality.[19:49] Where to learn more about kratom and mitragynine.[20:51] Andrew’s experience with Bufo alvarius.[22:05] Why Andrew and Wade Davis are reviving The Beneficial Plants Research Association.[25:27] Andrew recounts a Richard Evans Schultes story.[27:13] Andrew’s brief career as a letter-writing prankster.[29:06] Covering the first wave of psychedelic research at Harvard.[34:15] The positives and negatives of psychedelics going mainstream.[36:11] Taxonomy and the origin of Psilocybe weilii.[37:58] How did Andrew emerge from dysthymia in his early fifties?[39:54] Lessons learned on visits to Japan and Okinawa.[45:19] Health benefits of fermented turmeric and matcha tea.[49:50] How L-theanine modifies the effects of caffeine.[52:19] How Andrew’s parents encouraged him to always be curious (but careful).[55:36] Getting older and future plans.[58:11] Why you should check out The Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.[58:54] What Andrew believes gets missed most by current psychedelic exploration.[1:02:00] Parting thoughts.MORE GUEST QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“On the second day that I was in Japan, back in November of 1959, my host mother took me next door to meet her neighbor who was a tea ceremony practitioner. So the three of us sat around, and this woman did a tea ceremony and presented me with a bowl of matcha. And I was completely taken by it, first by the color, also by the chasen—the whisk—which I just thought was marvelous, and the taste of it. I fell in love with it.”
— Andrew Weil

“I think the more people who have positive psychedelic experiences—that may lead to the change in consciousness, which I think is the only thing that can turn things around for us.”
— Andrew Weil

“There are no good or bad drugs; there are just good and bad relationships with drugs. I think you can broaden that to plants as well—coca being a prime example. We’ve said that is a bad plant, the source of all sorts of trouble. But the problem is how we’ve related to that plant.”
— Andrew Weil

“I have a very good friend, a cardiologist who’s the same age as me, who said that his mother always told him, ‘Joe, don’t get old. You won’t like it.'”
— Andrew Weil

“[The 4-7-8 breath] is is the most powerful method I’ve found to access the relaxation response, and it’s the most powerful anti-anxiety measure I’ve ever come across.”
— Andrew Weil

“I think it would be a great thing for people to have access to coca. It’s not cocaine. It has distinct effects. It has unique medical effects. We should have access to it, not to mention the fact that this is the sacred plant of a great many indigenous people in South America.”
— Andrew Weil

“[Kava] functions as a social stimulant and lubricant, but it is a natural sedative and calmative, and probably the most important anti-anxiety natural product out there, extremely useful and essentially no toxicity. And it does not interact with alcohol. It does not interact with other sedatives. It’s quite safe, and I recommend it very frequently to people.”
— Andrew Weil

PEOPLE MENTIONEDRobert C. Fulford T. Cody Swift Richard Evans Schultes Albert Hofmann Alexander Shulgin Johannes Wilbert Hamilton Morris Ken Nelson Wade Davis Mark Plotkin Frank Abagnale Conan O’Brien Timothy Leary Richard M. Nixon Ram Dass Paul Stamets Carl Linnaeus Kevin Rose Alan Watts

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Published on August 16, 2022 18:36

Q&A with Tim on Wealth and Money, Book Recommendations, Advice on Taking Advice, C.S. Lewis, Relationships, Behavior Change and Self-Awareness, Why We Are All (Mostly) Making It Up as We Go, and Much More (#614)

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Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is usually my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types to tease out the habits, routines, favorite books, and so on that you can apply and test in your own life. This time, we have a slightly different format, and I’m the guest.

As some of you know, to celebrate the 15th anniversary of The 4-Hour Workweek, which was first published on April 24th, 2007 (4/24/07), I signed 424 copies of the book. As thousands of you threw your hat in the ring to win a signed copy, I wanted to do something special for all the entrants. So, I invited those folks to a private YouTube Q&A. This episode is the recording of that session.

I answered many questions on a variety of topics, including startup investments, IFS therapy, my views on wealth and money, C.S. Lewis, lower-back pain, solitary time and its challenges, lessons from Kevin Kelly, books I’m currently reading, maintaining relationships, Japan travel tips, from whom to take advice (and how to evaluate advice), self-awareness, behavior change, my current alcohol consumption (or lack thereof), and much, much more.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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 Q&A on YouTube here.

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

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If you’re looking to make a big change to your direction or address pressing global problems from your current job or if you’re just starting out or maybe starting a new chapter and not sure which path to pursue, 80,000 Hours can help. Join their free newsletter, and they’ll send you an in-depth guide for free that will help you identify which global problems are most pressing and where you can have the biggest impact personally. It will also help you get new ideas for high-impact careers or directions that help tackle these issues.

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Want to hear my most recent Q&A? Listen to the episode here, in which I answered questions about relieving plantar fasciitis, getting better sleep, wolf conservation efforts, maintaining learned languages, low energy remedies, podcasting advice, global warming, psychedelic risks, and much more.

#557: Q&A with Tim — Tools for Better Sleep, Musings on Parenting, the Different Roles of Fear, the Delight of Deepening Friendships, the Purpose of College, How to Boost Your Mood, HRV Training, and More

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Published on August 11, 2022 16:23

Q&A with Tim on Wealth and Money, Book Recommendations, Advice on Taking Advice, C.S. Lewis, Relationships, Behavior Change and Self-Awareness, Why We Are All (Mostly) Making It Up as We Go, and Much More

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Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is usually my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types to tease out the habits, routines, favorite books, and so on that you can apply and test in your own life. This time, we have a slightly different format, and I’m the guest.

As some of you know, to celebrate the 15th anniversary of The 4-Hour Workweek, which was first published on April 24th, 2007 (4/24/07), I signed 424 copies of the book. As thousands of you threw your hat in the ring to win a signed copy, I wanted to do something special for all the entrants. So, I invited those folks to a private YouTube Q&A. This episode is the recording of that session.

I answered many questions on a variety of topics, including startup investments, IFS therapy, my views on wealth and money, C.S. Lewis, lower-back pain, solitary time and its challenges, lessons from Kevin Kelly, books I’m currently reading, maintaining relationships, Japan travel tips, from whom to take advice (and how to evaluate advice), self-awareness, behavior change, my current alcohol consumption (or lack thereof), and much, much more.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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 Q&A on YouTube here.

Brought to you by MANSCAPED premium grooming products, 80,000 Hours free career advice for high impact and doing good in the world, and Helix Sleep premium mattresses.

Listen onApple Podcasts [image error]Listen onSpotify [image error]Listen onOvercast#614: Q&A with Tim on Wealth and Money, Book Recommendations, Advice on Taking Advice, C.S. Lewis, Relationships, Behavior Change and Self-Awareness, Why We Are All (Mostly) Making It Up as We Go, and Much More

This episode is brought to you by MANSCAPED! MANSCAPED is bringing you the total package to ensure your package is the perfect package. No, I didn’t come up with that line… but I tested and loved their products, so I can vouch that I’m still intact and ready for my centerfold shoot. Was it scary? Yes. Was it worth it? Also yes. My girlfriend makes the effort, so I figured it was only fair. MANSCAPED is the most effective way to keep clean, pristine, and looking like a dream through the sweatiest summer months.

The Perfect Package 4.0 is the ultimate grooming kit that includes everything you need for optimal below-the waist hygiene. Use their precision-engineered Lawn Mower 4.0—yes, “Lawn Mower”—electric trimmer to remove excess and avoid the dreaded swamp crotch. Feel confident in trimming hard-to-reach areas with MANSCAPED’s SkinSafe technology, which helps reduce the risk of nicks and snags. It’s time to take care of yourself; time for some basic landscaping. Get 20% off and free shipping with the code TIMTIM at Manscaped.com.

This episode is brought to you by 80,000 Hours! You have roughly 80,000 hours in your career. That’s 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year for 40 years. They add up and are one of your biggest opportunities, if not the biggest opportunity, to make a positive impact on the world. Some of the best strategies, best research, and best tactical advice I’ve seen and heard come from 80,000 Hours, a nonprofit co-founded by Will MacAskill, an Oxford philosopher and a popular past guest on this podcast.

If you’re looking to make a big change to your direction, address pressing global problems from your current job, or if you’re just starting out or maybe starting a new chapter and not sure which path to pursue, 80,000 Hours can help. Join their free newsletter, and they’ll send you an in-depth guide for free that will help you identify which global problems are most pressing and where you can have the biggest impact personally. It will also help you get new ideas for high-impact careers or directions that help tackle these issues.

This episode is brought to you by Helix Sleep! Helix was selected as the #1 overall mattress of 2020 by GQ magazine, Wired, Apartment Therapy, and many others. With Helix, there’s a specific mattress to meet each and every body’s unique comfort needs. Just take their quiz—only two minutes to complete—that matches your body type and sleep preferences to the perfect mattress for you. They have a 10-year warranty, and you get to try it out for a hundred nights, risk-free. They’ll even pick it up from you if you don’t love it. And now, Helix is offering up to 200 dollars off all mattress orders plus two free pillows at HelixSleep.com/Tim.

Want to hear my most recent Q&A? Listen to the episode here in which I answered questions about relieving plantar fasciitis, getting better sleep, wolf conservation efforts, maintaining learned languages, low energy remedies, podcasting advice, global warming, psychedelic risks, and much more.

#557: Q&A with Tim — Tools for Better Sleep, Musings on Parenting, the Different Roles of Fear, the Delight of Deepening Friendships, the Purpose of College, How to Boost Your Mood, HRV Training, and More

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Do I still invest in startups?We’ve already got TED Talks. Why not Tim Talks?Have I considered moving out of the US?How do I mitigate risks in an increasingly contentious society?Which interview has had the greatest personal impact on me?Would I publish another volume of Tribe of Mentors or Tools of Titans?Have I ever explored the side of IFS that helps folks explore inherited trauma/energy?Did making more money make me happier?What do I consider to be a healthy view of money?Have any interviews been conducted but never published?What do I find compelling about C.S. Lewis?How do I get things done when I’m having a bad day?What does my meditation practice look like these days?Are Ivy League graduate schools worth the cost?Most valuable lesson from The Lion Tracker’s Guide?How do I handle overly political family and friends?Recommended essayists (aside from John McPhee)?Thoughts on Rudolph Steiner?Do I have a future as a fiction author?Best recent purchase of under $250?Recommendations for learning more about Japanese martial arts culture?Did I lose my razor?Which one to three skills make acquiring more skills easier or irrelevant?Favorite childhood fairy tale or folk story?The ups and downs of learning German?When will the world get to smell Tim Ferriss Fragrance for Men?What role has downtime had on the severity of my depression?Recent reading that has influenced my thoughts about parenthood?Dream guests?Did I take a break from investing because of market losses?How do I feel about the bear market now?How is my self-compassion journey going?How do I manage my extensive network of relationships?Advice for 21-year-old Tim?Have any of the principles from The 4-Hour Workweek become obsolete?Three must-sees when visiting Japan?Most beautiful location visited?Strategies for coping with the sudden loss of a loved one?Reasons for moving from San Francisco to Austin?Do we rely too much on advice from people who don’t understand our lives?Is it possible to share a life with someone whose interests don’t match ours 100 percent?Self-discipline advice for ADHD folks who have already tried everything?How do we develop the resilience to deal with tough times ahead of their arrival?Things I’ve changed my mind about in the past year?Do I still observe a slow-carb diet?Advice for securing startup funding?Why did I stop asking my guests who they consider to be successful?Am I planning to run drunk dial shows again?Podcasting tips for introverts?A guest I could interview any day or every day?Which of my own books would I recommend to a Ferriss first-timer?Larry David?Am I still using Evernote?What would be on my billboard these days?Parting thoughts.PEOPLE MENTIONEDBJ Miller Ed Cooke Oliver Burkeman Richard C. Schwartz Ramit Sethi Morgan Housel James Lipton Guy Raz Ernest Hemingway C.S. Lewis Max McLean Bertrand Russell Sam Harris Loch Kelly John McPhee Ralph Waldo Emerson John Muir Rudolf Steiner Jocko Willink Jason Statham Anthony de Mello Josh Waitzkin Jean-Claude Van Damme Dan Harris Kevin Kelly Johann Hari Oprah Winfrey Daniel Day-Lewis Ryan Reynolds Jane Goodall Madeleine Albright Margaret E. Atwood Hugh Jackman Molly Ferriss Hayao Miyazaki Richard Koch Matt Mullenweg David Kessler Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Lex Fridman Balaji Srinivasan Naval Ravikant Drew Houston BJ Fogg James Clear Charles Duhigg Bruce Tift Lucilius Junior Seneca Stanley Druckenmiller Chris Bosh Sebastian Mallaby Brad Feld Richard Branson Elon Musk Bill Gates Derek Sivers Jeff Bezos Stuart Smalley Noah Feldman Kevin Rose Larry David Bob Einstein Byron Katie

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Published on August 11, 2022 16:23

Why I’m Open-Sourcing an NFT Insider Trading Policy for the Web3 Community

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DISCLAIMER: The following content, including the NFT Insider Trading Policy, does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal advice. Readers should work with an attorney to determine whether the policy is applicable to or appropriate for their particular situation. The NFT Insider Trading Policy is provided “as is”; no representations are made about the content.

Furthermore, there are risks involved in making any investment in cryptocurrencies/NFTs. None of the information presented herein is intended to form the basis of any offer or recommendation or have any regard to the investment objectives, financial situation, or needs of any specific person, and that includes you, my dear reader. Caveat lector!

Now that we’ve covered that…

I began diving into the Wild West of NFTs a few years ago. For me, NFTs were a convenient, muggle-friendly onramp for learning about new technologies. It was also an excuse to break out the pencils and screw around again. I’d let my drawing languish for years, and, no matter what people said, JPEG mania was inspiring.

After a few months of exploration, I felt confident, and still feel confident, in a few things:

Web3 and blockchain will change the world in incredible ways. Before you disagree, listen to this.The promise is both severely overstated (Utopia! No more governments!) and severely under-appreciated (It’s just another Dutch tulip craze! Right-click and it’s game over!).It’s the greatest creator, resurrector, and accelerant of artists that I’ve ever seen. Graphic artist and musician friends of mine, jaded after years of barely making ends meet, touring to pay mortgages, etc., are not just excited again (no small thing) but also making good money. TBD if DALL·E 2 and related tech helps or hurts them; I suspect it will be a lot of both.Legions of brilliant people are dedicating most of their waking lives to it¹. This is perhaps the most compelling case for being long web3.Last but not least, most of web3 is still an overwhelming garbage fire of junk, grift, and bad behavior. It’s fucking ridiculous. This is the most common case cited for being short web3.

For me, this all started off as a safari to a new Weird Wide Web, a sight-seeing tour of novelty. I do this with a lot of new tech, and I was a casual spectator. Then and considering bigger projects of my own. That’s when I got more serious about research, especially risks and pitfalls.

Some of the unsavory bits I noticed were clearly unethical and often illegal, like deliberate fraud. There are bad actors, to be sure. That said, I think the majority of folks are normally good actors, and these same people can slip up and do stupid things under certain conditions. Temptation and accidents run rampant in a world of ambiguity. Much of the mess appeared—and still appears—to be a byproduct of unclear rules, lack of agreements, or misaligned incentives.

I often ask myself “What positive constraints can we apply here?” I apply this to myself for creative projects, and I apply it in many aspects of my professional and personal life. This question also led directly to the document in this post.

Months before the Department of Justice got involved and began making headlines, I had already reached out to several of my NFT-fluent friends to ask if they had an NFT Insider Trading Policy I could read. I simultaneously reached out to exceptional lawyers for the same. I was looking for a document forbidding insider trading, including front running, that also laid out clear best practices. Much to my surprise, no one seemed to have a document that covered these bases, but several folks were able to suggest technical safeguards and other elements.

Gathering these, I then reached out to Aaron Wright, who kindly introduced me to Jeremy Goldman to help with drafting an original doc. Next, I worked with Jeremy and Zach Lewis to put together the below Insider Trading Policy. Of course, no document can prevent truly bad actors from doing bad things, but making clear and explicit agreements with good people can help you avoid a lot of headache.

It’s probably not the world’s first such document, but I certainly couldn’t find one, even with a half dozen law firms and hundreds of friends in tech. It was a huge pain in the ass.

My assumption is that this hurdle might also pose a huge pain in the ass for others. Huge pain in the ass = friction to action = less action, so I’m trying to remove some of the hassle. Also, it’s my belief that the sooner the web3 community polices itself and does it well, the less regulators will feel the need to drop the hammer. Things are going to get cleaned up one way or another (à la “medicine” in the old Wild West), so do we want to be proactive, or do we want to force the hand of the government to smite sloppy fools with a blitzkrieg, probably setting up hasty, problematic laws in the process? I suggest we try the former. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of CryptoPunks, or so my grandpappy told me.

For all of these reasons and more, I’m making the below NFT Insider Trading Policy available. You are free to share it, modify it, distribute it, read it at your wedding, turn it into rap lyrics, etc. It is now the property of the web. Be free!

I have just two important requests:

1) Please reread the disclaimer. In fact, it’s so nice, I’ll simply post it twice:

DISCLAIMER: The following content, including the NFT Insider Trading Policy, does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal advice. Readers should work with an attorney to determine whether the policy is applicable to or appropriate for their particular situation. The NFT Insider Trading Policy is provided “as is”; no representations are made about the content.

2) Please let us know how this can be improved! No doubt, there are great points that can be added. Technology and grift also evolve. We’d love constructive feedback, which is valuable for everyone. Please leave a comment on this blog post, or let me know on Twitter using hashtag #NFTITP (ITP = Insider Trading Policy). As usual, don’t be a dick. If your tone is lame, your comments will be deleted from the blog, and you’ll get 100,000 lashes in the afterlife.

That’s it!

I hope some of you find the below helpful. The first line would be completely redrafted based on your company name/entity, if you use one.

Until next time, please be kind and stay safe, frens.

Tim

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¹ To be fair, legions of fools also appear to be dedicating their lives to it.

NFT Insider Trading Policy 1. PURPOSE

Top-Secret Project LLC, a North Dakota limited liability company (“Company”) has adopted this NFT Insider Trading Policy (“Policy”) to help ensure that (a) Company and any Insiders (defined below) connected to any project involving the creation, marketing, distribution, and/or sale of non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) by or on behalf of Company (“Project”) comply with applicable laws, (b) any distribution of NFTs by Company to Insiders in connection with a Project is conducted fairly and on equal footing with distributions to the public; and (c) Company, the Project, and Insiders do not have even the appearance of improper insider trading.

2. SCOPE

1. “Insiders” include all directors, officers, and employees of Company, and any other individuals Company may designate because they may have access to material nonpublic information concerning a Project (“Inside Information”), including any artists, developers, project managers, contractors, consultants, or other individuals who are providing services in connection with Company or the Project, as well as all of the employees, representatives, affiliates, family members, and others in the households of the aforementioned individuals.

2. This Policy applies to any and all transactions involving NFTs issued by or on behalf of Company, including minting NFTs and both primary and secondary sales.

3. GUIDANCE

A. Generally Prohibited Activity. As a general matter, an Insider may not use or disclose to any third party any Inside Information about Company or a Project to the advantage of the Insider or any other person in connection with the purchase, sale, or other transaction involving an NFT.

B. Specific Rules and Prohibitions.

NFTs must be allocated to token holders, including Insiders, at random.
Randomness must be verifiable to the public through the use of NFT provenance hashing or other technology.
No buying or selling NFTs on the secondary market (including through any peer-to-peer transactions) until seven (7) days after such NFTs are first made available to the public.
No buying or selling NFTs on the secondary market (including through any peer-to-peer transactions) within five (5) days of any announcement or planned announcement relating to the Project that an Insider knows about in advance and is material.
No engaging in any activity that may be considered “front-running,” “wash trading,” “pump and dump trading,” “ramping,” “cornering,” or fraudulent, deceptive, or manipulative trading activities, including, without limitation, for the purpose of creating or inducing a false, misleading, or artificial appearance of activity or value in any NFT. Prohibited activities include:
facilitating the trading of any NFT at successively lower or higher prices;executing or causing the execution of any transaction involving the NFT which causes no material change in the beneficial ownership thereof;participating in, facilitating, assisting, or knowingly transacting with any person or persons for the purpose of artificially, unfairly, or deceptively influencing the market price of an NFT; orotherwise artificially, unduly, or improperly influencing the market price for any NFT in any manner, including without limitation, on or through social media.
No “tipping” of Inside Information to any person or entity.
No use of rarity snipers (e.g., Rarity Sniper, Trait Sniper, rarity.tools, icy.tools) or similar services at any time in connection with any Project by or in collaboration with Company.4. DETERMINING WHETHER INFORMATION IS MATERIAL AND NONPUBLIC

A. Definition of “Material” Information

There is no bright line test for determining whether particular information is material. Such a determination depends on the facts and circumstances unique to each situation and cannot be made solely based on the potential financial impact of the information.In general, information about Company or a Project should be considered “material” if:A reasonable purchaser of NFTs would consider the information significant when deciding whether to buy or sell NFTs; orThe information, if disclosed, could be viewed by a reasonable purchaser of NFTs as having significantly altered the total mix of information available in the marketplace about Company or the Project.While it is impossible to identify every type of information that could be deemed “material,” the following matters shall be considered material:Rarity tables.The rarity of each individual trait, layer, or element included in the Project.Upcoming airdrops.Upcoming announcements by or on behalf of Company.Upcoming events by, in collaboration with, or on behalf of Company.Potential, future, and, ongoing collaborations.Potential and future utility (including, without limitation, any products, benefits, services, privileges, rights, or opportunities) to be offered to NFT holders.New key members of Company or Project team, including executives, officers, directors, employees, contractors or investors.B. Definition of “Nonpublic” Information

Information is “nonpublic” if it has not been made known to the general market of purchasers or potential purchasers of NFTs through a widely circulated news or wire source or social media channel operated by Company or authorized by Company to make such information public.

5. REMEDIES FOR VIOLATIONS

Failure to comply with this NFT Insider Trading Policy may constitute not only a breach of contract with Company, but also may violate applicable criminal and civil law. See, e.g., Department of Justice, Former Employee Of NFT Marketplace Charged In First Ever Digital Asset Insider Trading Scheme, June 1, 2022, at https://bit.ly/3SwXn8m; Department of Justice, Three Charged in First Ever Cryptocurrency Insider Trading Tipping Scheme, July 21, 2022, at https://bit.ly/3A6Scos.

In the event that Company determines that an Insider violated the NFT Insider Trading Policy, the Insider agrees, upon Company’s instruction, to immediately disgorge and transfer to Company, or any recipient of Company’s choosing, any and all NFTs or profits gained as a result of such violation as well as any compensation Insider received from Company under their applicable contract. The foregoing remedies are in addition to any other remedies, both legal and equitable, available to Company under the law.

CERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE
INSIDER NFT TRADING POLICY

I hereby certify that I have received, reviewed and will comply with Company’s Insider NFT Trading Policy.

Name: __________________________________

Signature ________________________________

Company: _______________________________

Title: ___________________________________

Date: ___________________________________

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Russ Roberts on Lessons from F.A. Hayek and Nassim Taleb, Decision-Making Insights from Charles Darwin, The Dangers of Scientism, Wild Problems in Life and the Decisions That Define Us, Learnings from the Talmud, The Role of Prayer, and The Journey to Tran

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“What was once destiny is now a decision.”
— Russ Roberts

Russ Roberts (@EconTalker) is the president of Shalem College in Jerusalem and the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Russ is interested in making complicated ideas understandable. He founded and hosts the award-winning weekly podcast EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious, with more than 800 episodes available in the archives. Past guests include Christopher Hitchens, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Lewis, Angela Duckworth, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb. His two rap videos on the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek have more than 13 million views on YouTube.

His latest book, Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us, explores the challenges of using rationality when facing big life decisions. He is also the author of Gambling With Other People’s Money, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life, The Price of Everything, The Invisible Heart, and The Choice.

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This episode is brought to you by Pique! I first learned about Pique through my friends Dr. Peter Attia and Kevin Rose, and now Pique’s fermented pu’er tea crystals have become my daily go-to. I often kickstart my mornings with their Pu’er Green Tea and Pu’er Black Tea, and I alternate between the two. This rare type of naturally fermented tea is more concentrated in polyphenol antioxidants than any other tea—it supports focus and mental clarity, healthy digestion, metabolism, and a healthy immune system. Their crystals are cold extracted, using only wild-harvested leaves from 250-year-old tea trees. Plus, they triple toxin screen for heavy metals, pesticides, and toxic mold—contaminants commonly found in tea. I also use the crystals for iced tea, which saves a ton of time and hassle.

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This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens. I get asked all the time, “If you could use only one supplement, what would it be?” My answer is usually AG1 by Athletic Greens, 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 AG further covers my bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health and the immune system.

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Want to hear a podcast episode with someone who frequently collaborates with Russ Roberts? Listen to my interview with devoted economics educator Tyler Cowen, in which we discuss his goal to teach economics to more people than anyone else in the history of the world, the mental benefits of listening to complex music, remaining meta-rational during times of duress or panic, fiction recommendations for nonfiction purists, learning from those who offend us, the writing process, committing to kindness, and much more.

#413: Tyler Cowen on Rationality, COVID-19, Talismans, and Life on the Margins

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Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us by Russ Roberts | Amazon EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious with Russ Roberts Gambling with Other People’s Money: How Perverse Incentives Caused the Financial Crisis by Russ Roberts | Amazon How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness by Russ Roberts | Amazon The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity by Russ Roberts | Amazon The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance by Russ Roberts | Amazon The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protection by Russ Roberts | Amazon Eulogy for My Father (Expanded) by Russ Roberts | Medium Shalem Meaning in The Old Testament | Bible Study Tools Fear the Boom and Bust: The 1st Keynes vs. Hayek Rap Battle | Emergent Order Fight of the Century: The 2nd Keynes vs. Hayek Rap Battle | Emergent Order The Pretense of Knowledge by Friedrich August von Hayek | Nobel Prize Who Was Friedrich Hayek? What Was His Economic Theory? | Investopedia What Is Scientism, and Why Is It a Mistake? | Big Think Who Was John Maynard Keynes? What Is Keynesian Economics? | Investopedia The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by F.A. Hayek | Amazon Man of System | Adam Smith Works Unintended Consequences | Econlib The Cost of Raising a Child in the United States | Investopedia Did Lord Kelvin Say: “If You Cannot Measure It, You Cannot Improve It?” | Skeptics Charles Darwin’s List of the Pros and Cons of Marriage | The Marginalian What is Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Demonstrandum)? | Carneades.org The Odyssey by Homer | Amazon Alain de Botton: Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person | The School of Life Blue Pill or Red Pill Scene | The Matrix A Psychological Tip by Piet Hein | My Poetic Side Economies of Scale | Investopedia My Fair Lady | Prime Video I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face | My Fair Lady The New England Patriots How a Book on Stoicism Became Wildly Popular at Every Level of the NFL | Sports Illustrated Shalem College The Second Temple | Jewish Virtual Library “Trip of Compassion” — The Most Compelling Movie I’ve Seen In The Last Year | Tim Ferriss Jerusalem: The Old City | Jewish Virtual Library The Temple Mount in Jerusalem | Blue Letter Bible Omicron Variant: What You Need to Know | CDC What Life Was Like During the London Blitz | JSTOR Daily How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Changed Americans’ Personal Lives | Pew Research Center Shabbat 101 | My Jewish Learning Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Amazon Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Rationality, Risk, and Skin in the Game | EconTalk Great Falls Park | US National Park Service The Collapse of Lehman Brothers: A Case Study | Investopedia What Is the Talmud? | My Jewish Learning Russ Roberts and the Quest to Make Economics Interesting | Priceonomics Tyler Cowen on Reading | EconTalk Russ Roberts on Life as an Economics Educator | Conversations with Tyler Immanent Definition & Meaning | Merriam-Webster Best Bay Area Spots for Stargazing | Things to Do | bayareaparent.com Yosemite National Park | US National Park Service The Negev Desert | Jewish Virtual Library Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine by Alan Lightman | Amazon Next to Normal | Broadway Musical Home Psychedelics 101: Books, Documentaries, Podcasts, Science, and More | Tim FerrissSHOW NOTES[06:36] How Russ’ father chose to cultivate fatherhood.[10:45] Does quality time demand quantity time?[12:31] What does Shalem mean?[14:10] What’s wrong with scientism?[20:56] The curious task of economics, according to F.A. Hayek.[23:18] What is a Hayekian?[25:09] What prompted Russ to write Wild Problems?[29:05] How Russ’ ideas about data have changed over the years.[33:04] Making decisions: Charles Darwin vs. Homer vs. Russ.[43:30] What makes people ideal life partners?[52:19] Marriage as a form of growing up.[56:53] Life lessons from Bill Belichick.[1:02:04] Why Russ and his wife decided to move to Israel.[1:07:45] Impressions of Jerusalem since making the move.[1:13:34] The role of religion in Russ’ life.[1:22:00] Life lessons from Nassim Nicholas Taleb.[1:29:16] Thoughts on The Talmud, reading, and spending time in a finite life.[1:35:14] You don’t have to be religious to have transcendent experiences.[1:41:31] Tips for staying humble.[1:48:48] Parting thoughts.MORE GUEST QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“There are two kinds of ignorance. There are the things we don’t know, and then there are the things we think we know that aren’t true. The things we know that we don’t know that we wish we understood, we wish we had access to the truth. There are things we think we’ve discovered as true that in fact are not.”
— Russ Roberts

“Yes, sometimes the future is somewhat like the past, except for when it isn’t and then it smacks you in the face.”
— Russ Roberts

“The sources that make our life deeply meaningful and purposeful are not just the day-to-day things. There are overarching senses of who we are and how we see ourselves and the meaning and purpose we have in life that are ultimately more important in these kinds of decisions. And these kinds of decisions—which are whether to get married, whether to have kids, how many kids to have, whether to move to Israel, whether to take a new job, whether to study something crazy at college—those decisions are not amenable to data.”
— Russ Roberts

“I don’t like it when people say, ‘You have to work at your marriage. You have to work at it.’ That’s not the way I think of my marriage. I work at crossword puzzles. I work at ditch digging. I work at brightening up my notes for my next podcast. But what you do have to do is you have to treat your partner as a partner, as opposed to somebody who lives with you, who’s a plus to have as a roommate. They’re two different things.”
— Russ Roberts

“Religion, meditation, psychotherapy, marriage—they’re all about self-awareness, if they’re done well. They’re all about recognizing that you’re a part of a much bigger picture than you feel like most of the time. I think that’s really helpful and incredibly satisfying when you sense it.”
— Russ Roberts

“One of the things you learn from economics is trade-offs. Trade-offs are really obvious when you think about them, but like many things we’re talking about in this conversation, they’re hard to remember to think about.”
— Russ Roberts

“What was once destiny is now a decision.”
— Russ Roberts

“If you read a book a week, which is a lot, you’re going to read about 50 books a year. If you’re around for about 50 years of reading, maybe a little more, but it’s 2,500 books. That’s it. That’s it. There’s 100,000 books, I think, maybe more, I don’t even remember now how many books are published a year — maybe it’s a million. It’s a big number.”
— Russ Roberts

“The world often emerges from the bottom up and not just from the top down. And many things that are orderly, that we see around us, are not designed by anyone, but rather emerge from the individual choices we make.”
— Russ Roberts

PEOPLE MENTIONEDChristopher Hitchens Martha Nussbaum Michael Lewis Angela Duckworth Nassim Nicholas Taleb John Maynard Keynes Friedrich August Hayek Robert Frost Edna St. Vincent Millay Tyler Cowen John Papola Adam Smith Karl Marx Vladimir Lenin Mao Zedong Lord Kelvin Ernest Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald Charles Darwin Penelope Ulysses Telemachus Alain de Botton Piet Hein William Shakespeare Jane Austen Henry Higgins Eliza Doolittle Anne Lamott Bill Belichick Herod the Great Joseph Campbell Viktor Frankl Yehuda Amichai Paul McCartney Bruce Springsteen Milton Friedman Matt Mullenweg Seth Roberts Alan Lightman Rachel Bay Jones

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Russ Roberts on Lessons from F.A. Hayek and Nassim Taleb, Decision-Making Insights from Charles Darwin, The Dangers of Scientism, Wild Problems in Life and the Decisions that Define Us, Learnings from the Talmud, The Role of Prayer, and The Journey to Tran

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“What was once destiny is now a decision.”
— Russ Roberts

Russ Roberts (@EconTalker) is the President of Shalem College in Jerusalem and the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Russ is interested in making complicated ideas understandable. He founded and hosts the award-winning weekly podcast EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious — with more than 800 episodes available in the archives. Past guests include Christopher Hitchens, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Lewis, Angela Duckworth, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb. His two rap videos on the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek have more than 13 million views on YouTube.

His latest book, Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us, explores the challenges of using rationality when facing big life decisions. He is also the author of Gambling With Other People’s Money, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life, The Price of Everything, The Invisible Heart, and The Choice.

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 Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement, Eight Sleep’s Pod Pro Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating, and Pique premium pu’er tea crystals. More on all three below.

Listen onApple Podcasts [image error]Listen onSpotify [image error]Listen onOvercast#613: Russ Roberts on Lessons from F.A. Hayek and Nassim Taleb, Decision-Making Insights from Charles Darwin, The Dangers of Scientism, Wild Problems in Life and the Decisions that Define Us, Learnings from the Talmud, The Role of Prayer, and The Journey to Transcendence

This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep! Eight Sleep’s Pod Pro 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 Pro 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.

And now, my dear listeners—that’s you—can get $250 off the Pod Pro Cover. Simply go to EightSleep.com/Tim or use code TIM at checkout.

This episode is brought to you by Pique! I first learned about Pique through my friends Dr. Peter Attia and Kevin Rose, and now Pique’s fermented pu’er tea crystals have become my daily go-to. I often kickstart my mornings with their Pu’er Green Tea and Pu’er Black Tea, and I alternate between the two. This rare type of naturally fermented tea is more concentrated in polyphenol antioxidants than any other tea—it supports focus and mental clarity, healthy digestion, metabolism, and a healthy immune system. Their crystals are cold extracted, using only wild-harvested leaves from 250-year-old tea trees. Plus, they triple toxin screen for heavy metals, pesticides, and toxic mold—contaminants commonly found in tea. I also use the crystals for iced tea, which saves a ton of time and hassle.

Pique is offering up to 20% off of their pu’er teas, exclusively to my listeners. To sweeten the deal even more, you’ll get a free sampler pack with 6 of their best-selling teas. Simply visit PiqueLife.com/Tim, and the discount will be automatically applied. They also offer a 30-day satisfaction guarantee, so your purchase is completely risk-free. Just go to PiqueLife.com/Tim to learn more.

This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens. I get asked all the time, “If you could use only one supplement, what would it be?” My answer is usually AG1 by Athletic Greens, 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 AG further covers my bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health and the immune system.

Right now, Athletic Greens is offering you their Vitamin D Liquid Formula free with your first subscription purchase—a vital nutrient for a strong immune system and strong bones. Visit AthleticGreens.com/Tim to claim this special offer today and receive the free Vitamin D Liquid Formula (and five free 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.

Want to hear a podcast episode with someone who frequently collaborates with Russ Roberts? Listen to my interview with devoted economics educator Tyler Cowen in which we discuss his goal to teach economics to more people than anyone else in the history of the world, the mental benefits of listening to complex music, remaining meta-rational during times of duress or panic, fiction recommendations for nonfiction purists, learning from those who offend us, the writing process, committing to kindness, and much more.

#413: Tyler Cowen on Rationality, COVID-19, Talismans, and Life on the Margins

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Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us by Russ Roberts | Amazon EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious with Russ Roberts Gambling with Other People’s Money: How Perverse Incentives Caused the Financial Crisis by Russ Roberts | Amazon How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness by Russ Roberts | Amazon The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity by Russ Roberts | Amazon The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance by Russ Roberts | Amazon The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protection by Russ Roberts | Amazon Eulogy for My Father (Expanded) by Russ Roberts | Medium Shalem Meaning in The Old Testament | Bible Study Tools Fear the Boom and Bust: The 1st Keynes vs. Hayek Rap Battle | Emergent Order Fight of the Century: The 2nd Keynes vs. Hayek Rap Battle | Emergent Order The Pretense of Knowledge by Friedrich August von Hayek | Nobel Prize Who Was Friedrich Hayek? What Was His Economic Theory? | Investopedia What Is Scientism, and Why Is It a Mistake? | Big Think Who Was John Maynard Keynes? What Is Keynesian Economics? | Investopedia The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by F.A. Hayek | Amazon Man of System | Adam Smith Works Unintended Consequences | Econlib The Cost of Raising a Child in the United States | Investopedia Did Lord Kelvin Say: “If You Cannot Measure It, You Cannot Improve It?” | Skeptics Charles Darwin’s List of the Pros and Cons of Marriage | The Marginalian What is Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Demonstrandum)? | Carneades.org The Odyssey by Homer | Amazon Alain de Botton: Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person | The School of Life Blue Pill or Red Pill Scene | The Matrix A Psychological Tip by Piet Hein | My Poetic Side Economies of Scale | Investopedia My Fair Lady | Prime Video I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face | My Fair Lady The New England Patriots How a Book on Stoicism Became Wildly Popular at Every Level of the NFL | Sports Illustrated Shalem College The Second Temple | Jewish Virtual Library “Trip of Compassion” — The Most Compelling Movie I’ve Seen In The Last Year | Tim Ferriss Jerusalem: The Old City | Jewish Virtual Library The Temple Mount in Jerusalem | Blue Letter Bible Omicron Variant: What You Need to Know | CDC What Life Was Like During the London Blitz | JSTOR Daily How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Changed Americans’ Personal Lives | Pew Research Center Shabbat 101 | My Jewish Learning Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Amazon Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Rationality, Risk, and Skin in the Game | EconTalk Great Falls Park | US National Park Service The Collapse of Lehman Brothers: A Case Study | Investopedia What Is the Talmud? | My Jewish Learning Russ Roberts and the Quest to Make Economics Interesting | Priceonomics Tyler Cowen on Reading | EconTalk Russ Roberts on Life as an Economics Educator | Conversations with Tyler Immanent Definition & Meaning | Merriam-Webster Best Bay Area Spots for Stargazing | Things to Do | bayareaparent.com Yosemite National Park | US National Park Service The Negev Desert | Jewish Virtual Library Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine by Alan Lightman | Amazon Next to Normal | Broadway Musical Home Psychedelics 101: Books, Documentaries, Podcasts, Science, and More | Tim FerrissSHOW NOTES[06:42] How Russ’ father chose to cultivate fatherhood.[10:51] Does quality time demand quantity time?[12:37] What does Shalem mean?[14:16] What’s wrong with scientism?[21:02] The curious task of economics, according to F.A. Hayek.[23:24] What is a Hayekian?[25:15] What prompted Russ to write Wild Problems?[29:11] How Russ’ ideas about data have changed over the years.[33:10] Making decisions: Charles Darwin vs. Homer vs. Russ.[43:36] What makes people ideal life partners?[52:25] Marriage as a form of growing up.[56:59] Life lessons from Bill Belichick.[1:02:10] Why Russ and his wife decided to move to Israel.[1:07:51] Impressions of Jerusalem since making the move.[1:13:40] The role of religion in Russ’ life.[1:22:06] Life lessons from Nassim Nicholas Taleb.[1:29:22] Thoughts on The Talmud, reading, and spending time in a finite life.[1:35:20] You don’t have to be religious to have transcendent experiences.[1:41:37] Tips for staying humble.[1:48:54] Parting thoughts.MORE GUEST QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“There are two kinds of ignorance. There are the things we don’t know, and then there are the things we think we know that aren’t true. The things we know that we don’t know that we wish we understood, we wish we had access to the truth. There are things we think we’ve discovered as true that in fact are not.”
— Russ Roberts

“Yes, sometimes the future is somewhat like the past, except for when it isn’t and then it smacks you in the face.”
— Russ Roberts

“The sources that make our life deeply meaningful and purposeful are not just the day-to-day things. There are overarching senses of who we are and how we see ourselves and the meaning and purpose we have in life that are ultimately more important in these kinds of decisions. And these kinds of decisions — which are whether to get married, whether to have kids, how many kids to have, whether to move to Israel, whether to take a new job, whether to study something crazy at college — those decisions are not amenable to data.”
— Russ Roberts

“I don’t like it when people say, ‘You have to work at your marriage. You have to work at it.’ That’s not the way I think of my marriage. I work at crossword puzzles. I work at ditch digging. I work at brightening up my notes for my next podcast. But what you do have to do is you have to treat your partner as a partner, as opposed to somebody who lives with you, who’s a plus to have as a roommate. They’re two different things.”
— Russ Roberts

“Religion, meditation, psychotherapy, marriage, they’re all about self-awareness, if they’re done well. They’re all about recognizing that you’re a part of a much bigger picture than you feel like most of the time. I think that’s really helpful and incredibly satisfying when you sense it.”
— Russ Roberts

“One of the things you learn from economics is trade-offs. Trade-offs are really obvious when you think about them, but like many things we’re talking about in this conversation, they’re hard to remember to think about.”
— Russ Roberts

“What was once destiny is now a decision.”
— Russ Roberts

“If you read a book a week, which is a lot, you’re going to read about 50 books a year. If you’re around for about 50 years of reading, maybe a little more, but it’s 2,500 books. That’s it. That’s it. There’s 100,000 books, I think, maybe more, I don’t even remember now how many books are published a year — maybe it’s a million. It’s a big number.”
— Russ Roberts

“The world often emerges from the bottom up and not just from the top down. And many things that are orderly, that we see around us, are not designed by anyone, but rather emerge from the individual choices we make.”
— Russ Roberts

PEOPLE MENTIONEDChristopher Hitchens Martha Nussbaum Michael Lewis Angela Duckworth Nassim Nicholas Taleb John Maynard Keynes Friedrich August Hayek Robert Frost Edna St. Vincent Millay Tyler Cowen John Papola Adam Smith Karl Marx Vladimir Lenin Mao Zedong Lord Kelvin Ernest Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald Charles Darwin Penelope Ulysses Telemachus Alain de Botton Piet Hein William Shakespeare Jane Austen Henry Higgins Eliza Doolittle Anne Lamott Bill Belichick Herod the Great Joseph Campbell Viktor Frankl Yehuda Amichai Paul McCartney Bruce Springsteen Milton Friedman Matt Mullenweg Seth Roberts Alan Lightman Rachel Bay Jones

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Will MacAskill of Effective Altruism Fame — The Value of Longtermism, Tools for Beating Stress and Overwhelm, AI Scenarios, High-Impact Books, and How to Save the World and Be an Agent of Change (#612)

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“I often think to myself, ‘Could I justify my life now to my 15-year-old self?’ And if the answer is no, then I’m a bit like, ‘Oh, what are you doing? You’re not living up to what earlier Will would’ve wanted for present Will.'”
— Will MacAskill

William MacAskill (@willmacaskill) is an associate professor in philosophy at the University of Oxford. At the time of his appointment, he was the youngest associate professor of philosophy in the world. A Forbes 30 Under 30 social entrepreneur, he also cofounded the nonprofits Giving What We Can, the Centre for Effective Altruism, and Y Combinator-backed 80,000 Hours, which together have moved over $200 million to effective charities. You can find my 2015 conversation with Will at tim.blog/will.

His new book is What We Owe the Future. It is blurbed by several guests of the podcast, including Sam Harris, who wrote, “No living philosopher has had a greater impact upon my ethics than Will MacAskill. . . . This is an altogether thrilling and necessary book.”

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Want to hear the first time Will MacAskill was on this podcast? Have a listen to my 2015 interview with Will MacAskill here, in which we discuss how to take a scientific approach to doing good, charity spending for the poorest of the poor versus investing in future generations, the perils of pursuing your passion, underrated existential threats, life decision frameworks, and much more.

#120: Will MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Y Combinator, and Artificial Intelligence

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What We Owe the Future by Will MacAskill | Amazon You can get 50% off pre-ordering What We Owe The Future with the code FERRISS50 at this link: https://bookshop.org/books/what-we-owe-the-future/9781541618626Maximise Your Charitable Impact | Giving What We Can Combining Empathy with Evidence | Centre For Effective Altruism 80,000 Hours Teeter Hang Ups Gravity Boots | Amazon Practical Ethics by Peter Singer | Amazon Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom | Amazon The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord | Amazon The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joe Henrich | Amazon The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joe Henrich | Amazon Richard Dawkins on the Internet’s Hijacking of the Word ‘Meme’ | Wired UK Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky | Amazon Existentialism | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy What Is Nihilism? | Verywell Mind What is Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Demonstrandum)? | Carneades.org Pascal’s Wager about God | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Pascal’s Mugging | LessWrong Effective Altruism Is About Doing Good Better | Effective Altruism Against Malaria Foundation Improving Animal Welfare | Giving What We Can Why Cage-Free Eggs Becoming Norm: It’s What People Want | ABC News Beneficial Artificial Intelligence | Giving What We Can Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness | Giving What We Can Dr. Vivek Murthy — Former Surgeon General on Combating COVID-19, Loneliness, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #417 Charity Research | GiveWell The Easiest, Most Effective Way to Donate | Effective Altruism Funds ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’: The Real Reason Why Steven Spielberg’s Alien Eats Reese’s Pieces | Showbiz Cheat Sheet How Much Caffeine is Too Much? | Cleveland Clinic Teeter EZ-Up Gravity Boots | Amazon BOSU Balance Trailer | Amazon Seven Benefits of Doing Squats and Variations to Try | Healthline How to Goblet Squat | Men’s Health Squatting and Culture: A Comparative Analysis of Informal Developments in Latin America and the Middle East | Habitat International 12 Plank Exercises That Will Fire Up Your Entire Core and Make Your Workout Way More Fun | SELF Kid ‘n Play Dance Scene | House Party Pso-Rite Psoas Muscle Release and Deep Tissue Massage Tool | Amazon Longtermism: An Introduction | Effective Altruism Democracy vs. Totalitarianism: A Suggestive Approach | iPleaders Timeline of the Human Condition | C. Patrick Doncaster My Twelve Rules for Life by Russ Roberts | Medium Everybody Worships: David Foster Wallace on Real Freedom and the Skeleton of Every Great Story | Mockingbird What Are the Four Noble Truths? | Lion’s Roar What Has Posterity Ever Done for Us? | Quote Investigator Children of Men | Prime Video Why Getting the Big Picture Roughly Right Is More Important Than Focusing on Details | Stockholm Resilience Centre How Close Are We to World War III? | BU Today Value Lock-In | Effective Altruism Forum Hundred Schools of Thought | Wikipedia The Development of Confucianism in Ancient China | Constitutional Rights Foundation Hànyŭ Pīnyīn | Wikipedia Death Of A Nation: The Khmer Rouge’s Cambodia | Rare Earth Act of Uniformity 1662 | UK Parliament What Are The Most Pressing Dangers Of AI? | One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University AlphaGo | DeepMind Does Pornography Still Drive The Internet? | BBC News DALL·E 2 | OpenAI Fighting Deepfakes When Detection Fails | Brookings Institution Far-UVC Light Inactivates Pathogens Like Coronaviruses | Christie Let’s Build A Flourishing Future | Future Fund What are Trigger-Action Plans (TAPs)? | LessWrong 18 Braw Scottish Words & Their Meanings | VisitScotland Dr. Jane Goodall — The Legend, The Lessons, The Hope | The Tim Ferriss Show #421 Industrialization and Imperialism | Khan Academy Mohism | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Trebuchet | Wikipedia How to Throw an Atlatl | Live Free or Die: DIY Bald Eagle Sends Government Drone Into Lake Michigan | The New York Times Our Pledge | Giving What We Can Long-Term Future Fund | Effective Altruism Funds The Effective Altruism Community’s Annual Conference | EA Global EAGx | EA Global In Our Time | BBC Radio 4 The 80,000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin Hear This Idea Rationally Speaking Podcast Our World in DataSHOW NOTES[07:20] Recommended reading.[13:26] How Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment changed Will’s life.[18:12] Maintaining optimism in the age of doomscrolling.[23:41] What is effective altruism?[26:04] Resources for maximizing the impact of your philanthropy.[27:45] How adopting a check-in system has most improved Will’s life.[32:32] Caffeine limits.[34:08] Effective back pain relief.[41:18] What is longtermism, and why did Will write What We Owe the Future?[43:44] Future generations matter.[46:42] Finding the line between apathy and fatalism that spurs action toward ensuring there’s a future.[52:23] What Will hopes readers take away from What We Owe the Future.[55:56] What is value lock-in?[1:01:38] Most concerning threats projected over the next 10 years.[1:09:28] Most promising developments happening now.[1:13:47] How Will refocuses during periods of overwhelm.[1:18:48] Perils of AI considered plausible by the people who create it.[1:30:42] Longtermist-minded resources and actions we can take now.[1:36:29] Parting thoughts.MORE GUEST QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“I often think to myself, ‘Could I justify my life now to my 15-year-old self?’ And if the answer is no, then I’m a bit like, ‘Oh, what are you doing? You’re not living up to what earlier Will would’ve wanted for present Will.'”
— Will MacAskill

“I give away most of my income, which is a very unusual thing to do. And you might think, oh, that’s a sacrifice that’s making my life worse, but actually I find it kind of empowering because I am making an autonomous decision. I am not merely following the dictates of what social convention is telling me to do, but I’m reasoning about things from first principles and then making a decision that’s genuinely, authentically mine.”
— Will MacAskill

“In the last podcast, we talked a lot about global health and development and what’s the difference you can make? Well, if you are a middle-class member of a rich country, it’s on the order of saving dozens, hundreds, maybe even thousands of lives over the course of your life, if you put your mind to it. That’s huge. Now, we’re talking about existential risks and the long-term future of humanity. What’s the difference you can make? You can play a part in being pivotal in putting humanity onto a better trajectory for, not just centuries, but for thousands, millions, or even billions of years.”
— Will MacAskill

“The amount of good that you can do is truly enormous. You can have cosmic significance, and that’s pretty inspiring.”
— Will MacAskill

“When you think about the difference you can make rather than just focusing on the magnitude of the problems, I think there’s every reason for optimism.”
— Will MacAskill

“Even just the progress we’ve made over the last few hundred years, people today have far, far better lives. If you extrapolate that out just a few hundred years more, let alone thousands of years, then there’s at least a good chance that we could have a future where everyone lives, not just as well as the best people alive today, but maybe tens, hundreds, thousands of times better.”
— Will MacAskill

“One thing I think that a lot of people find motivating is this thought that you’re part of this grand project, much, much grander than yourself, of trying to build a good and flourishing society over the course of not just centuries, but thousands of years, and that’s one way in which our lives have meaning.”
— Will MacAskill

“We face truly enormous challenges in our life. Many of these challenges are very scary. They can be overwhelming. They can be intimidating. But I really believe that each of us individually can make an enormous difference to these problems. We really can significantly help as part of a wider community to putting humanity onto a better path. And if we do, then the future really could be long and absolutely flourishing. And your great-great-grandkids will thank you.”
— Will MacAskill

PEOPLE MENTIONEDSam Harris Peter Singer Nick Bostrom Toby Ord Joe Henrich Aristotle Richard Dawkins Fyodor Dostoevsky Søren Kierkegaard Blaise Pascal Laura Pomarius E.T.Christopher Reid Christopher Martin Russ Roberts David Foster Wallace Jesus Allah YHWH The Triple Goddess John Stuart Mill Confucius Niccolò Machiavelli Laozi Mozi Ying Zheng Pol Pot Joseph Stalin Adolf Hitler Andy Warhol Boris Johnson Joe Biden Shrek George Orwell Melvyn Bragg Fin Moorhouse Luca Righetti Julia Galef

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Published on August 02, 2022 11:53

Liv Boeree, Poker and Life — Core Strategies, Turning $500 into $1.7M, Cage Dancing, Game Theory, and Metaphysical Curiosities (#611)

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“Poker is about maximizing deceptiveness while extracting information out of your opponent.”
— Liv Boeree

Liv Boeree (@Liv_Boeree) is one of the UK’s most successful poker players, winning both European Poker Tour and World Series of Poker championship titles during her professional career. Before poker she studied astrophysics and now focuses her time as a TV host and YouTuber specializing in game theory, futurism, and rationality. She also gives seminars on high-stakes decision-making, and recently spoke at the annual TED conference about the application of poker thinking to everyday life. In 2014, she co-founded Raising for Effective Giving (REG), a nonprofit based upon the philosophies of effective altruism that raised over $12,000,000 for its carefully selected list of maximally cost-effective charities.

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Want to hear another episode that ponders the nature of 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

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Raising for Effective Giving Master of Puppets by Metallica | Amazon Music Liv Boeree: The “Iron Maiden” of the Poker World | Metal Insider Iron Maiden Vulgar Display of Power by Pantera | Amazon Music Nu Metal | Wikipedia Dimmu Borgir Burzum Ultimate Poker Showdown Bumper | YouTube Explaining “Rebuy” in Poker | Liveabout.com How to Spot a Liar, According to a Pro Poker Player | Inc.com The All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks, & Friedberg How to Calculate Pot Odds in Poker | Upswing Poker PioSOLVER Poker Terms: Rainbow | PokerNews A Beginner’s Guide to Game Theory Optimal (GTO) Poker | 888 Poker The Six Types of Tilt | Poker Stars Learn Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | Amazon Of Two Minds: How Fast and Slow Thinking Shape Perception and Choice | Scientific American Liv Boeree Wins the 2010 EPT Sanremo | PokerStars Eyjafjallajökull 2010: How Icelandic Volcano Eruption Closed European Skies | NCAS Surrender by The Chemical Brothers | Amazon Music The Sixth Sense | Prime Video Meniere’s Disease Symptoms and Causes | Mayo Clinic Burning Man | Liv Boeree Professor Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality, Beyond Spacetime, Rethinking Death, Panpsychism, QBism, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #585 Quantum Spookiness Spans the Canary Islands | Scientific American Is Human Consciousness Creating Reality? | Big Think Lynne Kelly on Memory Palaces, Ancient and Modern | Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast #60 Understanding Confidence Intervals | Scribbr Studying Studies | Peter Attia The Magic and Power of Placebo | The Tim Ferriss Show #194 Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal by Erik Vance | Amazon Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why. | WIRED List of Cognitive Biases and Heuristics | The Decision Lab Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger | Amazon The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t by Julia Galef | Amazon LessWrong Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky Nash Equilibrium | Investopedia Moloch: The Beauty Wars | Liv BoereeSHOW NOTES[06:41] Youthful obsessions.[11:14] How poker entered the picture.[18:55] The qualities that made Liv excel at poker from the start.[27:22] Liv’s advice to a newcomer wanting to learn poker.[34:04] What Liv’s eight-week poker education curriculum might look like.[42:11] Failure points that might discourage someone during this curriculum.[44:07] Red mist, white noise, and fast math.[50:18] Volcano-induced tournament participation and self-regulation.[59:07] A skeptic’s experiences with the unexplainable.[1:14:59] How does Liv rationally coexist with these experiences?[1:18:49] How to become a better skeptic.[1:24:59] Inadequate Equilibria and Moloch.[1:29:49] Parting thoughts.MORE LIV BOEREE QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“The beautiful thing about poker, in fact, is that if you’re talking about one night, you can have the literal best player in the world, a medium player, complete beginners, and provided everyone knows the basic rules, then technically, anyone can win. It’s only over the long run does anything actually meaningful start happening.”
— Liv Boeree

“I still absolutely recommend that people go and learn the game, because it is probably the best way to — it’s the best mini analog for the type of complex decision making that you need to do in life that you can do.”
— Liv Boeree

“[Poker is] about maximizing deceptiveness while extracting information out of your opponent.”
— Liv Boeree

“A true scientist is maximally curious and you do your best to devise experiments in order to get reliable, robust results that you can use to predict the world, and you try and minimize all the biases and things that could mess up your experiment and give you faulty result.”
— Liv Boeree

“Extraordinary beliefs require extraordinary evidence. In order for me to give up everything that I know about our current understanding of the world, I would need significantly more data points.”
— Liv Boeree

PEOPLE MENTIONEDPhilip H. Anselmo Jason Calacanis Phil Gordon Elaine Cross Molly Ferriss Matt Ginsberg Achilles Daniel Kahneman Igor Kurganov Melanie Weisner Donald Hoffman Dr. Michio Kaku Albert Einstein Niels Bohr Sean Carroll Peter Attia Erik Vance Charlie Munger Julia Galef Eliezer Yudkowsky Moloch

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The Life-Extension Episode — Dr. Matt Kaeberlein on The Dog Aging Project, Rapamycin, Metformin, Spermidine, NAD+ Precursors, Urolithin A, Acarbose, and Much More (#610)

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“I constantly tell the people in my lab and other scientists, ‘You’ve got to do the experiment.’ You cannot go into it thinking that you know the answer and not do the experiment because your dogmatic belief says, ‘This is how it’s going to work.’ You’ve got to do the experiment.”
— Dr. Matt Kaeberlein

Dr. Matt Kaeberlein (@mkaeberlein) is a professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, with adjunct appointments in Genome Sciences and Oral Health Sciences. Dr. Kaeberlein’s research interests are focused on understanding biological mechanisms of aging in order to facilitate translational interventions that promote healthspan and improve quality of life for people and companion animals.

Dr. Kaeberlein is the founding director of the University of Washington Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute, the director of the NIH Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging at the University of Washington, director of the Biological Mechanisms of Healthy Aging Training Program, and founder and co-director of the Dog Aging Project.

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#193: My Life Extension Pilgrimage to Easter Island

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Longer, Healthier Lives for All Dogs… And Their Humans | Dog Aging Project Understanding of the Biology of Aging | National Institute on Aging What is X-Ray Crystallography? | The Conversation Saccharomyces Cerevisiae | Wikipedia The Leonard Guarente Lab | MIT Western Washington University Minute to Understanding: Lifespan vs. Healthspan | The Jackson Laboratory Frozen Shoulder Symptoms and Causes | Mayo Clinic Rotator Cuff Injury Symptoms and Causes | Mayo Clinic Sterile Inflammation: Sensing and Reacting to Damage | Nature Reviews Immunology What Is Rapamycin? | New Scientist Senescent Cells: An Emerging Target for Diseases of Ageing | Nature Reviews Drug Discovery Apoptosis | National Human Genome Research Institute Inflammatory Cytokine | Wikipedia Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype | Wikipedia First Evidence That Senolytics Are Effective at Decreasing Senescent Cells in Humans | eBioMedicine My Life Extension Pilgrimage to Easter Island | The Tim Ferriss Show #193 mTOR (Mammalian Target of Rapamycin) | Wikipedia The Peter Attia Drive Podcast Rapamycin Fights Gum Disease and Spurs Bone Growth in Older Mice | Dentistry Today How to Fight Sarcopenia (Muscle Loss Due to Aging) | Healthline The Reproductive Aging Conference | FASEB Sirolimus | MedlinePlus Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien | Amazon Rapamycin and Alzheimer’s Disease: Time for a Clinical Trial? | Science Translational Medicine Rapamycin-Mediated Mouse Lifespan Extension: Late-Life Dosage Regimes with Sex-Specific Effects | Aging Cell Uncoupling Lifespan and Healthspan in Caenorhabditis Elegans Longevity Mutants | PNAS Calorie Restriction and Fasting Diets: What Do We Know? | National Institute on Aging Interventions Testing Program (ITP) | National Institute on Aging Acarbose | MedlinePlus Lifespan-Increasing Drug Nordihydroguaiaretic Acid Inhibits p300 and Activates Autophagy | NPJ Aging and Mechanisms of Disease Targeting Aging with Metformin (TAME) | American Federation for Aging Research What Is Alpha-Ketoglutarate? A Summary of AKG | Lifespan Extension Advocacy Foundation Spermidine: Autophagy & Anti-Aging Research | The Sheekey Science Show Nobel Prize for Research on the Cellular Recycling Program | Spermidine LIFE Higher Spermidine Intake Is Linked to Lower Mortality: A Prospective Population-Based Study | The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Impact of the Natural Compound Urolithin A on Health, Disease, and Aging | Trends in Molecular Medicine Mitophagy: An Emerging Role in Aging and Age-Associated Diseases | Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology Male Lifespan Extension with 17‐α Estradiol Is Linked to a Sex‐Specific Metabolomic Response Modulated by Gonadal Hormones in Mice | Aging Cell Parkinson’s Drug Deprenyl Increases Lifespan in Rats | Longevity Technology Smart Drugs & Nutrients: How to Improve Your Memory and Increase Your Intelligence Using the Latest Discoveries in Neuroscience by Ward Dean and John Morgenthaler | Amazon The Significance of Selegiline/Deprenyl After 50 Years in Research and Therapy (1965–2015) | Molecular Psychiatry (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide) NAD⁺ Precursors | About NAD The 8 Most Popular Ways to Do a Low-Carb Diet | Healthline What Is Resistance Training and Why Is it Important? | Verywell Fit Dr. Andrew Huberman — A Neurobiologist on Optimizing Sleep, Enhancing Performance, Reducing Anxiety, Increasing Testosterone, and Using the Body to Control the Mind | The Tim Ferriss Show #521 Study Finds Dogs Fed a Reduced-Calorie Diet Live Nearly Two Years Longer than Dogs on Unrestricted Diet | Penn Today Once-Daily Feeding Is Associated with Better Cognitive Function and Health in Companion Dogs: Results from the Dog Aging Project | GeroScience Saudi Government Begins Funding Longevity | Lifespan Extension Advocacy Foundation Hevolution Foundation “Cancer Was the Second Leading Cause of Death…” | Matt Kaeberlein, Twitter What is Geroscience? | American Federation for Aging Research Development & Approval Process for Drugs | FDA FDA Authorizes Marketing of the First Genetic Test to Aid in the Diagnosis of Fragile X Syndrome | FDA Here’s Why resTORbio Fell Over 83% Today | The Motley Fool Targeting the Biology of Ageing with mTOR Inhibitors to Improve Immune Function in Older Adults: Phase 2B and Phase 3 Randomised Trials | The Lancet Healthy Longevity The Gerontological Society of America Testing Positive for Sprinting | The Washington Post The Sixth Sense | Prime Video “Short-Lived Controls…” | Matt Kaeberlein, Twitter Studying Studies | Peter Attia Metformin | MedlinePlus NAD+ IV Therapy: All You Need to Know About NAD Infusion | Glendale, CA: Glendale Whole Health NMN vs. NR | NMN.com The SIR2/3/4 Complex and SIR2 Alone Promote Longevity in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae by Two Different Mechanisms | Genes Development Sirtuins, a Promising Target in Slowing Down the Ageing Process | Biogerontology Dr. Heidi Tissenbaum: Lessons From C. Elegans to Increase Healthspan | Longevity by Design Red Wine Ingredient Makes Yeast Live Longer | Nature Red Wine and Resveratrol: Good for Your Heart? | Mayo Clinic Sirtris Pharmaceuticals | Wikipedia Annual Meeting | American Aging Association Brian Kennedy Moiety (Chemistry) | Wikipedia The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon Resveratrol Side Effects and Possible Health Dangers | Urology of Virginia Cherry Picking: When People Ignore Evidence that They Dislike | Effectiviology Centre for Ageing Research & Education (CARE)SHOW NOTES

Note from the editor: Timestamps will be added shortly.

What is aging biology?How Matt pivoted from mathematics to biology.What is the Dog Aging Project?Understanding healthspan through Matt’s frozen shoulder ordeal.Rapamycin vs. sterile inflammation.Current thoughts about how the immune system changes as we age.Anti-aging uses for rapamycin (and potential risks/side effects).Rapamycin and the Dog Aging Project.Rapamycin vs. neurodegeneration.What studies tell us about rapamycin’s potential to increase lifespan.Rapamycin alternatives considered for the Dog Aging Project.Urolithin A and spermidine.17 alpha estradiol.Deprenyl.NAD precursors.What is Matt doing to increase his own lifespan/healthspan?Is time-restricted feeding beneficial for dogs?Currently, how well (or poorly) funded is longevity research?Where additional funding in this field would be best leveraged.Cutting through the hype and snake oil.Metformin.NAD infusion vs. natural NAD replenishment.Sirtuins.Resveratrol.Is there a fix to liability in defensive medicine?Finding better motivations for scientific pursuit.Longevity scientists worth checking out.Getting involved with the Dog Aging Project and parting thoughts.MORE DR. MATT KAEBERLEIN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“If you look at almost all of the major killers in developed countries, they all share a single greatest risk factor, and it’s how old you are. And that’s because of the underlying biology that creates a change in our physiology that is permissive for all of those diseases to happen.”
— Dr. Matt Kaeberlein

“We’ve got these misbehaving cells. They’re good-for-nothing, do-nothing cells that just kind of hang out and convince the other cells to do bad stuff. So if we could get rid of them, that’d be a good thing. It turns out it’s probably not that easy.”
— Dr. Matt Kaeberlein

“Being a dog guy and wanting my dog to live longer, when that light bulb went off in my head, I was like, ‘This goddamn has to happen.'”
— Dr. Matt Kaeberlein

“I constantly tell the people in my lab and other scientists, ‘You’ve got to do the experiment.’ You cannot go into it thinking that you know the answer and not do the experiment because your dogmatic belief says, ‘This is how it’s going to work.’ You’ve got to do the experiment.”
— Dr. Matt Kaeberlein

“People pay no attention to the psychological consequences that go along with trying to practice caloric restriction or trying to practice time-restricted feeding or intermittent fasting. I’m not saying they’re bad for everybody, but I know a lot of people who’ve dabbled with these things, and I would say some of the psychological effects aren’t great.”
— Dr. Matt Kaeberlein

“If you really could modulate the biology of aging, it will improve age-related immune function.”
— Dr. Matt Kaeberlein

“[Many] physicians . . . are very resistant to the idea of doing anything for somebody who’s not sick to keep them well. And we have to change that.”
— Dr. Matt Kaeberlein

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

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

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

Please enjoy!

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Timestamps:

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Bill Burr: 00:09:43

Edward Thorp: 00:14:53

Jason Portnoy: 00:20:22

Isabel Behncke: 00:26:36

Sam Harris: 00:31:36

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Legendary Comedian Bill Burr — Fear{less} with Tim Ferriss (#602)

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

Jason Portnoy of PayPal, Palantir, and More — Porn Addiction, The Corrosiveness of Secrets, Healing Wounds, Escaping Shame Cycles, and Books to Change Your Life (#600)

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New Insights from Sam Harris, Dr. Peter Attia, Ramit Sethi, and Elizabeth Gilbert (#599)

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