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Signal Over Noise with Noah Feldman — The War in Ukraine (Recap and Predictions), The Machiavelli of Maryland, Best Books to Understand Geopolitics, The Battles for Free Speech on Social Media, Metaverse Challenges, and More (#608)

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“According to [James D.] Fearon, if the two sides have different opinions about what’s going to happen, then you go to war because you don’t have perfect information about the outcome.”
— Noah Feldman

I rarely cover current events on this podcast, but this is a new experiment.

To avoid overwhelm, I do not track the news 24/7 with doom scrolling. Rather, I depend on conversations with my smartest friends to find the signal in the noise. The following exchange with Noah Feldman (@NoahRFeldman) is an example of such a conversation, very similar to what we would have offline, and I wanted to share it with you. I learned a ton and changed my thinking a lot, which I always do.

Noah Feldman is a Harvard professor, ethical philosopher and advisor, public intellectual, religious scholar and historian, and author of 10 books, including his latest, The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America. You can find my interview with him at tim.blog/noah.

Noah is the founder of Ethical Compass, which helps clients like Facebook and eBay improve ethical decision-making by creating and implementing new governance solutions. Noah conceived and designed the Facebook Oversight Board and continues to advise Facebook on ethics and governance issues.

Feldman is host of the Deep Background podcast, a policy and public affairs columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, and a former contributing writer for The New York Times. He served as senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and subsequently advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of Iraq’s interim constitution.

He earned his A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard, finishing first in his class. Selected as a Rhodes Scholar, he earned a DPhil from Oxford University, writing his dissertation on Aristotle’s Ethics. He received his JD from Yale Law School and clerked for Justice David Souter of the US Supreme Court.

He is the author of 10 books, including Divided by God: America’s Church-State Problem—and What We Should Do About It; What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building; Cool War: The United States, China, and the Future of Global Competition; Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices; and The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President.

Please let me know what you think of this experimental format by sending me feedback on Twitter @tferriss. Do you love it? Do you hate it? Have suggestions for improvement? The usual long-form interviews with evergreen questions will still be the default and bread and butter of this podcast, but if you like this, I could see doing more of them, perhaps once a month or once every two months. It’s just an easy way to get caught up without drowning in news.

Please enjoy!

NOTE: This episode was recorded on June 22nd.

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Want to hear my first conversation with Noah Feldman on this show? Listen here as we discuss achieving post-childhood language fluency, caffeine-free existence, “failing” at therapy, pre-Civil War interpretation of the US Constitution, circumstances that require trusting the untrustworthy, why a futurist needs to understand the past, the pros and cons of uneditable smart contracts on a blockchain, productive compromise, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the Iroquois Confederacy, and much more.

#540: Harvard Polymath Noah Feldman — Deep Focus for Hyper-Productivity, Learning 10+ Languages, Predicting the Future with History, the Possibilities (and Limitations) of DAOs, Lessons from the Iraq Invasion, Designing the Supreme Court of Facebook, the Virtue of Scholarship, and the Wild Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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 Noah Feldman:

The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Noah Feldman | Amazon Deep Background with Noah Feldman Podcast | Pushkin Industries Harvard Polymath Noah Feldman — Deep Focus for Hyper-Productivity, Learning 10+ Languages, Predicting the Future with History, the Possibilities (and Limitations) of DAOs, Lessons from the Iraq Invasion, Designing the Supreme Court of Facebook, the Virtue of Scholarship, and the Wild Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | The Tim Ferriss Show #540 What Does Russia Want in Ukraine? A Full Guide. | The New York Times Military Victories Against the Odds | Wikipedia Is the Lottery Really Just a Poor Person’s Tax? | Quora Polish Cavalry Myth Debunked: CNBC vs. the Polish Embassy | Warfare History Network [Note: This is a myth and has been debunked.]New York City Fire Department Rescue Company 1 | Wikipedia Rationalist Explanations for War by James D. Fearon | International Organization DJI Denies Throttling Ukrainian Army Drone Tech Amid Rumors | PetaPixel How Starlink Scrambled to Keep Ukraine Online | Wired The Big Exodus of Ukrainian Refugees Isn’t an Accident – It’s Part of Putin’s Plan to Destabilize Europe | The Conversation Preventing a Wider European Conflict | Council on Foreign Relations What DAOs Can Do: $6.75M in Ethereum for Ukraine | Decrypt Airbnbs in Ukraine: People Are Booking Them but Don’t Plan to Check In | CNN Travel Sanctions Against Russia: A Timeline | S&P Global Market Intelligence Forget the Obsession with Sanctions against Oligarchs. I Have a Better Way to Hurt Putin | The Guardian US-Backed Task Force Seizes More Than $30B of Russian Oligarch Assets | VOA Ukraine War: Russia Defaults on Foreign Debt for First Time Since 1918 | Bloomberg The US Dollar May Be the Next Casualty of the Ukraine War | Jacobin Korematsu v. United States: 323 US 214 (1944) | Justia US Supreme Court Center What the Happiest Places Have in Common | The Atlantic Snubbed By NATO, Zelensky-Led Ukraine Likely to Become EU Member Soon. Should Putin’s Russia Worry? | Crux Why Ukraine’s Longshot Bid to Join the EU Is Likely to Enrage Putin | CNN Appraising the War in Ukraine and Likely Outcomes | Foreign Policy Research Institute On War by Gen. Carl von Clausewitz | Amazon The Art of War by Sun Tzu | Amazon Why America Doesn’t Win Wars Anymore | Vox Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder | Amazon Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook by Edward N. Luttwak | Amazon Cool War: The United States, China, and the Future of Global Competition by Noah Feldman | Amazon Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? by Graham Allison | Amazon What “Machiavellian” Really Means | TED-Ed Free Speech Challenges to Florida and Texas Social Media Laws | Congressional Research Service Elon Musk Says Relaxing Content Rules on Twitter Will Boost Free Speech, but Research Shows Otherwise | Fast Company Spotify Pulls 70 Joe Rogan Episodes, Host Apologizes for Saying N-Word | Variety Four Plausible Reasons Bezos Bought Washington Post | Convince & Convert What Happened When Trump Was Banned on Facebook and Twitter | The New York Times In the Age of Social Media, Expand the Reach of the First Amendment | American Bar Association Citizens United Explained | Brennan Center for Justice Germany’s Balancing Act: Fighting Online Hate While Protecting Free Speech | Politico Was Oliver Wendell Holmes Right About Free Speech? | Publishers Weekly Do Bots Have First Amendment Rights? | Politico Jan. 6 Capitol Hill Riot Forced Social Networks to Look at Their Ugly Side | CNET Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity | Journal of the Association for Consumer Research Decentralized Social Networks Sound Great. Too Bad They’ll Never Work | Wired AWS Is the Internet’s Biggest Single Point of Failure | Vice Web1, Web2, and Web3 with Their Differences | GeeksforGeeks What Is the Metaverse? | The New York Times Lord of the Flies by William Golding | Amazon Augmented Reality (AR) vs. Virtual Reality (VR) | SplunkSHOW NOTES

Note from the editor: Timestamps will be added shortly.

Russia vs. Ukraine: why?The first Web3 war?Will punishing Russian oligarchs make Putin blink?Did Putin miscalculate, or is he just playing a longer game?Could this conflict affect the US dollar’s status as a reserve currency?Exploring base/best/worst possible outcomes of the conflict.Recommended reading.Free speech in the age of social media.What’s at stake as free speech is legally reevaluated?Enforcement, decentralization, and free market considerations.Where Noah sees the free speech conversation in three years.Will the future be colored predominantly in AR or VR?Parting thoughts.MORE GUEST QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Money only governs all if the government allows it to.”
— Noah Feldman

“According to [James D.] Fearon, if the two sides have different opinions about what’s going to happen, then you go to war because you don’t have perfect information about the outcome.”
— Noah Feldman

“The Russians have much more limited objectives, but they’re still fighting, and the Ukrainians are still fighting back. So that just deepens the puzzle. What are they each fighting for now?”
— Noah Feldman

“Can Europe be a stable place or is Europe going back to the olden days where a government that had a serious army could just take over countries that it didn’t like?”
— Noah Feldman

“It’s entirely possible that in the long run, crypto would be to the advantage of an aggressor like Russia rather than being to the advantage of a state like Ukraine that’s defending itself.”
— Noah Feldman

“If the government regulates what we can do to each other in real life, and a private company regulates what we can do to each other in this AR-VR space simultaneously, it’s going to get really messy and really confusing.”
— Noah Feldman

PEOPLE MENTIONEDVladimir Putin Ray Downey James Fearon James Bond Volodymyr Zelenskyy Robert H. Jackson Fred Korematsu Carl von Clausewitz Sun Tzu Timothy Snyder Edward N. Luttwak Graham Allison Donald Trump Niccolò Machiavelli Elon Musk Joe Rogan Jeff Bezos Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Published on July 20, 2022 16:44

Luis von Ahn, Co-Founder and CEO of Duolingo — How to Be (Truly) Mission-Driven, Monetization Experiments, 10x Growth, Org Chart Iterations for Impacting Metrics, The Intricate Path to an IPO, Best Hiring Practices, Catching Exam Cheaters, The Allure of To

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“Whenever somebody asks you to do something a long time from now, change the framing and say, ‘What if it was tomorrow? Would you want to do this or not?’ Almost invariably, the answer is, ‘No, I definitely don’t want to do this tomorrow.’ And then you should answer based on that.”
— Luis von Ahn

Luis von Ahn (@LuisvonAhn) is an entrepreneur and consulting professor at Carnegie Mellon University, who is considered one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is known for co-inventing CAPTCHAs, being a MacArthur fellow, and selling two companies to Google in his twenties.

He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, a language-learning platform created to bring free language education to the world. With more than 500 million users, it is now the most popular language-learning platform and the most downloaded education app in the world.

Luis has been named one of the Brilliant 10 by Popular Science, one of the by Discover, one of the Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review, and one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company. Luis also won the 2018 Lemelson-MIT prize, the largest cash prize for invention in the U.S.

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 also watch the interview on YouTube here.

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Want to hear the last time Luis von Ahn was on this show? Have a listen to our conversation here, in which we discuss why Luis left Google before his vesting phase was complete, the pros and cons of running a tech company, Duolingo’s evolving business model, how Duolingo compares to college instruction, how Luis vets and recruits computer science engineers, entrepreneurial resources, and much more.

#135: Luis Von Ahn on Learning Languages, Building Companies, and Changing the World

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

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The Free, Fun, and Effective Way to Learn a Language | Duolingo Duolingo Is Now a Public Company! | Duolingo Blog Alphabet’s Independent Growth Fund | CapitalG Good Food | Kelly’s Bar and Lounge Coca-Cola #AmericaIsBeautiful 2014 Olympics Commercial | Cause Marketing The Top Idea in Your Mind | Paul Graham Carnegie Mellon University reCAPTCHA | Wikipedia Google Translate How K-Pop Became a Global Phenomenon | Vox Squid Game | Netflix Parasite (2019) | IMDb Gangnam Style | Psy Enter the Arena | Clash Royale Organizational Chart | Wikipedia Longest Duolingo Streak of 2022 | Techzillo Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel | Amazon The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz | Amazon High Output Management by Andy Grove | Amazon Guatemala | Amnesty International Oral-B iO Series 9 Electric Toothbrush | Amazon TOTO Neorest NX1 | Amazon Layla Kapok Pillow | Amazon The (Urban) Legend of Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Story | Open Culture Evil Duolingo Owl | Know Your Meme The Most Successful Email I Ever Wrote | Derek Sivers Office Space | Prime Video Duolingo’s Values: A Letter from Our CEO | Duolingo Blog Can You Pass the World’s Shortest IQ Test? | Reader’s Digest What “Going Public” Means | Investopedia What Does a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Do? | Investopedia Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You by John Warrillow | Amazon Investor Relations | Duolingo, Inc.WeCrashed | Apple TV+Learning to Read Is Hard. We Made It Fun! | Duolingo ABC Join the Waitlist to Test Our New Math App! | Duolingo Math Mathemagics: How to Look Like a Genius Without Really Trying by Arthur Benjamin and Michael Brant Shermer | Amazon How to Multiply by 11 | Mind Your Decisions Duolingo English Test Muscle Milk | Amazon North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | United States Trade Representative Guatemala: Attorney General’s Reappointment Threatens Anti-corruption Efforts and Civic Space | Transparency International What Guatemala’s Anti-Corruption Movement Can Learn from the Past | United States Institute of Peace The Exile of Guatemala’s Anti-Corruption Efforts | The New YorkerSHOW NOTES[05:03] Why the Duolingo owl is green[06:47] The core cause behind Duolingo’s creation, and how Duolingo has evolved over the years[12:48] Duolingo’s monetization efforts that didn’t quite pan out[21:06] After initial reluctance, how was the Duolingo workforce convinced monetization needed to happen?[25:06] As machine-driven translation services get more sophisticated, will human beings still seek to learn other languages via Duolingo?[29:31] The most pursued/influential languages in the Duolingo system currently[39:14] The development of Duolingo’s org chart[45:40] Why Duolingo uses a daily metric[48:33] Book recommendations[50:26] Luis’ most worthwhile investments[52:20] New beliefs, behaviors, or habits[55:20] Recent life-changing purchases[1:02:39] What Luis’ updated 2022 billboard might say[1:06:14] What Luis means when he refers to Duolingo’s “mission,” and how the company’s long view affects decision making[1:12:34] How Duolingo hires good candidates for the long haul[1:18:50] Why and how Duolingo went public[1:25:42] The biggest challenges Luis faces as CEO of a public company[1:30:50] Duolingo is expanding to teach more than languages[1:36:18] The Duolingo English Test: proficiency testing from home accepted by 4,200 academic programs across the world[1:39:51] How Luis’ expertise at catching cheaters during his time as a professor at Carnegie Mellon makes Duolingo products more trustworthy as accredited sources[1:43:39] The brief conversation with Luis’ personal trainer that changed his routine breakfast — to a different routine breakfast[1:44:38] Advice to young, driven people entering the working world[1:48:07] How Luis has become better at saying “No.”[1:49:56] Luis’ request of the audience and parting thoughtsMORE GUEST QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Something like 97 percent of our active users use Duolingo for free. Still, we make more money than all other education apps. We’re very proud of that.”
— Luis von Ahn

“If you’re not brushing with an electric toothbrush, you’re doing it wrong.”
— Luis von Ahn

“The attitude of just finding a way to become useful gets you a lot farther.”
— Luis von Ahn

“Hopefully, most people have seen the Duolingo owl. It’s our mascot. First of all, it’s an owl because in most Western countries, owls represent knowledge. Turns out this is just not true at all in Asia. Now that we’ve been expanding to Asia, people ask us, ‘Why the hell are you using an owl? Owls are just vicious animals.'”
— Luis von Ahn

“Whenever somebody asks you to do something a long time from now, change the framing and say, ‘What if it was tomorrow? Would you want to do this or not?’ Almost invariably, the answer is, ‘No, I definitely don’t want to do this tomorrow.’ And then you should answer based on that.”
— Luis von Ahn

PEOPLE MENTIONEDSeverin Hacker Laela Sturdy Paul Graham Natalie Glance Peter Thiel Ben Horowitz Andrew Grove Denis Meinert Garry Christopher Ernest Hemingway Derek Sivers Matt Skaruppa Bing Gordon John Warrillow Kelly Starrett

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Published on July 12, 2022 21:59

Balaji S. Srinivasan — 5-10-Year Predictions, How to Start a New Country, Society-as-a-Service (SaaS), Bitcoin Maximalism, Memetic Warfare, How Prices Are Born, Moral Flippenings, The One Commandment, and The Power of Missionary over Mercenary (#606)

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“A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder, a capacity for collective action, an in-person level of civility, an integrated cryptocurrency, a consensual government limited by a social smart contract, an archipelago of crowdfunded physical territories, a virtual capital, and an on-chain census that proves a large enough population, income, and real-estate footprint to attain a measure of diplomatic recognition.“
— Balaji Srinivasan

Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) is an angel investor and entrepreneur. Formerly the CTO of Coinbase and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he was also the co-founder of Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), Teleport (acquired by Topia), and Coin Center.

He was named to the MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35,” won a Wall Street Journal Innovation Award, and holds a BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering, all from Stanford University. Balaji also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013, which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

His new book is The Network State: How To Start a New Country. You can also read it for free at TheNetworkState.com.

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Want to hear Balaji’s last time on the podcast? Listen to our conversation here, in which we discussed “real” journalism, DeFi risks and rewards, potholes on the road to a utopian decentralized world, transhumanism versus anarcho-primitivism, Bitcoin versus gold, the problems with a 51-percent democracy, angel investing in the twenty-first century, COVID lessons learned, and much more.

#547: Balaji Srinivasan — Centralized China vs Decentralized World, The DeFi Matrix, Ascending vs Descending Trends, Bitcoin Mining as Energy Storage, Reputational Civil War, and Maximalism vs. Optimalism

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Balaji S. Srinivasan:

Website | Twitter | 1729.com

The Network State: How To Start a New Country by Balaji Srinivasan | Amazon 1729.com Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #506 Balaji Srinivasan — Centralized China vs Decentralized World, The DeFi Matrix, Ascending vs Descending Trends, Bitcoin Mining as Energy Storage, Reputational Civil War, and Maximalism vs. Optimalism | The Tim Ferriss Show #547 “I’ve Never Seen One Like This Before.” | Travis Kling, Twitter Inside the Madness of the Stock Market | Jason Zweig Market Depth | Investopedia How the Politically Unthinkable Can Become Mainstream | The New York Times Overton Window | Wikipedia Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child: Michael Fay’s Caning in Singapore | HuffPost Explore What the World Is Searching | Google Trends Linux vs. Unix: What’s the Difference? | Opensource.com Blatty Sues Times on Best-Seller List | The New York Times The Exorcist: A Novel by William Peter Blatty | Amazon Legion by William Peter Blatty | Amazon Web Framework | Sinatra 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 The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab | Amazon What is Russell Conjugation? | Tom Dehnel Access In-Depth News Archives | LexisNexis Gates Demonstrates the Future at Electronics Show | The Ledger Why and How Is Mobile the Future? | Quora Snap’s New Spectacles Let You View the World in AR Through the Lenses | Mashable Why the Oculus Quest 2 Is Still the Virtual Reality Headset to Buy | CNN Underscored Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 Review: Better than the First Version, But… | The Ghost Howls Apple’s AR Glasses Reportedly Coming Late 2024 | 9to5Mac Augmented Reality | Apple Developer Pokémon GO Terminator (T-800) Vision | YouTube Neuroscientist Shares Trick to Manipulate Your Brain for Alertness In 10 Seconds | Design Taxi Echo Dot Smart Speaker with Alexa | Amazon Solana Mobile Debuts Saga, a Flagship Android Phone for Web3 | Solana Phone Key Set Up for Model 3 and Model Y | Tesla Skein Definition & Meaning | Merriam-Webster “Super Soldier Serum Is Real.” | Balaji Srinivasan, Twitter What is Bully Whippet Syndrome? | DDC Pets & Vets Limitless | Prime Video Icarus | Netflix IU Doctors Cite Other Side of Lance Armstrong: Cancer Fighter | Indy Star Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams | Amazon Belgian Blue | Beef2Live Double Muscling in Cattle: Genes, Husbandry, Carcasses, and Meat | Animals Bigger, Stronger, Faster | Prime Video Weekend Update: Kevin Nealon on the All-Drug Olympics | SNL Our Science | Kaeberlein Lab The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon Tim Ferriss Shoulder Surgery | 4-Hour Body DALL·E 2 | OpenAI Cliodynamics: History as Science | Peter Turchin State, Nation, and Nation-State: Clarifying Misused Terminology | Penn State A Guide to Understanding Gender Identity and Pronouns | NPR What Is Bitcoin? | Investopedia What Is the USD (United States Dollar)? | Investopedia Opinion: Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police | The New York Times Mapping Every Disputed Territory in the World | Metrocosm 54° 40′ or Fight | US History No Old Maps Actually Say ‘Here Be Dragons’ | The Atlantic Facebook vs. Twitter: How Do They Stack Up in 2022? | Website Planet What Is E-Residency? | Republic of Estonia Freetown Christiania | Visit Copenhagen How We Changed Our Minds in 2021 | Common Sense How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter | Amazon El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels by Ioan Grillo | Amazon Mapping Civil Unrest in the United States (2000–2020) | Visual Capitalist Bitcoin Maximalism | Investopedia Strauss–Howe Generational Theory | Wikipedia The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy – What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny by William Strauss and Neil Howe | Amazon In 2020, Protests Spread Across the Globe with a Similar Message: Black Lives Matter | NPR 2021 United States Capitol Attack | Wikipedia United States Fed Funds Rate (2022 Data): 1971-2021 Historical; 2023 Forecast | Trading Economics Slow Steaming | Wikipedia Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Criteria | Investopedia 35 Countries Where the US Has Supported Fascists, Drug Lords, and Terrorists | Salon Proud Boys and Antifa Clash in Violent Protest in Portland | The Telegraph Executive Order 6102 — Requiring Gold Coin, Gold Bullion and Gold Certificates to Be Delivered to the Government | The American Presidency Project Canada Ends Its Freeze on Hundreds of Accounts Tied to Protests | The New York Times Seizing Russian Assets to Help Ukraine Sets Off White House Debate | The New York Times Welcoming Remarks by Chair Powell at the Inaugural Conference on the International Roles of the US Dollar | Federal Reserve Board “A US Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Is Being Examined.” | Nicolas Mateo, Twitter What Is the Arab Spring, and How Did It Start? | Al Jazeera The Role of Social Media in the Arab Uprisings | Pew Research Center AOC and Tucker Are Wrong about Usury and Christianity | Foundation for Economic Education Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs | The Tim Ferriss Show #542 Hip-Hop Loves Cash App, and That Might Be Why Jack Dorsey Bought Tidal | GQ Could Quantum Computers Defeat Bitcoin? Not So Fast. | Decrypt What Is DeFi? | CoinDesk 5 Analytics Tools to Make You a Better Investor | Bankless Privacy and Convenience | Zcash El Salvador Purchases 80 Additional Bitcoin at $19K, President Bukele Says | CoinDesk What Are the Best Examples of a Politician Changing His or Her Mind? | Quora Ohio Republican Senate Candidate Mocked for Bitcoin Tweet | The Independent With 58% Inflation, Nobody in Argentina Knows The Price of Anything | Bloomberg A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard | 1729 $100 Trillion Zimbabwe | Tim Ferriss, Twitter Wild Wild Country | Netflix The God That Failed by Richard H. Crossman and David C. Engerman | Amazon Can America’s ‘Civil Religion’ Still Unite the Country? | NPR Political Theology II: The Myth of the Closure of any Political Theology by Carl Schmitt | Amazon What Political Violence Is Actually Like | David Hines on Twitter Good vs. Bad Carbs: What Should You Eat? | Cleveland Clinic Metcalfe’s Law Explains How the Value of Networks Grows Exponentially | Peter Fisk The Private Club Exemption to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law Principality of Sealand Tyranny of the Majority | Wikipedia The Physics of the Fosbury Flop | Stanford University The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux | Amazon Animal Farm by George Orwell | Amazon Opening Humanity’s Next Frontier | The Seasteading Institute China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom by Roger Garside | Amazon Ghosts in the Machine | Psywar Biden Pledges to Defend Taiwan if It Faces a Chinese Attack | The New York Times ‘Zero Covid’ and Lockdowns in China Have Many Dreaming Of Leaving | The Washington Post What China’s Surveillance Means for the Rest of the World | Time Paul Johnson | Charlie Rose Economic Survey Graphs | Balaji Srinivasan, Twitter India’s Trends | Balaji Srinivasan, Twitter The Internet Country by Aaryaman Vir and Rahul Sanghi | Tigerfeathers India’s Budget | Balaji Srinivasan, Twitter Trillion Dollar Paint Job by Mike Solana | Pirate Wires Origins of the ‘Lisp’ of Spain | ThoughtCo.Google’s AI-Powered ‘Inclusive Warnings’ Feature Is Very Broken | Vice Metonymy | Wikipedia “Deprecate Metonyms via Decentralizing Technology.” | Balaji Srinivasan, TwitterSHOW NOTES

Note from the editor: Timestamps will be added shortly.

The current state of crypto and overall marketsMarket depth and the Overton windowThe challenges of identifying possible trendsDoes transhumanism need rebranding?Augmented reality glasses: the next big thing?Rethinking Icarus from a transhumanist, pro-innovation perspectiveDALL-E 2 as a compact programming languagePeter Turchin and cliodynamicsWhat is a network state?Humans like to fight over borders — even when they’re invisibleAmerican anarchyBitcoin vs. gold as an inflation hedgeWhat needs to happen for Bitcoin to behave in the way Bitcoin holders would like it to behave?Society as a service: how the establishment of a network state could succeed — without devolving into a cultChinese controlMissionary over mercenary; innovation over top-down controlIndia’s upward trendsEstablishment disdain for tech interlopers (and the feeling is mutual)Parting thoughtsMORE BALAJI SRINIVASAN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“The worst thing to do is buy an asset when it’s in the news and sell it when it’s in the news.”
— Balaji Srinivasan

“Super soldier serum is real.”
— Balaji Srinivasan

“The Wright Brothers were right. Icarus is a myth.”
— Balaji Srinivasan

“A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder, a capacity for collective action, an in-person level of stability, an integrated cryptocurrency, an archipelago of crowdfunded physical territories, a virtual capital, and an on-chain census that proves a large enough population income and real estate footprint to attain a measure of diplomatic recognition.”
— Balaji Srinivasan

“Democrats will only marry Democrats to a higher percentage and Republicans are tending to only want to marry other Republicans. That has been growing. The thing is that you iterate that out one generation and what happens? That becomes ethnicity. Ideology becomes biology.”
— Balaji Srinivasan

“They see a border, they fight over it. And you can see, for example, the Franco-German border between France and Germany. The border you can’t see is the border between Twitter and Facebook.”
— Balaji Srinivasan

“Only those assets that can’t be frozen or seized are your assets. And Bitcoin has a root system that extends way outside the United States to hundreds of millions of people around the world [who] value it. And that is not the case for your frozen assets on a stock exchange, for your valueless dollars.”
— Balaji Srinivasan

“If, in the 2010s, social media became what all politics is about, by the end of the 2020s, cryptocurrency becomes what all politics is about. You will not be able to fund your government without it.”
— Balaji Srinivasan

PEOPLE MENTIONEDTravis Kling Michael P. Fay Lee Kuan Yew William Peter Blatty Frank Sinatra Andrew Huberman Klaus Schwab Quasimodo Bill Gates Jack Dorsey Yishan Wong Evan Spiegel Mark Zuckerberg Terminator Captain America Arnold Schwarzenegger Icarus Lance Armstrong Barry L. Bonds Rube Goldberg Orville and Wilbur Wright David A. Sinclair Matt Kaeberlein Peter Turchin Clio Jean-Jacques Rousseau Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Karl Marx John Stuart Mill Vitalik Buterin Godzilla Barbara F. Walter Ioan Grillo Friedrich Nietzsche William Strauss Neil Howe Joseph Stalin Ray Dalio Jerome Powell Franklin D. Roosevelt Jason Bourne Deng Xiaoping Glenn Greenwald Donald Trump Andrew Jackson Hillary Clinton Joe Biden J.D. Vance Josh Mandel Carl Schmitt David Hines Barack Obama Roger Garside George Soros Xi Jinping Elon Musk Charlie Rose Paul Johnson Sanjeev Sanyal Mike Solana George Washington Theodor Herzl David Ben-Gurion

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Balaji S. Srinivasan — The Network State and How to Start a New Country (#606)

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“A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder, a capacity for collective action, an in-person level of civility, an integrated cryptocurrency, a consensual government limited by a social smart contract, an archipelago of crowdfunded physical territories, a virtual capital, and an on-chain census that proves a large enough population, income, and real-estate footprint to attain a measure of diplomatic recognition.“
— Balaji Srinivasan

Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) is an angel investor and entrepreneur. Formerly the CTO of Coinbase and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he was also the co-founder of Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), Teleport (acquired by Topia), and Coin Center.

He was named to the MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35,” won a Wall Street Journal Innovation Award, and holds a BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering, all from Stanford University. Balaji also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013, which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

His new book is The Network State: How To Start a New Country. You can also read it for free at 1729.com.

Please enjoy!

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Want to hear Balaji’s last time on the podcast? Listen to our conversation here, in which we discussed “real” journalism, DeFi risks and rewards, potholes on the road to a utopian decentralized world, transhumanism versus anarcho-primitivism, Bitcoin versus gold, the problems with a 51-percent democracy, angel investing in the twenty-first century, COVID lessons learned, and much more.

#547: Balaji Srinivasan — Centralized China vs Decentralized World, The DeFi Matrix, Ascending vs Descending Trends, Bitcoin Mining as Energy Storage, Reputational Civil War, and Maximalism vs. Optimalism

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 Balaji S. Srinivasan:

Website | Twitter | 1729.com

The Network State: How To Start a New Country by Balaji Srinivasan | Amazon 1729.com Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #506 Balaji Srinivasan — Centralized China vs Decentralized World, The DeFi Matrix, Ascending vs Descending Trends, Bitcoin Mining as Energy Storage, Reputational Civil War, and Maximalism vs. Optimalism | The Tim Ferriss Show #547 “I’ve Never Seen One Like This Before.” | Travis Kling, Twitter Inside the Madness of the Stock Market | Jason Zweig Market Depth | Investopedia How the Politically Unthinkable Can Become Mainstream | The New York Times Overton Window | Wikipedia Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child: Michael Fay’s Caning in Singapore | HuffPost Explore What the World Is Searching | Google Trends Linux vs. Unix: What’s the Difference? | Opensource.com Blatty Sues Times on Best-Seller List | The New York Times The Exorcist: A Novel by William Peter Blatty | Amazon Legion by William Peter Blatty | Amazon Web Framework | Sinatra 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 The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab | Amazon What is Russell Conjugation? | Tom Dehnel Access In-Depth News Archives | LexisNexis Gates Demonstrates the Future at Electronics Show | The Ledger Why and How Is Mobile the Future? | Quora Snap’s New Spectacles Let You View the World in AR Through the Lenses | Mashable Why the Oculus Quest 2 Is Still the Virtual Reality Headset to Buy | CNN Underscored Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 Review: Better than the First Version, But… | The Ghost Howls Apple’s AR Glasses Reportedly Coming Late 2024 | 9to5Mac Augmented Reality | Apple Developer Pokémon GO Terminator (T-800) Vision | YouTube Neuroscientist Shares Trick to Manipulate Your Brain for Alertness In 10 Seconds | Design Taxi Echo Dot Smart Speaker with Alexa | Amazon Solana Mobile Debuts Saga, a Flagship Android Phone for Web3 | Solana Phone Key Set Up for Model 3 and Model Y | Tesla Skein Definition & Meaning | Merriam-Webster “Super Soldier Serum Is Real.” | Balaji Srinivasan, Twitter What is Bully Whippet Syndrome? | DDC Pets & Vets Limitless | Prime Video Icarus | Netflix IU Doctors Cite Other Side of Lance Armstrong: Cancer Fighter | Indy Star Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams | Amazon Belgian Blue | Beef2Live Double Muscling in Cattle: Genes, Husbandry, Carcasses, and Meat | Animals Bigger, Stronger, Faster | Prime Video Weekend Update: Kevin Nealon on the All-Drug Olympics | SNL Our Science | Kaeberlein Lab The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon Tim Ferriss Shoulder Surgery | 4-Hour Body DALL·E 2 | OpenAI Cliodynamics: History as Science | Peter Turchin State, Nation, and Nation-State: Clarifying Misused Terminology | Penn State A Guide to Understanding Gender Identity and Pronouns | NPR What Is Bitcoin? | Investopedia What Is the USD (United States Dollar)? | Investopedia Opinion: Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police | The New York Times Mapping Every Disputed Territory in the World | Metrocosm 54° 40′ or Fight | US History No Old Maps Actually Say ‘Here Be Dragons’ | The Atlantic Facebook vs. Twitter: How Do They Stack Up in 2022? | Website Planet What Is E-Residency? | Republic of Estonia Freetown Christiania | Visit Copenhagen How We Changed Our Minds in 2021 | Common Sense How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter | Amazon El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels by Ioan Grillo | Amazon Mapping Civil Unrest in the United States (2000–2020) | Visual Capitalist Bitcoin Maximalism | Investopedia Strauss–Howe Generational Theory | Wikipedia The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy – What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny by William Strauss and Neil Howe | Amazon In 2020, Protests Spread Across the Globe with a Similar Message: Black Lives Matter | NPR 2021 United States Capitol Attack | Wikipedia United States Fed Funds Rate (2022 Data): 1971-2021 Historical; 2023 Forecast | Trading Economics Slow Steaming | Wikipedia Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Criteria | Investopedia 35 Countries Where the US Has Supported Fascists, Drug Lords, and Terrorists | Salon Proud Boys and Antifa Clash in Violent Protest in Portland | The Telegraph Executive Order 6102 — Requiring Gold Coin, Gold Bullion and Gold Certificates to Be Delivered to the Government | The American Presidency Project Canada Ends Its Freeze on Hundreds of Accounts Tied to Protests | The New York Times Seizing Russian Assets to Help Ukraine Sets Off White House Debate | The New York Times Welcoming Remarks by Chair Powell at the Inaugural Conference on the International Roles of the US Dollar | Federal Reserve Board “A US Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Is Being Examined.” | Nicolas Mateo, Twitter What Is the Arab Spring, and How Did It Start? | Al Jazeera The Role of Social Media in the Arab Uprisings | Pew Research Center AOC and Tucker Are Wrong about Usury and Christianity | Foundation for Economic Education Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs | The Tim Ferriss Show #542 Hip-Hop Loves Cash App, and That Might Be Why Jack Dorsey Bought Tidal | GQ Could Quantum Computers Defeat Bitcoin? Not So Fast. | Decrypt What Is DeFi? | CoinDesk 5 Analytics Tools to Make You a Better Investor | Bankless Privacy and Convenience | Zcash El Salvador Purchases 80 Additional Bitcoin at $19K, President Bukele Says | CoinDesk What Are the Best Examples of a Politician Changing His or Her Mind? | Quora Ohio Republican Senate Candidate Mocked for Bitcoin Tweet | The Independent With 58% Inflation, Nobody in Argentina Knows The Price of Anything | Bloomberg A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard | 1729 $100 Trillion Zimbabwe | Tim Ferriss, Twitter Wild Wild Country | Netflix The God That Failed by Richard H. Crossman and David C. Engerman | Amazon Can America’s ‘Civil Religion’ Still Unite the Country? | NPR Political Theology II: The Myth of the Closure of any Political Theology by Carl Schmitt | Amazon What Political Violence Is Actually Like | David Hines on Twitter Good vs. Bad Carbs: What Should You Eat? | Cleveland Clinic Metcalfe’s Law Explains How the Value of Networks Grows Exponentially | Peter Fisk The Private Club Exemption to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law Principality of Sealand Tyranny of the Majority | Wikipedia The Physics of the Fosbury Flop | Stanford University The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux | Amazon Animal Farm by George Orwell | Amazon Opening Humanity’s Next Frontier | The Seasteading Institute China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom by Roger Garside | Amazon Ghosts in the Machine | Psywar Biden Pledges to Defend Taiwan if It Faces a Chinese Attack | The New York Times ‘Zero Covid’ and Lockdowns in China Have Many Dreaming Of Leaving | The Washington Post What China’s Surveillance Means for the Rest of the World | Time Paul Johnson | Charlie Rose Economic Survey Graphs | Balaji Srinivasan, Twitter India’s Trends | Balaji Srinivasan, Twitter The Internet Country by Aaryaman Vir and Rahul Sanghi | Tigerfeathers India’s Budget | Balaji Srinivasan, Twitter Trillion Dollar Paint Job by Mike Solana | Pirate Wires Origins of the ‘Lisp’ of Spain | ThoughtCo.Google’s AI-Powered ‘Inclusive Warnings’ Feature Is Very Broken | Vice Metonymy | Wikipedia “Deprecate Metonyms via Decentralizing Technology.” | Balaji Srinivasan, TwitterSHOW NOTES

Note from the editor: Timestamps will be added shortly.

The current state of crypto and overall marketsMarket depth and the Overton windowThe challenges of identifying possible trendsDoes transhumanism need rebranding?Augmented reality glasses: the next big thing?Rethinking Icarus from a transhumanist, pro-innovation perspectiveDALL-E 2 as a compact programming languagePeter Turchin and cliodynamicsWhat is a network state?Humans like to fight over borders — even when they’re invisibleAmerican anarchyBitcoin vs. gold as an inflation hedgeWhat needs to happen for Bitcoin to behave in the way Bitcoin holders would like it to behave?Society as a service: how the establishment of a network state could succeed — without devolving into a cultChinese controlMissionary over mercenary; innovation over top-down controlIndia’s upward trendsEstablishment disdain for tech interlopers (and the feeling is mutual)Parting thoughtsMORE BALAJI SRINIVASAN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“The worst thing to do is buy an asset when it’s in the news and sell it when it’s in the news.”
— Balaji Srinivasan

“Super soldier serum is real.”
— Balaji Srinivasan

“The Wright Brothers were right. Icarus is a myth.”
— Balaji Srinivasan

“A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder, a capacity for collective action, an in-person level of stability, an integrated cryptocurrency, an archipelago of crowdfunded physical territories, a virtual capital, and an on-chain census that proves a large enough population income and real estate footprint to attain a measure of diplomatic recognition.”
— Balaji Srinivasan

“Democrats will only marry Democrats to a higher percentage and Republicans are tending to only want to marry other Republicans. That has been growing. The thing is that you iterate that out one generation and what happens? That becomes ethnicity. Ideology becomes biology.”
— Balaji Srinivasan

“They see a border, they fight over it. And you can see, for example, the Franco-German border between France and Germany. The border you can’t see is the border between Twitter and Facebook.”
— Balaji Srinivasan

“Only those assets that can’t be frozen or seized are your assets. And Bitcoin has a root system that extends way outside the United States to hundreds of millions of people around the world [who] value it. And that is not the case for your frozen assets on a stock exchange, for your valueless dollars.”
— Balaji Srinivasan

“If, in the 2010s, social media became what all politics is about, by the end of the 2020s, cryptocurrency becomes what all politics is about. You will not be able to fund your government without it.”
— Balaji Srinivasan

PEOPLE MENTIONEDTravis Kling Michael P. Fay Lee Kuan Yew William Peter Blatty Frank Sinatra Andrew Huberman Klaus Schwab Quasimodo Bill Gates Jack Dorsey Yishan Wong Evan Spiegel Mark Zuckerberg Terminator Captain America Arnold Schwarzenegger Icarus Lance Armstrong Barry L. Bonds Rube Goldberg Orville and Wilbur Wright David A. Sinclair Matt Kaeberlein Peter Turchin Clio Jean-Jacques Rousseau Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Karl Marx John Stuart Mill Vitalik Buterin Godzilla Barbara F. Walter Ioan Grillo Friedrich Nietzsche William Strauss Neil Howe Joseph Stalin Ray Dalio Jerome Powell Franklin D. Roosevelt Jason Bourne Deng Xiaoping Glenn Greenwald Donald Trump Andrew Jackson Hillary Clinton Joe Biden J.D. Vance Josh Mandel Carl Schmitt David Hines Barack Obama Roger Garside George Soros Xi Jinping Elon Musk Charlie Rose Paul Johnson Sanjeev Sanyal Mike Solana George Washington Theodor Herzl David Ben-Gurion

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Hamilton Morris and Dr. Mark Plotkin — Exploring the History of Psychoactive Substances, Synthetic vs. Natural Options, Microdosing, 5-MeO-DMT, The “Drunken Monkey” Hypothesis, Timothy Leary’s Legacy, and More (#605)

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“Almost everything that we call a poison, under some circumstances—at least conceivably—could have a therapeutic effect.”
— Hamilton Morris

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

This time around, we have a very special edition featuring two of your favorite guests: Dr. Mark Plotkin and Hamilton Morris.

Mark takes over my duties as host and interviews Hamilton for an episode of the Plants of the Gods podcast. You, my dear listeners, are hearing the audio before anyone else, so this is a Tim Ferriss Show exclusive. I’ve previously featured some of my favorite episodes from that show at tim.blog/plantsofthegods. These episodes cover a lot of fascinating ground.

Who is Mark? Mark (@DocMarkPlotkin) is an ethnobotanist who serves as president of the Amazon Conservation Team, which has partnered with ~80 tribes to map and improve management and protection of ~100 million acres of ancestral rainforests. He is best known to the general public as the author of the book Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice, one of the most popular books ever written about the rainforest. His most recent book is The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know. You can find my interview with Mark at tim.blog/markplotkin.

And the guest today is Hamilton Morris. Hamilton (@HamiltonMorris) is a chemist, filmmaker, and science journalist. A graduate of The New School, he conducts chemistry research at Saint Joseph’s University. Hamilton is the writer and director of the documentary series Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia, in which he explores the chemistry and traditions surrounding psychoactive drugs. You can find my most recent interview with him at tim.blog/hamilton.

This is a tightly packed 60-minute interview. Mark and Hamilton cover the history of different psychoactive substances, Timothy Leary’s legacy, the “drunken monkey” hypothesis, conservation, microdosing, the differences between 5-MeO-DMT and DMT, a disease that afflicts people who smoke enormous quantities of cannabis, causing them to vomit continuously and only find relief from their nausea by taking a hot shower (yes, really), the impact of the placebo effect, a synthetic vs. a natural product, the role of ritual, and much, much more.

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.

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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.

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#511: Hamilton Morris on Iboga, 5-MeO-DMT, the Power of Ritual, New Frontiers in Psychedelics, Excellent Problems to Solve, and More

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Hamilton Morris:

Patreon | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Bufo Alvarius: The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert by Ken Nelson Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia | Prime Video 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 Hamilton Morris on Better Living Through Chemistry: Psychedelics, Smart Drugs, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #337

Connect with Mark Plotkin:

Website | Plants of the Gods Podcast | Amazon Conservation Team | Twitter | Facebook

Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest by Mark J. Plotkin | Amazon The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know by Mark J. Plotkin | Amazon The Hidden Knowledge of Animals — Mark Plotkin on Nature’s Medicine Cabinet | The Tim Ferriss Show #537 Plants of the Gods — Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ayahuasca, Shamanic Knowledge, the Curse and Blessing of Coca, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #508 Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ethnobotany, Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America | The Tim Ferriss Show #469 Sonoran Desert Toad (Bufo Alvarius) | Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Demand for This Toad’s Psychedelic Toxin Is Booming. Some Warn That’s Bad for the Toad. | The New York Times The Pied Piper of Psychedelic Toads | The New Yorker The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O’odham Country by Gary Paul Nabhan | Amazon Native Peoples of the Sonoran Desert: The O’odham | US National Park Service The Legacy of Ibogaine Therapy Pioneer Howard Lotsof | Psychedelic Times 5-MeO-DMT (Bufo): Everything You Need to Know | Drug Science 5-Methoxytryptamine | PubChem Ibogaine | PubChem The Bwiti Tradition | Bwiti Living & Learning Center Inside Ibogaine: A Promising and Perilous Drug for Addiction | Time What is Microdosing, and Does it Work? | The New York Times August 1981 | Omni Magazine 5-MeO-DMT: The Story Behind The ‘”God Molecule” | Double Blind What Are the True Risks of Taking Cannabis? | The Guardian Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome | Cleveland Clinic Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature’s Healing Secrets by Mark J. Plotkin | Amazon Epibatidine | Wikipedia 7-Oxanorbornene Dicarboxylic Anhydride | PubChem First Known Venomous Frogs Use Their Heads as Weapons | Sci-News.com Editorial: Placebo and Nocebo Effects in Psychiatry and Beyond | Frontiers In Psychiatry Nauclea Latifolia | Useful Tropical Plants Tramadol | Wikipedia Traditional Bwiti Ritual Gabon | ICEERS Niños Santos, Psilocybin Mushrooms, and the Psychedelic Renaissance | Chacruna Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants | Reality Sandwich Phyllomedusa Bicolor | Wikipedia Undiscovering Huautla: City of the Magic Mushrooms | Chacruna Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers by Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, and Christian Rätsch | Amazon Huichol Tribe of Mexico’s Sierra Madre Mountains | Dance of the Deer Foundation How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan | Amazon The Wild Story Of William Leonard Pickard, The ‘Acid King’ Who Once Made 90 Percent Of The World’s LSD | All That’s Interesting Ayahuasquero vs. Curandero: A Western Misunderstanding of Shamanism | Ayahuasca Life Where Do Magic Mushrooms Grow? | Double Blind Giuliana Furci on the Wonders of Mycology, Wisdom from Jane Goodall, Favorite Books, and the World’s Largest Fungarium | The Tim Ferriss Show #525 The Wizard of Oz | Prime Video 5-Bromo-DMT | Wikipedia Psilocybe Congolensis | Wikipedia Ethnomycological Conspectus of West African Mushrooms | Advances in Microbiology The Ghost Dance: The Origins of Religion by Weston La Barre | Amazon Finasteride: Side Effects, Dosage, Uses, and More | Healthline Strychnos | The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants Salvia Divinorum (Ska Pastora) | The Vaults of Erowid Ergoline | Wikipedia Salvia Divinorum: A Psychopharmacological Riddle and a Mind-Body Prospect | Current Drug Abuse Reviews Bryan Roth Daniel Siebert Salvia Divinorum and Ecological Awareness: An Interview with Daniel Siebert | MAPS How the Drunken Monkey Hypothesis Explains Our Taste for Liquor | The Atlantic In ‘Stoned Ape’ Theory, Consciousness Has Roots in Psilocybin | Inverse Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain by Nicolas Langlitz | Amazon Timothy Leary’s Transformation from Scientist to Psychedelic Celebrity | WiredSHOW NOTES

Note from the editor: Timestamps will be added shortly.

The Sonoran desert toad’s celebrity star is risingThe role of the chemist in preserving plants, animals, and fungi from which compounds are traditionally derivedWho is Howard Lotsof?MicrodosingKen Nelson and the celebrated Bufo Alvarius: The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert pamphletGod molecule vs. just plain old DMTThere are potential downsides to these compounds (even cannabis)Undiscovered compoundsLessons learned and questions pondered from Alexander Shulgin’s thumb surgerySynthetic vs. naturalThe role of ritualCombining traditionsMark’s account of Huautla in the early 2000s.Downsides of psychedelic tourismEffectiveness of fungi vs. frogsWhere do we go in search of new substances?How far back do shamanic traditions go?Poisons as medicines and vice versaSalvia, and stoned vs. drunk apesNicolas Langlitz and the primatology of primatologistsTimothy Leary’s legacyMORE GUEST QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“I think there’s something to be said for maybe just not being stoned all the time. And I say this as somebody that likes cannabis, personally.”
— Hamilton Morris

“I love frogs and they are amazing chemists.”
— Hamilton Morris

“There is no provision for the use of medicines by healthy people.”
— Hamilton Morris

“It wasn’t … until Dennis McKenna adapted laboratory techniques for the cultivation of psilocybin-containing mushrooms and published it in an underground, non-scientific guide intended for lay readers that not only did people recognize that these things grew naturally in the United States, but that they could cultivate them themselves.”
— Hamilton Morris

“Almost everything that we call a poison, under some circumstances — at least conceivably — could have a therapeutic effect.”
— Hamilton Morris

“I think that the history of psychedelics had been profoundly elitist and Timothy Leary was somebody who wanted to break with that tradition of elitism.”
— Hamilton Morris

PEOPLE MENTIONEDOctavio Rettig Gerardo Sandoval Gary Nabhan Howard Lotsof Tim Ferriss Charles Nichols Albert Most Kenneth Nelson Andrew Weil Wade Davis Richard Evans Schultes John Daly Alexander Shulgin Doña Julieta María Sabina R. Gordon Wasson Albert Hofmann Michael Pollan William Leonard Pickard Dennis McKenna Giuliana Furci Weston La Barre José Luis Díaz Terence McKenna Nicolas Langlitz Franz X. Vollenweider Timothy Leary

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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)

“An important thing for everyone is to think about the world and society as us instead of me and to try to act that way and to think longer term. Think about how the things one does affects the people around not only right away but down through the years.”
— Edward O. Thorp

Edward O. Thorp (@EdwardOThorp) is the author of the bestseller Beat the Dealer, which transformed the game of blackjack. His subsequent book, Beat the Market, coauthored with Sheen T. Kassouf, influenced securities markets around the globe. He is also the author of A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market.

Edward was one of the world’s best blackjack players and investors, and his hedge funds were profitable every year for 29 years. He lives in Newport Beach, California.

You can find our first conversation here.

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 on YouTube here.

Brought to you by Wealthfront automated investing, Vuori comfortable and durable performance apparel, and Eight Sleep’s Pod Pro Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating. More on all three below.

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

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This episode is brought to you by Wealthfront! Wealthfront pioneered the automated investing movement, sometimes referred to as ‘robo-advising,’ and they currently oversee $28 billion of assets for their clients. It takes about three minutes to sign up, and then Wealthfront will build you a globally diversified portfolio of ETFs based on your risk appetite and manage it for you at an incredibly low cost.

Smart investing should not feel like a rollercoaster ride. Let the professionals do the work for you. Go to Wealthfront.com/Tim and open a Wealthfront account today, and you’ll get your first $5,000 managed for free, for life. Wealthfront will automate your investments for the long term. Get started today at Wealthfront.com/Tim.

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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 Vuori clothing! Vuori is a new and fresh perspective on performance apparel, perfect if you are sick and tired of traditional, old workout gear. Everything is designed for maximum comfort and versatility so that you look and feel as good in everyday life as you do working out.

Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet at VuoriClothing.com/Tim. Not only will you receive 20% off your first purchase, but you’ll also enjoy free shipping on any US orders over $75 and free returns.

Want to hear Ed’s first time on this show? Have a listen to our conversation here, in which we discuss applying math to gambling, beating roulette with the first wearable computer, longevity regimens, impressing Warren Buffett, investment skills that transfer to other areas of life, methods for enacting positive change, lifelong learning, and much more.

#596: Edward O. Thorp, A Man for All Markets — Beating Blackjack and Roulette, Beating the Stock Market, Spotting Bernie Madoff Early, and Knowing When Enough Is Enough

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 Edward O. Thorp:

Website | Twitter

Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One by Edward O. Thorp | Amazon Beat the Market: A Scientific Stock Market System Edward O. Thorp and Sheen T. Kassouf (PDF) | ResearchGate A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market by Edward O. Thorp | Amazon Edward O. Thorp, A Man for All Markets — Beating Blackjack and Roulette, Beating the Stock Market, Spotting Bernie Madoff Early, and Knowing When Enough Is Enough | The Tim Ferriss Show #596 Stock Warrants vs. Stock Options | Investopedia Call Option | Investopedia Numeracy | Wikipedia The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution by C.P. Snow | Amazon Why Averages Are Often Wrong | Towards Data Science Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) | Investopedia Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre | Amazon Schaum’s Outlines | Amazon Calculating the Day of the Week in Your Head | K5 Learning Doomsday Rule | Wikipedia Rain Man | Prime Video 5 Mind-Blowing Things Kim Peek Could Do That You Can’t | ABA Rule of 72 | Investopedia Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory, on Mental Performance, Imagination, and Productive Mischief | The Tim Ferriss Show #52 & #53 Quit Smoking, Invest, Profit: See How Much You’d Have by Retirement | Make Use Of A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty and Steven Rendall | Amazon Mathemagics: How to Look Like a Genius Without Really Trying by Arthur Benjamin and Michael Brant Shermer | Amazon Arthur T. Benjamin | The Great Courses Leading Global Market Maker | Citadel Securities What Are Hedge Funds? | Investopedia Investing in Amazon Stock (AMZN) | Investopedia More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby | Amazon The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby | Amazon Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay | Amazon Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | Wikipedia Crypto Winter Has Had a Chilling Effect on Coinbase and Robinhood | CNN Business How r/WallStreetBets Gamed the Stock of GameStop | The Verge What Your Body Shape (Apple, Pear, Carrot) Means for Your Health | Edward-Elmhurst Health Avatar | Prime Video Osteopenia (Low Bone Density): What Is It, Prevention, Symptoms, Causes & Treatment | Cleveland Clinic Mediterranean Diet 101: A Meal Plan and Beginner’s Guide | Healthline Mister Rogers Consistently Weighed 143 Pounds. The Significance Behind That Number | Biography The World of Guinness 9 Famous Thinkers from History Who Were Habitual Walkers | Flâneur Life Classical Music | Wikipedia Jazz | Wikipedia Preventing the Spread of the Coronavirus | Harvard Health The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes — And Why by Amanda Ripley | Amazon Three Stages of Disaster Response | AvoidDenyDefend.org How the Texas Freeze Left an Austin Community in Crisis | Vox The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney | Amazon Yelp and the Wisdom of “The Lonely Crowd” | The New Yorker Myers–Briggs Type Indicator | Wikipedia Finasteride: Side Effects, Dosage, Uses, and More | HealthlineSHOW NOTES[06:39] The value of long-term thinking and the price of short-term thinking[07:57] What is a common stock warrant?[09:52] Why are people generally poor at taking longer term (or alternative) perspectives?[11:08] Conversing about numeracy and common misunderstandings[15:00] How to become more numeracy literate[20:18] It’s Raining Man[22:31] The Rule of 72[26:14] Making the best financial decisions with unknown variables[35:57] How to have fun learning about probability and statistics[37:47] How to get an edge in hedge fund investing (with book recommendations)[46:23] Ed’s methods for losing (or maintaining) weight and looking 60 in spite of being almost 90 years old[53:38] Favorite beer[55:03] Music as stress reduction[56:02] Avoiding unnecessary risks[1:04:12] The age-guessing experiment[1:06:17] Other-directed vs. inner-directed and takeaways from The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman[1:14:35] How an 89-year-old maintains hair growth[1:17:20] Using scrap time[1:19:45] A big change in Ed’s later life that increased its quality[1:22:16] New reflections, future hopes, and parting thoughtsMORE GUEST QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“When I meet somebody, I don’t think about them as being in any particular category. I think that as far as I’m concerned, they’re my equal and they know things I don’t know. I probably know things they don’t know too, but I can learn from them. And I usually try to hear what they have to say instead of telling them what I have to say.”
— Edward O. Thorp

“Measurement is important because you want facts on which to base what you do instead of hopes, beliefs, wishes, so on.”
— Edward O. Thorp

“You can work out and be fit and have high aerobics and so on, but if you’re not going in for routine colonoscopies and skin cancer checks and so on, you’re leaving a big risk factor open for yourself. So you’ve got to try to get rid of the risks that you can cover.”
— Edward O. Thorp

“Thinking long-term is one thing that running a marathon teaches us.”
— Edward O. Thorp

“The value of being around good people and not being around a few bad people is much higher than it ever was before.”
— Edward O. Thorp

“An important thing for everyone is to think about the world and society as us instead of me and to try to act that way and to think longer term. Think about how the things one does affects the people around not only right away but down through the years.”
— Edward O. Thorp

“A lot of these things that you make better now, for the future, will actually benefit us a lot sooner than you might think”
— Edward O. Thorp

PEOPLE MENTIONEDSheen T. Kassouf C.P. Snow Jeff Bezos Elon Musk Ben Goldacre Daniel Schaum John Horton Conway Dustin Hoffman Kim Peek Ed Cooke Thomas Piketty Arthur Benjamin Ray Dalio Sebastian Mallaby Charles Mackay James Cameron Fred Rogers Benjamin Stein Herbert Stein Milton Friedman Amanda Ripley David Riesman Katharine Cook Briggs Isabel Briggs Myers Michael Phelps

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Published on June 28, 2022 07:35

Ed Thorp, The Man for All Markets — How to Think for Yourself, A Real Estate Cautionary Tale, Hedge Fund History and Warnings, The Incredible Power of Basic Numeracy (and How to Develop It), Thought Experiments on Risk, Popular Delusions, Cryptocurrencies,

“An important thing for everyone is to think about the world and society as us instead of me, and to try to act that way, and to think longer term. Think about how the things one does affects the people around not only right away, but down through the years.”
— Edward O. Thorp

Edward O. Thorp (@edwardothorp) is the author of the bestseller Beat the Dealer, which transformed the game of blackjack. His subsequent book, Beat the Market, coauthored with Sheen T. Kassouf, influenced securities markets around the globe. He is also the author of A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market.

Edward was one of the world’s best blackjack players and investors, and his hedge funds were profitable every year for 29 years. He lives in Newport Beach, California.

You can find our first conversation here.

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 on YouTube here.

Brought to you by Wealthfront automated investing, Vuori comfortable and durable performance apparel, and Eight Sleep’s Pod Pro Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating. More on all three below.

Listen onApple Podcasts [image error]Listen onSpotify [image error]Listen onOvercast#604: Ed Thorp, The Man for All Markets — How to Think for Yourself, A Real Estate Cautionary Tale, Hedge Fund History and Warnings, The Incredible Power of Basic Numeracy (and How to Develop It), Thought Experiments on Risk, Popular Delusions, Cryptocurrencies, and More

This episode is brought to you by Wealthfront! Wealthfront pioneered the automated investing movement, sometimes referred to as ‘robo-advising,’ and they currently oversee $28 billion of assets for their clients. It takes about three minutes to sign up, and then Wealthfront will build you a globally diversified portfolio of ETFs based on your risk appetite and manage it for you at an incredibly low cost.

Smart investing should not feel like a rollercoaster ride. Let the professionals do the work for you. Go to Wealthfront.com/Tim and open a Wealthfront account today, and you’ll get your first $5,000 managed for free, for life. Wealthfront will automate your investments for the long term. Get started today at Wealthfront.com/Tim.

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 Vuori clothing! Vuori is a new and fresh perspective on performance apparel, perfect if you are sick and tired of traditional, old workout gear. Everything is designed for maximum comfort and versatility so that you look and feel as good in everyday life as you do working out.

Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet at VuoriClothing.com/Tim. Not only will you receive 20% off your first purchase, but you’ll also enjoy free shipping on any US orders over $75 and free returns.

Want to hear Ed’s first time on this show? Have a listen to our conversation here in which we discuss applying math to gambling, beating roulette with the first wearable computer, longevity regimens, impressing Warren Buffett, investment skills that transfer to other areas of life, methods for enacting positive change, lifelong learning, and much more.

#596: Edward O. Thorp, A Man for All Markets — Beating Blackjack and Roulette, Beating the Stock Market, Spotting Bernie Madoff Early, and Knowing When Enough Is Enough

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 Edward O. Thorp:

Website | Twitter

Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One by Edward O. Thorp | Amazon Beat the Market: A Scientific Stock Market System Edward O. Thorp and Sheen T. Kassouf (PDF) | ResearchGate A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market by Edward O. Thorp | Amazon Edward O. Thorp, A Man for All Markets — Beating Blackjack and Roulette, Beating the Stock Market, Spotting Bernie Madoff Early, and Knowing When Enough Is Enough | The Tim Ferriss Show #596 Stock Warrants vs. Stock Options | Investopedia Call Option | Investopedia Numeracy | Wikipedia The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution by C.P. Snow | Amazon Why Averages Are Often Wrong | Towards Data Science Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) | Investopedia Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre | Amazon Schaum’s Outlines | Amazon Calculating the Day of the Week in Your Head | K5 Learning Doomsday Rule | Wikipedia Rain Man | Prime Video 5 Mind-Blowing Things Kim Peek Could Do That You Can’t | ABA Rule of 72 | Investopedia Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory, on Mental Performance, Imagination, and Productive Mischief | The Tim Ferriss Show #52 & #53 Quit Smoking, Invest, Profit: See How Much You’d Have by Retirement | Make Use Of A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty and Steven Rendall | Amazon Mathemagics: How to Look Like a Genius Without Really Trying by Arthur Benjamin and Michael Brant Shermer | Amazon Arthur T. Benjamin | The Great Courses Leading Global Market Maker | Citadel Securities What Are Hedge Funds? | Investopedia Investing in Amazon Stock (AMZN) | Investopedia More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby | Amazon The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby | Amazon Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay | Amazon Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | Wikipedia Crypto Winter Has Had a Chilling Effect on Coinbase and Robinhood | CNN Business How r/WallStreetBets Gamed the Stock of GameStop | The Verge What Your Body Shape (Apple, Pear, Carrot) Means for Your Health | Edward-Elmhurst Health Avatar | Prime Video Osteopenia (Low Bone Density): What Is It, Prevention, Symptoms, Causes & Treatment | Cleveland Clinic Mediterranean Diet 101: A Meal Plan and Beginner’s Guide | Healthline Mister Rogers Consistently Weighed 143 Pounds. The Significance Behind That Number | Biography The World of Guinness 9 Famous Thinkers from History Who Were Habitual Walkers | Flâneur Life Classical Music | Wikipedia Jazz | Wikipedia Preventing the Spread of the Coronavirus | Harvard Health The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes — And Why by Amanda Ripley | Amazon Three Stages of Disaster Response | AvoidDenyDefend.org How the Texas Freeze Left an Austin Community in Crisis | Vox The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney | Amazon Yelp and the Wisdom of “The Lonely Crowd” | The New Yorker Myers–Briggs Type Indicator | Wikipedia Finasteride: Side Effects, Dosage, Uses, and More | HealthlineSHOW NOTES[06:39] The value of long-term thinking and the price of short-term thinking[07:57] What is a common stock warrant?[09:52] Why are people generally poor at taking longer term (or alternative) perspectives?[11:08] Conversing about numeracy and common misunderstandings[15:00] How to become more numeracy literate[20:18] It’s Raining Man[22:31] The Rule of 72[26:14] Making the best financial decisions with unknown variables[35:57] How to have fun learning about probability and statistics[37:47] How to get an edge in hedge fund investing (with book recommendations)[46:23] Ed’s methods for losing (or maintaining) weight and looking 60 in spite of being almost 90 years old[53:38] Favorite beer[55:03] Music as stress reduction[56:02] Avoiding unnecessary risks[1:04:12] The age-guessing experiment[1:06:17] Other-directed vs. inner-directed and takeaways from The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman[1:14:35] How an 89-year-old maintains hair growth[1:17:20] Using scrap time[1:19:45] A big change in Ed’s later life that increased its quality[1:22:16] New reflections, future hopes, and parting thoughtsMORE GUEST QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“When I meet somebody, I don’t think about them as being in any particular category. I think that as far as I’m concerned, they’re my equal and they know things I don’t know. I probably know things they don’t know too, but I can learn from them. And I usually try to hear what they have to say instead of telling them what I have to say.”
— Edward O. Thorp

“Measurement is important because you want facts on which to base what you do instead of hopes, beliefs, wishes, so on.”
— Edward O. Thorp

“You can work out and be fit and have high aerobics and so on, but if you’re not going in for routine colonoscopies and skin cancer checks and so on, you’re leaving a big risk factor open for yourself. So you’ve got to try to get rid of the risks that you can cover.”
— Edward O. Thorp

“Thinking long-term is one thing that running a marathon teaches us.”
— Edward O. Thorp

“The value of being around good people and not being around a few bad people is much higher than it ever was before.”
— Edward O. Thorp

“An important thing for everyone is to think about the world and society as us instead of me, and to try to act that way, and to think longer term. Think about how the things one does affects the people around not only right away, but down through the years.”
— Edward O. Thorp

“A lot of these things that you make better now, for the future, will actually benefit us a lot sooner than you might think”
— Edward O. Thorp

PEOPLE MENTIONEDSheen T. Kassouf C.P. Snow Jeff Bezos Elon Musk Ben Goldacre Daniel Schaum John Horton Conway Dustin Hoffman Kim Peek Ed Cooke Thomas Piketty Arthur Benjamin Ray Dalio Sebastian Mallaby Charles Mackay James Cameron Fred Rogers Benjamin Stein Herbert Stein Milton Friedman Amanda Ripley David Riesman Katharine Cook Briggs Isabel Briggs Myers Michael Phelps

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Published on June 28, 2022 07:35

In Case You Missed It: May 2022 Recap of “The Tim Ferriss Show” (#603)

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:

Edward O. Thorp: 00:01:42

Morgan Fallon: 00:10:14

Richard Wiseman: 00:19:11

Dennis McKenna: 00:31:16

Cal Newport: 00:39:28

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Included episodes:

Edward O. Thorp, A Man for All Markets — Beating Blackjack and Roulette, Beating the Stock Market, Spotting Bernie Madoff Early, and Knowing When Enough Is Enough (#596)

Morgan Fallon — 10 Years on the Road with Anthony Bourdain, 9 Emmy Nominations, Lessons from Michael Mann, Adventures with Steven Rinella, High Standards, Wisdom from West Virginia, and More (#597)

Richard Wiseman on Lessons from Dale Carnegie, How to Keep a Luck Diary, Mentalism, The Psychology of the Paranormal, Mass Participation Experiments, NLP, Remote Viewing, and Attempting the Impossible (#593)

Dennis McKenna — An Ethnopharmacologist on Hallucinogens, Sex-Crazed Cicadas, The Mushrooms of Language, BioGnosis, and Illuminating Obscure Corners (#592)

Cal Newport and Tim Ferriss Revisit “The 4-Hour Workweek” (Plus: The Allure and The Void of Remote Work, Unsustainable Behaviors, Burning Out, The Cult of Productivity, and More) (#594)

Please enjoy!

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

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Published on June 25, 2022 08:24

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

“When people say they want somebody to work clean, it doesn’t just mean ‘Don’t say any bad words.’ It also means ‘Don’t have any opinions that will make people uncomfortable.'”
— Bill Burr

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.

You’ll get plenty of that in this special episode, which features my interview with Bill Burr from my 2017 TV Show Fear{less}. The “less” is in parentheses because the objective is to teach you to fear less, not to be fearless.

Fear{less} features in-depth, long-form conversations with top performers, focusing on how they’ve overcome fears and made hard decisions, embracing discomfort and thinking big.

It was produced by Wild West Productions, and I worked with them to make both the video and audio available to you for free, my dear listeners. You can find the video of this episode on YouTube.com/TimFerriss, and eventually you’ll be able to see all episodes for free at YouTube.com/TimFerriss.

Spearheaded by actor/producer and past podcast guest Vince Vaughn, Wild West Productions has produced a string of hit movies including The Internship, Couples Retreat, Four Christmases, and The Break-Up.

In 2020, Wild West produced the comedy The Opening Act, starring Jimmy O. Yang and Cedric The Entertainer. In addition to Fear{less}, their television credits include Undeniable with Joe Buck, ESPN’s 30 for 30 episode about the ’85 Bears, and the Netflix animated show F is for Family.

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Want to hear another episode with a standup comedian? Have a listen to my conversation with Jerry Seinfeld in which we discussed the book that nudged him toward comedy as a potential career, how to generate and maintain a prolific wellspring of creative ideas, why the word “systemize” is such an important part of his personal operating system, self-rewards and other routines that keep him writing, and much more.

#485: Jerry Seinfeld — A Comedy Legend’s Systems, Routines, and Methods for SuccessSELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Bill Burr:

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

Bill’s Monday Morning Podcast F Is for Family | Netflix When Bill Burr Went to Battle against the City of Philadelphia | The Laugh Button Funny Bone Comedy Clubs Rocky | Prime Video Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leppard | Amazon Music Watermelon Pig (Sledge-O-Matic) | Gallagher The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts | Prime Video That Nigger’s Crazy by Richard Pryor | Amazon Music Eddie Murphy by Eddie Murphy | Amazon Music Hit by a Car | Eddie Murphy Emerson College The Underground Sound of Emerson | WECB Dinosaur Jr.Boston’s Comedy Institution | Nick’s Comedy Stop Kickstart My Heart by Mötley Crüe | Amazon Music Stitches Comedy Club Chocolate Covered Strawberries Delivery Near Me | Shari’s Berries Wild West Production | Twitter The Simpsons | Prime Video Big Jump Entertainment Madison Square Garden Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same | Prime Video “Does Anybody Remember Laughter?” -Robert Plant | YouTube Black Sabbath Guns N’ RosesSHOW NOTES[05:39] 12 magic minutes in Philadelphia[11:39] Bill grew up in Massachusetts, but he lived a Wild West lifestyle.[13:04] How comedy entered the picture and who Bill admired most[15:24] As a kid, what did Bill think he’d be when he grew up?[21:43] Bill’s first time getting on stage[24:49] As a comedian, you never forget the first time you bomb[28:23] Clean Bill Burr vs. Post-Clean Bill Burr[33:39] The comedian’s comedian[35:44] Are Bill’s podcast ads reads — or roasts?[40:10] How Netflix’s F Is for Family came about[47:03] Bill’s idea generation process[50:14] Spotting when young comic talent has “it”[51:37] Dealing with the humorless or otherwise unbearable[54:14] Madison Square Garden[57:33] Bill’s board and parting thoughtsMORE BILL BURR QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“I think somewhere along the line, I just wanted to have a fun job.”
— Bill Burr

“When I was a kid, just making kids laugh was a way to get people to stop beating the shit out of me.”
— Bill Burr

“When people say they want somebody to work clean, it doesn’t just mean ‘Don’t say any bad words.’ It also means ‘Don’t have any opinions that will make people uncomfortable.'”
— Bill Burr

“How do I apologize without apologizing to the 40 drunk soccer moms who all tweeted at the exact same moment so this became a thing for eight seconds yesterday that I now have to address?”
— Bill Burr

“I don’t get this whole thing where somebody secretly videotapes you at a comedy club and then they upload it on the internet and then you have to now apologize to people who weren’t at the show. It’s like, you weren’t at the show and you decided to watch, so why don’t you get mad at the kid who fucking filmed it? That’s it. I am guilty of being a comedian in a comedy club that tried out a joke that didn’t work.”
— Bill Burr

“I’m self-employed, so I don’t need some chocolate-covered strawberry people to pay my rent. I didn’t put myself in that position.”
— Bill Burr

“I’m just going to be a comedian that sells tickets, hopefully. And if that’s all I am, who gives a shit? I’m telling jokes for a living, I’m killing it.”
— Bill Burr

“Even if you’re not going to be fine, isn’t it better to just exist thinking you’re going to be fine until it’s not fine? And then when it’s not fine, then you can just fucking handle it then. But there’s no sense to ruin right now.”
— Bill Burr

PEOPLE MENTIONEDPatrice O’Neal Tracy Morgan Ralphie May Bob Saget Robert Kelly Jim Norton Dom Irrera Rocky Balboa Joe Frazier Gallagher Dean Martin Foster Brooks Bob Hope Cheech and Chong Richard Pryor George Carlin Eddie Murphy Bill Maher John Travolta Jack Lynch Steve Byrne Vince Vaughn Michael Price O.J. Simpson Robert Plant Josh Adam Meyers Ben Bailey Joe DeRosa Paul Virzi

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Published on June 23, 2022 15:32

Jack Kornfield — How to Overcome Apathy and Find Beautiful Purpose (#601)

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“We are consciousness. You’re not your body. You have a body, but it’s not who you are. You’re certainly not your thoughts. Oh, my God. If you were your thoughts, we’d be in trouble. They keep changing anyway, one opinion to another. And you’re not your emotions. They come like the tide or the weather. So who are you? Who you are is the awareness itself that was born into this body. You are consciousness.”
— Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield (@JackKornfield) trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. Jack co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with fellow meditation teachers Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein and the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. Over the years, Jack has taught worldwide, led international Buddhist teacher meetings, and worked with many of the great teachers of our time. He holds a PhD in clinical psychology and is a grandfather, husband, and activist. Some of his current projects include MMTCP, a worldwide mindfulness teacher training; Cloud Sangha, a site offering access to expert mindfulness teachers online; and a positive impact Wisdom Ventures fund.

His books have been translated into 22 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies. They include The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology; A Path with Heart; After the Ecstasy, the Laundry; Teachings of the Buddha; The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace; Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are; and his most recent book, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are.

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Want to hear Jack Kornfield’s previous appearance on the podcast? Listen in on our conversation in which we discuss self-care during times of isolation, the four dimensions of freedom, coping with one’s own mortality, what spirituality is really about, abusing sacred medicines, what suicidal ideation is trying to teach us, underrated ways to access the mysteries around us, and much more.

#414: Jack Kornfield — How to Find Peace Amidst COVID-19, How to Cultivate Calm in Chaos

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No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are by Jack Kornfield | Amazon Jack Kornfield — How to Find Peace Amidst COVID-19, How to Cultivate Calm in Chaos | The Tim Ferriss Show #414 Jack Kornfield — Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy in the Present | The Tim Ferriss Show #300 Insight Meditation Society Spirit Rock MMTCP Cloud Sangha Wisdom Ventures The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology by Jack Kornfield | Amazon A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life by Jack Kornfield | Amazon After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path by Jack Kornfield | Amazon Teachings of the Buddha by Jack Kornfield | Amazon The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace by Jack Kornfield | Amazon Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are by Jack Kornfield | Amazon A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times by Jack Kornfield | Amazon Audio: Loving-Kindness Meditation | Jack Kornfield The Healing Power of Love: Guided Meditation with Jack Kornfield | Sounds True In a Politically Polarized Era, Sharp Divides in Both Partisan Coalitions | Pew Research Center Notable Quotations | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Center Don’t Worry, Be Angry: Anger in Buddhism | Tricycle: The Buddhist Review The Demon Mara, Who Challenged the Buddha | Learn Religions Reichian Psychotherapy | Therapedia Querencia | Wikipedia My Healing Journey After Childhood Abuse (Includes Extensive Resource List) | The Tim Ferriss Show #464 Hypervigilance Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment | Healthline Mental Health Care Needs in US and 10 Other High-Income Countries | Commonwealth Fund “Trip of Compassion” — The Most Compelling Movie I’ve Seen In The Last Year | Tim Ferriss Titanic Lifeboats | Titanic Facts What Is a Bodhisattva? | Tricycle March For Our Lives DC Choir Sings with Jennifer Hudson, ‘The Times They Are a Changin’ at March for Our Lives Rally | WUSA9 The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch | Amazon Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings by John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess | Amazon The Council of All Beings | The Rainforest Information Center We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness by Alice Walker | Amazon United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3-14 June 1992 | United Nations The Paris Agreement | UNFCCC How Was Avogadro’s Number Determined? | Scientific American Estimations: Your Breath and Julius Caesar’s | Futurism Out-of-Body Experience: What’s Really Happening? | Healthline A Brief For The Defense by Jack Gilbert | The Sun Magazine The Grateful Dead Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez | Amazon Embrace Joy as a Moral Obligation | ieatyoumama The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Abrams | Amazon Mission: JOY — Finding Happiness in Troubled Times | Prime Video Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim Ferriss | Amazon A Meditation on Loving-Kindness | Jack Kornfield Thich Nhat Hanh on Walking Meditation | Lion’s RoarSHOW NOTES[07:15] Apathy and polarization[08:44] Truth beneath anger[22:40] Ajahn Chah and contractor-ese[26:25] Retuning the tone of rage[33:24] Coping with trauma-induced hypervigilance[41:01] Making group therapeutic models work[47:15] In any effort to make the world better, put on your oxygen mask first[53:19] How can an aspiring Bodhisattva cut through widespread disengagement and apathy?[1:03:57] Thich Nhat Hanh and death[1:15:06] Out-of-body experiences[1:19:40] “A Brief for the Defense”[1:27:12] A guided meditation for recapturing the adventure and joy of childhood[1:38:47] The benefits of loving-kindness meditation[1:47:56] “Last year, foolish monk. This year, no change.”MORE GUEST QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“We resonate with one another. It’s not a complicated thing. You could call it mystical, but if you put a violin on the table and somebody else plays a violin nearby, the strings of both of them will resonate.”
— Jack Kornfield

“If you really look, underneath anger is hurt or fear or some kind of humiliation where you feel like you’ve been disrespected.”
— Jack Kornfield

“I choose to be on the deck of the Titanic, and I’ll help people in the lifeboats.”
— Jack Kornfield

“We are consciousness. You’re not your body. You have a body, but it’s not who you are. You’re certainly not your thoughts. Oh, my God. If you were your thoughts, we’d be in trouble. They keep changing anyway, one opinion to another. And you’re not your emotions. They come like the tide or the weather. So who are you? Who you are is the awareness itself that was born into this body. You are consciousness.”
— Jack Kornfield

“There’s an enviable spirit in children.”
— Jack Kornfield

“We can’t bear our insecurity and we can’t bear the fact that we’re vulnerable in certain ways and that what’s out there is also part of us.”
— Jack Kornfield

“Meditation is not supposed to be a grim duty but rather more an act of adventure and understanding of opening the mind and heart and bringing a sense of well-being.”
— Jack Kornfield

PEOPLE MENTIONEDSharon Salzberg Joseph Goldstein James Baldwin Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Kornfield Brothers Ajahn Chah Buddha Mara Jesus Wilhelm Reich Sigmund Freud Thich Nhat Hanh Dalai Lama Benjamin Franklin Abraham Lincoln Oscar Wilde Michael Meade Luis Rodriguez Trudy Goodman Kornfield Vivek Murthy Jiddu Krishnamurti Wade Davis Jennifer Hudson Bob Dylan Joanna Macy John Seed Alice Walker Miss Piggy Christiana Figueres Julius Caesar Mahatma Gandhi Mother Teresa Vladimir Putin Joseph Stalin Ram Dass Jack Gilbert Hafez Jalal al-Din Rumi Li Po Gavin Newsom André Gide Desmond Tutu Atisha Ryōkan Taigu

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