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September 1, 2023
The Random Show, Rare Drinking Edition — Affordable Luxuries, Brain Stimulation, Sampling the Future (and Some Previews), Recharging with Creative Experiments, Tokenizing Humans with a Bonding Curve, Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry, and Much More (#690)
Illustration via 99designsTechnologist, serial entrepreneur, world-class investor, self-experimenter, and all-around wild and crazy guy Kevin Rose (@KevinRose) rejoins me for another episode of The Random Show!
We discuss affordable luxuries, creative offsites, brain stimulation, OCD, ADHD, tokenizing humans via a bonding curve, cold therapy on a budget, phone data strategies for international travelers, Toshiba’s low-carb rice cooker, and much, much more!
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Want to hear the last time Kevin and I put on a Random Show? Listen to our conversation here, in which we discussed affordable luxuries for priceless lives, suiting up for a visit to the Magic Castle, Eliza Ivanova’s art, my secret for supple skin, nineteenth-century Nintendo, Balaji’s bet, the science of #hangover remedies, Moonbirds over Tokyo, an unexpected Sanbo Zen inquisition, Japanese death poems, escape rooms, high-fidelity immersive sound, Nanoblocks, and much more.
#670: The Random Show with Kevin Rose — The $1M Bitcoin Bet, Japanophilia, Rare IPAs, Preventing Hangovers, AI Companions, Fringe Discords, Affordable Luxuries, High-Fidelity Audio, and Much MoreWhat was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
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MovieThe Legend of Zelda Movie Reportedly Green-Lit After Super Mario Bros. Movie Success | MoviewebThe Night Lord of the Rings Swept the Board | EmpireHanafuda: The History and Popularity of the Japanese Flower Card Game | JapanbasedSHOW NOTES[04:41] Drinks? Heck, it’s 3:00 p.m. Friday somewhere.[08:36] Affordable (and unaffordable) luxuries.[14:42] Kevin’s relaunching his podcast.[17:37] Celebrating creative CØCKPUNCH collaboration.[26:56] Overcoming delegation consternation.[36:23] OCD & ADHD[42:55] Tolkien never said “CØCKPUNCH.”[47:55] Inspirational formats and fictions.[53:26] Brain stimulation banter.[55:23] Tokenizing humans via a bonding curve.[1:03:24] Mitigating brain damage over time.[1:11:47] Cold therapy on a budget.[1:17:41] Climbing up the poet tree.[1:26:31] Coyotes and wolves and Twain.[1:30:34] A free idea for Audible: synchronous book clubs?[1:32:02] Supplements.[1:34:35] Brodo kudos.[1:36:44] Aesop.[1:37:12] Caffeine and creatine with a chance of disaster pants.[1:41:15] CØCKPUNCH Coffee.[1:44:49] Three cheers for OneSkin.[1:47:50] One out of one Dr. Peter Attias recommends ProMix.[1:48:51] A low-carb rice cooker? Thanks, Toshiba.[1:52:14] We like our cake like we like our martinis: without carrots.[1:54:50] Dating in the 21st century.[1:57:31] Phone data strategies for international travelers.[2:01:28] Why Kevin doesn’t buy individual bonds (and what he does instead).[2:03:00] What stocks attract Kevin’s investment dollars these days?[2:06:57] Parting thoughts.PEOPLE MENTIONEDJay-ZDarya RoseNeil ArmstrongElon MuskEpicurusFrankenstein’s MonsterNolan WilliamsDaniel HenriquesDennis O’NeilTed ChiangPatrick RothfussNeil GaimanJoe AbercrombieEthan HawkeAdam GazzaleyMatthew WalkerNadya TolokonnikovaTony HawkNancy Elizabeth HawkRhonda PatrickLaird HamiltonPaul StametsTony RobbinsMary OliverJalal al-Din RumiHaleh Liza GaforiOcean VuongHenry ShukmanNatalie GoldbergMatsuo BashōYosa BusonFukuda Chiyo-niDan FloresMark TwainPeter AttiaMarco CanoraJames BeardDavid SinclairBugs BunnyThe post The Random Show, Rare Drinking Edition — Affordable Luxuries, Brain Stimulation, Sampling the Future (and Some Previews), Recharging with Creative Experiments, Tokenizing Humans with a Bonding Curve, Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry, and Much More (#690) appeared first on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss.
August 24, 2023
The Brothers Who Live One Life — The Incredible Adventures of David and Daniil Liberman (#689)
Illustration via 99designs“It’s not failure. It’s an attempt. 60 percent, 70 percent of those attempts are going to end up with zero, so just move on. Start the next one. You’ll be successful later.”
David Liberman and Daniil Liberman (@DaLiberman) are visionary entrepreneurs and investors with a close partnership spanning 16 years. They gained valuable experience at Snap, contributing to projects involving avatars, bitmoji, animation, and product operations. They are currently based in Los Angeles, where their primary focus is on building Product Science, a service dedicated to optimizing mobile apps.
Moreover, the Liberman brothers have established The Libermans Company, referred to as a People Company. Through their commitment to the Founders Pledge, they have allocated all future earnings and economic value for the next three decades to LibermansCo, including founder shares of Product Science and potential returns from future investments.
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Want to hear another episode with someone who runs their business with the symbiotic assistance of a sibling? Listen to my conversation with Patrick Collison (who started payment company Stripe with his brother John), in which we discussed great books, the importance of giving ideas time to fail, succeeding in an oversaturated market, driving organic traction, developing a mindset resilient to inevitable downswings, growing up free-range, equalizing happiness around the world, making quicker decisions, and much more.
#353: Patrick Collison — CEO of StripeWhat 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 David and Daniil Liberman:Libermans.co | Humanism.is | Twitter | YouTube | Instagram | LinkedIn
Is Selling Shares in Yourself the Way of the Future? | The New YorkerThe Siblings Selling Shares in Their Future Shed Light on How We See Our past | Financial TimesHumanism Would Let People Invest in Humans Like Companies | Fast CompanyOpinion: What if You Could Give Start-Up Money to People, Not Companies? | The New York TimesConsequences of the Collapse of the Soviet Union | Norwich University OnlineWhen Bricks Were Rubles | Planet MoneyBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto | BitcoinBitTorrentWhy Transparency Wins by Daniil and David | YouTubeCorruption in Russia | WikipediaAnti-Corruption Foundation | WikipediaAleksei Navalny, Putin Critic, Was Poisoned at Hotel, His Team Says | The New York TimesRussian Dissident Alexei Navalny Has Been Sentenced to 19 More Years of Prison | Weekend EditionUltima OnlineMake Anything You Can Imagine | RobloxExplore. Discover. Create. | Second LifeDoom Legend John Romero — The Path to Prolific Innovation and Making 130+ Games, How to Find the Soul of the Work, Audacious Ambition, and Building in Monk Mode | The Tim Ferriss Show #681World of WarcraftWhat Does WAR’s Success or Failure Mean for the MMORPG Market? | Online Games Are a Niche MarketCall of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Blasts Blockbuster Record | Business Chief North AmericaBelieve In Online | Sibilant Interactive (via Wayback Machine)Mult Lichnosti Playlist | YouTubeChannel One Russia | WikipediaRussia’s FSB Has Been Accused of Covering Up, Rather Than Solving, Crimes | The New York TimesIs a California Noncompete Agreement Legal? | Labor LawyerWilliam Morris Endeavor (WME)The Simpsons Predictions: 30 Times the Fox Show Forecasted the Future | The Hollywood ReporterHere Comes a Special Boy: ‘Achewood’ Is Back, but TV Isn’t Ready | The VergeCrazytown | IMDbEverything You Need to Know About the Cyprus Bank Disaster | The AtlanticAbout Frank Money, Inc. | F6SA Woman on TikTok Says Boomers Are ‘So Confused’ as to Why Young Americans Don’t Share the Same Work Ethic or Goals — Here Are 3 Reasons Why Their Priorities Have Changed | Yahoo! FinanceFinding “Unicorns:” Questions to Ask Before You Invest in a Startup | Tim FerrissWill Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse Lead to a Financial Crisis? | BrookingsVipassana MeditationFor Math Fans: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Number 42 | Scientific AmericanThe Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Boxset by Douglas Adams | AmazonWhat Is Hypermnesia? | Psychology DictionaryWalkway Plan to Link Tim and Helena’s Separate Homes | London Evening StandardInsight PartnersKylie Jenner ‘Sooo Over’ Snapchat – And Shares Tumble | BBC NewsA Refresher on A/B Testing | Harvard Business ReviewHow the Liberman Siblings Saved Snapchat | AnecdotageHow Snapchat Makes Mini Movies in Augmented Reality | The New York TimesYou Don’t Understand Compound Growth | Who Is Nnamdi?Key Performance Indicator (KPI) | Investopedia“Sports Do Not Build Character; They Reveal It” | Quote Investigator®Natural Computation and Its Limits: Efim Liberman at the Dawn of a New Science | BiosystemsNeuron Quantum Computers and a Way to Unification of Science: A Compendium of Efim Liberman’s Scientific Work | BiosystemsMorse Code | WikipediaHopes Fade for ‘Room Temperature Superconductor’ LK-99, but Quantum Zero-Resistance Research Continues | The ConversationRead > Understand ) Profit * | SpeakCoding | “An interactive course for non-technical professionals, entrepreneurs and those looking to start their transition to tech.”Free and interactive coding book (Simply need to log in to access for free.)The 2007–2008 Financial Crisis in Review | InvestopediaWhat Is a Credit Default Swap and How Does It Work? | InvestopediaThe Risks Hidden in Public Pension Funds | The New York TimesCalifornia Public Employees’ Retirement System ( CalPERS)Why Is College in America So Expensive? | The AtlanticIt’s Not Enough to Get Paid for Not Working: These L.A. Police and Firefighters Figured Out How to Double It | ReasonVisualizing US Wealth by Generation | Visual CapitalistHow Finding a Home in America Became So Absurdly Expensive | The GuardianMoneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis | AmazonThe Padres Owe Fernando Tatís Jr. $340 Million. He Owes an Investment Fund Millions From His Payday. | WSJInvesting in the Careers of Athletes | Big League AdvantagePower Laws: How Nonlinear Relationships Amplify Results | Farnam Street BlogSlow VenturesA Former Facebook VP Thinks Investing in Humans Is the Future of VC | Vice10 Benefits Showing Why Education Is Important to Our Society | Habitat for HumanityIs Free College a Good Idea? Increasingly, Evidence Says Yes | BrookingsMexican Soap Opera Has Russian Fans in a Lather: ‘The Rich Also Cry’ Tops the TV Charts and Turns Potato Farmers into Couch Potatoes. | Los Angeles TimesThe Center for Consciousness Studies | The University of ArizonaWhat Is Sustainable Investing? | HBS OnlineHow Environmentally Conscious Investing Became a Target of Conservatives | The New York TimesSHOW NOTESEditor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly.
Childhood.The influence of scientist parents on curious kids.The perils of pursuing anti-corruption innovation in post-Soviet Russia.Building a business with cables and crossbows.Lessons learned by bankrupting a gaming studio.Moscow-style investment recovery.A lucky break in the darkness of debt.Streamlining production through decentralization, parallelization, and a DJ connection.When playing the fools is the smart move.Coming to America.Building momentum with animation in Los Angeles.Divorce lawyer power dynamics.Another unforeseen financial hurdle.To Silicon Valley and nonprofit transparency.How are David and Daniil able to pivot between different ideas so quickly?The formation, advantages, and drawbacks of the Liberman hive mind.Separation pros and cons.How does external romance fit into this arrangement?The Dalai Lama, Jerry Murdock, and Snap.Reversing Snapchat’s 2018 decline by adapting to data and fixing real problems.Applying principles of compound growth to life.How working with family has helped with logistics.The value of interdisciplinary synthesis.How the Libermans might teach people to code.A data-driven look at our current financial crisis.What’s the Liberman solution?Incentivizing adoption of such a solution.A real-world test.Who/what makes for a good investment in this model?Do we reduce or elevate the potential for success by minimizing suffering?How to invest in people (and why you should).Parting thoughts.MORE QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“The struggle will come. It doesn’t matter if you have millions of dollars, you will always be struggling because you strive to achieve more.”
“If someone just claims something and you cannot really prove it for yourself with data, probably something is missing and you need to dig deeper.”
“Previous generations got a lot from society … almost-free college education. New generations are being hammered with student debt. They don’t really feel that society gives them much, but they still donate the same portion.”
“We will all win. The market will win, society will win. Humanity will win from the fact that we will use this power law for wider groups of people to invest in them, provide them capital, and provide them a chance to get a higher education to try to start a business.”
“It’s not failure. It’s an attempt. 60 percent, 70 percent of those attempts are going to end up with zero, so just move on. Start the next one. You’ll be successful later.”
“Competition is always a struggle, and there will always be competition.”
PEOPLE MENTIONEDEfim LibermanSvetlana MininaAnna Liberman WoodfordMasha LibermanStuart HameroffRoger PenroseSatoshi NakamotoIngeborga DapkūnaitėKonstantin ErnstDmitry MedvedevVladimir PutinJimmy FallonJon StewartMark ZuckerbergVoltronPatrick CollisonJohn CollisonBatman/Bruce WayneRobinThe AvengersTim BurtonHelena Bonham CarterThe Dalai LamaGyétrul Jigmé Norbou RinpotchéJerry MurdockKim KardashianKylie JennerMatt MullenwegLeBron JamesFernando Tatís Jr.Marc AndreessenChris DixonJoshua KushnerSam LessinMarina MogilkoThe post The Brothers Who Live One Life — The Incredible Adventures of David and Daniil Liberman (#689) appeared first on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss.
August 16, 2023
Justin Gary — Taking the Path Less Traveled, The Phenomenon of “Magic: The Gathering,” How Analytical People Can Become “Creative” People, Finding the Third Right Answer, and How to Escape Your Need for Control (#687)
Illustration via 99designs“It can be way worse to win the wrong game than to lose one that you actually enjoy playing.”
— Justin Gary
Justin Gary (@Justin_Gary) is an award-winning designer, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. He is CEO of Stone Blade Entertainment and creator of the innovative and award-winning Ascension deck-building game series. Prior to designing games, Justin was the youngest ever Magic: The Gathering US National Champion. He has studied creativity and applied the principles of design to create dozens of products over his 20 years in the industry for brands that include Marvel, World of Warcraft, and the Wharton School of Business. Today, he designs, consults, and teaches creativity around the world as a digital nomad.
Justin is also the author of Think Like a Game Designer: The Step-By-Step Guide to Unlocking Your Creative Potential and host of the Think Like a Game Designer podcast.
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Want to hear another episode with someone who makes games for a living? Listen to my conversation with Doom co-creator John Romero in which we discussed developing 13 games in one year, hyperthymesia, early innovations in 3D gaming, designing games with movable and removable parts in mind, the ups and downs of starting a new gaming company, and much more.
#681: Doom Legend John Romero — The Path to Prolific Innovation and Making 130+ Games, How to Find the Soul of the Work, Audacious Ambition, and Building in Monk ModeWhat was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEWebsite | Twitter | LinkedIn | Stone Blade’s Instagram | Stone Blade’s Discord
Think Like a Game Designer: The Step-By-Step Guide to Unlocking Your Creative Potential by Justin Gary | Amazon Think Like a Game Designer Podcast Stone Blade EntertainmentAscension | AmazonSolForge Fusion | AmazonThe World’s Premier Trading Card Game | Magic: The GatheringThe World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game | Dungeons & DragonsLincoln-Douglas (LD) Debate Format | Debate DrillsThe Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 | Lincoln Home National Historic SiteRevenge of the Nerds Magic Is Played with Cards. It’s Wildly Popular. It’s Tough to Explain | Sports Illustrated VaultJustin Gary UR Aggro — 1st US Nationals 1997 Deck | MTG GoldfishJustin Gary | MTG WikiMonopoly | AmazonThe Dojo | MTG WikiDungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History by Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, and Sam Witwer | AmazonRichard Garfield | Think Like a Game Designer #11Richard Garfield | Think Like a Game Designer #31Top 50 Most Powerful Magic: The Gathering Cards | NerdMuch?Play Tic-Tac-ToeRock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. the Computer | The New York TimesKeep or Mull? 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Trading Card Game | WikipediaUpper Deck World of Warcraft Miniatures Core Set | AmazonThe 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | Amazon80/20 Rule (Pareto Principle) | InvestopediaRichard Koch on Mastering the 80/20 Principle, Achieving Unreasonable Success, and the Art of Gambling | The Tim Ferriss Show #466How to Negotiate as a Freelancer | Harvard Business ReviewTeaching by the Case Method | Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning, Harvard Business SchoolSailing on a Rising Tide of Juice; The Almost Accidental Success of Nantucket Nectars | The New York TimesHotel BironTime to Penis / TTP | Know Your MemeCØCKPUNCH CoffeeJustin Gary AMA | Bakugan TCG SubredditGame Manufacturers Association (GAMA) ExpoArt Supplies, Crafts, and Framing | MichaelsPlay Reimagined | Toy FairGen ConBad Beets Official How to Play Video | Stone BladeArnold Sports FestivalIronMind Captains of Crush (COC) Hand Gripper | AmazonHow Viagra Was Discovered by Accident | BBCGame Testing Questions | Justin GaryNeil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing | The MarginalianGen Con: The History of the World’s Oldest Tabletop Gaming Convention | BooksBrushes&BalrogsBurning ManAscension Tactics: The Deckbuilding Miniatures Game by Stone Blade Entertainment | KickstarterBakugan | Spin MasterPAX (Events) | WikipediaSolForge Digital Trading Card Game by Stone Blade Entertainment | KickstarterThe Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy by Chris Bailey | AmazonThe Rule of Three | Chris BaileyLevel Up Journal | Stone Blade EntertainmentYour Digital HQ | SlackManage Your Team’s Work, Projects, & Tasks Online | AsanaA New Way of Working | MondayThailand Travel Guide | National GeographicSHOW NOTES[07:43] An origin story steeped in Magic.[11:23] A debatable past.[16:38] The life of a full-time Magic competitor.[18:24] A philosophy major.[19:45] Monopoly lessons learned from a family of lawyers.[23:28] Innovations that made Magic an instant success.[26:40] Magic game balance considerations.[30:06] Justin exits his Magic career with an altered mindset.[36:43] Too cool for law school.[41:34] Risk is relative.[43:39] From playing games to designing games.[46:10] A Whack on the Side of the Head.[49:53] Surfacing our assumptions.[54:47] The core design loop and effective brainstorming.[1:00:20] Brainstorming tools.[1:02:01] Prototyping.[1:06:26] The value of ugly first drafts.[1:09:37] From company man to entrepreneur.[1:15:45] Fear-setting and contingency planning.[1:18:13] The early stages of startup life.[1:24:05] TTP.[1:25:21] Taking the company to the next level.[1:31:43] Gaming GAMA and other trade shows.[1:37:02] Eliciting feedback at the playtesting stage.[1:42:32] Ascension debuts at Gen Con.[1:47:04] The finances of game production.[1:51:27] The pros and cons of selling a game to another company.[1:53:54] Favorite failures.[1:59:17] Maintaining relationships through failures.[2:00:45] Lessons learned through trial and error.[2:03:39] Putting the rule of three to work.[2:05:21] Why Justin’s team communicates via Discord.[2:07:49] How a trip to Thailand helped Justin escape his need for control.[2:11:25] Justin’s billboard.[2:12:49] Parting thoughts.MORE JUSTIN GARY QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“Cultivate comfort with uncertainty and impermanence.”
— Justin Gary
“It can be way worse to win the wrong game than to lose one that you actually enjoy playing.”
— Justin Gary
“Deadlines are magic. It doesn’t matter if you have no idea what you’re doing, you have a deadline.”
— Justin Gary
“Most of the times we take risks, we’re not jumping off cliffs or into burning buildings. It’s just your career takes a different path or you’re behind in school or whatever. It’s a very low cost.”
— Justin Gary
“There’s nothing that differentiates a creative person from a not-creative person other than process.”
— Justin Gary
“It’s actually net negative for you to invest in making something ‘pretty’ early on in the process.”
— Justin Gary
“If you really, really think about the worst case scenarios, 99 times out of 100, they’re totally recoverable within a year. It’s often way less.”
— Justin Gary
“Imagine you’re building a house, and before you’ve even laid the foundation, you’re worrying about the paint color on the walls and where the furniture goes. You’re not going to get very far. You’re wasting a lot of time. Make sure you’ve got a solid foundation first. Worry about the paint color later. I think a lot of designers start by worrying about the paint color being wrong and they’re never going to finish a house that way.”
— Justin Gary
“Nobody knows what they’re doing. I cannot know what I’m doing at least as well as anybody else. This idea that the difference between a leader and somebody else is not that they know something or that they have some special access. It’s that [they’re] just willing to make some assertions and own the consequences. That’s it. That’s the difference.”
— Justin Gary
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August 10, 2023
Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder of Asana and Facebook — Energy Management, Coaching for Endurance, No Meeting Wednesdays, Understanding the Real Risks of AI, Embracing Frictionless Work with AI, The Value of Holding Stories Loosely, and More (#686)
Illustration via 99designs“Imagine [AI as] the world’s greatest project manager that’s integrated into every team, and it knows all the best practices from everything, and it knows the context of the specific project you’re working on. And that means you can let go of a lot of things that cause continual partial attention disorder.”
— Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz (@moskov) is co-founder and CEO at Asana, a leading work-management platform for teams. Asana’s mission is to help humanity thrive by enabling all teams to work together effortlessly. Prior to Asana, he co-founded Facebook and was a key leader within the technical staff, first in the position of CTO and then later as VP of Engineering. Dustin attended Harvard University as an economics major for two years before moving to Palo Alto, California, to work full time at Facebook.
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Do you want to hear the episode Dustin said he was “very delighted” to hear? Have a listen to my most recent conversation with Jack Kornfield, in which we discussed yogic swoons, the point of consciousness, how the Buddha would deal with anxiety, the dimensions of meditation, reliably eliciting the non-self, cultivating a more joyful mind, and much more.
#684: Jack Kornfield — How to Reduce Anxiety and Polish the Lens of ConsciousnessWhat 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 Dustin Moskovitz: Dustin’s Book Recommendations | Google Docs Template: Time Budget | Google Sheets Manage Your Team’s Work, Projects, & Tasks Online | AsanaA Publication for Teams Who Aspire to Do Great Things Together | Wavelength by AsanaBack Buddy Classic | AmazonAspercreme Max Strength Lidocaine Pain Relief Patches | AmazonThe Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo | AmazonDustin Moskovitz Shares His Lessons on Leadership | WavelengthThe Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz | AmazonObjectives and Key Results (OKR) | WikipediaHow to Take Back Your Productivity with No Meeting Wednesday | WavelengthMaker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule | Paul GrahamThe Brady Bunch Opening and Closing Theme 1969-1974 | TeeVees GreatestThe Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch | AmazonThe 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Warner Klemp | AmazonAlex Gendler: The Myth of Sisyphus | TED-EdThe Work | Byron KatieWhat is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? | American Psychological AssociationNonviolent Communication: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values by Marshall B. Rosenberg | AmazonGödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R Hofstadter | AmazonWhat Is Status Quo Bias and How Does It Affect the Workplace? | Wharton OnlineHistory and Future of Rare Earth Elements | Science History InstitutePeak Oil: Predictions and Possible Consequences | InvestopediaEffective Altruism Is About Doing Good Better | Effective AltruismCari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz: Young Silicon Valley Billionaires Pioneer New Approach to Philanthropy | The Washington PostYou Have $8 Billion. You Want to Do as Much Good as Possible. What Do You Do? | VoxHelping Humanity Thrive | Open PhilanthropyEarning to Give | WikipediaMalaria in Africa | UNICEFChicken Is the Most Popular Meat in the World. And We’re Expected to Eat Much More of It. | VoxMeat Substitutes: The Startups Ditching Animals from Meat | Wired UKWhere to Buy Impossible Products Near You | Impossible FoodsOne of Philanthropy’s Biosecurity Leaders Steps Up Emergency Pandemic Giving | Inside PhilanthropyA Facebook Founder’s Pandemic Battle | PuckNew Type of Ultraviolet Light Makes Indoor Air as Safe as Outdoors | Columbia University Irving Medical CenterCOVID-19 Serosurveys for Public Health Decision Making | The Lancet Global HealthThe COVID-19 Pandemic Almost Didn’t Happen, a New Genetic Dating Study Shows | CNNWastewaterSCAN DashboardPausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by Eliezer Yudkowsky | TimeDoomer-as-a-Service | DoombaseYuddite | Urban DictionaryWhat the Luddites Really Fought Against | Smithsonian MagazineAnthropic’s Claude Is Competing With ChatGPT. Even Its Builders Fear AI. | The New York TimesAnthropic’s Dario Amodei Discusses Building Safer AI and More at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 | TechCrunchGuarding the Future: The Essential Role of Guardrails in AI | Unite.AIMeta, Google, and AI Firms Agree to Safety Measures in Biden Meeting | The New York TimesWhy Would AI Want to Do Bad Things? Instrumental Convergence | Robert Miles AI SafetyDavid Deutsch: Preserving the Means of Error Correction Is “Morality” | *FaircompaniesDavid Deutsch and Naval Ravikant — The Fabric of Reality, The Importance of Disobedience, The Inevitability of Artificial General Intelligence, Finding Good Problems, Redefining Wealth, Foundations of True Knowledge, Harnessing Optimism, Quantum Computing, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #662Eric Schmidt — The Promises and Perils of AI, the Future of Warfare, Profound Revolutions on the Horizon, and Exploring the Meaning of Life | The Tim Ferriss Show #541Asana CEO: ‘The Way We Work Right Now Will Soon Look Vestigial. Here’s How AI Will Make Work More Human’ | FortuneThe Jetsons | Prime VideoContinuous Partial Attention — Not the Same as Multi-Tasking | BusinessWeekGetting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen | AmazonMount Tamalpais | Golden Gate National Parks ConservancyA Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times by Jack Kornfield | AmazonOther Books by Jack Kornfield | AmazonChurchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts | AmazonBooks by Ron Chernow | AmazonBooks by Robert A. Caro | AmazonIf You Want to Work Hard, Live Well by Dustin Moskovitz | MediumThe Japanese Call This Practice Tsundoku, and It May Provide Lasting Benefits | Big ThinkThe Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile | AmazonEnneagram of Personality | WikipediaThe Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t by Julia Galef | AmazonSelf-Preservation Six | Enneagram CentralJack Kornfield — How to Reduce Anxiety and Polish the Lens of Consciousness | The Tim Ferriss Show #684SHOW NOTES[08:17] The Back Buddy.[12:38] A user’s guide to Dustin.[15:49] Coaching for endurance.[18:43] Making quicker decisions.[20:45] Avoiding paradox of choice.[23:20] Difficult but desirable delegation.[25:08] The time-saving spreadsheet.[29:12] No Meeting Wednesdays.[33:34] Weekly architecture.[35:33] Why Dustin prefers in-person meetings.[36:55] The 15 Commitments to Conscious Leadership.[40:55] Working with Diana Chapman.[45:10] Clearing conversations.[48:09] Nonviolent Communication.[49:43] Feel your feelings.[51:10] The Beginning of Infinity.[53:50] Effective altruism.[1:00:43] On being directionally vegetarian.[1:02:32] Funding future pandemic preparation.[1:07:33] AI risks and Yuddites.[1:13:43] Most promising avenues of AI defense.[1:17:19] Incentivizing AI safety compliance.[1:19:12] Further AI threats.[1:23:21] What the AI-amplified decade ahead might look like.[1:28:59] Asana’s forthcoming AI integrations.[1:37:04] Blocking personal time.[1:40:41] Recommended reading.[1:43:14] Dustin’s billboard.[1:47:46] Parting thoughts.MORE DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“The thing that is most likely to shut off the computers is the humans. And so if you have a sufficiently powerful system that has gathered enough resources, it might decide to contain that threat just as part of achieving some other goal, which maybe we gave it in the first place.”
— Dustin Moskovitz
“This thing sounds human because it’s a language model and it’s meant to sound as human as possible. We’ve asked it to maximize that goal in itself, but it is not human. It is very alien-like under the surface. We don’t know how it works and we can’t even get it to do some simple constraints like not threaten to kill the end user in a chat script or not give the recipe for napalm if you coax it out in the right way.”
— Dustin Moskovitz
“Imagine [AI as] the world’s greatest project manager that’s integrated into every team, and it knows all the best practices from everything, and it knows the context of the specific project you’re working on. And that means you can let go of a lot of things that cause continual partial attention disorder.”
— Dustin Moskovitz
“Part of the reason we built Asana is people carry around their task list in their heads, or it’s in their email inbox, and they’re rescanning their email inbox all the time. And if you can get it into a system that you trust to show you those things at the right time or sending you reminders at the right time, you can let go of it in the active memory and get more space for presence. And I think AI can be doing this at a much higher level of abstraction for entire teams and entire companies.”
— Dustin Moskovitz
PEOPLE MENTIONEDJulie ZhuoAnna BinderCari TunaLauren ShivelyBarry SchwartzPaul GrahamDavid DeutschNaval RavikantDiana ChapmanJack KornfieldByron KatieSisyphusJim DethmerMarshall RosenbergEliezer YudkowskyDario AmodeiSam AltmanAdam D’AngeloEric SchmidtDavid AllenWinston ChurchillRon ChernowRobert CaroTobi LütkeJulia GalefThe post Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder of Asana and Facebook — Energy Management, Coaching for Endurance, No Meeting Wednesdays, Understanding the Real Risks of AI, Embracing Frictionless Work with AI, The Value of Holding Stories Loosely, and More (#686) appeared first on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss.
August 4, 2023
Dr. Shirley Sahrmann — A Legendary PT Does a Deep Dive on Tim’s Low-Back Issues, Teaches How to Unlearn Painful Patterns, Talks About Movement as Medicine (or Poison), and More (#685)
Illustration via 99designs“Usually the problem is that motion that’s problematic is occurring during all of your activities. The body follows the rules of physics. It takes the path of least resistance. So if it’s easy to move there, it keeps moving there, and that’s what you’re trying to change to make it easier to move at other places where you should be moving more.”
— Dr. Shirley Sahrmann
Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Physical Therapy at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her bachelor’s degree in physical therapy and her masters and doctorate degrees in neurobiology from Washington University, where she joined the physical therapy faculty and became the first director of their PhD program in movement science.
Shirley became a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association in 1986 and in 1998 was selected to receive the Mary McMillan Award, the Association’s highest honor. She is a recipient of the Association’s Marion Williams Research Award, the Lucy Blair Service Award, the Kendall Practice Award, and the Inaugural John H.P. Maley Lecturer Award.
She has also received Washington University’s Distinguished Faculty Award, the Distinguished Alumni Award, the School of Medicine’s Inaugural Distinguished Clinician Award, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Indianapolis. She has also received the Bowling-Erhard Orthopedic Clinical Practice Award from the Orthopaedic Academy of the APTA. She has served on the APTA Board of Directors and as president of the Missouri Chapter.
Her first book, Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes, has been translated into seven languages. Her second book, Movement System Impairment Syndromes of the Cervical and Thoracic Spines and the Extremities, has been equally influential in promoting movement diagnoses.
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Want to hear an episode with someone who considers Dr. Sahrmann’s work a great influence? Listen to my conversation with performance coach Eric Cressey in which we discussed why pinpointing the cause of lower back pain can be so challenging, how seemingly unrelated meds can exacerbate pain, addressing and correcting suboptimal patterns of movement, improving thoracic mobility, defusing deskbound damage, how to ask the right questions when seeking treatment for what ails you, and much more.
#675: Eric Cressey, Cressey Sports Performance — Tactical Deep Dive on Back Pain, Movement Diagnosis, Training Principles, Developing Mobility, Building Power, Fascial Manipulation, and Rules for AthletesWhat 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 Dr. Shirley Sahrmann:2023 Speaking and Course Schedule | LinkedIn
Essential Anatomy 5 iOS appEssential Anatomy 5 Android appDiagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes by Shirley Sahrmann | AmazonMovement System Impairment Syndromes of the Extremities, Cervical and Thoracic Spines by Shirley Sahrmann | AmazonThe Shoulder Joint | TeachMeAnatomyBecoming a Physical Therapist | APTAWhat is Translational Research? | UAMS Translational Research InstituteThe Vertebral Column | TeachMeAnatomyIlium | PhysiopediaLumbosacral Transitional Vertebrae: Classification, Imaging Findings, and Clinical Relevance | American Journal of NeuroradiologyPelvic Tilt | PhysiopediaLumbar Spinal Stenosis | Johns Hopkins MedicineTraction: Types, Risks, and Aftercare | HealthlineRelative Stiffness: What You Know, What You Don’t, and Why It Matters | MedBridge BlogTensor Fascia Latae (TFL) | PhysiopediaHip Flexors | PhysiopediaHip Abductors | PhysiopediaHip Adductors | PhysiopediaPiriformis | PhysiopediaThe Finer Points of the Quadruped Position | Functional Movement SystemsHow to Wall Sit: Techniques, Benefits, Variations | Verywell HealthProne vs. Supine vs. Prostrate | Merriam-WebsterHuman Movement System: Our Professional Identity | Physical TherapyWhat Is Metabolic Syndrome? | Johns Hopkins MedicineLumbopelvic Rhythm | PhysiopediaAnatomy Of The Psoas & Iliacus Muscles | Dr. Nabil EbraheimFemoroacetabular Impingement | AAOSA Comprehensive Guide to the Infrasternal Angle & Compensation Layers | Conor HarrisPump Handle Motion and Bucket Handle Motion | MedicoPhysio ActorsShould Lumbar Support Be Positioned on Your Higher or Lower Back? | AutonomousMoving Precisely? Or Taking the Path of Least Resistance? | Physical TherapyPilates: What It Is and Health Benefits | Cleveland ClinicAnterior Superior Iliac Spine (ASIS) | WikipediaQuadratus Lumborum | PhysiopediaExternal Abdominal Oblique | PhysiopediaParaspinal Muscles | PhysiopediaChronic Pain | Johns Hopkins MedicineLinda Van Dillen’s Research Profile | Washington University School of MedicineEnhancing The Movement System | Performance In MotionPeter Attia & Beth Lewis on Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS) | The Peter Attia DriveDr. Shirley Sahrmann: Midlife Evaluation | St. Louis MagazineShirley Sahrmann’s Lumbar Flexion Syndrome | PhysiopediaThe Confusing Concept of “Poor Posture” | Mobility Fit Physical TherapySerratus Anterior | PhysiopediaLatissimus Dorsi Muscle | PhysiopediaHow to Train Your Trapezius Muscle: Exercises & Workout | StrengthLogStretching 101: Advantages and Disadvantages of Stretching | The Movement AthleteKyphosis | Johns Hopkins MedicineStretches for the Rectus Abdominis | eHowFitnessHip Bridges Are One of the Best Glute-Burning Moves — Here’s Why | ByrdieShirley Sahrmann on Exercise and Aging Well | PhysiospotFlexor Digitorum Profundus | PhysiopediaHow to do a Modified Push-Up | NASMAnterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injuries | AAOSIn-Toeing and Out-Toeing: Femoral Anterversion & Retroversion | SIM PhysiotherapyWhat Is The Par Terre Position? | SportsLingoScheuermann’s Kyphosis | PhysiopediaLordosis, Kyphosis, and Scoliosis: Know the Differences | SkoliosisAMA #41: Medicine 3.0, Developments in the Field of Aging, Healthy Habits in Times of Stress, and More | The Peter Attia Drive #231SHOW NOTESEditor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly.
Why Shirley’s first book is so influential among physical therapists.The correlation between lifestyle and health hasn’t always been obvious.Low back pain: not a diagnosis, but a symptom.The trouble with overdeveloped abdominals.What’s my problem?The Movement Systems Syndromes (MSS) approach.The wrong walk home.Correcting bad habits.Psoas it goes.Other common culprits.Pump handle and bucket handle.The body follows the path of least resistance.Anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS)How Shirley examines a new patient.Assessing athletes vs. non-athletes.Dynamic neuromuscular stabilization (DNS)Collapso-smasho and squeezo-smasho.Correcting low shoulders.Stretching: yes or no?Addressing my abdominal stiffness.When the spine doesn’t want to go along for the ride.How has Shirley made it to 86 with her physical and mental health intact?What men should know about femoral retroversion.If it walks like a duck…Managing symptoms of Scheuermann’s disease.Parting thoughts.MORE SHIRLEY SAHRMANN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“One of the things I always loved doing with patients was saying, ‘So, who taught you to walk?’ They say ‘Nobody.’ I say, ‘That’s the problem.’ Just because you’re doing it doesn’t mean you’re doing it right. You’re just doing it.”
— Dr. Shirley Sahrmann
“Exercise won’t change the way you move. You have to change the way you move, and that can improve how muscles function.”
— Dr. Shirley Sahrmann
“Nothing is more scary than ‘Here comes the pain. What did I do? How did I do it? How do I get out of it?” And if you’re showing people, if you go this way, it hurts, if you do it this other way, it doesn’t hurt … they’re in charge of [their symptoms], and they know what to do to decrease them.”
— Dr. Shirley Sahrmann
“Usually the problem is that motion that’s problematic is occurring during all of your activities. The body follows the rules of physics. It takes the path of least resistance. So if it’s easy to move there, it keeps moving there, and that’s what you’re trying to change to make it easier to move at other places where you should be moving more.”
— Dr. Shirley Sahrmann
“You want to chase your center of gravity, not pull it.”
— Dr. Shirley Sahrmann
“It’s not inevitable what’s going to happen to you. you can do things via lifestyle to improve what your outcome’s going to be.”
— Dr. Shirley Sahrmann
“At least 70 percent of the people with back pain, it’s because their hip’s not moving optimally.”
— Dr. Shirley Sahrmann
Pathology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathology
Glenohumeral joint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_joint
Glenoid cavity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenoid_fossa)
Humerus https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humerus)
Facet joint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facet_joint
Iliac crest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliac_crest
Stenosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenosis
SI joint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacroiliac_joint
Tensor fasciae latae (TFL) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_fasciae_latae_muscle
Iliotibial band https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliotibial_tract
Piriformis muscle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piriformis_muscle
Psoas major https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psoas_major_muscle
Psoas minor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psoas_minor_muscle
Infrasternal angle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasternal_angle
Lumbar spine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumbar_vertebrae
Thoracic spine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic_vertebrae
Intercostals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercostal_muscles
Labrum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenoid_labrum
Quadratus lumborum (QL) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratus_lumborum_muscle
Paraspinal muscles https://www.physio-pedia.com/Paraspinal_Muscles
Latissimus dorsi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latissimus_dorsi_muscle
Rhomboids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhomboid_muscles
Kyphosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyphosis
Lordosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordosis
Rectus abdominis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectus_abdominis_muscle
Supine vs. prone position: Supine is lying on your back. Prone is lying on your stomach.
Gluteus medius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluteus_medius
Medial rotation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_terms_of_motion
Lateral rotation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_terms_of_motion
Femoral retroversion https://www.hss.edu/condition-list_hip-femoral-retroversion.asp
Scheuermann’s disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheuermann%27s_disease
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July 28, 2023
Jack Kornfield — How to Reduce Anxiety and Polish the Lens of Consciousness (#684)
Illustration via 99designs“Can you be in this world and can you love it with all its imperfections? And can you bring that spirit of care and love in the middle of what’s tragic and what’s beautiful? That’s a liberated heart.”
— Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield (@JackKornfield) trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to have introduced Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West.
Jack co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, and Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. Current projects include CloudSangha.co, which offers practice groups for all; The Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, which has trained 7,000 mindfulness teachers in 75 countries; and Wisdom Ventures, a fund investing in companies that promote compassion.
His books have been translated into 22 languages and sold 2 million copies. They include The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology; A Path with Heart; After the Ecstasy, the Laundry; Buddha’s Little Instruction Book; The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace; and his most recent book, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are.
Jack is also co-founder of Cloud Sangha, and they offer a quick and free Mindfulness Test to gauge your mindfulness levels. As a conscious online community, Cloud Sangha brings people together to create meaningful human connections and integrate mindfulness into everyday life.
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#601: Jack Kornfield — How to Overcome Apathy and Find Beautiful PurposeWhat was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Jack Kornfield:Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
A Weekly Meditation Group for Practical Support | Cloud Sangha Free Mindfulness Test | Cloud Sangha No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are by Jack Kornfield | AmazonOther Books by Jack Kornfield | AmazonJack Kornfield — How to Overcome Apathy and Find Beautiful Purpose | The Tim Ferriss Show #601Jack Kornfield — How to Find Peace Amidst COVID-19, How to Cultivate Calm in Chaos | The Tim Ferriss Show #414Jack Kornfield — Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy in the Present | The Tim Ferriss Show #300Tranquility. Wisdom. Compassion. | Insight Meditation SocietyAn Insight Meditation Center | Spirit RockMindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program | MMTCPBuilding a Future of Greater Human Connection and Well-Being | Wisdom VenturesAbout Holotropic Breathwork | Grof Transpersonal TrainingThe Grateful DeadThe Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri | AmazonPatanjali’s Yoga Sutras: The 8 Limbs of Yoga | Sukhavati Ayurvedic Wellness RetreatThe Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali | AmazonCan You Control What You Say After Wisdom Teeth Removal? | HealthlineWhat Anesthesia Can Teach Us About Consciousness | The New York TimesConsciousness | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyWhat is Lila? | Yogapedia“If You Don’t Realize the Source…” — Lao Tzu | GoodreadsTao Te Ching by Lao Tzu | AmazonZen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryū Suzuki | AmazonKarma | WikipediaThe Day Nelson Mandela Walked Out of Prison | NPRThe Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness by Stanislav Grof | AmazonThe Buddha and His Frenemy | Melting-Pot DharmaI Am an Old Man and Have Known a Great Many Troubles, But Most of Them Never Happened | Quote InvestigatorThe Work | Byron KatieSohbet: Sermon of Divine Inspiration | Ansari Qadiri Rifai TariqaMysticism | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyNon-Profit Meditation, Practice Mindfulness Online | InsightLAWhat Is a Whirling Dervish and Why Is It Called That? | Istanbul Dervish CeremonyJhāna: The Spice Your Meditation Has Been Missing | TricycleMatthew 6:22-23 | King James Version (KJV)A Seeker’s Guide to Samadhi | Yoga InternationalThe Color Purple by Alice Walker | AmazonEinstein on Widening Our Circles of Compassion | The MarginalianThomas Merton Square | Thomas Merton CenterConjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton | AmazonBrief Instructions for Loving-Kindness Meditation | Metta InstituteAudio: Loving-Kindness Meditation | Jack KornfieldThe Way of the Animal Powers (The Historical Atlas of World Mythology, Vol. 1 by Joseph Campbell | AmazonI Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj | AmazonWhat Did Nisargadatta Maharaj Mean? | RedditDr. Mark Plotkin on Ethnobotany, Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America | The Tim Ferriss Show #469Shamans vs. Synthetics | The Scientist MagazineCultivating Grace: Ease and Irrational Joy | Easing AwakeA Brief For The Defense by Jack Gilbert | The Sun MagazineBritain’s Appointment of a “Minister of Loneliness” Is No Laughing Matter | The New YorkerLoneliness Minister: “It’s More Important than Ever to Take Action” | GOV.UKMinyan: The Congregational Quorum | My Jewish LearningWhat is Satsang? | YogapediaThe Meaning of Sangha | TricycleTranscendental MeditationBe Here Now by Ram Dass | AmazonTransforming Lives by Restoring Sight | Seva FoundationThe Glance Of Mercy | Community Life ChurchRam Dass Here and Now Podcast Archives | Be Here Now NetworkWhen the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Realities by Stanislav Grof | AmazonSensed Presence without Sensory Qualities: A Phenomenological Study of Bereavement Hallucinations | Phenomenology and the Cognitive SciencesSensing the Dead Is Perfectly Normal – And Often Helpful | The ConversationWorld as Lover, World as Self by Joanna Macy | AmazonThe Great Turning | The Center for EcoliteracyJoanna Macy — A Wild Love for the World | The On Being ProjectThinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings by John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess | AmazonCouncil of All Beings | The Eco-Institute at Pickards MountainWebsite for the Academic Study of Religion and Nature & Religion and Ecology | Religion and NatureSHOW NOTESEditor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly.
Stan Grof.Yogic swoons and anesthetic autopiloting.What’s the point of consciousness?A big story or no story at all?The Cosmic Game.How would the Buddha deal with anxiety?The stories anxiety tells.Mystics and the mystery.Jhana practice and the dimensions of meditation.Achieving altered states: a matter of confidence or capacity?What is love?Wise guys.Reliably eliciting the non-self.Sifting out the charlatans.Atisha’s instructions.Cultivating a more joyful mind.Living “social, not solo” and Cloud Sangha.Ram Dass flunking the course.Connection, climate, and justice.Parting thoughts.MORE JACK KORNFIELD QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“If we’re actually to become wise, we need to direct our attention to body, to emotions, to relationships, to thought. We actually need to become wise in those major dimensions of our life. And we can’t expect that of people just because they have a certain title or robe or anything else.”
— Jack Kornfield
“Can you be in this world and can you love it with all its imperfections? And can you bring that spirit of care and love in the middle of what’s tragic and what’s beautiful? That’s a liberated heart.”
— Jack Kornfield
“People think spiritual life is a grim duty. … It’s not meant to be a grim duty. If you don’t have some joy and pleasure in it, that’s the wrong direction, maybe. It’s really an invitation to quiet and calm, to bring in care and compassion, and to find a joy.”
— Jack Kornfield
“You don’t have to fix the whole world, but you can reach and mend the places that you can touch.”
— Jack Kornfield
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July 19, 2023
Bill Gurley Interviews Tim Ferriss — Reflecting on 20+ Years of Life and Business Experiments (#682)
Illustration via 99designsWelcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is usually my job to deconstruct world-class performers to tease out the routines, habits, et cetera that you can apply to your own lives.
This is a special episode and a turning of the tables. This time, legendary investor Bill Gurley interviews me, and the recording is from earlier this year at SXSW in Austin, TX. The conversation explores some of my lessons learned and favorite findings over the last two decades in areas like entrepreneurship, tech, and podcasting. I throw in some favorite books and other spice to keep things interesting.
Bill Gurley (@bgurley) has spent more than 20 years as a general partner at Benchmark. Before entering the venture-capital business, Bill spent four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at Credit Suisse First Boston. Over his venture career, he has worked with such companies as GrubHub, Nextdoor, OpenTable, Stitch Fix, Uber, and Zillow.
For more takeaways from his incredible investing career, you can find my interview with Bill at tim.blog/billgurley.
As a side note, my 2007 SXSW speech that I mention in the interview is what started it all, in many senses. It’s what put my first book, The 4-Hour Workweek, on the radar of influential bloggers and bigger media outlets, ultimately landing it on The New York Times Best Sellers list, where it stayed, more or less, for the next seven years. It’s been a wild ride.
You can hear that 2007 presentation at tim.blog/sxsw.
One last thing: Hugh Forrest, if you’re listening, thank you again for giving me a shot way back in the day!
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Want to hear the last time Bill Gurley was on this podcast and I was the one asking all the questions? Listen to our conversation in which we discussed the most efficient short-form MBA one can find, sell-side analysts vs. buy-side analysts, repurposing good ideas for alternative applications, undervalued competitive advantages, the Santa Fe Institute, how to cultivate anti-tribalism, problems open source can solve, and much more.
#651: Legendary Investor Bill Gurley on Investing Rules, Finding Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Must-Read Books, Creating True Competitive Advantages, Open-Source Strategies, Adapting Mental Models to New Realities, and MoreWhat was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Bill Gurley:Featured Session: Turning the Tables on Tim Ferriss: A Conversation with Bill Gurley | SXSW 2023Legendary Investor Bill Gurley on Investing Rules, Finding Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Must-Read Books, Creating True Competitive Advantages, Open-Source Strategies, Adapting Mental Models to New Realities, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #651Department of East Asian Studies | Princeton UniversityThe 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | AmazonHobee’s Stanford | YelpThe 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonTimothy Ferriss and the ‘4-Hour’ Exit | The Globe and MailAngel Investing: What It Is and How to Start | NerdWalletTim Ferriss’ Angel Investing Profile | SignalGoodbye, StumbleUpon, One of the Last Great Ways to Find Good Things Online | The VergeTim Ferriss’s Favorite Investment Is Uber (Video) | The Business JournalsHow to Increase Your Luck Surface Area | Codus OperandiFrom SF to Shenzhen: How Tech Hubs Are Built by Tanay Jaeel | LinkedInLost Generation: Paris, 1920s | Scott and ZeldaA Fictional World Built for These Chaotic Times | The Legend of CØCKPUNCHThe Lost Presentation That Launched The 4-Hour Workweek — “Secrets of Doing More with Less in a Digital World” from SXSW 2007 | The Tim Ferriss Show #548Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPressThe 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonTim Ferriss Episodes | The Joe Rogan PodcastTim Ferriss | ID10T (Formerly The Nerdist Podcast) Episode 72Tim Ferriss | WTF with Marc Maron Episode 355Tim Ferriss | The Adam Carolla ShowEntrepreneurial Thought Leaders | Six Degrees to Joe Rogan: A Podcast Network AnalysisDan Carlin’s Hardcore History PodcastInside the Actors Studio | Bravo TV10 Best Films That Tackle Toxic Influencer Culture | Screen RantWelcome to 5-Bullet Friday | Tim FerrissDungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History by Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, and Sam Witwer | AmazonTo Be Clear: Do Not Build Your Brand House on Land You Don’t Own | John Battelle’s Search BlogFinding the One Decision That Removes 100 Decisions (or, Why I’m Reading No New Books in 2020) | Tim FerrissHow I Built This with Guy Raz | WonderyThis American LifeThe 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout | AmazonLex Fridman PodcastAn Update on Changes to Spotify’s Podcast Business, June 2023 | SpotifyHow Spotify’s Podcast Plan Went off the Rails | The Verge“I’ll DM You Now” | Tim Ferriss, TwitterTribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonSponsored InMail | LinkedIn Marketing SolutionsComplexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop | AmazonScience for a Complex World | Santa Fe InstituteMr. China: A Memoir by Tim Clissold | AmazonThe Tao of Seneca: Letters from a Stoic Master (aka The Moral Letters to Lucilius) | Tim FerrissAwareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality by Anthony de Mello | AmazonThe Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez | AmazonEight of the Very Best Nail Clippers 2023 | The StrategistRaynaud’s Disease Symptoms and Causes | Mayo ClinicHotHands Hand Warmers | AmazonMittens | AmazonThe Truth About the New York Times and WSJ Bestseller Lists | ObserverPublishing Industry Data | NPD BookScanToday’s Book: The 4-Hour Workweek | ScobleizerNonviolent Communication: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values by Marshall B. Rosenberg | AmazonSHOW NOTES[06:32] From Princeton to podcasting.[07:39] How a disenchanted entrepreneur became a reluctant author.[14:22] Angel investing and The 4-Hour Body.[16:40] Investing rulesets and takeaways.[19:09] How a choice location maximizes serendipity.[20:42] Why did I back away from angel investing?[22:28] Entering the blogosphere.[27:02] Why podcasting?[28:33] Early and enduring lessons for improving the craft.[31:37] What makes a successful podcaster?[34:57] The power of direct communication with one’s audience.[38:48] Leveraging a lean infrastructure.[40:34] Helpful steps for effective interview prep.[45:08] Respected podcasting peers.[48:00] Spotify’s foray into podcasting territory.[50:09] Twitter and LinkedIn.[53:15] Books most gifted.[55:31] Most positively effective purchase of $100 or less.[55:30] Favorite failure.[57:50] Billboard.[58:49] Best investment ever made.[59:30] Most life-improving new belief, behavior, or habit.PEOPLE MENTIONEDDr. EvilEd ZschauMike Maples, Jr.Garrett CampDanny MeyerHugh ForrestJoe RoganChris HardwickMarc MaronAdam CarollaDan CarlinGenghis KhanRichard P. FeynmanMax HeadroomMichael MauboussinShaquille O’NealGuy RazLex FridmanPatrick OShaughnessyBill SimmonsTim ClissoldSenecaAnthony de MelloHafezKevin KellyA.C. NielsenRobert ScobleMarshall B. RosenbergThe post Bill Gurley Interviews Tim Ferriss — Reflecting on 20+ Years of Life and Business Experiments (#682) appeared first on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss.
July 12, 2023
Doom Legend John Romero — The Path to Prolific Innovation and Making 130+ Games, How to Find the Soul of the Work, Audacious Ambition, and Building in Monk Mode (#681)
Illustration via 99designs“So I played for a little while and I noticed that there were only probably two students in the room, and I said, ‘Well, what are they doing on the computer, because it doesn’t look like they’re playing?’ He goes, ‘Oh, no, they’re programming.’ And I’m like, ‘What is that?’ He said, ‘Well, that’s actually what you do to make these games. You have to learn how to tell the computer how to put stuff on the screen and what to do, how to think.’ And I’m like, ‘I want to do that.'”
— John Romero
Computer and video game legend John Romero (@romero) has designed and published more than 130 games since his first sale at the age of 16. A teenage programming prodigy, his major achievements include co-inventing a series of revolutionary computer games—DOOM, Quake, Wolfenstein 3-D, and Commander Keen—that launched the industry’s most popular genre, the first-person shooter.
The memoir DOOM GUY: Life in First Person is his first book.
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Want to hear another episode with someone who takes the business of creating fun seriously? Listen to my conversation with Exploding Kittens co-founder Elan Lee in which we discuss core gameplay loops, internet archaeology, converting casual fans into superfans, building a game from scratch quickly, making Jar Jar Binks’ neck, clothing the vote, designing games with kids, dealing with investor expectations, defying the algorithms, and much more.
#653: Elan Lee, Co-Creator of Exploding Kittens — How to Raise Millions on Kickstarter, Deconstructing Mega-Successes, Secrets of Game Design, The Power of Positive Constraints, The Delights of Craftsmanship, and The Art of Turning Fans into SuperfansWhat was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
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Doom Guy: Life in First Person by John Romero | AmazonThe Book That Inspired the Birth of Reddit by Alexis Ohanian | LinkedInMasters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner | AmazonDive Into Anything | RedditOculus Rift | WikipediaPascua Yaqui Tribe | NCAIWhy Revered Developers John and Brenda Romero Started a Game Studio in Ireland | The Washington PostAggressor Squadron | WikipediaTop Gun | Prime Video50 Years of BASIC, the Language That Made Computers Personal | TimeCromemco System Three | Old ComputersOpening Minds. Opening Doors. | Sierra CollegeHunt the Wumpus | OSRICStar Trek Text Game | SladeRadio Shack TRS-80 Model 1 Microcomputer | National Museum of American HistoryMasters of Doom: 10 Things You Never Knew About John Romero | Game RantThe Invention of Battlezone | IEEE SpectrumAfter 25 Years, Might and Magic 6 Reminds Us What It’s Like to Have Fun | EurogamerWizardry | WikipediaUltima | WikipediaEGA/VGA Graphics Deep Dive | The Rasteriid SoftwareSuper Mario History | NintendoHovertank One | My AbandonwareJohn Romero’s Secrets of Success: No Prototypes, Great Tools, Default Bagels | MCV/DEVELOPCastle Wolfenstein | WikipediaWolfenstein 3D | Internet ArchiveParty Card Games, Puzzles, Greeting Cards, and More | Exploding KittensSpear of Destiny | RetroGamesShadowCaster | My AbandonwareUltima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss | RetroGamesPrerelease: Doom (PC, 1993) | The Cutting Room FloorHyperthymesia (HSAM): What Is It? | HealthlineCommander Keen 1: Invasion of the Vorticons | DOS GamesQuake | WikipediaThe World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game | Dungeons & DragonsDangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion | RetroGamesSmashing Pumpkins into Small Piles of Putrid Debris | Giant BombDOOM Creator John Romero Plays the Infamous MyHouse.WAD | PCGamesNDOOM Eternal | BethesdaQuake III Arena | WikipediaThe Quake III Algorithm That Defies Math, Explained | Attack of the FanboyDOOM II | WikipediaDoom Engine | WikipediaDoom Engine Source Code Review | Fabien SanglardThe History of Ion Storm | PC GamerBlackroom | WikipediaThe Color Of Money | Prime VideoSHOW NOTESEditor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly.
Childhood.Aggressor Squadron.John’s first exposure to computers and coding.Early innovations in 3D gaming.The id Software team.Side-scrolling games.Developing 13 games in one year. How?Designing with movable and removable parts in mind.Warning the world of its inevitable DOOM.Hyperthymesia.Working on two games at once.Creative direction.When John realized DOOM would be a hit.Why John moved on from id Software.What is a gaming engine?Starting a new company.What prompted John to write DOOM Guy: Life in First Person?The origin of DOOM‘s name.Parting thoughts.MORE JOHN ROMERO QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“The bigger the team gets, the harder and longer it takes to make one vision come out the right way. But with four people [having] very distinct jobs to do, it works really, really well.”
— John Romero
“I’m going through this level, and I’m hearing these monsters moving around. I don’t know where they’re at, but I don’t like that they’re coming for me somehow. And it was great, because I finally got to feel the game experience the way that people would feel when they’re playing it.”
— John Romero
“We never thought that DOOM was going to be living actively for 30 years. Stuff is [still] being made for the game on a daily basis.”
— John Romero
“So I played for a little while and I noticed that there were only probably two students in the room, and I said, ‘Well, what are they doing on the computer, because it doesn’t look like they’re playing?’ He goes, ‘Oh, no, they’re programming.’ And I’m like, ‘What is that?’ He said, ‘Well, that’s actually what you do to make these games. You have to learn how to tell the computer how to put stuff on the screen and what to do, how to think.’ And I’m like, ‘I want to do that.'”
— John Romero
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July 5, 2023
Richard Koch — Revisiting the 80/20 Principle, The Power of Optimistic Journaling, Studying History to Improve Investing, and The Grand Beliefs of Winners (Plus: The Toxic Beliefs of Losers) (#680)
Illustration via 99designs“M. Scott Peck wrote a book which starts, ‘Life is difficult.’ This is one of the great things about life. If you understand this, you can transcend it, because you anticipate that things are going to be difficult, and you can take pride in overcoming difficulties. But if you expect there are going to be no difficulties, obviously you are going to be disillusioned.”
— Richard Koch
Richard Koch (@RichardKoch8020) is an entrepreneur, investor, former strategy consultant, and author of several books on business and ideas, including four on how to apply the 80/20 principle in all walks of life.
His investments have grown at 22 percent compounded annually over 37 years and have included Filofax, Plymouth Gin, Belgo, Betfair, FanDuel, and Auto1. He has worked for Boston Consulting Group and was a partner at Bain & Co. before joining Jim Lawrence and Iain Evans to start LEK, which expanded from three to 350 professionals during the six years Richard was there.
In 1997, Richard’s book The 80/20 Principle reinterpreted the Pareto Rule—which states that most results come from a small minority of causes—and extended it beyond its well-known application in business into personal life, happiness, and success. The book, rewritten in 2022, has sold more than a million copies, been translated into roughly 40 languages, and has become a business classic. It was named by GQ as one of the top 25 business books of all time. Richard’s latest book is Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It.
He has two upcoming books: 80/20 Beliefs, which identifies the very few beliefs in our lives that strongly influence what we do, and, therefore, the results we get, as well as 80/20 Daily, a collection of 365 short daily readings using the 80/20 philosophy to achieve the good life.
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Want to hear the last time Richard Koch was on the show? Listen here to our conversation in which we discussed investing for the mathematically challenged, Oxford Bodleian Library secrets, writing The 80/20 Principle, optimizing happiness, different journaling styles, nine landmarks of successful people, Nelson Mandela’s unique intuition, and much more.
#466: Richard Koch on Mastering the 80/20 Principle, Achieving Unreasonable Success, and the Art of GamblingWhat was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Richard Koch:THE OXFORD EXPERIENCE at WADHAM COLLEGE, OXFORD | Contact formRichard Koch on Mastering the 80/20 Principle, Achieving Unreasonable Success, and the Art of Gambling | The Tim Ferriss Show #466Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It: Unlocking the 9 Secrets of People Who Changed the World by Richard Koch | AmazonThe 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch | AmazonThe Simplest Way to Talk about Location | What3WordsGlastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing ArtsFear-Setting: The Most Valuable Exercise I Do Every Month | Tim FerrissHow to Increase Your Luck Surface Area | Codus OperandiTranche: Definition in Finance, Purposes, and Examples | InvestopediaBetfair | WikipediaBookmaker | WikipediaWhat Is Vig and Overround? | Matter of StatsFilofax Company Turnaround Strategy (Richard Koch) | Planet PerryBelgo | WikipediaIs Plymouth Gin the Unluckiest Spirits Brand Ever? | Just DrinksMackerel | The Art of Tasting PortugalCounterfactuals | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyCounterfactual History and the Outbreak of World War I | American Historical Association“No Lenin, No Hitler?” Reflections on Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Bolshevik Revolution Counterfactual | The Counterfactual History ReviewExpected Value Definition, Formula, and Examples | InvestopediaGlobal Management Consulting Firm | Bain & CompanyStrategic Management Consulting | Boston Consulting GroupWhat Is the Growth Share Matrix? | Boston Consulting GroupDoes Marriage Actually Make People Happier? | Psychology TodayHarvard Professor: Winning the Lottery Won’t Make You Happier in Life | CNBCLiving Longer: Historical and Projected Life Expectancy in the United States, 1960 to 2060 | US Census BureauA Research-Based Approach to Relationships | The Gottman InstituteWhere Will You Be Happiest? | Richard KochCape Town TourismDoris Day: Que Sera, Sera | YouTubeThe Pros and Cons of Moving to Portugal as an Expat | PortugalThe Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck | AmazonTom Magliozzi: Happiness is Reality Minus Expectations | The Knoxville News SentinelMeditations by Marcus Aurelius | AmazonChurch or Cult? Inside the Moonies’ ‘World of Delusion’ | Financial TimesStrategy Consulting Firm | L.E.K. ConsultingMental Toughness Training for Sports: Achieving Athletic Excellence by James E. Loehr | AmazonRumble in (British) English Slang | Able2KnowBasic Buddhism: The Theory of Karma | BuddhaNetThe Lost Religion of Love and Optimism | Richard KochThe Log Song | The Ren & Stimpy ShowEngland World Cup 1966 Stamp | Exploring StampsExperts Forecast Cancer Research and Treatment Advances | American Association for Cancer ResearchEnglish Patriotic Song: The Spanish Armada | English Folk ProjectChurchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts | Amazon“I Shall Be the One to Save London” | The Churchill ProjectFanDuel | WikipediaEurope’s Largest Wholesale Platform for Used Cars | AUTO1The Oxford Experience | Oxford University Department for Continuing EducationWadham College, University of OxfordThe Oxford Tutorial | Oxford Study Abroad ProgrammeTHE OXFORD EXPERIENCE at WADHAM COLLEGE, OXFORD Contact formFlexible Work Options | L.E.K. ConsultingStep Brothers | Prime VideoGather with Purpose: How to Host a Jeffersonian Dinner | Purpose GenerationDialogUnderstanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud (Note: Tim considers the first three chapters a bit slow, so he suggests skipping around.) Pablo Picasso in Eight Periods | DailyArt MagazineColin Smith | Tate BritainWhat Steve Jobs Learned from the Bauhaus | ArtsyWhy Steve Jobs’s Passion for Calligraphy Is an Important Example for You | EntrepreneurDan Carlin’s Hardcore History PodcastThe Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman | AmazonSHOW NOTES[06:18] What3Words.[12:59] Upbeat fish pond reflections.[15:04] Journaling toward optimistic investment.[17:14] Betfair vs. bookmakers.[27:42] How history ties in with investment strategy.[33:47] Assigning probabilities.[36:56] The cows, the stars, and the question marks.[45:41] 80/20 happiness.[57:36] A qué será, será quandary.[1:06:48] Toxic beliefs and terrible templates.[1:11:24] A meeting with Bill Bain.[1:14:41] Charm school.[1:15:08] Why Bain & Company was a better fit than BCG had been.[1:17:34] The formula.[1:25:04] Identifying one’s own toxic beliefs.[1:35:04] Opposites to toxic beliefs.[1:41:53] Churchill’s helpful delusion.[1:47:46] The formation of grand beliefs.[1:51:06] How grand beliefs can become toxic.[1:53:37] Pattern interruption.[1:56:08] The Oxford Experience for 99/1 people.[2:09:04] A bespoke request for hands-on art.[2:11:33] Useful beauty.[2:18:55] Parting thoughts.MORE RICHARD KOCH QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“The 80/20 principle runs … through the whole of my thinking. In terms of my own success or money, but also things like happiness, I’m trying to think, ‘What are the few things that I need to do in order to attain what I want?'”
— Richard Koch
“I go around asking people, ‘Who are your best five friends in the world?’ And people come up with a list. And then I say, ‘Who are the five people that you spend most time with?’ And very often, the lists are completely different. And that tells you that that person, they might be happy, but they’re certainly going against the grain.”
— Richard Koch
“M. Scott Peck wrote a book which starts, ‘Life is difficult.’ This is one of the great things about life. If you understand this, you can transcend it, because you anticipate that things are going to be difficult and you can take pride in overcoming difficulties. But if you expect there are going to be no difficulties, obviously you are going to be disillusioned.”
— Richard Koch
“Delusions can be very helpful sometimes.”
— Richard Koch
“Happiness is probably the least selfish thing that you can pursue, because if you’re happy, you’re going to make a lot of other people happy, as well. If you’re miserable, you’re going to make other people miserable.”
— Richard Koch
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June 28, 2023
Simon Coronel, World Champion of Magic — Quitting the Day Job, The Delights of the Magic Castle, Finding Glitches in Reality, Learning How to Use Your Own Brain, and Worshiping at the Altar of Wonder (#679)
Illustration via 99designs“If there’s no right time, then sooner is better than later.“
— Simon Coronel
Simon Coronel (simoncoronel.com) is legally classified as an “Alien of Extraordinary Ability” by the United States Government for his skills as a magician and illusionist. Simon discovered magic in 1999 as a first-year student at Melbourne University. He then spent five years working full time in management consulting while juggling his “secret” performance career.
He’s currently a jigsaw puzzle designer for The Magic Puzzle Company, which has the #1-backed puzzle on Kickstarter of all time, and is a regular performer at the Magic Castle in Hollywood.
Simon has appeared twice on the hit TV show Penn & Teller: Fool Us. He has won over a dozen international awards for magic, including being crowned the World Champion of Magic in 2022 at FISM, the Olympics of magic.
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Want to hear a podcast episode with someone Simon once fooled? Listen to my interview with Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller fame) in which we discussed practicing skepticism without cynicism, compensating for weak visual memory, youthful meanderings, making several grand per week as a technically homeless street performer, de-escalating hostility with wits and a milkshake, losing 0.9 pounds a day for four months, hanging out with the legendary Richard Feynman, and much more.
#405: Penn Jillette on Magic, Losing 100+ Pounds, and Weaponizing KindnessWhat was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Simon Coronel: Website The Magic Puzzle Company Magician Makes History on Penn & Teller Fool Us — Surprise Judgement! | YouTubeCan Simon Coronel Fool Penn and Teller a Second Time? | YouTubeThe Magic Castle | The Academy of Magical ArtsMagic Castle Battles Back From a Halloween Fire. Was it a Message From Houdini? | L.A. WeeklyBest Suits for Men | Hollywood SuitsFaster Than the Eye Can See! | Animation MagazineLiberty Larsen — Growing up in the Magic Castle | Behind the Page: The Eli Marks Podcast18 Best Silicon Valley Startup Movies and TV Shows | ExpressVPN BlogVisit Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaWhat is Neurodiversity? | Harvard HealthKnow Thyself by Meghan O’Gieblyn | The Paris ReviewThe University of MelbourneNokia 3310 Dual SIM Basic Phone | NokiaArchimedes’ Lever: How You Can Move the World | Eric KimIllusionist Wows Glens Falls Audience by Defying Nature | SaratogianComplete List of Winners throughout the Decades | FISM World ChampionshipIn Medias Res | WikipediaThe X-Files | Prime VideoRick and Morty | Prime VideoWhy Olympic Bronze Medalists Are Happier than Silver Medalists | Boing BoingRocky | Prime VideoHow Does a Caterpillar Turn into a Butterfly? | Scientific AmericanAward-Winning Magician Simon Coronel on Paying People to Give Him Negative Feedback | Amantha ImberMuses | WikipediaAll Models Are Wrong | Farnam Street BlogTim Ferriss | TEDDom Chambers Will Blow Your Mind! | America’s Got Talent 2019The World Championship of Magic! (FISM 2022) | Alex BoverSimon Coronel Just Won the Most Prestigious Prize in Magic | Melbourne Magic FestivalFISM World Championship of Magic: Complete Guide (with Categories) | Magician MasterclassImposter Syndrome: Why You May Feel Like a Fraud | Verywell MindFrench 75 Cocktail Recipe | LiquorHow Does a Magician Trick Other Magicians? We Went to Find Out. | National GeographicLet There Be Change | AccentureWhat Is Asperger Syndrome? | Autism SpeaksWhy Autistic People Can Struggle in the Workplace | Psychology TodayCirque du SoleilWhat Are Golden Handcuffs? | InvestopediaBJ Miller — The Man Who Studied 1,000 Deaths to Learn How to Live | The Tim Ferriss Show #153K-Everything: The Rise and Rise of Korean Culture | The GuardianMentalism | WikipediaNeuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) | WikipediaGolden Rule | WikipediaDerren Brown: Miracle | NetflixPenn & TellerSimon Coronel – Seven Secrets of Visual Magic | MAGIC LiveWhiplash | Prime VideoThe Prestige | Prime VideoHiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear by Jim Steinmeyer | AmazonArrested Development | Prime VideoA Magician named GOB | YouTubeThe Incredible Burt Wonderstone | Prime VideoThis Is Spinal Tap | Prime VideoDealt | Prime VideoAn Honest Liar | Prime VideoGospel Magic | WikipediaInfinite Chocolate Illusion Explained | Mind Your DecisionsMagic Puzzles by Magic Puzzle Company | KickstarterMistakes Xerox Made That Led to Its Failure | FailfectionSHOW NOTES[06:12] Radical earliness.[08:23] The Magic Castle.[17:27] Catching the magic bug at age 18.[19:56] Acknowledging neurodivergence.[28:16] Glitches in Reality.[30:53] The road to winning the 2022 FISM World Championship of Magic.[53:04] Workshopping out the kinks before the competition.[57:59] The muse and the Shoot seal of approval.[1:01:31] Gauging audience perception and finding balance pre-game.[1:05:49] The big day.[1:18:45] Categories of stage magic.[1:20:15] Ugly crying through victory.[1:30:10] The immediate aftermath.[1:34:03] A homecoming drink at the Magic Castle.[1:36:37] Why a later start in magic was lucky.[1:39:13] How working at Accenture played into Simon’s weaknesses.[1:45:30] Making the decision to do magic full-time.[1:52:34] Hotbeds of magical innovation.[1:55:57] Mentalism misgivings.[2:01:13] Why learning magic can be so daunting for a beginner.[2:07:29] How Simon teaches magic.[2:10:45] Magic in the media.[2:14:35] Is atheism a prerequisite for the modern magician?[2:16:14] Jigsaw puzzles.[2:23:26] Parting thoughts.MORE SIMON CORONEL QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“Fear and enthusiasm battled. And fear kept winning.”
— Simon Coronel
“If there’s no right time, then sooner is better than later.”
— Simon Coronel
“Magic is so much broader and so much deeper than people ever realize. There are so many different rooms in the house of magic, you could spend 10 lifetimes on it and not even get close to everything there is to know and learn.”
— Simon Coronel
“If you know how it’s done, that illusion doesn’t happen. And so the tree falls in the woods and there is no sound because there is no magic without the mystery.”
— Simon Coronel
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