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May 12, 2023
So You Love (or Hate) AI Art… Here’s the Same Recommendation
Roughly five months ago, I held an AI art competition related to the fantasy world I’ve been building. I was trying to peek around corners, as I often do with new technologies.
Once it wrapped up, I felt a strange combination of things. It was something like one part falling in love; one part kid in a candy store; and two parts watching metaphorical birds flying overhead, harbingers of a massive forest fire on its way.
This post will share some learnings, art winners with highlights, and more.
There were a handful of rules for submissions, but the bolded portions below are the most important to me:
You can use any AI tools or combination of tools that you like, including DALL·E 2 (@OpenAI), Midjourney (@midjourney), Stable Diffusion (@StableDiffusion), Lexica (@LexicaArt,) NightCafe Studio (@NightcafeStudio), etc. You are also allowed to do manual touch-ups and fine-tuning. IMPORTANT: You *must* use Loom (@loom) or other tech to capture your full process.
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Selections will be based on quality, creativity, presentation of process, and more. Process is important. People should at least be able to attempt to replicate what you did.
The entire point of the competition was to create this blog post, a simple collection of how-to tutorials that can get anyone up-skilled in a short period of time. Even if you hate everything about AI, here’s why I think it’s worth spending time on this…
The AI genie is out of the bottle. The more true experts I speak with, the clearer this is.
No matter how one feels about AI—and I have plenty of misgivings—the genie cannot be put back in the bottle. This is true for hundreds of sectors and millions of people, including artists. I’ve watched family members work their asses off as artists, I wanted to be a comic book penciler for 10+ years, and I’ve paid traditional artists hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years. It’s a world that is near and dear to my heart.
But… there is no going back to the way things used to be. In fact, there is no compelling way to stall things for long. So the question for me isn’t “How can we stop AI art?,” as I don’t think it’s possible, but rather something like:
“What can artists do to get ahead of the curve?” or “How might proactive artists position themselves to benefit from this?” or “How can artists limit the damage of AI and carve out, or preserve, good niches for themselves?”
There are dozens of other similar questions we could ask, but I think the initial answer is the same for all of them: Learn to use AI tools.
To kickstart your art career, and even if you plan on using more traditional methods… learn to use AI tools.
To turbocharge your own art by streamlining mundane tasks… learn to use AI tools.
To learn the current weaknesses and blindspots of AI tools so you can plan around them… learn to use AI tools.
Most high-calibre artists have nothing to fear, many would-be artists have a lot to look forward to, and all artists have something to learn. If you would spend 10 hours at a weekend course that promised to improve the odds of a good living for the next decade, I think you should commit to spending 10 hours seriously using and scrutinizing the better AI tools. Even if you hate everything this represents, even if it’s an opponent you want to defeat, this is akin to watching tape of an opponent before a boxing match. Whether you want to surf the tsunami, dive through it, or get the hell out of the way, you need to understand the wave. To do that, you need to study it, and the sooner the better. The best defense is sometimes an early offense.
I hope you find this post helpful, and please leave comments with other recommendations. I’m sure I’ll get a few gems and a boatload of screeds, but such is the spice of the Internet.
This blog post is a rough draft and merely a starting point. And if you think the pace of AI development has been fast in the last six months, the next 12 months are going to make your head spin. I think the key is always returning your eyes to the road ahead of you instead of the rear-view mirror.
Just a few notes on structure before we dive in:
We included both “Winners” and “Honorable Mentions,” but all are included because they offered unique value or a unique approach.
I heavily weighed the incorporation of character traits. As I mention again below, it’s easy to make *something* pretty with AI, but to make a very *specific thing* with parameters and characteristics is much harder. For that reason, I tended to reward rougher art with better trait matching vs. polished art that used fewer traits.
Some tweets are no longer live, and we’ve indicated that with a comment.
Special Honorable Mention
I am putting the below Twitter thread by @JPEGHODL first, as the thread itself represents an excellent Midjourney 101 tutorial for people who haven’t used Discord much. This is placed here upfront, as many of the submissions use Midjourney:
Entry #2… pic.twitter.com/ZgauVCMbCG
— JPΞG HODL(@JPEGHODL) December 21, 2022
Winners
Tim’s comments on the below: This fella’s how-to blog post is fantastic. Highly recommend.
Original tweet by @ironclawai: https://twitter.com/ironclawai/status/1604528121360826373
Blog post with all process videos: https://ironclaw.me/2022/12/18/cockpunch-ai-characters-contest/
Tim’s comments on the below: Love this one. If you expand the Loom and watch and pause carefully, you can see the iterative process and also how disobedient AI is with some descriptors/prompts.
Original tweet by @Roof_boy_6ix: https://twitter.com/Roof_boy_6ix/status/1604672157744877568
Process video: https://www.loom.com/share/3b395c838e8e4e098e7a2c633aa88f24
Tim’s comments on the below: Matches the below character well. Good touch-ups at the end, plus use of Photopea.com.
Original tweet by @FPOkenny: https://twitter.com/FPOkenny/status/1605265213808599040
Process video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA-Xsk-WkbM
Tim’s comments on the below: Great showcase of Midjourney + DALL·E for removing features vs. inpainting, plus shows some common limitations (e.g., hands), though those limitations have been improved recently. Good matching.
Original tweet by @nat_sharpe_: https://twitter.com/nat_sharpe_/status/1605267590670082048
Video process: https://www.loom.com/share/c91e8b09c0c54fb3bedcd1804996db26
Tim’s comments on the below: This process video is amazing. I love the AI + physical art chops, especially starting with absolutely no experience with AI.
Original tweet by @shizudelphia: https://twitter.com/shizudelphia/status/1605316934631051264
Process video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H3hurVusN4
Tim’s comments on the below: Excellent at incorporating the actual character elements! His faithful inclusion of traits is quite likely the best of the bunch. That was one of the biggest challenges for everyone who competed. Making something pretty with AI is easy, but getting it to make something with well-defined characteristics is much harder.
Original tweet by @PSHoudini: https://twitter.com/PSHoudini/status/1604796676182532096
Process video: https://www.loom.com/share/8558d7597d3e414f8c69e0afb5810182
Tim’s comments on the below: Great explanation of Midjourney and fine tuning with Photoshop. I suspect that, more and more, both artists and writers will use AI to brainstorm rough drafts or starting points for heavy manual polishing.
Original tweet by @blockheim: https://twitter.com/blockheim/status/1605044205906165760
Video process: https://www.loom.com/share/1c6fe71de9b040dc97a8b46090d61941
Tim’s comments on the below: Fun use of traits and incorporated lore (e.g., Dakus), and the process video is also well done.
Original tweet by @WriterInVerse: https://twitter.com/WriterInVerse/status/1605387722033893378
Process video: https://www.loom.com/share/3d5bfe11e4634c889c5ea5546dc7a18c?t=6
Tim’s comments on the below: Thematically strong, rapid iteration, great narration.
Original tweet by @FLitz: https://twitter.com/FLitz/status/1605380881039773696
Process video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQv5Xr2qJVA
Honorable Mentions
Tim’s notes on the below: This is a good demo of quick Midjourney use, as well as use of variations and upscaling options. Most honorable mentions are honorable mentions because fewer traits were incorporated. Nonetheless, this end product really ended up eye-catching.
Original tweet by @Shakkas_Art: https://twitter.com/Shakkas_Art/status/1605029397710667776?s=20&t=mZHz0kVbGrVT4NMVPR7ACw
Process video: https://www.loom.com/share/2832c4abc7ad4ff0bc5de81959d2d031
Tim’s notes: Good process post, which I appreciate, as I sometimes digest things better via text. This is sometimes easier than freeze-framing the videos.
Original tweet by @BMAotC: https://twitter.com/BMAotC/status/1605157342550573057
Process blog post: https://medium.com/@BMAotC/the-ai-art-competition-beginneth-8d8d7cf70531
Original tweet by @gojeanyn: https://twitter.com/gojeanyn/status/1605397341875277824
Process video: https://www.loom.com/share/1a87f89388104fc791a483cb07f2df10
Tim’s notes on the below: The manual addition of the nose/earring is great.
Original tweet by @moonordust007: https://twitter.com/moonordust007/status/1605375068624019456
Tim’s notes: Excellent process video and shows the refinement of prompts, batching variations, then the finishing in Photoshop. I’m a sucker for Japanophilia.
Original tweet by @FLitz: https://twitter.com/FLitz/status/1605394944075567104
Process video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgHbP9XfDBQ
Going Off-Menu
Tim’s comments on the below: This one simply made me and Kevin Rose laugh, so I’m including it for fun.
Original tweet by @PiratePorter_: https://twitter.com/PiratePorter_/status/1604349855878459393
Process video: https://www.loom.com/share/998d7fc1d65940cc88d57eda258703c3
Tim notes on the below: This is clever. If you make it hard to see the attributes, you can dodge one challenge. I’ve seen some comic book artists do this with very dark styles that use a lot of black fills (e.g., shadows).
Original tweet by @Whisky_McTavish: https://twitter.com/Whisky_McTavish/status/1604187262253948929 [Note: This tweet is no longer available.]
Original tweet by @marluco: https://twitter.com/marluco/status/1605336280543375361?s=20&t=2XzfqZNP6tX-i1ut5Zt0Ng
Process video: https://www.loom.com/share/fee0cced51744de48bb66986d19027eb
Original tweet by @Shakkas_Art: https://twitter.com/Shakkas_Art/status/1605036430019133440?s=20&t=GY4IKGAVA5NqcoYIDD1K4A
Process video: https://www.loom.com/share/8874d9bc0bd94a09b548275b63e399f
Tim’s comments on the below: Everyone loves a good steampunk samurai…
Original tweet by @flamesbria02: https://twitter.com/flamesbria02/status/1605162558683746306
Process video: https://www.loom.com/share/27959b7fe1ff42828bae5e43fa301949
Tim’s comments on the below: This one is very good for including detailed gauntlets, which seemed to be one of the hardest parts of the assignment.
Original tweet by @FromInfinityTV: https://twitter.com/FromInfinityTV/status/1604899487088246784
Process video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-G1cZLMM1Y
Tim’s comments on the below: Great combo of AI and manual tweaking. Too fast to replicate, but it was still worth including.
Original tweet by @Singularifica: https://twitter.com/Singularifica/status/1605090514167943168 [Editor note: This tweet is no longer available.]
Process video: https://www.loom.com/share/ec460d28935b4ac3a93389958332db4e
Tim’s comments on the below: Funny “boomerang” story; great “let me go off menu” experiments. Cityscapes, coliseums, etc.
Original tweet by @DanSchoonmaker: https://twitter.com/DanSchoonmaker/status/1605331136783204355
Process blog post: https://www.schoon.me/blog/cockpunch-ai-art
Screenshot of prompts by @shmichael_eth: https://twitter.com/shmichael_eth/status/1604612837036490752/photo/2
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May 11, 2023
Bobby Hundreds — Building an Iconic Streetwear Brand, Making $7 Million in 40 Minutes, The Power of Garfield, Why Korean Entertainment is Taking Over the World, Maintaining the Mystery, The Fickleness of Fortune, and Developing “Nunchi” (#671)
Illustration via 99designs“Koreans are known to have this emotional repression, which then manifests and converts into brilliant art, romance, and passion—and also violence—and it’s called han.”
— Bobby Hundreds
Bobby Hundreds (@bobbyhundreds) is an artist, designer, and storyteller based in Los Angeles. He is best known as the co-founder and chief creative officer of global streetwear brand The Hundreds. He is also behind the Family Style Food Festival and the NFT project Adam Bomb Squad. Bobby is also the bestselling author of This Is Not a T-Shirt, a memoir about his life and how he built a brand around community.
His new book, NFTs Are a Scam / NFTs Are the Future, about his two-year journey into Web3, will publish through Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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#639: Todd McFarlane, Legendary Comic Book Artist — How to Make Iconic Art, Reinvent Spider-Man, Live Life on Your Own Terms, and Meet Every DeadlineWhat 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 Bobby Hundreds:Substack | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok
NFTs Are a Scam / NFTs Are the Future: The Early Years: 2020-2023 by Bobby Hundreds | Amazon This Is Not a T-Shirt: A Brand, a Culture, a Community — A Life in Streetwear by Bobby Hundreds | AmazonThe HundredsFamily Style Food FestivalAdam Bomb Squad | The HundredsFarrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG)Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi | AmazonShoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight | AmazonCity of Arts & Innovation | Riverside, CaliforniaConfucianism | National GeographicAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | AmazonLes Miserables by Victor Hugo | AmazonGarfield | WikipediaCalvin and Hobbes | WikipediaTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | WikipediaA Bathing Ape (BAPE)NeighborhoodWTAPSA Beautiful Mind | Prime VideoTrapper Keeper | MeadBloggerGrowing Up with Gorilla Biscuits & Revelation Records: How Hardcore Influenced The Hundreds | The HundredsA Brief History of Zines | Punktuation!Odd Future (OFWGKTA)’90s and 2000s Fashion Brands That Will Make You Nostalgic | POPSUGAR FashionAmerican ApparelGone with the Wind | Prime VideoEvery Look From Fear of God’s Hollywood Fashion Show | High SnobietyTommy HilfigerWayback Week: A Brief Tour of The Hundreds’ History | The Hundreds10 Celebs You Didn’t Know… Love the Hundreds (Or Wore It Once) | The HundredsThe Hundreds Los Angeles | The HundredsMemento | Prime VideoWARP Magazine | Holden NowA Beginner’s Guide to Backpack Hip-Hop | Anywhere The Dope GoThe Rise and Fall of Rawkus Records (Documentary) | Def GoldblumBreak Down The Walls by Youth Of Today | Amazon MusicJapan’s Influence on Denim | Kiriko MadeEdwin Jeans Brad Pitt (Guitar) (Long) Japanese Commercial | YouTubeCafe De L’ambre: Legendary | Tokyo CoffeeJiro Dreams of Sushi | Prime VideoSquid Game | NetflixParasite | Prime VideoK-Everything: The Rise and Rise of Korean Culture | The GuardianEverything Everywhere All At Once | Prime VideoWho Is Bibigo, the Latest Los Angeles Lakers Jersey Sponsor Company? | NBC Sports Bay AreaFarmer JohnKorean BBQ & Hot Pot | KPOTLeague of Legends: Origins | YouTubeCrazy Rich Asians | Prime VideoHYBEBigHit MusicGangnam Style | Psy‘Gangnam Style’ Brought K-Pop to the World, but Haunted Its Creator | The New York Times1988 Summer Olympics, Seoul | WikipediaThere’s a Uniquely Korean Word for Rage and Regret. So Why Had I Never Heard of It? | CBC RadioFull History of Korea in 5 Minutes | History on MapsPhysical: 100 | NetflixCherry General Store | Cherry L.A.Runnin’ Down a Dream: How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love by Bill Gurley | McCombs School, University of TexasHow Fairfax Ave. Became the Mecca of Streetwear | ComplexHUF WorldwideDiamond Supply Co.SupremeThe 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | AmazonWhat Is ‘Nunchi’, the Korean Secret to Happiness? | The GuardianPachinko by Min Jin Lee | AmazonPachinko | Apple TVWhat Is the Game Pachinko? | POPSUGAR EntertainmentOrange Is the New Black | Prime VideoMission: Impossible | Prime VideoCatch Me If You Can | Prime VideoWhat Is RRR? All About the Award-Winning Indian Film Getting Oscar Buzz | PeopleThe Phantom of the Opera | The HundredsWhy ‘Phantom of the Opera’ is Closing on Broadway — And How It Will Rise Again | VarietyPeter Pan | Prime VideoThe Lost Boys | The HundredsMAGIC Fashion Trade Show Las VegasDark Horse ComicsUsagi YojimboThe Jacket | Andrew Lloyd Webber, InstagramPokémonThe Official Home of Harry Potter | Wizarding WorldHappy Earth Day T-Shirt | The HundredsBlue the Great | The HundredsRoald Dahl | The HundredsStar WarsCoachella Valley Music and Arts FestivalFrank Ocean: “It Came to Me in a Dream” | i-DFrank Ocean (In Our “Arch” T-Shirt) | The Hundreds, InstagramEpitaph RecordsHope, Revolution, and Dedication: My Life with Epitaph Records | The HundredsWho Framed Roger Rabbit | Prime Video‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ Creators on How They Broke All the Rules | The WrapDakin Garfield Stuck On You Commercial | YouTubeThe Tasteless History of the Peeing Calvin Decal | Trivia HappyDear Mr. Watterson | Prime VideoSnow Leopards 101 | National GeographicThe Brethren vs. Freeganism | Memoirs on a Rainy DayABC Primetime: The Brethren (AKA Garbage Eaters) | YouTubeWhat Is a Non-Fungible Token (NFT)? | InvestopediaNFTs Are Forever | The HundredsSneakers, Streetwear, Trading Cards, Handbags, Watches | StockXOnline Marketplace to Buy Fashion | GrailedBored Ape Yacht Club Sells $96 Million of Mutant Ape NFTs in One Hour | DecryptCryptoPunks — The NFTs That Started It All — Their Origin Story and Future Plans | PROOFLorcana by Ravensburger | DisneyDoodlesCult Digital Artist Beeple Raises Record $3.5 Million in NFT Auction | Crypto BriefingAn NFT Artwork by Beeple Just Sold for an Unbelievable $69 Million at Christie’s—Making Him the Third Most Expensive Living Artist at Auction | ARTnetNFT Royalties: What Are They and How Do They Work? | Cyber ScrillaThe Fall — And Arrest — Of FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried | VoxThe Manson Family Story That Should’ve Been Turned Into a Movie | W MagazineWhat Are the Safest Ways To Store Bitcoin? | InvestopediaLessons From Proof Founder Kevin Rose’s $1.4M NFT Phishing Experience | BlockworksSmart Contracts: The Blockchain Technology That Will Replace Lawyers | BlockgeeksStarbucks Brewing Revolutionary Web3 Experience for its Starbucks Rewards Members | StarbucksAbout .SWOOSH | Nike‘Michael Jordan Changed the World’: The True Story behind Nike Movie Air | The GuardianNFT Royalties: Why Artists Love Them, and Traders Don’t | CNBC TV18Minimum 10% NFT Royalties: Letter to Platforms | Matt KaneOpenSea Just Cut Fees and Creator Royalties | NFT NowFEWOCiOUS Writes Emotional Letter to OpenSea Regarding Artist Royalties | NFT LatelyDeadfellaz’s Betty on Defending Artist Royalties | NFT NowIs Removal of Royalties a ‘Race to the Bottom?’ | HypemoonOpenSea’s Royalty Controversy Created a Unionization Movement in Web3 | NFT NowThe MeebitsThe Hundreds Badam Bomb Squad Launches NFT Mint | HypemoonDetective Comics #27 Value & Price Guide | QualityComixFull, Sealed Box of First Ed. Booster Packs Nearly $250k at Auction | Rally Rd.Gerhard Richter Surprises the Art World Again | Design MilkA Fictional World Built for These Chaotic Times | The Legend of CØCKPUNCHFunding Cutting-Edge Scientific Research | Saisei FoundationGold by Rumi | AmazonThe Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz | AmazonStart with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek | AmazonLeaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek | AmazonDeep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar | AmazonThe Godfather by Mario Puzo | AmazonThe Godfather | Prime VideoShades of Grey: My Conversation with Mister Cartoon | The HundredsSHOW NOTESEditor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly.
Signing to the prestigious Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG).Bobby’s black sheep origin story.When art entered the picture.Who was Abram Edelman?The double life of a parent-pleasing law student and clandestine artist.The Hundreds: from early days to 20 years on.The cosmic intervention of WARP magazine.Japan.The Korean Wave.Getting on the radar of tastemakers.Collaboration over competition makes a movement.Curating creatives assisted by nunchi.Necessary disconnections.Korea’s a creative hotspot today. Where should we look next?Rolling with the tides of fickle fashion.Collaborations, corporations, and the reason for limited editions.The current state of The Hundreds.Frank Ocean maintains the mystery.Getting collaboration deals without almost being sued or selling out.Hermit north stars.How to make $7 million in 40 minutes with NFTs (sort of not really).Making NFTs more useful than just another set of playing cards for wannabe day traders.Why did Bobby write NFTs Are a Scam / NFTs Are the Future?Charles Manson vs. SBF and subcultural security.Notable Web3 innovations emerging.A rumble over royalties and a counterintuitive lesson about collectible value.Recommended reading.Bobby’s billboard.Two tattoos.Parting thoughts.MORE BOBBY HUNDREDS QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“Koreans are known to have this emotional repression, which then manifests and converts into brilliant art, romance, and passion—and also violence—and it’s called han.”
— Bobby Hundreds
“I’ve never looked at anyone else as a competitor. I have always believed that I’m competing against myself. If any other brand is winning or getting one over on us, that’s our fault if we want to play that game. And so I’ve never looked at anyone as an enemy or going against or mitigating our success in any way. We have to work collaboratively in order to build the entire platform so all can be seen.”
— Bobby Hundreds
“Being a little bit far ahead, we’re always the harbingers of the bad storm approaching.”
— Bobby Hundreds
“It’s not about making money. It’s about making noise.”
— Bobby Hundreds
“If you’re going to work with a big dog, always make it look like you got one up on them, whether you got paid or you just came out on top.”
— Bobby Hundreds
“So much of what we do in streetwear is theater, and that’s the message that I want to send to the audience: that it’s all one and the same.”
— Bobby Hundreds
“Branding is all about saying ‘No,’ but I like saying ‘Yes’ to so much.”
— Bobby Hundreds
“Be slow to judgment.”
— Bobby Hundreds
“Everyone is in such a rush to be right, and definite, and have such a cemented idea of what truth is, or what the reality is, that they don’t want to give anything room to grow.”
— Bobby Hundreds
“Technology and science are all about making mistakes. Correcting, getting closer and closer to truth, which you never quite achieve. We should be doing that with people too, but we abbreviate them all the time, and we stunt them in our minds and say, ‘This is what that person is. Now I can move on to the next one.’ We’re collecting them as JPEGs. And people evolve, and they live, and they grow, and they change. They become different. We have to allow people to become different.”
— Bobby Hundreds
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May 3, 2023
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 More (#670)
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.
In this one, we discuss 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!
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Want to hear the last time Kevin and I let our random flag fly? Check out the conversation we had here in which we discussed tasty grapes and hard ketones, Kevin’s fear of flying vs. my fear of heights, the joy of unstuffing, living rich instead of dying rich, the ethics and implications of AI-generated art, building NFT communities for the long haul, meditation retreats, diabetic horse urine, and much more.
#645: The Random Show, Mega-Holiday Edition — 2023 Resolutions and New Tools, Extensive Bullshitting, Booze and Ethanol Alternatives, The “Yearly Delete,” A Million Sidebars, Ayahuasca Revisited, Recapping the COCKPUNCH Saga, and Much 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 EPISODEHeady Topper by The Alchemist | BeerAdvocatePliny The Younger by Russian River Brewing Company | BeerAdvocatePliny The Elder by Russian River Brewing Company | BeerAdvocateAward Winning Beers in the Bay Area | Russian River BrewingMy Beer Collectibles | MBCThe World’s Leading Online Wristwatch Magazine | HodinkeeMoët Hennessy Louis Vuitton | LVMHLVMH: The Complete History and Strategy | AcquiredDeluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Dana Thomas | AmazonThe Luxury Strategy: Break the Rules of Marketing to Build Luxury Brands by Jean-Noël Kapferer and Vincent Bastien | AmazonRoss Dress For LessGUESS History: Founding, Timeline, and Milestones | ZippiaErewhon Market | Los AngelesWhat Does ‘Bougie’ Mean? Does It Come From ‘Bourgeois’? | Quick and Dirty TipsThe Magic Castle | The Academy of Magical ArtsBest Suits for Men | Hollywood SuitsCan Simon Coronel Fool Penn and Teller a Second Time? | YouTubeCraft Chocolate | Dick TaylorThe 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonCrown Jewels of the Coffee World | Proud Mary Coffee USAWhat is Geisha Coffee? And Why Is It $75 A Cup? | Home GroundsWhat is Bulletproof Coffee? | BBC Good FoodFormulations for Skin, Hair, & Body | AesopDr. Bronner’s Pure-Castile Liquid Soap (Baby, Unscented) | AmazonZBiotics Pre-Alcohol Probiotic Drink | AmazonThe Boozy Underbelly of Saturday Morning Cartoons | EaterThe Science Behind ZBiotics Probiotic Drink | ZBioticsThree Weird Things About Acetaldehyde | CDC BlogsGenetically Modified Probiotic? The Controversy in Science and Commerc | BioImmersion Inc.Why Fentanyl is a Drug Dealer’s Dream — But a Family’s Nightmare | NarcononHow to Test Your Drugs Using Fentanyl Test Strips | NYC HealthIntroducing ChatGPT | OpenAIWhy Software Is Eating the World | Andreessen HorowitzExcel Pivot Tables Explained in 10 Minutes | Leila GharaniA Fictional World Built for These Chaotic Times | The Legend of CØCKPUNCHFunding Cutting-Edge Scientific Research | Saisei FoundationScale, Explore, and Build Humanist Infrastructure | MidjourneyDALL·E 2 | OpenAIStable Diffusion Public Release | Stability.AIUnstable DiffusionThe Terminator | Prime VideoTotal Recall | Prime VideoHer | Prime Video9 ChatGPT Prompt Hacks You Need to Know by SM Raiyyan | MediumThe AI Companion Who Cares | ReplikaJapan’s Shrinking Population Faces Point of No Return | NewsweekChildren of Men | Prime VideoBalaji Explains His Bitcoin Bet | ReasonTVWhat’s a Better Buy: Bitcoin or Ethereum? | The Motley FoolKevin Rose’s NFT Wallet with 40 High-Value Collectibles Hacked | CoinDeskScalable, Instant Bitcoin/Blockchain Transactions | Lightning NetworkLayer 1 vs. Layer 2 : What You Need to Know About Different Blockchain Layer Solutions | MediumWhat Is Bitcoin Halving? | InvestopediaBitcoin Maximalism | InvestopediaThe New Global Gold Rush | All Things ConsideredTop Crypto App Downloads Rise over 15% Following SVB Collapse | TechCrunchLiar’s Poker: RIsing Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis | AmazonThree Ways to Write With Your Opposite Hand | wikiHowWriting with Non-Dominant Hand Good for Brain Health | Woman’s WorldDysgraphia | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeEleeza: The Art of Eliza Ivanova by Eliza Ivanova | AmazonRaw Material by Eliza Ivanova Volume 1 | AmazoniPhone Protectors/Privacy Screens | AmazonNintendo History | NintendoHanafuda: The History and Popularity of the Japanese Flower Card Game | JapanbasedThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom | AmazonArcade Archives Pinball for Nintendo Switch | Nintendo25 Words and Phrases That Can’t Be Translated from Japanese | TankenJapanThe Official PROOF PFP | MoonbirdsGlobal Community for Japanese Creators | Rising BirdsSanbo Zen Lineage | Mountain Cloud Zen CenterZen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans | The Tim Ferriss Show #560Top Tokyo Cafes | Tokyo CoffeeKoffee Mameya Kakeru | Time OutJapanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death by Yoel Hoffmann | AmazonJisei: The Art of Japanese Death Poems | Tokyo WeekenderThree Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku by Natalie Goldberg | Amazon#1 Rated Escape Room Los Angeles | The Escape RevolutionExploding Kittens NSFW Edition | AmazonWhat Is Immersive Audio? | High Fidelity BlogCome By, Say Hi-Fi | Common Wave Hi-FiBowers & Wilkins PX7 Bluetooth Headphone | AmazonArnold Layne by Pink Floyd (Official Music Video) | YouTubeHostess Ho-Hos | AmazonBreakthrough Technology for the Brain | NeuralinkThe Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson | AmazonSnow Crash by Neal Stephenson | AmazonCryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson | AmazonThe Battle Is On! Nanoblocks vs. LEGO | Nanoblocks USHimeji Castle Nanoblock Set Review | Nanoblock USSHOW NOTES[04:44] The important juice.[08:37] Discount downfalls and luxury lettuce.[13:16] Becoming suitable for The Magic Castle.[17:12] Affordable luxuries for a priceless life.[19:47] A pipe dream.[22:04] A skincare secret.[23:08] Later life dating and alcohol abating (#hangover).[31:35] The current and anticipated state of AI.[46:15] Balaji’s bet.[1:02:00] Kevin practices his ABCs.[1:05:17] Eliza Ivanova.[1:07:10] TimTimsPrivacyScreens dot com.[1:09:38] Nintendo: Hanafuda to Zelda.[1:12:52] Untranslatables.[1:13:48] Tokyo Moonbirds and Zen karaoke.[1:18:10] Japanese Death Poems and other uplifting reading.[1:22:44] Some escape rooms are better than others.[1:26:51] High-fidelity immersive sound.[1:31:26] A whispering Replika and a vibrating “chest.”[1:35:28] Nanoblocks!PEOPLE MENTIONEDSimon CoronelPeter AttiaDarya RoseScarlett JohanssonMarc AndreessenTaylor SwiftArnold SchwarzeneggerBalaji SrinivasanMichael LewisJim CramerEliza IvanovaPrincess ZeldaHenry ShukmanRyoun YamadaElan LeeAdam GazzaleyNeal StephensonThe post 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 More (#670) appeared first on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss.
April 29, 2023
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 More (#670)
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.
In this one, we discuss 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!
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Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. You can watch the interview on YouTube here.
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This episode is brought to you by Shopify! Shopify is one of my favorite platforms and one of my favorite companies. Shopify is designed for anyone to sell anywhere, giving entrepreneurs the resources once reserved for big business. In no time flat, you can have a great-looking online store that brings your ideas to life, and you can have the tools to manage your day-to-day and drive sales. No coding or design experience required.
Go to shopify.com/Tim to sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period. It’s a great deal for a great service, so I encourage you to check it out. Take your business to the next level today by visiting shopify.com/Tim .
This episode is brought to you by Helix Sleep! Helix was selected as the best overall mattress of 2022 by GQ magazine, Wired, and Apartment Therapy. With Helix, there’s a specific mattress to meet each and every body’s unique comfort needs. Just take their quiz—only two minutes to complete—that matches your body type and sleep preferences to the perfect mattress for you. They have a 10-year warranty, and you get to try it out for a hundred nights, risk-free. They’ll even pick it up from you if you don’t love it. And now, Helix is offering 20% off all mattress orders plus two free pillows at HelixSleep.com/Tim.
Want to hear the last time Kevin and I let our random flag fly? Check out the conversation we had here in which we discussed tasty grapes and hard ketones, Kevin’s fear of flying vs. my fear of heights, the joy of unstuffing, living rich instead of dying rich, the ethics and implications of AI-generated art, building NFT communities for the long haul, meditation retreats, diabetic horse urine, and much more.
#645: The Random Show, Mega-Holiday Edition — 2023 Resolutions and New Tools, Extensive Bullshitting, Booze and Ethanol Alternatives, The “Yearly Delete,” A Million Sidebars, Ayahuasca Revisited, Recapping the COCKPUNCH Saga, and Much 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 EPISODEHeady Topper by The Alchemist | BeerAdvocatePliny The Younger by Russian River Brewing Company | BeerAdvocatePliny The Elder by Russian River Brewing Company | BeerAdvocateAward Winning Beers in the Bay Area | Russian River BrewingMy Beer Collectibles | MBCThe World’s Leading Online Wristwatch Magazine | HodinkeeMoët Hennessy Louis Vuitton | LVMHLVMH: The Complete History and Strategy | AcquiredDeluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Dana Thomas | AmazonThe Luxury Strategy: Break the Rules of Marketing to Build Luxury Brands by Jean-Noël Kapferer and Vincent Bastien | AmazonRoss Dress For LessGUESS History: Founding, Timeline, and Milestones | ZippiaErewhon Market | Los AngelesWhat Does ‘Bougie’ Mean? Does It Come From ‘Bourgeois’? | Quick and Dirty TipsThe Magic Castle | The Academy of Magical ArtsBest Suits for Men | Hollywood SuitsCan Simon Coronel Fool Penn and Teller a Second Time? | YouTubeCraft Chocolate | Dick TaylorThe 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonCrown Jewels of the Coffee World | Proud Mary Coffee USAWhat is Geisha Coffee? And Why Is It $75 A Cup? | Home GroundsWhat is Bulletproof Coffee? | BBC Good FoodFormulations for Skin, Hair, & Body | AesopDr. Bronner’s Pure-Castile Liquid Soap (Baby, Unscented) | AmazonZBiotics Pre-Alcohol Probiotic Drink | AmazonThe Boozy Underbelly of Saturday Morning Cartoons | EaterThe Science Behind ZBiotics Probiotic Drink | ZBioticsThree Weird Things About Acetaldehyde | CDC BlogsGenetically Modified Probiotic? The Controversy in Science and Commerc | BioImmersion Inc.Why Fentanyl is a Drug Dealer’s Dream — But a Family’s Nightmare | NarcononHow to Test Your Drugs Using Fentanyl Test Strips | NYC HealthIntroducing ChatGPT | OpenAIWhy Software Is Eating the World | Andreessen HorowitzExcel Pivot Tables Explained in 10 Minutes | Leila GharaniA Fictional World Built for These Chaotic Times | The Legend of CØCKPUNCHFunding Cutting-Edge Scientific Research | Saisei FoundationScale, Explore, and Build Humanist Infrastructure | MidjourneyDALL·E 2 | OpenAIStable Diffusion Public Release | Stability.AIUnstable DiffusionThe Terminator | Prime VideoTotal Recall | Prime VideoHer | Prime Video9 ChatGPT Prompt Hacks You Need to Know by SM Raiyyan | MediumThe AI Companion Who Cares | ReplikaJapan’s Shrinking Population Faces Point of No Return | NewsweekChildren of Men | Prime VideoBalaji Explains His Bitcoin Bet | ReasonTVWhat’s a Better Buy: Bitcoin or Ethereum? | The Motley FoolKevin Rose’s NFT Wallet with 40 High-Value Collectibles Hacked | CoinDeskScalable, Instant Bitcoin/Blockchain Transactions | Lightning NetworkLayer 1 vs. Layer 2 : What You Need to Know About Different Blockchain Layer Solutions | MediumWhat Is Bitcoin Halving? | InvestopediaBitcoin Maximalism | InvestopediaThe New Global Gold Rush | All Things ConsideredTop Crypto App Downloads Rise over 15% Following SVB Collapse | TechCrunchLiar’s Poker: RIsing Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis | AmazonThree Ways to Write With Your Opposite Hand | wikiHowWriting with Non-Dominant Hand Good for Brain Health | Woman’s WorldDysgraphia | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeEleeza: The Art of Eliza Ivanova by Eliza Ivanova | AmazonRaw Material by Eliza Ivanova Volume 1 | AmazoniPhone Protectors/Privacy Screens | AmazonNintendo History | NintendoHanafuda: The History and Popularity of the Japanese Flower Card Game | JapanbasedThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom | AmazonArcade Archives Pinball for Nintendo Switch | Nintendo25 Words and Phrases That Can’t Be Translated from Japanese | TankenJapanThe Official PROOF PFP | MoonbirdsGlobal Community for Japanese Creators | Rising BirdsSanbo Zen Lineage | Mountain Cloud Zen CenterZen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans | The Tim Ferriss Show #560Top Tokyo Cafes | Tokyo CoffeeKoffee Mameya Kakeru | Time OutJapanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death by Yoel Hoffmann | AmazonJisei: The Art of Japanese Death Poems | Tokyo WeekenderThree Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku by Natalie Goldberg | Amazon#1 Rated Escape Room Los Angeles | The Escape RevolutionExploding Kittens NSFW Edition | AmazonWhat Is Immersive Audio? | High Fidelity BlogCome By, Say Hi-Fi | Common Wave Hi-FiBowers & Wilkins PX7 Bluetooth Headphone | AmazonArnold Layne by Pink Floyd (Official Music Video) | YouTubeHostess Ho-Hos | AmazonBreakthrough Technology for the Brain | NeuralinkThe Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson | AmazonSnow Crash by Neal Stephenson | AmazonCryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson | AmazonThe Battle Is On! Nanoblocks vs. LEGO | Nanoblocks USHimeji Castle Nanoblock Set Review | Nanoblock USSHOW NOTES[04:44] The important juice.[08:37] Discount downfalls and luxury lettuce.[13:16] Becoming suitable for The Magic Castle.[17:12] Affordable luxuries for a priceless life.[19:47] A pipe dream.[22:04] A skincare secret.[23:08] Later life dating and alcohol abating (#hangover).[31:35] The current and anticipated state of AI.[46:15] Balaji’s bet.[1:02:00] Kevin practices his ABCs.[1:05:17] Eliza Ivanova.[1:07:10] TimTimsPrivacyScreens dot com.[1:09:38] Nintendo: Hanafuda to Zelda.[1:12:52] Untranslatables.[1:13:48] Tokyo Moonbirds and Zen karaoke.[1:18:10] Japanese Death Poems and other uplifting reading.[1:22:44] Some escape rooms are better than others.[1:26:51] High-fidelity immersive sound.[1:31:26] A whispering Replika and a vibrating “chest.”[1:35:28] Nanoblocks!PEOPLE MENTIONEDSimon CoronelPeter AttiaDarya RoseScarlett JohanssonMarc AndreessenTaylor SwiftArnold SchwarzeneggerBalaji SrinivasanMichael LewisJim CramerEliza IvanovaPrincess ZeldaHenry ShukmanRyoun YamadaElan LeeAdam GazzaleyNeal StephensonThe post 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 More (#670) appeared first on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss.
April 26, 2023
Kevin Kelly — Excellent Advice for Living (#669)
Illustration via 99designs | Photo originally by Christopher Michel“Your goal in life is to be able to say on the day before you die that you have fully become yourself.”
— Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) helped launch and edit Wired magazine. He has written for The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among many other publications.
He is the author of the new book Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier. Other books by Kevin Kelly include Out of Control, the 1994 classic book on decentralized emergent systems; The Silver Cord, a graphic novel about robots and angels; What Technology Wants, a robust theory of technology; Vanishing Asia, his 50-year project to photograph the disappearing cultures of Asia, and The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, a New York Times bestseller.
Kevin is currently co-chair of The Long Now Foundation, which is building a clock in a mountain that will tick for 10,000 years. He also has a daily blog; a weekly podcast about cool tools; and a weekly newsletter, Recomendo, a free, one-page list of six very brief recommendations of cool stuff. He is also a Senior Maverick at Wired. He lives in Pacifica, California.
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Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. You can watch the interview on YouTube here.
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Want to hear one of my favorite conversations with Kevin? Listen to this interview (recorded in three short parts), in which we discussed population implosions, The Long Now Foundation, organizational methods for learning, Amish technology assimilation, why you don’t want to be a billionaire, the greatest gift you can give to your child, and much more!
#25: Interview of Kevin Kelly, Co-Founder of WIRED, Polymath, Most Interesting Man In The World?#26: Interview of Kevin Kelly, Co-Founder of WIRED, Polymath, Most Interesting Man In The World?#27: Interview of Kevin Kelly, Co-Founder of WIRED, Polymath, Most Interesting Man In The World?What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
Erratum: In the interview, Nova Scotia was named as the setting for Anne of Green Gables, whereas the setting is Prince Edward Island.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Kevin Kelly:Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube
Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier by Kevin Kelly | AmazonSix Brief Personal Recommendations of Cool Stuff | RecomendoOut of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World by Kevin Kelly | AmazonThe Silver Cord by Kevin Kelly and Steve Masseroni | AmazonWhat Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly | AmazonVanishing Asia: Three Volume Set: West, Central, and East by Kevin Kelly | AmazonAmazon.com: The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future eBook : Kelly, Kevin: Kindle StoreThe Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly | AmazonFostering Long-Term Thinking | The Long Now FoundationThe Latest in Technology, Science, Culture, and Business | WiredInterview of Kevin Kelly, Co-Founder of WIRED, Polymath, Most Interesting Man In The World? | The Tim Ferriss Show #25, #26, & #27Kevin Kelly on Artificial Intelligence and Designer Babies | The Tim Ferriss Show #96Kevin Kelly – AI, Virtual Reality, and The Inevitable | The Tim Ferriss Show #164Cool Tools for Travel – Tim Ferriss and Kevin Kelly | The Tim Ferriss Show #247By 02060 the Total Population of Humans on Earth Will Be Less than It Is Today. | Long BetsScience for a Complex World | Santa Fe InstituteManhattan Project National Historical Park | US National Park ServicePixar Animation StudiosIndustrial Light & MagicLord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien | Amazon1,000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly | The TechniumBring a Creative Project to Life | KickstarterBest Way for Artists and Creators to Get Sustainable Income and Connect with Fans | PatreonWhole Earth Catalog | WikipediaThe WELL (The Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link)Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by John Markoff | AmazonForrest Gump | Prime VideoThe Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich | AmazonAll Species | The Long Now FoundationFree, Instant Bird Identification | Merlin Bird IDOpen Your Camera and Start Seeking! | Seek by iNaturalistGlobal Access to Knowledge about Life on Earth | Encyclopedia of LifeJurassic Park | Prime VideoWoolly Mammoth Revival | Revive & RestoreKevin Kelly: The Future Will Be Shaped by Optimists | TED TalkComplex Systems Theory | Santa Fe InstituteTaking Responsibility for Our Future, Together | B612 FoundationThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | AmazonTransforming Societies to Ensure Environmental Justice | DegrowthHow to Start a Fire with a Magnifying Glass | Food Storage and SurvivalKevin Kelly and the Golden Age of World Travel | Craig ModComing to America | Prime VideoWhat AI-Generated Art Really Means for Human Creativity | WiredWhy AI Won’t Cause Unemployment | Marc Andreessen SubstackHow DeviantArt Is Navigating the AI Art Minefield | The VergeArtists Protest As ArtStation Allows AI-Generated Art On Site | Kotaku“Dumbsmarten” | Kevin Kelly, TwitterScale, Explore, and Build Humanist Infrastructure | MidjourneyIntroducing ChatGPT | OpenAIThinkism | The TechniumHow to Unleash the Wisdom of Crowds | The ConversationAI as Intern | Austin KleonReady Player One | Prime VideoVR Games, Apps, & More | OculusStyrobot Built by Father & Son | Make:Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery | AmazonStatue Of Liberty National Monument | US National Park ServiceThe #1 Attraction in the US | Empire State BuildingA Guide to Riding San Francisco’s Cable Cars | Visit CaliforniaThe 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | AmazonGenentechDNA Testing Kit for Health and Ancestry | 23andMeWhat is a Sabbatical? | The Sabbatical GuideHistorical Libraries: The Library of Alexandria | Mid-Continent Public LibraryGetting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen | AmazonCrypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government — Saving Privacy in the Digital Age by Steven Levy | AmazonSHOW NOTES[05:51] Is Kevin Kelly the most interesting man in the world?[08:37] Kevin’s long bet against the human population.[15:00] Out Of Control.[19:34] Why did it take 11 years to complete The Silver Cord?[24:28] 1,000 True Fans.[29:48] Kevin’s failed campaign to discover all the species of life on Earth.[31:31] Stewart Brand.[36:20] Resurrecting extinct species.[39:38] Why Kevin believes optimists shape the future.[42:48] Active optimism vs. passive optimism.[46:39] What constitutes progress?[48:18] Is regression inevitable if we don’t embrace “degrowth?”[52:38] Kevin’s $20 time machine.[55:27] Will AI take our jobs?[1:07:58] The future of AI is dumbsmarten.[1:10:50] What’s currently underhyped?[1:13:20] Posting an AI picture a day keeps Kevin at play.[1:15:29] How Kevin uses AI chatbots to help write first drafts.[1:21:40] Potential scenarios for where AI will be going soon.[1:24:38] What prompted Kevin to write Excellent Advice for Living?[1:28:46] Examples of Kevin’s simple, tweetable advice.[1:32:02] Don’t aim to be the best. Be the only.[1:35:32] Good uses of time spent with one’s children.[1:38:47] Tips for traveling with children.[1:42:22] Being a tourist in your own town and troubleshooting advice.[1:45:06] What Kevin hopes readers will take away from Excellent Advice for Living.[1:46:37] Sabbaticals.[1:52:17] How Kevin uses YouTube.[1:56:03] Why is Kevin huge in China?[1:59:16] Fully becoming yourself and other parting thoughts.MORE KEVIN KELLY QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“It isn’t as if these mechanical systems are imitating biology. I’m saying they actually have the same dynamics. The dynamics that are powering biology are powering the technium and the technology. It’s the same.”
— Kevin Kelly
“It’s very hard to make good, complicated things work because generally there’s more ways things can fail than they can succeed, and it’s very unlikely that we’re going to make something really good that’s complicated, inadvertently. They’re hard to do. So we have to see it and believe that it can be done, and that is where the optimism comes in, is envisioning something and then believing that you could make it real.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Exotropy is this idea of this increasing order that comes at the cost of increasing entropy.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Tools will get specialized. They will become so embedded that we will cease to think about them.”
— Kevin Kelly
“There’s something I call thinkism, which is this reliance on trying to solve problems by thinking about them.”
— Kevin Kelly
“You can find no better medicine for your family than regular meals together without screens.”
— Kevin Kelly
“What you do on your bad days matters more than what you do on your good days.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Greatness is incompatible with optimizing in the short term.”
— Kevin Kelly
“You don’t marry a person, you marry a family.”
— Kevin Kelly
“If you can’t tell what you desperately need, it’s probably sleep.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Don’t aim to have others like you, aim to have them respect you.”
— Kevin Kelly
“A balcony or porch needs to be at least six feet deep or it won’t be used.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Learn to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark with one hand for the rest of your life. You’ll use this knot more times than you could ever believe.”
— Kevin Kelly
“When you feel pressure to pick a choice, don’t forget the choice of not choosing any.”
— Kevin Kelly
“When you’re in your twenties, you should spend a little bit of time doing something that’s sort of crazy, insane, unprofitable, unorthodox, orthogonal, because that’s going to be your touchstone and the foundation of your success later on.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Don’t aim to be the best. Be the only.”
— Kevin Kelly
“You want to be doing something where it’s hard to explain to your mother what it is that you do.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Your enjoyment of travel is inversely proportional to the size of your luggage.”
— Kevin Kelly
“For the best results with your children, spend only half the money you think you should but double the time with them.”
— Kevin Kelly
“A vacation plus a disaster equals an adventure.”
— Kevin Kelly
“If an elementary school student is struggling, first thing, check their eyesight.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Purchase the most recent tourist guidebook to your hometown or region. You’ll learn a lot by playing the tourist once a year.”
— Kevin Kelly
“To signal an emergency, use the rule of three: Three shouts, three horn blasts, or three whistles.”
— Kevin Kelly
“When you’re stuck, explain your problem to others. Often simply laying out a problem will present a solution. Make ‘explaining the problem’ part of your troubleshooting process.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Your goal in life is to be able to say on the day before you die that you have fully become yourself.”
— Kevin Kelly
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Kevin Kelly on Excellent Advice for Living, Universal AI Assistants, Time Machines, and The Power of Fully Becoming Yourself (#669)
Illustration via 99designs | Photo originally by Christopher Michel“Your goal in life is to be able to say on the day before you die that you have fully become yourself.”
— Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) helped launch and edit Wired magazine. He has written for The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among many other publications.
He is the author of the new book Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier. Other books by Kevin Kelly include Out of Control, the 1994 classic book on decentralized emergent systems; The Silver Cord, a graphic novel about robots and angels; What Technology Wants, a robust theory of technology; Vanishing Asia, his 50-year project to photograph the disappearing cultures of Asia, and The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, a New York Times bestseller.
Kevin is currently co-chair of The Long Now Foundation, which is building a clock in a mountain that will tick for 10,000 years. He also has a daily blog; a weekly podcast about cool tools; and a weekly newsletter, Recomendo, a free, one-page list of six very brief recommendations of cool stuff. He is also a Senior Maverick at Wired. He lives in Pacifica, California.
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Want to hear one of my favorite conversations with Kevin? Listen to this interview (recorded in three short parts), in which we discussed population implosions, The Long Now Foundation, organizational methods for learning, Amish technology assimilation, why you don’t want to be a billionaire, the greatest gift you can give to your child, and much more!
#25: Interview of Kevin Kelly, Co-Founder of WIRED, Polymath, Most Interesting Man In The World?#26: Interview of Kevin Kelly, Co-Founder of WIRED, Polymath, Most Interesting Man In The World?#27: Interview of Kevin Kelly, Co-Founder of WIRED, Polymath, Most Interesting Man In The World?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 Kevin Kelly:Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube
Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier by Kevin Kelly | AmazonSix Brief Personal Recommendations of Cool Stuff | RecomendoOut of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World by Kevin Kelly | AmazonThe Silver Cord by Kevin Kelly and Steve Masseroni | AmazonWhat Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly | AmazonVanishing Asia: Three Volume Set: West, Central, and East by Kevin Kelly | AmazonAmazon.com: The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future eBook : Kelly, Kevin: Kindle StoreThe Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly | AmazonFostering Long-Term Thinking | The Long Now FoundationThe Latest in Technology, Science, Culture, and Business | WiredInterview of Kevin Kelly, Co-Founder of WIRED, Polymath, Most Interesting Man In The World? | The Tim Ferriss Show #25, #26, & #27Kevin Kelly on Artificial Intelligence and Designer Babies | The Tim Ferriss Show #96Kevin Kelly – AI, Virtual Reality, and The Inevitable | The Tim Ferriss Show #164Cool Tools for Travel – Tim Ferriss and Kevin Kelly | The Tim Ferriss Show #247By 02060 the Total Population of Humans on Earth Will Be Less than It Is Today. | Long BetsScience for a Complex World | Santa Fe InstituteManhattan Project National Historical Park | US National Park ServicePixar Animation StudiosIndustrial Light & MagicLord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien | Amazon1,000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly | The TechniumBring a Creative Project to Life | KickstarterBest Way for Artists and Creators to Get Sustainable Income and Connect with Fans | PatreonWhole Earth Catalog | WikipediaThe WELL (The Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link)Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by John Markoff | AmazonForrest Gump | Prime VideoThe Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich | AmazonAll Species | The Long Now FoundationFree, Instant Bird Identification | Merlin Bird IDOpen Your Camera and Start Seeking! | Seek by iNaturalistGlobal Access to Knowledge about Life on Earth | Encyclopedia of LifeJurassic Park | Prime VideoWoolly Mammoth Revival | Revive & RestoreKevin Kelly: The Future Will Be Shaped by Optimists | TED TalkComplex Systems Theory | Santa Fe InstituteTaking Responsibility for Our Future, Together | B612 FoundationThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | AmazonTransforming Societies to Ensure Environmental Justice | DegrowthHow to Start a Fire with a Magnifying Glass | Food Storage and SurvivalKevin Kelly and the Golden Age of World Travel | Craig ModComing to America | Prime VideoWhat AI-Generated Art Really Means for Human Creativity | WiredWhy AI Won’t Cause Unemployment | Marc Andreessen SubstackHow DeviantArt Is Navigating the AI Art Minefield | The VergeArtists Protest As ArtStation Allows AI-Generated Art On Site | Kotaku“Dumbsmarten” | Kevin Kelly, TwitterScale, Explore, and Build Humanist Infrastructure | MidjourneyIntroducing ChatGPT | OpenAIThinkism | The TechniumHow to Unleash the Wisdom of Crowds | The ConversationAI as Intern | Austin KleonReady Player One | Prime VideoVR Games, Apps, & More | OculusStyrobot Built by Father & Son | Make:Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery | AmazonStatue Of Liberty National Monument | US National Park ServiceThe #1 Attraction in the US | Empire State BuildingA Guide to Riding San Francisco’s Cable Cars | Visit CaliforniaThe 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | AmazonGenentechDNA Testing Kit for Health and Ancestry | 23andMeWhat is a Sabbatical? | The Sabbatical GuideHistorical Libraries: The Library of Alexandria | Mid-Continent Public LibraryGetting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen | AmazonCrypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government — Saving Privacy in the Digital Age by Steven Levy | AmazonSHOW NOTES[05:51] Is Kevin Kelly the most interesting man in the world?[08:37] Kevin’s long bet against the human population.[15:00] Out Of Control.[19:34] Why did it take 11 years to complete The Silver Cord?[24:28] 1,000 True Fans.[29:48] Kevin’s failed campaign to discover all the species of life on Earth.[31:31] Stewart Brand.[36:20] Resurrecting extinct species.[39:38] Why Kevin believes optimists shape the future.[42:48] Active optimism vs. passive optimism.[46:39] What constitutes progress?[48:18] Is regression inevitable if we don’t embrace “degrowth?”[52:38] Kevin’s $20 time machine.[55:27] Will AI take our jobs?[1:07:58] The future of AI is dumbsmarten.[1:10:50] What’s currently underhyped?[1:13:20] Posting an AI picture a day keeps Kevin at play.[1:15:29] How Kevin uses AI chatbots to help write first drafts.[1:21:40] Potential scenarios for where AI will be going soon.[1:24:38] What prompted Kevin to write Excellent Advice for Living?[1:28:46] Examples of Kevin’s simple, tweetable advice.[1:32:02] Don’t aim to be the best. Be the only.[1:35:32] Good uses of time spent with one’s children.[1:38:47] Tips for traveling with children.[1:42:22] Being a tourist in your own town and troubleshooting advice.[1:45:06] What Kevin hopes readers will take away from Excellent Advice for Living.[1:46:37] Sabbaticals.[1:52:17] How Kevin uses YouTube.[1:56:03] Why is Kevin huge in China?[1:59:16] Fully becoming yourself and other parting thoughts.MORE KEVIN KELLY QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“It isn’t as if these mechanical systems are imitating biology. I’m saying they actually have the same dynamics. The dynamics that are powering biology are powering the technium and the technology. It’s the same.”
— Kevin Kelly
“It’s very hard to make good, complicated things work because generally there’s more ways things can fail than they can succeed, and it’s very unlikely that we’re going to make something really good that’s complicated, inadvertently. They’re hard to do. So we have to see it and believe that it can be done, and that is where the optimism comes in, is envisioning something and then believing that you could make it real.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Exotropy is this idea of this increasing order that comes at the cost of increasing entropy.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Tools will get specialized. They will become so embedded that we will cease to think about them.”
— Kevin Kelly
“There’s something I call thinkism, which is this reliance on trying to solve problems by thinking about them.”
— Kevin Kelly
“You can find no better medicine for your family than regular meals together without screens.”
— Kevin Kelly
“What you do on your bad days matters more than what you do on your good days.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Greatness is incompatible with optimizing in the short term.”
— Kevin Kelly
“You don’t marry a person, you marry a family.”
— Kevin Kelly
“If you can’t tell what you desperately need, it’s probably sleep.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Don’t aim to have others like you, aim to have them respect you.”
— Kevin Kelly
“A balcony or porch needs to be at least six feet deep or it won’t be used.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Learn to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark with one hand for the rest of your life. You’ll use this knot more times than you could ever believe.”
— Kevin Kelly
“When you feel pressure to pick a choice, don’t forget the choice of not choosing any.”
— Kevin Kelly
“When you’re in your twenties, you should spend a little bit of time doing something that’s sort of crazy, insane, unprofitable, unorthodox, orthogonal, because that’s going to be your touchstone and the foundation of your success later on.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Don’t aim to be the best. Be the only.”
— Kevin Kelly
“You want to be doing something where it’s hard to explain to your mother what it is that you do.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Your enjoyment of travel is inversely proportional to the size of your luggage.”
— Kevin Kelly
“For the best results with your children, spend only half the money you think you should but double the time with them.”
— Kevin Kelly
“A vacation plus a disaster equals an adventure.”
— Kevin Kelly
“If an elementary school student is struggling, first thing, check their eyesight.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Purchase the most recent tourist guidebook to your hometown or region. You’ll learn a lot by playing the tourist once a year.”
— Kevin Kelly
“To signal an emergency, use the rule of three: Three shouts, three horn blasts, or three whistles.”
— Kevin Kelly
“When you’re stuck, explain your problem to others. Often simply laying out a problem will present a solution. Make ‘explaining the problem’ part of your troubleshooting process.”
— Kevin Kelly
“Your goal in life is to be able to say on the day before you die that you have fully become yourself.”
— Kevin Kelly
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April 21, 2023
Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” (#668)
Illustration via 99designs“I think that saying ‘good enough’ is a superpower.”
— Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers (@sivers) is an author of philosophy and entrepreneurship, known for his surprising, quotable insights and pithy, succinct writing style. He is a former musician, programmer, TED speaker, and circus clown, who sold his first company, CDBaby for $22 million and gave all the money to charity.
Derek’s books (How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Your Music and People, Anything You Want) and newest projects are at his website: sive.rs. His upcoming book is Useful Not True.
Please enjoy!
P.S. To follow the exact step-by-step “Tech Independence” instructions from Derek, please visit sive.rs/ti.
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#125: Derek Sivers on Developing Confidence, Finding Happiness, and Saying No to MillionsWhat 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 Derek Sivers:Website | Podcast | Twitter | YouTube
Useful Not True: Whatever Works for You by Derek SiversHow to Live: 27 Conflicting Answers and One Weird Conclusion by Derek SiversHell Yeah or No: What’s Worth Doing by Derek SiversYour Music and People: Creative and Considerate Fame by Derek SiversAnything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek SiversTools of Titans: Derek Sivers Distilled | The Tim Ferriss Show #202Derek Sivers on Developing Confidence, Finding Happiness, and Saying No to Millions | The Tim Ferriss Show #125Derek Sivers Reloaded – On Success Habits and Billionaires with Perfect Abs | The Tim Ferriss Show #128Go Go Goa Loose Leaf Gift Cube Chai | T2 AustraliaThe Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry SchwartzSartorial Talks | YouTubeSuits | The House of Michael BrowneExcellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier by Kevin KellyThingvellir National Park | Heart of IcelandPADI 5-Star Dive Center Iceland | DIVE.ISWet Suit vs. Dry Suit: What is The Difference? | Boat SafePanic Attack | Better Health ChannelWellington | 100% Pure New ZealandTech Independence | Derek SiversWhat is the Cloud? | CNBC ExplainsThe 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy FerrissVPS (Virtual Private Server) Explained | IBMThe Everywhere Cloud | VultrLenovo ThinkPad T400 6475 Notebook | AmazonA Free, Multi-Platform 4.4BSD-Based Unix-Like Operating System | OpenBSDWhat is an SSH Key? | SSHHelping You Feel Close | Marco PoloDomain Name, Web Hosting, Email and SSL Certificate | NetimAn Oddly Satisfying Experience | PorkbunLanguage Opens Worlds | Klingon Language InstituteFree and Open-Source CalDAV and CardDAV Server | RadicaleRsync | WikipediaContinuous File Synchronization | SyncthingBlog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPressSecure E-mail for Private and Business Customers | Mailbox.orgWe Respect Your Privacy and Put You in Control | FastmailTransactional Email API Service For Developers | MailgunEmail Delivery, API, Marketing Service | SendGridCreate Your Online Store Today | ShopifyCompress the Complexity of Modern Web Apps | Ruby on RailsApr. 24–Apr. 26, Atlanta | RailsConf 2023Marylebone: The Underdog Terminus | Jago HazzardWicked the Musical | LondonDo ‘Maximisers’ or ‘Satisficers’ Make Better Decisions? | BBC WorklifeHey Jude by The Beatles | YouTubePatrick House on Consciousness | EconTalkThe Incredible Reason Why Richard Branson Started Virgin Atlantic | Travel + LeisureNot Disappointing Myself | Bookbear ExpressMoral Relativism | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophySam Harris: Science Can Answer Moral Questions | TED TalkThe Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris | AmazonWhat Everyone Needs to Know About Islam: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions, From One of the America’s Leading Experts by John L. EspositoThe History of Utilitarianism | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyThe How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want by Sonja LyubomirskyA Simulation Role-Playing Video Game | Stardew ValleySomebody That I Used To Know (Feat. Kimbra) by Gotye | YouTubeHow to Get Rich: One of the World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets by Felix DennisThe Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence by Josh WaitzkinPapaoutai by Stromae | YouTubeSHOW NOTESEditor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly.
The Derek Sivers School of Enough.Scuba diving in Iceland.Categories we apply to ourselves and others.Derek’s people compass.How to secure your tech independence.The un-optimized life.The meaning of Derek’s upcoming book, Useful Not True.The problem with moral relativism and other -isms.Giant leaps.Finding and asking mentors for help.Games.The wisdom of quitting when you’re ahead.Why would Derek — never in need of external validation — seek fame?What makes Derek so darned interesting?Has Derek always been a satisficer?Living on the edge case.The real question behind “What would you tell your younger self?”Giving directions in Antarctica.How do you teach an 11-year-old to act like a 16-year-old?Parting thoughts.MORE DEREK SIVERS QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“If you wonder why I’m so happy, why I’m thriving, why I seem to be doing well, a lot of my happiness comes from this worldview that is radical doubt. It’s skepticism. I’m going to give this the shorthand of calling it ‘Useful Not True.'”
— Derek Sivers
“If you set up your business to serve the people that you love being around, even if it makes less money, you’re going to be much happier.”
— Derek Sivers
“I think that saying ‘good enough’ is a superpower.”
— Derek Sivers
“We spend the first half of our life deferring to authority and thinking that authority has power over us. And at a certain point, you realize that you’re free. You’re liberated from that as long as you don’t break the law.”
— Derek Sivers
“The temptation to keep playing, even though the rewards are done, isn’t that the definition of addiction? Continuing a behavior even though it’s not rewarding you anymore?”
— Derek Sivers
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April 19, 2023
Dr. Gül Dölen on Rethinking Psychedelics, New Applications (Autism, Stroke, and Allergies), The Neurobiology of Beginner’s Mind, Octopuses on MDMA, and The Master Key of Metaplasticity (#667)
Illustration via 99designs“Psychedelics have this property, which William James pointed out over 100 years ago, of creating this sense of what he called the noetic property, this feeling that ‘Now that I’ve had this experience, I know the really real. The true truth has been revealed to me, and everything before this moment was just a facade or some lesser truth or some limited access to the truth. But now I really know.’ For a scientist, that’s pretty dangerous.”
— Dr. Gül Dölen
Dr. Gül Dölen is an associate professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a pioneer and world leader of psychedelics research. Her laboratory has discovered a novel mechanism that could account for the broad range of therapeutic applications that psychedelics are currently being tested for. Her lab has discovered a novel critical period for social reward learning and shown that this critical period can be reopened with psychedelic drugs, such as MDMA, LSD, psilocybin, ketamine, and ibogaine. Building on this discovery, she has formulated the hypothesis that psychedelics may be the long sought “master key” for unlocking critical periods across the brain. To test this hypothesis, she has initiated a nationwide, collaborative effort to determine whether psychedelics reopen critical periods for ocular dominance plasticity, bird song learning, anatomical plasticity in the barrel cortex, serotonergic neuronal regeneration, dendritic spinogenesis, and motor learning.
Importantly, understanding psychedelics through this framework dramatically expands the scope of disorders (including autism, stroke, and allergies) that might benefit from adjunct therapy with psychedelics, an approach she has dubbed the PHATHOM project (Psychedelic Healing: Adjunct Therapy Harnessing Opened Malleability).
Dr. Dölen earned her MD, PhD at Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she carried out seminal work on critical periods, learning and memory, and the pathogenesis of autism.
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. Watch the interview on YouTube here.
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Want to hear an episode with someone else who’s pushing us toward a greater understanding of how psychedelics can be used to heal us? Listen to my conversation with Dr. Suresh Muthukumaraswamy, in which we discussed how ketamine differs from other psychedelics, obstacles to getting ketamine labeled as an antidepressant, the difficulty of applying placebo controls to psychedelic research, avoiding another 50 years of psychedelic research darkness, where aspiring psychedelic researchers should focus their education, and much more.
#619: Dr. Suresh Muthukumaraswamy — LSD Microdosing, Classical Psychedelics vs. Ketamine, Science and Speed in New Zealand, Placebo Options, and The Infinite Possibilities of Studying Mind-Altering CompoundsWhat was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEdölenLABPHATHOM projectGul Dolen on Philosophy, Neuroscience, and the Study of Autism | Hopkins MedicineWhat Is Theory of Mind in Psychology? | ThoughtCo.Philosophy of Mind | Wikipedia‘Theory of Mind’ in Autism: A Research Field Reborn | Spectrum Autism Research NewsPsychopaths Can Empathize, but the Process Isn’t Automatic | Big ThinkOctopus Shows Unique Hunting, Social, and Sexual Behavior | Berkeley NewsWhat Is Fragile X Syndrome? | The National Fragile X FoundationBiochemical Breakthrough: Fragile X Syndrome | CSHL DNA Learning CenterDSM-5: What It Is and What It Diagnoses | Cleveland ClinicMotor Stereotypies | Johns Hopkins MedicineWhat Is Autism Spectrum Disorder? | APAFMR1 | WikipediaFacts about Down Syndrome | CDCWhat is Schizophrenia? | APAKonrad Lorenz’s Imprinting Theory | Simply PsychologyCritical Period In Brain Development and Childhood Learning | Simply Psychology5 Questions for Gul Dolen | The MicrodoseWhat the Research Says About Immersion | CARLAPsychedelic Drug MDMA May Reawaken ‘Critical Period’ in Brain to Help Treat PTSD | Hopkins MedicinePsychedelics 101: Books, Documentaries, Podcasts, Science, and More | Tim FerrissRolling under the Sea: Scientists Gave Octopuses Ecstasy to Study Social Behavior | Scientific AmericanIntroduction to fMRI | Nuffield Department of Clinical NeurosciencesPatch Clamp Electrophysiology | Molecular DevicesCritical Period Plasticity as a Framework for Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy | Frontiers in NeuroscienceMetaplasticity | ScholarpediaNMDA Receptor | WikipediaAMPA Receptor | WikipediaKetamine and Phencyclidine (PCP): Special Subjects | Merck Manuals Professional EditionContribution of NR2A and NR2B NMDA Subunits to Bidirectional Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus in Vivo | HippocampusMetabotropic Glutamate Receptor (mGluR) | WikipediaWeil Says LSD Cured His Allergy | CBS NewsSerotonin Antagonist and Reuptake Inhibitor | WikipediaSerotonin Antagonist: An Overview | ScienceDirect TopicsExtracellular Matrix Regulation in Physiology and in Brain Disease | International Journal of Molecular SciencesThe Kappa Opioid Receptor: A Promising Therapeutic Target for Multiple Pathologies | Frontiers in PharmacologySalvinorin A | WikipediaArrestin | WikipediaBeta Arrestin: An Overview | ScienceDirect TopicsA Scientific First: How Psychedelics Bind to Key Brain Cell Receptor | PharmacologyThis Is LSD Attached to a Brain Cell Serotonin Receptor | PharmacologyPiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story by Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin | AmazonTiHKAL: The Continuation by Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin | AmazonA Comparison of Serotonin and Lysergic Acid | SHODORHelicobacter Pylori: A Nobel Pursuit? | Canadian Journal of GastroenterologyWilliam James on Consciousness and the Four Features of Transcendent Experiences | The MarginalianStroke Center | The Johns Hopkins HospitalReview: Advances and Challenges in Stroke Rehabilitation | The Lancet NeurologyPsychedelics for Brain Injury: A Mini-Review | Frontiers in NeurologyThe Psychedelic Ibogaine Can Treat Addiction. The Race Is On to Cash In | The GuardianProtecting Iboga and Indigenous Voices | VoltefaceHamilton 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 | The Tim Ferriss Show #605Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ethnobotany, Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America | The Tim Ferriss Show #469Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)Can Video Games Help Stroke Victims? | The New YorkerIn Deep Water with Gül Dölen | Spectrum Autism Research NewsGrants & Funding | National Institutes of Health (NIH)How to Land an NIH Grant | ENTtodayHow a 1960s Discovery in Yellowstone Made Millions of COVID-19 PCR Tests Possible | USA TodayWhat Could Raising Taxes on the 1% Do? Surprising Amounts | The New York TimesHigher Taxes on the Rich Won’t Suffocate Innovation | The AtlanticHow to Set Top Tax Rates without Deterring Innovation | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy ResearchDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez | AmazonThe Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber | AmazonBullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber | AmazonThe Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brian Muraresku | AmazonMidas Touch | Dogfish Head Craft Brewed AlesEphesus | UNESCO World Heritage CentreSHOW NOTES[06:25] How Gül designed her own major as an undergrad.[09:03] Philosophy of mind and theory of mind.[13:33] What theory of mind in non-human species suggests.[16:45] The origin of Gül’s interest in autism.[21:37] Autism facts vs. fiction.[28:31] Critical periods.[37:59] How critical periods apply to therapies for autism.[43:37] Why might psychedelics allow us to reopen shut critical periods?[49:25] MDMA and the octopus.[52:40] Challenging popular notions about psychedelic research.[54:52] Plasticity.[1:00:26] Favorite neurotransmitter receptors.[1:06:03] Can psychedelics cure allergies?[1:14:00] Seeking a common pathway for the therapeutic effects of psychedelics.[1:15:54] Potential applications for kappa-opioid agonists.[1:17:02] Beta-arrestin developments.[1:20:40] On Sasha Shulgin.[1:26:19] Strokes.[1:29:56] Cross-cultural considerations.[1:33:26] What do these therapies look like 10 years from now?[1:36:52] Gauging minimum effective dose.[1:42:58] The funding frustrations that almost made Gül give up science.[1:48:44] Taking risks.[1:52:59] What would Gül change about the way research is funded today?[1:55:57] Books most gifted.[1:59:10] Parting thoughts.MORE DR. GÜL DÖLEN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“I worked with my professors in philosophy in neuroscience primarily to come up with a curriculum that would span all of the different elements that I wanted to incorporate in trying to ask the question, ‘What is the mind? What is consciousness? How do we know that from different perspectives?’ And so the major was called Comparative Perspectives on the Mind, and it was a combination of neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, art, and religion.”
— Dr. Gül Dölen
“The first day I saw the photograph of the molecule of LSD sitting right next to the molecule of serotonin and the similarities between them, I was like, ‘This is it. This is how we’re going to crack it. This is how we’re going to get at those hard questions of neuroscience because here are chemicals that can alter our entire sense of reality, consciousness, perception, time, self, space, everything.’ And I am not alone. I think most neuroscientists who have tried psychedelics would have exactly the same response.”
— Dr. Gül Dölen
“Psychedelics have this property, which William James pointed out over 100 years ago, of creating this sense of what he called the noetic property, this feeling that ‘Now that I’ve had this experience, I know the really real. The true truth has been revealed to me and everything before this moment was just a facade or some lesser truth or some limited access to the truth. But now I really know.’ For a scientist, that’s pretty dangerous.”
— Dr. Gül Dölen
“I think there was an intuition a few years ago that, well, indigenous people have been using psychedelics forever. We don’t really need to understand their mechanisms, we don’t really need to dig into how it is these things work because we know they’re going to work because they’ve got this long history behind them. But I think that if this ends up being true—that this mechanistic explanation can really open up whole new avenues that people hadn’t been thinking of before—then I think that that’s a testament to the importance of always keep an open mind, always look for more answers, more questions, and keep searching.”
— Dr. Gül Dölen
“If we’re right and the critical period reopening explanation is this shift in the framework for how we understand these therapeutic effects, then in 10 years from now, the way that psychedelics are going to be used is going to be trying to identify that right context for the right disease. So while an inter-directed trip with a lot of psychotherapy makes a lot of sense for PTSD and addiction and depression, it’s probably the wrong context for stroke.”
— Dr. Gül Dölen
“I don’t think I’m unique for wanting to just see what happens when you give octopuses MDMA. In fact, I think the reason that everybody responded to that paper so well worldwide is because every single one of us has that curiosity, has that, ‘I wonder what would happen?’ It resonated with people, and I just think it mostly gets beaten out of us because of funding constraints.”
— Dr. Gül Dölen
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April 12, 2023
In Case You Missed It: March 2023 Recap of “The Tim Ferriss Show” (#666)
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.
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Matt Mochary: 00:17:13
David Deutsch and Naval Ravikant: 00:22:11
Michael Mauboussin: 00:28:17
Dr. Kelly Starrett: 00:34:46
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April 6, 2023
Danny Meyer, Founder of Shake Shack — How to Win, The Art of The Graceful “No,” Overcoming Setbacks, The 6 Traits of Exceptional People, The 4 Quadrants of Performance, Lessons from Hospitality Excellence, and More (#665)
Illustration via 99designs“I spent the first 10 years of my career almost exclusively focused on trying to motivate problem employees to be better, like the weeds. What I learned was that our employees are like sunflowers. They will turn wherever the sun is. If I’m spending all of my attention on the weeds, I’m actually pulling the gravitational force that way. My grandmother’s lesson was right: If I water the flowers and spend more time with the people who maybe I’ve taken for granted because they’re doing such a great job, they actually crowd out the weeds and the weeds take care of themselves.”
— Danny Meyer
Danny Meyer (@dhmeyer) is the founder and chairman of Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG), which comprises some of New York’s most beloved and acclaimed restaurants, including Gramercy Tavern, The Modern, Maialino, and more. Danny and USHG also founded Shake Shack, the modern-day “roadside” burger restaurant, which became a public company in 2015.
Danny is the author of the New York Times bestseller Setting the Table, which articulates a set of signature business and life principles that translate to a wide range of industries. He is the recipient of the 2017 Julia Child Award and was named by Time magazine as one of 2015’s 100 most influential people. Danny and USHG’s restaurants and individuals together have won an unprecedented 28 James Beard Awards, including Outstanding Restaurateur in 2005.
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#545: Marco Canora — The Art of Food, Eating, Nutrition, and LifeWhat 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 Danny Meyer:USHG | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business by Danny Meyer | AmazonUnion Square Hospitality GroupReservations Not Required | Shake ShackA Danny Meyer Dictionary | The New York TimesMaialino, New York CityDa Giovanni Restaurant, RomeMan Plans and God Laughs | Yiddish WitAnne Lamott on Taming Your Inner Critic, Finding Grace, and Prayer | The Tim Ferriss Show #522Shake Shack’s Danny Meyer Reveals The Secret Ingredient Of His Success | ForbesLaw School Admission Test (LSAT) | WikipediaElio’s, New York CityUnion Square Cafe, New York CityGramercy Tavern, New York CityTrinity College, HartfordExplore St. LouisCheckpoint SystemsLessons on Hospitality from Danny Meyer’s Setting the Table | American SpaRelais & ChâteauxLa Réserve, Bordeaux | Trip AdvisorRestaurant Dubern à Bordeaux | Panier de SaisonWhat Michelin Stars Mean | Institute of Culinary EducationThe Dirty Secret of ‘Secret Family Recipes’ | Gastro ObscuraRunnin’ Down a Dream: How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love by Bill Gurley | McCombs School, University of TexasThe Pros and Cons of Staging in a Restaurant | EaterThe Two Things My Father’s Bankruptcy Taught Me | Inc.How Shake Shack’s Danny Meyer Built an Empire Centered on Employees | LinkedInTom Sawyer Whitewashing the Fence | PBSEnding Tipping and the Virtuous Cycle of Enlightened Hospitality by Adam Brown | MediumTribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonThe Daily PrincetonianInterview Questions That Limit Employee Turnover | Hospitality HotlineAn Iconic Photo That Belies The Real Story | Sports History WeeklyJohn McEnroe’s Epic Wimbledon Meltdown: ‘You Cannot Be Serious!’ | ESPN ArchivesTheo Epstein’s Curse-Breakers | FiveThirtyEightMoneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis | AmazonThe Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Prime VideoTabla Will Close in December — Danny Meyer’s First Ever Shutter | Eater NYA Q&A With Danny Meyer: How to Close a Restaurant | The AtlanticRatatouille | Prime VideoDanny Meyer’s North End Grill Is Closing at the End of 2018 | Eater NYThe Culinary Institute of AmericaThe Ultimate Guide to Tipping in America | Travel InsiderCold Turkey by John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band | YouTubeNew York City Restaurants’ “Hospitality Included” Movement Slowly Picks Up Steam | Nation’s Restaurant NewsThe Modern, New York CityA Return to Tipping, But Let Them Be Shared | USHGThis Is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See by Seth Godin | AmazonSpecial: Lockhart Link Burger At Shake Shack | Pop.Bop.Shop.SHOW NOTESEditor’s note: timestamps will be added shortly.
The meaning behind Maialino.Control vs. surprises.A pivotal conversation.Converting the cranky.ABCD: Always be collecting dots; always be connecting dots.Danny’s first steps to chefdom.Being paid the worst to learn from the best.How business is like gardening.A virtuous cycle of stakeholders.The politely genuine decline.Six qualities Danny looks for when hiring.Work ethic lessons from Theo Epstein.Should they stay or should they go?Softly landing from a favorite failure.Taking on tipping culture.51 percenters.Most gifted books.Seth Godin is a mensch.Danny’s billboard.Hope vs. optimism.Parting thoughts.MORE DANNY MEYER QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“Hospitality is a team sport.”
— Danny Meyer
“I kind of have a mixed bag with this whole control thing. I want to determine which island the boat is heading for, but I’m completely open to all the pivots I’m going to have to take in order to get there, because there’s no sailboat race in history that was ever a straight line between A and B.”
— Danny Meyer
“Even if you get the best tomatoes, you’d better not throw them in the back corner of the walk-in refrigerator and bruise them so that they lose their sugar. Treat them the right way. Well, guess what? Same thing goes for people. You can have the best recipe in the world for how you hire people, but you’d better pick the best tomatoes. You’d better treat them the right way if you want the best sauce.”
— Danny Meyer
“I spent the first 10 years of my career almost exclusively focused on trying to motivate problem employees to be better, like the weeds. What I learned was that our employees are like sunflowers. They will turn wherever the sun is. If I’m spending all of my attention on the weeds, I’m actually pulling the gravitational force that way. My grandmother’s lesson was right: If I water the flowers and spend more time with the people who maybe I’ve taken for granted because they’re doing such a great job, they actually crowd out the weeds and the weeds take care of themselves.”
— Danny Meyer
“The world keeps moving, and if you don’t keep moving with it, you will definitely not keep up.”
— Danny Meyer
“Can’t we please have a charitable assumption about one another?”
— Danny Meyer
“There is a difference between hope and optimism. I think that hope is an active act.”
— Danny Meyer
“ABCD: Always be collecting dots so you can always be connecting dots.”
— Danny Meyer
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