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Q&A with Tim — Revisiting 15+ Years of PR and Marketing Lessons, Time Dilation for Deep Relaxation, The Art of Setting Ultra-High Prices, The Low-Information Diet, Studying Animal Communication, My 3-Day Fasting Protocol, Tools for Handling Adversity, Sell

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

As some of you know, I tested a “fan-supported model” in 2019, but I ended up returning to ads by request. That’s a long story, and you can read more about it at tim.blog/podcastexperiment. I recently sat down with the original supporter group for a fun and live Q&A on YouTube.

In this episode, I answer questions on marketing and product launches, premium pricing, user feedback, fasting routines, podcast advertising, my recent gardening adventures, tools for releasing tension in the iliacus and psoas muscles, my current coffee and alcohol rules, advice for artisans, animal communication, tools for adverse life moments, and more.

Please enjoy!

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Want to hear my most recent Q&A? Listen to the podcast episode here, in which I answered questions about mitigating risks in an increasingly contentious society, Japanese martial arts culture, C.S. Lewis, coping with the sudden loss of a loved one, self-discipline advice for ADHD folks who have already tried everything, cultivating resilience ahead of when it’s needed, podcasting tips for introverts, and much more.

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

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Published on October 12, 2022 06:33

Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase — The Art of Relentless Focus, Preparing for Full-Contact Entrepreneurship, Critical Forks in the Path, Handling Haters, The Wisdom of Paul Graham, Epigenetic Reprogramming, and Much More (#627)

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“The greatest risk is not taking one.”
— Brian Armstrong

Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Coinbase. Founded in 2012, Coinbase is building the crypto economy—a more fair, accessible, efficient, and transparent financial system enabled by crypto. Coinbase serves over 103 million verified users, 14,500 institutions, and 245,000 ecosystem partners in over 100 countries. In April 2021, Coinbase listed publicly on NASDAQ as COIN.

Before founding Coinbase, Brian served as a software engineer at Airbnb, where he focused on fraud prevention. Before Airbnb, Brian founded and was CEO of UniversityTutor.com, an online tutoring directory and a subsidiary of Johnson Educational Technologies LLC. Brian also previously served as a consultant for the enterprise risk management division at Deloitte & Touche LLP. Brian has a BA in computer science and economics and an MS in computer science from Rice University.

Over the last three years, Coinbase has worked with ten-time Emmy®-winning filmmaker Greg Kohs on a documentary about cryptocurrency and Coinbase. COIN is now available on Amazon, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo on Demand, and other platforms.

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Want to learn more about Web3 and crypto? Listen to my podcast episode with Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant in which we discuss what the smartest people do on the weekend, solving proof-of-work problems, the real promise of Web3, why NFTs are more than the sum of their JPGs, how skeuomorphic design can be applied to Web3, why it’s still the early days of decentralization, the pros and cons of crypto regulation, how DAOs work and what they can offer to society at large, and much more.

#542: Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs

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 Brian Armstrong:

Twitter

Watch COIN: Amazon | iTunes | Vimeo on Demand

Trailer for COIN: A Founder’s Story | YouTube Buy, Sell, and Store Hundreds of Cryptocurrencies | Coinbase Find a Tutor in Your Area | University Tutor Interview with Nomadic Entrepreneur and Author, Brian Armstrong | JetSetCitizen How to Market a Book by Joanna Penn | Amazon How to Live Like a Rock Star (or Tango Star) in Buenos Aires… | Tim Ferriss Audit, Consulting, Financial, Risk Management, Tax Services | Deloitte 1998–2002 Argentine Great Depression | Wikipedia Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio | Amazon The Network State: How To Start a New Country by Balaji Srinivasan | Amazon Balaji Srinivasan — Centralized China vs Decentralized World, The DeFi Matrix, Ascending vs Descending Trends, Bitcoin Mining as Energy Storage, Reputational Civil War, and Maximalism vs. Optimalism | The Tim Ferriss Show #547 Bitcoin Price Index and Live Chart | CoinDesk Gartner Hype Cycle Research Methodology | Gartner Y Combinator Mt. Gox | Wikipedia Brian Armstrong | Foundation #35 15 Books That Changed The Way I Think by Brian Armstrong | Medium “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman | Amazon Steve Jobs and His Remarkably Simple Secret of Life | Inc.com Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman | Amazon Free To Choose (TV Series) | Prime Video Libertarianism | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Vacation Rentals, Cabins, Beach Houses, Unique Homes, & Experiences | Airbnb Where the World Builds Software | GitHub The Fierce Battle for the Soul of Bitcoin | Wired The Top Idea in Your Mind | Paul Graham How to Make Wealth | Paul Graham Haters | Paul Graham Coinbase is a Mission-Focused Company | Coinbase Coinbase CEO Blames Remote Work for Internal Petition to Oust Execs | Fortune The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt | Amazon Black Lives Matter | Wikipedia Hacker News Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Knew for Years About Sexual-Misconduct Allegations at Videogame Giant | WSJ Startups Die of Suicide, Not Murder | The Hard Fork 10 Awesome Uses of Cryptocurrency | Brave New Coin The Visa Debit Card That Turns Your Everyday Purchases into Crypto Rewards | Coinbase Card Earn Up to 5.75% APY on Your Crypto | Coinbase Earn Institutional Crypto Investing | Coinbase Prime Financial Planning & Investment Management | BlackRock Digital Wallets, Money Management, and More | PayPal Ethereum Merge is Complete — Here’s What It Means for Investors | NerdWallet The Solana Blockchain — Ethereum Killer or Piece of a Larger Puzzle? | Modern Finance Lightning Network | Wikipedia Layer 1 vs. Layer 2 : What You Need to Know About Different Blockchain Layer Solutions | Medium Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)Decentralised Naming for Wallets, Websites, & More | Ethereum Name Service (ENS)Pokémon GO Flamingo DAO – What You Should Know About Decentralized Autonomous Organizations With Priyanka Desai And Aaron Wright | Modern Finance Venture Capital Is Pouring Billions Into Crypto. Bitcoin’s Crash Is a Memory. | Barron’s Coinbase NFT Metaverse | Wikipedia We’re Building a Web3 City of the Future | CityDAO NFTS Are Helping Artists Solve a Vital Problem | The Guardian Your Key to the World of Crypto | Coinbase Wallet Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump | The New Yorker New Coinbase Disclosure Reminds Bitcoin & Crypto Owners: ‘Not your Keys, Not your Coins’ | Cryptonews Multi-Signature | Bitcoin Wiki jlopp (Jameson Lopp) | GitHub Lopp’s Threat Index: Analyzing the Top 5 Bitcoin Security Threats | Forbes Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen | Amazon David Goggins | YouTube Perfect Puppy in 7 Days: How to Start Your Puppy Off Right by Dr. Sophia Yin | Amazon Citric Acid Cycle (aka Krebs Cycle) | Wikipedia Extending Human Healthspan | NewLimit Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) | Wikipedia Flow Cytometry | Wikipedia Why Coinbase’s Trading Debut Is a Cryptocurrency Coming-Out Party | The New York Times What is CRISPR? | New Scientist Walter Isaacson on CRISPR, Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race | The Tim Ferriss Show #503 Shinya Yamanaka Wins 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine | UC San Francisco Google Ventures Understanding How COVID-19 Vaccines Work | CDC Open Science Community | ResearchHub The ResearchCoin Whitepaper | ResearchHub Expanding the Bounty Feature and Academic Outreach (ResearchHub Community Call) | YouTube Nuclear Fusion Energy Inches Closer Toward Reality | The Washington Post Electric Adventure Vehicles | Rivian Free Online Courses, Lessons, & Practice | Khan Academy Genentech Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto | BitcoinSHOW NOTES

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How Brian’s first book idea became a blog.Brian’s time in Buenos Aires.Present-day economic warning signs.Coinbase beginnings: from genesis to the Buy Bitcoin button.Influential human beings, books, and documentaries.Core principles learned from early startup days.Favorite Paul Graham essays.Controversy: Coinbase becomes an apolitical, mission-focused company.Cultivating resilience to resistance as a leader.Competition.What crypto skeptics and crypto bulls each get wrong often.Main use cases for crypto.Making the case that crypto is still in early days.Novel crypto ideas Brian thinks will prove worthwhile.Lessons learned from the launch of Coinbase’s NFT marketplace.How Coinbase is addressing NFT security.“Not your keys, not your crypto.”Self-improvement.Learning biology basics from a tutor as an adult.The goals of NewLimit.What is ResearchHub?How open bounties work.What excites Brian most about science today?Brian’s billboard.Parting thoughts.MORE BRIAN ARMSTRONG QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Talk to the customer, iterate, talk to the customer, iterate.”
— Brian Armstrong

“We weren’t even trying to make a company. We were just kind of trying to learn this stuff in the evenings in our free time.”
— Brian Armstrong

“If I have to come in every day and be put in front of the hot mic and have to answer all these crazy things that I don’t have an answer to, that’s not what I signed up for. I want to build cool stuff with technology that changes the world. That’s what I’m good at.”

— Brian Armstrong

“Honestly, if you don’t have a competitor — people are naturally tribalistic — you’ll sometimes see tribes start to form inside the company and people start fighting each other, so it’s actually better to have something outside the company that you’re struggling against.”

— Brian Armstrong

“It’s never as good as it seems, never as bad as it seems, in crypto.”

— Brian Armstrong

“They teach you in PR training to pivot the question to the one you wish was asked.”

— Brian Armstrong

“If I just think about all the biggest challenges that we have in the world today, I think science and technology are pretty good hammers to swing at those nails.”

— Brian Armstrong

“The most valuable companies in the world are when we cross-pollinate a true scientific innovation with someone who can go commercialize it.”

— Brian Armstrong

“The greatest risk is not taking one.”

— Brian Armstrong

PEOPLE MENTIONEDGreg Kohs Ray Dalio Balaji Srinivasan Fred Ehrsam Kevin Rose Richard P. Feynman Steve Jobs Milton Friedman Paul Graham Jonathan Haidt George Floyd Katie Haun Vladimir Putin Emilie Choi Bobby Kotick Jameson Lopp David Allen David Goggins Shinya Yamanaka Blake Byers Elon Musk Larry Page Sergey Brin

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Published on October 07, 2022 13:37

Insights from Tara Brach, Ryan Holiday, Maria Popova, and Cal Newport (#626)

Welcome 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 life.

This episode is something different. It’s an experimental format that I’m super excited about, and it’s back by popular demand.

This is an episode that scratches an itch I’ve had for years. I am not always able to listen to every great podcast episode out there, even when they are by some of my closest friends. The answer to my predicament was to ask them to send me a top segment from their podcast that I could listen to and—more importantly—also share with you, my dear listeners.

My team edited them together, and here we are! This episode is a compilation of 15-to-30–minute clips from some of the best podcasters—and also best interviewees—in the world and certainly some of my favorites.

At the beginning of each clip, you will hear an intro from the host and where to find their work and podcast. I’ll also share one or two of my favorite clips from episodes of The Tim Ferriss Show.

You can view this episode as a buffet, and I strongly suggest that you check out the shows included. If you like my podcast, you will very likely enjoy the featured shows in this episode.

And before you go: Do you like this format? Please let me know on Twitter at @tferriss and also mention @TeamTimFerriss.

Please enjoy!

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

Want to hear the previous Insights episode? Listen here for nuggets of wisdom from Dr. Andrew Huberman, Greg McKeown, Jocko Willink, Brené Brown, and Naval Ravikant about tuning your dopamine system for discipline and motivation, finding flow through the genius of routine, understanding the opportunities presented by problems, reconciling self-acceptance with the urge to achieve and improve, how to get rich without getting lucky, and much more.

#616: Insights from Dr. Andrew Huberman, Greg McKeown, Jocko Willink, Brené Brown, and Naval Ravikant

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Connect with Tara Brach:

Website | Email List | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube

Tara Brach’s Appearance on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast:

Tara Brach on Meditation and Overcoming FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) | The Tim Ferriss Show #94

Links:

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach | Amazon Trusting the Gold: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness by Tara Brach | Amazon The Happiest Day in Your Life | Matthieu Ricard The Golden Buddha Inside You | Lion’s Roar RAIN: Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture | Tara Brach Why Loving-Kindness Takes Time by Sharon Salzberg | Mindful The Gift by Nancy L. Dahberg | Dharma Talk School Prayer: Diane Ackerman’s Poetic Invitation to Attentive Presence as a Means of Transcendence and Secular Spirituality | The Marginalian

Connect with Ryan Holiday:

Ryan Holiday’s Past Appearances on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast:

Ryan Holiday — Turning the Tables | The Tim Ferriss Show #410 How to Succeed in High-Stress Situations | The Tim Ferriss Show #319 What’s Important to You? | The Tim Ferriss Show #179 Useful Lessons from Workaholics Anonymous, Corporate Implosions, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #169 The Canvas Strategy — What Ben Franklin and Bill Belichick Have in Common | The Tim Ferriss Show #165 Ryan Holiday | The Tim Ferriss Show #4

Links:

Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday | Amazon The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday | Amazon Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday | Amazon The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday | Amazon 12 Questions That Will Change Your Life by Ryan Holiday | Medium Tell Me Who You Spend Time With, and I Will Tell You Who You Are | Thought Catalog 29 Lessons from the Greatest Strategic Minds Who Ever Lived, Fought, or Led | Thought Catalog A Man May Do an Immense Deal of Good If He Does Not Care Who Gets the Credit | Quote Investigator The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker | Amazon 21 Life Lessons Learned from Some of the World’s Greatest Sports Coaches | Thought Catalog Trust Yourself | Daily Stoic 21 Marketing Lessons Every Creative Needs to Master | Thought Catalog Stephen Colbert Featured in Ken Bain’s “What the Best College Students Do” | Colbert News Hub 23 Lessons I Learned from Robert Greene on Strategy, Mastery, and Power | Thought Catalog So You Want to Write a Book? “Want” Is Not Nearly Enough | Thought Catalog Alive Time Vs. Dead Time: Which Are You In? | Thought Catalog 7 Pieces of Life-Changing Writing Advice from Dear Sugar | Thought Catalog Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl | Amazon

Connect with Maria Popova:

The Marginalian (Formerly Brain Pickings) | Twitter | Instagram

Maria Popova’s Past Appearances on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast:

Books I’ve Loved — Maria Popova and Tyler Cowen | The Tim Ferriss Show #436 Maria Popova on Being Interesting, Creating More Time in a Day, And How to Start A Successful Blog | The Tim Ferriss Show #92 Maria Popova on Writing, Workflow, and Workarounds | The Tim Ferriss Show #39

Links:

Dr. Andrew Huberman — A Neurobiologist on Optimizing Sleep, Enhancing Performance, Reducing Anxiety, Increasing Testosterone, and Using the Body to Control the Mind | The Tim Ferriss Show #521 Vipassana Meditation | Dhamma.org Smile Guided Meditation (25:29) | Tara Brach Free Kindle Reading Apps for iOS, Android, Mac, and PC | Amazon Literary Jukebox | Tumblr On the Shortness of Life by Seneca | Amazon Good Will Hunting | Prime Video

Connect with Cal Newport:

Website | Blog | YouTube

Cal Newport’s Past Appearances on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast:

Cal Newport and Tim Ferriss Revisit “The 4-Hour Workweek” (Plus: The Allure and The Void of Remote Work, Unsustainable Behaviors, Burning Out, The Cult of Productivity, and More) | The Tim Ferriss Show #594 Cal Newport — The Eternal Pursuit of Craftsmanship, the Deep Life, Slow Productivity, and a 30-Day Digital Minimalism Challenge | The Tim Ferriss Show #568

Links:

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport | Amazon Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport | Amazon A World Without Email: Find Focus and Transform the Way You Work Forever by Cal Newport | Amazon The Deep Questions Podcast Cal Newport’s Planning System (In Detail) | YouTubeSHOW NOTES[08:39] Who is Tara Brach?[10:29] How meditation allows us to be present in the moment.[12:56] Disentangling from self-judgment.[19:07] The meaning of radical acceptance.[20:24] RAIN: recognize, allow, investigate, and nurture.[28:01] A brief RAIN meditation.[34:17] A gift to a stranger.[38:55] A short prayer.[40:00] Who is Ryan Holiday?[40:54] Who am I spending time with?[41:36] Is this in my control?[42:25] What does my ideal day look like?[43:27] To be or to do?[45:11] What am I missing by choosing to worry or be afraid?[45:54] Am I doing my job?[46:37] What is the most important thing?[47:39] Who is this for?[48:20] Does this actually matter?[49:17] Will this be alive time or dead time?[50:15] Is this who I want to be?[50:58] A bonus question from Viktor Frankl.[53:01] Who is Maria Popova?[54:21] What does Maria’s current day look like?[56:04] Good sleep makes everything else possible.[59:13] Meditation.[1:01:22] Workouts.[1:01:46] How Maria reads at the gym.[1:02:32] Methods of note-taking.[1:08:53] Seneca as a gateway drug into philosophy.[1:12:41] Who is Cal Newport?[1:14:16] Three properties any time management system should have.[1:17:03] Capture.[1:19:23] Configure.[1:20:49] Control.[1:23:36] How Cal implements this system.[1:29:47] How this system will benefit you.[1:31:17] A bonus property: Constrain.PEOPLE MENTIONEDJack Kornfield The Dalai Lama Gautama Buddha Carl Rogers Jesus Diane Ackerman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Seneca Epictetus Annie Dillard John Boyd Harry S. Truman Hillel the Elder George C. Marshall Gavin de Becker Sean Payton Bill Belichick Marcus Aurelius Stephen Colbert Robert Greene Cheryl Strayed Viktor Frankl Madonna Sitting Bull David Allen Dean Acheson Jesse Miller

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Published on October 06, 2022 06:40

Dr. John Krystal — All Things Ketamine, The Most Comprehensive Podcast Episode Ever (#625)

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“Depression is a disorder of the spirit, if you will, the brain, but also the whole body. And that’s one of the reasons why it’s one of the most disabling conditions that we have in the world.”
— Dr. John Krystal

Dr. John Krystal is the Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Professor of Translational Research; Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Psychology; Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University; and Chief of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Dr. Krystal is a leading expert in the areas of alcoholism, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, and depression. His work links psychopharmacology, neuroimaging, molecular genetics, and computational neuroscience to study the neurobiology and treatment of these disorders. He is best known for leading the discovery of the rapid antidepressant effects of ketamine in depressed patients.

He directs/co-directs the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (CTSA), NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism, and Clinical Neuroscience Division of the National Center for PTSD (VA).

Dr. Krystal is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine; co-director of the Neuroscience Forum of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); and editor of Biological Psychiatry, one of the most selective and highly cited journals in the field of psychiatric neuroscience.

He is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor of Freedom Biosciences, a clinical-stage biotechnology platform developing next-generation ketamine and psychedelic therapeutics that recently emerged from stealth in August 2022.

ONE VERY IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: I’m not a doctor, nor do I play one on the Internet. None of the content in this podcast constitutes medical advice or should be construed as a recommendation to use ketamine or psychedelics. There are psychological, physical, and sometimes legal risks with such usage. Please consult your doctor before considering anything we discuss in this episode.

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#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 Compounds

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE Freedom Biosciences John Krystal, MD | Yale School of Medicine A Prescription Nasal Spray | Spravato Interventional Psychiatry | Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital Robert Ostroff, MD Psychiatry | Yale New Haven Hospital Gerard Sanacora, MD,PhD Psychiatry | Yale New Haven Hospital Henry Krystal, Holocaust Trauma Expert, and Survivor, Dies at 90 | The New York Times Living With Terror, Working With Trauma: A Clinician’s Handbook: A Clinicians Handbook by Danielle Knafo et al. | Amazon Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide | Tim Ferriss Why Most People Misunderstand Depression | Arcadian Counseling Ketamine: A Paradigm Shift for Depression Research and Treatment | Cell Melancholy | Online Etymology Dictionary Outcome Measurement in Mental Health Services: Insights from Symptom Networks | BMC Psychiatry Health Insurers Still Don’t Adequately Cover Mental Health Treatment | National Alliance on Mental Illness ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy): What It Is & Side Effects | Cleveland Clinic Rethinking Serotonin’s Role in Depression | Brain Facts Should People Taking MAOIs Follow a Tyramine-Free Diet? | Healthline From the Death of Libby Zion, Crucial Medical Reforms | The New York Times Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs | ESPD 50 MAOI Contraindications Related to Ayahuasca | MAPS Top 10 Medical Inventions (2017): #7 Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression | Cleveland Clinic Innovations Brain Scanning Techniques (CT, MRI, fMRI, PET, SPECT, DTI, DOT) | Cerebra Ptolemaic System | The Galileo Project Tryptophan-Depletion Challenge in Depressed Patients Treated with Desipramine or Fluoxetine: Implications for the Role of Serotonin in the Mechanism of Antidepressant Action | Biological Psychiatry Antidepressants ‘Work Immediately’ | Nursing Times Higher Serotonin 1A Binding in a Second Major Depression Cohort: Modeling and Reference Region Considerations | Biological Psychiatry Glutamate and GABA Systems as Targets for Novel Antidepressant and Mood-Stabilizing Treatments | Molecular Psychiatry A Randomized Trial of an N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Antagonist in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression | Archives of General Psychiatry Serotonin and Hallucinogens | Neuropsychopharmacology Signaling Pathways Underlying the Rapid Antidepressant Actions of Ketamine | Neuropharmacology Chronic Stress Alters Synaptic Terminal Structure in Hippocampus | PNAS Ketamine: Just Say “Neigh!” | Max E, Twitter WHO Recommends Against International Control of Ketamine | IDPC Cell Proliferation in Adult Hippocampus is Decreased by Inescapable Stress: Reversal by Fluoxetine Treatment | Neuropsychopharmacology mTOR (Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin) | Wikipedia Study of a New Schizophrenomimetic Drug — Sernyl | Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry Lafayette Clinic / Woodward Academy | Detroiturbex.com Phencyclidine/Schizophrenia: One View Toward the Past, The Other to the Future | Schizophrenia Bulletin Domino by Van Morrison | Amazon Music The Domino Effect: Ed Domino’s Early Studies of Psychoactive Drugs | Journal of Psychoactive Drugs Crick, Watson, and Franklin: DNA Structure | Khan Academy Dissociative Anesthesia: Further Pharmacologic Studies and First Clinical Experience with the Phencyclidine Derivative Cl-581 | Anesthesia & Analgesia Taming the Ketamine Tiger | Anesthesiology Specific [3H]Phencyclidine Binding in Rat Central Nervous System | PNAS Clozapine Uses, Dosage, and Side Effects | Drugs.com Activation of Glutamatergic Neurotransmission by Ketamine: A Novel Step in the Pathway from NMDA Receptor Blockade to Dopaminergic and Cognitive Disruptions Associated with the Prefrontal Cortex | Journal of Neuroscience The Role Of Dissociation In Ketamine’s Antidepressant Effects | Nature Communications Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Center | Yale School of Medicine:First In Vivo Evaluations Of Synaptic Density Alterations In The Brain | Neuropsychopharmacology Glutamate Metabolism in Major Depressive Disorder | American Journal of Psychiatry Synaptic Potentiation Is Critical for Rapid Antidepressant Response to Ketamine in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression | Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging Medications Besides Statins for Lowering Cholesterol | GoodRx Ketamine vs. S-Ketamine — What’s the Difference? | Principium Psychiatry Samuel Wilkinson Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Sustain the Antidepressant Effects of Ketamine in Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Randomized Clinical Trial | Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Modulating Amygdala Activation to Traumatic Memories with a Single Ketamine Infusion | ResearchGate Ketamine Can Reduce Harmful Drinking by Pharmacologically Rewriting Drinking Memories | Nature Communications Dose-Related Effects of Ketamine for Antidepressant-Resistant Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans and Active Duty Military: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Multi-Center Clinical Trial | Neuropsychopharmacology Bolus Definition & Meaning | Merriam-Webster Ketamine Infusions vs. Intramuscular Ketamine Injections | SKI Side Effects Mild, Brief with Single Antidepressant Dose of Intravenous Ketamine | National Institutes of Health Zofran Uses, Dosage, and Side Effects | Drugs.com Burning Man Psychedelic Peer Support | Zendo Project Pirates of the Caribbean Ride | Walt Disney World Resort Ketamine Addiction | Verywell Mind The Health Effects of the Abuse of Ketamine | ClinMed Journals Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien | Amazon Enantiomers | Chemistry LibreTexts What Are the Three Types of Ketamine, and Which One Is Right for You? | Healing Maps Manji Develops Novel Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder | NIH Record R (−)-Ketamine Shows Greater Potency and Longer Lasting Antidepressant Effects than S (+)-Ketamine | Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior The Etymology of Trivia: A Place Where Three Roads Meet | Useless Etymology How the Drunken Monkey Hypothesis Explains Our Taste for Liquor | The Atlantic Inhibition of Opiate Tolerance by Non-Competitive N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Antagonists | Brain Research Ketamine for Chronic Pain: Risks and Benefits | British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology Chronic Pain Is Surprisingly Treatable — When Patients Focus on the Brain | The Washington Post Esmethadone: A Novel, Rapidly Effective Treatment for Depression | MGH Psychiatry News Salvinorin A | Wikipedia Naltrexone | Wikipedia Naltrexone in the Treatment of Alcohol Dependence | The New England Journal of Medicine What Is Anhedonia? | Healthline Legal High Craze Hits Iinternet | On Demand News Modulation of the Antidepressant Effects of Ketamine by the mTORC1 Inhibitor Rapamycin | Neuropsychopharmacology Microglia | Wikipedia Microglia in Neurological Diseases: A Road Map to Brain-Disease Dependent-Inflammatory Response | Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience Study Confirms Rapid Antidepressant Effect of Ketamine Extends to Taiwanese Patients | PsyPost My Life Extension Pilgrimage to Easter Island | The Tim Ferriss Show #193 Glial Cells | 2-Minute Neuroscience The Usual Suspects | Prime Video How Does Ketamine Work Differently from Other Psychedelics? | Psychology Today The Thalamus as a Monitor of Motor Outputs | The Royal Society Bridging the Gap? Altered Thalamocortical Connectivity in Psychotic and Psychedelic States | Frontiers in Psychiatry BDNF Impact on Synaptic Dynamics: Extra or Intracellular Long-Term Release Differently Regulates Cultured Hippocampal Synapses | Molecular Brain Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) | Wikipedia Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey and Eric Hagerman | Amazon Exercise Promotes the Expression of Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Through the Action of the Ketone Body β-Hydroxybutyrate | eLife Dom D’Agostino on Disease Prevention, Cancer, and Living Longer | The Tim Ferriss Show #188 R 1,3 Ethanol-Free Alcohol by Hard Ketones | KetoneAid Will Ketamine Help Sleep? | Healing Maps Exercise Linked to Improved Mental Health, but More May Not Always Be Better | Yale School of MedicineSHOW NOTES[07:30] The challenges faced by John’s late father, Henry Krystal.[14:44] Was Henry’s work discussed around the Krystal dinner table?[18:10] What people frequently misunderstand about depression.[25:53] Why partial response and non-response occur commonly in psychiatry.[32:15] From the serotonin hypothesis to “what’s really exciting” about antidepression research.[35:08] How monoamine oxidase inhibitors reduce symptoms of depression.[36:41] MAOI Side effects and risks.[40:14] When Western medicine duplicates centuries-old shamanic wisdom.[43:13] How pre-imaging neuroscience of the ’80s was like Ptolemaic astronomy.[47:24] The reason for depression isn’t as simple as a lack of serotonin.[49:42] The change in perspective that illustrated ketamine as a potential therapy.[54:35] From first studies to overcoming skepticism.[1:02:39] How ketamine went from “horse tranquilizer” to antidepressant candidate.[1:18:46] The dose makes the difference.[1:23:02] What is dissociation, and is it an essential part of ketamine’s healing process?[1:37:32] Recommendations for optimal treatment of a close friend (frequency, duration, psychotherapy, etc.).[1:50:42] Reducing the potency of maladaptive memories.[1:56:15] Best dosage practices.[2:03:23] I.M. vs. I.V.[2:04:55] Common in-session side-effects (and remedies).[2:09:19] What my ketamine experience was like.[2:12:41] Optimal settings.[2:18:05] Ketamine risks.[2:30:22] Decreasing the opportunities for abuse and addiction.[2:37:28] Enantiomers: r-ketamine vs. s-ketamine[2:44:19] How effective is ketamine for chronic pain relief?[2:52:28] Why might the durability of relief outlast the presence of ketamine in the body?[2:56:12] What is s-methadone?[2:57:31] Does s-ketamine have the same abuse potential as r-ketamine?[3:00:46] Opiate receptor interaction with ketamine and other compounds.[3:05:56] What is Salvinorin A?[3:07:05] Exploring the ups and downs of optimizing ketamine with rapamycin.[3:23:28] Ketamine doesn’t have a lot in common with other psychedelics.[3:26:47] The effect of ketamine and other hallucinogens on the thalamus.[3:29:57] How important is the role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)?[3:32:20] BHB, ethanol-free alcohol, and exercise vs. depression.[3:35:31] Ketamine’s impact on sleep, and the potential dangers of too much exercise.[3:37:27] What John anticipates for the future of ketamine research and application.[3:41:51] Giving credit to the pioneers of the field.[3:43:21] Parting thoughts.MORE GUEST QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Depression is a disorder of the spirit, if you will, the brain, but also the whole body. And that’s one of the reasons why it’s one of the most disabling conditions that we have in the world.”
— Dr. John Krystal

“The ideal antidepressant would be a drug that acted rapidly and lasted forever. We would call that, basically, cure. And we never use the word ‘cure’ in psychiatry. We don’t even think of the idea of cure. And that’s partly because we don’t really understand the brain well enough to really know how to completely undo the changes that we see there.”
— Dr. John Krystal

PEOPLE MENTIONEDHenry Krystal William Guglielmo Niederland Robert Jay Lifton John M. Dorsey Sigmund Freud Dennis S. Charney Claudius Ptolemy Claude de Montigny ‪Pedro L. Delgado George Aghajanian Catherine Harmer Ramin Parsey Thomas Kuhn Husseini K. Manji Carlos Zarate Ronald S. Duman Daniel X. Freedman Bruce McEwen Eric Nestler Santa Claus Joan Luby Elliot D. Luby Edward F. Domino Van Morrison Guenter Corssen James Watson Francis Crick Stephen Zukin Suzanne Zukin Irina Esterlis Sophie E. Holmes Chadi Abdallah Allison Nugent Ilan Harpaz-Rotem Ravi K. Das Robert Ostroff Gerard Sanacora Smeagol ‪Kenji Hashimoto Keith A. Trujillo Huda Akil Deepak Cyril D’Souza Mohini Ranganathan Smokey Bear Dominic D’Agostino Adam Chekroud Bryan Roth David E. Olson Roland R. Griffiths Alexander Shulgin Mark Geyer David E. Nichols

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Rolf Potts — The Vagabond’s Way, Tactics for Immersive Travel, Pilgrimages and Psychogeography, Empathy Machines, Full-Throated Love, The Slow Sense of Smell, Lessons from Thích Nhất Hạnh, Falling Upward, and More (#624)

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“Get a stack of postcards. And every time you want to send a text message, send them a two-week postcard instead.”
— Rolf Potts

Rolf Potts (@rolfpotts) is the author of the international bestseller Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel. His newest book is The Vagabond’s Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel. He has reported from more than 60 countries for National Geographic Traveler, The New Yorker, Outside, The New York Times Magazine, and Travel Channel. Many of his essays have been selected as “Notable Mentions” in The Best American Essays, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and The Best American Travel Writing. He also hosts his own podcast, Deviate with Rolf Potts.

He is based in north-central Kansas, where he keeps a small farmhouse on 30 acres with his wife, Kansas-born actress Kristen Bush. My 2014 interview with Rolf can be found at tim.blog/rolf.

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Want to hear the first time Rolf Potts was on the podcast? Listen back on our conversation in which we discussed fulfilling travel fantasies using the time-wealth principle, resources to fight the fears associated with world travel, conducting business on the road, the effect of vacations on creative output, appreciation versus achievement, writing process, success management, and much more.

#41: Rolf Potts on Travel Tactics, Creating Time Wealth, and Lateral Thinking#42: Rolf Potts (Part 2) on Travel Tactics, Creating Time Wealth, and Lateral Thinking

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Rolf Potts:

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The Vagabond’s Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel by Rolf Potts | Amazon Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts | Amazon Deviate with Rolf Potts Rolf Potts on Travel Tactics, Creating Time Wealth, and Lateral Thinking | The Tim Ferriss Show #41 & #42 The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay | Amazon The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | Amazon The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell | Amazon Stay with Locals and Meet Travelers | Couchsurfing An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel | Vagabonding.net Hitchhiking for Pastries: The Art of Structuring a Journey with an Obsession | Deviate with Rolf Potts #188 Cal Fussman – The Master Storyteller Returns | The Tim Ferriss Show #183 Best of What I’ve Learned | Esquire Vanishing Asia by Kevin Kelly | Kickstarter Vanishing Asia: Three Volume Set: West, Central, and East by Kevin Kelly | Amazon Best Motown Love Songs: 20 Essential Songs For Soulmates | uDiscover Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman | Poetry Foundation Pandemic Love, Cheating Death, & Cassette Tapes: A Personal History of Nostalgia | Deviate with Rolf Potts #142 Depression After a Concussion | Cognitive FX Full-Throated | Merriam-Webster Vertebrate Fossils in Kansas | GeoKansas Geographic Arbitrage: How I Save $20,000+ A Year Living Abroad | Nomadic Fire Beyond the Red Ochre of the Himba People | Friendly Borders Souvenir (Object Lessons) by Rolf Potts | Amazon The 54 Best Korean Dramas for You to Binge-Watch in 2022 | Marie Claire South Korean Culture: Etiquette | Cultural Atlas Confucianism | National Geographic Society Communitas | Wikipedia San Jose | American Kickboxing Academy Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage Trails | Kumano Travel Camino de Santiago | Santiago Ways Simply Mobile Data, Anywhere | GigSky Cache Cab: Taxi Drivers’ Brains Grow to Navigate London’s Streets | Scientific American Notes on the Flâneur | Rolf Potts Psychogeography: A Way to Delve into the Soul of a City | The Conversation Social Media Toolkit | Buffer The Unique Social Media Management Tool | Meet Edgar SEA Games: Cambodia Makes History in Volleyball with Men’s Semis Stint | Inquirer Sports All the Differences Between American and Japanese 7-Eleven | Food Wars 7-Eleven Konbini Virtual Tour in Japan | Sugoii Japan The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering by Byung-Chul Han | Amazon Louvre Museum Little, Big by John Crowley | Amazon History of Memento Mori | Daily Stoic Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman | Amazon Before Sunrise | Prime Video Boyhood | Prime Video Three Literary Uses of Roman à Clef | MasterClass Visit Faroe Islands Faroe-Islander Saga | Amazon The Old Man and His Sons by Heðin Brú | Amazon Tools of Titans: Derek Sivers Distilled | The Tim Ferriss Show #202 The Ivy Crown by William Carlos Williams | Poeticous Experiences with Cuban Piropo Culture | Beyond the Bubble Memories from the Root Temple: Washing Dishes by Thích Nhất Hạnh | Plum Village Lost by David Wagoner | Poetry Magazine At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk’s Life by Thích Nhất Hạnh | Amazon Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr | Amazon The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman | Amazon The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu | Amazon São Paulo: The City With No Outdoor Advertisements | Amusing PlanetSHOW NOTES[08:16] Ideal travel partners, living or dead.[11:37] Breaking the ice among screen-glued strangers abroad.[15:41] Finding safe homestays while traveling (and why you should).[19:46] The Cal Fussman method of creating community on public transport.[21:50] Finding the focus to make your travels purposeful.[25:55] What Rolf learned by traveling with his senior parents.[27:44] How Rolf found the girl next door on the other side of the world.[32:53] Advice for anyone finding full-throated, open-hearted love elusive.[36:50] What Rolf means by “full-throated.”[37:20] Nothing makes you appreciate home like traveling the world.[40:32] The most meaningful task for the traveler.[45:45] Pilgrimage pointers.[48:57] Getting lost is good for you. So is taking a break from mobile tech.[52:43] Uncertainty as a gift of travel — and how to cultivate it by slowing down.[1:00:21] Books, movies, and experiences that help slow the perception of time.[1:04:27] “Novels are empathy machines.”[1:11:06] How travel can give us context for the choices we make at home.[1:20:10] Contemplating life’s next chapters.[1:26:36] What compelled Rolf to write The Vagabond’s Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel?[1:29:47] Billboards as the original attention economy device and parting thoughts.MORE ROLF POTTS QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“We all have curiosity in our toolkit as travelers.”
— Rolf Potts

“We just have to slap down our apps and their algorithmically programmed way of holding our attention, and give our attention to each other as humans, give our attention to the places where we are, the smells, the other five senses. Not just the sounds you hear on your phone, or the sites you see through your apps, but what you smell. Let smell guide you through a new place.”
— Rolf Potts

“Having [an] obsession, be it pastries or surfing, is really a great pretext to have adventures that you could never imagine before you left home.”
— Rolf Potts

“Expertise is less important than open-heartedness and curiosity.”
— Rolf Potts

“I hope I travel until the day I drop dead, because it really keeps you new and fresh and vulnerable to new experiences in a way that it’s hard to pull off at home.”
— Rolf Potts

“Being completely an island away from other people is not necessarily a desirable thing.”
— Rolf Potts

“Get a stack of postcards. And every time you want to send a text message, send them a two-week postcard instead.”
— Rolf Potts

“Human culture has been urbanizing since the Industrial Revolution, and maybe this new technology will allow us to have a counter-movement against that urbanization.”
— Rolf Potts

“The most meaningful task for the traveler may well be to look past what feels exotic and learn to savor subtle differences in the things we already have in common.”
— Rolf Potts

“It’s actually good against neurodegenerative diseases to be lost and to figure out your way. They say London cab drivers, before GPS, had the most developed hippocampuses in the world.”
— Rolf Potts

“Find ways to play games with your sense of place.”
— Rolf Potts

“In an information-drenched society that tempts us to choose unhappiness over uncertainty, it is helpful to remember that one of the key gifts of travel has always been uncertainty itself.”
— Rolf Potts

“Walk until your day becomes interesting.”
— Rolf Potts

“Novels are empathy machines.”
— Rolf Potts

“If you are in second half of life, and you’re still grinding to compete with the guy next door, well, maybe that has less happiness embedded in it than just appreciating the life that you’ve built for yourself.”
— Rolf Potts

“I don’t want to knock technology too much, but attention is such a gift, and the moment is what we have.”
— Rolf Potts

PEOPLE MENTIONEDMary Oliver Thích Nhất Hạnh Thomas Merton Ross Gay George Orwell Sophia Bentaher Cal Fussman Mikhail Gorbachev Muhammad Ali Kevin Kelly Walt Whitman Confucius Craig Mod Byung-Chul Han Oliver Burkeman Richard Linklater John Crowley Derek Sivers William Carlos Williams David Wagoner Richard Rohr Oprah Winfrey Bono Odysseus John Muir E.H. Harriman Ryan Holiday Tim Wu

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Published on September 28, 2022 06:17

In Case You Missed It: August 2022 Recap of “The Tim Ferriss Show” (#623)

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

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

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

Please enjoy!

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Timestamps:

Roelof Botha: 00:03:17

Will MacAskill: 00:08:46

Russ Roberts: 00:14:02

Dr. Andrew Weil: 00:23:47

Tim Q&A: 00:27:54

Included episodes:

Roelof Botha — Investing with the Best, Ulysses Pacts, The Magic of Founder-Problem Fit, How to Use Pre-Mortems and Pre-Parades, Learning from Crucible Moments, and Daring to Dream (#618)

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

Russ Roberts on Lessons from F.A. Hayek and Nassim Taleb, Decision-Making Insights from Charles Darwin, The Dangers of Scientism, Wild Problems in Life and the Decisions That Define Us, Learnings from the Talmud, The Role of Prayer, and The Journey to Transcendence (#613)

Dr. Andrew Weil — The 4-7-8 Breath Method, Cannabis, The Uses of Coca Leaf, Rehabilitating Demonized Plants, Kava for Anxiety, Lessons from Wade Davis, The Psychedelic Renaissance, How to Emerge from Depression, Tales from 50+ Visits to Japan, Matcha Benefits, and More (#615)

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

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Published on September 26, 2022 19:55

A Rare In-Person Random Show with Kevin Rose — VR Workouts, I Bonds, Excellent Movies, Recent Books, Lessons from Amy Tan, How to Shape Your Mind, and More (#622)

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Technologist, 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.

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#586: The Random Show with Kevin Rose — Current Books, Men’s Groups, Tuna Helper, the Latest in NFTs, Fierce Intimacy, and More

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10 Reasons Why L.A. Totally Beats NYC for Raising Kids | MommyPoppins Los Dos Blanco | Los Dos Tequila How Jay-Z Changed Champagne Culture | Wine Enthusiast Magazine Snoop Dogg Cali Red Blend | 19 Crimes Anti-Tech Protesters Are Telling Kevin Rose’s Neighbors That He’s a “Parasite” | TechCrunch Mark Zuckerberg on Long-Term Strategy, Business and Parenting Principles, Personal Energy Management, Building the Metaverse, Seeking Awe, the Role of Religion, Solving Deep Technical Challenges (e.g., AR), and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #582 Mark Zuckerberg | The Joe Rogan Experience #1863 Face to Face with the Ayatollah | 60 Minutes Mike Wallace is Here | Prime Video Elon Musk Interview | The Kevin Rose Show Elon Musk | The Joe Rogan Experience #1609 Aaron Rodgers | The Joe Rogan Experience #1865 fear{less} with Tim Ferriss | YouTube Five Lessons from the Life of Oprah | Entrepreneur Everything’s Bigger in Texas — Including Taxes, Which Are Outpacing California | Yahoo!Lex Fridman Podcast ‘Conspirituality’ — The Overlap between the New Age and Conspiracy Beliefs by Jules Evans | Medium Ayahuasca, Psychedelics a Hit with Celebs Like Aaron Rodgers | New York Post Psychedelics 101: Books, Documentaries, Podcasts, Science, and More | Tim Ferriss Brain Damages in Ketamine Addicts as Revealed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Frontiers in Neuroanatomy Mountain Cloud Zen Center The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment by Roshi Philip Kapleau | Amazon Zen: The Authentic Gate by Yamada Koun | Amazon Waking Up with Sam Harris App Henry Shukman — Zen, Tools for Awakening, Ayahuasca vs. Meditation, Intro to Koans, and Using Wounds as the Doorway | The Tim Ferriss Show #531 Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans | The Tim Ferriss Show #560 Henry Shukman: Associate Master of Sanbo Zen | The Kevin Rose Show Top Gun: Maverick | Prime Video Tom Cruise and Scientology: A Lesson in Cognitive Dissonance | Only Sky The Price of Everything | Prime Video Elvis | Prime Video Everything Everywhere All At Once | Prime Video The Goonies | Prime Video Airplane! | Prime Video Spirited Away (English Language) | Prime Video Studio Ghibli A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin | Amazon Harry Potter Complete Boxed Set by J.K. Rowling | Amazon Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien | Amazon The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power | Prime Video Arcane: League of Legends | Netflix Arcane: Bridging the Rift | YouTube Fortiche League of Legends How to Start a War by Tim Ferriss | Grails by PROOF Collective Steven Pressfield — How to Overcome Self-Sabotage and Resistance, Routines for Little Successes, and The Hero’s Journey vs. The Artist’s Journey | The Tim Ferriss Show #501 Neil Gaiman — The Interview I’ve Waited 20 Years to Do | The Tim Ferriss Show #366 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman | Amazon The Neverending Story by Michael Ende | Amazon Aladdin | Prime Video Series I Savings Bonds | Treasury Direct Neil Gaiman Teaches the Art of Storytelling | MasterClass Amy Tan Teaches Fiction, Memory, and Imagination | MasterClass Start Something Great | Match Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | Prime Video XPO Trainer 2.0 Workout Push Sled | Armored Fitness Equipment Jump Ropes | Amazon Kettlebells | Amazon VR Fitness App | Supernatural Fruit Ninja | Halfbrick Whole-Body MRI Scans | Prenuvo Sam Harris: Enlightenment, Real Meditation, and Consciousness Explained | The Kevin Rose Show The Story of Rage Against the Machine’s Political Album Cover | Far Out Magazine Thich Quang Duc Self-Immolation | YouTube A Cancer Treatment Makes Leukemia Vanish, but Creates More Mysteries | The New York Times Some Thoughts on For-Profit Psychedelic Startups and Companies | Tim Ferriss The Effects of Ketamine on Suicidality across Various Formulations and Study Settings | Journal of Mental Health and Clinical Psychology LSD and Psilocybin for Cluster Headaches: Preventing Pain, Saving Lives | MAPSSHOW NOTES

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Why we’re recording this in Los Angeles.What are we drinking?Why I aim for evergreen interviews over gotchas on this show.Where Kevin wants me to take this show.Scenes: Austin vs. San Francisco I did not start the conspirituality.Opening the doors of perception with prescription and meditation.Movies we’ve been watching.A peek into a world-building, fictional foray.Are we too old for podcasting?Should you buy I bonds right now? (Reminder: not financial advice!)Lessons from Amy Tan. How we get suckered into paying for services we haven’t used in years.Fat, bald, and bastardly is no way to go through life, son.Supernatural fitness: the only thing Kevin likes about VR.Why you might want to consider getting a full-body MRI scan.Mind over matter.What the current state of medicine hints about its future.Parting thoughts.PEOPLE MENTIONEDDarya Rose Anish Acharya Jay-Z Snoop Dogg Tupac Shakur Joe Rogan Mark Zuckerberg Mike Wallace Ruhollah Khomeini Elon Musk Oprah Winfrey Statler and Waldorf Lex Fridman Sam Harris Henry Shukman Tom Cruise Elvis Presley Tony Conrad Michelle Yeoh Ke Huy Quan Hayao Miyazaki Ursula K. Le Guin J.R.R. Tolkien Jeff Bezos Steven Pressfield Neil Gaiman Amy Tan Fat Bastard Peter Attia Thích Quảng Đức David Blaine Andrew Weil Toaster

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UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten on Fundamentals of Real Self-Defense, Savage Fight Stories, How He’s Handled Bullies, Breathing Techniques for Increasing Stamina and Endurance, The Art of Personal Reinvention, and Cultivating the Practice of Prayer (#621)

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“It’s very hard to control your emotions. But if you control your emotions, you’re going to win the fight.”
— Bas Rutten

Sebastiaan “Bas” Rutten (@BasRuttenMMA) is a Dutch-American actor, former mixed martial artist, kickboxer, and professional wrestler. He was a UFC Heavyweight Champion and a three-time King of Pancrase world champion, finishing his career on a 22-fight unbeaten streak with a strike accuracy of 70.6%, the highest ever recorded by FightMetric.

Rutten was co-host of Inside MMA on AXS TV from 2007 to 2016, and he has been a color commentator in several MMA organizations, including Pride Fighting Championships. He has appeared in numerous television shows, movies, and video games as an actor and continues to be involved in MMA through his coaching and publishing of instructional materials. Bas became a naturalized American citizen in the late 1990s, and in 2015 he was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame.

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#310: Hurry Up and Fail — Tim Kennedy

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A Powerful Breathing Exerciser | The O2 Lung Trainer Bas and Amir’s Seven Skills to Save Your Life | Krav Maga Worldwide Academy Shooto | Wikipedia Universal Wrestling Federation | Wikipedia Hybrid Wrestling | Pancrase Why Is Dutch Kickboxing So Famed Among Martial Artists? | Quora Eczema Causes, Triggers, and Symptoms | National Eczema Association Asthma | CDC Enter the Dragon | Prime Video Taekwondo | Wikipedia Muay Thai | Wikipedia Six Million Dollar Man: Dark Side of the Moon | NBC Nunchaku – Wikipedia How to Pick the Right Nunchaku For You | Century Martial Arts Kung Fu Shoes | Amazon Bass Rutten vs. Frank Lobman | YouTube RINGS Holland Fighting Network Bas Rutten vs. Ryushi Yanagisawa | YouTube Bas Rutten Jump | Facebook Inside MMA | Wikipedia Here Are the Five Leg Locks You Need to Know | Evolve MMA Global Fighting Championship | Wikipedia Bas “El Guapo” Rutten MMA Stats | Sherdog Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)Five Best Kneebar Submissions in the UFC | Sportskeeda Bas Rutten vs. Minoru Suzuki | YouTube Bas Rutten vs. Masakatsu Funaki | YouTube How to Do a Toe Hold | MMA Submissions Bas Rutten vs. Masakatsu Funaki (Rematch) | YouTube Cabbage Patch Kids The Karate Kid | Prime Video Bas Rutten vs. Osami Shibuya | YouTube Bas Rutten vs. Osami Shibuya (Rematch) | YouTube Bas Rutten vs. Yoshiki Takahashi | YouTube How to Do an Inverted Heel Hook in BJJ | HowTheyPlay Sex, Drugs, Gangsters, and MMA: Remembering Pride, UFC’s Wild Predecessor | Bleacher Report Saitama Super Arena | Tamaari Town The Ultimate Fighter | UFC The Bob Sapp Story: A Former Bear’s Rise to Japanese Stardom | Yahoo! News Mirko Cro Cop Punks Mauro Ranallo | YouTube The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Mark Kerr | IMDb Bob Sapp vs. Mirko Cro Cop | YouTube Ramon Dekker’s Greatest Hits | YouTube The 10 Most Insane Acts of Violence in Kickboxing History | Cracked Amir Perets: Krav Maga “Victim to Victor” Video Clip | YouTube Situational Awareness with Bas Rutten and Amir Perets! | YouTube Krav Maga Worldwide Bas Rutten’s “Lethal Street Fighting” Self-Defense System | Amazon Kickbox Champ Chases Down Driver, Winds up Shot to Death | SFGATE Grand Theft Auto IV | Rockstar Games The Men’s Room with Bas and Jeremy | YouTube The Men’s Room with Bas and Jeremy 2 | YouTube The Faith of a Fighter: An Interview with MMA Legend Bas Rutten | Catholic Exchange Why the Devil Hates Latin | National Catholic Register How to Pray the Rosary | Rosary Center & Confraternity Atrophied Arm | Bas Rutten, Facebook Spy Bar (Stockholm): All You Need to Know Before You Go | Trip Advisor Bas’ Swedish Bar Fight Animated | Paul Klawiter 10 Infamous UFC Bar Fights | What Culture Respiratory Muscle Training | Physiopedia Research Supporting Benefits of Inspiratory Muscle Training | The O2 Lung Trainer The Breathing Class | Dr. Belisa Vranich Helping the World Breathe Better | The Breathing IQ BAS Body Action SystemSHOW NOTES

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My first exposure to the unbridled might of Bas Rutten.Why is there such a strong martial arts tradition in the Netherlands?Breathlessness, Bruce Lee, bullies, and birds: a glimpse into Bas’s childhood.Why Bas walked out on a culinary career path and gave up modeling.How Pancrase entered the picture.Pancrase rules.Why Ken Shamrock is known as Wayne Shamrock in Japan.On fighting Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki.Underrated Japanese fighters.Remembering Pride, UFC’s Japanese predecessor.Pranks.Absolute monsters.Self-defense for beginners and bouncers.Why even professional fighters shouldn’t start street fights.Grand Theft Auto IV.Now a devout Catholic, Bas explains how the rosary is like meditation.Who picks fights with Bas Rutten these days?That time Bas got into a bar fight with five bouncers in Sweden.Re-learning how to breathe with the O2 Trainer.Parting thoughts.MORE BAS RUTTEN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“It’s very hard to control your emotions. But if you control your emotions, you’re going to win the fight.”

— Bas Rutten

“I like to see myself as a sheepdog. You’ve got wolves, you’ve got sheep, and you’ve got the sheepdogs to protect the sheep from the wolves.”

— Bas Rutten

“It’s better to have a skill and don’t need it than to need a skill and don’t have it.”

— Bas Rutten

“That’s the problem in this whole society right now. We think that pleasure is the same as being happy. It’s not. You’re just feeding your pleasures, your vices.”

— Bas Rutten

“I want to be a man who can overcome his weaknesses, vices, and imperfections. A man who’s not a slave to his passions and desires, but a real man who’s in control of himself.”

— Bas Rutten

PEOPLE MENTIONEDSatoru Sayama Masakatsu Funaki Peter Aerts Ernesto Hoost Ramon Dekkers Jan Plas Johan Vos Rob Kaman Coban Lookchaomaesaitong Bruce Lee Bas’ Mom Bas’ Dad St. Francis of Assisi Steve Austin Frank Lobman Chris Dolman Minoru Suzuki Karin Rutten Evan Tanner Ken Shamrock Frank Shamrock Maurice Smith Guy Mezger Freddy Krueger Pat Morita Yuki Kondo Riku Shibuya Kazuo Takahashi Jon Bluming Bob Sapp Mirko Cro Cop Fedor Emelianenko Antônio Rogério Nogueira Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira Wanderlei Silva Quinton Jackson Dana White Chuck Liddell Kazushi Sakuraba Mauro Ranallo Stephen Quadros Ron Waterman Mark Coleman Mark Kerr Amir Perets Archilochus Alex Gong Harry Potter Superman Barbie Lyoto Machida Usain Bolt Belisa Vranich Darth Vader Joey Diaz Tony Ferguson Homer Simpson

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Dr. Gabor Maté — The Myth of Normal, Metabolizing Anger, Processing Trauma, and Finding the Still Voice Within (#620)

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“The essence of trauma is loss of contact with yourself, loss of connection to yourself.”
— Dr. Gabor Maté

Dr. Gabor Maté (@DrGaborMate) is a renowned speaker and bestselling author, highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics that includes addiction, stress, and childhood development. Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection, and Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It. He has also coauthored Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. His works have been published internationally in nearly thirty languages.

His new book is The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture.

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Would you like to hear the last time Dr. Gabor Maté was on this podcast? Have a listen to our conversation here, in which we discussed redefining addiction, opportunities opened by the use of nontraditional therapeutic methods, examining the causes of addiction rather than just the consequences, the role genetics play in addiction, the value of psychedelics for treating addiction, how Dr. Maté’s practices changed after the use of ayahuasca, what he means when he says “The task which hinders your task is your task,” and much more.

#298: Dr. Gabor Maté — New Paradigms, Ayahuasca, and Redefining Addiction

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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté | Amazon In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté | Amazon When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection by Gabor Maté | Amazon Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It by Gabor Maté | Amazon Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté | Amazon Dr. Gabor Maté — New Paradigms, Ayahuasca, and Redefining Addiction | The Tim Ferriss Show #298 Pope Apologizes for ‘Evil’ Committed at Canada’s Indigenous Residential Schools | NPR For Canadians to Be Truly Strong and Free, We Must Come to Terms with Our Grim Past | The Star Indigenous Climate Action Leaders Discuss Racist Colonialism with Dr. Gabor Maté | PACEsConnection ‘Frog’s Umbrella’ and ‘Ghost’s Face Powder’: The Cultural Roles of Mushrooms and Other Fungi for Canadian Indigenous Peoples | Botany Historical Background: The Jews of Hungary During the Holocaust | Yad Vashem Dr. Gabor Maté: Ayahuasca Healing | Temple of the Way of Light Addictions Guru Channels Survival of the Holocaust into Self-Help Empire | The Times of Israel Closing the Science-Practice Gap | Association for Psychological Science – APS Wheel of Awareness | Dr. Dan Siegel 33 Awesome Expressions to Know Before You Travel to Hungary | Matador Network Selected Principles of Pankseppian Affective Neuroscience | Frontiers In Neuroscience My Healing Journey After Childhood Abuse (Includes Extensive Resource List) | The Tim Ferriss Show #464 RAIN: Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture | Tara Brach Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach | Amazon Dr. Gabor Maté on Compassionate Inquiry, Trauma, and Recovery (Clip) | The Tim Ferriss Show 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson | Amazon Lesson from Robin Williams: Take Depression Seriously | Dr. Gabor Maté Pompe Disease | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke How to Support Self-Regulation Difficulties in Children | Foothills Academy Botox and Fillers: Why I Kicked These Bad Habits to the Curb | Life As Mama The Mystifying Rise of Child Suicide | The New Yorker Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles | Amazon Music UK Appoints a Minister for Loneliness | The New York Times Jiddu Krishnamurti | Wikiquote The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity by Mark Vonnegut | Amazon Clara Hughes: Walking the Healing Path | Digging Deep with Mark Sutcliffe What Is Forest Bathing? | Verywell Mind The Work | Prime Video The Wisdom Of Trauma Enneagram Prison Project Tim Ferriss Goes to Maximum Security Prison | The Tim Ferriss Show #323 Catherine Hoke — The Master of Second Chances | The Tim Ferriss Show #293 What is Muscular Dystrophy? | CDC 1 Kings 19:11-13: “A Still Small Voice” | Bible Gateway Hello Again Project Susan Garrett — Master Dog (and Human) Trainer | The Tim Ferriss Show #200SHOW NOTES[05:30] How COVID affected Gabor.[06:33] Exploring plant medicine with Indigenous First Nations.[13:29] How Gabor got fired from his own ayahuasca retreat.[16:35] Can Indigenous medicine ever be understood through a Western lens?[21:37] How does Gabor clear himself of the trauma he takes from others?[22:48] Was writing The Myth of Normal more labor intensive than Gabor’s other works?[25:40] A personal story about how past trauma can show up in everyday life.[29:01] Coping with rage and anger.[40:01] Attachment versus authenticity.[45:12] Where does depression originate?[48:23] Raising a child to learn self-regulation.[52:24] What Gabor hopes The Myth of Normal readers don’t miss.[57:20] Finding the right balance of self-care when caring for a family.[1:01:18] The harm of focusing on correcting a child’s behavior rather than their underlying emotional dynamics.[1:05:47] Rehabilitation versus punishment of incarcerated, traumatized adults.[1:14:55] If he couldn’t write, what would be the focus of Gabor’s clinical practice?[1:17:50] Finding and listening to one’s inner voice or calling.[1:25:58] Are you bargaining with your authenticity?[1:30:41] Parting thoughts.MORE DR. GABOR MATÉ QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Depression is not this inherited brain disease. It’s a result of having to push down one’s emotions as a child.”
— Dr. Gabor Maté

“The intent of good parenting or good child-rearing is to help the development of self-regulation. The question is how to get there.”
— Dr. Gabor Maté

“The potential of rehabilitation and bringing people back to their human selves is enormous, given the right circumstances. … I’m not saying that we should allow murder or that we should encourage crime. What I’m saying is if we apply the light of understanding to what drives people, and … the correctional system really becomes a system that corrects people rather than just punishes them, we could do so much with what we already know. And you know what? It wouldn’t cost more. It would cost less.”
— Dr. Gabor Maté

“I’m looking at this beautiful mountain and this bison and the sunset, and nobody had to convince me that nature contains us all.”
— Dr. Gabor Maté

“The shamans told me that when they knew that 24 healers, doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists are coming from the West, they thought we’d have an easy job because they said, ‘We absorb a lot of trauma from other people as well, but we clear it out of ourselves. So we expected you would have done the same thing.’ They said they’ve never worked with such a heavy bunch of people in their whole lives than these Western doctors.”
— Dr. Gabor Maté

“The world keeps feeding me information that demands to be metabolized and synthesized and written and spoken. And then over the last few years, as we’ve seen crisis upon crisis, it just occurs to me somebody’s going to write about how life in this system affects the health of human beings.”
— Dr. Gabor Maté

“If I were to infringe on your boundaries, either physically or emotionally, the healthy response for you is to mount an anger response. ‘No. Get out. Stay away.’ That’s healthy. Healthy anger is in the moment. It protects your boundaries and then it’s gone. It’s not necessary anymore.”
— Dr. Gabor Maté

“We have another need as creatures and as human beings, which is to be authentic. Now, I don’t mean any kind of new age, woo-woo concept by this. I mean knowing what we feel and being able to know how to act on what we feel.”
— Dr. Gabor Maté

“The essence of trauma is a loss of contact with yourself, a loss of connection to yourself.”
— Dr. Gabor Maté

“If you landed in a country where nobody spoke your language and you had to portray hunger, you’d have to act it out. The kids are acting out their emotional needs. The question is, are we going to respond to the child or are we going to try and suppress the behavior?”
— Dr. Gabor Maté

“So much of what’s taught as parenting advice is designed to manipulate or shape or suppress kids’ behaviors rather than understanding the child. And by the way, this is also true of adults. We look at human beings and we don’t see what’s really driving them. We just either approve or disapprove of how they’re behaving.”
— Dr. Gabor Maté

PEOPLE MENTIONEDRae Maté Daniel J. Siegel Sadhguru Jaak Panksepp Tara Brach Sam Harris Jordan Peterson Jiddu Krishnamurti Clara Hughes Fritzi Horstman Tobi Lütke Daniel Maté

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Roelof Botha — Investing with the Best, Ulysses Pacts, The Magic of Founder-Problem Fit, How to Use Pre-Mortems and Pre-Parades, Learning from Crucible Moments, and Daring to Dream (#618)

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“If you’re not a little discontent, I don’t think you’re alive.”
— Roelof Botha

Roelof Botha (@roelofbotha) has spent over 20 years building companies in Silicon Valley. He began within the walls of nascent PayPal, which he joined in March of 2000 while completing his MBA at Stanford. He became CFO in 2001 and led the company through both its IPO in early 2002 and subsequent acquisition by eBay. Roelof joined Sequoia Capital in 2003 to help founders build enduring businesses. He leads the US/Europe business as Managing Partner and serves as Senior Steward of the global Sequoia Partnership. Roelof is a director of 23andMe, Bird, Ethos, Evernote, Inside.com, Landis, mmhmm, MongoDB, Natera, Pendulum Therapeutics, Square, and Unity Technologies. Previously, he was a director of companies that include YouTube, Tumblr, Xoom, Assurex, and Eventbrite. He also led Sequoia’s investment in Instagram.

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Singing Afrikaans Around the Campfire | Gene Braaksma Sequoia’s Roelof Botha Has a Plan to Remake the VC Industry | Protocol Austin Powers in Goldmember | Prime Video How to Master Your Goals with the Ulysses Pact | Trello Blog The Odyssey by Homer | Amazon Tame Your Work, Organize Your Life | Evernote Actuarial Science | Investopedia University of Cape Town The End of South African Apartheid | ThoughtCo.The Confidential YouTube Investment Memo by Sequoia | 50Folds History of PayPal: Timeline and Facts | TheStreet Global Management Consulting | McKinsey & Company Roelof Botha: The Lessons Learned from Nearly 20 Years at Sequoia | 20VC Cisco Systems | History of Computer Communications Squaring The Circle That Is Square | PYMNTS Problem-Founder Fit: How Having a Felony Makes Me a Better Founder by Harley Blakeman | Denver Startup Week A Global Leader in cfDNA Testing | Natera The Death of a Venture Fund | Blakeir NASDAQ | Investopedia Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl | Amazon The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2022 | Amazon Christmas Is, Above All, about Hope | Post Crescent Patient Capital for Building Enduring Companies | The Sequoia Capital Fund How Venture Capital Works | Harvard Business Review The Ford Foundation in Apartheid South Africa — Soft Solutions to Hard Problems | Alliance Magazine Esther Perel — Tactics for Relationships in Quarantine | The Tim Ferriss Show #418 Afrikaners in South Africa: Overview and History | ThoughtCo.Afrikaans-English Geometry Flashcards | Quizlet Silkworms Spin Cocoons That Spell Their Own Doom | Deep Look Walter Isaacson on CRISPR, Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race | The Tim Ferriss Show #503 The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon Springbok Sevens | SA Rugby Shaun White and the Magic of “Who Cares?” | The Tim Ferriss Show #140 What Is the Monte Carlo Simulation? | Investopedia Zip2 | Wikipedia Billpoint | Wikipedia PayPal Solves Fraud Challenges | Intel Ventures of the PayPal Mafia | Fleximize The Sunk Cost Fallacy | The Decision Lab The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby | Amazon Simple, Secure, Reliable Messaging | WhatsAppSHOW NOTES[07:25] What’s the right way to say Roelof Botha?[08:14] 10 to the ninth: motivation in the margins of a Monday meeting notebook.[11:16] The Ulysses Pact.[13:38] Who was Roelof’s grandfather?[15:47] What is actuarial science, and why did Roelof choose it as his major?[20:05] Advice for young, aspiring entrepreneurs.[21:44] Don Valentine and his 2×2 matrix.[24:59] The founder-problem fit.[27:33] Don Valentine’s succinctness writ green.[29:46] Pre-mortems and pre-parades.[32:40] Why Sequoia is aptly named.[36:38] Keeping the team small can be such a big deal.[41:34] Book recommendations.[44:07] Finding balance in the relentless pursuit.[46:37] What it was like for Roelof to finally achieve his “10 to the ninth.”[47:40] The Sequoia Capital Fund.[49:40] How Sequoia’s fee structure maximizes value for clients and keeps the company strong.[58:15] Failure? It all depends on the scale of your ambition.[1:01:37] How Roelof guides founders who wants to sell too soon and for too little.[1:06:48] Founders Roelof considers influential.[1:09:39] Growing up Afrikaner.[1:12:43] How Roelof set his sights on graduating school in first place.[1:14:24] Silkworms.[1:16:40] What Roelof’s TED Talk about a secondary interest would entail.[1:18:05] Rugby.[1:21:26] Roelof’s physical routines for staying in shape.[1:24:17] Crucible moments.[1:27:18] How Roelof wound up in the world of Silicon Valley startups.[1:34:01] Early days (and challenges) at PayPal.[1:38:05] Memorable failures and the lessons they imparted.[1:44:32] Coping with VC’s high rate of failure as someone who hates to lose.[1:48:01] In case of doldrums, please present homemade pesto.[1:49:15] What Peter Thiel taught Roelof about changing his mind.[1:56:01] How professionalization in VC has developed over time.[2:02:25] Roelof’s billboard.[2:04:58] Parting thoughts.MORE GUEST QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“If you’re not a little discontent, I don’t think you’re alive.”
— Roelof Botha

“There are so many problems to be solved. As long as there are problems, there are opportunities.”
— Roelof Botha

“At Sequoia, one of our cultural frameworks is maintaining tension between individualism and teamwork. It’s not either/or, it’s and. We want both. You need to stick your neck out, you need to do exceptional work, you need to be accountable for what you do. But you also need to be supportive as a team member, because that’s part of why we’ve been able to endure as a partnership.”
— Roelof Botha

“Dare to dream.”
— Roelof Botha

“Get over it. Go do it.”
— Roelof Botha

PEOPLE MENTIONEDPik Botha Ronald Reagan Margaret Thatcher Henry Kissinger Nelson Mandela Robert Dorrington Peter Attia Don Valentine Steve Jobs Leonard Bosack Sandy Lerner Jim McKelvey Jack Dorsey Lawrence Summers Michael Moritz Doug Leone Viktor Frankl Kevin Systrom Mike Krieger Tim Noakes Jim Goetz Elon Musk Peter Baird Peter Thiel Meg Whitman Evan Williams Max Levchin Jeremy Stoppelman Michael Jordan Sebastian Mallaby

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