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Simon Coronel, World Champion of Magic — Quitting the Day Job, The Delights of the Magic Castle, Finding Glitches in Reality, Learning How to Use Your Own Brain, and Worshiping at the Altar of Wonder (#679)

Tim Ferriss — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 22:12:20 +0000

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“If there’s no right time, then sooner is better than later.“
— Simon Coronel

Simon Coronel (simoncoronel.com) is legally classified as an “Alien of Extraordinary Ability” by the United States Government for his skills as a magician and illusionist. Simon discovered magic in 1999 as a first-year student at Melbourne University. He then spent five years working full time in management consulting while juggling his “secret” performance career.

He’s currently a jigsaw puzzle designer for The Magic Puzzle Company, which has the #1-backed puzzle on Kickstarter of all time, and is a regular performer at the Magic Castle in Hollywood.

Simon has appeared twice on the hit TV show Penn & Teller: Fool Us. He has won over a dozen international awards for magic, including being crowned the World Champion of Magic in 2022 at FISM, the Olympics of magic.

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#679: Simon Coronel, World Champion of Magic — Quitting the Day Job, The Delights of the Magic Castle, Finding Glitches in Reality, Learning How to Use Your Own Brain, and Worshiping at the Altar of Wonder

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Want to hear a podcast episode with someone Simon once fooled? Listen to my interview with Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller fame), in which we discussed practicing skepticism without cynicism, compensating for weak visual memory, youthful meanderings, making several grand per week as a technically homeless street performer, de-escalating hostility with wits and a milkshake, losing 0.9 pounds a day for four months, hanging out with the legendary Richard Feynman, and much more.

#405: Penn Jillette on Magic, Losing 100+ Pounds, and Weaponizing Kindness

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SHOW NOTES

[06:12] Radical earliness.
[08:23] The Magic Castle.
[17:27] Catching the magic bug at age 18.
[19:56] Acknowledging neurodivergence.
[28:16] Glitches in Reality.
[30:53] The road to winning the 2022 FISM World Championship of Magic.
[53:04] Workshopping out the kinks before the competition.
[57:59] The muse and the Shoot seal of approval.
[1:01:31] Gauging audience perception and finding balance pre-game.
[1:05:49] The big day.
[1:18:45] Categories of stage magic.
[1:20:15] Ugly crying through victory.
[1:30:10] The immediate aftermath.
[1:34:03] A homecoming drink at the Magic Castle.
[1:36:37] Why a later start in magic was lucky.
[1:39:13] How working at Accenture played into Simon’s weaknesses.
[1:45:30] Making the decision to do magic full-time.
[1:52:34] Hotbeds of magical innovation.
[1:55:57] Mentalism misgivings.
[2:01:13] Why learning magic can be so daunting for a beginner.
[2:07:29] How Simon teaches magic.
[2:10:45] Magic in the media.
[2:14:35] Is atheism a prerequisite for the modern magician?
[2:16:14] Jigsaw puzzles.
[2:23:26] Parting thoughts.

MORE SIMON CORONEL QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Fear and enthusiasm battled. And fear kept winning.”
— Simon Coronel

“If there’s no right time, then sooner is better than later.”
— Simon Coronel

“Magic is so much broader and so much deeper than people ever realize. There are so many different rooms in the house of magic, you could spend 10 lifetimes on it and not even get close to everything there is to know and learn.”
— Simon Coronel

“If you know how it’s done, that illusion doesn’t happen. And so the tree falls in the woods and there is no sound because there is no magic without the mystery.”
— Simon Coronel

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Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning (#678)

Tim Ferriss — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:57:52 +0000

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“We’re asking our team members to be snipers, rally car drivers, CrossFit athletes, butchers. The people we have on our teams just have these extraordinary skill sets. It’s the funnest thing to watch a guy in his first week.”
— Jake Muise

Jake Muise (@mauinuivenison) is CEO at Maui Nui Venison, a company he co-founded in 2017 that works to balance invasive axis deer populations on the island of Maui, channeling that management into incredible nutrient-dense food. Maui Nui was selected for Fast Company’s “Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Agriculture of 2023,” and its venison has been served in restaurants across the country, including Alinea, The French Laundry, and Saison. Prior to Maui Nui, Jake was executive director of the Axis Deer Institute for 12 years, part of a two-decades-long project focused on axis deer and their long-term management in Hawai’i.

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#678: Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning

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#470: Steven Rinella on Hunting (and Why You Should Care), Reconnecting with Nature, Favorite Trips, and More

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Connect with Jake Muise:

Maui Nui Venison | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

SHOW NOTES

[06:05] Lava cowboys.
[14:00] What does Maui Nui mean?
[15:07] A Hawai’i history primer.
[22:26] The problem with (and delicious solution to) axis deer in Hawai’i.
[30:18] The three-year hunt that became the Maui Nui springboard.
[43:54] The life-changing power of volleyball and free pizza.
[52:18] Seven on, seven off.
[57:01] Processes, metrics, and moon-fluence.
[1:00:41] Surpassing USDA regulations — in the wild.
[1:07:59] A typical night of harvesting.
[1:15:09] The humble, hungry, and smart way to build a world-class team.
[1:21:46] Feedback that separates the As and Bs from the Cs.
[1:30:21] Assigned and recommended reading.
[1:35:01] Nutrient density.
[1:46:10] Clawback allowances.
[1:49:20] Secret Pinterest boards.
[1:52:59] The old lady on the couch game.
[1:57:06] Tug of war.
[1:59:57] Can the business sustainably scale up without selling out?
[2:03:57] Jake’s billboard.
[2:06:00] Parting thoughts.

MORE JAKE MUISE QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“We’re asking our team members to be snipers, rally car drivers, CrossFit athletes, butchers. The people we have on our teams just have these extraordinary skill sets. It’s the funnest thing to watch a guy in his first week.”
— Jake Muise

“We have to pick up every single one of these animals and carry them on our backs because you’re not allowed to drag them. You can either introduce contaminants and/or bruise the meat. And it’s actually one of my favorite parts of the night, as it is the complete opposite of the rest of the meat industry. After you’ve killed this animal for food, you’re carrying this animal on your back into its next stage of life with the food. And there’s an individual connection with each one of these animals. And it’s something that every guy on our team really takes pride in—being able to pick up these giant, 250-pound animals across razor sharp lava.”
— Jake Muise

“At Maui Nui … we find the balance that’s best for all of our communities—ecosystem communities, food system communities, our human communities, nearshore fisheries.”
— Jake Muise

“Kids are your greatest joy, and they will frustrate you more than anybody on the planet can.”
— Jake Muise

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HERESIES — Exploring Animal Communication, Cloning Humans, The Dangers of The American Dream, and More (#677)

Tim Ferriss — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:16:44 +0000

Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show. I’m very excited to publish this episode. This is an experimental format, and we are calling it HERESIES.

The objective of this format is to encourage and celebrate independent thinking.

Please enjoy!

Bios of the co-hosts and guests:

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. You can find my most recent interview with him at tim.blog/kevinkelly.

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

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

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

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

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

His upcoming book is Bad Jew: A Perplexed Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People, which is currently available for pre-order.

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Maggie Spivey-Faulkner is an anthropological archaeologist and practitioner of Indigenous archaeology, currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. She also serves as an assistant chief of the Upper Georgia tribal town of the Pee Dee Indian Nation of Beaver Creek, a state-recognized Native American group in South Carolina. Her work focuses on using anthropological data to upend harmful misconceptions of Native American peoples embedded in public policy, science, and the public consciousness.

Maggie was raised in a tight-knit extended family in rural Hephzibah, Georgia. She is an international fellow of The Explorers Club, a former junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, and a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018 and her A.B. from Harvard College in 2008.

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Joshua L. Steiner is a partner at SSW, a private investment firm, and a senior adviser at Bloomberg, L.P., where he was previously Head of Industry Verticals. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Steiner co-founded and was co-president of Quadrangle Group, LLC, a private equity and asset management firm. Before co-founding Quadrangle, he was a managing director at Lazard. From 1993 to 1995 he served as chief of staff for the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

He serves on the boards of Yale University, the International Rescue Committee, and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Steiner received a B.A. in history from Yale and an M.St. in modern history from Oxford University.

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#677: HERESIES — Exploring Animal Communication, Cloning Humans, The Dangers of The American Dream, and More

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

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SHOW NOTES

[11:34] Defining “heresy.”
[14:22] Josh’s heresy: We need to teach listening over talking.
[32:48] Noah’s heresy: Constitutions are overrated.
[55:01] Maggie’s heresy: American middle-class culture is ruining everything.
[1:14:54] Tim’s heresy: We’re on the cusp of meaningfully communicating with animals.
[1:35:23] Kevin’s heresy: Human cloning is OK.

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David Maisel of Marvel Studios Fame — Never-Before-Heard Tales of Hollywood Dealmaking, The Art of Aiming Big, Lessons from Power Broker Michael Ovitz, Combining Business Smarts with Street Smarts, The Making (and Importance) of Iron Man, Selling to Disney for $4 Billion, and Much More (#676)

Tim Ferriss — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 22:08:28 +0000

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“It’s having the vision and then going there and making it happen with whatever dials I need to turn—creatively or business or political or financing—to get it done.”
— David Maisel

David Maisel (@maiseldavid) is the founder of Mythos Studios and the founding chairman of Marvel Studios. In 2003, David pitched Marvel on his idea of Marvel financing and producing its own movies in a connected cinematic universe. He went on to executive produce Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, and The Angry Birds Movie. In 2009, David arranged the sale of Marvel to Disney for $4 billion.

David is currently the Founder of Mythos Studios, an IP entertainment studio. The Ekos Genesis Art Collection, all 1/1 original hand-crafted digital art, is the first offering in the forthcoming Ekos Universe.

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#676: David Maisel of Marvel Studios Fame — Never-Before-Heard Tales of Hollywood Dealmaking, The Art of Aiming Big, Lessons from Power Broker Michael Ovitz, Combining Business Smarts with Street Smarts, The Making (and Importance) of Iron Man, Selling to Disney for $4 Billion, and Much More

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

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Connect with David Maisel:

Twitter | Instagram

Connect with Mythos Studios/Ekos:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube

SHOW NOTES

[09:25] Michael Ovitz.
[17:00] How David became Michael’s right-hand man.
[25:12] Creative interests.
[26:14] When David fell in love with comic books.
[28:34] Early Hollywood lessons — learned and taught.
[35:43] Resources for people aspiring to work in the entertainment industry.
[39:20] How Marvel enters the picture.
[48:11] A detour to Broadway theater.
[54:51] Making the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
[1:28:26] Why start the MCU with Iron Man?
[1:31:56] Decisions between development and deployment.
[1:36:18] Biggest challenges.
[1:39:45] Animated feature films.
[1:41:14] Not just another pretty suit.
[1:47:20] Five stars for Favreau.
[1:48:48] Why hasn’t David done more PR until recently?
[1:53:24] The surprise success of Iron Man.
[1:59:45] Wheeling and dealing with Bob Iger.
[2:08:50] Ron Burkle.
[2:10:35] Finalizing the big sale to Disney.
[2:14:36] Recommended reading.
[2:15:17] Building new mythologies and legacies in a post-MCU landscape.
[2:21:12] Parting thoughts.

MORE DAVID MAISEL QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Part of managing creativity is knowing when to exert yours and when to get the best out from others”
— David Maisel

“It’s having the vision and then going there and making it happen with whatever dials I need to turn—creatively or business or political or financing—to get it done.”
— David Maisel

PEOPLE MENTIONED

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Eric Cressey, Cressey Sports Performance — Tactical Deep Dive on Back Pain, Movement Diagnosis, Training Principles, Developing Mobility, Building Power, Fascial Manipulation, and Rules for Athletes (#675)

Tim Ferriss — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:53:00 +0000

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“You screw up your taxes, there’s a way out of it. You screw up your body, you might have a lifetime of pain.”
— Eric Cressey

Eric Cressey (@EricCressey), MA, CSCS, is president and co-founder of Cressey Sports Performance, with facilities in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and Hudson, Massachusetts. He has worked with clients from youth sports to the professional and Olympic ranks but is best known for his extensive work with baseball players; more than 100 professional players train at CSP each offseason. He also serves as Director of Player Health and Performance for the New York Yankees.

Eric double-majored in exercise science and sports and fitness management at the University of New England and then received his master’s degree in kinesiology with a concentration in exercise science at the University of Connecticut. He has published books and video resources that have been sold in more than 60 countries. He regularly lectures both nationally and internationally, and his research has been published in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. He serves as a consultant to New Balance, Proteus Motion, and Athletic Greens.

Eric’s free blog and newsletter can be found at EricCressey.com. You can also find Eric’s podcast at EliteBaseballPodcast.com.

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#675: Eric Cressey, Cressey Sports Performance — Tactical Deep Dive on Back Pain, Movement Diagnosis, Training Principles, Developing Mobility, Building Power, Fascial Manipulation, and Rules for Athletes

Want to hear another episode with someone who understands the magic of movement and mobility? Listen to my most recent conversation with Dr. Kelly Starrett in which we discussed how our environment shapes us, optimizing vital signs and range of motion as we age, why we should be walking and fidgeting more, why balance training isn’t just for “old” people, how to extend the end range of motion, simple corrective exercises, cultivating timeless movement in a busy world, breath as a mobilization device, and much more.

#664: Dr. Kelly Starrett — The Magic of Movement and Mobility, Training for Range of Motion, Breathing for Back Pain, Improving Your Balance, and More

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

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SHOW NOTES

[06:08] The email responsible for this conversation.
[09:19] Why pinpointing the cause of lower back pain can be so challenging.
[20:22] Initial diagnosis through movement.
[22:59] How seemingly unrelated meds can exacerbate pain.
[24:38] Posture considerations.
[26:55] Addressing and correcting suboptimal patterns of movement.
[28:55] Resources for understanding movement screens.
[30:00] Ingredients that make up a lower back pain cocktail.
[34:42] Even with the greatest care, wear and tear over time is normal.
[40:19] Improving thoracic mobility.
[43:56] Conquering Quasimodo.
[45:14] Defusing deskbound damage.
[48:25] Practical exercises.
[53:37] Shocking controversies surrounding fascial manipulation.
[1:02:18] Role of the glutes.
[1:04:02] Strengthening the posterior chain.
[1:06:06] Power and strength vs. aging.
[1:08:57] Recommended reading.
[1:12:21] Medical diagnosis vs. movement diagnosis.
[1:24:53] How to ask the right questions when seeking treatment.
[1:34:00] Overrated exercises?
[1:35:39] What a movement diagnosis will look like for me.
[1:36:23] Infrasternal angle.
[1:39:06] Age and injury predisposition.
[1:41:58] “Get long, get strong, train hard.”
[1:45:34] The downstream effects of orthopedic interventions.
[1:48:21] Creating bulletproof athletes.
[1:52:42] Worst advice given often.
[1:55:29] What has Eric recently changed his mind about?
[2:00:06] Important upstream variables.
[2:02:38] Good stiffness. (Oh, behave!)
[2:04:49] Vetting reliable sources of information.
[2:11:39] How Brijesh Patel changed Eric’s career perspective and other parting thoughts.

MORE ERIC CRESSEY QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“We are big bags of water. And probably what’s happening with fascial interventions is that we’re changing the way that fluids move so that folks do have better gliding of tissues that are adjacent to one another.”
— Eric Cressey

“I hate it when people say, ‘I failed rehab.’ It’s like, ‘No, sometimes rehab failed you. You were trying and you just didn’t get the right coaching cue or the right intervention that you needed.'”
— Eric Cressey

“The hardest part is sometimes you have to counsel athletes away from something that they might really enjoy.”
— Eric Cressey

“Don’t specialize young.”
— Eric Cressey

“Try to find a way to do a wide variety of movements well into adulthood.”
— Eric Cressey

“You screw up your taxes, there’s a way out of it. You screw up your body, you might have a lifetime of pain.”
— Eric Cressey

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Neuroscientist David Eagleman — Exploring Consciousness, Sensory Augmentation, The Lazy Susan Method of Extraordinary Productivity, Dreaming, Improving Hearing with a Wristband, Synesthesia, Stretching Time with Novelty, Lessons from Titans of Science, and Much More (#674)

Tim Ferriss — Sat, 27 May 2023 09:07:38 +0000

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“Question your truth.”
— David Eagleman

David Eagleman (@davideagleman) is a neuroscientist, New York Times bestselling author, TED speaker, and Guggenheim Fellow. He is the writer and presenter of the Emmy-nominated series The Brain on PBS, as well as the podcast Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman. In Palo Alto, California, he teaches at Stanford University, runs a startup neurotech company called Neosensory, and directs the Center for Science and Law. Dr. Eagleman also runs a film and television production company, Cognito Entertainment, to bring scientific themes (fiction and nonfiction) to the screen. He is the author of eight books, including the international bestsellers Sum, Incognito, and his newest book, Livewired.

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#674: Neuroscientist David Eagleman — Exploring Consciousness, Sensory Augmentation, The Lazy Susan Method of Extraordinary Productivity, Dreaming, Improving Hearing with a Wristband, Synesthesia, Stretching Time with Novelty, Lessons from Titans of Science, and Much More

Want to hear another episode that ponders the nature of reality? Have a listen to my conversation with Professor Donald Hoffman here, in which we discuss the science of consciousness, how perception may influence the physical world, the holographic model of the universe, panpsychism (and influential panpsychists), cosmological polytope, the use of hallucinogenic drugs to tap into deeper reality and interact with conscious agents, QBism, the probability of zero that humans evolved to see reality in full, and much more wild stuff.

#585: Professor Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality, Beyond Spacetime, Rethinking Death, Panpsychism, QBism, and More

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SHOW NOTES

[07:10] Mnemonists and synesthetes.
[12:13] Creating new senses.
[17:39] Practical applications in practice.
[24:36] Five years from now.
[28:26] The curious resilience and vulnerability of memory.
[32:25] Testing the accuracy of memory.
[34:50] Meeting Francis Crick.
[36:25] The dangerous lumberjack.
[39:43] Dream projects.
[41:23] Exploring consciousness.
[44:38] Dreaming and brain plasticity.
[54:13] Influences.
[57:23] Why neuroscience?
[1:00:22] Sum: An extended failure that became a wild success.
[1:05:36] The Don Vaughn method.
[1:07:02] Recommended reading.
[1:08:50] Hypothesis testing.
[1:09:40] Lazy Susan advice.
[1:11:18] A week in the life of David.
[1:16:28] Livewired.
[1:20:48] Assumptions ripe for challenging.
[1:25:34] Possibilianism.
[1:27:35] David’s billboard.
[1:30:28] Empire of the Invisible.
[1:32:11] Learning from AI.
[1:34:42] Perception of time.
[1:39:47] Idiotheses.
[1:40:59] Parting thoughts.

MORE DAVID EAGLEMAN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“The brain is locked in silence and darkness inside the skull, and all it ever sees are these little electrical signals … yet when you open your eyes and look at the world, you see everything in full color and it looks so rich and you’re hearing music and you’re feeling things on your fingertips and you’re smelling cinnamon. All these things seem like very distinct senses to you, but they’re all made of exactly the same stuff, which is these electrochemical spikes. And so I got really interested in this idea of could we feed information into the brain via an unusual source, and would the brain just figure it out?”

— David Eagleman

“We experience lots of data. When you’re a kid, when you’re a baby, you don’t know how the heck to use your eyes or ears or whatever. You’re just getting all this data going into the darkness there and you figure stuff out. You figure out correlations.”

— David Eagleman

“Memory is a myth-making machine, and we’re constantly reinventing our past, especially as we tell the stories over and over again.”

— David Eagleman

“I think the notion of how plastic the brain actually is is something that’s totally underappreciated. There’s an idea that I think many people have, which is, “Oh, you’re just born with the brain. The brain unpacks and then you’re who you are,” but really, we are totally functions of our culture and our society. And one of the things that’s amazing to me is, imagine, Tim, that you and I were born 10,000 years ago, exactly the same DNA, but we wouldn’t be anything like what we are now. Even though with the same DNA we might look vaguely like we do now, but my God, the culture, everything we’re pulling in would be so different. And that’s what actually shapes a human being.”

— David Eagleman

“The beauty of science is that it’s always willing to knock down its own walls.”

— David Eagleman

“Question your truth.”

— David Eagleman

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Dr. Nora Volkow — Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (#673)

Tim Ferriss — Thu, 25 May 2023 01:11:39 +0000

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“I do not take no for an answer. And this is a message that I say to young people: ‘You should dare to do things. And no one has the right to say you cannot bring a new perspective into things.’ And so I always say, ‘Be daring and persevere.'”
— Dr. Nora Volkow

Nora D. Volkow, MD, is Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health. NIDA is the world’s largest funder of scientific research on the health aspects of drug use and addiction. Dr. Volkow’s work has been instrumental in demonstrating that drug addiction is a brain disorder. As a research psychiatrist, Dr. Volkow pioneered the use of brain imaging to investigate how substance use affects brain functions. In particular, her studies have documented how changes in the dopamine system affect the functions of brain regions involved with reward and self-control in addiction. She has also made important contributions to the neurobiology of obesity, ADHD, and aging.

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#673: Dr. Nora Volkow — Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

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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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SHOW NOTES

[06:09] Cadaver homework.
[09:07] The Trotsky connection.
[17:07] How Nora’s father viewed the role of science.
[20:59] Julian Villarreal.
[27:38] A perspective of perseverance.
[33:48] Instilling perseverance in younger scientists.
[35:08] Dancing with Demerol.
[40:05] The current state of addiction in the US.
[44:28] The War on Drugs.
[49:42] Increasing societal confidence in therapeutic psychedelics.
[55:38] Advice for researchers seeking more federal funding.
[1:02:12] Gauging the value of the hallucinogenic experience.
[1:06:04] Implications for multiple applications of one compound.
[1:13:36] Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and a promising alternative.
[1:19:49] New hope for Parkinson’s disease sufferers?
[1:23:51] Comorbidities, addiction considerations, and other parting thoughts.

MORE DR. NORA VOLKOW QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“Science should be guided by data, but science has a religious nature to it also. And once a model is created, it becomes very difficult to change it. And it takes a long, long time for concepts that have been consolidated, as accepted as the truth, to be questioned.”
— Dr. Nora Volkow

“I do not take no for an answer. And this is a message that I say to young people: ‘You should dare to do things. And no one has the right to say you cannot bring a new perspective into things.’ And so, I always say, ‘Be daring and persevere.'”
— Dr. Nora Volkow

“In terms of the war on drugs, I think that basically what it did was it created a mechanism that could perpetuate structural racism. It is very tragic to see how its enforcement led to the incarceration of young black Americans.”
— Dr. Nora Volkow

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Seth Godin — The Pursuit of Meaning, The Life-Changing Power of Choosing Your Attitude, Overcoming Rejection, Life Lessons from Zig Ziglar, and Committing to Making Positive Change (#672)

Tim Ferriss — Wed, 17 May 2023 14:56:19 +0000

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“It is entirely possible that you work in a place where you have no options, you have no agency, you have no significance. If that is actually true, you should quit, because you don’t get tomorrow over again. My guess: it is not actually true. My guess is you have more agency than you are prepared to embrace.”
— Seth Godin

Seth Godin is the author of 21 international bestsellers that have changed the way people think about work. His books have been translated into 38 languages and include Tribes, Purple Cow, Linchpin, The Dip, and This Is Marketing. Seth writes one of the most popular marketing blogs in the world, and two of his TED talks are among the most popular of all time. He is the founder of the altMBA; the social media pioneer Squidoo; and Yoyodyne, one of the first internet companies.

His new book is The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams.

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#672: Seth Godin — The Pursuit of Meaning, The Life-Changing Power of Choosing Your Attitude, Overcoming Rejection, Life Lessons from Zig Ziglar, and Committing to Making Positive Change

Want to hear the last time Seth was on the show? Have a listen to our conversation here, in which we discussed the etymology of the word “hack,” the making of magic, why hiding behind words like “quality” or “perfection” as a means of postponing action to avoid risk is a cop-out, what Isaac Asimov and Gary Gilmore can teach us about writer’s block, skills with a disproportionate return on investment that entrepreneurs and creatives should consider cultivating, the importance of applying constraints and boundaries to the learning process, and much more.

#476: Seth Godin on The Game of Life, The Value of Hacks, and Overcoming Anxiety

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Website | Seth’s Blog | Instagram | Facebook

SHOW NOTES

[05:42] The changes of aging.
[10:07] How Seth gets over momentary lapses of optimism.
[16:13] The Carbon Almanac.
[18:40] Addressing 21st-century nihilism.
[26:23] Finding significance and making a difference.
[35:34] The boss and the bees.
[44:47] Ethically reclaiming meaning from work in the Quaker surveillance state.
[51:50] Seth’s impression of my efforts over the years.
[56:21] Circumnavigating false proxies.
[1:02:17] Employee retention.
[1:05:54] Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play.
[1:08:07] Zig Ziglar.
[1:12:12] Seth’s early career life.
[1:13:45] Seth’s current career life.
[1:17:01] The 140-year-old piano.
[1:19:35] Meetings.
[1:24:04] Page 19 thinking.
[1:27:37] Soliciting useful writing feedback.
[1:31:36] Parting thoughts.

MORE SETH GODIN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“What a gift I have today to be in the shoes of somebody who, at 62, gets to do things well, but only because I’m walking away from things I can’t do anymore. And instead of focusing on what I used to have, I’m really working hard and getting satisfaction out of focusing on what I do have and what I can do.”
— Seth Godin

“We are living in a culture where there’s an overhang of all these people with loud voices talking about the end of the world because it’s the end of their world, but it’s not the end of the world.”
— Seth Godin

“Some people believe that the purpose of business is to enable culture, to enable humanity. And some people believe that the purpose of humanity and culture is to enable business. And I think those people have too much influence right now, and they’re wrong.”
— Seth Godin

“When we think about tomorrow or the tomorrow after that, given the damage we’ve all done, we still live in culture, we still have this miracle. You and I are talking while thousands of miles apart. We have access to every piece of information. We have magical computers that can understand us and talk back. We can reach out to someone in need. We can connect to people who need to hear from us. And if you want to just give up because the world is going to be different in 20 years, that’s your choice. But given that we’ve got this window, it feels to me like we need to up our focus on humanity and connection and possibility and improvement of the condition, and maybe not worry so much about public demonstrations of power, firing people online, being brutal in the service of profit. Because we don’t have a profit shortage, we have a meaning shortage.”
— Seth Godin

“If you can figure out how to get five or 10 people together, you can probably ban gas-powered leaf blowers in your village. And that will have 50 times the impact of you switching to an electric car. Plus the idea of banding together with five or 10 or 15 other people, creating the conditions for other people to find something to care about and succeed at it, will fill you with meaning, not with despair.”
— Seth Godin

“Milton Friedman just made up this nonsense about the only purpose of a corporation is to maximize its profit. It lets people off the hook and they become tools of a system that grinds stuff out.”
— Seth Godin

“It is entirely possible that you work in a place where you have no options, you have no agency, you have no significance. If that is actually true, you should quit, because you don’t get tomorrow over again. My guess: it is not actually true. My guess is you have more agency than you are prepared to embrace.”
— Seth Godin

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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)

Tim Ferriss — Thu, 11 May 2023 14:27:29 +0000

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“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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#671: 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

Want to hear an episode with another world-building artist who also doesn’t allow himself to be outsmarted by corporations? Have a listen to my first conversation with legendary comic book artist and writer Todd McFarlane, in which we discussed rejection letters, meeting deadlines, compelling storytelling, leading a corporate exodus, bucking the status quo to become the status quo, and much more.

#639: Todd McFarlane, Legendary Comic Book Artist — How to Make Iconic Art, Reinvent Spider-Man, Live Life on Your Own Terms, and Meet Every Deadline

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Connect with Bobby Hundreds:

Substack | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok

SHOW NOTES

[05:49] Signing to the prestigious Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG).
[07:21] Bobby’s black sheep origin story.
[11:13] When art entered the picture.
[13:52] Who was Abram Edelman?
[27:59] The double life of a parent-pleasing law student and clandestine artist.
[31:45] The Hundreds: from early days to 20 years on.
[44:47] The cosmic intervention of WARP magazine.
[52:02] Japan.
[55:27] The Korean Wave.
[1:08:05] Getting on the radar of tastemakers.
[1:13:44] Collaboration over competition makes a movement.
[1:18:32] Curating creatives assisted by nunchi.
[1:30:03] Necessary disconnections.
[1:41:22] Korea’s a creative hotspot today. Where should we look next?
[1:43:38] Rolling with the tides of fickle fashion.
[1:53:47] Collaborations, corporations, and the reason for limited editions.
[2:05:07] The current state of The Hundreds.
[2:11:32] Frank Ocean maintains the mystery.
[2:13:02] Getting collaboration deals without almost being sued or selling out.
[2:18:54] Hermit north stars.
[2:24:50] How to make $7 million in 40 minutes with NFTs (sort of not really).
[2:29:48] Making NFTs more useful than just another set of playing cards for wannabe day traders.
[2:39:21] Why did Bobby write NFTs Are a Scam / NFTs Are the Future?
[2:42:54] Charles Manson vs. SBF and subcultural security.
[2:48:10] Notable Web3 innovations emerging.
[2:51:45] A rumble over royalties and a counterintuitive lesson about collectible value.
[3:10:17] Recommended reading.
[3:12:13] Bobby’s billboard.
[3:18:50] Two tattoos.
[3:20:18] 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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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)

Tim Ferriss — Wed, 03 May 2023 20:59:09 +0000

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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.

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 More

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[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!

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