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Sebastian Mallaby (@scmallaby) is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the author of six books, including More Money Than God, The Power Law, The Man Who Knew, and The World's Banker. His latest book is The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence.
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Timestamps
[00:00:00] Start.[00:02:11] The twinkly eyed polymath who became Sebastian's next book.[00:06:55] Picking the next book project the way a great VC picks a startup.[00:09:41] Why God keeps crashing the superintelligence party.[00:11:13] Shane Legg's grainy 2009 prophecy â and the nervous giggle.[00:13:11] Ilya Sutskever burns an effigy.[00:13:54] Demis at 4 a.m., hunting God's algorithm.[00:18:43] Super-abundance, Mad Max, and the China shock lesson.[00:22:39] The kitchen debate with Geoff Hinton that flipped Sebastian.[00:24:06] Why a zero-percent chance of doom is indefensible.[00:24:52] Will Washington seize the labs? The Mythos wake-up call.[00:27:18] Anthropic's bull case, bear case, and a dead parent's letter.[00:33:24] Where Sebastian and Benedict Evans part ways.[00:38:16] Is the SaaS apocalypse overdone? One word: Palantir.[00:39:53] The AI friend you'll never switch.[00:41:56] Does Google win consumer AI by default?[00:44:45] Four cities, eight days: China actually talks safety.[00:47:28] A Cold War non-proliferation playbook for AI.[00:49:45] Did the chip export controls actually work?[00:51:49] Burned doves: why Washington swears China won't talk.[00:54:56] "By 2028, the race is over" â one lab boss' bet.[00:59:11] Inside Hikvision: toddlers, sensors, and US sanctions.[01:01:07] Bill Gurley's Uber bet: venture capital perfected.[01:05:18] Luke Nosek bear-hugs DeepMind into existence.[01:10:52] Thiel's heresy: never invest by committee.[01:11:59] How Founders Fund nearly fumbled the deal of the century.[01:14:30] Selling to Google for $650M: a secret British heist?[01:16:41] The Traitorous Eight, gardening leave, and the UK's to-do list.[01:20:55] Ender's Game: "That's really how I see myself."[01:23:42] Too dumb for Gödel, Escher, Bach? Maybe an LLM can help.[01:25:19] If not Demis or Sam, then Dario.[01:26:04] My royalties cliff â and what dropped in late 2022.[01:27:47] Lila Sciences and the labs that run themselves.[01:31:13] Sebastian's billboard: "Prepare your mind."[01:35:14] The one thing Sebastian will never outsource to AI.[01:40:09] Parting thoughts.For show notes and past guests on The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast.
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Max Levchin (@mlevchin) is a serial entrepreneur and investor in 100+ startups. He's the founder and CEO of Affirm, the payment network powering consumer purchases and merchant growth. An original PayPal co-founder, Max served as CTO until its 2002 acquisition by eBay.
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[00:00:00] Start.[00:02:50] The Ronin line that rewired how Max makes every decision.[00:06:09] Paprika-style brain-computer interfaces.[00:09:09] PayPal's founders lived inside a Neal Stephenson novel.[00:19:21] Transformation via Neuromancer and Snow Crash.[00:23:40] The book that found Max his wife.[00:29:24] The real secret to a great marriage.[00:38:29] What's worth tracking, and what's not.[00:44:13] A scrawny kid, a clarinet, and a Kyiv velodrome.[00:46:55] What going all-out on a bike actually gives you.[00:51:02] The mantra by which Max rides.[00:53:02] A Soviet kid's fear of socialism.[01:02:48] Making a profit without destroying society.[01:04:31] What is Affirm, and why did every banker say it would fail?[01:20:18] Why the best mathematicians eschew the lending industry.[01:23:50] Does agentic commerce break Affirm, or supercharge it?[01:28:01] A PhD-level financial advisor in everyone's pocket.[01:29:58] How close are we to buying anything through one AI chat?[01:36:32] Improving your coffee: cheap, intermediate, and Bugatti options.[01:44:33] The books every first-time founder should actually read.[01:48:08] Claude Shannon, Ed Thorp, and the joy of playful genius.[01:51:00] Why physical books still beat every digital reading experience.[01:51:44] Parting thoughts.*
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Jake Becraft is the CEO and co-founder of Strand Therapeutics, a company building one of the most advanced programmable genetic medicine platforms in biotechnology. Under his leadership, Strand is redefining what RNA medicines can do by enabling cell-selective targeting and therapeutic payload delivery inside the body, unlocking a new class of precision genetic therapies.
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[00:00:00] Start.[00:06:07] What Strand does.[00:08:19] The Boston dinner.[00:11:05] The image of a body riddled with cancer.[00:15:05] What stuck for the muggles in the pitch deck.[00:17:14] A good drug vs. a good product.[00:19:40] Tricking cancer into snitching on itself.[00:27:38] The abscopal effect.[00:34:04] Potency, specificity, and delivery.[00:35:46] First principles thinking.[00:36:38] The precipice of a revolution.[00:41:14] The thousand people in the room.[00:48:38] Psychedelic medicine as a cautionary tale.[00:51:17] What actually catches a policymakerâs attention.[00:53:42] Breakthrough vs. incremental.[00:54:55] Whatâs in it for the policymakers?[00:58:08] The 80/20 wish list.[01:01:31] Australiaâs CTN system.[01:03:51] Sheep, psychedelics, and red-tape arbitrage.[01:05:22] Chinaâs clinical-trial flywheel vs. slow-motion American loss.[01:06:53] The bicoastal biotech ethos.[01:08:10] Can the FDA actually pull this off?[01:12:12] The Sophieâs Choice of pharma development.[01:14:16] Lost arts of founder mode.[01:15:23] Rockets for tumors, T-cells, and beyond.[01:19:16] Viral in policy circles.[01:23:09] The Washington Post headline and the PickFu split test.[01:27:56] Solution-first storytelling.[01:33:54] RNA medicine and platform therapeutics.[01:39:17] Modernaâs 62 days.[01:40:33] Uber Eats and the de-risked launch.[01:44:17] CEO blockers.[01:45:52] Whereâs biotechâs SpaceX moment?[01:46:53] Elon Musk betting black on the wheel.[01:51:55] AWS and the post-conviction / pre-consensus window.[01:58:47] COVID politicization.[01:59:46] Insulin, growth hormone, and the original platform story.[02:01:35] Biotech as pharmaâs little brother.[02:03:29] More recent role models, Apple edition.[02:04:50] Art Levinson, Steve Jobs, and the biotech-tech crossover.[02:06:25] The iPhone as a delivery platform.[02:08:25] Spotifyâs problem and the future of bespoke medicine.[02:10:07] Baby KJ and the limits of liver-only solutions.[02:11:19] Parting thoughts.*
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Dr. Becky Kennedy is the founder and CEO of Good Inside, a parenting movement that overturns a lot of conventional, modern parenting practices to empower parents to become sturdy, confident leaders and raise sturdy, confident kids. She is the author of the bestselling book Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, a chart-topping podcast, a TED talk with more than 5 million views on the power of repair.
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TIMESTAMPS:
[00:00:00] Start.
[00:01:55] The power of repair.
[00:04:50] "It's never your fault when I yell at you."
[00:08:55] What does it mean to be a "good" parent?
[00:10:32] Activating curiosity over judgment.
[00:13:33] Alternatives to saying "Good job" as a confidence builder.
[00:20:50] Making kids happy vs. building capability.
[00:24:18] A pilot metaphor for sturdy leadership.
[00:29:30] Role confusion.
[00:32:04] Defining boundaries.
[00:35:07] How parenting becomes a two-way mirror for growth.
[00:40:09] The MGI (Most Generous Interpretation) approach.
[00:42:52] Biggest challenges in parenting.
[00:46:52] Recommended reading for someone with kids in their life.
[00:52:11] Advisable prerequisites for singles who aim to build a family.
[00:56:18] Setting boundaries with grandparents and dealing with different parenting styles.
[01:01:42] Handling frustration when a child is pushing your buttons.
[01:09:58] Lessons learned from working with eating disorders.
[01:13:26] Managing troublemaker behavior.
[01:17:38] Bad influence intervention.
[01:22:52] Cultivating resilience in "deeply feeling" kids (DFKs).
[01:28:58] The trials and errors that birthed Good Inside.
[01:32:53] "Our words are not our wishes. Our words are our fears."
[01:40:07] Billboard messages and mantras.
[01:48:00] Fan-favorite scripts on saying no, boundaries, and repair.
[01:51:15] The tennis court metaphor for boundaries.
[01:55:45] Resources and parting thoughts.
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Sami Inkinen (@samiinkinen) is a Finnish-born, Stanford-trained entrepreneur and the founder and CEO/president of Trulia and Virta Health. Virta is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people using technology, AI, and nutrition. A world-class endurance athlete, Sami is a triathlon age-group world champion and an 8-hour, 24-minute Ironman finisher, having completed the Hawaii Ironman World Championship seven times.
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Timestamps:
[00:00] Start.
[01:45] How Sami uses 15 minutes every Sunday to outrun the universe.
[03:37] Virta: at a thousand employees and counting.
[04:15] The 5 a.m. boot-up: cold lake, core work, and emptying the dishwasher.
[06:45] Why mood follows movement before the brain even boots up.
[11:54] Saying no to 99% of what ânormal peopleâ do.
[19:29] The weekly architecture.
[20:29] Two direct reports: the case for radical subtraction.
[21:09] 553 CEO letters and the case for one scalable habit.
[32:36] The text-file life plan.
[33:32] The 15-year personal plan Sami stumbled into by accident.
[34:30] The four-pillar formula for not cracking in 26 years of founder life.
[38:20] What âwhite Japanese peopleâ and beer steins in saunas have in common.
[45:55] Smoke saunas, löyly, and the one Finnish word worth knowing.
[48:37] The lean, ten-percent-body-fat triathlete who was quietly going prediabetic.
[53:07] Why 93% of American adults are metabolically unhealthy.
[56:05] Reversing type 2 diabetes the way Virta actually does it.
[1:00:17] Most surprising interventions.
[1:03:32] The pancreatic cancer trial that bought patients 35% more time.
[1:07:02] The McDonaldâs protocol: how to reverse diabetes from the drive-thru.
[1:16:00] Why GLP-1 adherence collapses and Virtaâs doesnât.
[1:21:10] Vegans, tofu, and the hardest macronutrient to get right.
[1:25:27] The dose-response curve that lets perfect stop being the enemy of progress.
[1:29:32] VO2 max blocks: how Sami trains an 80+ engine without burning out.
[1:41:56] Hacking 10% off your running speed in four weeks.
[1:46:09] Progressive overload, specificity, and the case against the long ride.
[1:50:07] 45 days, three hours, and a contract to keep a marriage afloat.
[1:55:27] The lightning strike in the middle of the Pacific that started a family.
[2:01:15] The 36-year-old who bought his first car only because his wife made him.
[2:05:40] The book recommendation no one saw coming: Trejo.
[2:07:51] The PSA: chronic, progressive, and irreversible â three words Sami refuses.
[2:11:40] Parting thoughts.
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Jerzy Gregorek (@TheHappyBody) is a 4x World Weightlifting Champion, co-founder of UCLAâs weightlifting team, and co-creator, with his wife Aniela, of the Happy Body program. You can watch the documentary Prisoner No More, directed by Jeff Wolfe and produced by WolfePrideProductions.com, for free here: tim.blog/hardchoices. To fill out the form on Cerebral Palsy Research Project, visit tim.blog/cp.
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[00:00:00] Start.[00:01:29] The transformation Iâve been chasing for a decade.[00:02:39] When an unstoppable coach meets an immovable cerebral palsy diagnosis.[00:04:35] Three pounds to 170: the bench press that woke a brain up.[00:07:17] Navigating autism and building the basics of communication that sustain higher education.[00:10:41] Treadmills exhaust, athletes progress: why physical therapy stalled where coaching took off.[00:19:00] Lethargy, sleeping in the car, and the quiet power of resting energy.[00:20:22] The 16-inch box that opened the bathroom door â and everything after.[00:24:26] Micro-progressions, certificates, ceremonies, and writing history onto a blank brain.[00:29:16] Parental dedication and appreciation.[00:31:54] The adulthood gambit: quit piano, quit training â if you can stick an 18-inch jump.[00:35:14] License plates as the gateway drug from counting to math five hours a day.[00:40:04] Jerzyâs coaching style doesnât court approval.[00:42:42] Genghis Khan vs. Admiral Yi Sun-Sin vs. Jerzy vs. Tae Jin.[00:46:35] In search of the science behind such transformations: 25 patients, five years, and a method built to be replicated (interested researchers, visit tim.blog/cp).[01:05:39] Hard choices, easy life â and the call to find your starting point.*
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Many of us feel like weâre drowning in invisible complexity. So I wanted to hit pause and ask a simple question: What are 1-3 decisions that could dramatically simplify my life in 2026? To explore that, I invited four long-time listener favoritesâAnne Lamott, Claire Hughes Johnson, David Yarrow, and Diana Chapman.
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Connect with David Yarrow: Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
David's previous appearance on this show: David Yarrow on Art, Markets, Business, and Combining It All | The Tim Ferriss Show #443
Connect with Claire Hughes Johnson: LinkedIn | Twitter
Claire's book: Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
Claire's previous appearance on this show: Claire Hughes Johnson â How to Take Responsibility for Your Life, Create Rules That Work, Stop Being a Victim, Set Strong Boundaries, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #724
Connect with Diana Chapman: Website | LinkedIn | Instagram
Diana's book: The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success, co-authored with Jim Dethmer and Kaley Klemp
Diana's previous appearance on this show: Diana Chapman â How to Get Unstuck, Do "The Work," Take Radical Responsibility, and Reduce Drama in Your Life | The Tim Ferriss Show #536
Connect with Anne Lamott: Substack | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
Anne's new book: Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences, co-authored with Neal Allen
Anne's previous appearance on this show: Anne Lamott on Taming Your Inner Critic, Finding Grace, and Prayer | The Tim Ferriss Show #522
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Timestamps:
[00:00:00] Start.[00:02:20] David Yarrow: British photographer in America and an unconventional divorcĂ©.[00:02:32] The anti-remarriage thesis: why staying single was the boldest simplification of all.[00:03:19] The unlikely happy ending: ex-spouses who became best friends.[00:04:58] The friend audit.[00:06:07] Energy as a luxury brand.[00:06:34] No agent, no problem: the art of the direct âno.â[00:07:39] Claire Hughes Johnson: COO, author, and self-described bad simplifier.[00:07:59] The switch from default yes to default no.[00:08:39] Root cause analysis on the âyesâ problem: earning love through usefulness.[00:09:21] Arthur Brooksâ flip: think people, not tasks.[00:10:35] Mission clarity: knowing exactly why you said yes before you walk in the door.[00:11:16] The âretention exerciseâ: how Claire negotiated sleep and workouts into her job description.[00:16:45] Diana Chapman: Conscious Leadership disruptor, professional fear-finder.[00:17:07] The âwhole body yesâ: simplicity lives where your inner and outer worlds agree.[00:17:41] Decision #1: Evicting âshouldâ from the vocabulary entirely.[00:19:15] Decision #2: The relationship contract â same rules, dramatically less drama.[00:20:37] The No-Blame Zone: signs on the wall, accountability in the air.[00:24:02] Curiosity over righteousness, feelings over suppression, play over seriousness.[00:26:29] How play unlocked a hard conversation.[00:27:56] Decision #3: Holding two truths â your work matters and the world will survive without you.[00:30:32] Anne Lamott: 21 books, one husband, and a very heavy 60th birthday.[00:31:00] Ditching the six-plate act: reclaiming the inner goofball.[00:32:18] âThe point is not to try harder, but to resist less.â[00:33:18] The belly breath: watching your hand rise as an act of radical simplicity.[00:33:41] Ram Dassâ heart-nostrils: expanding the spiritual core.[00:33:59] The third third: borrowed time, intentional days, and tossing boxes out of the plane.For show notes and past guests on The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast.
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Elad Gil (@eladgil) is CEO of Gil & Co, a multi-stage investment firm, holding company, and operating company working on the worldâs most advanced technologies. Elad is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies, including AirBnB, Anduril, Coinbase, Figma, Instacart, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Stripe. He was previously VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter and started mobile at Google. He was the founder and CEO of Mixerlabs and Color. Elad is the author of the bestseller High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People.
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[00:00:00] Start.[00:02:21] Whatâs the âAI personal IPOâ that just quietly happened across Silicon Valley?[00:05:28] Tens to hundreds of millions per researcher: What top AI pay packages actually look like.[00:06:44] The compute ceiling: Why Korean memory fabs are the unlikely bottleneck throttling every AI lab on earth.[00:11:11] From zero to $30B run rate: The fastest revenue ramps in the history of capitalism.[00:17:24] The dot-com survival rate was one in 100. Buckle up, AI founders.[00:20:35] Your value-maximizing window: Why the next 12â18 months may be as good as it gets.[00:21:32] Durable advantage â and why the AI market is an oligopoly (for now).[00:24:12] Exit options for AI founders: labs, hyperscalers, vertical players, and the underrated merger of equals.[00:28:11] Math, biology, and intuitive leaps: Eladâs pre-investing background.[00:29:42] Eladâs revisionist genesis story.[00:30:50] Go where the cluster is: 91% of global AI private market cap lives in a 10Ă10 mile square.[00:33:20] The accidental investor: Patrick Collison walks, Airbnb intros, and deals that just happened.[00:34:37] Want money? Ask for advice. Want advice? Ask for money.[00:35:00] The High Growth Handbook: Tactical guide, not bedtime reading.[00:35:41] Market first, team second â with a Perplexity-and-Anduril asterisk.[00:37:43] Smoke in the distance: AlexNet and the transformative GPT-3 moment.[00:45:15] AI cold-reading: Feeding photos to the model and getting eerily accurate personality reads.[00:48:56] Has Elad ever done a retrospective on his own investing?[00:52:13] Power laws are terrifying: 10 companies, 80% of returns, two decades.[00:55:53] Avoiding science projects, and how SPACs accidentally saved hard tech investing.[00:59:20] The one-belief framework: Coinbase = crypto index. Stripe = e-commerce index. Thatâs the whole memo.[01:00:54] Due diligence theater vs. the one question that actually matters.[01:02:13] The four-year vest is a relic: How venture capital ate growth investing.[01:07:16] Boards as in-laws: You canât fire them, so choose wisely.[01:09:47] âValuation is temporary. Control is forever.â â Naval Ravikant, as quoted by Elad, as relayed to you.[01:11:30] How great companies actually grew: toolbars, name-targeted ads, and billions in distribution spend.[01:15:36] Selling software vs. selling labor hours: The real shift generative AI made.[01:18:40] Spotting a great market: regulatory shifts, technology shifts, and Hashi getting bought by IBM.[01:21:28] Fake TAM, real TAM, and the Coke CEO who realized he wasnât in the soda business.[01:22:47] Right now, consensus is just correct. Save the contrarianism for later.[01:25:15] Market entry vs. market disruption: SpaceX launched rockets, then disrupted the internet.[01:26:16] How Elad learns: X, papers, 20-minute calls with the right people â and four AI models running in parallel.[01:27:15] Deep dive: ADHD, autism, and why diagnostic rates soared without more people actually having it.[01:33:40] Longevity for realists: sleep, creatine, and maybe rapamycin when the real drugs arrive.[01:40:30] Ibogaine, anesthesia, and the next frontier of bioelectric medicine.[01:45:15] Eladâs first-ever 10-year plan â and why making one changes everything.[01:46:53] Parting thoughts.*
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Cathy Lanier is the Chief Security Officer of the National Football League, where she oversees security across the league office and all 32 clubs. Before the NFL, she served as Chief of Police of Washington, D.C., from 2007 to 2016 â the first woman in the role and the longest-serving chief in the force's history â where her strategies helped cut violent crime by 21 percent even as the city's population grew 15 percent.
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[00:00] Start.
[01:38] Cathy Lanier: from Tuxedo to the top.
[03:22] Dad vanishes; Mom holds the line (and takes shorthand to the TV).
[08:08] Bused into DC: straight-A student turns chronic truant.
[10:37] Married at 15, signed over for $100 off child support.
[12:54] The baby-in-the-crib wake-up call.
[16:37] GED by a single point; secretary by day, waitress by night.
[20:18] The Washington Post ad that changed everything.
[20:39] 1990 MPD: into the crack cocaine wars.
[23:46] Grandma's gospel: no excuses, damned for doing.
[26:23] Mount Pleasant riots: trial by brick, and a better-way epiphany.
[33:23] Donny Exum's nudge â and sergeant at 26.
[38:56] Being a woman on the '90s force: harassment and the 90-day dodge.
[49:38] Marion Barry exits, Chuck Ramsey enters.
[51:08] Lieutenant: the sweet spot. Captain: the desk (but keep the cuffs).
[56:58] 9/11 and the surprise transfer to Special Ops.
[58:07] Mentors lend confidence â and a counterterrorism bureau built from scratch.
[1:00:14] Live Sarin, VX, and training with bioweapons legends.
[1:02:22] Text the 50, get the 411: the tip line gambit.
[1:03:36] Cultivating sources: the white Escalade payoff.
[1:09:02] Attention to detail: OCD as a superpower.
[1:10:43] Teletubby pagers to smartphones â and the Thomas Maslin reckoning.
[1:15:14] NFL security: the scope of "everything."
[1:17:10] Red teaming, explained.
[1:18:53] NFL vs. MPD: diversity and complexity that goes to 11.
[1:21:24] The book club: The Tipping Point and Blink.
[1:23:32] Decisions under pressure â and with incomplete information.
[1:28:34] Billboard wisdom: it's not what happens; it's what you do.
[1:30:08] Parting thoughts.
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Brian Dean is the founder of Backlinko and Exploding Topics, both acquired by Semrush, which itself was recently acquired by Adobe for $1.9 billion. Brian's story starts exactly where a lot of great stories start: broke, directionless, and eating canned beef stew in his dad's basement during the 2008 financial crisis. He picked up a copy of The 4-Hour Workweek and took action. As is nearly always the case, his path wasnât a straight line, but a series of winding turns, all fed by experiments. His journey includes failures, two successful exits, and a hard-won answer to the question most people never think to ask: what do you actually do with your freedom once you have it?
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[00:00:00] Start.[00:02:53] From PhD pipettes to Dadâs basement to Jerry Springer.[00:04:38] The 4-Hour Workweek finds its dream reader â marginal notes and all.[00:06:04] First product flops, free traffic beckons, and SEO.[00:07:40] The 200-domain AdSense empire.[00:09:40] Dreamlining: From âescape the basementâ to â3k a month in Thailand.â[00:11:27] When Googleâs Panda update slapped the internet (and Brianâs empire).[00:12:32] Scared straight: Black hat to white hat via a hostel in Spain.[00:17:55] Backlinko is born.[00:19:50] The 200 ranking factors post: 25 hours of patent-digging, a million visitors.[00:22:13] New rule: One post a month, 10x better than anything out there.[00:23:02] Semrush comes knocking to buy his company â Brian ignores the email.[00:24:02] Taking celebratory shots at Legal Sea Foods while wondering where the contract is.[00:25:32] Due diligence hell: Hunting down ghosted freelancers and the contractor commandments.[00:29:25] SEC market-close rules vs. Brianâs 10 p.m. bedtime.[00:30:16] Post-acquisition: Hopping from one treadmill to the next.[00:34:19] Backlinko on autopilot, boredom on full blast, and the chapter everyone skips.[00:35:42] Exploding Topics: The paid newsletter mistake vs. the obvious SaaS play.[00:38:41] Data-driven content and the ChatGPT user stats flywheel.[00:41:00] Noah Kaganâs advice: Double down on what works â then 10x down.[00:42:26] Ready, Fire, Aim â the litmus test for would-be founders.[00:44:06] Startup costs: $500 for Backlinko vs. $90k to acquire Exploding Topics.[00:47:29] How love and a Craigslist apartment scam in Berlin landed Brian in Portugal.[00:48:48] Geoarbitrage still works â just donât trust the 2007 pricing.[00:50:20] Post-exit stress: Oura Ring at 2x baseline and the Algarve hard reset.[00:52:21] Why founders who launch within a year of selling usually regret it.[00:53:30] Tennis as the ultimate void-filler: Fun, fitness, community, and fresh air in one sport.[00:54:31] The paradox of choice after exit: Structure, identity, and vertigo.[00:56:52] Parting thoughts.*
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Daredevil Michelle Khare lives life to the extreme in Challenge Accepted, amassing more than 6 million followers and more than 1 billion views. Across the show, you'll see Michelle attempt everything from Tom Cruiseâs Deadliest stunt to Harry Houdiniâs water torture cell to trying to earn a black belt in taekwondo in only 90 days.
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[00:00:00] Start.[00:00:24] Challenge Accepted: The logline and why breakdowns stay in the edit.[00:03:05] Growing up in Shreveport, LA: Friday night movies, the AFI Top 100, and interning on Snitch.[00:06:15] Podcasting: While âeasierâ than writing books, itâs a heck of a lot more work than meets the ear.[00:21:24] Quality over quantity: 8â10 episodes a year, scarcity as strategy, and building a defensible moat.[00:31:47] âHard choices, easy life.â â Jerzy Gregorek, calling the FAA 300 times, and why no one copies you when the barrier is insanity.[00:35:32] Dartmouth to Google.org: the Fermi estimation faceplant and not getting the job.[00:37:10] BuzzFeed as graduate school of the internet.[00:40:37] Work for someone else first: My case against starting a company right out of school.[00:47:28] The stolen book: Michelle pulls out a battered 2016 copy of The 4-Hour Workweek and reads her fear-setting chart aloud.[00:51:10] âIâve never designed my own rubric of successâ â the nightmare, the repair plan, and what Michelle was putting off out of fear.[00:56:59] Practicing poverty: studio apartment, stripped-down life, moonlighting for a year, then the three-month-savings leap.[01:06:58] Kebab-shop destiny: meeting stunt coordinator Steve Brown in L.A. â now he does Avatar and straps Michelle to planes.[01:09:04] Surface area for luck: Bill Gurley, Kevin Kellyâs sleeping bag, and Seneca on voluntary discomfort.[01:12:44] Coach, mentor, cheerleader: the three-person Formula One team you actually need.[01:17:20] The art of the cold email â and cold-calling the FBI tip line to meet âThe Hollywood Guy.â[01:21:55] Michelleâs three-paragraph, six-sentence formula for emails that open any door.[01:26:15] My cold email playbook: the âviaâ trick, include your damn cell number, and why âYo, Ferrissâ is an auto-archive.[01:36:24] The fake Tim Ferriss Podcast phishing scam: Zoom calls, screen access, and hijacked Facebook pages.[01:40:58] Emailing Hank Green, Brandon Sandersonâs unpublished novels, and why your first cold emails are just practice reps.[01:46:37] Michelleâs storytelling syllabus: Survivor, Snyderâs Save the Cat, and peer review of whatever went viral last week.[01:48:44] The magic of Jeff Probst, and dissecting the bones of storytelling.[01:53:12] John McPheeâs red-ink writing class at Princeton.[01:58:38] Six Thinking Hats broke Michelleâs pessimism; Radical Candor taught her how to give feedback.[02:07:20] The slinky org chart: Seven full-timers that balloon to 50 for a shoot, then compress right back.[02:21:21] Scope creep, saying no to big checks, and why Michelle has never hit creator burnout.[02:30:34] My No Book teaser: 850 pages on renegotiating commitments and getting back on the wagon.[02:33:31] The Mindy Kaling manifesto: @MindyKalingFan, The Office, and shattering expectations for Indian women in entertainment.[02:40:38] Wishlist shout-out: Norland College, where Mary Poppins meets Secret Service.[02:42:48] Episodes Michelle would pay to relive.[02:47:40] Episodes Michelle would pay to skip.[02:52:15] Seven marathons, seven continents, one week.[02:57:10] Free Solo, Alex Honnold in the creepy van, and things both of us would never do.[03:00:38] Books gifted most: Radical Candor, The Great CEO Within, and Adam Grantâs Originals.[03:01:21] Michelleâs billboard.[03:02:45] A primetime Emmy run and parting thoughts.*
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Welcome back to another in-between-isode, with one of my favorite formats: the good old-fashioned Q&A.
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TIMESTAMPS:
[00:00:00] Start.[00:02:12] Why I tend to choose the dull edge over the bleeding edge of tech.[00:04:27] Leopold Aschenbrenner: The closest thing to an AI Nostradamus.[00:05:32] What humans still do better than AI.[00:07:55] The bull and bear case for Alphabet.[00:11:30] Three things for which you should never use AI.[00:16:05] Can AI be as creative as humans?[00:17:01] Rising above the AI content flood.[00:19:19] Chris Hutchins on optimizing workflow with OpenClaw and Claude Code.[00:22:02] AI under the hood at Team Ferriss[00:26:37] Making career jumps in the age of AI displacement.[00:30:20] Cultivating a respectful community of 1,000 True Fans[00:34:49] Dog training as community management.[00:36:03] My favorite color[00:36:21] Coyoteâs steady state and the future of Cockpunch/Varlata.[00:38:03] Essential reading from my own bookshelf.[00:40:48] Most breathtaking places Iâve visited.[00:41:44] Optimizing time and networking effectively at conferences.[00:47:34] Choosing what not to do when your companyâs growing quickly.[00:49:12] Psychedelic practitioner red flags (and why you should watch KumarĂ©).[00:52:35] The career Iâm pursuing in an alternative universe.[00:53:29] Dog training the right way with Molly the rescue mutt and Susan Garrett.[00:55:28] Thoughts on Enneagram for matchmaking.[00:57:02] Quantum computing: Fascinating, terrifying, and probably not 30 years away anymore.[00:58:18] Maintaining friendships across ideological lines.[00:59:49] The compounding upsides to selective ignorance.[01:02:04] In-common humor: The glue that binds the most resilient relationships.[01:02:36] The inspiration behind my blog post about 20+ years of âoptimizing.â[01:04:28] Simple ways to make the world shine brighter.[01:05:16] The No Book.[01:05:37] The 18th question: âWhat is the most generous interpretation of this?â[01:07:42] The best way Iâve found to experience a new city with limited time.[01:08:18] How âOzymandiasâ informs the priority I place on wealth accumulation.[01:09:59] Relationships over riches.[01:11:16] What I consider the top three values for kids: Optimism, resourcefulness, physical activity.[01:13:04] Weirdness in the wilderness and succumbing to a shipwreck scam.[01:14:21] Ask your best friends when theyâve seen you at your best â and what superpower youâre blind to.[01:17:33] Is courage internal or external? Can it be learned?[01:19:27] Parting thoughts.*
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Welcome to another wide-ranging "Random Show" episode that I recorded with my close friend Kevin Rose (digg.com)!
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[00:00:00] A meditative start.[00:02:19] Reflecting on our second Zen retreat in Santa Fe with Henry Shukman.[00:04:08] Ketone liver warnings and eggplant allergies: The perils of raiding Kevinâs fridge.[00:08:06] âJust be stillâ â three simple words that miraculously shut down my OCD.[00:13:54] Is meditation secretly vagus nerve stimulation?[00:20:17] DIY vagus nerve stim for $25 vs. Kevinâs $900 ear clip.[00:24:57] HeartMath and watching your HRV move in real time.[00:27:57] Marching toward 50: balance boards and the end of jiu-jitsu.[00:31:26] Tony Hawk snowboarding Hokkaido with screws in his hip.[00:33:01] Slacklining and why your nervous system needs sleep cycles.[00:35:19] Bertolottiâs Syndrome: My six-year back pain gets a name.[00:37:09] The nerve block test: everything wrong, zero pain.[00:44:10] Abrahangs tendon protocol: 10 seconds on, 50 off.[00:46:24] The NUG: a pocket hangboard for travelers.[00:48:31] Craig Modâs Japanese toothbrush and Toasterâs cameo.[00:50:45] Kevinâs $92 vintage fire jacket: Blue Heritage Japan.[00:54:26] Podcast picks: The Power Broker and STEM Talk.[00:56:20] Alzheimerâs: A plaque or mitochondrial problem?[00:57:30] 10 grams of ketones turns one-word answers into sentences.[00:58:40] Methylene blue on Amazon: 120 years of research, zero guardrails.[01:02:36] Bredesen Protocol, APOE genotyping, and a cognitive comeback.[01:05:32] Photobiomodulation: $30k laser to the forehead.[01:07:55] Urolithin A and the high price of mitochondrial upkeep.[01:14:56] Recipe for disaster pants: espresso + creatine + MCT oil.[01:17:39] Norwegian 4Ă4 training and lactate as a brain lever.[01:23:15] Blood flow restriction bands and schwantz ring koans.[01:29:08] Hummingbirds named Sunset and squirrel obstacle courses.[01:32:06] Parting thoughts.*
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Many of us feel like weâre drowning in invisible complexity. So I wanted to hit pause and ask a simple question: What are 1-3 decisions that could dramatically simplify my life in 2026? To explore that, I invited five long-time listener favorites: Maria Popova, Morgan Housel, Cal Newport, Craig Mod, and Debbie Millman.
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[00:00:00] Start.[00:01:49] Maria Popova[00:02:04] The Cherish Quotient: Stop giving hours to people who rank as âfine.â[00:03:15] When you apologize for your priorities, youâre apologizing for your life. Stop![00:04:41] Morgan Housel[00:04:50] The do-nothing thesis: Be average long enough and youâll end up in the top 1%.[00:08:42] Read more history, fewer forecasts â and watch the news lose its power over you.[00:09:32] How Stephen Kingâs 11/22/63 illustrates the futility of prediction.[00:12:21] Cal Newport[00:12:36] What deserves a âyesâ when the default is âno?â[00:16:38] Deep Work sells two million copies and creates a schizophrenic double life.[00:19:07] The unifying insight: Both careers were always about technology and human flourishing.[00:24:07] Craig Mod[00:24:46] How quitting alcohol has been Craigâs highest-ROI decision.[00:27:13] Therapy after a decade of sobriety: The clichĂ© that actually cleared the water.[00:30:27] The compounding interest that comes from committing to one craft.[00:33:09] Debbie Millman[00:34:30] How being offered the CEO seat at her company led to four months of paralysis.[00:36:10] The sentence that broke the spell: âIf it takes four months, you probably donât want it.â[00:37:38] Ambition changes shape: Validation isnât fulfillment, and power isnât purpose.More about today's guests:
Maria Popova (@mariapopova) thinks and writes about our search for meaning, lensed sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children's books, always through wonder. She is the creator of The Marginalian (born in 2006 under the name Brain Pickings), which is included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials. Her books and projects include Traversal, The Universe in Verse, Figuring, The Coziest Place on the Moon, and An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days.
Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) is a partner at The Collaborative Fund. His book The Psychology of Money has sold more than three million copies and has been translated into 53 languages. Morgan is also the author of Same As Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes and The Art of Spending Money.
Cal Newport is a professor of computer science at Georgetown University, where he is also a founding member of the Center for Digital Ethics. In addition to his academic work, Newport is a New York Times bestselling author who writes for a general audience about the intersection of technology, productivity, and culture. His books have sold millions of copies and been translated into over forty languages. He is also a contributor to The New Yorker and hosts the popular Deep Questions podcast. His latest book is Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout.
Craig Mod (@craigmod) is a writer, photographer, and walker living in Tokyo and Kamakura, Japan. He is the author of Things Become Other Things and Kissa by Kissa. He also writes the newsletters Roden and Ridgeline and has contributed to The New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, and more.
Debbie Millman (@debbiemillman) has been named one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company and one of the most influential designers working today by Graphic Design USA. She is the host of Design Mattersâa great show and one of the worldâs longest-running podcasts. She is also chair of the Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, editorial director of Print magazine, a Harvard Business School Case Study, and a member of the board of directors at the Joyful Heart Foundation.
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Jim Collins has published multiple international bestsellers that have sold in total more than eleven million copies worldwide, including the perennial favorite Good to Great. His new book is What to Make of a Life: Cliffs, Fog, Fire, and the Self-Knowledge Imperative.
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[00:00:00] Start.[00:02:43] More energy at 68 than 37: Jimâs mysteriously expanding battery.[00:04:57] Two mornings a day.[00:08:24] How Marcelo Garcia avoids the âsimmering six.â[00:10:24] The portable coffee ritual.[00:12:44] Side passions of high performers: Disco dancing, the occult, and Sunday school.[00:18:20] Genesis of âWhat to Make of a Lifeâ and the sage down the hall: John W. Gardner.[00:20:51] Joanneâs IRONMAN triumph: winning by 90 seconds on a shattered hamstring â then the cliff.[00:26:01] Cliff events, matched pairs, and the bigger question that swallowed the smaller one.[00:31:35] The fog-clarity inversion: clear on life, foggy on projects.[00:34:56] Fog happens to everyone â donât freak out about it.[00:40:38] Jimâs wifeâs one-word review of life with him.[00:47:29] When the fire went from red molten rage to a green-yellow warming glow.[00:54:18] Encodings vs. strengths: The window frame metaphor and John Glennâs click moment.[01:01:49] My encoding candidates.[01:08:07] 70 points on trust: Discovering your encodings matters, but trusting them matters more.[01:12:43] Enneagram as an acceptable horoscope for tech guys.[01:15:21] The 1,000 creative hours rule and Warren Buffettâs punch card: Life is the ultimate finite resource.[01:23:37] âThe most wonderful, disappointing answerâ: How Jimâs team says no with grace.[01:27:14] Right people, right seats, encoded edition: When management angst shrinks to almost nothing.[01:38:23] Return on luck deep dive: What luck, who luck, and zeit luck.[01:46:24] Natalie moments: Not all time in life is equal.[01:46:52] Maximizing surface area of luck, return on luck, and Jimâs chain of who luck.[02:04:47] Cardiss Collins and return on bad luck: Cliff events that expose encodings you never knew you had.[02:08:33] A warning for founders: Sell your company, lose a decade â the cliff nobody plans for.[02:11:23] âAn option to come back has negative valueâ: Irv Grousbeckâs counterintuitive wisdom.[02:14:22] Signing the Declaration as a death warrant: When thereâs no option, the mind focuses.[02:16:01] The hunt for Roger Sherman: Choosing matched pairs and the man who saved the Constitution twice.[02:20:48] The mythology of youthful creativity: Jimâs rebuttal â Toni Morrison wrote Beloved at 56.[02:34:35] Flipping the arrow of money: Is money fuel for your work, or is your work fuel for money?[02:38:42] Commonwealth Club event: Jim Collins live in San Francisco, April 9th.[02:39:44] The ultimate definition of success: âMy spouse likes and respects me evermore as the years go by.â[02:43:08] A plus-two day and parting thoughts.*
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This episode is a bit different, and I am in the hot seat. Dan Harris (@danharris) interviewed me for his show, the 10% Happier with Dan Harris podcast, and I thought it was worth sharing here. Dan is a wonderful interviewer, and we got in the zone. He is also the bestselling author of 10% Happier and Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book.
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[00:00:00] Start.[00:02:16] The simple social secret that has me feeling better than self-help and isolation ever did.[00:05:55] 70â80% depression remission with accelerated TMS and the SAINT Protocol.[00:10:14] One day of TMS + an old tuberculosis antibiotic flipped the OCD switch to near-zero.[00:14:10] The pros and cons of TMS accessibility for all.[00:18:09] Danâs parallel confession: The âdesertificationâ of social life under workaholism.[00:22:10] âItâs the relationships, stupid.â Evolutionary biology meets self-improvement.[00:26:51] What youâre optimizing for should come before how.[00:28:33] Health optimization made personal.[00:31:12] Intermittent fasting: Just changing when I eat has been the single biggest needle-mover for my bloodwork.[00:32:54] Working with your doctors: Replicate tests, respect diurnal cycles, and resist the four-drug opening salvo.[00:37:17] AI as health co-pilot: Use LLMs for medical literacy and contraindication checks â but always fact-check one tool with another.[00:41:48] Full-body MRIs: Over 40, you will find something. But Danâs wife (a doctor) says skip âem â and Rumi might have agreed with her.[00:45:22] How my actual daily life compares to a poorly programmed Roomba.[00:47:30] Jerry Seinfeldâs grand unified life theory: Lift weights and do TM. Thatâs pretty much it.[00:51:28] The No Book: 800 pages, six years deep, co-written with Neil Strauss â because even the most accomplished people canât say no.[00:55:25] âI canât do the life Tetris.â Martha Beckâs masterclass in declining without defending.[00:59:04] Rocks, gravel, and sand: How to protect your life-changing commitments from death by a thousand small distractions.[01:04:50] Three years without social media on my phone, fear-setting as clarity, and two hours of daily focus as the new top 1%.[01:08:46] Coyote: My card game with Exploding Kittens, and why I only choose projects that let me win even if they fail.[01:13:05] Parting thoughts.*
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Tish Rabe (@tishrabebooks) is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 children's books with more than 11 million copies sold. She has written for Sesame Street, Disney, PBS Kids, Curious George, Clifford, and many more. She now heads her own children's book publishing company, Tish Rabe Books.
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[00:00:00] Who is Tish Rabe?[00:00:24] How an opera major became a bestselling childrenâs author and songwriter.[00:03:12] Tishâs trashy debut on television treasure Sesame Street.[00:03:36] Pitching a childhood memory to dead silence â and landing book number one.[00:07:27] The value of writing a storyâs ending first.[00:09:42] Jim Henson: The kind, gentle giant with a mind of steel.[00:10:58] Keeping kids and their parents entertained with double-level humor.[00:11:38] How Tish put her music training to work with Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.[00:18:56] From nine-note auditions to signing on with Sesame Streetâs mission to level the kindergarten playing field.[00:22:48] Churning out childrenâs books and writing bangers about animal gestation periods and lumber measurement for 3-2-1 Contact.[00:26:56] The zero-rhyming genius of Joe Raposoâs âBeinâ Greenâ and why it works.[00:29:59] Curriculum is king: Focus groups, orange Oscar, and making sure the kids arenât lost.[00:32:16] Random House rejected her book, but the late Dr. Seuss took a second look.[00:37:17] Accepting the Widow Seussâs challenge to write a book for babies in utero and ending up with a bestseller.[00:40:39] The secret to perfect rhyme in Dr. Seussâs paradigm.[00:44:14] Is rhyming a part of Tishâs DNA, or did she learn it along the way?[00:48:12] The time Tish transformed a planet from pizza into nickels to make her deadline.[00:49:45] Has music as a mission preserved Tishâs cognition?[00:55:10] What does Tish aim to do with the company she started in her 70s?[01:01:18] Sometimes Apart, Always in My Heart: A military kidâs book born from a POW fatherâs legacy and a high-five traced on paper.[01:05:30] Alaska the stuffed dog, financial literacy bunnies, hallucinated seagulls, and 843 acres of Central Park in 24 pages.[01:12:54] Tishâs campaign to get free books to kids in underserved neighborhoods.[01:14:02] Advice for aspiring childrenâs book authors.[01:15:42] Tish doesnât get derailed by writerâs block â she prepares for it.[01:17:24] When Michelle Obama added 16 pages to a book Tish thought would be boring.[01:19:37] Big Bird in China, 1982: One hand-painted costume, 13 days of rain, zero coffee, and a five-year-old who memorized the wrong script.[01:23:41] Tishâs billboard.[01:24:38] Kindness is Caring, Friendship is Sharing and other parting thoughts.*
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Jordan Jonas (@hobojordo) grew up on a farm in Idaho, rode freight trains across the US, spent time in remote Russian villages, fur trapped and travelled for several years with nomads in Siberia, and won Alone Season 6, after being the first contestant to truly thrive in the wilderness and harvest big game. You can learn more about Jordan's axes at JordanJonas.com/Axe.
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[00:00:00] Who is Jordan Jonas?[00:02:20] The Siberian axe gospel: Single bevel, wide eye, and why your Lowe's hatchet is basically a butter knife.[00:07:16] A Montana downpour baptism.[00:08:04] Feather sticks and ferro rods.[00:12:36] A gnarly axe-ident, a quest for an abandoned boot, and frontier convalescense in a tipi.[00:19:59] First Russian word learned, courtesy of a Moscow airport officer with zero chill.[00:21:18] Jordan's youthful faith crisis and a Trans-Siberian prayer.[00:29:16] From building an orphanage to living with the Evenki.[00:31:29] Experiencing tug-of-war hospitality between ex-con Siberian families.[00:39:34] Reindeer vs caribou.[00:45:42] The Gulag Archipelago at 17.[00:49:36] The homeschooling advantage: Finishing academics by noon, then deep-diving history for fun.[00:53:50] Campfire psychology for gentlemen.[00:56:00] Why llamas are more practical than reindeer on Jordan's expeditions in the northern United States.[01:01:37] How Jordan's grandparents found purpose and built a joyful family after surviving Assyrian genocide.[01:11:18] Dad's 12-year health collapse and facing death with radical joy.[01:18:49] Freight train philosophy and evolutionary dopamine alignment.[01:30:03] Grandma moose rodeo.[01:33:07] Alone Season 6: The "Super Bowl of survival" just south of the Arctic Circle.[01:40:38] How Jordan survived 77 days in the woods barely breaking a sweat.[01:48:21] Harvesting a moose at day 20 via Russian fence-funneling tactics.[01:56:21] Wolverine vs. man with axe, a tin can alarm, and a wife who likes rustic jewelry.[02:03:05] The crappy fate of less-than-lucky rabbit feet.[02:04:59] Fat as a survival bottleneck, and how to experience the wild with Jordan.[02:09:31] Jordan hopes his upcoming book will help readers build reservoirs of resilience before they're needed.[02:12:27] The most overlooked part of the Serenity Prayer: "Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace."[02:14:48] The wilderness as political neutral ground and other parting thoughts.For show notes and past guests on The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast.
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Tim McGraw (@thetimmcgraw) is a Grammy Award-winning entertainer, author, and actor who has sold more than 106 million records worldwide, with 49 number-one singles and 19 number-one albums. He is one of the most-played country artists since his debut in 1992, has four New York Times bestselling books, and has acted for both film and television, including the movies Friday Night Lights and The Blind Side and Paramount Networkâs Yellowstone. He recently starred alongside his wife Faith Hill and Sam Elliott in Yellowstoneâs prequelâthe three-time-Emmy-nominated 1883. You can find tickets for his upcoming Pawn Shop Guitar Tour at TimMcGraw.com.
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[00:00:00] Who is Tim McGraw?[00:01:51] Two Tims walk into a podcast.[00:02:56] âThe song always has to win.â[00:05:02] Recording âLive Like You Were Dyingâ at 2 a.m. with Uncle Hank in a puddle in the corner.[00:09:22] Sensing when the moment is right.[00:10:29] The song Nashville hated that Tim heard his first night off the Greyhound.[00:13:18] The one-two punch that saved Tim from novelty-act purgatory.[00:15:22] Turning down the CMAs because the song wouldnât fit the time slot.[00:20:11] Why you canât let the audience steer the ship when testing material live.[00:25:51] Coping with the physical toll of performing for three decades.[00:34:04] The Four Christmases wake-up call that changed everything.[00:37:42] What training smarter looks like for Tim.[00:41:22] When Tim found out his dad was a baseball legend whose picture was already on his wall.[00:54:53] Important advice for aspiring parents.[00:55:41] When Tim pawned his high school ring for a $20 guitar.[00:58:27] Learning guitar from CMT videos and fret diagrams.[00:59:37] The morning Tim tore up his Marines paperwork and bought a Greyhound ticket to Nashville.[01:07:20] Nashville as creative accelerant: Tracy Lawrence, Kenny Chesney, and $50 singing competitions.[01:12:45] Poâboy Donâs crawfish shack: The demo that launched Timâs career.[01:15:39] How Faith Hill saved Timâs life.[01:18:33] The 7 a.m. bottle of whiskey cry for help.[01:20:27] Parenthood as selfishness-removal surgery.[01:24:28] Timâs âGlory Daysâ disaster with Bruce Springsteen.[01:28:30] When Timâs first album âwent woodâ â the failure that taught him everything.[01:33:29] A rodeo monkey no longer: When Tim kicked his record company to the curb.[01:37:35] Timâs most important advice for artists.[01:43:41] Announcing the summer 2026 Pawn Shop Guitar tour with The Chicks.[01:46:28] If itâs so grueling, why does Tim still tour?[01:49:50] Timâs âHumble and Kindâ billboard.[01:50:50] Parting thoughts and a parting gift: âDifferentâ â the new song only on social media.*
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Dr. Tommy Wood (@DrRagnar) is an associate professor of pediatrics and neuroscience at the University of Washington, where his research focuses on brain health across the lifespan. This includes therapies for brain injury in newborns, prevention and treatment of adult brain trauma, and the factors that contribute to long-term cognitive function and cognitive decline. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Stimulated Mind.
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TIMESTAMPS:
[00:00:00] Start[00:02:30] The cognition conversation commences.[00:03:11] Why human babies are chubby little brain-fuel tanks.[00:05:16] Brain injury in newborns: Cooling, caffeine, and coming home.[00:09:07] Adult concussion protocol: Fever management, ketones, and why you shouldnât chug Powerade.[00:18:59] Washingtonâs 2nd Strongest Man talks omega-3s, methylation, and why your brain needs the whole orchestra.[00:29:34] Auguste Deter, Alzheimerâs mystery patient, and the 45-70% dementia prevention sweet spot.[00:39:22] From CGM monitoring to the âuse it or lose itâ glucose paradox.[00:55:54] VO2 max training as cardio insurance against dementia.[01:01:32] Jiu-jitsu, sleds, and the Norwegian torture method (4Ă4 intervals).[01:03:37] Lactate training: Forget the finger prick, embrace the misery.[01:06:40] Announcing The Stimulated Mind: Tommyâs brain-saving book.[01:07:35] Foundation supplements: Omega-3s, B vitamins, vitamin D, iron, and magnesium.[01:08:58] Polyphenols, choline, and the case for eating more liver.[01:10:40] Creatine: Tommyâs 10-gram cognitive stimulant ritual.[01:11:58] Cheap creatine temptation leads to lavatory lamentation.[01:14:16] Blood flow restriction training: High lactate, low load, maximum travel convenience.[01:21:45] Language learning, music, StarCraft, and why your brain needs to fail.[01:38:04] Sleep anxiety, air pollution, and gum disease: the overlooked dementia risk factors.[01:45:32] Air purifiers, CO2 levels, and sleep optimization hacks.[01:51:52] DORAs for sleep quality: when cognitive stimulation isnât enough.[01:54:55] The thesis behind The Stimulated Mind: Practical, referenced, and sustainable.[01:56:32] Kelly and Juliet Starrettâs stamp of approval.[01:57:44] The beautiful compounding effect of fixing just one thing.[01:58:59] Who is Dr. Ragnar, and does he make housecalls to Valhalla?[02:01:06] Tommyâs open invitation for complaints and scientific debates.[02:02:21] Parting thoughts.*
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