Modern Wisdom podcast host
Everything Chris personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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Ranked by repeated personal use, excluding sponsorships.
Personal use in 2 episodes
"I had this really great interaction with ChatGPT where I sent my genetic data to it and had a conversation with it and said, 'Hey, imagine you know nothing about me — tell me what sort of a person you think I would be just based on my genetic data.' And it came back with all of these really interesting insights."
▶ 8:34"The new ChatGPT links in with all of your health stuff on your phone and I've got this test that I want to know and can you give me advice for the present for the stuff I'm going away on holiday. It's amazing, absolutely amazing and life-changing."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"I've got maybe 1,500, maybe 2,000 nights on Whoop tracked right over the years. And you're just always sleeping less than you think you are. If you don't have money to buy a wearable, just the rule is you're sleeping less than you think you are."
▶ 49:24"But when you see in data too and because I track everything with Whoop, it was a 30% increase in HRV. a 30% increase in HRV overnight and that held for I mean I'm what 3 4 months now"
Personal use in 2 episodes
"So when I was away on holiday I just uploaded the file to Gemini and it just said, 'Oh, just put nizoral shampoo on your face.' And it's never it's not had an issue ever since. So any recommendation at home like a practical thing would be just upload a photo of yourself to Gemini or ChatGPT and just say hey based off what you can see with my skin recommend me moisturizers recommend me everything and it'll be better than do you know anything you've done before"
▶ 2:15:33"I just uploaded the file to Gemini and it just said, 'Oh, just put Nizoral shampoo on your face.' And it's never an issue ever since. Any recommendation at home would be just upload a photo of yourself to Gemini or ChatGPT and just say, 'Hey, based off what you can see with my skin, recommend me moisturizers, recommend me everything.' And it'll be better than anything."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"Oh, just put nizoral shampoo on your face. And it's never it's not had an issue ever since. I did it once every two weeks now and it's completely gone."
▶ 2:15:40"Just put Nizoral shampoo on your face. I do it once every two weeks now and it's completely gone."
Personal use in 1 episode
"Have you used WhisperFlow much yet? I've been told to — because I realized I write so much that that muscle is quite an arduous task. There's only so much writing you can do per day until you're exhausted. As a result of writing so much, I'd struggle to reply to text messages. With WhisperFlow I'm now suddenly getting so much out there."
▶ 1:23:10Personal use in 1 episode
"There's lots of brands like Eight Sleep. I would sell that to anybody. It is such an amazing game-changing product, and I've got no — apart from the fact that I use it and they pay on the show — I have no loyalty to them as a brand, but they rule. The product's great."
▶ 32:37Personal use in 1 episode
"The um Manta eye mask that I love, which I think is great. Very expensive. So expensive. But uh on this one"
▶ 15:35Warned against
"You're so bitter about Blue Sky. No engagement apart from people that hate you. Dude, get off there. Self harm torture porn."
"Match Group owns everything except for Raya and Bumble, right? It's crazy that they're allowed such a monopoly on what is now modern dating and nobody discusses it because it's sort of icky."
"Polyester underwear on dogs tanked their progesterone 90% and 75% of them couldn't get pregnant. Polyester creates an electrostatic field that disrupts hormone production."
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"You know the Truman Show, seen the Truman Show, and like the entire world's kind of curated for that. I have a working theory that Big Golden... they are seeding very cute golden retrievers into my life."
"You know, have you seen The Truman Show, and like the entire world's kind of curated for that."
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"My favorite thing, which I've said a gazillion times on the show, is the Michelangelo effect. Two people in a relationship, friendship, intimate partnership, see the best in each other. And over time, like Michelangelo saw David inside the marble and he just removed that which was not David."
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"James, business partner in Newtonic, used to work door-to-door selling gas for npower, which is a utility company in the UK."
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"Have you heard of GPS brain or the GPS principle? If you are trying to get to a destination following Google Maps, when you miss the turn, Google Maps doesn't judge itself or you for missing the turn. It just updates the route."
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"It feels to me like System 1, System 2 thinking a bit from Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow. So System 2 is very deliberate and you sort of have to pay a lot of cognitive attention to it, and then over time you train System 2 into System 1."
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"If you get any taller than 6'2, I reckon you start to see negative returns 'cause then you're too tall. Then you've got bloody knees touching the seats on EasyJet."
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"Let's ride to war like the great Romans did. ElevenLabs reaction still coming in."
"My voice was one of the most popular British male voices on the number one AI voice platform, ElevenLabs. For just a few dollars, anyone, anywhere in the world, could make me say anything, sell anything, and support anything."
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"It was a great Fast Car magazine in the UK... was a wonderful way for a teenager to buy softcore porn under the guise of being interested in cars."
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"So I had Martin Seligman on, positive psychology guy. There's this thing called conservation of dysphoria... So as your life gets better, some people look for worries with a bigger magnifying glass."
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"When we get off this boat, you're going to hop in the Higgins boat like Saving Private Ryan, like the movie. You're going to make an amphibious landing into enemy territory."
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"With Jhana you actually try and welcome that in. You see that part of you. It's similar to Internal Family Systems (IFS) or parts work."
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"Nando's in the UK, which is a chicken restaurant, released a new type of sauce that I found so tasty, but it was really hot."
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"I think that's the number one realization that people get from wearing a sleep tracker like a Whoop and using an Eight Sleep or something, which is just, dude, you are sleeping less than you think you are."
"This episode is brought to you by Whoop... How you recover is literally going to determine how good your next day is going to be, and Whoop tracks all of it. Sleep, strain, heart rate, recovery."
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"I didn't know this cuz I don't have an Apple Watch, but apparently your Apple Watch can detect the local noise levels... the screams of the girls as they came out on stage were so loud that everyone's Apple Watches went off."
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"I don't know who owns Blue Sky. Maybe maybe that is as a company is run. That's like as socialist of a capitalist company as you're going to get."
"Every single time that you try and put anything that's evolutionarily adjacent on Bluesky, you're getting pilloried... Man, you're just voluntarily trading your own sanity here."
"You're so bitter about Blue Sky. No engagement apart from people that hate you. Dude, get off there. Self harm torture porn."
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"That was Robert Wright's Why Buddhism Is True when I first learned about that. The modules of the mind."
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"I finally have a few days off. I've six days off. Although, I have two days of taste testing for Myprotein and a Black Friday shoot in the middle of it."
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"He used to be at Levels, which is a glucose monitor, and he is now the Chief Information Officer at the Treasury."
"A guy called Sam Corcos, who used to be at Levels, which is a glucose monitor, and he is now the chief information officer at the Treasury."
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