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"Jerry, can you just Google Oh, the ChatGPT how many babies were born from the crisper editing in China?"
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"I'd have my Kindle and I'd have this little blanket and I'd put this blanket over my knees and I'd have a cushion and I'd put my Kindle on the cushion and I'd sit down and I'd try and read."
"meditation insight timer unguided doing Shinzen Young's five ways to know yourself which is the only really the only unguided meditation that I know."
"I've been using the neutonic sachets and the capsules as opposed to the RTD. So I took a break from caffeine."
"I've been using these AO glasses. They're kind of like light therapy light therapy panel but you wear them above your eyes. They look really dorky, but I've been wearing them."
"He works with a company, hydrogen water company, Echo, that I'm a fan of."
"If I do guided, I use Waking Up from Sam Harris."
"Song just came up on my Spotify. I had it on shuffle and it was making me think of you."
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"I'd rather leave my kids at a Somali daycare than with anyone who works at the BBC."
"What? Did you see what they did to Doctor Who?"
"We initially thought GLP-1's like Ozempic, Zepbound, and retatrutide just reduced food cravings. Now we know they work for alcohol and gambling and other addictions, too."
"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."
"We initially thought GLP-1's like Ozempic, Zepbound, and retatrutide just reduced food cravings. Now we know they work for alcohol and gambling and other addictions, too."
"Congratulations for making it to the end of a clip. Your brain has not been fried by TikTok."
"We initially thought GLP-1's like Ozempic, Zepbound, and retatrutide just reduced food cravings. Now we know they work for alcohol and gambling and other addictions, too."
"The most common way that high negative affect people manage their negative affect is alcohol because it's unbelievably effective."
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Clear filters"Have you ever read Seven Eves by Neal Stephenson? Love that book. Yeah, one of my most reread fiction books."
"Have you ever read Seven Eves by Neal Stephenson? This is why hard sci-fi rules because I get to learn about real stuff."
"One of the other ones that's in there is The Precipice by Toby Ord and that's all about existential risk. How humanity could go extinct from super volcanoes to supernova explosions to nanotechnology and engineered pandemics."
"Toby Ord wrote this great book called The Precipice and he is from the future of humanity institute at Oxford. He got the best researchers in the world to rank what are the most dangerous existential risks to humans."
"It is a travesty. Everyone needs to go and read Roy Baumeister's Substack because it's got three likes and they're all me and my friends. And he's the goat, right?"
"There's a great workbook from Tony Robbins, Unleash the Giant Within, but it's this weird 1994 Audible workbook and it's only an hour and a half long"
"He does House of Strauss. Awesome substack. Sports reporter, but every time he writes something, I don't know much about basketball and March Madness but every time he writes something not about sport, it's one of the best things I've ever read"
"personally I think that the entire world needs to read The Genetic Lottery and Blueprint by Plomin because just nobody... the number of people who actually understand the genetic influence on behavior is essentially zero"
"personally I think that the entire world needs to read The Genetic Lottery and Blueprint by Plomin because just nobody... the number of people who actually understand the genetic influence on behavior is essentially zero"
"I ask my students to repeat after me. My suffering is sacred."
"Have a little mantra at the beginning of the day say I'm truly grateful for the happy things and the fun things are going to happen this day, but I'm also grateful for the trouble I'm going to have because therein lies my growth."
"Apple Photos sends these memories reminders every once in a while to you. Like it just goes into your camera roll and it says like here's a memory. I get them and half the time I text them to the person who's in the photo with me."
"I'm such a huge fan of your work and your newsletter as well that everyone should go and sign up to that the imperfectionist."
"There's a book called Your Brain on Love by Stan Tatkin. It's in my second reading list. And he explains how in couples that are having arguments, you want to deal with the argument as quickly as possible and ideally within 3 minutes."
"Take James Smith's how to become an online fitness coach thing and you know do that."
"If it's a really big deal, you can get a low or no beer. Heineken double zero. A Guinness do a good 0% now. Peroni do a good 0%."
"Mel Robbins also just phenomenal. You need to go and watch her."
"So if you can't view bright light in the form of sunlight, get it from artificial"
"So there's a great documentary on Netflix. You got to watch it. How I'm feeling now."