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.
Created by Chris
Mentioned in 3 episodes
Mentioned in 2 episodes
Top picks
"Jerry, can you just Google Oh, the ChatGPT how many babies were born from the crisper editing in China?"
Kindle
"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."
All products
Products & gear
Software & tools
Books & media
Techniques & practices
Supplements & health
Recent episodes
All episodes →The Final Warnings Caesar Refused to See - Alex Petkas
Everything You Know is About to Collapse - David Friedberg
16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People - Michael Smoak
We Almost Have the Tech to Live Forever - David Friedberg
How Elon Achieves the Impossible - Eric Jorgenson
"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."
Showing 82 of 282 recommendations
Clear filters"There's an effect in psychology called the bless her heart effect. The type of gossip is couched under concern."
"for the same amount of money that was spent, I think every American citizen could have got Starlink"
"For the same amount of money that was spent, I think every American citizen could have got Starlink."
"That anthropic report that just got released looking at which jobs are going to be popped first by AI."
"Young engineers strap GoPros to their foreheads and fold laundry or pack boxes to teach humanoid robots how to do chores."
"Ladies, you need to be wearing cotton underwear. 100% cotton only if you want babies."
"it was a Douglas Murray episode actually that put the final like cuz he said, 'What's that on the ceiling?'"
"like just table salt cuz it was before Element and was available in the UK. Maybe I didn't even know it existed."
"George Mack is just the most abundance mindset person that I've ever met. He has this is my favorite George stories. I think he must be on his 30th pair of AirPods now."
"readily available information is completely free or at most what, $10 a month for Claude or ChatGPT?"
"I saw a bunch of fury two or 3 weeks ago when ChatGPT discontinued 4o and 4o had a very particular type of personality to it and that discontinuation was devastating for lots of people."
"Now people just use ChatGPT. You've seen that South Park episode, right? Where all of the guys outsource their texts to their girlfriends to ChatGPT."
"you go to ChatGPT and you load the last few messages in and you say, 'Can you write me a reply that is meaningful and loving that compromises without completely destroying my boundaries'"
"readily available information is completely free or at most what, $10 a month for Claude or ChatGPT?"
"And then if you skip forward, he's on SeatGeek looking at the 3D images of which seat is optimal to jump. Like how high is the rail, how deep is the fall"
"It's like if you ever read Flash Boys, there was a whole quant trading thing where if they put your server close to the New York Stock Exchange server, you could get your trade in before the guy who was doing it through a normal server"
"Polymarket is basically only people with skin in the game betting on an outcome. So if you're wrong consistently, you will lose money. If you're right consistently, you'll have a bigger bankroll on Polymarket. So over time, it becomes the closest thing to accurate predictions."
"He put Meta Ray-Ban glasses on. So this guy did it before and he's like, I'm going to do it again. This is basically a training montage of a bank heist, but it's just streaking at the Super Bowl."
"Alpha School is doing a South by Southwest pop-up in the middle of downtown. Mackenzie Price was on the podcast."
"JK Rowling went on to sell 500 million copies in the Harry Potter franchise and became richer than the queen."
"OECD data shows that highly successful, highly educated, high earners, they have more trouble with alcohol than people on the other end of the spectrum."
"you can fall asleep to ambient sound, rainfall, or Dr. Andrew Huberman, whatever helps you switch off"
"Level two, Epstein still alive and playing Fortnite in Israel, is actually by pursuing formidability"
"some of the young girl supposed to be young girls that I've seen uh videos of on TikTok there like 22 23 year old chicks and they look mid30s or 40s"
"some of the young girl supposed to be young girls that I've seen uh videos of on TikTok there like 22 23 year old chicks and they look mid30s or 40s with all of this work that's been done."
"I think Andrew Tate in many respects was a side effect of kind of the TikTok algorithm."
"Congratulations for making it to the end of a clip. Your brain has not been fried by TikTok."