George Mack
Everything George 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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"Peanuts in Coke is the most accidentally perfect food pairings in history. The chemistry explains why this guy can't go back."
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"I just upload the whole document to Gemini. And it goes, 'Oh, no. Just just put nizoral on your face.' So anybody who has seborrheic dermatitis, it fixes it for like 90% of people as a medicine or it's shampoo. It's a fucking shampoo. And like I've never had it ever again since 10 years. Never had it ever again since."
▶ 2:06:36Warned against
"I tried Feel Free, which is like this really popular company. I tried half a bottle and it just made me really anxious and a little sick for like an hour and a half."
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"There's a great essay, George Orwell's Politics and the English Language, and he talks about how there's these new terms of phrase, like as a writer you can just put in there 'at the end of the day.'"
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"It's shrunk all the way down to Cobb-Vantress owned by Tyson, Aviagen owned by Germans EW Group. Their flagship products, the Cobb 500 and the Ross 308, and we basically got rid of all of the different variations of chicken."
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"If you look at the highest net worth in the UK, a lot of them is like the lady who runs Bet365. But when you're actually a betting company you pay tax."
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"It was then pointed out that Einstein didn't actually say that. It's in Zero to One."
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"There was another guy who helped Lewis Capaldi with anxiety. I think he wrote a book called Addicted to Anxiety. And he apparently once cured somebody of their anxiety."
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"I don't think that there's that much of a weighting in terms of the LLM that James Clear's Atomic Habits or Moby Dick is worth 10 million times that of an anime and manga blog."
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"Models by Mark Manson also, I reckon had he given it a little bit more magic with the title, would have been even bigger — it's still great and sold relatively well but could have been significantly better for what it was."
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"I think YouTube is better to listen to music on than Spotify or Apple Music because you can get live tracks way more."
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"If you're the sort of person that's reading Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power and is thinking about what time they get up and tracking their Whoop scores, you've already pre-selected — you're not going to be in the just-do-it bin by nature."
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"The book The Sovereign Individual has this beautiful line — if CNN existed during the fall of the Roman Empire, the headline would not have been 'The Roman Empire has just fallen.'"
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"I think YouTube is better to listen to music on than Spotify or Apple Music because you can get live tracks way more."
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"If you're the sort of person that's reading Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power and is thinking about what time they get up and tracking their Whoop scores, you've already pre-selected."
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"I find it so offensive when I'm writing and Grammarly will try and auto correct me — or even ChatGPT or the autocorrector — to American English spelling."
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