Tim Ferriss

"I like RSS feeds. I like this idea of being able to do whatever I want, be myself."

"I would be in compression pants and putting on DMSO and all this crap because I had a ton of injuries from one episode."

"So I use the way all the time full disclosure we're both involved with it... it's just I think it's good for humanity and people to learn from somebody who is really deliberate about layering on progressive skills"

"We got together... the retreat... it was 3 to 4 days, something like that"

"You've dabbled in the world of Zen... we got together... the retreat"

"I use a Morpheus chest strap."

"I think enneagram look it might be tech friendly astrology, but I've seen it used at Shopify. I've seen it used at Dropbox. I found the enneagram as one good option."

"he's played a lot with Claude Code and other things... every time I've gotten stuck, I've been able to use Claude Code in the OpenClaw directory to fix things."

"I have a document, a Google Doc that is the ten commandments of my calendar basically."

"the Google Calendar integration has also been helpful. In other words, updating a calendar entry from Claude or creating multiple at a time."

"there was a talk I gave at South by Southwest describing exactly what I did at South by Southwest 2007 when I launched the 4-hour work week."

"Conversely, if you're using ChatGPT or Claude to try to assess a given public company as a good or bad investment, rest assured that many people have already done this."

"Let me take a sip of my sipping ketones. This was sent to me by a scientist and he was like, 'Mix 10 milliliters into 250 milliliters of water. Do not chug.'"

"your ability to navigate is probably deteriorated since using Google Maps"

"if you're using ChatGPT or Claude to try to assess a given public company as a good or bad investment"

"There's one called the Indo board, which I have and I've messed around with it."

"This is the Delta G brand ketone monoester, which is BHB, which is kind of what you want bound with something called 1,3-butanediol."

"Yeah, taking Repatha. In the thigh. I hate it. It's so painful. I find it so painful."

"If I want to find interesting scientists doing things that I think I might be able to apply to my life, STEM talk is just incredible."

"It's about the size of like a gigantic bar of soap. It's a piece of wood, and it has different depths of grips on it. You could keep it in a jacket pocket."

"Intermittent ketosis. The ketogenic diet and ketosis overall, which I'm in right now, is absolutely phenomenal for addressing a lot of psychiatric pains."

"I've experimented with this over the last handful of years, and the first time I did it, it had near miraculous results. I went from having severe moderate severe OCD with lots of rumination."

"I predosed with something called D-cycloserine. And I did one day and Dan this time around boom it was just like a switch basically the next day."

"my policies that were already in place last time we spoke that I have really continued to invest into are doing a past year review every year looking at my top relationships that are nourishing energizing energy in as opposed to energy out"

"I predosed with something called D-cycloserine. This little drug is a catalyst for neuroplasticity."

"I've experimented with this over the last handful of years, and the first time I did it, it had near miraculous results."

"The one thing that has most dramatically changed my blood tests with respect to insulin sensitivity and avoiding pre-diabetes - intermittent fasting."

"In my case, something called Ezetimibe, otherwise known as Zetia. Very well studied, very well tolerated."

"I think Biograph is the highest level. Prenuvo is also pretty good, but I've seen a couple of people have cancers missed."

"If people haven't read John McPhee, they should. Just tremendous. If you want to read something short, Levels of the Game is incredible."

"You can use Google Voice. You can spin up a Google Voice number very easily from any G Suite."

"Amazing gym. I mean, those guys are amazing. Tempest free running. Check it out. It's incredible."

"Hope you took your Zopran."

"If you want to read something short, Levels of the Game is incredible. The levels of the game is about basically the entire game of tennis, but told through the lens of one match involving Arthur Ashe."

"They're great for recovery. It's like if you want to feel like a Kobe cow."

"If you do it three times a week for 6 months, you can observe the effects, the beneficial effects for like 5 years afterward."

"Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez is one of the best non-fiction books I've ever read and it really shattered the mold. It redefined what non-fiction nature writing could be."

"You should read up on Leopold Ashin Brena. You can look up situational awareness the decade ahead. The number of actual hits, predictive hits that Leopold had is staggering."

"let's just say, Travels with Charlie. Amazing book by John Steinbeck. Road trip in a makeshift RV with his dog Charlie. Incredible book."

"He has a podcast called All the Hacks which he has used to explore some really fascinating stuff. If you're a points nerd or like travel, it's a good one."

"the first one is called Apt and you can check that out at tryapt.ai. you can get 50% off with Tim50."

"The other is Oboe. So obtly focused on accelerating skill acquisition and learning. I think these two actually go together really well."

"one thing that never goes out of style is 1,000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly. You can read it for free at kk.org."

"I would read The Effective Executive from Peter Drucker. Classic, old, short, incredible bang for the buck."

"If you haven't read Alice in Wonderland. You should go read Alice in Wonderland. Read the whole thing just quotes from it."

"the 80/20 principle, Richard Koch. That just never gets old. Just does not get old."

"read a book called the high growth handbook by Elad Gil. arguably one of the best certainly angel investors of the last few decades. his hit rate is absolutely insane."

"maybe last but not least, the blue ocean strategy probably worth checking out because if you choose to compete in a crowded category, you just have a harder road ahead of you."

"Kumare great documentary. everybody should watch Kumare. I liked it so much that way back in the day... I reached out to the filmmaker who made Kumare."

"the books that I have found most helpful are Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor. I think everybody should read that."

"everybody should read I think it's Percy Shelley. Ozymandias. Everybody should find this. So good. Everybody should read Ozymandias."

"It is a series on the power broker. It's a wonderful series, and I think there are 12 parts. Now they have the full 12."

"You can use an app like Freedom. There's an app called Freedom that you can use to block certain things for certain periods of time."

"For people who are interested I really recommend the conversation I did with Nolan Williams."

"Here's the most intense exercise you can do if you want the break glass plan for fixing your relationship. You stand in front of each other staring at each other in the eyes silent and you hold your arms out to the side like in an iron cross holding hands for 8 minutes."

"Started using 10% Happier, meditating every day, and it was like boom, within 4 weeks, pains went away. Crazy."

"Read Non-Violent Communication. Figure out how to talk to people without sounding overly defensive or aggressive."

"There's one called Obo, OBE.com. Get some basic literacy, just the ABCs of basic medical terminology."

"The other one is let's get on a Zoom call and discuss. And what happens is you get on a Zoom call and they somehow figure out a way to get you to provide screen access."

"Jack Canfield who co-created Chicken Soup for the Soul which has sold hundreds and hundreds of millions of copies"

"Brandon Sanderson, one of the most legendary fantasy writers in the world, who is prolific. And I think he wrote five books before he even attempted to publish one."

"There's the Vipassana approach there's transcendental meditation there's zen which is very much its own thing"

"There's the Vipassana approach there's transcendental meditation there's zen which is very much its own thing"

"if I were to tell you to go buy what color is my parachute or something, you might glean something from that."

"Barry Lopez who won I believe it was the Booker or Pulitzer Prize for another of his books called Arctic Dreams."

"They've got the ability to spin things out like Waymo."

"And there's another book of his up there called Living the 80/20 Principle. It might be living the 80/20 way."

"With something like OpenClaw, due to security concerns, I let friends of mine be the first elect to be some of the first monkeys shot into space."

"I've seen it used at Shopify. I've seen it used at Dropbox."

"Michael Pollan's exceptional book how to change your mind right that might be the cutoff for before and after"

"They have hardware, right? In terms of TPUs, they have incredible unparalleled access to information."

"How many of you invested in or even know of Diamond Rio? These are MP3 players that predated the iPod."

"MPman F10. Come on now. You guys must remember MPMAN F10. These are MP3 players that predated the iPod."

"Jobs famously changed it from Speeds and Feeds into 10,000 Songs in Your Pocket. iPod leads to podcasting. Yes, that was the genesis of this podcasting term."

"creating a category of one in a sense, much like Cirque du Soleil did back in the day. I'm expecting you're not dealing with Eastern European acrobats, but you get the idea."

"They've got Demis and DeepMind internally. They've got the ability to spin things out like Waymo."

"In the last week, Claude's desktop app has shipped a bunch of features that do a lot of what OpenClaw can do in a more user friendly way."

"I did a podcast with Steve Jurvetson ages ago who was one of the first investors in D-Wave."

"I've seen it used at Shopify. I've seen it used at Dropbox."

"we will certainly get to that, but we're going to meander all over the place"

"There's a device that is actually worth investigating called the Cognito device. It's a headset. It was developed by scientists out of MIT."

"The website is friction climbing. It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, but like friction, friction climbing. They have the nug."

"He was using the 10% Happier app by Dan Harris and he was meditating twice a day."

"Dr. Gonzalez Lima has looked at low-dose methylene blue and also photobiomodulation using lasers or LEDs."

"The Saint protocol in many patients produces 70 80% remission of depression that is quite durable."

"The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People I believe was the book"

"He also wrote The Game and Emergency and many other books."

"He also wrote The Game and Emergency and many other books."

"He's written something like 10 New York Times bestsellers. He wrote The Dirt."

"People can find you at jimcollins.com"

"We will link to everything in the show notes, tim.blog/podcast"

"Prenuvo is also pretty good, but I've seen a couple of people have cancers missed, which isn't great."

"The two companies that I'm most familiar with which make hardware that I've used myself are Brainsway, that's one company."

"There are sleep medications like Trazodone which really affect the serotonin system. It's effectively a failed antidepressant."

"Another one is MagVenture. I know people who have responded very well to both of them."

"I read the 600-page biography on him by Roland Lazenby and the middle school guidance counselor is like he wrote down what are you going to do?"

"So, he put him on a 2-year training program which involved the Norwegian 4x4. By the end of the two years, these people were working out about five hours a week."

"This is Google and it is a serious place of work. Please do not use Comic Sans."

"Simple answer against me a lot. For me, nothing. The deleterious effects and the ways it's affected other parts of my life, no done me a goddamn bit of good. Clarity is quite lovely."

"I use Momentous Creatine. They're a sponsor of the podcast, but I like their stuff and everything is like NSF certified and third party analyzed."