Tim Ferriss

Tim's top picks

What Tim uses or recommends most, ranked by how often and how strongly. Paid ads are left out.

What Tim warns against

Things Tim says to avoid or be careful with. Other experts don't always agree.

Peloton

"I've tried Peloton and didn't like their ergonomics and so on for a bunch of reasons."

The Random Show! Mortality, AI, Supplements, Rock Climbing, & More ▶ Watch at 45:36

J K K

Rhonda Patrick, James Sexton and 2 others recommend it

Airofit

"Airofit, please improve your app if you haven't in the last year because I found it to be incredibly difficult. Plus your baseline of programming for somebody who's bought a device should be decent."

The Random Show — AI Super Assistants, Dream Engineering, Wizards, Supplements, and More! ▶ Watch at 59:56

Kevin Rose recommends it

CBN

"I have also tried CBN specifically, which has been recommended to me for sleep and have not found it as effective."

Dr. Andrew Huberman — The Foundations of Physical and Mental Performance ▶ Watch at 2:28:00

All 179 of Tim's picks

• Ampa Health Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "They have the smallest, most modular option on the market. Very easy to use... from let's say a 1 to 10 in severity, let's say my OCD, generalized anxiety, it's at like an eight or a nine. It has taken it to like a zero or a one... People can check out Ampa Health." +1 other
• Claude Uses and recommends it 4 episodes "I'm using Claude Code with various APIs to do tons of inbox analysis. I'm doing a 20-year retrospective analysis of angel investing — who made what introductions, which companies did I not reply to that ended up being successes. To do that manually would be impossible. It would take me a year full-time with multiple people. With Claude Code, Gmail API, and leaving my computer running for a handful of hours a few times, what you get back is credible. It's unbelievable." +211 others
• Intermittent Fasting Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "My default, however, is actually a hybrid of those two, which is slow-carb diet with intermittent fasting, where I am fasting for at least 16 hours, and then I have an 8-hour window of eating... It is remarkable how little it takes. 4 to 6 weeks, and my tests were completely a world apart." +9 others
• Awareness Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "The book Awareness by Anthony de Mello. I still read it at least once a year. There are frameworks that I think nearly anyone can benefit from." +1 other
• D-cycloserine Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "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." +1 other
• The Way Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "Right now, I'm using The Way with Henry Shukman. I am involved in that app. I'm a small investor, but I really like a single dedicated teacher with a logical progression of skills. And I keep them short... I do 10 minutes. I try to do it twice a day." Only Tim
• Transcendental Meditation Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "In the immediate term, I will start doing TM meditation again, twice a day. A lot of problems tend to glom on to one another and it seems unresolvable. Meditation twice a day — specifically twice a day is important." +4 others
• Artisana Walnut Butter Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "But I ended up, just for shits and giggles, buying their walnut butter because I had never had walnut butter, and it has some cashews in it... I thought this was super fascinating, and it only came about because I ended up loving this walnut butter." Only Tim
• Beta alanine Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "Beta-alanine was something that I surfaced again, and I wanted to see if it had ever been applied to climbing. And it turns out that there have been studies done specifically with elite climbers... I think this stuff has really helped. To the extent that my coaches, like it was almost by the clock. Like when I got to two and a half weeks of taking this, not before, they were like, 'Whoa. What happened?'" Only Tim
• Maui Nui Venison Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "I'm traveling with Maui Nui as usual. I probably get 40% of my protein from Maui Nui venison. This is wild harvested axis deer from Hawaii — incredibly nutrient dense. I treat this like a multivitamin. I give her probably two or three of these a week. Like every professional team you can imagine uses these things in their training. This is made with wild harvested venison, liver, and heart — organ meat — and you do not taste that." +1 other
• Pikfu Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "There's one called PickFu. P-I-C-K-F-U. Instant consumer feedback, split testing, and market research. I use this for split testing different aspects of the design and packaging around the Coyote card game. If I want 5,000 people to vote on something in 72 hours, I can do that. It's a function of cost. Maybe it's like 500 bucks, 600 bucks. It's very affordable." Only Tim
• Claude Code Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "I'm using Claude Code with the Gmail APIs to do tons of inbox analysis. To do that manually would be impossible — it would take me a year full-time with multiple people. And with Claude Code, a Gmail API, and leaving my computer running for a handful of hours a few times, what you get back is incredibly credible. It's unbelievable." +90 others
• Ketogenic diet Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "I will alternate sometimes with the ketogenic diet... for optimizing state, for stabilizing and maximizing energy production, in my particular case, I find the ketogenic intermittently to be very helpful." +6 others
• Momentous Collagen Peptides Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "Collagen plus vitamin C before training. So, collagen peptides from Momentous plus vitamin C... boosts collagen production in the fingers." Only Tim
• Dexcom Uses it 3 episodes "I've played around with a lot of things in my earlier days and a lot of it is very, I would say, capped risk. If you're experimenting as I was with first generation Dexcom continuous glucose monitors in 2008, right? They were or 2009 very unpleasant to wear." Only Tim
• Kindle Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "If I have 15 minutes and I'm just killing time waiting for something, I'll pull it up on my Kindle and I'll read that because you'll get through like one or two profiles." +10 others
• Internal Family Systems (IFS) Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "IFS is Internal Family Systems. I don't love the naming of this system, but the results are really undeniable, at least in a lot of friends and also for myself personally." +2 others
• Enneagram Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "I'm a self-preservation six which honestly resonates for me. I have found it to greatly inform doing a post-mortem on things and people who have not worked in my organization" +1 other
• Slow-Carb Diet Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "Do I still do slow carb? Yes, I do still do slow carb, and I am currently following slow carb. That is the Slow-Carb Diet. For those who are not familiar, if you search how to lose 100 pounds on the Slow-Carb Diet, you will see a number of case studies that are, I think, very impressive." Only Tim
• Delta G Ketones Uses and recommends it "Every once in a while for recording, I will do that. I use Delta G ketones... in this particular case, the Delta G has the 1-3 butanediol bound to BHB... I use the health version of Delta G. I have no affiliation with this company. And that is very helpful in the afternoon." Only Tim
• Oryx Uses and recommends it "I used the Oryx software, and I'm an investor in this company, which only happened after I tested it, because I used it for 30 days, 8 minutes a day, and I went from not being able to really read anything at this distance to being able to read a menu with tiny font at night in a restaurant with very dim lighting." Only Tim
• State, Story, Strategy Uses and recommends it "This is borrowing from Tony Robbins... a progression, and I use this for everything, including writing, including working, hard conversations, and that is state, story, strategy. In other words, most people hop straight to the what should I do, which is the strategy." Only Tim
• The Effective Executive Recommends it 2 episodes "I'll add one resource to that. Read old books that contain principles, like The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker would be one that stands out. It's very short. It is very, very tactic and principle dense, and you can update the things that are outdated very easily." Only Tim
• Wispr Flow Recommends it 2 episodes "Using WhisperFlow as a data dump — doing a dump of a conversation as I'm walking with WhisperFlow into a note on my phone, then taking that, dropping into Claude, asking it to clean it up and turn it into something readable has been so helpful. Not necessarily for publication, but for emails, especially uncomfortable emails where you're like, 'Oh god.' Just doing like a 10-minute brain dump, it's shocking how quickly things come together. Like incredibly helpful." +27 others
• Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming Uses it 2 episodes "This is a long-standing interest of mine. I first read Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by someone named Stephen LaBerge at the very, very beginning of high school and became very interested in lucid dreaming." Only Tim
• Artisana Raw Almond Butter Uses and recommends it "There's a brand of nut butters, I'm sure they do other things, called Artisana. And I don't know why their raw almond butter is just better than every other brand in terms of consistency. They somehow homogenize, that might not be the right word, the oil so that you're not dealing with like the oil slick on the top and getting it all over your countertops and stuff." Only Tim
• Personal Renewal Recommends it 2 episodes "This is a speech, and I read the transcript. It is exceptional. It's called Personal Renewal. It's by John Gardner... It's really about personal renewal, continual learning throughout life. It's really, really good... So, Personal Renewal by John Gardner, maybe print it out, single task, get away from notifications. I've read this one a few times now and I just get something from it every time." Only Tim
• Duolingo Spanish Podcast Uses and recommends it "The Duolingo Spanish podcast was phenomenal. I liked the Duolingo Spanish podcast, which at one point was like one of the top 10 or 20 podcasts in the world. I want the equivalent for Mandarin." Only Tim
• Massage Therapy Uses and recommends it "I saved my money for manual therapy — massage therapy once a week. Not for relaxation, for sports massage, fix the broken car type of work. That is a commitment I made early because I saw the dividends, and I really think it has paid off over time. I think that is the core component of my longevity, health span constellation of things." Only Tim
• Parks and Recreation Uses and recommends it "Goodness gracious, is that a fantastic show. It is just wholesome goodness. It's so positive and such a feel-good palate cleanser. It's turned into this nightly ritual with my lady — we just watch one episode every night. Buying the full seven seasons is my best purchase under $100." Only Tim
• Sauna Uses it 2 episodes "Throw in some sauna in there and you're like good to go. I'm doing all the usual stuff — I'm doing the sauna. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. You can't do a sauna, take a hot bath — figure it out." +20 others
• The Tail End Recommends it 2 episodes "The Tail End makes the point among many others that by the time you graduate from high school, you've spent something like 90, 95% of the total hours you will ever spend with your parents. And when you start to visualize that, and Tim Urban's really good at laying it out visually, it can provoke some really profound changes. Just reading that short blog post ended up leading to taking my family on these family trips." Only Tim
• Bite Mouthwash Bits Uses and recommends it "This was recommended to me by Dr. Tommy Wood. He and I were having a conversation about different approaches for neuroprotection, hopefully mitigating the risk of neurodegenerative disease, and oral health is a really big one. Xylitol is really compelling as an intervention. I found ultimately everything I read so compelling that I started using these. You just chew on it, take like a couple tablespoons of water in your mouth, swish it around for 30, 60 seconds, then spit it out, and that's it." Only Tim
• Ohm Lamp Uses and recommends it "The Ohm lamp — there's a little stone on the top of it and the stone is an FDA-quality HRV sensor. You just pick it up, hold it in your hand and the light goes up and down and there's sounds and it's using an algorithm to maximize your heart rate variability. I've done 160 hours of resonance breathing in six months just this year because I just grab it next to my desk." Only Tim
• The Power Law Uses and recommends it "The Power Law: venture capital and the making of the new future, which I didn't expect to learn as much from because I've spent 20 years surrounded by venture capitalists and doing angel investing, 17 years of that in Silicon Valley. And yet I still had hundreds of highlights and so many stories that grabbed me from that book which I had not heard." Only Tim
• Low-Dose THC Edible Uses and recommends it "I have experienced incredible — well, let's say, there may be trade-offs, but benefits with respect to onset insomnia from low-dose edible... say 2.5 milligrams of THC. With CBD, it just takes too high... THC seems to be one of the magic keys in very low doses." Only Tim
• Pso-Rite Uses and recommends it "The most recent purchase that I've been enjoying quite a lot is something called the Pso-Rite, for psoas release... I was trying to find a way to unlock my lower back, which can cause a lot of sleep disruption for me... I don't always have access to such people and wanted to find a way to do it myself, and this device is what popped up." Only Tim
• Lucid Dreaming Uses and recommends it "In high school, when I was competing in wrestling, I would do additional training sessions at night in my dreams. I'm not making this up, and I felt like there was a direct translation to improved performance." +2 others
• ChatGPT Uses and recommends it "Oh my god, you kids have it good now. I love ChatGPT and Claude and so on. It's so much easier. You need to know how to interrogate the system." +140 others
• Creatine monohydrate Uses and recommends it "No, I don't hate creatine. I love creatine. I just don't find it to be the most helpful for climbing specifically... I was taking 10 grams a day, but I started getting really wicked muscle cramps... I dialed it back to five. No cramps." +26 others
• Thorne Beta-Alanine SR Uses and recommends it "I'm taking, in my case, not 4 g, but 6.4 g a day, roughly, right? I'm taking eight of these pills a day. It's a lot. And I would suggest, and this gets to the side effects, this is Thorne beta-alanine SR. That means sustained release. To minimize... this one side effect which is called paresthesia." Only Tim
• Quviviq Uses and recommends it "I'm using something called Quviviq instead of Belsomra now... talk to your doctor, guys... There's some evidence to suggest it might be helpful for people with family histories of Alzheimer's." Only Tim
• Methylone Uses and recommends it "I had my first methylone experience probably 2015... an incredibly beautiful gentle experience, and maybe the soft-spoken, shorter-staying cousin of MDMA. So rather than coming in and you're like, when's this guy gonna leave, six hours, it's more like, wow, that was so pleasant." Only Tim
• Blue Ocean Strategy Recommends it 2 episodes "If you haven't read it, read Blue Ocean Strategy. It is going to be increasingly critical and important, and certainly for a lot of businesses existential in the coming years." +1 other
• Concierge Medicine Uses and recommends it "Having concierge medicine such that, God forbid something happens and I need to get a hold of somebody at 2 a.m. on a Wednesday or Saturday, I can reach a doctor. It gives me a peace of mind that helps with everything else, even if I never use it." Only Tim
• Iyengar Yoga Uses and recommends it "Yoga, one to two times a week. I really like Iyengar yoga specifically for alignment and use of props and so on. It's very adaptable in that way." Only Tim
• Saint protocol Uses and recommends it "This is a TMS protocol that I've used for generalized anxiety disorder and OCD. It can be incredibly effective, getting in some groups of people 70 to 80% remission in treatment-resistant depression." Only Tim
• Nootropic Toothpicks Uses and recommends it "These are toothpicks — Nootropic toothpicks — given by a podcaster you may recognize. They have like 20-25 milligrams of caffeine in each toothpick and a couple of other nootropics. Because if I have cups of coffee, I will chug a cup of coffee and then if it gets refilled I'll chug another cup and it's a problem. These, in terms of pacing, have been fantastic. Even if I chew on this thing until it's fragments of wood, max I can squeeze out of it is 20-25 milligrams." Only Tim
• Nug Uses and recommends it "Tell us about the Nug, cuz that was something you turned me on to. It's just a simple little wooden device. It looks like a very large bar of soap with these different indentations carved into the sides. You can use a carabiner to connect it to a cable machine of some type in any gym. It's literally something small enough to slip into my sweatshirt pocket, so it's easy to travel with." Only Tim
• Don't Shoot the Dog Recommends it 2 episodes "There's an amazing book called Don't Shoot the Dog — it has a terrible title, maybe this is a good example of a book that failed — but it's written by this woman Karen Pryor, who worked in training marine mammals, dolphins and so on. And a lot of this applies to humans." Only Tim
• Four Thousand Weeks Recommends it 2 episodes "Four Thousand Weeks, the book that I mentioned earlier, Oliver Burkeman, great book. More highlights in that book and Psychology of Money, actually by Morgan Housel, than probably any books in recent memory for me." Only Tim
• Speks Uses and recommends it "Speks.com I think — they have amazing soft silicone-covered magnets and stretchy things. I have silly putty and mechanical toys. It's an important thing for me. If I don't have those I'll bite my nails." Only Tim
• The 80/20 Principle Recommends it 2 episodes "Pick up The 80/20 Principle. This is a book by Richard Koch... I would just pick up that book. That is the shortest answer that I can give while still being helpful." Only Tim
• STEM Talk podcast Uses and recommends it "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." Only Tim
• Biograph Uses and recommends it "I think Biograph is the highest level. Prenuvo is also pretty good, but I've seen a couple of people have cancers missed." Only Tim
• D-cycloserine (DCS) Uses and recommends it "I predosed with something called D-cycloserine. This little drug is a catalyst for neuroplasticity." Only Tim
• Ezetimibe Uses and recommends it "In my case, something called Ezetimibe, otherwise known as Zetia. Very well studied, very well tolerated." +2 others
• Four-way neck machine Uses and recommends it "I bought a four-way neck machine on Amazon for 350 bucks. I was like, 'You know what? Let me try this before spending five grand.' Works great. Nothing fancy, but it works." Only Tim
• L-carnitine Uses and recommends it "After trying to do a deep dive, taking copious amounts of L-carnitine, adding in a few other things like maca and a handful of other basics, my sperm quality is actually better, seemingly better now than it was 10 years ago, which is shocking." +3 others
• Cold Exposure Uses and recommends it "Cold exposure... does affect dopamine release. There's a lot of literature to support this, and for me at least has anti-depressive effects that last a while. It is not 10 or 20 minutes; there is some durability to it." Only Tim
• Accelerated TMS Recommends it "I mentioned accelerated TMS, and you can get it from reputable providers... But you should find someone, I think, who's familiar with accelerated TMS and ideally, and this is based on my personal experience, familiar with the 1D protocol and using this D-cycloserine." Only Tim
• AcroYoga Uses it "I have been in the best shape of my life... when I was combining GST plus The Happy Body plus acro yoga of all things. L-basing. If you want to look up that, you can certainly, but that is a little more involved than the other two." Only Tim
• Fierce Intimacy Recommends it "There's an audiobook called Fierce Intimacy by Terry Real. I find Terry to be a beacon of clarity in a world of hand-wavy relationship advice... And I have found that incredibly useful... if you had to pick one, I'd say listen to Fierce Intimacy." Only Tim
• Focal Bathys Uses it "And then, I will put on my headset, usually over-ear. I use my Bathys headset that's sitting somewhere around here. Expensive buggers." Only Tim
• Gymnastic Strength Training Recommends it "And GST is phenomenal. It is bodyweight exercises... it requires very, very little. You just need a floor... I have been in the best shape of my life in the last few decades when I was combining GST plus The Happy Body plus acro yoga." Only Tim
• Occam's Protocol Uses it "I'm in prep for surgery. I'm using Occam's protocol from that book to increase muscle mass with the expectation that I will have quite a bit of atrophy in 4 to 6 weeks post surgery." Only Tim
• Red Teaming Recommends it "Ask them to red team... If this company, if this relationship fails in 2 years, what do you think the most likely reasons would be? That does not give them the option to back out... questions like that are very helpful." Only Tim
• Spirited Away Uses it "I mean, I've seen Spirited Away probably 100 times... These are movies that I play on mute while I'm writing books." +1 other
• The Happy Body Recommends it "They have a book and a program called The Happy Body... you really basically need next to nothing. Maybe a yoga mat, couple of dumbbells, you're good... I have been in the best shape of my life in the last few decades when I was combining GST plus The Happy Body plus acro yoga." Only Tim
• The Surrender Experiment Recommends it "I read a book called The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer. This was recommended to me by Kevin Rose and it was deliberately to offer me a counterexample... Very much enjoyed it... But it's so extreme in counterbalancing my default way of being in the world that I read that book, and I did find it very helpful." Only Tim
• deadmau5 Work Moar playlist Uses it "And I'll listen to music, typically something without vocals, like a deadmau5 Work Moar, M-O-A-R, playlist, which you can find pretty easily." Only Tim
• Vitamin C Uses it "Collagen peptides from Momentous plus vitamin C. You don't need very much. 500 mg or 1,000 mg. I think it was as low as 50 in the research." +7 others
• Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression Recommends it "This book, Hard Times, an illustrated oral history of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel, contains many dozens of vignettes and profiles of people who went through the depression... they're very bite-sized profiles... it is a page turner. It's so well written... I just feel like it's one of the better and most unique depictions of history that I've ever come across." Only Tim
• Psyllium Husk Recommends it "There are a lot of heavy metals and contaminants in most common brands of psyllium husks. So Yerba Prima or Organic India are two that I have looked at testing results for, and those are good." +1 other
• The Dark Wizard Recommends it "It's a four-part miniseries called The Dark Wizard... first recommended to me by Andrew Huberman... this four-part series is insane and it's incredibly well produced. All of this archival footage, drawings and notes from Dean's personal journals all woven together... I binged the entire series. I stayed up until like 3:00 in the morning watching this stuff. I just couldn't stop watching it." +3 others
• Ketamine Uses it "I decided, well, look, I'm going to follow basically the Yale protocol and I'll get whatever it is, 0.5 milligrams per kilogram or whatever the magic dose is. I was like, 'All right, I'll do at least one, probably two two-week sequences of infusions, so at least I can speak firsthand to the subjective effects.'" +4 others
• Clear Uses it "I was their first adviser, so again, full disclosure, but CLEAR, TSA PreCheck — anything that makes travel a little bit easier." +1 other
• Kettle bells Uses it "I do still use kettlebells, especially for overhead pressing. I'll do cleans and then from cleans into shoulder pressing." +3 others
• Michel Thomas Method Recommends it "If you want something you can listen to and really acquire the fundamentals of a language in a week or two, the Michel Thomas method is outstanding. The languages he recorded himself — French, Spanish, Italian, certainly German — are world class. The Korean that I went through, I was very skeptical that anyone other than Michel would be able to use his method to teach well, and it was awesome." Only Tim
• Urolithin A Uses it "I am taking urolithin A myself for checking, in some respects, a mitochondrial box — paying a lot of attention to insulin sensitivity and glucose disposal." +2 others
• Gmail API Uses it "With Claude Code, a Gmail API, and leaving my computer running for a handful of hours a few times, what you get back is incredibly credible." Only Tim
• Keiser M3i Studio Indoor Bike Recommends it "There is a bike, however — it's very easy to find, it's pretty common in public gyms — called the Keiser M3i Studio Indoor Bike. The Keiser M3i is unique in my experience in that you can elevate the handlebars enough to sit in a comfortable position with a decent saddle, such that I can do the VO2 max training for me in a comfortable position without compromising my low back. This is the only bike that I've used consistently for this kind of training." Only Tim
• Testosterone Cypionate Uses it "I tried testosterone cypionate with HCG, just low dose, to see what's the minimal effective dose. I didn't change my training before or after. I went off and on again — it makes a difference in terms of recovery." Only Tim
• hCG Uses it "I tried testosterone cypionate with HCG — to keep sperm production online — just low dose, to see what's the minimal effective dose. I'm not competing in any sports. HCG does seem to have a pretty profound impact on libido, which is sometimes nice." +1 other
• Abrahamson's Recommends it "Abrahamson's are pretty simple. It's partial body-weight hangs in different positions for 10 seconds on, 50 seconds off for 10 minutes. You do that twice a day. It's very, very moderate in intensity. The endurance and strength gains that you get in your hands — I should say your lower arms — are just insane." Only Tim
• Alpha Ball Uses it "Something called Alpha Ball, which I use for different types of kind of mobility. It's the size of like a very large softball. And all of this stuff fits into the corner of a suitcase." Only Tim
• Exogenous Ketones Uses it "It's BHB — beta hydroxybutyrate bonded to 1,3-butanediol. In a pinch, when you want to for a podcast or something like that, man, it really works. I've given it to relatives with dementia, and within 20 minutes their sentences have like 5x'd in length and they're more acute verbally." Only Tim
• Gemini Uses it "Gemini, honestly, I've been using Gemini more and more just because it's such plug-and-play with G Suite." +61 others
• Keiser M3i Recommends it "There is a bike called the Keiser M3i studio indoor bike. The Keiser M3i is unique in my experience in that you can elevate the handlebars enough to sit in a comfortable position with a decent saddle such that I can do the V2 and V4 training in a comfortable position without compromising my low back. This is the only bike that I've used consistently for this kind of training." Only Tim
• Mandibular Advancement Device Uses it "I got fitted for a mandibular device, which is a fancy way of saying a double decker mouthpiece. It's an easier approach to resolving sleep apnea or snoring. If you take the jaw and drop it down an eighth of an inch and forward an eighth of an inch, you open your airway." Only Tim
• Sennheiser Pro Audio Condenser Microphone Recommends it "This little baggy here is the Sennheiser Pro Audio Condenser Microphone. It's very simple. I've just been very impressed with the audio. When I'm on the road recording stuff for the podcast like intros or sponsor reads, it's just a simple lav mic. The audio quality even in a hotel room that is really bouncy, lots of glass, lots of metal where it should sound terrible — if I use a fancy Shure mic in some of these bouncy rooms, it would sound worse, I'm not kidding, than what I get with this." Only Tim
• Shokz OpenComm UC Recommends it "This is the Shokz — S-H-O-K-Z — OpenComm UC, open-ear bone-conduction headset. The audio quality is great. If I'm walking my dog and I want to be able to hear traffic and so on, I can use this. I find this very, very helpful so that I can actually pay attention to my surroundings." Only Tim
• Shure Uses it "I love Shure. I use their mics on a lot of podcasts, but in terms of minimizing bounce, for whatever reason, this little baggy that I can stick in a pocket — it's like my portable recording studio." Only Tim
• The Blade Itself Recommends it "If people haven't read it, The Blade Itself — it's a series, two or three volumes by Joe Abercrombie. Fantasy novels, they're really good. The audiobooks are incredible. It explores the randomness of life or death in war — you just don't know when your time is up. I've read a lot of fantasy and this is really, really outstanding." Only Tim
• Day Tripper Recommends it "Day Tripper. This is from Brazil and does not have any sci-fi or fantasy. It's sort of a reflection on mortality. It's about this young man who has a star author as a father whose shadow he's constantly living in, who as his job writes obituaries at a local newspaper. I read this in 3 hours. The artwork is tremendous." Only Tim
• Desiccated Liver Uses it "A friend of mine wanted me to get into organ meat and I'm like I'm not going to grind organ meat into my smoothie. He got me these pills — desiccated liver. I take five or six a day and just because it's on my desk and I just see it there, I pop it in and I do it every day now." Only Tim
• Dungeon Crawler Carl Recommends it "Dungeon Crawler Carl. It's a LitRPG — literary RPG. Imagine somebody played a video game and you read a description of what happened. It is fucking unbelievable. 82,000 reviews on Amazon, 4.7 stars. It's up there with Red Rising for me. It's very edgy, really light-hearted and fun. There's a lot of inner monologue, there's interplay, and you can tell the story is going to get huge." +1 other
• Hardcore History Recommends it "Wrath of the Khans by Dan Carlin — listen to every Dan Carlin episode. I mean, honestly, still maybe the best podcast of all time, no offense. Dan Carlin, Hardcore History, Wrath of the Khans. It's like a five-part series, each one is four to five hours long. You will not be bored. You will rip through it." +1 other
• Sulforaphane Uses it "I've been taking this for probably 9 months. Predominantly because there is some possibility that it could help with mitigating the risk of neurodegeneration. Whether it's the xylitol or this stuff — having multiple family members with Alzheimer's, I'm paying a lot of attention to prevention. Sulforaphane reliably activates NRF2-related pathways in humans. It's promising but not proven." Only Tim
• Timeline Mitopure Uses it "There is the Ammaol and then there is Urolithin A — using Timeline — and it turns out that it is plausible that this stuff helps with skin tone." +1 other
• Coca leaf tea Uses it "The locals in the lodge gave me coca leaf tea and within several hours no symptoms and they did not recur past that point, which blew my mind — particularly since even with Diamox to help with altitude acclimatization, my experience has been that it takes a few days." Only Tim
• The Infinity Machine Recommends it "Everybody should check out The Infinity Machine. It's outstanding. The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence. This is not just 'here's the latest and greatest in AI.' It is the story of an incredible mind, a whole cast of kooky and fascinating characters. It is about a noble quest. It's about the pitfalls and promises of entrepreneurship. It contains so many different levels. And if you want to also have a basic understanding of what came to be colloquially referred to as AI or LLMs, this is a great book for that. It really lays out the nuts and bolts and how this evolved over time in a way that is intelligible to non-engineers." Only Tim
• MagVenture Uses it "Mag Venture has a device as well which I've used" Only Tim
• Keto-Mojo Uses it "But my finger pricks with say a precision extra device or the Keto Mojo were telling me I was basically not ketosis." +3 others
• Precision Xtra Uses it "But my devices were telling me I was not in ketosis. And I found this implausible because after so many years of experimenting with it, I feel like I have a very good bead on when my cognition clicks over and is actually operating at a much kind of faster CPU capacity. But my finger pricks with say a precision extra device were telling me I was basically not ketosis." Only Tim
• Fasting Mimicking Diet Uses it "occasional 3 to 7-day fasting which could be a fast mimicking diet most recently for me based on the input from Dr. Dominic D'Agostino" Only Tim
• Ketone Esters Uses it "I mean, there are things I'm experimenting with different forms of ketone esters and salts for instance. I think some could be very very interesting for cerebral vascular." Only Tim
• Morpheus chest strap Uses it "I use a Morpheus chest strap." Only Tim
• Google Calendar Uses it "the Google Calendar integration has also been helpful. In other words, updating a calendar entry from Claude or creating multiple at a time." +7 others
• Sipping ketones Uses it "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.'" Only Tim
• Indo board Uses it "There's one called the Indo board, which I have and I've messed around with it." Only Tim
• DanceSafe Recommends it "There is an organization called DanceSafe, which I encourage people to check out, which provides kits... I'm not recommending that you use drugs in that fashion, but people are going to do it anyway. There are kits you can purchase which will help you to detect some of these contaminants." Only Tim
• Eight Sleep Uses it "Yeah, I use both Eight Sleep and Oura at the moment." +15 others
• Fish oil Uses it "Because I do observe, seemingly, a very consistent improvement in mood and sleep. However... I end up getting mild nausea after a week of, I suppose, higher intake." +11 others
• How to Change Your Mind (Netflix series) Recommends it "I do recommend the Netflix How to Change Your Mind miniseries that Pollan was involved with, based on the book of the same name. And specifically, the MDMA episode I thought was spectacularly well-done... It includes a lot of case studies and interviews with research subjects." Only Tim
• Maca Uses it "Taking copious amounts of L-carnitine, adding in a few other things like maca and a handful of other basics, my sperm quality is actually better." Only Tim
• Oura Ring Uses it "Yeah, I use both Eight Sleep and Oura at the moment." +12 others
• Already Free Recommends it "There is a book that I found very helpful, and I do think the written version is different from the audiobook for some reason, and you can skip around. It found me at the right time, by Bruce Tift, called Already Free, which really covers a lot of this." Only Tim
• Audio-Technica ATR2100 Uses it "I have my primary, this ATR2100, or actually a newer version from Audio-Technica, USB. All in all, this is three forms of backup, just to give you an idea of how cheap this podcasting game can be. This is probably 120 bucks, maybe 200 worth of gear total." Only Tim
• Evernote Uses it "Am I still using Evernote every day? Yes, I use Evernote almost every day, and you know, I find the UI fine and it's easy enough to use. I'm a creature of habit, so I have used it forever." +4 others
• Ghibli Museum Recommends it "Number one, try to go to the Ghibli Museum in Inokashira Park. It is the most wonderful, unusual museum I think I've ever been to. It's adorable... they would give you a ticket and the ticket contained a clip of a real cel from one of their animated films." Only Tim
• Guerrilla Financing Recommends it "There's an out of print book, not all of it is great advice, but it will be, I think, helpful food for thought, and that is Guerrilla Financing, which covers alternative modes of financing, and I recommend this because most of the startups and small businesses that get a lot of media attention are venture-backed startups... that model does not work for most things." Only Tim
• I Will Teach You to Be Rich (podcast) Recommends it "If you just find Ramit Sethi and his podcast, each episode, and I've listened to a ton of them, he has generally a couple on and they talk about their money issues, their money priorities, what it means to live a rich life... at the very least it normalizes some of the unanswered questions and maybe unrealistic expectations that people have around money." Only Tim
• Lost Connections Uses it "This book is Lost Connections, and the subtitle is Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression and the Unexpected Solutions... I'm only reading part three... reading about social cohesion and social structuring." Only Tim
• Philips goLITE Uses it "Exercise and blue light, so using some type of light exposure with a portable device. I've used the Philips goLITE, I believe it's called, before." Only Tim
• Shure MV88 Uses it "I am clicking record on my first backup, which is a Shure MV88 plugged into an iPhone with the Shure MOTIV recording." Only Tim
• Waking Up Uses it "The way I'll most likely do that is using the Waking Up app with Sam Harris and going through his very early initial program, which I think is somewhere between 10 and 30 days." +3 others
• How to Make Millions with Your Ideas Recommends it "The next book is How to Make Millions with Your Ideas, subtitle An Entrepreneur's Guide, by Dan S. Kennedy. This book is also dated... but it still does the job. This is a menu of options for converting ideas into millions of dollars. I read this first when I was in high school and have read it many times since. It is like steroids for your entrepreneurial cortex." Only Tim
• The E-Myth Revisited Recommends it "The E-Myth Revisited, subtitle Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It. This is by Michael Gerber. This is a classic. Gerber is a masterful storyteller, and this classic of automation discusses how to use a franchise mindset... to create scalable businesses that are based on rules and systems and not outstanding employees... If you're stuck in your own business, this book can help you get unstuck." Only Tim
• The Magic of Thinking Big Recommends it "The first is The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz... The main message is pretty simple: don't overestimate others and underestimate yourself. I still personally read the first two chapters of this book whenever doubt creeps in. Note that it is a little dated... but nonetheless I find it to be a very helpful philosophical and psychological reboot." Only Tim
• Vagabonding Recommends it "This is in fact the book that got me to stop making excuses and pack for an extended hiatus trip overseas... This book helps you to better value time wealth while recognizing the limitations of money... This book is one that I've read at least 10 times. I still have my original copy... and it really did change my life." Only Tim
• 30-Day No-Complaint Experiment Recommends it "Experimenting with things like 30 days or 20 days of no complaining. If you search my 30-day no complaint experiment and my name, you'll see how I've approached that and books that support it." Only Tim
• Atomic Habits Recommends it "What I have seen work is a bias towards immediate small actions. What I mean by that is, and Atomic Habits by James Clear does a good job of outlining this... starting with small actions that cumulatively, inevitably will have a larger impact." +4 others
• Back Mechanic Recommends it "Stuart McGill, Back Mechanic, great book. I'm a fan. I've spent time with Stuart, he's very smart." Only Tim
• Crucial Conversations Recommends it "Hone your ability to communicate, sharpen the saw. That is your responsibility. So, read books, whether that's like Crucial Conversations, for instance." +2 others
• On Grief and Grieving Recommends it "I pulled up a book that has helped a lot of my friends after parents have died... it's called On Grief and Grieving... That has been recommended most by people I know, love, and trust. So, I hope that is helpful." Only Tim
• The Great Nerve Recommends it "I recommend The Great Nerve, which is a book by Dr. Kevin Tracey, for diving more into that." Only Tim
• Brazil Nuts Recommends it "They ended up just having like three Brazil nuts a day and they're like, 'I feel like I'm on cocaine.' Their lived experience changed so dramatically. And sure, this isn't randomized controlled, I don't know if that was placebo or not, but I saw it enough times where I'm like, look, this seems to be low-hanging fruit." Only Tim
• Organic India Recommends it "So Yerba Prima, Y-E-R-B-A, or Organic India are two that I have looked at testing results for, and those are good." Only Tim
• Yerba Prima Recommends it "There are a lot of heavy metals and contaminants in most common brands of psyllium husks. So Yerba Prima, Y-E-R-B-A, or Organic India are two that I have looked at testing results for, and those are good." Only Tim
• TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Recommends it "I would go speak at the TiE — The Indus Entrepreneurs — in Silicon Valley. If you want to talk about first or second generation immigrants who are all in on learning, this is about as warm an audience as I can imagine. Back in the day when I lived in Mountain View and I would go volunteer for TiE because it was the only way for me to punch above my weight class and meet people who would otherwise be completely unreachable." Only Tim
• Fear Setting Recommends it "Use that exercise — fear setting. You can find it for free online. I did a TED talk about it. You don't have to buy anything. Use that to stress test your fears related to any action." +1 other
• Getting Past No Recommends it "Getting Past No had a large impact on me. There are other books that provide frameworks, and I've interviewed a lot of these people." Only Tim
• Incogni Recommends it "There are tools you can use like Incogni for scraping stuff off the web. I think that's just going to become a privacy survival imperative if you want it." +1 other
• Norwegian 4x4 Interval Training Recommends it "Doing something called the Norwegian 4x4, which is a type of interval training — doing that three times per week for 6 months provided 5 years of benefits, something like that." Only Tim
• Secrets of Power Negotiating Recommends it "The Secrets of Power Negotiating by Dawson — I remember had a huge impact on me." Only Tim
• Toastmasters Recommends it "Verbal comms — it's going to sound so antiquated, but join a local Toastmasters or something like that. Get used to standing up and talking." +4 others
• Ferrite Recommends it "There is an app that you can use for really high-fidelity recording. It's called Ferrite — F-E-R-R-I-T-E, something like that. I'll put the link in the show notes for this for people who are interested. The quality is absurd." Only Tim
• The Botany of Desire Recommends it "Read The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan for more on that." Only Tim
• Becoming a Supple Leopard Recommends it "Kelly Starrett, people should look up Becoming a Supple Leopard. He's a very famous PT and performance coach. He really knows what he's doing — if you've ever used a lacrosse ball to loosen up or distraction with a band, he popularized a lot of that stuff." Only Tim
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Recommends it "There's a book called Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. It is remarkable — from modern postal systems to infrastructure to religious freedom. That book is worth reading, especially the first half of it, just to get a full grasp of the historic implications." +1 other
• Something is Killing the Children Recommends it "This is Something is Killing the Children. The artwork is amazing, the story is really fun. Basic premise: monsters are real, only children can see them, and there are these cabals of monster hunters. It's a beautifully simple premise." Only Tim
• Google Voice Recommends it "You can use a burner or you can use Google Voice. You can spin up a Google Voice number very easily from any G Suite" +2 others
• Built to Sell Recommends it "I remember coming across and I haven't read it in a long time but a book by John Warrillow called Built to Sell which talks a bit about this and I thought it was actually very good." +1 other
• Levels of the Game Recommends it "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." Only Tim
• Tempest Free Running Recommends it "Amazing gym. I mean, those guys are amazing. Tempest free running. Check it out. It's incredible." Only Tim
• 1,000 True Fans Recommends it "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." Only Tim
• Alice in Wonderland Recommends it "If you haven't read Alice in Wonderland. You should go read Alice in Wonderland. Read the whole thing just quotes from it." Only Tim
• Apt Recommends it "the first one is called Apt and you can check that out at tryapt.ai. you can get 50% off with Tim50." Only Tim
• High Growth Handbook Recommends it "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." +1 other
• Kumare Recommends it "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." Only Tim
• Of Wolves and Men Recommends it "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." Only Tim
• Ozymandias Recommends it "everybody should read I think it's Percy Shelley. Ozymandias. Everybody should find this. So good. Everybody should read Ozymandias." Only Tim
• Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead Recommends it "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." Only Tim
• Travels with Charlie Recommends it "let's just say, Travels with Charlie. Amazing book by John Steinbeck. Road trip in a makeshift RV with his dog Charlie. Incredible book." Only Tim
• Freedom Recommends it "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." +1 other
• 10% Happier Recommends it "Started using 10% Happier, meditating every day, and it was like boom, within 4 weeks, pains went away. Crazy." Only Tim
• Nonviolent communication Recommends it "Read Non-Violent Communication. Figure out how to talk to people without sounding overly defensive or aggressive." +1 other
• How to Change Your Mind Recommends it "If you want a good overview, I think How to Change Your Mind is a great place to start." +1 other
• The Healing Journey Recommends it "If you want to know how some psychotherapists have worked with these things, I think an oldie but a goodie, The Healing Journey by Claudio Naranjo, I think is excellent. Even if you just buy it for the introduction." Only Tim
• The Microdose Recommends it "I would recommend, if people want to keep up to speed with these things, The Microdose from UC Berkeley is fantastic. That's sort of a news bulletin summary on a weekly basis." Only Tim
• Trip of Compassion Recommends it "There's also a documentary that I helped bring outside of Israel called Trip of Compassion... which contains session footage as well. Production value is going to be a bit lower than Netflix, so you might want to try that first." Only Tim
• Excellent Advice for Living Recommends it "He sent me this little book. It's called Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier... this little book contains, I want to say, between 300 and 400 of such bits of advice." Only Tim
• Making Oprah Recommends it "For those interested in learning more about her, Making Oprah is a short miniseries podcast that I've only listened to the first season of, but I found it very interesting." Only Tim
• More Money Than God Recommends it "One could say they haven't really lost the game per se, they just chose the right game to begin with. For more on that, I recommend reading More Money Than God by Sebastian Mallaby." Only Tim
• The NeverEnding Story Recommends it "The NeverEnding Story was definitely one of my absolute favorites. I think it has a lot of philosophy embedded in it that is actually intended for more adult audiences, and for that reason I would like to reread it." Only Tim
• The Psychology of Money Recommends it "More highlights in that book and Psychology of Money, actually by Morgan Housel, than probably any books in recent memory for me." +4 others
• The Screwtape Letters Recommends it "One book that I found fantastic, that has very strong religious implications and overtones, but The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis I absolutely loved." Only Tim
• The Work of Byron Katie Recommends it "I would recommend for people who want to explore how you might do that in a structured way, you can look at the work by Byron Katie, and there are worksheets you can download for free that allow you to scrutinize some of your beliefs and thoughts, and I and many of my podcast guests have found those worksheets to be incredibly helpful." Only Tim
• Peloton Warns against "I've tried Peloton and didn't like their ergonomics and so on for a bunch of reasons." 4 recommend it
• Airofit Warns against "Airofit, please improve your app if you haven't in the last year because I found it to be incredibly difficult. Plus your baseline of programming for somebody who's bought a device should be decent." 1 recommend it
• CBN Warns against "I have also tried CBN specifically, which has been recommended to me for sleep and have not found it as effective." No one recommends it
• Comic Sans Warns against "This is Google and it is a serious place of work. Please do not use Comic Sans." No one recommends it
• Dexcom Warns against "I still can't believe that the Dexcom app doesn't give you some estimate of caloric content or macros. It's just like you ate chicken. I'm like that's not helpful." No one recommends it
• Modafinil Warns against "I have tried modafinil. I've tried the various amphetamines — Adderall, Ritalin, etc. And the difference is that if I use modafinil for two or three days and I stop, I immediately feel a physical requirement to use it to get back to my prior baseline. That does not happen in the case of coca." No one recommends it
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