Podcasts about Polymath

What if maths class looked more like Roblox than a workbook? In this episode, Sophie Silver - co-founder and CEO of Polymath - joins us to talk about building a game-based learning platform that kids actually want to use. From her background in psychology and tutoring to launching through Startmate and now reaching students across the world, Sophie shares how Polymath is reimagining education through adaptive algorithms, immersive gameplay, and real-world problem solving. We explore what it takes to build a new category in edtech, why focusing only on maths has been a strength, and what others can learn from how Polymath balances fun and rigour. Plus, insights on product design, parental trust, and why sometimes the best way to teach is to play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our old pal Steve Sladkowski from the band Pup stops by to talk tariffs, Canadian politics, TikTok, Drake's abs, and what peak performance looks like Go see Pup on tour soon: https://www.puptheband.com/, and be sure to check out their new album And support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Join us for an exciting episode of The Edge of Show, live from the Blockchain Futures Conference in Toronto! We sat down with industry leaders to explore the transformative power of blockchain technology and its impact on finance, stablecoins, and real-world asset tokenization.In this episode, we feature:Annalise Osborne, Chief Business Officer at Kadena, who discusses the merging of traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi), the launch of Kadena's new RWA token standard, and her insights on the future of blockchain regulation.Jelena Djuric, CEO of Noble, who shares details about their innovative stablecoin built on the Cosmos ecosystem and how it aims to enhance liquidity and accessibility for developers and users alike.Vincent Kedar, CEO of Polymath, who reflects on the evolution of his company, the importance of regulatory clarity, and the exciting developments in the tokenization of real-world assets.Alex McDougall, CEO of Stablecorp, who announces a partnership with Coinbase Ventures to bring QCAD, a Canadian dollar stablecoin, to the masses, and discusses the infrastructure needed to support non-USD stablecoins.Tune in to learn about the latest trends in blockchain, the future of finance, and how these visionaries are pushing the boundaries of innovation in the digital world.Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell for more insights from the forefront of the Web3 revolution!Support us through our Sponsors! ☕

ABOUT DHRUV PARTHASARATHYDhruv Parthasarathy has spent the last 8 years focused on applying modern software and machine learning techniques in healthcare. Dhruv currently serves as the CTO of Commure, HATCO, and Augmedix. In the role of CTO, he leads product, engineering, and design teams. Prior to this, Dhruv helped found Athelas which eventually merged with Commure.In these roles, Dhruv has designed and developed end-to-end solutions for revenue cycle automation, ambient documentation, patient engagement, and at-home diagnostics for oncology.Before this, Dhruv was the Director of Machine Learning Programs at Udacity, where he led the development of the AI, Self-Driving Car, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning Nanodegree programs.Dhruv also worked as a Product Engineer at Udacity, where he rebuilt the main signed-in experience and was responsible for the backend development. Dhruv obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013. Following this, they pursued a Master's degree in Computer Science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence at MIT from 2013 to 2014. This episode is brought to you by Side – delivering award-winning QA, localization, player support, and tech services for the world's leading games and technology brands.For over 30 years, Side has helped create unforgettable user experiences—from indies to AAA blockbusters like Silent Hill 2 and Baldur's Gate 3.Learn more about Side's global solutions at side.inc. SHOW NOTES:How the Commure team moves with speed & momentum (3:26)Commure's operational strategy / key leadership principles (4:57)Hiring & cultivating multi-talented individuals (7:16)How to optimize decision-making, push decisions down & minimize risk (8:40)Why speed is a core principle for building successful eng orgs (11:36)Getting unstuck in your decision-making as an eng team (13:07)Challenges faced while building a high-performing eng team in healthcare (15:47)Tactics for hiring less experienced engineers & bringing them up to speed (18:22)Customization as a product principle and how it manifests in EPD (20:55)Why the polymath style approach to engineering is more vital now than ever (23:47)Lessons learned around scope & using it to create leverage (26:06)Frameworks for assessing areas most likely to create a compound win (28:22)Rapid fire questions (30:35)LINKS AND RESOURCESCinema Speculation - The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino.This episode wouldn't have been possible without the help of our incredible production team:Patrick Gallagher - Producer & Co-HostJerry Li - Co-HostNoah Olberding - Associate Producer, Audio & Video Editor https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-olberding/Dan Overheim - Audio Engineer, Dan's also an avid 3D printer - https://www.bnd3d.com/Ellie Coggins Angus - Copywriter, Check out her other work at https://elliecoggins.com/about/

Ohno Type Company is an industry rebel. Equal parts punk and precision, the studio is a direct reflection of founder James' Edmondson love of expression and eccentricity. From globular California hippie text (Chee) to deceptively complex takes on classic geometric forms (Polymath), James and his team chart their own course through the wilds of type design. In this interview from 2021, James discusses his story, process, and mindset with Monotype's Charles Nix, and shares his thoughts on building a stable, rewarding creative career. James has a new book publishing this fall, The Ohno Book: A Serious Guide to Irreverent Type Design. Preorder today at Bookshop.org. You can find blog posts for this and all our past episodes at monotype.com/podcast.

Aristotle (384–322 BC), a Greek philosopher and polymath, founded the Peripatetic school and Lyceum in Athens.   His extensive works spanned diverse fields, including logic, ethics, politics, biology, and metaphysics, profoundly influencing Western thought, science, and philosophy.

Get all the show notes and bonus content at wickedproblems.earth!How am I gonna be an optimist about this? This conversation's official exit music is from Bastille. But stick around for a twist. Turns out it's not just men who think about the Roman Empire.Polymath raconteuse Solitaire Townsend - sustainability consultant, co-founder of Futerra, UN envoy, award-winning author of the non-fiction The Solutionists - wasn't just thinking about Rome. She's wondering, ‘what if I combine some Roman Empire stuff with climate fiction in an alt-history universe in a novel featuring a kick-arse heroine?' And gets herself a two-book deal.Pre-order Godstorm from our Bookshop.org site or wherever you get good books.Wicked Problems is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.As a cli-fi/alt-history nerd with shelves stuffed with riffs on Rome from Gibbon to Mary Beard with stops for Asimov's Foundation series, I cannot tell you how pleased I am to be the first to introduce Solitaire Townsend as “novelist” on a podcast.We talk about her turn to fiction, why now, why the alt-history genre, kick around ideas about alt-history from Philip K. Dick to Star Trek (with some Ursula le Guin because why not), and how she deploys the form to tell a cautionary tale about a world that could have been a lot worse off in its climate breakdown — where Rome never fell, because of the 2nd-century CE invention of the combustion engine.As Solitaire says, if we started burning oil under Marcus Aurelius, climate change would have started much sooner. The warming and rising seas fuel extreme weather events called “God-storms”, caused - according to the Imperial version of Fox News - by lack of piety.Most of that is in the background only creating the more personal, intimate world in which her characters struggle - including a gladatrix-turned-governess seeking to rescue her charge from nefarious clutches and kicking serious arse along the way.In Conversation00:28 First Podcast as a Novelist00:56 Pitching 'Godstorm'02:18 Background and Career of Solitaire Townsend02:37 Solitaire, Sustainability Caesaris04:01 Nonfiction Writing Journey05:49 Role of Storytelling in Social Change07:22 Transition to Fiction Writing08:14 Discovering a Passion for Writing10:24 Exploring Alternate History14:05 Speculative Fiction and Personal Interests17:26 Themes and Inspirations for 'God Storm'20:14 Character Development and Empathy22:14 Reflections on Ursula Le Guin and Sci-Fi27:21 Conclusion and Book Pre-Order InformationPre-order Godstorm from our Bookshop.org site.Exit Music Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have you ever worried about raising capital the wrong way? In this episode of the Property Profits Podcast, Dave Dubeau sits down with real estate attorney Nicholas McGrue, founder of Polymath Legal, to discuss the right and legal way to raise capital for real estate deals—without getting into hot water with securities regulators. From joint ventures on duplexes to full-blown syndications, Nick unpacks what real estate investors need to know to stay compliant while growing their portfolios. You'll hear about exemptions, the “friends and family” rule, creative capital raising methods, and why the SEC usually shows up only when something goes wrong. Nick shares the biggest mistakes he sees investors make, the importance of structuring deals properly, and how real relationships and communication help clients succeed—even in a tough market. What you'll learn in this episode: How to tell if your deal is a security (and why it matters) What legal exemptions can help you raise capital fast Common mistakes investors make that could lead to SEC trouble Creative and compliant ways to raise capital Why building investor trust and communication is more crucial than ever   - Get Interviewed on the Show! - ================================== Are you a real estate investor with some 'tales from the trenches' you'd like to share with our audience? Want to get great exposure and be seen as a bonafide real estate pro by your friends? Would you like to inspire other people to take action with real estate investing? Then we'd love to interview you! Find out more and pick the date here: http://daveinterviewsyou.com/

Live experience & interior designer Willo Perron grew up in Montreal surrounded by creativity. An industrious kid, he dropped out of high school at 14 to follow his own entrepreneurial and creative path. He got his start around the nightclub scene in Montreal doing everything from designing flyers, to lighting, to scouting DJs, and designing streetwear. Since then he's gone on to design the now-famous aesthetic for American Apparel retail stores, as well as collaborate with many of pop music's biggest stars, including Kanye, Drake, Lady Gaga, and St. Vincent. With partner Brian Roettinger, he's built a multidisciplinary design firm, Perron-Roettinger, that works across Interior design, live experience, print, and identity. A firm believer in life having a way of working out, Willo continues to embrace entrepreneurship, creativity, and collaboration in an intuitive and exhilarating way. Images, links and more from Willo Perron!Special thanks to our sponsor: Wix Studio:Web designers, Wix Studio lets you deliver your vision with less friction. Built for agencies and enterprises, you get total creative control over every last pixel, with no-code animations, tons of AI tools, reusable design assets, and advanced layout tools. Check out Wix Studio for your next project: https://www.wix.com/studio.Clever is hosted & produced by Amy Devers, with editing by Mark Zurawinski, production assistance from Ilana Nevins and Anouchka Stephan, and music by El Ten Eleven.If you enjoy Clever we could use your support! Please consider leaving a review, making a donation, becoming a sponsor, or introducing us to your friends! We love and appreciate you!Subscribe - listen to Clever on any podcast app!Sign up for our Substack for news, bonus content, new episode alertsVisit cleverpodcast.com for transcripts, images, and 200+ more episodesSay Hi! on Instagram & LinkedIn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rachel Fannan is a versatile American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and poet. She gained prominence as co-lead vocalist of the psychedelic rock band Sleepy Sun and later fronted the Los Angeles-based rock band Only You. Fannan has collaborated with various acts, including UNKLE, Anywhere, Black Mountain, and Pussy Riot. Her solo work spans genres like pop, rock, jazz, and folk. Beyond performing, she is an Emmy-winning commercial vocalist and has contributed to video game soundtracks, such as "Crimson Cloud" for Devil May Cry 5.  This is our conversation with Rachel Fannan. LINKS Rachel Fannan on Bandcamp Rachel Fannan on IG Rachel Fannan Web

Polymath founders have their game being used in half of New Zealand's primary schools. 

Audio file, also on Apple and SpotifyTyler Cowen, Ph.D, is the Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He is the author of 17 books, most recently Talent.: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World. Tyler has been recognized as one of the most influential economists of the past decade. He initiated and directs the philanthropic project Emergent Ventures, writes a blog Marginal Revolution, and a podcast Conversations With Tyler, and also writes columns for The Free Press." He is writing a new book (and perhaps his last) on Mentors. “Maybe AGI [Artificial General Intelligence] is like porn — I know it when I see it. And I've seen it.”—Tyler CowenOur conversation on acquiring information, A.I., A.G.I., the NIH, the assault on science, the role of doctors in the A.I. era,, the meaning of life, books of the future, and much more.Transcript with linksEric Topol (00:06):Well, hello. This is Eric Topol with Ground Truths, and I am really thrilled today to have the chance to have a conversation with Tyler Cowen, who is, when you look up polymath in the dictionary, you might see a picture of him. He is into everything. And recently in the Economist magazine 1843, John Phipps wrote a great piece profile, the man who wants to know everything. And actually, I think there's a lot to that.Tyler Cowen (00:36):That's why we need longevity work, right?Eric Topol (00:39):Right. So he's written a number of books. How many books now, Tyler?Tyler Cowen:17, I'm not sure.Eric Topol:Only 17? And he also has a blog that's been going on for over 20 years, Marginal Revolution that he does with Alex Tabarrok.Tyler Cowen (00:57):Correct.Eric Topol (00:57):And yeah, and then Conversations with Tyler, a podcast, which I think an awful lot of people are tuned into that. So with that, I'm just thrilled to get a chance to talk with you because I used to think I read a lot, but then I learned about you.“Cowen calls himself “hyperlexic”. On a good day, he claims to read four or fivebooks. Secretly, I timed him at 30 seconds per page reading a dense tract byMartin Luther. “—John Phipps, The Economist's 1843I've been reading more from the AIs lately and less from books. So I'll get one good book and ask the AI a lot of questions.Eric Topol (01:24):Yeah. Well, do you use NotebookLM for that?Tyler Cowen (01:28):No, just o3 from OpenAI at the moment, but a lot of the models are very good. Claude, there's others.Eric Topol (01:35):Yeah, yeah. No, I see how that's a whole different way to interrogate a book and it's great. And in fact, that gets me to a topic I was going to get to later, but I'll do it now. You're soon or you have already started writing for the Free Press with Barri Weiss.Tyler Cowen (01:54):That's right, yes. I have a piece coming out later today. It's been about two weeks. It's been great so far.“Tyler Cowen has a mind unlike any I've ever encountered. In a single conversation, it's not at all unusual for him to toggle between DeepSeek, GLP-1s, Haitian art, sacred Tibetan music, his favorite Thai spot in L.A., and LeBron James”—Bari WeissYeah, so that's interesting. I hadn't heard of it until I saw the announcement from Barri and I thought what was great about it is she introduced it. She said, “Tyler Cowen has a mind unlike any I've ever encountered. In a single conversation, it's not at all unusual for him to toggle between DeepSeek, GLP-1s, Haitian art, sacred Tibetan music, his favorite Thai spot in L.A., and LeBron James. Now who could do that, right. So I thought, well, you know what? I need independent confirmation of that, that is as being a polymath. And then I saw Patrick Collison, who I know at Stripe and Arc Institute, “you can have a specific and detailed discussion with him about 17th-century Irish economic thinkers, or trends in African music or the history of nominal GDP targeting. I don't know anyone who can engage in so many domains at the depth he does.” So you're an information acquirer and one of the books you wrote, I love the title Infovore.Tyler Cowen (03:09):The Age of the Infovore, that's right.Eric Topol (03:11):I mean, have people been using that term because you are emblematic of it?“You can have a specific and detailed discussion with him about 17th-century Irish economic thinkers, or trends in African music or the history of nominal GDP targeting. I don't know anyone who can engage in so many domains at the depth he does.”—Patrick CollisonIt was used on the internet at some obscure site, and I saw it and I fell in love with that word, and I thought I should try to popularize it, but it doesn't come from me, but I think I am the popularizer of it.Yeah, well, if anybody was ingesting more information and being able to work with it. That's what I didn't realize about you, Tyler, is restaurants and basketball and all these other fine arts, very impressive. Now, one of the topics I wanted to get into you is I guess related to a topic you've written about fair amount, which is the great stagnation, and right now we're seeing issues like an attack on science. And in the past, you've written about how you want to raise the social status of scientists. So how do you see this current, I would even characterize as a frontal assault on science?Tyler Cowen (04:16):Well, I'm very worried about current Trump administration policies. They change so frequently and so unpredictably, it's a little hard to even describe what they always are. So in that sense, it's a little hard to criticize them, but I think they're scaring away talent. They might scare away funding and especially the biomedical sciences, the fixed costs behind a lot of lab work, clinical trials, they're so high that if you scare money away, it does not come back very readily or very quickly. So I think the problem is biggest perhaps for a lot of the biomedical sciences. I do think a lot of reform there has been needed, and I hope somehow the Trump policies evolve to that sort of reform. So I think the NIH has become too high bound and far too conservative, and they take too long to give grants, and I don't like how the overhead system has been done. So there's plenty of room for improvement, but I don't see so far at least that the efforts have been constructive. They've been mostly destructive.Eric Topol (05:18):Yeah, I totally agree. Rather than creative destruction it's just destruction and it's unfortunate because it seems to be haphazard and reckless to me at least. We of course, like so many institutions rely on NIH funding for the work, but I agree that reform is fine as long as it's done in a very thought out, careful way, so we can eke out the most productivity for the best investment. Now along with that, you started Emergent Ventures where you're funding young talent.Tyler Cowen (05:57):That's right. That's a philanthropic fund. And we now have slightly over 1000 winners. They're not all young, I'd say they're mostly young and a great number of them want to go into the biomedical sciences or have done so. And this is part of what made me realize what an incredible influx of talent we're seeing into those areas. I'm not sure this is widely appreciated by the world. I'm sure you see it. I also see how much of that talent actually is coming from Canada, from Ontario in particular, and I've just become far more optimistic about computational biology and progress in biology and medical cures, fixes, whatever you want to call it, extending lives. 10 years ago, I was like, yeah, who knows? A lot of things looked pretty stuck. Then we had a number of years where life expectancy was falling, and now I think we're on the verge of a true golden age.Eric Topol (06:52):I couldn't agree with you more on that. And I know some of the people that you funded like Anne Wylie who developed a saliva test for Covid out of Yale. But as you say, there's so many great young and maybe not so young scientists all over, Canada being one great reservoir. And now of course I'm worried that we're seeing emigration rather than more immigration of this talent. Any thoughts about that?Tyler Cowen (07:21):Well, the good news is this, I'm in contact with young people almost every day, often from other countries. They still want to come to the United States. I would say I sign an O-1 letter for someone about once a week, and at least not yet has the magic been dissipated. So I'm less pessimistic than some people are, but I absolutely do see the dangers. We're just the biggest market, the freest place we have by far the most ambitious people. I think that's actually the most significant factor. And young people sense that, and they just want to come here and there's not really another place they can go that will fit them.Eric Topol (08:04):Yeah, I mean one of the things as you've probably noted is there's these new forces that are taking on big shouldering. In fact, Patrick Collison with Arc Institute and Chan Zuckerberg for their institute and others like that, where the work you're doing with Emergent Ventures, you're supporting important projects, talents, and if this whole freefall in NIH funding and other agency funding continues, it looks like we may have to rely more on that, especially if we're going to attract some talent from outside. I don't know how else we're going to make. You're absolutely right about how we are such a great destination and great collaborations and mentors and all that history, but I'm worried that it could be in kind of a threatened mode, if you will.Tyler Cowen (08:59):I hope AI lowers costs. As you probably know at Arc, they had Greg Brockman come in for some number of months and he's one of the people, well, he helped build up Stripe, but he also was highly significant in OpenAI behind the GPT-4 model. And to have Greg Brockman at your institute doing AI for what, six months, that's a massive acceleration that actually no university had the wisdom to do, and Arc did. So I think we're seeing just more entrepreneurial thinking in the area. There's still this problem of bottlenecks. So let's say AI is great for drug discovery as it may be. Well, clinical trials then become a bigger bottleneck. The FDA becomes a bigger bottleneck. So rapid improvement in only one area while great is actually not good enough.Eric Topol (09:46):Yeah, I'm glad you brought up that effect in Arc Institute because we both know Patrick Hsu, who's a brilliant young guy who works there and has published some incredible large language models applied to life science in recent months, and it is impressive how they used AI in almost a singular way as compared to as you said, many other leading institutions. So that is I think, a really important thing to emphasize.Tyler Cowen (10:18):Arc can move very quickly. I think that's not really appreciated. So if Patrick Hsu decides Silvana Konermann, Patrick Collison, if they decide something ought to be bought or purchased or set in motion, it can happen in less than a day. And it does happen basically immediately. And it's not only that it's quicker, I think when you have quicker decisions, they're better and it's infectious to the people you're working with. And there's an understanding that the core environment is not a bureaucratic one. So it has a kind of multiplier effect through the institution.Eric Topol (10:54):Yeah, I totally agree with you. It's always been a philosophy in your mind to get stuff done, get s**t done, whatever you want to call it. They're getting it done. And that's what's so impressive. And not just that they've got some new funds available, but rather they're executing in a way that's parallel to the way the world's evolving in the AI front, which is I think faster than most people would ever have expected, anticipated. Now that gets me to a post you had on Marginal Revolution just last week, which one of the things I love about Marginal Revolution is you don't have to read a whole lot of stuff. You just give the bullets, the juice, if you will. Here you wrote o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day? And everybody's talking about artificial general intelligence is here. It's going to be here five years, it's going to be seven years.Eric Topol (11:50):It certainly seems to be getting closer. And in this you wrote, “I think it is AGI, seriously. Try asking it lots of questions, and then ask yourself: just how much smarter was I expecting AGI to be? As I've argued in the past, AGI, however you define it, is not much of a social event per se. It still will take us a long time to use it properly. Benchmarks, benchmarks, blah blah blah. Maybe AGI is like porn — I know it when I see it. And I've seen it.” I thought that was really well done, Tyler. Anything you want to amplify on that?Tyler Cowen (12:29):Look, if I ask at economics questions and I'm trained as an economist, it beats me. So I don't care if other people don't call it AGI, but one of the original definitions of AGI was that it would beat most experts most of the time on most matters, say 90% or above, and we're there. So people keep on shifting the goalposts. They'll say, well, sometimes it hallucinates or it's not very good at playing tic-tac toe, or there's always another complaint. Those are not irrelevant, but I'll just say, sit down, have someone write at a test of 20 questions, you're a PhD, you take the test, let o3 take the test, then have someone grade, see how you've done, then form your opinion. That's my suggestion.Eric Topol (13:16):I think it's pretty practical. I mean, enough with the Turing test, I mean, we've had that Turing test for decades, and I think the way you described it is a little more practical and meaningful these days. But its capabilities to me at least, are still beyond belief eke out of current, not just the large language models, but large reasoning models. And so, it's just gotten to a point where and it's accelerating, every week there's so many other, the competition is good for taking it to the next level.Tyler Cowen (13:50):It can do tasks and it self improves. So o3-pro will be out in a few weeks. It may be out by the time you're hearing this. I think that's obviously going to be better than just pure o3. And then GPT-5 people have said it will be this summer. So every few months there are major advances and there's no sign of those stopping.Eric Topol (14:12):Absolutely. Now, of course, you've been likened to “Treat Tyler like a really good GPT” that is because you're this information meister. What do you ask the man who you can ask anything? That's kind of what we have when we can go to any one of these sites and start our prompts, whatever. So it's kind of funny in some ways you might've annotated this with your quest for knowledge.Tyler Cowen (14:44):Well, I feel I understand the thing better than most people do for that reason, but it's not entirely encouraging to me personally, selfishly to be described that way, whether or not it's accurate. It just means I have a lot more new competition.Eric Topol (14:59):Well, I love this one. “I'm not very interested in the meaning of life, but I'm very interested in collecting information on what other people think is the meaning of life. And it's not entirely a joke” and that's also what you wrote about in the Free Press thing, that most of the things that are going to be written are going to be better AI in the media and that we should be writing books for the AI that's going to ingest them. How do you see this human AI interface growing or moving?Tyler Cowen (15:30):The AI is your smartest reader. It's your most sympathetic reader. It will remember what you tell it. So I think humans should sit down and ask, what does the AI need to know? And also, what is it that I know that's not on the historical record anywhere? That's not just repetition if I put it down, say on the internet. So there's no point in writing repetitions anymore because the AI already knows those things. So the value of what you'd call broadly, memoir, biography, anecdote, you could say secrets. It's now much higher. And the value of repeating basic truths, which by the way, I love as an economist, to be clear, like free trade, tariffs are usually bad, those are basic truths. But just repeating that people will be going to the AI and saying it again won't make the AI any better. So everything you write or podcast, you should have this point in mind.Eric Topol (16:26):So you obviously have all throughout your life in reading lots of books. Will your practice still be to do the primary reading of the book, or will you then go to o3 or whatever or the other way around?Tyler Cowen (16:42):I've become fussier about my reading. So I'll pick up a book and start and then start asking o3 or other models questions about the book. So it's like I get a customized version of the book I want, but I'm also reading somewhat more fiction. Now, AI might in time become very good at fiction, but we're not there now. So fiction is more special. It's becoming more human, and I should read more of it, and I'm doing that.Eric Topol (17:10):Yeah, no, that's great. Now, over the weekend, there was a lot of hubbub about Bill Gates saying that we won't need doctors in the next 10 years because of AI. What are your thoughts about that?Tyler Cowen (17:22):Well, that's wrong as stated, but he may have put it in a more complex way. He's a very smart guy of course. AI already does better diagnosis on humans than medical doctors. Not by a lot, but by somewhat. And that's free and that's great, but if you need brain surgery for some while, you still need the human doctor. So human doctors will need to adjust. And if someone imagines that at some point robots do the brain surgery better, well fine. But I'm not convinced that's within the next 10 years. That would surprise me.Eric Topol (17:55):So to that point, recently, a colleague of mine wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about six studies comparing AI alone versus doctors with AI. And in all six studies, the AI did better than the doctors who had access to AI. Now, you could interpret that as, well they don't know how to use AI. They have automation bias or that is true. What do you think?Tyler Cowen (18:27):It's probably true, but I would add as an interpretation, the value of meta rationality has gone up. So to date, we have not selected doctors for their ability to work with AI, obviously, but some doctors have the personal quality, it's quite distinct from intelligence, but if just knowing when they should defer to someone or something else, and those doctors and researchers will become much more valuable. They're sufficiently modest to defer to the AI and have some judgment as to when they should do that. That's now a super important quality. Over time, I hope our doctors have much more of that. They are selected on that basis, and then that result won't be true anymore.Eric Topol (19:07):So obviously you would qualify. There's a spectrum here. The AI enthusiasts, you and I are both in that group, and then there's the doomsayers and there's somewhere middle ground, of course, where people are trying to see the right balance. Are there concerns about AI, I mean anything about that, how it's moving forward that you're worried about?Tyler Cowen (19:39):Well, any change that big one should have very real concerns. Maybe our biggest concern is that we're not sure what our biggest concern should be. One simple effect that I see coming soon is it will devalue the status of a lot of our intellectuals and what's called our chattering class. A lot of its people like us, we won't seem so impressive anymore. Now, that's not the end of the world for everyone as a whole, but if you ask, what does it mean for society to have the status of its elites so punctured? At a time when we have some, I would say very negative forces attacking those elites in other ways, that to me is very concerning.Eric Topol (20:25):Do you think that although we've seen what's happening with the current administration with respect to the tariffs, and we've already talked about the effects on science funding, do you see this as a short-term hit that will eventually prevail? Do you see them selectively supporting AI efforts and finding the right balance with the tech companies to support them and the competition that exists globally with China and whatnot? How are we going to get forward and what some people consider pretty dark times, which is of course, so seemingly at odds with the most extraordinary times of human support with AI?Tyler Cowen (21:16):Well, the Trump people are very pro AI. I think that's one of the good things about the administration, much pro AI and more interested than were the Biden people. The Biden people, you could say they were interested, but they feared it would destroy the whole world, and they wanted to choke and throttle it in a variety of ways. So I think there's a great number of issues where the Trump people have gone very badly wrong, but at least so far AI's not one of them. I'd give them there like an A or A+ so far. We'll see, right?Eric Topol (21:44):Yeah. As you've seen, we still have some of these companies in some kind of a hot seat like Meta and Google regarding their monopolies, and we saw how some of the tech leaders, not all of them, became very supportive, potentially you could interpret that for their own interests. They wanted to give money to the inauguration and also get favor curry some political favor. But I haven't yet seen the commitment to support AI, talk about a golden age for the United States because so much of this is really centered here and some of the great minds that are helping to drive the AI and these models. But I wonder if there's more that can be done so that we continue to lead in this space.Tyler Cowen (22:45):There's a number of issues here. The first is Trump administration policy toward the FTC, I think has not been wonderful. They appointed someone who seems like would be more appropriate for a democratic or more left-leaning administration. But if you look at the people in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House, they're excellent, and there's always different forces in any administration. But again, so far so good. I don't think they should continue the antitrust suit against Google that is looking like it's going against Google, but that's not really the Trump administration, that's the judiciary, and that's been underway for quite some while. So with Trump, it's always very hard to predict. The lack of predictability, I would say, is itself a big problem. But again, if you're looking for one area where it's good, that would be my pick.Eric Topol (23:35):Yeah, well, I would agree with that for sure. I just want to see more evidence that we capitalize on the opportunities here and don't let down. I mean, do you think outlawing selling the Nvidia chips to China is the way to do this? It seems like that hurts Nvidia and isn't China going to get whatever they want anyway?Tyler Cowen (24:02):That restriction, I favored when it was put in. I'm now of the view that it has not proved useful. And if you look at how many of those chips get sold, say to Malaysia, which is not a top AI performer, one strongly suspects, they end up going to China. China is incentivized to develop its own high-quality chips and be fully independent of Western supply lines. So I think it's not worked out well.Eric Topol (24:29):Yeah, no, I see that since you've written so much about this, it's good to get your views because I share those views and you know a lot more about this than I would, but it seems like whether it's Malaysia or other channels, they're going to get the Blackwell chips that they want. And it seems like this is almost like during Covid, how you would close down foreign travel. It's like it doesn't really work that well. There's a big world out there, right?Tyler Cowen (25:01):It's an interesting question. What kind of timing do you want for when both America and China get super powerful AI? And I don't think you actually want only America to have it. It's a bit like nuclear weapons, but you don't want China to have it first. So you want some kind of staggered sequence where we're always a bit ahead of them, but they also maybe are constraining us a bit. I hope we're on track to get that, but I really, really don't want China to have it first.Eric Topol (25:31):Yeah, I mean I think there's, as you're pointing out aptly is a healthy managed competition and that if we can keep that lead there, it is good for both and it's good for the world ideally. But getting back, is there anything you're worried about in AI? I mean because I know you're upbeat about its net effective, and we've already talked about amazing potential for efficiency, productivity. It basically upends a lot of economic models of the past, right?Tyler Cowen (26:04):Yes. I think it changes or will change so many parts of life. Again, it's a bit difficult to specify worries, but how we think of ourselves as humans, how we think of our gods, our religions, I feel all that will be different. If you imagine trying to predict the effects of the printing press after Gutenberg, that would've been nearly impossible to do. I think we're all very glad we got the printing press, but you would not say all of it went well. It's not that you would blame the printing press for those subsequent wars, but it was disruptive to the earlier political equilibrium. I think we need to take great care to do it better this time. AI in different forms will be weaponized. There's great potential for destruction there and evil people will use it. So of course, we need to be very much concerned.Eric Topol (26:54):And there's obviously many of these companies have ways to try to have efforts to anticipate that. That is alignments and various safety type parallel efforts like Ilya did when he moved out of OpenAI and others. Is that an important part of each of these big efforts, whether it's OpenAI, Google, or the rest of them anthropic that they put in resources to keep things from going off the tracks?Tyler Cowen (27:34):That's good and it's important, but I think it's also of limited value because the more we learn how to control AI systems directly, the bad guys will have similar lessons, and they will use alignment possibly to make their AIs bad and worse and that it obeys them. So yeah, I'd rather the good guys make progress on what they're trying to do, but don't think it's going to solve the problem. It creates new problems as well.Eric Topol (28:04):So because of AI, do you think you'll write any more books in the future?Tyler Cowen (28:11):I'm writing a book right now. I suspect it will be my last. That book, its title is Mentors. It's about how to mentor individuals and what do the social sciences know about mentoring. My view is that even if the AI could write the book better than I can, that people actually want to read a book like that from a human. I could be wrong, but I think we should in the future, restrict ourselves to books that are better by a human. I will write every day for the rest of my life, but I'm not sure that books make sense at the current moment.Eric Topol (28:41):Yeah, that's a really important point, and I understand that completely. Now, when you write for the Free Press, which will be besides the Conversations with Tyler podcast and the Marginal Revolution, what kind of things will you be writing about in the Free Press?Tyler Cowen (28:56):Well, I just submitted a piece. It's a defense of elitism. So the problem with our elites is that they have not been elitist enough and have not adhered strictly enough to the scientific method. So it's a very simple point. I think to you it would be pretty obvious, but it needs to be said. It's not out there enough in the debate that yes, sometimes the elites have truly and badly let us down, but the answer is not to reject elitism per se, but to impose higher elitist standards on our sometimes supposed elites. So that's the piece I just sent in. It's coming out soon and should be out by the time anyone hears this.Eric Topol (29:33):Well, I look forward to reading that. So besides a polymath, you might be my favorite polymath, Tyler you didn't know that. Also, you're a futurist because when you have that much information ingested, and now of course with a super performance of AI to help, it really does help to try to predict where we're headed. Have I missed anything in this short conversation that you think we should touch on?Tyler Cowen (30:07):Well, I'll touch on a great interest of yours. I like your new book very much. I think over the course of the next 40 years working with AI, we will beat back essentially every malady that kills people. It doesn't mean you live forever. Many, many more people will simply die of what we now call old age. There's different theories as to what that means. I don't have a lot of expertise in that, but the actual things people are dying from will be greatly postponed. And if you have a kid today to think that kid might expect to live to be 97 or even older, that to me is extremely plausible.Tyler Cowen (30:45):I won't be around to see it, but that's a phenomenal development for human beings.Eric Topol (30:50):I share that with you. I'm sad that I won't be around to see it, but exactly as you've outlined, the fact that we're going to be able to have a huge impact on particularly the age-related diseases, but also as you touched on the genetic diseases with genome editing and many other, I think, abilities that we have now controlling the immune system, I mean a central part of how we get into trouble with diseases. So I couldn't agree with you more, and that's a really good note to finish on because so many of the things that we have discussed today, we share similar views and we come at it from totally different worlds. The economist that has a very wide-angle lens, and I guess you'd say the physician who has a more narrow lens aperture. But thank you so much, Tyler for joining me today.Tyler Cowen (31:48):My pleasure. Let me close by telling you some good news. I have AI friends who think you and I, I'm 63 will be around to see that, I don't agree with them they don't convince me, but there are smart people who think the benefits from this will come quite soon.Eric Topol (32:03):I sure hope they're right.Tyler Cowen (32:05):Yes.*******************************************SUPER AGERS, my new book, was released on May 6th. It's about extending our healthspan, and I introduce 2 of my patients (one below, Mrs. L.R.) as exemplars to learn from. This potential to prevent the 3 major age-related diseases would not be possible without the jumps in the science of aging and multimodal A.I. My op-ed preview of the book was published in The NY Times last week. Here's a gift link. I did a podcast with Mel Robbins on the book here. Here's my publisher ‘s (Simon and Schuster) site for the book. If you're interested in the audio book, I am the reader (first time I have done this, quite an experience!)The book was reviewed in WSJ. Here's a gift linkThere have been many pieces written about it. 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Alexandre Dana est le fondateur de LiveMentor, une plateforme de formation qui accompagne les entrepreneurs dans leurs projets, mais aussi éditeur, auteur, et penseur d'un monde plus attentif, plus conscient. Il vient tout juste de lancer un Carnet de curiosité, un objet qui m'a beaucoup parlé, car il entre en résonance directe avec ce que je cherche à faire avec ce podcast : approfondir, comprendre, ralentir.Dans cet épisode, j'ai eu le plaisir de recevoir Alexandre pour une conversation à la fois intime, dense et passionnée sur la place de la curiosité dans nos vies. Nous avons parlé de ce besoin vital d'explorer le monde, de ce que ça veut dire aujourd'hui d'être curieux à l'ère des contenus courts, des vidéos en boucle, des algorithmes qui nous enferment. Et surtout, comment reprendre la main. Comment ne pas se laisser happer par les feeds infinis et retrouver le goût du temps long.Alexandre m'a partagé la genèse de son carnet, ses influences (notamment le sociologue Niklas Luhmann avec sa méthode Zettelkasten), et son chemin personnel pour passer de la dispersion à la structuration. Il croit, comme moi, que notre attention est précieuse. Et que le papier est une arme puissante pour mieux apprendre, mieux penser, mieux vivre.J'ai aimé sa manière de voir la curiosité comme une boussole intérieure, mais aussi comme une résistance. Résistance à l'instantané, à l'hyper-spécialisation, à la perte de sens. On a aussi parlé d'éducation, de système scolaire, d'hyperconnexion, de fatigue numérique, de burn-out, de la joie de découvrir de nouveaux mondes, et même de confiance en soi.Si vous êtes du genre à collectionner les newsletters, à ouvrir 10 onglets sans les lire, à dire « j'aimerais prendre plus de temps pour lire mais je n'y arrive pas », alors cet épisode est pour vous. Il vous parlera, vous remuera peut-être, mais vous donnera surtout envie de sortir un carnet, un stylo… et de recommencer à penser vraiment.Citations marquantes« La vraie curiosité, celle qui devient une maîtrise, elle prend du temps. »« Prendre des notes sur papier, c'est déjà faire un premier pas vers la structuration. »« On ne résume pas la physique quantique en trois minutes. »« L'attention est devenue un acte de rébellion. »« La curiosité est peut-être le meilleur remède contre la peur de mourir. »10 questions posées dans l'interviewPourquoi as-tu décidé de créer un carnet de curiosité ?Quel est ton rapport personnel à la curiosité ?Comment as-tu pensé la structure de ton carnet ?En quoi le papier est-il une solution face à la fatigue numérique ?Comment structurer sa pensée à travers la prise de notes ?Pourquoi notre attention est-elle aujourd'hui en danger ?Quel est l'impact des algorithmes sur notre curiosité ?Comment retrouver une curiosité active et profonde ?Y a-t-il des contre-indications à la curiosité ?Comment choisir les sujets à creuser réellement ?Timestamps clés (format YouTube)00:00 Introduction et présentation d'Alexandre Dana02:00 Pourquoi la curiosité est essentielle04:00 La genèse du carnet de curiosité07:00 L'importance du papier dans l'apprentissage09:00 Le combat contre les contenus courts et la dopamine14:00 Structurer sa pensée avec la prise de notes20:00 Le concept de polymath et la pensée divergente25:00 Algorithmes, filtres et perte de curiosité32:00 Par où commencer pour ralentir40:00 Les différents usages du carnet de curiosité49:00 Curiosité, frustration et confiance en soi Suggestion d'autres épisodes à écouter : #295 Les étapes de la rencontre avec soi avec Anne Ghesquière (https://audmns.com/FBVhPXW) #206 Comment développer l'esprit critique chez les enfants? Avec Samah Karaki (https://audmns.com/dFSogCP) #230 Comment se connecter à son intelligence situationnelle? Avec Guila Clara Kessous (https://audmns.com/bLRrqSQ)Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

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Join Alex Tapscott as he decodes the world of Web3 with special guest Vincent Kadar, CEO of Polymath. Listen in as they explore Vincent's journey into crypto, the future of tokenized assets beyond dollars, some of the challenges of asset tokenization, a few exciting projects at Polymath, its purpose-built Polymesh blockchain for regulated assets, why some asset managers have chosen to build on public networks like Ethereum, what's next for Polymath, and more.

Our latest interview with Robert Edward Grant reveals a new discovery at the intersection of Metatron's Cube, the Vitruvian man, and the Last Supper Painting by Leonardo da Vinci. What does all of this mean for the ancient past and future of humanity? What encrypted messages were left behind to us from the polymaths that came before? We explore the significance of Orion in relation to time and space, the divine game of life or simulation, and the hidden messages within pyramids and ancient myths. In this podcast, we delve into the concept of miracles and synchronicity, emphasizing the importance recognizing the patterns around us. We further explore the nature of time, reality, and the call to authenticity, culminating in a powerful message about embracing one's divinity and the transformative power of love.Robert Edward Grant is the best-selling author of PHILOMATH, ‘POLYMATH' and ‘NEUROMINED'. Mr Grant is an artist, sculptor, musician, music theorist (Creator of a novel music temperament called ‘Precise Temperament Tuning in 432.081hz') and a prolific inventor. Additionally, he is also a prodigious artist, sculptor, music theorist, musician, and author of several research and patent publications spanning biology, DNA combinatorics, number theory, sacred geometry, and physics. Robert has also been involved in serval films, podcasts, and series such as 'CodeX' streaming on Gaia TV. He also leads exploratory reseach travel + adventure expeditions to the Great Pyramid of Giza and more.✦ WATCH CodeX on Gaia TV (FREE TRIAL)

Dr. David Gruder, the integrative psychologist widely known as The Polymath of Human Potential™.  ⁣ With a career that spans visionary leadership, transformational psychology, conscious business, and societal wellbeing, Dr. Gruder is a Self-Sovereignty Luminary, Leadership Sage, Business Alchemist, and America's Integrity Expert. He has received an extraordinary range of personal and book awards across disciplines, and he's here to share the wisdom behind his life's work.⁣ ⁣ Through his keynotes, trainings, consulting, and mentoring, Dr. Gruder supports leaders, influencers, entrepreneurs, and change-makers who are called to co-create a future where personal sovereignty, ethical business, and societal healing are deeply integrated.⁣ ⁣ This conversation is a rare opportunity to connect with a true master of inner and outer transformation—and to explore what it really takes to create a thriving, integrity-rooted future for humanity.⁣

Quantum energy has the power to transform our lives. And it's never been more accessible.Philipp Samor von Holtzendorff-Fehling, founder of Leela Quantum Tech, and Ian Mitchell, lead scientist at Wizard Sciences and scientific advisor for Leela Quantum, discuss the intersection of quantum science and health. They break down the science behind quantum healing, the benefits of quantum energy, and how our internal states shape the world around us. From the science of biofields and healing frequencies to impactful results from recent studies, they share how quantum technology is helping people live healthier, more aligned lives. OUR GUESTSPhilipp Samor von Holtzendorff-Fehling is a coach, conscious entrepreneur, and energy healer.In parallel to a successful international business career, he constantly worked through blockages and barriers that had prevented him from fully connecting with his true self. With that, he also started to see energy fields and developed his unique skills as a healer, and he went through two decades of training in shamanic and other energy healing practices.During his business career, he worked as an executive for several well-known companies, including T-Mobile International and T-Mobile US, where he served as Vice President.Philipp is ranked 1st in the USA in tennis Men's 50.He's the founder and CEO of Leela Quantum Tech and Quantum Upgrade.Over the past decade, lan has developed a series of novel therapeutics using Lipofullerenic-Conjugates and holds multiple patents across a host of different scientific disciplines such as nano-medicine and materials science. Additionally, he holds joint patents with the University of Tulsa, where he previously taught Biochemistry, for viral inhibitors, cancer screening technology, and personalized cell culture media for both laboratory and clinical settings as well as a an antiviral therapeutic for recalcitrant viruses.lan recently developed the first viable gamma ray shielding system for use on spacecraft and space habitats as well as a carbon negative concrete to inhibit greenhouse gas proliferation. Ian is the lead scientist at Wizard Sciences, Polymath in Residence at Austin based Ecliptic Capital, and is the scientific advisor for Leela Quantum.SOCIALS

Today we are joined by philosopher Jennifer Nagel for a take-no-prisoners look at universal skepticism—philosophy's greatest deception. We unpack why doubt itself is the ultimate illusion, how knowledge is primitive instant recognition, and what this means for self, free will & consciousness. As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:28 The Nature of Knowledge 10:58 Philosophers and the Skeptical Mindset 16:57 Types of Skepticism 22:27 Exploring Knowledge Attribution 29:51 The Illusion of Knowledge 34:16 Knowing Without Knowing 38:10 Writing About Knowledge 46:10 Analyzing Knowledge 55:08 The Gettier Problem and Its Challenges 1:01:10 The Functionality of Knowledge 1:11:23 Collaborative Understanding of Knowledge 2:10:00 Understanding and Consciousness 2:26:32 Truth and Its Nature 2:32:16 Superposition and Contradictions 2:32:19 Conclusion Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join Links Mentioned: - Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction (book): https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Very-Short-Introduction-Introductions/dp/019966126X - Knowledge and its Limits (book): https://www.amazon.ca/Knowledge-its-Limits-Timothy-Williamson/dp/019925656X - Very Short Introductions (series): https://www.google.com/search?q=a+very+short+introduction+to+series&sca_esv=3da4db664be6b3a1&ei=ypX6Z6flHsDniLMP2v2QkQk&ved=0ahUKEwin8oSB9tKMAxXAM2IAHdo-JJIQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=a+very+short+introduction+to+series&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiI2EgdmVyeSBzaG9ydCBpbnRyb2R1Y3Rpb24gdG8gc2VyaWVzMgUQABiABDILEAAYgAQYhgMYigUyCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFMgsQABiABBiGAxiKBTIIEAAYogQYiQUyCBAAGIAEGKIEMggQABiABBiiBDIFEAAY7wVIqBRQxAtYwBBwAXgAkAEAmAFZoAGtAqoBATS4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgSgAocCwgIKEAAYsAMY1gQYR8ICDRAuGIAEGLADGEMYigXCAg0QABiABBiwAxhDGIoFwgIPEAAYgAQYQxiKBRhGGPsBwgIbEAAYgAQYQxiKBRhGGPsBGJcFGIwFGN0E2AEBwgIGEAAYBxgemAMAiAYBkAYKugYGCAEQARgTkgcBNKAHph6yBwEzuAf_AQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#wgvs=e - Time: A Very Short Introduction (book): https://www.amazon.ca/Time-Short-Introduction-Jenann-Ismael/dp/0198832664 - Laplace meets Godel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB3tS7j7nNU - Flexible Goals (paper): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cogs.13195 - The Legend of the Justified True Belief Analysis (paper): https://philpapers.org/archive/DUTTLO-3.pdf - Lay Denial of Knowledge for Justified True Beliefs (paper): https://philpapers.org/archive/NAGLDO - TOE's Consciousness Iceberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDjnEiys98o - Matt Segal on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeTm4fSXpbM - Curt reads Plato's Cave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PurNlwnxwfY - David Bentley Hart on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEAgVvW9i10 - Donald Hoffman on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmieNQH7Q4w&t=1s - Iain McGilchrist on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-SgOwc6Pe4&t=6326s&ab_channel=CurtJaimungal - Geoffrey Hinton on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_DUft-BdIE - John Vervaeke on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVj1KYGyesI&t=1s - Wolfgang Smith on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp18_L_y_30 - Polymath's Ai panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abzXzPBW4_s - Donald Hoffman and Philip Goff on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmaIBxkqcT4 - Robert Sapolsky on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0IqA1hYKY8&pp=ygUUY3VydCByb2JlcnQgc2Fwb2xza3k%3D - Curt debunks the “all possible paths” myth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcY3ZtgYis0&t=46s Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Your values become your destiny.” — Mahatma GandhiDr. John Demartini is a polymath and world-renowned human behavior expert.He is the author of 40 self-development books translated into 36 languages, founder of revolutionary psychology tool the Demartini Method, and renowned speaker in 100+ countries.He was also a leading cast member in the hit 2006 film The Secret.As a lifelong student, Dr. Demartini has studied 30,000+ books across all the defined academic disciplines. His mission is to share knowledge and wisdom that empowers you to become a master of your own life and destiny.In this episode:• How to identify your highest values.• The biggest barriers to unlocking your potential.• The daily rituals that help you win each day.• How to master your mind to create the life you want.Let's WIN THE DAY with Dr. John Demartini!_

In This Episode Join us for an inspiring and multifaceted conversation with Dr. Simon E. Mills—a polymath, entrepreneur, author, and creative technologist. From piano tuning to international business ventures, Simon has spent four decades shaping stories, products, and systems that influence industries across continents. In this episode, we explore how curiosity and storytelling fuel innovation, how creative chaos drives breakthroughs, and why narrative is the hidden infrastructure of strategic execution. From founding Australia's top jingle house to developing real estate portals and investing in Kevin Costner's geo-triggered audio platform, Simon takes us on a ride through a life defined by relentless exploration and reinvention. Episode Outlines From piano tuning to award-winning music production The architecture of storytelling as strategy Founding London Music Group and LMG Digital Media USA Tech, startups, and rethinking real estate Why communication is the cornerstone of execution Zentyal: Transforming Linux for SMBs Ignition Capital and narrative-driven investing Building systems for strategy in business and education How writing unlocks cross-disciplinary thinking Creativity, discipline, and divergent paths Biography of the Guest Dr. Simon E. Mills is a New York-based polymath whose work spans music, literature, entrepreneurship, and strategic investment. He co-founded Australia's top commercial music production house, London Music Group, and expanded into digital media for brands like Starbucks, CBS, and The Economist. He later launched Locate Real Estate with CBS and acquired the Linux-based Zentyal OS to serve SMBs. Simon is a prolific writer with over 70 published works and has helped launch ventures like Kevin Costner's Autio. He has served as Storyteller-in-Residence at McGraw Hill and runs investment projects through Ignition Capital. From engineering systems to crafting narratives, Mills shows how versatile minds shape the world. This is an episode of the Redefining Podcast series

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Dr. Michael Levin is on the verge of revolutionizing medicine by unlocking the bioelectric code that governs how cells communicate, heal, and build complex structures. His work reveals that intelligence exists at every level of biology—allowing us to reprogram tissues, regenerate limbs, and even suppress cancer by restoring cellular memory and connection. As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join Links: - Michael Levin on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8iFtaltX-s - The Levin Lab (website): https://drmichaellevin.org/ - Michael's blog: https://thoughtforms.life/ - Michael's presentations: https://drmichaellevin.org/presentations/ - Michael and colleagues discussing anthrobots and other groundbreaking research on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG6GIzNM0aM - ekkólapto (website): https://www.ekkolapto.org/ - ekkólapto Events: https://lu.ma/calendar/cal-GqNtzHBC2j8ARjb - Curt Jaimungal's presentation at Polymath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCkMyjzQDeg - Will Hahn on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr4R7eh5f_M Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:45 The Role of Bioelectricity in Medicine 7:00 Multi-Scale Problem Solving 7:55 The Intelligence of Development 11:41 Decoding Electrical Memories 12:29 The Power of Bioelectric Signals 13:20 Rewiring Cellular Communication 15:29 Cancer and Cellular Networks 16:30 Birth Defects and Bioelectricity 18:28 Regeneration and Bioelectric Pathways 22:50 Inducing Novel Organs 25:35 The Future of Medicine 26:24 Audience Interaction and Questions 31:34 The Future of Bioelectricity 38:55 Integrating Bioelectricity with Evolution 44:17 Preventative Strategies in Medicine 45:45 Closing Remarks and Resources 46:30 Conclusion Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs #science #biology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Podcast Show Notes: Solana Weekly with Aly from Blockchain Founders FundHost: Thomas BahamasGuest: Aly Madhavji, Managing Partner at Blockchain Founders FundDate: March 19, 2025Overview: In this episode of Solana Weekly, Thomas sits down with Aly Madhavji, a seasoned investor and managing partner at Blockchain Founders Fund, to explore the investment landscape of crypto, with a deep dive into Solana's ecosystem. Aly shares insights from his eight years of experience, discussing market cycles, investment strategies, and emerging trends in Web3, including tooling, real-world assets (RWAs), fintech, and the intersection of AI and blockchain.Key Discussion Points:* The Crypto Market Rollercoaster* Aly reflects on the volatility of crypto markets, referencing recent events like Trump's announcements causing 25% surges followed by sharp declines.* “There are no days off in crypto,” Aly notes, highlighting the fast-paced nature of the industry.* Investment Philosophy: Founders First, Themes Second* Aly emphasizes investing in exceptional founders who bring world-class practices to crypto, even if their focus isn't his top thematic priority.* Key investment themes:* Infrastructure: Early bets like Solana at 18 cents showcase the potential of Layer 1s, though Aly sees diminishing returns for new L1s. Innovations like Bearchain's proof of liquidity still intrigue him.* Tooling: A critical gap in Web3, with inefficiencies plaguing developers. Companies like Uniblock (API aggregation) and Validation Cloud (node infrastructure) are solving real problems.* Real-World Assets (RWAs): From advising Polymath eight years ago to seeing BlackRock's Larry Fink push tokenization, Aly sees RWAs gaining traction, with startups like Zoth (on-chain yields) and Asterism (RWA infra) leading the charge.* Fintech & Payments: This cycle features profitable companies, a shift from past bull runs. Stablecoin payments and remittances are ripe for growth, with examples like Mastercard settling a third of transactions on a private blockchain.* The State of Solana* Aly praises Solana's rise, noting its speed and user base make it a focal point for builders. Every company now considers a “Solana strategy.”* The recent U.S. strategic reserve announcement including Solana underscores its growing prominence.* Challenges in Crypto Investing* Value Extraction vs. Value Creation: Aly critiques short-term “cash grab” token launches and meme coin hype, advocating for sustainable businesses that grow the pie for everyone.* The Death Spiral: Poorly executed token launches can tank even great companies, a phenomenon Aly calls the “death spiral.”* Retail Fairness: Aly pushes for retail investors to access deals at VC prices, citing platforms like Echo and CoinList as steps toward democratization.* VC Process Unveiled* Blockchain Founders Fund reviews 300–500 companies monthly, sourced from events, online submissions, and a network of 410 funds.* Quick filtering (deck reviews in minutes) narrows the pool, followed by calls and a rating system assessing traction, team, and value-for-money.* Aly's tip for founders: Nail your pitch in 11 seconds, 30 seconds, and 90 seconds—anything longer risks losing interest.* Emerging Trends & Innovations* AI & Blockchain: Hype around AI agents is overstated, but legitimate projects like Virtuals show promise.* Decentralized Systems: Aly highlights Unit Network, which tokenizes business ownership with transparent treasuries, and DEAN, a decentralized insurance network—both vital for a hyper-decentralized future.* Meme Coins with Substance: Could real businesses disguise themselves as meme coins for fun and fundamentals? Aly sees potential in this hybrid model.* Long-Term Vision* Aly's 10-year fund horizon reflects a belief in building enduring companies, not quick flips. He contrasts this with short-term token funds and founders vesting in a year.* “Great things take time,” Aly says, urging focus on consistent progress over flashy launches.* U.S. Crypto Renaissance* Dropped lawsuits and lighter regulations are revitalizing the U.S. crypto scene, keeping talent stateside and reversing the exodus seen in places like Canada (Ethereum's origin).Guest Contact:* Twitter/X: @Aly_Madhavji* Website: Blockchain Founders Fund* Aly welcomes startup pitches—submit via the website or reach out directly!Closing Thoughts:Thomas wraps up with gratitude to Aly for shedding light on crypto investing and a call to listeners to subscribe, review, and shill their bags. “This isn't financial advice, but let's accelerate and get this bag!” Get full access to The Dramas of Thomas Bahamas at thomasbahamas.substack.com/subscribe

Neil talks about the importance of broadening one's knowledge beyond the confines of a specific field, particularly in tutoring, teaching, and coaching. Drawing from his 26 years of experience, Neil shares insights on how reading outside of one's specialisation can lead to greater creativity, flexibility, and problem solving abilities. He discusses the value of exploring diverse subjects, such as tax law and behavioral science, and how these peripheral interests can significantly enhance teaching methods. Neil encourages listeners to embrace a polymath approach, suggesting that by reading widely, they can uncover valuable ideas that can be applied to their own practices, ultimately enriching their professional and personal lives. KEY TAKEAWAYS Broaden Your Reading: Engaging with literature outside of your specialisation can provide valuable insights and ideas that enhance your teaching and business practices. Value of Non-Teaching Knowledge: Learning about topics such as tax law, psychology, and business can yield significant financial and operational benefits, often outweighing the potential gains from reading more specialised teaching materials. Avoiding Specialization Pitfalls: Over specialisation can limit creativity and flexibility. A diverse knowledge base allows for a more adaptable approach to teaching and problem solving. Polymath Advantage: Cultivating a wide range of knowledge and skills can improve your ability to connect with various students and handle different teaching scenarios effectively. Encouragement to Explore: Readers are urged to explore non fiction books outside their field to discover new ideas and perspectives that can be applied to their own work, fostering personal and professional growth. BEST MOMENTS "The more widely read I am, the more flexible my behaviour can be and the more likely I am to achieve my objectives because I have multiple points of view." "If I stuck to only reading guitar teaching books, I'd be dry as toast and way less equipped to teach." "They say a specialist is someone who knows more and more about less and less. And I'm inclined to agree with that." "Reading up on tax and arranging my affairs in accordance with the rules has been really, really valuable." "The more widely you read, the more interesting you become, too." VALUABLE RESOURCES www.Neilcowmeadow.com info@neilcowmeadow.com HOST BIO Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years’ experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS!

It's YOUR time to #EdUpIn this episode, President Series #349,  (Powered By ⁠⁠⁠Ellucian⁠⁠⁠),YOUR guest is Dan Futrell, Founder, Polymath UniversityYOUR host is Dr. Laurie Shanderson⁠⁠⁠, Host, ⁠⁠⁠EdUp Accreditation InsightsThis episode highlights the innovative approach to higher education at Polymath University, a new nonprofit institution designed to be interdisciplinary, apprenticeship-based, & debt-free. Founder Dan Futrell shares his vision for a university that addresses both accessibility & effectiveness challenges in higher education through a unique model where students pursue three non-adjacent majors while working as apprentices with employer partners.The conversation explores how Polymath's approach differs from traditional higher education by focusing primarily on instruction rather than facilities, athletics, or research. Students will earn a bachelor's degree in three years through a year-round program with eight-week course blocks, developing breadth, depth, & integration across disciplines that prepares them to solve complex problems in an interdisciplinary way.Polymath University demonstrates a compelling value proposition through its ROTC-inspired model for the private sector, where students work as paid apprentices with employers who cover the $9,500 annual tuition. This partnership helps fill high-vacancy, high-demand roles while providing students valuable applied learning experiences & career pathways without debt.The institution's early-stage development includes standalone remote courses beginning April 2025, a master's level certificate program launching Fall 2025, & plans for the full bachelor's degree program in 2028. Futrell emphasizes the importance of finding both employer partners & faculty who prioritize teaching, coaching, & mentoring studentsListen in to #EdUpDo YOU want to accelerate YOUR professional development?Do YOU want to get exclusive early access to ad-free episodes, extended episodes, bonus episodes, original content, invites to special events, & more?Then ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BECOME AN #EdUp PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER TODAY⁠⁠ - $19.99/month or $199.99/year (Save 17%)!Want YOUR org to cover costs? Email: EdUp@edupexperience.comThank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp!Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Elvin Freytes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠⁠⁠⁠● Join YOUR EdUp community at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The EdUp Experience⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!We make education YOUR business!

In this episode of The Psychedelic Podcast, Paul F. Austin welcomes Robert Edward Grant, a polymath inventor, entrepreneur, mathematician, and philosopher. Grant shares his transformative journey from successful businessman to consciousness explorer, discussing how psychedelics enhanced his understanding of mathematics, sacred geometry, and universal truth. He explores the relationship between science and spirituality, the nature of reality, and his groundbreaking discoveries in ancient Egyptian archaeology. Grant offers profound insights into the role of unconditional love in personal evolution and how simplified approaches can solve complex modern problems. Find full show notes and links here: https://thethirdwave.co/podcast/episode-292/?ref=278 Sir Robert Edward Grant is a serial entrepreneur, polymath, prolific inventor, and thought leader in fields ranging from medical technology and cryptography to sacred geometry, mathematics, and music theory. With over 80 patents to his name, Grant is known for bridging the gap between science, spirituality, and innovation, applying his deep understanding of sacred geometry and universal mathematical principles to solve problems across diverse industries. Highlights: How Our Reality May Be an Illusion Mushrooms as a Gateway to Higher Intelligence Finding Hidden Pyramids in Plain Sight Your Brain as a Frequency Receiver The True Purpose of AI Creation Why Complexity Needs Simple Solutions Why Embracing Your Shadow Leads to Growth From Business Crisis to Spiritual Awakening Episode Sponsors: The Practitioner Certification Program by Third Wave's Psychedelic Coaching Institute.

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Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of darkness, Enlightenment thinkers tried to sweep superstition away with reason, the modern welfare state sought to slay the “giant” of ignorance, and in today's hyperconnected world seemingly limitless information is available on demand. But what about the knowledge lost over the centuries? Are we really any less ignorant than our ancestors? In Ignorance: A Global History (Yale UP, 2024), Peter Burke examines the long history of humanity's ignorance across religion and science, war and politics, business and catastrophes. Burke reveals remarkable stories of the many forms of ignorance—genuine or feigned, conscious and unconscious—from the willful politicians who redrew Europe's borders in 1919 to the politics of whistleblowing and climate change denial. The result is a lively exploration of human knowledge across the ages, and the importance of recognizing its limits Peter Burke is emeritus professor of cultural history at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of many distinguished books that have been translated into more than thirty languages, including The Polymath and What Is the History of Knowledge? Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of darkness, Enlightenment thinkers tried to sweep superstition away with reason, the modern welfare state sought to slay the “giant” of ignorance, and in today's hyperconnected world seemingly limitless information is available on demand. But what about the knowledge lost over the centuries? Are we really any less ignorant than our ancestors? In Ignorance: A Global History (Yale UP, 2024), Peter Burke examines the long history of humanity's ignorance across religion and science, war and politics, business and catastrophes. Burke reveals remarkable stories of the many forms of ignorance—genuine or feigned, conscious and unconscious—from the willful politicians who redrew Europe's borders in 1919 to the politics of whistleblowing and climate change denial. The result is a lively exploration of human knowledge across the ages, and the importance of recognizing its limits Peter Burke is emeritus professor of cultural history at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of many distinguished books that have been translated into more than thirty languages, including The Polymath and What Is the History of Knowledge? Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Today I'm speaking with @HarperCarrollAI  an AI and ML software engineer, on the Longevity Optimization Podcast. In this episode, we explore the fascinating intersection of artificial intelligence and health optimization. Harper shares insights into the concept of AI as the ultimate polymath, detailing her journey into the field and the transformative potential of AI in revolutionizing health diagnostics and treatments, particularly in cancer care. The conversation delves into the implications of AI in personalized medicine and how technology can shape the future of health optimization.Harper Carroll is an AI/ML engineer, advisor and educator focused on making AI concepts accessible. With almost a decade of formal experience in AI, she holds two Computer Science degrees from Stanford University specializing in AI, worked at Facebook/Meta on News Feed Ranking, Integrity Intelligence, and AR, and then was Founding Engineer and then Head of AI/ML at a startup acquired by NVIDIA. Her background combines technical expertise with teaching experience, including as a TA for advanced CS and AI courses at Stanford, including a PhD-level core AI course. Her model fine-tuning guides became the most popular fine-tuning guides on Google. In just one (1) year of teaching AI online, she has garnered 0.5M followers.Polymath book Harper references: Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit: https://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Artificial-Intelligence-Human-Spirit/dp/0316581291Follow Harper on IG: https://www.instagram.com/harpercarrollai/Follow Her on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HarperCarrollAIFollow Her on X: https://x.com/HarperSCarrollVisit Her Website: https://www.harpercarrollai.comTimestamps00:00 Introduction to AI and Longevity05:08 The Polymath Concept in AI09:58 Harper's Journey into AI14:47 Understanding AI: Definitions and Applications19:56 AI in Health: Opportunities and Concerns25:00 AI's Role in Cancer Treatment and Diagnostics30:10 Future of AI in Personalized Medicine32:23 Innovative Approaches to Women's Health35:11 The Role of AI in Health Optimization36:51 Empathy and Virtual Reality Experiences41:05 AI's Impact on Creativity and Accessibility43:59 AI as a Personal Assistant in Daily Life48:54 Understanding AI Hallucinations and Their Implications53:28 The Environmental Impact of AI and Future Solutions

Ned Overend has one of the most impressive and diverse palmares in cycling. A MTB pioneer, he won a MTB world title, two XTERRA world titles and even added a national fat bike title at the age of 59.He joins the podcast to discuss his incredible career in the saddle and his role working for specialised, on the cutting edge of cycling tech. The Odd Tandem was produced by Mark Payne for Shocked Giraffe. The soundtrack was provided by Taylor Phinney. Follow The Odd Tandem on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram and Bluesky by searching for @OddTandem. The podcast is also available in video on youtube.com/@oddtandem and ad free on our Patreon page (patreon.com/oddtandem)

00:00:00 Hello Listeners00:18:00 What's Your Shape?00:24:24 The Renaissance Mindset00:28:20 T-Shaped ProblemsPolymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact (Learning how to Learn Book 9) By Peter HollinsHear it Here - https://bit.ly/polymathhollinshttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B087BNHHHCDiscover the power of becoming a true Renaissance person in today's fast-paced world! In this comprehensive video, we dive deep into Peter Hollins' book "Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly and Become an Extraordinary Autodidact" (Book 9). This episode is perfect for anyone looking to expand their knowledge, improve their learning skills, and become a true expert in multiple fields.1. What it means to be a polymath and why it's valuable in today's world2. The different types of problems you'll encounter as you master multiple disciplines3. Hollins' 10-step process for learning any skill or discipline from scratch4. Tips on how to learn faster, remember more, and become an expert in record time5. Strategies for thinking flexibly and adapting to new situationsThroughout the video, we'll explore key concepts such as T-shaped problems, accelerated learning, and the importance of continuous self-improvement. We'll also discuss practical examples and real-life applications of these principles.Whether you're looking to switch careers, start a side project, or simply become more well-rounded, this book and podcast episode will provide you with valuable insights and inspiration to help you achieve your goals.To get your hands on Peter Hollins' "Polymath" and embark on your journey towards becoming an extraordinary autodidact, click the link below:https://bit.ly/polymathhollinsDon't miss out on this opportunity to level up your learning game and unlock your full potential. Check out this video now and start your path to mastery!

►"Creative Careers in the Age of Technology"Today I'm welcoming onto the Round 2 PolyCast Eric Wallace who is The Polymathic Eric Wallace. Photographer, Big and Tall Model, Storyteller, Actor, Director, videographer, and founder of Verrocchio Studio.He was one of the first guests on the show, number 7 to be exact, and now he's number 141 capping off the 7th season of the show!Summary:In this engaging conversation, Dustin PolyInnovator and Eric Wallace explore the multifaceted nature of polymathy, discussing personal branding, the importance of adapting skills, and the impact of technology on creative careers. They delve into the significance of language learning, content creation challenges, and the role of mentorship in shaping a polymath's journey. Eric shares insights from his experiences in sports and creative fields, emphasizing the interconnectedness of various skills and the importance of networking when relocating. In this engaging conversation, Eric and Dustin explore various themes including the lessons learned from living on both coasts, the art of minimalist travel, the impact of AI and technology on creativity, the pursuit of creating a personal magnum opus, and the journey of self-reinvention. They discuss the importance of adaptability, the digital renaissance, and how personal experiences shape one's identity and creative output.Links:https://www.instagram.com/polymathicwallace/https://verrocchiostudio.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/walllaceeric/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9546255/https://x.com/polymathicewhttps://www.instagram.com/polymathplayground/Original Interview https://youtu.be/81EDXXtyyoMPrevious Conversation After https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVj0HNEIakc"I might be known as Mr. Reinvention.""I love New York. I'm a big foodie.""It's time for your next adventure."Chapters:00:00 Introduction to Polymathy and Personal Branding02:53 Navigating Phases of Polymathy06:06 The Impact of Technology on Creative Careers09:00 Exploring New Opportunities and Skillsets12:03 The Importance of Language Learning14:59 Content Creation Challenges and Strategies18:02 The Role of Mentorship in Polymathy21:08 The Intersection of Sports and Creative Skills24:05 Advice on Relocating and Networking33:26 Coastal Living: Lessons from Both Coasts35:04 The Art of Minimalist Travel39:31 The Digital Renaissance: Embracing AI and Technology47:02 Creating a Magnum Opus: The Pursuit of Mastery53:00 Reinvention: The Journey of Self-Discovery▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬►Affiliates:Videos Repurposed with Opus Clip:https://www.opus.pro/?via=729b77Podcast Hosted with Transistor:https://transistor.fm/?via=polyinnovatorSocial Posts Automated with Nuelink:http://nuelink.com/?via=dustin▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬►

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Gary Arndt, the Host of Everything Everywhere Daily and Award-Winning Travel Blogger & Photographer, joins the show to share his journey from selling his house to travel the world in 2007 to starting the daily podcast that gets over 1.5 million downloads per month. Hear what you need to know before traveling the world, how to create a daily podcast, how to stay curious, the most fascinating stories Gary's covered, and the era he'd love to time travel to. Connect with Gary at Everything-Everywhere.com and check out his podcast Sign up for Podcaster's Kit 6: https://bloggingconcentrated.com/members/aff/go/max/?i=91

In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon Chadwick talks with The Black Autistic Polymath about their journey of awakening from a life of intergenerational trauma and abuse from his mother. They discuss the oppression of black women in the United States, which directly impacted their family, and how narcissistic dynamics were created, starting with their Big Mama, Willie Mae. It's a story of emotional abuse, scapegoats, welfare, The Matrix, vindictiveness, gender, family systems, autism, trauma, societal expectations, manipulation, acceptance, and healing. If you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please click here or send us an email at narcissistapocalypse@gmail.com To help out our podcast, please fill out our listener survey, click here. PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS: Perfect Prey With Dr. Christine Cocchiola | Click Here The Covert Narcissism Podcast | Click Here Something Was Wrong | Click Here When Dating Hurts Podcast | Click Here If you or someone you know are experiencing abuse, you are not alone. DomesticShelters.org offers an extensive library of articles and resources that can help you make sense of what you're experiencing, connect you with local resources and find ways to heal and move forward. Visit www.domesticshelters.org to access this free resource.  If you need help moving due to domestic violence, Shelter Movers may be able to help you. They operate by referral. Clients may be referred by any person of authority (social worker, doctor, police, crisis counselor, teacher, etc.) or public agency (shelter, hospital, school, workplace, place of worship, sexual assault centre, etc.).  To reach them, click here. Join our new Community Social Network at https://community.narcissistapocalypse.com/ Join our Instagram Channel at https://www.instagram.com/narcissistapocalypse Join our Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpTIgjTqVJa4caNWMIAJllA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Polymath and author of ARISTOTLE FOR NOVELISTS Douglas Vigliotti spoke with me about the outsized influence of Poetics on storytelling, why a well-told story is so cathartic, and the three big questions every writer must answer. Douglas Vigliotti is the author of four non-fiction and fiction books, including Tom Collins: A ‘Slightly Crooked' Novel. He is also the host of Books for Men, a weekly podcast created to inspire (more) men to read. His latest, Aristotle for Novelists: 14 Timeless Principles on the Art of Story, is described as a writing and creativity guide on “... how to write a novel using tried-and-true principles that have been used since antiquity to tell great stories.” [Discover The Writer Files Extra: Get 'The Writer Files' Podcast Delivered Straight to Your Inbox at writerfiles.fm] [If you're a fan of The Writer Files, please click FOLLOW to automatically see new interviews. And drop us a rating or a review wherever you listen] In this file Douglas Vigliotti and I discussed: How he mined Poetics to help craft his first novel His take on why The Penguin is so popular Why he doesn't trust writers who don't read (a lot) The importance of consistency in all great fiction Why tragedies are more powerful than epics And a lot more! Show Notes:  douglasvigliotti.com Aristotle for Novelists: 14 Timeless Principles on the Art of Story by Douglas Vigliotti (Amazon) Douglas Vigliotti Amazon Author Page Douglas Vigliotti on Instagram Kelton Reid on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sourdough starters! Ancient yeasts! Why we need/knead dough! And why you don't need to buy a starter (or yeast!) to start. Polymath, particle physicist, inventor of the Xbox, and truly delightful fermentation nerd Seamus Blackley joins to chat about his kitchen adventures resurrecting dormant yeasts from 4,000 year old Egyptian baking vessels, plus wild yeasts, farting microbes, gas bubbles, the debt we owe our ancestors, and the joy of getting to know your dough. Follow Seamus on BlueSkyA donation went to Boys and Girls Clubs of AmericaFull-length (*not* G-rated) Gastroegyptology episode + tons of science linksMore kid-friendly Smologies episodes!Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a monthOlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, masks, totes!Follow @Ologies on Bluesky and InstagramFollow @AlieWard on X and InstagramSound editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions, Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray MorrisMade possible by work from Noel Dilworth, Susan Hale, Jacob Chaffee, Kelly R. Dwyer, Emily White, & Erin TalbertSmologies theme song by Harold Malcolm

Episode 98: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin Gardner sits down with Sharon,to discuss his journey from early iOS development to leading a research team at Claroty. They address the differences between HackerOne and Pwn2Own, and talk through some intricacies of IoT security, and some less common IoT attack surfaces.Follow us on twitter at: @ctbbpodcastWe're new to this podcasting thing, so feel free to send us any feedback here: info@criticalthinkingpodcast.ioShoutout to YTCracker for the awesome intro music!------ Links ------Follow your hosts Rhynorater & Teknogeek on twitter:https://twitter.com/0xteknogeekhttps://twitter.com/rhynorater------ Ways to Support CTBBPodcast ------Hop on the CTBB Discord at https://ctbb.show/discord!We also do Discord subs at $25, $10, and $5 - premium subscribers get access to private masterclasses, exploits, tools, scripts, un-redacted bug reports, etc.Today's Sponsor - ThreatLocker: Check out Network Control!https://www.criticalthinkingpodcast.io/tl-ncAnd AssetNote: Check out their ASMR board (no not that kind!)https://assetnote.io/asmrToday's Guest: https://sharonbrizinov.com/ResourcesThe Claroty Research Teamhttps://claroty.com/team82Pwntoolshttps://github.com/Gallopsled/pwntoolsScan My SMShttp://scanmysms.comGotta Catch 'Em All: Phishing, Smishing, and the birth of ScanMySMShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhNsXXbDp3UTimestamps(00:00:00) Introduction(00:03:31) Sharon's Origin Story(00:21:58) Transition to Bug Bounty and Pwn2Own vs HackerOne(00:47:05) IoT/ICS Hacking Methodology(01:10:13) Cloud to Device Communication(01:18:15) Bug replication and uncommon attack surfaces(01:30:58) Documentation tracker, reCaptcha bypass, and ScanMySMS

To close out the 2024 season of the Derivative podcast, host Jeff Malec sits down with two friends of the pod, and friends of his - Jason Buck and Zed Francis -  for a wide-ranging discussion on the state of the markets, the unpredictability of macro events, and the importance of understanding underlying structures and dynamics. The conversation begins with an exploration of the unexpected market reactions following the first Trump election (in ‘16), highlighting the challenges of the past, and ends with making sort of, semi- predictions for the year ahead in 2025. The guests delve into the concept of "volatility echoes" and how past events can influence future market reactions. The discussion then shifts to the impact of interest rates, with the guests analyzing the significant moves in the long end of the Treasury curve during the recent election week. They debate the potential implications for asset classes and the role of political influence on market dynamics. Beyond the macro landscape, the podcast also touches on the evolution of option strategies, the rise and fall of "pod shops," and the importance of liquidity and market maker strategies in stabilizing markets. The guests share their insights on navigating the complexities of the financial world. While the core of the conversation focuses on the markets, the episode also features a fun and engaging segment where the hosts and guests engage in a "Mount Rushmore" challenge, sharing their top picks for burgers, dive bars, and fine dining experiences around the world. You found it - the pod that gives you financial insights and culinary recommendations - so bring your appetite for mind and body…this ones' juicy! SEND IT! Chapters: 00:00-01:38= Intro 01:39-13:39= Recency Bias and the Volatility of Election Reactions 13:40-25:40= GOLD & the Delicate Balance of Market Resilience / Activist investors & Risk Adjusted returns 25:41-37:29= 2024's most interesting trades & Stability Breeds Instability 37:30-48:51= Rates, Risks, & Realized Volatility 48:52-01:01:11= Outflows, Podshops & Random bones for the future 01:01:12-01:20:20= Menus & Markets: Mount Rushmores of eateries from “Culinary Experts” & 2025 insight Follow along on X (Twitter) and LinkedIn with our guests Jason @jasoncbuck | LinkedIn and Zed @convexitas | LinkedIn Don't forget to subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Derivative⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, follow us on Twitter at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@rcmAlts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and our host Jeff at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@AttainCap2⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sign-up for our blog digest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Disclaimer: This podcast is provided for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as legal, business, or tax advice. All opinions expressed by podcast participants are solely their own opinions and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of RCM Alternatives, their affiliates, or companies featured. Due to industry regulations, participants on this podcast are instructed not to make specific trade recommendations, nor reference past or potential profits. And listeners are reminded that managed futures, commodity trading, and other alternative investments are complex and carry a risk of substantial losses. As such, they are not suitable for all investors. For more information, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rcmalternatives.com/disclaimer⁠

William Hahn is Director of AGI & AI Safety and the founder of Hahn AI, a company that develops cutting-edge AI solutions. William is a technologist and researcher, specializing in the intersection of artificial intelligence, programming languages, and the nature of consciousness. SPONSOR (THE ECONOMIST): As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe Join my newly launched Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com LINKS: - Snow Crash (book): https://amzn.to/3zYqJb9 - Center for the Future Mind (website): https://www.fau.edu/future-mind/ - Archive of Alan Turing's papers: https://turingarchive.kings.cam.ac.uk/ - Richard Hamming's lecture series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30 - Iain McGilchrist on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-SgOwc6Pe4 - Gregory Chaitin on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guQIkV6yCik - Mindfest playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ7ikzmc6zlOPw7Hqkc6-MXEMBy0fnZcb - Susan Schneider's website: https://schneiderwebsite.com/index.html - Susan Schneider's Google talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwVKXKlU1GU - William Hahn's short course series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKoZnCEAIkvkvyVpbqx71EMT8BLpD6Oaq - Ekkolapto's Polymath project: https://www.ekkolapto.org/polymath - Ekkolapto's event page: https://ekkolapto.substack.com/ - HyperPhysics website: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html - Joscha Bach and Michael Levin on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgMFnfB5E_A - Stephen Wolfram on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRlQQw0d-4 - Curt on Julian Dorey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1mKNGo9JLQ Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!) TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Introduction 02:30 - AI's Impact on Language and Human Thought 05:10 - Mind as a Programmable System and Historical Metaphors 08:45 - Society of Mind Theory and AI Agents 11:30 - Consciousness, Awareness, and Metacognition 15:00 - Free Will, Emotions, and Unconscious Programming 18:40 - Brain as an Immune System and Handling Unthinkable Thoughts 22:50 - Informational Parasites, Memes, and Nam Shub of Enki 28:15 - AI Security: Vulnerabilities and Protecting Minds 33:00 - The Cultural Shift: AI's Influence on Psychology 37:45 - Historical Secrecy in AI and Government Role 42:30 - AI's Evolution: Role of Data, Hardware, and Differentiation 47:20 - Speculating on Hidden AI Capabilities and Advanced Systems 51:10 - Richard Hamming's Insights on Learning and Ambiguity 57:10 - Revisiting Ancient Knowledge and Advanced Civilizations 01:03:30 - Artifacts of Ancient Technology and Modern Interpretations 01:09:10 - Defining Meaning, Spirit, and Information in AI 01:14:35 - Wolfram's Physics Model and Emergent Computation 01:20:00 - Computational Models of Consciousness and Mind 01:27:28 - Wolfram's Symbolic Language and Analog Computing 01:34:00 - Agent-Based Programming and AI Evolution 01:39:10 - Knowledge Gaps and Flat Earth as a Metaphor 01:45:00 - Synesthesia, Music, and Human Perception 01:52:24 - The Intersection of Software and Hardware 02:00:02 | Complexity Crisis in Modern Technology 02:06:00 - Optical Computing and AI's Future 02:12:08 - Philosophical Reflections on AI and Consciousness 02:20:00 - The Amorphous Boundary Between Software and Hardware 02:28:00 - Technology, Religion, and the Need for a New Understanding 02:37:15 - Outro / Support TOE #science #sciencepodcast #ai #llm #artificialintelligence #consciousness #agi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

E427 Dr. Angela Meyers is a prominent expert in polymathy studies (a polymath is a person with wide-ranging knowledge and or studies). She's worked at the White House under the Bush and Obama presidencies, and has a show called Polymath's Place on YouTube (I've been a guest on her show). Her work brought her to […]

Philipp Samor von Holtzendorff-Fehling, founder of Leela Quantum Tech, and Ian Mitchell, lead scientist at Wizard Sciences, discuss the intersection of quantum science and health. They dive into quantum energy's benefits, cutting-edge health tech, and real-world applications like EMF protection, structured water, and meditation. Listen in for insights into the future of quantum energy and how it can transform wellbeing. =========== OUR GUESTS =========== Philipp Samor von Holtzendorff-Fehling, founder of Leela Quantum Tech and Quantum Upgrade, is a coach and entrepreneur in the conscious-raising space and an energy healer who specializes in guiding others through personal blockages to achieve balance and harmony. In parallel to a successful international business career, he constantly worked through blockages and barriers that had prevented him from fully connecting with his true self. As he advanced through his spiritual journey, he started to also see energy fields and developed his unique skills as a healer, and completed two decades of training in shamanic and other energy healing modalities. Pivoting from his career – as a C-level executive of a multi-billion dollar company and as Vice President at T-Mobile – he is now a conscious entrepreneur creating products charged with quantum energy to help everyday people achieve a higher state of consciousness, as well as energetic and physical wellbeing. He is also a kundalini yoga teacher, ranked in the top 10 in the USA in tennis, and a father of two. Ian Mitchell is the lead scientist at Wizard Sciences, Polymath in Residence at Austin based Ecliptic Capital, and is the scientific advisor for Leela Quantum Tech. Over the past decade, he has developed a series of novel therapeutics using Lipofullerenic-Conjugates and holds multiple patents across various scientific disciplines such as nano-medicine and materials science. Additionally, he holds joint patents with the University of Tulsa, where he previously taught Biochemistry, for innovations in viral inhibitors, cancer screening technology, and personalized cell culture media used in both laboratory and clinical settings. He also developed an antiviral therapeutic for recalcitrant viruses. Furthermore, he pioneered the first viable gamma-ray shielding system for spacecraft and space habitats, as well as a carbon-negative concrete designed to curb greenhouse gas proliferation =============== LEELA QUANTUM ===============

In this enlightening episode of The Human Upgrade, Dave Asprey is joined by polymath and visionary Robert Edward Grant. Known for his groundbreaking work in fields ranging from mathematics and cryptography to art and consciousness, Robert shares insights into how his diverse expertise has shaped his understanding of the interconnectedness of science, art, and spirituality. The conversation delves into ancient knowledge, biohacking for personal evolution, and the deeper mysteries of consciousness, exploring how tapping into these realms can lead to profound innovation and a higher state of being. Sponsors: OneSkin | Go to https://oneskin.co/ and use code ASPREY15 for 15% off your purchase. Timeline | Head to https://www.timeline.com/dave to get 10% off your first order. Resources: Robert Grant's Website: robertedwardgrant.com Follow Robert Grant on Instagram: @robertedwardgrant Dave's Linktree: https://linktr.ee/daveasprey Dave Asprey's Book ‘Smarter Not Harder' is out now: https://daveasprey.com/books Want to join The Human Upgrade Podcast Live? Join Our Upgrade Collective: https://www.ourupgradecollective.com/ Danger Coffee by Dave Asprey: https://www.instagram.com/dangercoffeeofficial/ Supplements by Dave Asprey: https://shopsuppgradelabs.com/ Own an Upgrade Labs: https://ownanupgradelabs.com/ Timestamps and Highlights: 00:00:01 — Introduction by Dave Asprey 00:02:05 — What It Means to Be a Polymath 00:05:34 — Innovation Through Cross-Disciplinary Thinking 00:08:26 — Consciousness and Psychedelics 00:13:22 — The Limits of Knowledge and Enlightenment 00:28:35 — The Path to Enlightenment 00:30:29 — The Benefits of Fasting for Mental and Physical Clarity 00:34:52 — The Power of Cold Therapy 00:38:23 — Overcoming Challenges in Biohacking See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This episode is a two-for-one, and that's because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I've curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode "Derek Sivers on Developing Confidence, Finding Happiness, and Saying No to Millions" and "Interview of Kevin Kelly, Co-Founder of WIRED, Polymath, Most Interesting Man In The World?"Please enjoy!Sponsors:Wealthfront high-yield cash account: https://Wealthfront.com/Tim (Start earning 5.00% APY on your short-term cash until you're ready to invest. And when you open an account today, you can get an extra fifty-dollar bonus with a deposit of five hundred dollars or more.) Terms apply.Helix Sleep premium mattresses: https://HelixSleep.com/Tim (25–30% off all mattress orders and two free pillows)AG1 all-in-one nutritional supplement: https://DrinkAG1.com/Tim (1-year supply of Vitamin D (and 5 free AG1 travel packs) with your first subscription purchase.)Timestamps:[05:47] Notes about this supercombo format.[06:50] Enter Derek Sivers.[07:20] From pig show busker to circus ringleader.[10:42] Derek's framework for developing confidence.[13:05] "The standard pace is for chumps."[18:51] Relaxing for the same result.[24:01] The origins of "HELL YEAH! or no."[26:25] "Busy" implies a life out of control.[28:03] What inspired the automation of CD Baby?[33:22] Derek's billboard.[34:32] Good advice at any age: "Don't be a donkey."[40:24] Enter Kevin Kelly.[41:02] Kevin's biggest regret.[43:13] Finding contentment in minimalism and "voluntary simplicity" without starving to death.[50:33] Kevin's epiphany when he embraced writing as a late bloomer.[56:40] Why Kevin promised himself he would never resort to teaching English while traveling abroad.[59:07] Finding purpose through resilience and the creator's dilemma.[1:06:50] Why the appeal of being a billionaire is overrated.[1:11:05] Middle-aged optimization.[1:15:28] Realizations following a "six months until death" challenge.[1:20:08] Kevin's Kickstarter-funded project linking angels and robots.[1:22:41] Why a self-proclaimed ex-hippie waited until his 50th birthday to try LSD for the first time.[1:28:43] Why a population implosion is probable in the next 100 years.[1:36:05] The greatest gift you can give to your child.[1:38:21] The criteria for Amish technology assimilation.[1:45:03] What technology-free sabbaticals can do for you.[1:48:53] Long Now Foundation's vision of a better civilization.[1:53:33] The graphic novel teaching young people how to become indispensable.[1:54:52] An antidote to misguided "follow your passion" advice.[1:56:44] Kevin's favorite fiction book.[1:59:15] The resource Kevin compiled for documentary lovers.[2:02:47] A name Kevin considers synonymous with "success" (and why success is overrated).[2:05:46] What Kevin would change about himself.[2:07:59] Daily rituals.[2:10:44] How Kevin accumulated enough books to fill a two-story library.[2:15:19] How Adam Savage from MythBusters transformed Kevin's method of organization.[2:17:14] The project everyone should undertake at least once in life.[2:19:30] Does discovery equal invention?[2:20:12] Kevin's advice to his younger self.[2:23:16] Parting thoughts.*For show notes and past guests on The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast.For deals from sponsors of The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast-sponsorsSign up for Tim's email newsletter (5-Bullet Friday) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Discover Tim's books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissYouTube: youtube.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/timferrissPast guests on The Tim Ferriss Show include Jerry Seinfeld, Hugh Jackman, Dr. Jane Goodall, LeBron James, Kevin Hart, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jamie Foxx, Matthew McConaughey, Esther Perel, Elizabeth Gilbert, Terry Crews, Sia, Yuval Noah Harari, Malcolm Gladwell, Madeleine Albright, Cheryl Strayed, Jim Collins, Mary Karr, Maria Popova, Sam Harris, Michael Phelps, Bob Iger, Edward Norton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Neil Strauss, Ken Burns, Maria Sharapova, Marc Andreessen, Neil Gaiman, Neil de Grasse Tyson, Jocko Willink, Daniel Ek, Kelly Slater, Dr. Peter Attia, Seth Godin, Howard Marks, Dr. Brené Brown, Eric Schmidt, Michael Lewis, Joe Gebbia, Michael Pollan, Dr. Jordan Peterson, Vince Vaughn, Brian Koppelman, Ramit Sethi, Dax Shepard, Tony Robbins, Jim Dethmer, Dan Harris, Ray Dalio, Naval Ravikant, Vitalik Buterin, Elizabeth Lesser, Amanda Palmer, Katie Haun, Sir Richard Branson, Chuck Palahniuk, Arianna Huffington, Reid Hoffman, Bill Burr, Whitney Cummings, Rick Rubin, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Darren Aronofsky, Margaret Atwood, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Dr. Gabor Maté, Anne Lamott, Sarah Silverman, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and many more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.