Tim Ferriss is in Kevin Rose’s words, “very private,” despite his very public personality and lifestyle business. We, the audience, see a very detailed and in-depth view of some parts of his life, but with things like love and relationships, he is more reserved. I have often felt curious about that side of him, and… Continue reading ❤️[Podcast] Tim Ferriss Interviews Esther Perel on Maintaining Desire and Rethinking Infidelity
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❤️ [Podcast][Must Listen] Tim Ferriss – Exploring Smart Drugs, Fasting, and Fat Loss — Dr. Rhonda Patrick
This episode has an unbelievable amount of information. The Guest is Dr. Rhonda Patrick, who Tim describes as, “an American biochemist and scientist.” She has done extensive research and work in the fields of the cellular biology, genetics, nutrition, and nootropics. She views aging as a disease to be treated, and elaborates in depth on all of… Continue reading ❤️ [Podcast][Must Listen] Tim Ferriss – Exploring Smart Drugs, Fasting, and Fat Loss — Dr. Rhonda Patrick
Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged
I first read this book in 2010. It was a gift from the senior development engineer at Build.com during a series of interviews I had there. It is the kind of book that gives you a lot more questions than answers. There is a knife’s edge today which I feel myself balancing on. On one… Continue reading Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged
[Documentary] Adam Curtis – HyperNormalisation
Adam Curtis is an amazing documentarian and this is his best work yet. HyperNormalisation focuses on the culture in the USSR at the end. Curtis describes the meaning behind the title, “…everyone knew that the system in place wasn’t working and that the politicians didn’t believe it any longer. Yet at the same time, because they… Continue reading [Documentary] Adam Curtis – HyperNormalisation
[Documentary] Adam Curtis – All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
Years ago, I came across this documentary series and was struck by its intense and unusual style. Adam Curtis has become one of my favorite documentarians. Luckily for me, he is prolific. His new documentary Hypernormalisation is one of his best. All of his work is about the interplay between power and economics and politics.… Continue reading [Documentary] Adam Curtis – All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
Neil Strauss – The Game
This is a book about a group of terrible people. A few months ago, I was sitting in a cafe drinking some coffee, when I noticed an odd-looking man reading this book. I Googled the title, and found that it was a New York Times nonfiction best seller about an investigative journalist infiltrating the pickup… Continue reading Neil Strauss – The Game
23andMe – My Genes
I recently signed up to do 23andMe. This is a service that sequences your DNA and provides in-depth analyses of various traits and risk factors as well as a detailed analysis of your family history and origins. They offer two options: a cheaper $100 Ancestry Service which just shows you where you’re from, or the more… Continue reading 23andMe – My Genes
Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
In July of last year, I listened to Brett McKay’s Art of Manliness podcast Episode #219: The Real Life Story of Hemingway and The Sun Also Rises. McKay likes interviewing biographers who are writing about figures who are the actual subject of his interviews. In this episode, he talks with author Lesley Blume about her new book… Continue reading Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
❤️ Must Listen: Tim Ferriss Interviews Dr. Phil Zimbardo of the Stanford Prison Experiment on What Makes a Person Either Heroic or Evil Under Pressure
Tim Ferriss interviews Dr. Phil Zimbardo of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment on what makes a person either heroic or evil under pressure. This was an amazing episode. They go very in depth on the research around this topic from antiquity to the cutting edge, and they identify several key things to watch out for in… Continue reading ❤️ Must Listen: Tim Ferriss Interviews Dr. Phil Zimbardo of the Stanford Prison Experiment on What Makes a Person Either Heroic or Evil Under Pressure
Tim Ferriss with Kevin Rose Drunk in a Bathhouse in Japan
These two together is automatically magic, and the fact that they are drunk in a rural Japanese bathhouse should hardly surprise anyone who follows them. Kevin Rose turns 40 the day before the episode was recorded, which seems shocking because I remember seeing him on BusinessWeek when I was selling websites at 18 years old and aspiring… Continue reading Tim Ferriss with Kevin Rose Drunk in a Bathhouse in Japan