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Published podcast speaker
Books, apps, and tools
other / likes
“I’ve always wanted to also have a place in a very rural area, so Colorado or Montana are high on my list right now, and to be able to pivot back and forth between the two would be great, just for such different experiences. And also, I like a very physical life, so the idea of getting up with the sun in a Montana or a Colorado type environment, and I’ve been putting some effort towards finding a spot for that.”
other / likes
“I’ve always wanted to also have a place in a very rural area, so Colorado or Montana are high on my list right now, and to be able to pivot back and forth between the two would be great, just for such different experiences. And also, I like a very physical life, so the idea of getting up with the sun in a Montana or a Colorado type environment, and I’ve been putting some effort towards finding a spot for that.”
app / likes
“I like the Shark Attack Map, and the Shark Attack Map shows that Northern California, there were a couple.”
person / likes
“I’m a huge fan of this guy, Joel Sartore, where he has this photo arc project where he takes portraits of all these different animals.”
app / likes
“The comments, I love the comments on YouTube because occasionally they’re funny because.”
book / uses
“So I’m reading an amazing book called An Immense World by Ed Yong. He won a Pulitzer for We Contain Multitudes or something like that, I think is the title of the other book.”
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12 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“Certainly, smoking, dipping, vaping, and snuffing aren’t good because you’re going to run into… They would run into trouble for other reasons.”
02 / evaluation
“Because then on other days when I don’t take it, I get unbelievably tired at that time that normally I would do the injection.”
03 / evaluation
“It’s a big lizard-looking thing that doesn’t eat very often, and they figured out that there’s this peptide that allows it to curb its own appetite at the level of the brain and the gut, and it has a lot of homology to, sequence homology, to what we now call GLP-1. So I love any time there’s animal biology links to cool human biology links to a drug that’s powerful that can help people with obesity and type 2 diabetes, and there’s evidence they can even curb some addictions.”
04 / evaluation
“They’re known for mentoring some of the best scientists that then go on to start their own labs. And I think in podcasting, I am very fortunate I got in a fairly early wave, not the earliest wave, but thanks to your suggestion of doing a podcast, fairly early wave.”
05 / evaluation
“When we’re happy, we rarely think this is going to last forever, which is an interesting contrast in its own right. But I think that psychedelics, while I have very little experience with them, I have some, and it sounds like they’re just a very interesting window into the different apertures.”
06 / evaluation
“The trust piece is huge and that’s where people start, we don’t want to focus on what works, not what doesn’t work, but that’s where, I think, people start engaging in these covert contracts.”
07 / evaluation
“I never liked the phrase history repeats itself when it comes to humans because it doesn’t apply if the people or the person is actively working to resolve their own flaws.”
08 / evaluation
“I think the shadow parts of us are very important to come to understand and look better to understand them and know that they’re there and work with them than to not acknowledge their presence and have them surface in the form of addictions or behaviors that damage us in other people.”
09 / evaluation
“This is advanced contracting of behavior for a species that normally we don’t think of as sophisticated as us. So it’s very interesting and it gets to something that I hope we’ll have an opportunity to talk about because it’s something that I’m obsessed with lately, is this notion of overt versus covert contracts, right?”
10 / evaluation
“Overt contracts are the signature of all things good. And I think about this a lot because I’ve seen a lot of examples of this.”
11 / evaluation
“I think my cognition is better when I’m doing more cardio and when the repetition ranges are a little bit or higher, which is not to say that people who lift heavy are dumb, but there is a… Because there’s real value in lifting heavy.”
12 / evaluation
“I will say this, that four episode series with Paul is at least to date, the most important work I’ve ever been involved in in all of my career because it’s very clear that we are not taught how to explore our subconscious and that very few people actually understand how to do that.”