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“I've been using standing desks everywhere. Even when I travel around the world now I've actually got a portable standing desk just to try and keep me up.”
“Really what you want to avoid the most is Teflon, right? Anything that's nonstick... that has the forever chemicals in them and that is being heated up and is leeching into your food.”
“Black plastic has a high amount of these flame retardants that are leeching into the food... Not only do you not want to eat out of black plastic, you don't want hot food going in there.”
“Soup cans canned soup are lined with BPA... the soup has been classically shown in multiple studies to increase BPA levels by a thousand%. Don't eat canned soup as much as possible.”
“If you can eliminate and not drink out of plastic bottles as much as possible... This has tons of what are called nanoplastics, very, very small particles that get into the gut.”
“This kind of glutathione isn't going to make it inside of your cells... it is. You're going to want to get something called liposomal glutathione instead.”
“A consumer study... people went and got a lot of different creatine gummies off the shelf and then measured how much creatine was in them. Essentially almost all of them had none.”
“Most men do not need to supplement with iron unless they have a problem with iron... iron can be very bad. It causes oxidative stress easily.”
“big thanks to AI explained a channel here on YouTube for flagging this in the video. I kind of missed it.”
“If you're locked out of OpenClaw right now, then Kilo Claw is hands down the fastest and most secure way to get your OpenC environment back up and running.”
“I'm an investor in a company called Stanto...they've been building is this new tool called Stanley that uses AI, looks at your feed, looks at your tone of voice...and tells you what you should post”
“I highly recommend people go check out your YouTube channel where you make videos all the time about what's going on in the world...economic issues, political issues, the Iran war”
“There's a guy called Simon Machau, whom I recommend you get in touch with as well. And Simon is an engineer who claims that we simply don't have the physical minerals necessary to support a completely…”
“One of the books that I um I realized you'd read at that time from some research is this book Adam Smith the theory of moral sentiments... this book has to be accompanied by its more famous sister boo…”
“this book has to be accompanied by its more famous sister book which is the wealth of nations which that's the book that most people know Adam Smith for”
“there is an incredible book called Thusidities Trap uh which a professor named Allison um said that throughout history... he lays out a plan in his book for it to be avoided.”
“as my favorite poem says uh Invictus that um Nel Nelson Mandela used to read himself when he was in prison... I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul is how it ends.”
“a goal like a weight loss thing...is to download the face app. There's like an app that'll make you look super fat and real real obese and print it off and put it on your refrigerator.”
“Nir Eyal who I interviewed who wrote the book on like procrastination called indistractable said to me a phrase that's always stayed with me...humans are discomfort avoiding creatures”
“even Dr. Mgram's book was called obedience to authority. They thought it was all about the authority, the lab coat, the guy's tall.”
“Best place is nci.un university.”
“And my YouTube channel is just my name. We'll try and collab with you on this video.”
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“This is your most recent book, Lifestyle Business Playbooks: How to Have Fun, Freedom, and Fulfillment with Your Own Business... going to link this book below for anyone that wants to give it a read.”
“Cody Sanchez, a mutual friend of ours, she talks to people all the time about how to buy a baby boomer business and take it over and run it. So that's a great opportunity.”
“Play with these toys called AI tools. Someone has given you a free iPhone which you can just use called AI tools on the free account.”
“he gave a TED talk and the TED talk is about what it was like for him to meet 100 people who had won the lottery... he's had half a million views in the first few weeks.”
“read some entrepreneurial books, watch some entrepreneurial videos that are out there. start the process of thinking... there's this whole other way of creating value which is non-standardized called …”
“pause reflect document. If you do it correctly, you go into nature away from noise and away from technology and you take a pen and a paper and you sit in nature on a bench and you just pause.”
“So much more cost effective plus you know the actual avocado oil that you're putting in it the quality that you're putting in it is so much better. So, I highly recommend those in my Amazon storefront…”
“Keep an eye out for the 2025 Hill and Valley Forum, which will take place on Wednesday, April 30th. You can learn more in the description.”
“I very much encourage listeners to check out a site in modern-day Spain. It's a UNESCO site. It's called Las Medulas.”
“The book is believe why everyone should be religious. I highly recommend it.”
“If you like the episode, please leave a review in the Apple Store.”
“I can't recommend carpet tape enough. It is such an easy way to keep your carpet exactly where you want it to be, especially in a kitchen or hight traffic area.”
“Lynn, excited to deep dive into your great book uh Broken Money. H highly recommend.”
“you alluded to a you're linked to a Tanner Greer post about sort of different factions in Trump's camp who think differently.”
“Bland builds AI voice agents that handle your entire call operation. They sound human. They work 24/7. And they actually get cheaper as you scale.”
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“One thing we did, and Ash Carter was the really the author of it, was the DIU, the defense innovation unit. It's doing a great job. it's got to do more.”
“these kind of things are really important. 15, 20 years ago, five years ago, these types of events are very very uncommon. And so I think this dialogue is important.”
“I encourage the readers to look up a reconstruction of the statue of Constantine the great.”
“Today we're releasing a conversation I had on Tarpentine's show, The Riff, with my friend Burn Hobart.”
“First thing I do every single morning or every other day is fill out one of my little to-do cards from Ugg Monk. ... I'll also leave these linked below, too, if you want to check them out.”
“you can go and look at the documentary on YouTube. He is talking about a very specific thing which is a video that a demo video that someone at his studio showed him of these horrifying zombies”
“I encourage people to look at the copper plates uh that are dated. This is mainstream normal history. The uh Mississippi mound culture and the copper plates found in Cahokia.”
“I think Peter Teal is correct to think deeply about Renee Gerard and this concept of the scapegoat because it is one of the few good theories I have for why human sacrifice seems to have been so preva…”
“the best interview I've been able to give on this the most detail I've been able to go into was on the TEDI show last year. If folks are interested they should go listen to that.”
“hopefully by the time this comes out, it's published and hopefully the Substack is launched and everyone who listens to this episode will subscribe.”
“the current draft title is long timelines to advanced AI have gotten crazy short and hopefully by the time this comes out, it's published”
“I liked ideas as well from Daniel Cocatello and Dean Ball had a, you know, a sort of joint piece on transparency. I thought some of the things they pointed out there...also makes sense to me to have t…”
“he's written about it for folks who want to go into that in more depth.”
“this paper is a led by a colleague of mine called Emmy Pbasco...The paper is about what gets called decision support systems.”
“The main paper was really interesting. Basically for folks who didn't read it they had a few different things in there but the key idea this MAME idea I think was like mutually assured AI malfunction”
“I got from David Chapman who's a really interesting I think of him as a philosopher but he doesn't identify as a philosopher and he's written a lot of interesting stuff on sort of rationality”
“Go check it out. It is free. Like, you just need a semi-new iPhone. like an iPhone that was made within the last four or five years and you could go do this.”
“This is the recipe. It's from Fitman Cook. I have this app and I use this all the time.”
“Harvard Business Review, they put out this article called AI doesn't reduce work, it intensifies it.”
“this research paper came out from MIT here called Your Brain on Chat GPT, accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing tasks.”
“I actually have a pen and paper notebook that I write my thoughts down and I highlight stuff that I want to come back to like every single day.”
“Then I get these little jar containers. ... Uh, and they have a little gasket, rubber gasket to make sure that no liquid leaks out.”
“we released Whoop Advanced Labs which is the blood testing where you test 65 biomarkers and you can see which of your biomarkers are off and then we actually help you come up with an action plan”
“I have this thing called a hip hook. It helps me get to my hip flexors... I tend to get really tight hip flexors and that has been really helpful.”
“I've recently liked taking hot baths... I just put Epsom salt in the bath, make it really hot, and sit in there for 15 to 20 minutes... it helps me a lot.”
“deep tissue massage is I find so helpful. So if you're able to do that or even if you just use a thera gun or anything you can do to like massage your muscles is really helpful.”
“I do in order to make sure I get enough protein. I will like this morning I made a shake and put in some protein powder. So, probably it would be protein.”
“one of my favorite V2 max workouts is like, you know, 10 to 15 by 1 minute on, 1 minute off... I find that just gets my heart rate up really high.”
“you can just go to your local Quest Diagnostics to get your blood drawn and then all of the blood work is reviewed by real clinicians who will write up a report”
“a research paper was published in the Journal of Futures Markets that basically nobody read. Its title was the dollar's double life. Not all dollar appreciations are born equal for the crosscurrency b…”
“SUM, formerly Cryptotax Calculator, was built specifically to solve this problem. It supports Turboax along with over 3,500 exchange wallet and crypto integrations.”
“There's a great essay written by Arthur Burns in 1979, the anguish of central banking, where he essentially says that because the politicians want to provide this free money... people need to read a l…”
“I wrote an essay called 47. We and I talked about the bureaucratic mechanations on how Fed votes and how you get control of this board versus that board.”
“So on x cryptohaze on substack cryptohaze as well. I write my monthly bionthonly newsletter and yeah you'll hear me on programs like yourselves.”
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“Firsterson shooter video games. It was a total game changer for me... That allowed me to practice forcing myself to zoom out, slow my breathing, remain calm, and consider my full suite of options whil…”
“Resistance training and cardio, despite me hating them, are two of the fastest ways to lower baseline anxiety and improve stress resilience.”
“notion capital did a study the negative split uh data framework around founder endurance. You contributed to that and and provide some very key insights here. So maybe share some of that with us here”
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“And with Dino V3, we release a specialized backbone for satellite imagery tasks. This open-source release includes our training code and model weights, efficient models, and alternative architectures,…”
“There's enough um programs to download that how do you get from the the couch to 5K, 3 miles, how do you do that? And there's loads of instructions, YouTube, whatever”
“I think the most economically reasonable way to do that is through mentorship... if you can then just get mentors around you, that would be the beginning phase for me”
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“That's why I'm a huge fan of Paleo Valley's bone broth protein. One scoop gives you 13 grams of collagen rich protein from grass-fed beef bones... Right now, Paleo Valley is offering buy 1 get one fre…”
“We present gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, two open-weight reasoning models that push the frontier of accuracy and inference cost.”
“The broad market index, the S&P 500, is a broad basket segment of the market... It has been positive over every 20-year period in its history... You just have to own a broad basket of assets that are …”
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“I actually built a little app for myself...I actually use this flash light model for that because it's really fast...But also it's really cheap to use.”
“Honestly, this is one of my favorite features Notebook LM has actually added. Like, look at these animations.”
“This company...introduced a product called Spectre 1. And it's the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings.”
“if you don't have your privacy settings set up right on your Meta AI glasses, AI can use the data that's coming into the video for training...All of this information...is all going to human annotators”
“I use an app like an AI app that helps on the strength training side that gives you a workout based on your goals and objectives and it's way way cheaper than a human trainer but better than just a du…”
“I also get vitamin D drops, which I think is important in a northern climate like Canada or New Hampshire. Otherwise you can get sad, you know, seasonal effective disorder.”
“collagen powder is not very good for strength training because it doesn't have all the amino acids you need.”
“I'm a big fan of like functional health. Saw a functional health doctor... I'm a huge fan of being proactive.”
“I'm actually looking at maybe get a DEXA scan and V2 max test, which is another thing they... I actually just did those last week.”
“pumpkin seed extract and that can help with your prostate shrinking and staying at a normal size and things like that.”
“I'm playing with AI agents on my own system to be like a executive assistant. So that more to come on that if anyone wants to reach out to me, I'm happy to chat with folks.”