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Get more notes at https://podcastnotes.org This member’s only content is a compilation of several podcasts that will teach you about the importance of mental models and how they can help you improve your decision-making process. Get the FULL COLLECTION Key Takeaways: * Mental Model: Direction Over Speed * If you’re pointed in the wrong direction, it doesn’t matter how fast you’re traveling * Mental Model: Availability Bias * Design your environment to the best of your availability to limit your temptation to perform unwise actions * Mental Model: Hanlon’s Razor * Don’t attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity. Don’t assume someone did something because they’re a bad person, assume they did it out of stupidity. * Mental Model: George Mack’s Razor * When presented with two options, choose the one that brings a greater amount of luck. * Mental Model: Zeitheimer’s * Every generation tends to assume their problems are the absolute worst – we forget about the daily struggles of our ancestors * Our generation is complaining about social media addiction – people less than a hundred years ago were dying on battlefields during world wars * Mental Model: Signal vs. Noise * This mental model is all about how to distinguish the high-intensity/useful information (the stuff that actually matters) from the noise * If a book has been around for 100 years, you can assume it’ll be around for 100 additional years (this is also known as the Lindy Effect) Defining Mental Models * A mental model is ways of taking principles from different disciplines and applying them to make better decisions * Helpful mental models: * Be careful of actions that would multiple your life by 0 * Don’t take any risk that might make your life go to zero * E.g: It’s great if you exercise and don’t smoke, but if you drive drunk you could go to jail or end up dead Mental Model: The Map is Not the Territory * Check out Shane’s blog post on the topic * A few examples: * A balance sheet is the map of a business, but it doesn’t fully represent the company * An employee satisfaction survey (a map) is only a glimpse of the entire terrain (everything going on within the company) * “If you become exclusive to one map, you’re less likely to identify when the terrain changes” – Shane Parrish * “There’s always an imperfect relationship between reality and the models we use to represent and understand them, but it’s necessary in order to simplify things because we can’t deal with the world in all of its complexity” – Shane Parrish * Like online dating * The “map” (someone’s profile) doesn’t match the overall person – they’ll often be completely different * The size of your email list is a map, but it doesn’t tell you about the territory * It doesn’t tell you about the open rates, the engagements, or whether people care if they receive the emails * Business targets/projections are another example * For one, they’re often pulled out of thin air * The growth target doesn’t, in fact, indicate what’s possible * “If you could 10x something, why would you be happy with 5x, and if 5x’ing something is, in fact, impossible, why would you be disappointed with 4x?” – Sam Mental Model: The Unforced Error * This mental model comes from Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg * The concept: do all you can to prepare to avoid bad outcomes * Ex: Dress well to avoid making a bad first impression * Ex: Don’t text while driving to avoid getting in a car crash * “An unforced error is the most basic way you can be wrong. Independent of all other circumstances, you done f**ked up.” – Chris Mental Model: Anti-fragility * This one originates from Nassim Taleb, author of Antifragile, and a few other classics – The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and Skin in the Game * The main idea – Become someone who thrives and improves from disorder * Think of a glass cup: if you drop it on the floor (disorder), it breaks (AKA it’s fragile) * How can you do this? – There are quite a few ways: * Have multiple sources of income – this way, if you lose your job (disorder), you’ll be fine * Exercise and build strength – if you stumble and lose your balance, you’re more likely not to hurt yourself * Look for business opportunities where no matter what happens, you’ll experience an upside Mental Model: Finding Good in the Bad * This one originates from Josh Waitzkin in his first appearance on The Tim Ferriss Show * It’s very easy to get bummed out when it rains and let it affect your mood * Josh realized parents instill this in their kids by encouraging them to stay inside when it’s raining rather going out to actually enjoy the “bad” weather * So, he flipped it. Josh taught his son to look at rain and think: “Oh, look at how beautiful it is! Let’s go outside and enjoy it!” * George adds – “When everything’s going bad, I say ‘good.’ When everything’s going good, I say ‘bad.’” * When times are good, it’s quite easy to take your foot off the gas * When times are bad, it’s an opportunity to thrive Mental Model: Surround Yourself With People You Admire * “I definitely find the biggest influence in my output and the way I think is who I’m around” – George Mack * Think of two versions of yourself: * In one world, you spend most of your time around a positive and motivational person (like David Goggins) * In another world, you spend most of your time around a sloth (the type of person who always has negative blinders on) * After a year, imagine these two people meet – they’ll be completely different! * High agency people actively seek out those they admire and want to emulate * Chris thinks David Perell largely fits this bill – “He’s always the dumbest person in the room in one of multiple domains and he keeps changing the domain”” Mental Model: Directional Arrows of Progress * This one comes from Josh Wolfe (as discussed in these Podcast Notes). Here’s how Josh explains it: * “The half-life of technology intimacy” is a trend related to how we interact with our computers: * 50 years ago, you had a giant computer the size of multiple refrigerators sitting in the corner of a room * The way you would interact would be to flip it’s switches, and pull plugs etc. * 25 years ago – we first got personal computers * How did we interact with them? – Mainly through a keyboard and a computer mouse * 12.5 years ago – the dominant form of computers became laptops * Now it’s physically on your lap, so the computer has gotten closer to you * 6.5 years ago – the iPhone * It’s the last thing we touch at night, as well as the first thing we touch in the morning * You “swipe” it and “tap” it * The only physical barrier with the human body is a thin film of fabric in your pants * 3.5 years ago – the smartwatch Get the FULL COLLECTION Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Get more notes at https://podcastnotes.org Podcast Notes Premium Collection: Huberman and Sleep Get the FULL NOTES Intro to Sleep * Sleep cycles & Architecture: non-REM and REM play for brain domination throughout the night in 90-minute cycles – this is the standard architecture of sleep * Ratio of non-REM and REM throughout the night: the first half of the night is dominated by non-REM deep sleep; the second half of our sleep is dominated by REM sleep * Not everyone’s sleep cycles are 90 minutes: sleep architecture is fairly consistent within a person, but can be different across people * Non-REM Sleep: Non-REM deep sleep is divided into four stages, increasing in the depth of sleep: stages 1 and 2 are light stages of non-REM deep sleep; stages 3 and 4 are deep stages of non-REM deep sleep * In stages 1 and 2: the heart rate begins to drop, and brain wave activity slows down * In stages 3 and 4: the heart rate is low, cells in the cortex fire together then go silent * During non-REM deep sleep, we get autonomic restoration and regulation of heart rate and blood pressure * Hypnogogic Jerks: during stage 1 you experience mini dreams s you’re starting to drift off and can almost wake yourself up in this stage – sometimes you experience a jerk in your body as a result of loss of proprioceptive feedback * ​Don’t miss these notes about how Salvador Dali used the hypnogogic state to be creative (Slumber with a Key)​ * … ​​Quantity, Quality, Regularity, and Timing (QQRT): The macros of sleep * Quantity: the average adult needs between 7-9 hours of sleep per night – but the reality is more complex * Quantity alone doesn’t tell the full story * … Carbs, Caffeine and THC * Carbs in AM vs. PM: research does seem to support that your body is better able to metabolize carbohydrates in the morning versus evening if you’re concerned about your blood sugar and metabolic health * Eating Before Bed: In gener… Sleep Supplements * Magnesium Threonate or Glycinate, 145mg, 30-60 minutes before sleep * Magnesium chloride can be effective for bioavailability by way of muscle relaxation * Apigenin: 50mg, 30-60 minutes before sleep * Theanine: 100-400mg, 30-60 minutes before sleep (Do NOT take Theanine if you are prone to night terrors or sleepwalking) * Inositol * Glycine: 1.5-2gPhosphatidylserine will dampen cortisol response * Check out the full Momentous Huberman sleep stack & use promo code PODCASTNOTES for 15% off at checkout! Sleep Tips * 1. Do Nothing! If you are struggling with sleep and had a bad night of sleep, do not sleep in later, do not go to bed earlier, do not increase caffeine intake, do not compensate with a nap * 2. Time rescheduling/sleep restriction therapy: if you are spending too much time in bed, your brain is not efficient; it’s like being in the gym for hours a day but spending most of the time scrolling on your phone – you’re not really getting a good workout like if you know you only have 45 minutes to workout * 3. Don’t underestimate the importance of a winddown routine: whatever you enjoy for relaxation, build it into your regimen to help you decelerate * 4. Do NOT count sheep, instead take yourself on a mental walk: counting sheep actually makes you stay awake longer; instead, get your mind off itself by going through a rudimentary walk with hyper-detail – imagine putting your shoes on, opening the door, crossing the street, imagine the signs you see, look at the flowers, etc. * 5. Remove … * Monophasic sleep: Single bout of sleep in 24 hour period * Biphasic sleep: Two bouts of sleep in 24 hour period * Polyphasic sleep: … ​Napping * Naps are a Double-Edged Sword: If you struggle with sleep at night, do not nap during the day in order to build up sleepiness and hopefully sleep at night * ​Cons of Napping: Naps remove sleep pressure (adenosine) so if you struggle with sleep, you are setting yourself up for worse sleep because you’ve removed some of the sleepiness you need * ​Pros of Napping: If napping does not disrupt your sleep and leaves you feeling better, go ahead and nap but be cautious of napping too late which can disrupt sleep * ​Are Naps Right F… * ​Super Charged Nap: Swig espresso right before napping + nap 20 minutes + cold water to hands and face upon waking + immediate daylight 5-10 minutes outside ​3 Ways Sleep is Essential for Learning:​ * 1: We need sleep before learning to start the initial imprint and laying the tracks; sleep before learning is critical * 2: We also need sleep after learning to cement the information in our brain * 3: We need sleep to integrate the new information with previously learned information we have stored * ​Exactly How Much an All-Nighter Impacts Memory: Pulling an all-nighter leads to deficits of up to 40% in making new memories * … * Symptoms of REM Sleep Deprivation: Paranoia, hallucination, aspects of psychosis (with enough time) * Bad Sleep, And Then: When sleep deprived, you’re excessively reactive and hypersensitive, particularly to reward-based activities – dopamine circuits are overactive when you are underslept * Sleep and Addiction: A lack of sleep is associated with addiction potential AND relapse if trying to abstain * REM Sleep Killers: Alcohol, THC * One Possible Mechanism for PTSD: The brain is trying to process the traumatic experience but fails, so the brain tries again the next night, and the next – until … Brain Features of REM: * (1) Electrical brain wave activity in the cortex is similar to that when you are awake; * (2) There are unique pulses from the brain stem ultimately to the occipital cortex (linked to rapid eye movements); * (3) Motor regions, visual regions, memory-related structures, and emotional-related structures of the brain all light up * (4) The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (responsible for inhibition and planning) activity is suppressed during REM * Functions of REM sleep: (1) Creativity; (2) Emotional & mental wellness – REM sleep is overnight therapy * … * (1) Consistently rehearse the notion that you will remember your dreams and you will take control of your dreams – if you do this enough, the probability you will induce lucid dreams is high * (2) Rehearse something (like flicking a light switch on and off) over and over; Then, when this appears in your dream you can take control * … Get the FULL NOTES Thank you for subscribing. 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I’d rather torture them into greatness.” – Jensen Huang The Speed of Light in Practice: * Break down each component task of a project and assign a target time to completion for it * Assume no delays, no queues, and no downtime so that you can set the theoretical maximum, i.e. the Speed of Light * Instead of judging performance relative to your past performance or against the competition, judge yourself against the speed of light and the law of physics Top Five Things (T5T) email * Every employee, at all levels, sends an email with the top five things that they are working on, or the top five things they are observing in the market (customer pain points, a competitor’s strategy, new developments in technology, or project delays) * Each email contains five bullet points, and the first word in each bullet is an action word, such as finalize, build, or secure * Each department labels each email in the email’s subject line Winston Churchill Would have Loved Twitter/X– He limited the size of memos that his staff could send him and told them that it was “slothful” not to compress your thoughts Henry Singleton, cofounder of Teledyne, on planning: * 1. 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Kids can handle the truth when it’s told to them by a loving, trusted adult Happiness is the NOT the Goal: Your job is not to make your kid happy. Your job is to help create the conditions for your kid to be a real functioning, confident adult. It’s just different roles The concept of “not guilt”: “What I think is happening is a lot of us, especially women, when we were growing up, we learned to notice everyone’s feelings around us. And we learned that our value, really, and our worth, really, and we were kind of best and good girls when we took care of everyone else’s feelings except for our own.” – Becky The most important skill for kids to learn is to tolerate frustration: “The things that are good for humans long-term are things that involve humans to tolerate frustration.”– Becky Get Off Your Phone: “We have so much less tolerance for our kids’ tantrums because we’re on our phones wanting our life to be easier.” – Becky Confidence: “Confidence is not feeling like you’re the best at something, it’s feeling like it’s okay to be you when you’re not the best at something.” – Becky ​ Hetty Green – The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World & The Richest Woman In America | Founders Podcast with David Senra #375 Hetty Green’s business maxims: * 1. Seek out every piece of information on an investment before deciding on it * 2. Watch your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves * 3. Generally, in business, do not close a bargain until you have reflected on it overnight * 4. Before making a deal, if anyone is foolish enough to offer you the full amount, take it! * 5. Buy when everyone wants to sell and sell when everyone wants to buy Some things on Hetty Green’s list of things to NOT do in business: * 1. Do not cheat in business or you will find yourself in an early grave * 2. Do not fail to be fair in all things and do not kick a man when he is down * 3. Do not envy your neighbors * 4. Do not forget to be charitable and never falsify A defining character trait of Hetty: She lived by her own rules and did not care what other people thought; by casting off the societal norms of her time, she freed herself to do as she pleased and to live a life on her terms Hetty was self-sovereign, very frugal, and very paranoid: She did not tell other people what she owned or how much she was making, and commonly bought property and stocks under fictitious names Greed and Envy: Greed does not drive the world, envy does; cure yourself of envy because envy is a weakness Hetty Green’s wealth management principles: * 1. No debt * 2. No buying on margin * 3. Watch every penny * 4. Stack your cash Chaos is a Ladder: Most humans will panic during times of economic crisis, but those who do not panic will get rich * Shrewd investors can buy assets at low prices from speculators who use margin * There are good bargains in the aftermath of the crisis Fun fact: The creation of railroads

Get more notes at https://podcastnotes.org Product and Media are the Leverage of the New Wealth (Listen) | Episode 21 * The most important form of leverage is the idea of products which have no marginal cost of replication (aka product leverage) * You can replicate your efforts without having to involve other humans * Ex. – A podcast * Long ago, to get similar reach, you would have had to give a public lecture * 30-40 years ago – you would have had to get on TV * But today, thanks to the internet, anyone can launch a podcast * Product leverage is how fortunes will be made in the digital age – using things like code or media * Ex. of people who utilized code-based product leverage – Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin * Ex. of media-based product leverage – Joe Rogan, PewDiePie * Combining labor leverage, capital leverage, and product leverage is a magic combination for tech startups (for more on labor and capital leverage, check out these Podcast Notes) * You use the minimum, highest output labor – engineers and product developers * You add capital which you can use for marketing, advertising, and scaling * You then add lots of code, media, and content to get everything out there * Product and media leverage are permisionless – they don’t require someone else’s permission for you to use them or succeed * For labor leverage – someone has to decide to follow you * For capital leverage – someone has to give you money * But coding, writing tweets, making podcasts, YouTubing – these are permissionless * The robot revolution has already arrived – we just keep them in data centers/servers * Think – every great software developer has an army of robots working for him/her at night, while they sleep, after they’ve written the code and they’re just cranking away * Robots do web searching for you * Robots handle customer service inquiries * Over time, this will progress to autonomous vehicles/planes/trucks * Coding is a superpower because it allows you to speak the language of the robots and tell them what to do Product Leverage is Egalitarian in its Outputs (Listen) | Episode 22 * Product (both code-based and media-based) leverage is egalitarian in its outputs * Compare this to labor and capital leverage – which are much less egalitarian * In general – the more of a human element there is in providing a service, the less egalitarian it is * “It’s the nature of code and media output that the same product is accessible to everybody…The best products tend to be at the center, at the sweet spot of the middle class, rather than being targeted to the upper class.” – Naval Ravikant * For example: * Things like Netflix and Facebook – everybody can use * Compare this to Rolex watches or a Lamborghini – using/owning them is much more related to status-seeking * As the forms of leverage have gone from being labor-based and capital-based to being more product/code/media-based – “Most of the goods and services that we consume are becoming much more egalitarian in their consumption” * Things like food – rich people don’t eat better food * Technology and media products have amazing scale economies * “If you care about ethics in wealth creation, it’s better to create your wealth using code and media as leverage. Then those products are equally available to everybody as opposed to trying to create your wealth through labor or capital.” – Naval Ravikant * “If you’re wealthy today, for large classes of things, you tend to spend your money on signaling goods to show other people that you are wealthy, and you try and convert them to status as opposed to actually consuming the goods for their own sake” – Naval Ravikant Business Models Have Their Own Leverage (Listen) | Episode 23 * Some business models give you “free leverage” – Examples: * Scale economies = the more you produce of something, the cheaper it gets to make * Technology and media products have this great quality where they have zero marginal cost of reproduction * Thinks like podcasts and YouTube videos * Ex. – Joe Rogan is working no harder now than he was on podcast #1, but it’s now generating millions more * Then there are network effects businesses * A network effect is when each additional user adds value to the existing user base * Like language – The language becomes more valuable the more people who speak it * “Long-term, the entire world is probably going to end up speaking English and Chinese” – Naval Ravikant * It’s thought that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of nodes of the network * A network of size 10 would have a value of 100, while a network of size 100 would have a value of 10,000 * “You want to be in a network effects business” – Naval Ravikant * Things like Facebook, Uber, Twitter, YouTube, Google * “You should always be thinking about how your users or customers can add value to each other because that is the ultimate form of leverage” – Naval Ravikant * When you’re picking a business model, aim to pick one where you can benefit from network effects, low marginal costs, and scale economies An Example: From Laborer to Real Estate Tech Company (Listen) | Episode 24 * An example from the real estate business * A day laborer on a construction site, unless you’re in a skilled trade, doesn’t have specific knowledge * Even if you’re a carpenter or electrician, other people can be trained to do your job – you can probably be replaced * You don’t have much accountability – “You’re a faceless cog in the construction crew” * They don’t have much, if any, leverage * A general contractor, who someone hires to come and fix/repair their house, has a little more accountability * They’ll make more money than a day laborer, but they take more risk (if the project runs over budget, they’ll eat the loss) * The accountability gives them more potential income * They have labor leverage (people working for them) * A property developer is one level above a general contractor – these are people who go around looking for beaten-down properties which have potential and then buy them to fix them up * They can make a healthy profit by selling a building for 2-3x what they bought it for * A developer has more accountability/risk and much more specific knowledge * They have to know which neighborhoods are worth buying in, which lots are good/bad, and what makes/breaks a specific property * They have capital leverage and labor leverage * Beyond the property developer might be a famous architect/developer where just having your name on a property increases its value * Above that might be a property developer who builds entire communities * Above that – someone who funds real estate through an investment trust * Beyond that – someone (or a team of people) who understands the real estate market and the tech business (how to code/recruit developers/build a good product), and knows how to raise money from VCs * Think – something like Zillow * This team/individual would have all forms of leverage – labor (people working for him/her), code, capital (money from investors) * As you climb the chain – You layer in more knowledge which can only be gained on the job, more accountability/risk-taking, more capital, and more labor Judgment Is the Decisive Skill in an Age of Infinite Leverage (Listen) | Episode 25 * First aim to get leverage, and once you have leverage – your judgment becomes the most important skill * How do you get leverage? * Get it permisionlessly – learn to code, create podcasts, become a good writer * Through permission – get people to work for you, or raise capital * “All the great fortunes are created through leverage” – Naval Ravikant * In high leverage positions (like a CEO), most of the time you’re paid based on your judgment ability * Definitions: * Wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions * Judgment is wisdom on a personal domain (wisdom applied to external problems) * True judgment ability comes from experience * “Intellect without any experience is often worse than useless” – Naval Ravikant * You get the confidence that intellect gives you along with some credibility, but because you had no skin in the game and no real experience….”you’re just throwing darts” * The people with the best judgment are actually among the least emotional * “The thing that prevents you from seeing what’s actually happening are your emotions; our emotions are constantly clouding our judgment” – Naval Ravikant * Let’s sum up: * First, you’re accountable for your judgment * Judgment is the exercise of wisdom * Wisdom comes from experience * That experience can be accelerated through short iterations * “Investment books are sort of the worst place to learn about investment” * To get good at investing, you need broad-based judgment and thinking – the best way to obtain this is to study everything (including a lot of philosophy) * Philosophy makes you more stoic/less emotional and more likely to make better decisions (so you have better judgment) * The more outraged somebody gets, the worse their judgment probably is * “If someone’s constantly tweeting political outrage and seems like an angry person, you don’t want to hand them the keys to your car let alone the keys to your company” Set and Enforce an Aspirational Hourly Rate (Listen) | Episode 26 * “No one is going to value you more than you value yourself” – Naval Ravikant * So set a high personal hourly rate and stick to it * Always factor your time into any decision (as well as your personal hourly rate) * So if your personal hourly rate is $60, and you estimate it will take you an hour and a half to return a $40 product, it’s not worth it * You have a finite amount of high-output mental hours each day – “Do you want to use them to run errands and solve little problems or do y

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Get more notes at https://podcastnotes.org Live Below Your Means For Freedom (Listen) Episode 6 * “People who are living far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyle just can’t fathom” – Naval Ravikant * Once you start making money, keep living like your old/poorer self * When you upgrade your life as you make more money, you just stay in the “wage slave trap” * Nassim Taleb has said – “The most dangerous things are heroin and a monthly salary” * They’re both highly addictive * One reason the very high marginal tax rates for the so-called wealthy are flawed: * For many people, they toil/work extremely hard for decades, and then it finally pays off with a massive payday * “Then of course Uncle Sam shows up, and basically says, ‘Hey, you know what, you just made a lot of money this year. Therefore, you’re rich. Therefore, you’re evil and you’ve got to hand it all over to us.’ So, it just destroys those kinds of creative risk-taking professions.” – Naval Ravikant Give Society What it Doesn’t Know How to Get (Listen) | Episode 7 * Get rich by giving society what it doesn’t yet know how to get – at scale * Money is like an IOU from society for something you did good in the past, that you can use in the future * “Society always wants new things and if you want to be wealthy, figure out which one of those things you can provide for society that it does not yet know how to get, but it will want, that’s natural to you and within your capabilities. And then you have to figure out how to scale it.” – Naval Ravikant * Creations start as just an act of creativity * Then, for a little while, only rich people have it (like a chauffeur) * Then it makes its way to everyone (like Uber) * “Entrepreneurship is essentially an act of creating something new from scratch, predicting that society will want it, and then figuring out how to scale it and get it to everybody in a profitable and self-sustaining way.” – Naval Ravikant The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities (Listen) | Episode 8 * “The internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven’t figured this out yet.” – Naval Ravikant * The internet connects everyone on the planet * This means that you can find an audience for your product/service no matter how far away they are * “The internet allows any niche obsession…from people who collect snakes to people who like to ride hot air balloons to people who like to sail around the world by themselves…whatever nice obsession you have, the internet allows you to scale.” – Naval Ravikant * “If you want to reach 50,000 passionate people like you, there’s an audience out there for you” * “Each person on Earth has different interests and obsessions, and it’s that diversity that becomes a creative superpower” – Naval Ravikant * Before the internet – this didn’t really matter * Your town/village didn’t necessarily need your unique creative skill * But now – you can go out on the internet and find your audience and utilize that to build wealth * The space of careers has been broadened -Examples: * People are now able to upload videos to Youtube to make a living – this wasn’t possible 50 years ago * Professional bloggers * Podcasters – Joe Rogan makes about $100 million per year from his podcast alone * “The internet enables any niche interest, as long as you’re the best at it, to scale-out” – Naval Ravikant * Because every human is different, everyone is the best at something * “Escape competition through authenticity” – Naval Ravikant * Just do your own thing – “No one can compete with you on being you” * “The more authentic you are, the less competition you’re gonna have” Play Long-term Games With Long-term People (Listen) | Episode 9 * “All the benefits in life come from compound interest” – Naval Ravikant * Whether it’s in relationships, life, your career, health, or learning * Long-term games are good for both compound interest AND trust * If you want to be successful, more likely than not, you’ll need to work with other people * You’ll need to figure out who you can trust over a long period of time, so you can keep working with them so that eventually compound interest will let you collect the major rewards * If you keep switching careers/networks – compound interest can’t take effect * Add to that – you won’t know who to trust and your new network won’t know to trust you * “It’s important to pick an industry where you can play long-term games with long-term people” – Naval Ravikant * A good analogy: * In a long-term game, everyone is making each other rich * It’s positive-sum * In a short-term game, everyone is making themselves rich Pick Partners With Intelligence, Energy and Integrity (Listen) | Episode 10 * Pick people to work with who have high intelligence, high energy, and high integrity – you CANNOT compromise on this * The world is full of smart/lazy people – this is why high energy is important * But high integrity is the most important * Otherwise, you just have a smart/hardworking crook who will eventually cheat you * How do you figure out if someone has good integrity? * Read signals * “Signals are what people do, despite what they say” – Naval Ravikant * If someone treats a waiter badly, it’s only a matter of time before they treat you badly * Another tip – Find people to work with who seem irrationally ethical * “Self-esteem is the reputation that you have with yourself” – Naval Ravikant * Good/ethical/reliable people tend to have high self-esteem because they have good reputations with themselves * “Generally, the more someone is saying that they’re moral, and ethical, and high integrity, the less likely they are to be that way” – Naval Ravikant * Similarly – “If you openly talk about how honest, and reliable, and trustworthy you are, you’re probably not that honest and trustworthy” * Sam Altman has said – “One of the important things for delegation is to delegate to people who are actually good at the thing that you want them to do” * “I almost won’t start a company, or hire a person, or work with somebody if I just don’t think they’re into what I want them to do” – Naval Ravikant * “If you’re trying to keep someone motivated for the long term, that motivation has to come intrinsically” – Naval Ravikant Partner With Rational Optimists (Listen) | Episode 11 * Don’t partner with pessimists * Avoid them * To create great things, you have to be a rational optimist * Rational in the way you see the world * Optimistic in your capabilities * “All of the really successful people I know have a really strong action bias. They just do things.” – Naval Ravikant * The easiest way to figure out if something is viable or not is by doing it * “You’ve got one life on this planet. Why not try to build something big?” – Naval Ravikant * But do know that it takes a lot of effort to build even small things * “I don’t think the corner grocery store owner is working any less hard than Elon Musk“ – Naval Ravikant * Think BIG – but be rational about it * Being an irrational optimist > being a rational cynic * If you think about it, we’re descended from pessimists * If two people were in a forest 10,000 years ago, and they hear a tiger – the optimist doesn’t run and ends up getting eaten, while the pessimist books it and survives * “We’re genetically wired to be pessimists, but modern society is far, far safer” – Naval Ravikant * “It made sense to be pessimistic in the past, but it makes sense to be an optimist today” * In society today, we’re dealing with situations which have limited downside and unlimited upside * Just think – if you build the next Tesla or SpaceX you can create billions of dollars of value for society (and yourself) * If you fail, so what? A few investors lose money and you’re right back to where you started. Arm Yourself With Specific Knowledge (Listen) | Episode 12 * “We have this idea that everything can be taught…..everything can be taught in school. And it’s not true that everything can be taught. In fact, the most interesting things cannot be taught. But everything can be learned.” – Naval Ravikant * Specific knowledge is the knowledge that you care most about * You can’t be trained for specific knowledge * If it were possible to be trained for it – then someone else could be trained for it too * You’d then be extremely replaceable – by other humans and eventually robots * How do you discover your specific knowledge? * “Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your innate talents, your genuine curiosity, and your passion” – Naval Ravikant * “If you’re not 100% into it, then someone else who is 100% into it will outperform you” * Look back on your own life and see what you’re uniquely good at * Specific knowledge is the stuff that feels like play to you but looks like work to others Specific Knowledge is Highly Creative or Technical (Listen) | Episode 13 * Warren Buffet once went to Benjamin Graham, author of The Intelligent Investor, and offered to work for him for free so he could learn about investing * Benjamin told him – “Actually you’re overpriced. Free is overpriced.” * Apprenticeships are VALUABLE – if specific knowledge can somehow be taught, this is how * Specific knowledge tends to be highly technical or creative – on the bleeding edge of art, communication, or tech * An example of specific knowledge – what Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, has done with his career * He’s essentially becoming one of the most credible people in the world by making persuasive arguments and videos on Periscope * What he does will NEVER be automated * Specific knowledge can only be built by spending lots of time doing whatev

Get more notes at https://podcastnotes.org Essentials: How To Learn Faster By Using Failures, Movement & Balance | Huberman Lab ​​ ​To enhance neuroplasticity as an adult:​ * 1: Pay attention to how you’re arriving at the learning bout – too alert? Too tired? * 2: Make errors * 3: Vestibular-motor sensory relationship is key – our bodies are designed to refocus if we’re off balance (literally, move in different planes) * 4: Set a continency – learning will be accelerated if there’s an important reason why we’re learning * 5: Try smaller bouts of learning for smaller bits of information – don’t try to learn a lot of information in one bout as an adult ​Representational plasticity:​ Internal representation of the outside world – our maps of the motor and sensory world are merged * “The way to create plasticity is to send signals to the brain that something is wrong, something is different, and something isn’t being achieved.” – Andrew Huberman ​Limbic friction:​ The nuanced … ​Reignite Your Relationship: Esther Perel On Desire, Intimacy, Sex, & Long-Term Love | The Rich Roll Podcast ​​ ​The four horsemen of apocalypse and relationships:​ indifference, criticism, defensiveness, and contempt ​Emotional Capitalism​: “We are constantly urged to maximize and optimize our choices. We sometimes end up evaluating ourselves as products where we have to deal with comparison as the thief of joy. We partake in a frenzy of romantic consumerism where we are sometimes afraid to commit to the good for the fear of missing out on the perfect.”– Esther Perel * We have unrealistic expectations that our romantic partner can check every box… “an over-burdened system with an under-resourced reality” * This includes traditional expectations, like offering companionship, economic support, stable family life, and social status * Also includes more modern expectations, such as being your best friend, trusted confidant, intellectual equal, efficient co-parent, fitness buddy, professional coach, and personal development guru * Oh, and last but not least, being a passionate lover for the long haul ​Relationship Ecosystems:​ Relationships are not stories of two, they are an ecosystem * Family, friends, and mentors are all part of your relationship ecosystem ​Shadow People: ​People who are no longer alive or no longer in your life that affect your future emotions and behaviors, both positively and negatively * “I wish my mother was here to see this…” * “I let my ex get away with that, not this time…” * Self-awareness of shadow people is essential ​Being Stuck:​ You’re stuck in increasingly rapid cycles of blame and defense * Confirmation Bias: only regarding evidence that reinforces your belief * Fundamental Attribution Error: believing you are more complex than your partner * SOLUTION: write down everything your partner does that is for the good of the relationship …. ​Best Moments of Modern Wisdom In 2024 – Weinstein, Huberman, Tim Ferriss, Hormozi, Rhonda Patrick, & More with Chris Williamson​ ​Leave the Kids Alone: ​“Get away from our sons and away from our daughters. It’s not left or right. I don’t have a Republican bone in my body. Get the crazy people who do not understand human development away from our children.” – Eric Weinstein ​Hard Choices, Easy Life: ​“Everything worth doing is hard – and the more worth doing it is, the harder it is. The greater the payoff, the greater the hardship. If it’s hard, good. It means no one else will do it. More for you.” – Alex Hormozi ​The Selection Effect of Competition:​ If you are on a clear path toward a goal, you should get excited when things get harder because you know that no one else will follow ​Tension Over All:​ Focus on getting tension in the muscle that you are targeting; getting tension in the muscle you are trying to grow is more significant than focusing on which exercise movement is best … ​Brigham Buhler – UnitedHealthcare CEO Assassination & The Mass Monetization of Chronic Disease | The Tucker Carlson Show​ PBM Scam: Roughly 30% of the cost of every prescription drug is because of the kickback that goes to a PBM; the drugmaker pays the Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) the kickback in order to be placed on the preferred contract with the insurance company Money Before Health: The drugs that get put on formulary do not have to do with efficacy or what is best for the patient; instead, it is about which drugs have the biggest kickbacks for PBMs The three pillars of the chronic disease crisis: (1) Big Pharma (2) The food industry and (3) The insurance industry …. ​Jordan Peterson: How to Best Guide Your Life Decisions & Path | Huberman Lab​ Porn is Not Natural: “We have a situation where any 13-year-old boy can see more hyper attractive super stimulus women in one day than the most successful man who lived 100 years ago would have ever seen in his whole life.”– Peterson Real Food Makes Sense to Your Brain: One big thing you learn from following a clean diet is the relationship between the taste of the food, volume, macronutrients, micronutrients, and satiation * This is impossible with highly processed food. 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Get more notes at https://podcastnotes.org This podcast consists of a conversation between Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi going over Naval’s famous How to Get Rich tweetstorm. Key Takeaways * Wealth buys you freedom * EVERYONE can be rich * Aim to become so good at something, that luck eventually finds you * Over time, it isn’t luck – it’s destiny * You’re not going to get rich renting out your time * Aim to have a job, career, or profession where your inputs don’t match your outputs * People who are living far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyle just can’t fathom * Get rich by giving society what it doesn’t yet know how to get – at scale * The internet has massively broadened the space of possible careers * Whatever nice obsession you have, the internet allows you to scale it * Escape competition through authenticity * All the benefits in life come from compound interest * Whether it’s in relationships, life, your career, health, or learning * Pick people to work with who have high intelligence, high energy, and high integrity – you CANNOT compromise on this * Really successful people have an action bias * Arm yourself with specific knowledge * Specific knowledge is the stuff that feels like play to you but looks like work to others. It’s found by pursuing your innate talents, your genuine curiosity, and your passion. * Learning to build AND sell products is a superpower * Read what you love until you love to read * The 5 most important skills are reading, writing, arithmetic, persuasion, and computer programming * The number of iterations drives the learning curve * Get comfortable with frequent, small failures * If you’re willing to bleed a little bit every day, but in exchange, you win big later, you’ll be better off * Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage * Product leverage is how fortunes will be made in the digital age – using things like code or media * Product and media leverage are permisionless – they don’t require someone else’s permission for you to use them or succeed * Wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions * Judgment is wisdom on a personal domain (wisdom applied to external problems) * The people with the best judgment are actually among the least emotional * Set and enforce an aspirational hourly rate * If you can outsource something for less than your hourly rate, outsource it * The hierarchy of importance: * What you work on * Picking the right people to work with * How hard you work * A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to do great things in this world * Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true. * Reject most advice, but remember you have to listen to/read enough of it to know what to reject and what to accept * Your physical health, your mental health, and your relationships will most likely bring you more peace and happiness than any amount of money ever will * Productize yourself * Create a product out of whatever it is you do naturally and uniquely well * Being honest leaves you with a clear mind * “A lot of wisdom is just realizing the long-term consequences of your actions. The longer-term you’re willing to look, the wiser you’re going to seem to everybody around you.” – Naval Ravikant * Negotiations are won by whoever cares less Books Mentioned * Warren Buffet once went to Benjamin Graham, author of The Intelligent Investor, and offered to work for him for free so he could learn about investing * It’s important that you read foundational things (the original books in a given field which are scientific in nature) * Instead of reading a random business book, read The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith * Instead of reading a recent book on biology or evolution, read Darwin’s On The Origin of Species * Instead of reading a recent biotech book, read The Eighth Day of Creation * Another recommendation – Richard Feynman’s Six Easy Pieces * Naval highly recommends Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb * When Naval was younger, one of his favorite books was How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis * To learn more about randomness, check out the highly recommended book – Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Taleb * The Almanac of Naval Ravikant Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status (Listen) | Episode 1 * Having wealth means having assets that earn while you sleep * “The reason you want wealth is because it buys you freedom, so you don’t have to wear a tie like a collar around your neck, so you don’t have to wake up at 7 AM and rush to work in traffic, so you don’t have to waste away your entire life grinding all your productive hours away to a soulless job that doesn’t fulfill you.” – Naval Ravikant * Money is how we transfer wealth * “Money won’t solve all your problems, but it will solve all your money problems” – Naval Ravikant * Wealth is a positive-sum game and status is a zero-sum game Ethical Wealth Creation Makes Abundance for the World (Listen) | Episode 2 * “What I am basically focused on is true wealth creation. It’s not about taking money. It’s not about taking something from somebody else. But it’s from creating abundance.” – Naval Ravikant * Basically all of the wealth society has today was created – we’re not still sitting around in caves figuring out how to divide pieces of firewood * “Everyone can be rich” – Naval Ravikant * In the First World, everyone is basically richer than almost anyone who was alive 200 years ago * Furthermore, it’s better to be poor today than it was to be the richest man 200 years ago * Here’s a thought experiment… * Imagine if every human had the knowledge of a good software engineer – just think what society would look like 20 years from now * We’d ALL be living in massive abundance Free Markets Are Intrinsic to the Human Species (Listen) | Episode 3 * Capitalism is innate to the human species in every exchange we have * When two people are talking – there’s an information exchange * “The notion of exchange and keeping track of credits and debits – this is built into us as flexible social animals” – Naval Ravikant * Humans are the only animals in the animal kingdom that cooperate across genetic boundaries * Most animals don’t even cooperate – those that do cooperate only in packs or when they have some shared interest * What lets humans cooperate? * Keeping track of credits and debts – that’s free-market capitalism * “Everybody can be wealthy, everybody can be retired, everybody can be successful” – Naval Ravikant * It just comes down to education and desire * “If you get too many takers and not enough makers, society falls apart” – Naval Ravikant * This results in a communist country * Ex. – Venezuela Get the FULL NOTES at Podcastnotes.org. 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Get more notes at https://podcastnotes.org Top Takeaways Of The Week ​Podcast Notes Book Collection: 2024 Edition (150+ books and counting…)​ Business: When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert * One of the best books about philanthropy * Source: Brent Beshore’s recommendation to Shane Parrish (PN) Economics: The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History by David Hacket Fischer * Explores the recurring cycles of price inflation throughout history, connecting economic trends to broader social and cultural changes * Source: Rudyard Lynch’s recommendation to Tom Bilyeu (PN) Entrepreneurship: Mastery by Robert Greene * The value of mastering a skill set * Source: Sam Parr’s recommendation to Andrew Wilkinson (PN) Investing: Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger * Charlie Munger understood incentives and human psychology, but never used that knowledge to manipulate others * Source: Warren Buffett’s recommendation to shareholders (PN) Productivity: The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting The Right Things Done by Peter Drucker, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, and Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen * Three books that embody the evolution of productivity * Source: Cal Newport recommendation to Chris Williamson (PN) Leadership: The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz * Great lessons about running a business and being a leader * Source: Marc Andreessen’s recommendation to Rick Rubin (PN) Motivation: Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby * The key insights into Michael Jordan’s competitive spirit and how it made him the greatest basketball player of all time * Source: Ben Wilson book review (PN) Seeking Truth: The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch * Naval Ravikant praises David’s work, considering him the smartest human alive * Source: Naval Ravikant and Niklas Anzinger in discussion (PN) Psychology: … ​ ​Naval Ravikant: How To Know What’s True, Are We Destroying the Earth, Collectivism vs. Individualism, The Biggest Threats to Western Civilization, and More | Arjun Khemani Podcast ​​ ​Top 7 @naval quotes:​ * “how to know what’s true” edition: “Free markets are also a source of truth-seeking. For example, if I think Alphabet is a great stock and I buy it, but I turn out to be wrong, then the truth of the market will punish me as the feedback comes in, and I will lose my money.” * A group is not a truth-seeking entity: “Individuals can seek truth and then, based on that, they can choose to cooperate with others for limited periods of time to effectuate that truth or to have something come out of it.” * Are we running out of resources? Nope. “There’s not a single resource you could point to that was a resource in the classic commodity sense that had any real value where we ran out in some harmful way.” * “If climate change is an issue—and it’s hard to discuss because it’s become so politicized—we can carbon capture out of the environment.” * “Whether it’s nuclear fusion, rocketry, immortality, fighting viruses, or computing, almost all the innovation of the last 50 years has come in the unregulated industries.” * This is what AGI people get wrong: “There’s no intelligence that can fundamentally understand something humans can’t understand.” * Everybody wants the latest and greatest of everything: “Would you even go back 10 years and lose out on all the medicines, computing, knowledge, and travel we’ve invented? Absolutely not. I wouldn’t even go back to the iPhone 14.” ​Why You Have Advantages Over Elon and Bezos: ​ * You probably have more time to go to the gym than they do * They have the same iPhone you do * They might eat slightly better food, but it’s basically the same ​Popper’s concept of falsifiability is key: Statements that can’t be disproven are meaningless, e.g., “we live in a simulation.” * The free will debate is similarly non-falsifiable and unproductive ​There’s no such thing as misinformation: “Your information is my misinformation; my information is your misinformation.” ​ ​Explaining The Silk Road – History102 With Rudyard Lynch and Erik Torenberg ​​ “Totalitarianism is a very feminine attempt to gain total order over your life. It’s basically asking for daddy state to peg you harder.” – Rudyard Lynch * “The state is at best a dildo. It can never be a real penis, and thus it will never really satisfy you.” – Rudyard ​What Woke Really Is: Wokeness is one of six different types of totalitarian movements in history and it perfectly fits the definition of totalitarianism ​What Was the Silk Road: The Silk Road was an emergent phenomenon that developed over thousands of years due to discrete connections between the four major Eurasian civilizations, which were Europe, the Middle East (Islam), India, and China ​The 3 Peaks of the Silk Road:​ * First peak: Roman-Han Dynasty Golden Age * Second peak: The Islamic Golden Age * Third peak: The Mongol Empire ​A paradox of the Silk Road: As the system integrates closer, it shatters because it integrates too much * The convergence of disease pools from around the world; in one instance, one-third of Eurasia’s population was killed by a plague as a result of disease pools converging ​Fracincense Was a Legit Luxury Item: The Silk Road was mostly luxury trading, except for the late medieval period in the Indian Ocean Silk Road * Arabia exported horses, frankincense, and myrrh * China was completely addicted to Arabian frankincense; this was one of the most significant trading nodes of the 11th century! ​The Europeans Killed the Silk Road (That in the Mongols Killing Everyone): The Europeans entered the Indian Ocean trading system in the early 1500s by sailing around the bottom of Africa * First the Portuguese, then the Dutch * The Portuguese seized control of the entire Indian Ocean system in a ten-year period * The land routes of the Silk Road eventually died out because the oceanic trade routes were better ​Mongolian Death Toll: The Mongols killed close to 100 million people in the pre-industrial world ​ ​Dr. Bernardo Huberman: How to Use Curiosity & Focus to Create a Joyful & Meaningful Life | Huberman Lab​ There are ways to know what’s true and what’s not true: “Reading about physics and understanding that there are laws that tell you how things work gave me a tremendous sense of order and power.” – Bernardo There are two things our brains weren’t made by evolution to understand intuitively: relativity and quantum physics Bernardo explains the basics of relativity: * Einstein discovered that the speed of light is constant, no matter how fast you’re moving relative to it * This makes simultaneity (two events happening at the same time) relative * For example, Andrew and Bernardo might agree it’s 1:10 now, but if one of them moves very fast, their clock would show a different time Chaos Theory: Bernardo was one of the discoverers of chaos in several physical systems, a tiny difference in initial conditions can take you to very different outcomes * “In classical mechanics, chaos is all about sensitivity to initial conditions.” – Bernardo * Chaos exists in almost every physical system, even in neurons in the brain! 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