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Send us Fan Mail Can the language you speak limit what you're able to see, and what you're able to get out of life? This episode connects linguistics, neuroscience, and manifestation. It covers: Jim Carrey's graduation speech: the bike story and the "law of exchange" he says drove his whole careerSynaptic pruning: why babies' brains take in far more of the world than adult brains, and what we lose as we grow upThe Guugu Yimithirr of northern Australia: their language has no "left" or "right," only compass directions, and they almost never get disorientedThe Himba of Namibia: their language has no separate word for blue, and it changes how they see colorArrival: how learning an alien language lets Amy Adams' character see through timeIt starts with the research and then gets into speculation. If language filters what we can perceive, what else might be filtering what's possible for us? Have ideas on how to open up those possibilities? Reach out: [email protected] Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I take a look at the major weather and climate events of 2026, including severe wildfires, flooding, extreme hail, record ocean temperatures, and unusual weather patterns occurring around the world. I also discuss recent climate projections from the United Nations and what continued global warming could mean for sea levels, coral reefs, drought, food production, and extreme weather. I also discuss current weather patterns associated with El Niño, including unusual storm activity and temperature extremes, before looking at some of the possible long-term implications of these changes. The episode considers where current trends could lead and the potential role of artificial intelligence in addressing future environmental challenges. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I break down Wu Wei, the ancient Chinese concept of “non-action” or effortless action. It sounds like laziness at first, but the idea is really about learning when to stop forcing things, letting go of rigid expectations, and moving with the circumstances instead of constantly fighting against them. I talk about Wu Wei through examples from content creation, exercise, creativity, burnout, and everyday life, including the idea of asking “What would this look like if it were easy?” I also break down how viewing your life as an experiment and using an “effort scale” can make it easier to actually start things. The goal isn't to do nothing—it's to keep moving, but without constantly trying to force the outcome. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I read through Naval Ravikant’s famous “How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky” thread, one of the most concise collections of ideas on wealth, leverage, ownership, specific knowledge, and long-term thinking. Rather than overcomplicating it, I go through the ideas directly and let the framework speak for itself. The thread covers why wealth is different from money or status, why ownership matters, how leverage compounds your effort, why specific knowledge is so valuable, and why building wealth is less about chasing shortcuts and more about positioning yourself around skills, judgment, and systems that scale. If you’ve heard quotes from Naval before but never gone through the full thread, this is basically the distilled version. Also sorry about mispronouncing the name at the beginning. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I break down some of the latest developments in AI, including Grok 4.7, Meta’s new MUSE agent, and what the rise of easy-to-use AI agents could mean for the way we use the internet. MUSE can handle things like email, calendars, shopping, forms, travel and other online tasks, but the more interesting part is how quickly major companies are starting to react. Amazon has already blocked MUSE from accessing its shopping platform, raising a much bigger question about what happens when AI agents begin choosing where we shop, what we buy, and which services we use. I also get into the idea of “agentic warfare” — a future where Amazon, Meta, Apple, Google and other major companies may each build their own agents while limiting competitors’ access to their ecosystems. That could create something similar to the streaming wars, except instead of fighting over movies and sports rights, companies are fighting over which parts of the internet their AI agents are allowed to use. At the same time, these agents could flatten a lot of the friction that gives huge online platforms their advantage and potentially shift more power back toward consumers and smaller sellers. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I look at the history of AI hype cycles to ask a much bigger question: are we actually on the verge of artificial intelligence transforming or even threatening humanity, or are we living through another period where expectations are running ahead of reality? I break down the major waves of AI development, from early symbolic AI and robots like Shakey, to 1980s expert systems, to today’s deep-learning and generative-AI boom, and look at what each cycle promised, what actually happened, and what survived after the hype cooled. I also get into the enormous amounts of money being poured into companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI, the expensive infrastructure behind modern AI, and whether today’s low consumer prices are actually sustainable. My overall take is that AI is already powerful enough to radically change work, software and the internet even if progress slows from here—but that the current fear of an imminent AI apocalypse may be getting mixed together with the same hype, investment incentives and over-extrapolation that have appeared in previous AI booms. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I break down some of the strangest and most interesting things I learned in a semester-long class on consciousness. We get into how tiny the truly high-resolution part of your vision actually is, why people once reported dreaming in black and white, how blindsight shows that your brain can process visual information without you consciously seeing it, and how the rubber hand illusion can literally trick your brain about what belongs to your body. I also get into the controversial Ganzfeld experiments and the bigger question behind all of this: what actually is consciousness? We know a huge amount about how the brain processes information, but we still don’t fully understand why any of that processing produces a subjective experience at all. This episode is basically a collection of the experiments and ideas that made that mystery feel way stranger to me. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I try to compress a semester’s worth of the most interesting psychology into 17 minutes. We get into why your brain doesn’t actually show you reality directly, why you notice far less than you think, how memory can change every time you recall something, how conditioning shapes your behavior, what dopamine actually does, and why your brain is so good at protecting its existing beliefs. I also break down conformity, cognitive biases, placebo effects, social influence, and neuroplasticity, and how all of these ideas connect to the way you experience everyday life. The bigger theme is that we like to think of ourselves as rational, objective people with accurate memories and complete control over our decisions, while psychology reveals a much messier and more interesting picture of how the mind actually works. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail I met this guy David on a plane. He has cerebral palsy and narcolepsy. I was working on my video editor creating content and we got talking. He is now my first paid user of NeuralBoard. Here is the brief story for those who are interested.  Support the show

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Send us Fan Mail How deep is your “bag,” really? In this episode, I use lucid dreaming as a window into one of the strangest features of the human mind: even when almost anything is possible, we tend to fall back on the same familiar patterns. Lucid dreams can make those patterns unusually easy to notice. Even in an environment where the normal rules of reality disappear, the brain often defaults to familiar actions, expectations, and ideas. That same tendency shows up in waking life through habits and routines. As experiences become more repetitive, the brain has less novelty to encode into memory, which may help explain why stretches of adult life can seem to pass much faster in retrospect than the novelty-filled years of childhood. We talk about why people gravitate toward routines, how novelty shapes memory and our perception of time, why childhood can feel so much longer than adulthood, and how deliberately expanding your “bag” of experiences might make your life feel richer instead of letting weeks, months, and years blur together. Lucid dreaming might be more than a way to control your dreams. It can also reveal just how much of your waking life is running on autopilot—and what happens when you decide to break the pattern. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Lucid dreaming is usually framed as a superpower—the ability to become conscious inside your dreams and take control. But there may be a stranger side to it. In this episode, I break down how lucid dreaming works, how people learn to do it, and how practicing reality checks can begin to change the way you experience waking life. We explore what happens when you start questioning your memories, the stories you tell yourself about your past, and even the ordinary assumptions you make about what is “real.” After enough time paying close attention to dreams, strange moments in everyday life can start to feel strangely dreamlike—a bizarre coincidence, an unbelievable sky, lightning in the distance, or simply noticing how surreal reality can be when you actually stop and look at it. This isn’t about losing touch with reality. It’s about what can happen when you start examining reality with the same critical awareness you bring into a lucid dream. The dark side of lucid dreaming might not be the dreams themselves. It might be how differently you see the world once you wake up. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Thanks for listening! In this episode I discuss all the ways that I am currently using AI. In doing so I discuss AI AGENTS and how to use them (connecting them to your email, connecting them to your browser, getting them to do stuff for you remotely). I discuss how to get a website/game/shop/etc. up and running using apps like VERCEL, SUPABASE, Google Cloud, Shopify, Printful, Runway, etc.  If you feel like AI is moving quickly and you do not know where to start when catching up with all of the recent developments and how to use them. This is a great place to start!  Thanks again.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Marcus Aurelius was one of the most powerful people in the ancient world, but his life was filled with war, plague, political instability, loss, and responsibility. During all of it, he kept writing private notes to himself about how to stay grounded, deal with difficult people, control his anger, accept what he couldn’t change, and live according to his values. Those writings eventually became Meditations, one of the most influential works of Stoic philosophy. In this episode, I break down some of Marcus Aurelius’s biggest ideas and quotes, including the difference between what you can and can’t control, why “the obstacle becomes the way,” how our interpretation of events can create additional suffering, why remembering death can actually make life more meaningful, and why action matters more than endlessly thinking about the person you want to become. More than anything, this is an episode about how to handle setbacks, uncertainty, other people, and your own mind without letting every difficult situation throw you off course. reach out: [email protected] Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In Part 1 of this deep dive into Sigmund Freud, I break down some of his most influential ideas about the human mind, including the unconscious, repression, the id, ego and superego, defense mechanisms, Freudian slips, dreams, and the possibility that we may not fully understand why we do the things that we do. Freud believed that hidden desires, fears, memories, and internal conflicts could influence our behavior without ever fully entering conscious awareness, and that idea would go on to completely reshape psychology and modern culture. I also get into the origins of psychoanalysis, why Freud became so interested in hidden psychological causes, how he thought the mind protects itself through things like projection, rationalization and denial, and why he viewed dreams as a window into the unconscious. The episode ends as we get into Freud's theories about childhood and how early experiences can shape adult personality. Part 2 will pick up there and dive into some of his stranger and more controversial ideas, including psychosexual development, the Oedipus complex, repetition compulsion, relationships, the death drive, religion, and what Freud may actually have gotten right. Support the show