Mathew is a podcast host and author and the Best Selling Author of Zen Athlete. We talk about a lot of things, mostly having to do with yoga, spirituality, and how to live a good life. The biggest thing I got from this episode is that if you want to change your life in a big way, do three kind things for strangers without telling anyone that you did those kind things. Check out the Zen Athlete here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L8MY5CK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1...
Mar 11, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 7Ep. 13
We talk about the following questions: What did the 3 mile island do to the public acceptance of nuclear power? What is the age distribution of nuclear engineers? What are the nuclear technologies Leslie is most excited about? Whats it like to build a startup in a field that is at the prototype stage with huge capital and regulatory requirements? What is currently going on in the Fusion startups? Check out nucleation capital here: https://nucleationcapital.com/...
Mar 09, 2020•53 min•Season 7Ep. 12
Here are some other questions we investigated: What is your objective function? Did Religion provide people with an objective function? When do you experience a child-like novelty? Is there anything more to life than just seeking experiences? What is the relationship to unique experiences and difficult experiences? What is the relationship between optionality and commitment? What are some things that are fungible besides money? And many more. Follow Geoffrey here: https://twitter.com/geoffreywoo...
Mar 06, 2020•58 min•Season 7Ep. 11
You will like this episode if you have a basic knowledge of crypto and want to find out more. Dan is an investor in crypto from a venture point of view and understands it deeply and fundamentally. I don't know that much but I am intensely curious so I invited him on to learn as much as I can. This is the product. Follow Dan for more insights from a master: https://twitter.com/DHannum8
Mar 04, 2020•48 min•Season 7Ep. 10
This was a great episode about remote work and how to manage effectively in a remote work environment. We also talk about how life puts us into trying situations and its part of the way we make meaning to overcome them. Follow Gary here: https://twitter.com/garyposter
Mar 02, 2020•53 min•Season 7Ep. 9
We also talk about the following questions: What is the value of internationalism? What is the nature of progress and collaboration? What is the relationship? How is the growth of convenience and infrastructure is going to take the whole world by surprise? Follow Svilen here https://twitter.com/svilenrangelov Check out Dronamics here (its pretty cool): https://www.dronamics.com/...
Feb 28, 2020•53 min•Season 7Ep. 8
We talk about two types of creativity: 1. Creativity that VC unlocks through the companies VC's invest in 2. Creativity of how to make investment decisions We also talk about these questions: How do you set up a relationship so that its good for the long term? What is the difference between creativity that is exponential and creativity that is linear? What will the search algorithm for Voice technology be once its more widespread? What are the roadblocks to speech to text algorithms today? Compu...
Feb 26, 2020•52 min•Season 7Ep. 7
I talk with Doug about his plan to give people $10K to move out of San Francisco and how they are building a network of coworking places where people can work remotely yet still find personal connections. We investigate the question: Will big companies trust remote work at scale? We also went into a tangent on what remote work looks like in China. Follow Doug here on twitter: https://twitter.com/dougludlow Check out Mainstreet here: https://www.mainstreet.org/home...
Feb 24, 2020•50 min•Season 7Ep. 6
This one was really fun because I got to talk to Brian about how humans are adapting to cities, one of my favorite things to talk about. Brian started a company that creates tiny rooms that people can use for meetings or podcasts escaping from open office floor plan hell. He was actually in one of the rooms while he recorded this podcast! Follow Brian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_bchen And check out Room: https://room.com/...
Feb 21, 2020•54 min•Season 7Ep. 5
I reached out to James on Twitter because he posts a lot of interesting things about machine learning. He's building a stealth startup in the space and studies it at university so he has some relevant and recent knowledge. If you have an interest in AI check this one out. Also follow James here: https://twitter.com/rishmishra
Feb 19, 2020•54 min•Season 7Ep. 4
This one is a personal interest one for me. I found the CoffeeZilla Youtube Channel through a friend of mine and I immediately wanted to interview the guy who does it. In this channel, he goes after internet-enabled fake gurus and picks apart their schemes and shows people how they create fake value and sell that value and take people's money. It is so elegant and I highly recommend this episode if you want to understand how not to be a fool. Follow CoffeeZilla here: https://www.youtube.com/chan...
Feb 17, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 7Ep. 3
Chad and I both interviewed each other about how to learn effectively on the internet and not let it use you (and the companies behind the internet). This one was really fun! Check out Random Baddassery here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/random-badassery/id1090700348
Feb 14, 2020•59 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Jan teaches creativity and how to create inspiring change in entertainment, technology, and media through the use of content design and development. We talk a lot about what creativity means and even how to use your dreams to be more creative. Here are some free downloads from Jan's work. I highly recommend checking it out: The Book Chapter from Thirty Days to Dream can be downloaded for free at www.Dreameroo.com . The free prerelease of my new teen book series- Coded4Greatness/Book 1- The Queen...
Feb 12, 2020•54 min•Season 6Ep. 10
We talk a lot about how to sell something in this episode including these questions about what to ask yourself when you have an idea for a product or service that you want to sell: What’s the value? What is the consumer receiving? We also talk about how: Most people aren’t successful because they build a system Change is difficult for everyone. Sales is trying to help Follow Steven Here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-glod-8a329220/...
Feb 10, 2020•51 min•Season 6Ep. 9
This one is fire. As soon as he said that he named his firm after the famous Isaac Azimov book right of the beginning of the episode, I knew that this was going to be a great episode. We go deep here into the challenges we are going to face as a species moving forward and what to do about it at the family level and the society level. Follow Ben's work here: https://www.epsilontheory.com/
Feb 07, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 7Ep. 1
We also talk about the following questions: In what ways is a university a tribe? Are entrepreneurs lone wolves? Do entrepreneurs start out questioning assumptions more than most people? What are the best practices of turning a niche into a profitable and sustainable company? When does a piece of Software become mission-critical? Follow Tyler here: https://twitter.com/tylertringas...
Feb 05, 2020•57 min•Season 6Ep. 8
James is a Physicians Assistant in Greensboro, North Carolina and gives us the lowdown on how the hospitals work on the inside and how technology is impacting hospitals. We also go into ideation on an idea that James has been exploring. Follow James on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/jdburns4
Feb 03, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 6Ep. 7
This is a special episode where I went to a small town outside of Medellin to stay with and interview Orlando about his life growing up in abject poverty and then making his way out to the US to start a whole new life filled with love, adventure, and duty. There are some real new insights here for those who are interested in my main theme of stress and creativity and the interaction between the two.
Jan 31, 2020•50 min•Season 6Ep. 6
By now you know the name of the game. All silences left. The audio quality isn't that great. Yet this episode will change your life and kill all your sacred cows. Enjoy. Subscribe to the show.
Jan 29, 2020•44 min•Season 7Ep. 20
Here I talk with Benjamin Fernandes about how he pitched 290 investors before finally getting into Y Combinator. We also talk about the startup scene in Tanzania compared to Africa as a whole. By the time they got into YC Benjamin had way more traction than most of the other companies in their batch and this has to do with starting the company in Tanzania and focused on the African market. This makes a startup highly underestimated but also that's where the reward is if one does make it! Follow ...
Jan 29, 2020•57 min•Season 6Ep. 5
This is one of the unexpected episodes I record because someone I don't know that well stays in my guestroom. Jacob needed a spot to crash in SF for the night and we have a guestroom. We decided to record this episode and very glad I did because Jacob is on to something with his company IdeaFlow. Listen if you want to understand more about how to be a true master in whatever you want to do. Follow Jacob here: https://twitter.com/jacobcole4000...
Jan 27, 2020•56 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Jillian knows a lot about what it means to build a community as well as be part of a community. If you have wondered what it means to be a part of a community you will like this episode. If you are in NYC and want to find community, check out what Jillian built, a way to find community based events: https://joylist.nyc/
Jan 24, 2020•49 min•Season 6Ep. 3
I've been staying at Indie Studio in Medellin, Colombia and I interviewed the owner. Indie Studio is a coliving space. Coliving, as a trend, probably started in San Francisco in the 1960's with the hippie communes and then had a resurgence in SF in the 2010's. As a business, coliving didn't quite work out in SF because of the high economic costs but in other parts of the world its clearly a viable option, particularly now that digital nomads roam the globe. Here we talk about the latest in Coliv...
Jan 22, 2020•44 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Very proud to release this episode with Camilo who shares the truth, not just the hype about the particular stresses that come from starting a company in Medellin, Colombia. We also did a later interview in Spanish which was a lot of fun. Follow Camilo here: https://twitter.com/camilo_u
Jan 20, 2020•52 min•Season 6Ep. 2
I sit down with Christopher Michel to talk about photography, creativity, stress of talking to strangers, taking pictures all over the world, the cultural complexity of taking pictures of strangers in different countries and a lot more. Follow Chris here: https://twitter.com/chrismichel
Jan 17, 2020•56 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Dulma and I talk about what it means to create something that requires 100% of your effort and if its possible to remain balanced in the process. Dulma has a lot of wisdom to share and I like her definition of suffering about half way through. Check out Makelane here: https://www.makelane.com/
Jan 16, 2020•55 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Ben and I sit down to talk about the growth of technology innovation and entrepreneurship in Singapore. Ben knows a lot about this seeing as his an EIR at Entrepreneurs First in Singapore. He is also the host of the Idea Machines Podcast which can be found here: http://www.ideamachinespodcast.com/
Jan 15, 2020•41 min•Season 5Ep. 9
This is a really great low down on the Mexican (and overall Latin American) startup scene from someone who has experience in both San Francisco as well as Mexico. We get into the specific challenges of what it means to raise money in Mexico and entrepreneurs there are limited by the old school capital. Highly recommend it if you are interested in global startups. Follow Domingo here: https://twitter.com/sundaywar
Jan 14, 2020•49 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Tracy and I talk about the founding of modern American healthcare training, mindfulness, technology, and a lot more. I found Tracy via Twitter where I highly recommend you follow her cause she is saying some things that need to be said. https://twitter.com/tracyktownsend
Jan 13, 2020•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 6
Anna and I sit down to talk about what it means to be a public intellectual in the current age and what is the difference between a mainstream public intellectual and a niche public intellectual. You will like this episode if you like to understand more about the context of what social media is doing to our social relationships. Check out Pynchon here: https://www.thepynchon.com/ Follow Anna here: https://twitter.com/theannagat?lang=en...
Jan 10, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 5
