"You can systematize innovation even if you can't completely predict it." — Eric Schmidt Eric Schmidt ( @ericschmidt ) is Technical Advisor and Board Member to Alphabet Inc. , where he advises its leaders on technology, business and policy issues. Eric joined Google in 2001 and helped grow the company from a Silicon Valley startup to a global leader in technology. He served as Google's Chief Executive Officer from 2001-2011, and Executive Chairman 2011-2018, alongside founders Sergey Brin and La...
Apr 09, 2019•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 367
“The biggest problem we run into is going, ‘This is who I am, this is what I’m like, this is how I function’ while failing to notice that you don’t do that anymore.” — Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman ( @neilhimself ) is the bestselling author and creator of books, graphic novels, short stories, film and television for all ages, including Neverwhere , Coraline , The Graveyard Book , The Ocean at the End of the Lane , The View from the Cheap Seats and the Sandman series of graphic novels . His fiction has...
Mar 28, 2019•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 366
Michael Pollan — Exploring the Frontiers of Psychedelics | Brought to you by 99designs and Athletic Greens . "An overactive ego is a tyrant." - Michael Pollan Michael Pollan ( @michaelpollan ) is the author of seven previous books, including Cooked , Food Rules , In Defense of Food , The Omnivore's Dilemma , and The Botany of Desire , all of which were New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to The New York Times Magazine , he also teaches writing at Harvard and the University of Cali...
Mar 21, 2019•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 365
“All these things you’re sure are true — what if they weren’t?” — Safi Bahcall Safi Bahcall ( @SafiBahcall ) is the author of Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries . Loonshots describes what an idea from physics tells us about the behavior of groups and how teams, companies, and nations can use that to innovate faster and better. It has been selected for The Washington Post ‘s 10 Leadership Books to Watch for in 2019 , Inc. ‘s 10 Busines...
Mar 15, 2019•2 hr 25 min•Ep. 364
Welcome to a special episode called Tea Time with Tim, in which I solicited phone numbers and called a handful of you to field any questions that you might have. Among other topics, we discuss: How to go about finding a mentor. The meaning of life. How to extinguish anxiety. Cocktails. Relationship advice. Training into confidence. Without further ado, please enjoy this tea-fueled Q&A! Click here for the show notes for this episode. This podcast is brought to you by Peloton , which has becom...
Mar 11, 2019•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 363
"Everyone's genius is right next to their dysfunction." — Graham Duncan Graham Duncan ( @GrahamDuncanNYC ) is the co-founder of East Rock Capital , a multi-family office investment firm that manages $2 billion for a small number of families and their charitable foundations. Before starting East Rock 14 years ago, Graham worked at two other investment firms and started his career by co-founding an independent Wall Street research firm. Graham graduated from Yale with a B.A. in ethics, politics, a...
Feb 28, 2019•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 362
Brought to you by Peloton and LinkedIn Jobs . "I'm not really a business author; I just happen to have used companies as the method to study human systems because there's great data." — Jim Collins My guest for this episode is the incredible (and somewhat reclusive) Jim Collins. This was a rare treat, as Jim rarely does any media or interviews. I’ve wanted to speak with him for more than a decade, and it was worth the wait. This conversation overdelivered on every level. I hope you enjoy it as m...
Feb 18, 2019•2 hr 25 min•Ep. 361
"I really am a big believer in people's creativity flourishing when they come at things from a different direction and see things in a different way." — Caterina Fake Caterina Fake ( @caterina ) is a long-time Silicon Valley pioneer. She is the Cofounder of Yes VC , a pre-seed and seed stage fund investing in ideas that elevate our collective humanity. Previously, she worked at Founder Collective as a Founder Partner, served as Chair of Etsy , and was the co-founder of Flickr . At Flickr, Cateri...
Feb 14, 2019•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 360
"Feedback is a gift." — Tobi Lütke Tobi Lütke ( @tobi ) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shopify . In 2004, Tobi began building software to launch an online snowboard store called Snowdevil. It quickly became obvious that the software was more valuable than the snowboards, so Tobi and his founding team launched the Shopify platform in 2006. He has served as CEO since 2008 at the company's headquarters in Ottawa, Canada. Tobi is an active advocate for computer literacy and education,...
Feb 07, 2019•2 hr 12 min•Ep. 359
“In life — from the simplest thing to the biggest thing — I want to be proud of what it is and stake my claim: ‘That’s mine and that’s how I do it.'” — Ken Block Ken Block ( @kblock43 on IG and TW ) is a co-founder of DC Shoes and a professional rally driver with the Hoonigan Racing Division . His rally career began in 2005, and he won Rookie of the Year that season in the Rally America Championship . Ken has accumulated five X Games medals and achieved global fame through his wildly successful ...
Jan 31, 2019•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 358
"So often, when you see someone who's really good at almost anything, it's because they actually started out exactly the opposite — and then they cared so much about fixing that problem." — Susan Cain Susan Cain ( @susancain ) is the author of the bestsellers Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can't Stop Talking , the latter of which has been translated into more than 40 languages. Quiet is in its seventh year on The New York Times ...
Jan 24, 2019•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 357
"You spend the first 20 years of being rich accumulating all of this stuff. And then you'll spend the next 20 years trying to get out of one thing after another to simplify your life." — Peter Mallouk Peter Mallouk ( @PeterMallouk ) is the President of Creative Planning , one of the largest independent wealth management firms in America. Creative Planning provides wealth management services to clients, manages over $36 billion for clients in all 50 states and abroad, and has been featured as the...
Jan 17, 2019•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 356
"If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will." — Greg McKeown Greg McKeown ( @GregoryMcKeown ) is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less and the founder of McKeown, Inc, a company with a mission to teach Essentialism to millions of people around the world. Their clients include Adobe, Apple, Airbnb, Cisco, Google, Facebook, Pixar, Salesforce.com, Symantec, Twitter, VMware and Yahoo!, among others. McKeown is an accomplished public spea...
Jan 09, 2019•2 hr 16 min•Ep. 355
"I think the role of the entrepreneur in the world is to find ways to do things better or more efficiently and then try to do that as many times over with the help of other people." — Santiago Nestares Benedict Dohmen and Santiago Nestares of Benitago Group , both 21, met as computer science students at Dartmouth College. Both worked very long hours in the library and suffered from back pain. They began collaborating on a prototype for a product that ended up being called the Supportiback , gath...
Dec 27, 2018•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 354
"If people around you don't think what you're doing is a bit strange, maybe it's not strange enough." — Patrick Collison Patrick Collison ( @patrickc ) is chief executive officer and co-founder of Stripe , a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. After experiencing firsthand how difficult it was to set up an online business, Patrick and his brother John started Stripe in 2010. Their goal was to make accepting payments on the internet simpler and more inclusive. ...
Dec 20, 2018•2 hr 26 min•Ep. 353
"Unhappiness is at the root of more pain, I would suspect, than any ailment that falls in the 'physical' body. And to think that we have compounds that could play such an important role that are really facing challenges in getting approved, I just find that really frustrating." — Dr. Peter Attia This is a special episode and features one of my dear friends. A number of guests have started incredible podcasts after being on this show as their first-ever podcast interview, including legendary Navy...
Dec 13, 2018•2 hr 47 min•Ep. 352
“And then I wake up at 7:00 a.m., and I roll over and look at my phone. And I have a notification from Shopify saying that I made my first sale for $149. And I let out this huge, orgasmic noise of relief. I was like, 'Wow. Everything’s going to be okay.'” — Allen Walton This episode is by popular request! In detail, we uncover a real-world case study of someone who built a seven-figure business after reading The 4-Hour Workweek (and other resources, of course). Two important people joined me for...
Dec 10, 2018•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 351
Andrew Weil, M.D. ( @DrWeil ) is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine. Dr. Weil received a degree in biology (botany) from Harvard College in 1964 and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1968. After completing a medical internship at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco, he worked a year with the National Institute of Mental Health, then wrote his first book, The Natural Mind . From 1971-75, as a Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs, Dr. Weil trav...
Dec 06, 2018•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 350
This episode represents the first time that LeBron James has been interviewed alongside his very below-the-radar, some might say top-secret, athletic trainer about details of training, recovery, diet, and even how much longer he hopes to play in the NBA. LeBron James ( @KingJames ) is widely considered one of the greatest athletes of his generation and regarded by some as the best basketball player of all time. James' accomplishments on the court include four NBA Most Valuable Players Awards, th...
Nov 27, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 349
"Slow down. Do it again." — Dave Elitch Dave Elitch (IG: @daveelitch ) first garnered attention with his band Daughters of Mara's debut album I am Destroyer in 2007, but his time touring with the American progressive rock band The Mars Volta in 2009-2010 is what really put him on the map. He has since worked with Miley Cyrus, Justin Timberlake, M83, The 1975, Juliette Lewis, Big Black Delta, as well as many others. Dave conducts master-class lectures worldwide and is a regular in the L.A. sessio...
Nov 26, 2018•2 hr 15 min•Ep. 348
"I realized people were not having LSD experiences; they were having experiences of themselves. But they were coming from depths that psychoanalysis didn't know anything about." — Stanislav Grof Stanislav Grof, M.D., ( stanislavgrof.com ) is a psychiatrist with more than 60 years of experience in research of "holotropic" states of consciousness, a large and important subgroup of non-ordinary states that have healing, transformative, and evolutionary potential. Previously, he was Principal Invest...
Nov 20, 2018•2 hr 51 min•Ep. 347
"Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option." — James Cameron James Cameron ( @jimcameron ) is a filmmaker and deep sea explorer. He is writer, director and producer of The Terminator , Aliens , The Abyss , Terminator 2 , True Lies , Titanic , and Avatar . Both Titanic and Avatar (the highest grossing film of all time) won the Golden Globe for Best Director and Best Picture and were nominated for a record number of awards. Cameron was also at the vanguard of the 3D renai...
Nov 12, 2018•33 min•Ep. 346
Doug McMillon (IG: @dougmcmillon ) is president and chief executive officer of Walmart, a company that, if it were a country, would be the 25th largest economy in the world. Walmart serves 265 million customers weekly in 27 countries across more than 11,000 stores and online, and the company employs roughly 2.2 million associates worldwide, which would equate to the second largest army in the world (behind China) if it were tasked with defending that 25th largest economy. 75 percent of Walmart's...
Nov 08, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 345
A.J. Jacobs ( @ajjacobs ) takes over the show for a special episode. A.J. is a kindred guinea pig of self-experimentation who chronicles his shenanigans in books that seem to keep winding up as New York Times best sellers. The Know-It-All was about his quest to learn everything in the world. In The Year of Living Biblically , he tried to follow all the rules of the Bible as literally as possible. Drop Dead Healthy followed his well- (and ill-) advised experiments to become the healthiest person ...
Nov 05, 2018•54 min•Ep. 344
Seth Godin ( @thisissethsblog , seths.blog ) is the author of 18 bestselling books that have been translated into more than 35 languages. He was inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame in 2013 and has founded several companies, including Yoyodyne and Squidoo. His blog (which you can find by typing “Seth” into Google) is one of the most popular in the world. Seth writes about marketing, strategic quitting, leadership, the way ideas spread, and challenging the status quo in all areas. His ...
Nov 01, 2018•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 343
This is a companion episode to episode #342 ("Sam Harris, Ph.D. — How to Master Your Mind"), and it features guided meditations and lessons from Sam's meditation app Waking Up . Please note that it includes bonus content not found in the longer episode. Enjoy! *** If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts /iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the re...
Oct 29, 2018•43 min•Ep. 342
Sam Harris ( @SamHarrisOrg ) received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D in neuroscience from UCLA. Sam is the host of the Waking Up podcast , and he is the author of multiple books including The End of Faith , Letter to a Christian Nation , The Moral Landscape , Free Will , Lying , Waking Up , and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz). This experimental episode came about because a few months back Sam asked me to be a beta tester for his Waking Up meditat...
Oct 29, 2018•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 342
Nick Kokonas (IG: @nkokonas , TW: @NickKokonas ) is the co-owner and co-founder of The Alinea Group of restaurants, which includes Alinea, Next, The Aviary, Roister, and The Aviary NYC. He is also the founder and CEO of Tock, Inc , a reservations and CRM system for restaurants with more than 2.5M diners and clients in more than 20 countries. Alinea has been named the Best Restaurant in America and Best Restaurant in The World by organizations and lists as diverse as The James Beard Foundation, W...
Oct 18, 2018•3 hr 5 min•Ep. 341
Paul Stamets ( @PaulStamets ) is an intellectual and industry leader in the habitat, medicinal use, and production of fungi. Part of his mission is to deepen our understanding and respect for the organisms that literally exist under every footstep taken on this path of life. Paul is the author of a new study in Nature's Scientific Reports , which details how mushroom extracts—specifically extracts from woodland polypore mushrooms—can greatly reduce viruses that contribute to bee colony collapse....
Oct 11, 2018•2 hr 26 min•Ep. 340
Samin Nosrat ( @ciaosamin ) is a writer, chef, and teacher who is masterful at turning complexity into simplicity. Her first book, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking , is a New York Times bestseller, was a James Beard Award-winner for Best General Cookbook , was named as Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and is soon to be a Netflix original documentary series produced by Jigsaw Productions . Samin has been called "The next...
Oct 01, 2018•2 hr 23 min•Ep. 339
