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Takeaways From Cal Newport on the Tim Ferriss podcast

These are the takeaways I wanted to save not a full set of notes. episode link: https://tim.blog/2024/02/21/cal-newport-slow-productivity/ Techno-selectionism The way we…

2 years ago

Lessons From Ed Thorp’s Interview With Tim Ferriss

Episode link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNvz91Jyzbg&ab_channel=TimFerriss This is not a summary but just a selection of excerpts I want to preserve. You're teaching…

2 years ago

Excerpts From Byrne Hobart on Hedge Funds, VC, and Finding Alpha

Eric Torenberg interviews Byrne Hobart and Daloopa CEO Thomas Li on Hedge Funds, VC, and Finding Alpha I pulled some…

2 years ago

The GOAT’s Parting Wisdom

Just popping in on my writing break to share a 1 lot… 🎙️Stripe’s John Collison Recently Interviewed The Late Charlie…

2 years ago

Excerpts From Grant Sanderson on The Lunar Society Podcast

Dwarkesh Patel interviews Grant Sanderson (who runs the excellent 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel) about: Whether advanced math requires AGI What careers should…

3 years ago

Notes from RenTec CEO Peter Brown on the GS Podcast

Podcast: Goldman Sachs Exchanges: Great Investors Raj Mahajan, global head Systematic Client Franchise interviews  Renaissance Technologies CEO Peter Brown on…

3 years ago

David McRaney on EconTalk

Episode description: To the Founding Fathers it was free libraries. To the 19th century rationalist philosophers it was a system…

3 years ago

Lessons from Game Designer Raph Koster

I am going to be reading game designer Raph Koster's book Theory of Fun pretty soon. For a preview, I…

3 years ago

Jerry Seinfeld Chats With Tim Ferris

This Seinfeld/Ferris interview is great: https://tim.blog/2020/12/08/jerry-seinfeld/ There are good notes here and I'll list my favorite lessons despite the feeling…

3 years ago

A Few Excerpts from Dan Carlin on Lex Friedman

I recently listened to my first episode of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History -- a tour of the transatlantic slave trade…

3 years ago