5 Bullet Archive

Everything Tim Ferriss has recommended in 5-Bullet Friday — 2,095 books, articles, quotes, films, products and more, gathered from 480 issues since 2015. Browse by category, sort by what the community values or how often Tim has returned to it, and spend your 25 votes on what matters most to you. Each item's note is quoted from Tim's own words in the newsletter.

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

BooksTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Milan Kundera · amazon.com

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. This is a masterpiece. It explores the subtleties, beauty, and insanity of the human condition through the lens of sex and all that entails. After all, as attributed to Oscar Wilde, “Everything in human life is really about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.” I’d certainly heard of this book 100 times, but I’d never read it. Hearing this, one of my closest friends mailed me a copy as a gift. His accompanying words were “I’m so envious that you get to read this book for the first time. I wish I could do it again.” The original manuscript was— Tim Ferriss
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Masters of Love

ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · theatlantic.com

“Masters of Love.” (The Atlantic). Alternate link. This is the best article on courtship, love, and dating that I’ve read in years. It’s not only well-researched and full of memorable insights, it’s very actionable and gives labels to concepts you can use.— Tim Ferriss
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“It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner.” — Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
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They’re Ignoring MrBeast’s Rules of YouTube, and Thriving

ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · nytimes.com

“They’re Ignoring MrBeast’s Rules of YouTube, and Thriving.” (New York Times) Try this alternate link if you have any issues accessing. Hat tip to Cyrus Kowsari, Senior Producer at ONE Championship, which has become my favorite appointment viewing with friends. If you have Amazon Prime in the US or Canada, you can watch it. And if you want a rare chance to see the action in-person in the US, check out their September 6th event in Denver. The fight card looks incredible.— Tim Ferriss
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HumanN SuperBeets Beetroot Powder

Supplements & HealthTim featured this 1× · 2024 · amazon.com

HumanN SuperBeets Beetroot Powder. I have repeatedly seen endurance benefits from using this at altitude. Now, it could be placebo effect, but guess what? We can investigate using the aforementioned tool. Here’s what it brings up.— Tim Ferriss
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Consensus: AI Search Engine for Research

Apps & SoftwareTim featured this 1× · 2024 · consensus.app

Consensus: AI Search Engine for Research. Thanks to Richard Reis of Most Recommended Books for the tip, which was a response to this post of mine about science-focused AI tools. Here’s the synopsis, pun intended: “Consensus is an academic search engine, powered by AI, but grounded in scientific research. We use language models (LLMs) and purpose-built search technology (Vector search) to surface the most relevant papers. We synthesize both topic-level and paper-level insights. Everything is connected to real research papers.”— Tim Ferriss
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Had an amazing time recording my first new podcast in a while!

PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · instagram.com

Had an amazing time recording my first new podcast in a while! New episodes return in roughly two weeks (~September 4th), and it starts with a barn burner of an in-person Random Show with Kevin Rose. I think it’s one of our best. Tons of actionable takeaways and laughing fits. Here is a post-game pic of us. We cover dozens of topics: new projects, what I’ve done on my recent sabbatical after the podcast’s 10th anniversary, Kevin’s latest findings and shenanigans, and much, much more. It even includes some bizarre video of Kevin having his face assaulted by experimental technology. Lots of fun — Tim Ferriss
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3 Body Problem

FilmsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Joel Martinsen and Ken Liu · netflix.com

3 Body Problem. I ended up binge watching this season over a few nights. It’s based on The Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; lit. ‘three body’), a 2008 novel by the Chinese science-fiction author Liu Cixin. Following publication, it quickly became one of the most successful novels of the prior two decades in China. The Three-Body Problem was later translated into English by Joel Martinsen and Ken Liu. Ken has written amazing works, including The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, which was gifted to me by Matt Mullenweg (thanks, Matt!). The English translation of The Three-Body Problem won a Hu— Tim Ferriss
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▶BALANCE” | A Maui Nui Venison Story

FilmsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · youtube.com

“BALANCE” | A Maui Nui Venison Story. This beautifully shot ~10-minute short film pairs well with the above bullet. Full disclosure: I’m a long-time investor in Maui Nui because I deeply believed in their ethos and purpose. It’s also the most nutrient-dense red meat you can buy in North America. This option and this option are good starting points, if you’ve never tried it. Last, if you don’t think “clean meat” is possible, I challenge you to read their mission page.— Tim Ferriss
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▶Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · youtu.be

“Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6” on the Lex Fridman Podcast (YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts). I loved this episode, particularly the second half, which includes Jordan’s incredible family history, Siberian adventures, and thoughts on faith. The entire episode made perfect listening for a long hike. It didn’t hurt that Alone is perhaps the only reality TV series I’ve watched at length. Here’s the episode description: “Jordan Jonas is a wilderness survival expert, explorer, hunter, guide, and winner of Alone Season 6, a show in which the task is to su— Tim Ferriss
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“If you forget your feelings about things of the world, they become enlightening teachings. If you get emotional about enlightening teaching, it becomes a worldly thing.” — Musō Soseki
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How to overhaul America’s schools

ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · hub.jhu.edu

“How to overhaul America’s schools.” This quick read includes fascinating history, snippets of which are below; current standouts in the US; and models from overseas. Here’s a preview: The “rebuild” part of the book’s title is significant. Until the late nineteenth century, U.S. schools were what education experts call pluralistic. Local governments funded Christian, Jewish, and nonsectarian schools alike, and they all taught a “consistent body of academic knowledge,” a core set of subjects all students were expected to know, Berner says. Today, she adds, pluralism serves as the model for most— Tim Ferriss
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“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” — John Wooden. Nicknamed “the Wizard of Westwood,” he won ten NCAA championships over a 12-year period as head coach for the UCLA Bruins, including a record seven in a row.
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How do you feel when you wake up and when you get into bed at night, and how easily do you fall asleep?” The time in bed in the morning and at night tells you all you need to know.

Life HacksTim featured this 1× · 2024 · tim.blog

“How do you feel when you wake up and when you get into bed at night, and how easily do you fall asleep?” The time in bed in the morning and at night tells you all you need to know. It’s not purely intellectual reasoning. It’s not a pro-and-con list. It’s not a spreadsheet. It’s not a Venn diagram. How do you feel? Are you even aware of how you’re feeling? How much energy have you spent blocking out certain feelings because you don’t want to feel certain things? To borrow from Tara Brach: “There was a wise old sage who said, ‘There’s really only one question worth considering, and that is: Wha— Tim Ferriss
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Concept Art

PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Tyler Jacobson · instagram.com

Concept Art. In the shadows in my top-secret lair, I’ve been working with some of my favorite artists in the world on the expansion and world-building of The Legend of COCKPUNCH. But… That was a joke, right? Or was it? Some of you might recall it as an experiment in Emergent Long Fiction (ELF), as well as a fundraiser for my nonprofit Saisei Foundation, which supports science related to mental health therapeutics. Less obvious is the fact that The Legend of COCKPUNCH, though launched with laughability as an immunity cloak, was designed from the outset to be a viable and extensive fantasy world— Tim Ferriss
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Comic Book Script Archive

BooksTim featured this 1× · 2024 · comicsexperience.com

Comic Book Script Archive. “The Comic Book Script Archive was founded by Tim Simmons because he couldn’t find an online resource for comic book scripts. Eventually, he decided to make one. Comics Experience is pleased to present Tim’s archive as an educational resource for those interested in comic book scripting.”— Tim Ferriss
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Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa

DocumentariesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · netflix.com

Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa. I watched this beautiful doc after Noah Kagan recommended it and after I saw this article: Netflix just got one of the best documentaries of the year — and it’s 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. The official synopsis gives you a taste: “The first Nepali woman to summit and survive Mount Everest, Lhakpa Sherpa devoted her life to inspiring and empowering girls. Now a single mother working at a Whole Foods in Connecticut, she embarks on a dramatic return to the mountain, determined to redeem her life’s purpose and inspire her own daughters.”— Tim Ferriss
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The more frequently you look at data, the more noise you are disproportionally likely to get (rather than the valuable part, called the signal); hence the higher the noise-to-signal ratio. And there is a confusion which is not psychological at all, but inherent in the data itself. Say you look at information on a yearly basis, for stock prices, or the fertilizer sales of your father-in-law’s factory, or inflation numbers in Vladivostok. Assume further that for what you are observing, at a yearly frequency, the ratio of signal to noise is about one to one (half noise, half signal)—this means th
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Psychedelics gave terminal patients relief from their intense anxiety

ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Meryl Davids Landau · washingtonpost.com

“Psychedelics gave terminal patients relief from their intense anxiety” by Meryl Davids Landau (Washington Post). Alternate link if the former doesn’t work. This is one of the most beautiful articles I’ve ever read covering first-hand accounts and challenges related to psychedelics. It also offers helpful metaphors for anyone struggling with “partial completeness,” even if you never take any of these drugs. From the article: In addition to his enhanced calmness, he remarked in November that taking the drug seemed to have deepened the connection he felt toward the friends and family who had str— Tim Ferriss
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Red Rising

BooksTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Pierce Brown · audible.com

Red Rising by Pierce Brown, narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds. This is the first book of six from Brown’s Red Rising series. Book One was originally recommended to me by a friend formerly of Special Forces, but then half a dozen other friends did the same, including soft-spoken women I never would’ve guessed would pick up a book like this. I was 100% wrong. The book has amazing characters across the board, and if you liked Ender’s Game, Dune, Braveheart, Man On Fire, Gladiator, or Taken—you get the idea—you’ll almost certainly enjoy this one. DO NOT read the book description on Amazon, as it giv— Tim Ferriss
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“Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.” — H.G. Wells
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“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.” — Tim O’Reilly
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So you wanna de-bog yourself

ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Adam Mastroianni · experimental-history.com

“So you wanna de-bog yourself” by Adam Mastroianni. I only just found Adam, but his writing is some of the most hilarious—and helpful—I’ve seen in a long time. Really worth the read. Big thanks to Crazy B for sending this to me.— Tim Ferriss
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“If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run—and often in the short one—the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.” — Arthur C. Clarke
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Scientists and Experts Endorse MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD

Supplements & HealthTim featured this 1× · 2024 · scientiststatementonptsd.com

Scientists and Experts Endorse MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD. Read and share this letter, undersigned by 20+ well-known scientists and clinicians, expressing their position that MDMA is now approvable for use with therapy in the treatment of PTSD, given suitable safeguards and post-approval monitoring. The science is compelling.— Tim Ferriss
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Springer Dog Water Bottle

Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · amazon.com

Springer Dog Water Bottle. If it’s hot or humid, my dear Molly pup gets parched. I bring water on hikes, but it’s always been at least 50% for naught. I pour it in my cupped hands and lose nearly all of it. Or if I use a collapsible bowl, she’ll drink a few sips and waste the rest. The Springer travel water bottle solves all of these problems. There are many other companies that make similar products, and I’m sure some are great, but this model was gifted to me and delivers. I have the Growler (44 oz) in Sky Blue.— Tim Ferriss
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▶How I sold 50,000 copies of my self-published book

ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · youtube.com

“How I sold 50,000 copies of my self-published book.” If you prefer reading, Paul also shares the details of royalties and sales per platform (Kindle, Audible, etc.) in this blog post. The full breakdown is under the “Money, Money, Money” subheading. I personally found the real-world examples of self-publishing vs. traditional publishing economics most interesting, and the “Mistakes” section is worth heeding for anyone considering self-publishing.— Tim Ferriss
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The Right Kind of Stubborn

ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · paulgraham.com

“The Right Kind of Stubborn.” I especially like the first half of this essay plus the synopsis in the last two paragraphs. Great distinctions to keep in mind, such that you keep an open mind.— Tim Ferriss
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▶Deadpool & Wolverine & The Bachelorette

Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Ryan Reynolds · youtube.com

“Deadpool & Wolverine & The Bachelorette” by Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman. Even in my wildest dreams, I never could’ve seen this one coming. What a great surprise!— Tim Ferriss
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The Fantastic Mr. Feynman

DocumentariesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · dailymotion.com

The Fantastic Mr. Feynman. This is my favorite documentary of one of my favorite people, Richard Feynman. His lectures and books—such as “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character—have greatly inspired many of my best decisions in life. He also inspired me to teach. I hope you enjoy the film as much as I did. Whether you like bongo drums, safe cracking, or physics, there is something for everyone.— Tim Ferriss
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ChatGPT on your desktop

Apps & SoftwareTim featured this 1× · 2024 · openai.com

ChatGPT on your desktop. Function: “Chat about email, screenshots, files, and anything on your screen.” The main reason I installed it was to create a keyboard shortcut, much like you might use Spotlight on Mac: “Option + Space opens ChatGPT from any screen on your desktop.” This allows me to quickly query ChatGPT for anything. It’s a lot faster than going to a separate new tab for Google. Separately, I will be testing Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha Text-to-Video. Watch their mind-blowing two-minute video here. You might want to consider keeping, per Ethan Mollick’s suggestion, an AI “impossibility list— Tim Ferriss
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Blood Meridian

BooksTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Cormac McCarthy · amazon.com

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Want to get out of the news cycle? To stretch your mind with both profound beauty and discomfort? Try Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, selected by The Atlantic as one of the great American novels of the past 100 years. It’s not often that you come across endorsements like the following from Michael Herr: “A classic American novel of regeneration through violence. McCarthy can only be compared to our greatest writers, with Melville and Faulkner, and this is his masterpiece.” It is easily one of the most gorgeous and brutal books I’ve ever read. The prose is — Tim Ferriss
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“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want. Indeed, the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman. He has no further claim to be considered as an artist.” — Oscar Wilde
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A Postmortem on My Response to Covid

PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Sam Harris · samharris.org

“A Postmortem on My Response to Covid” (SamHarris.org, YouTube) by Sam Harris on the Making Sense podcast. This might seem like an out-of-date posting, but it isn’t. This is a world-class example of how a very smart person does a postmortem on their own thinking, and I think it’s worth studying. Excellent poker players might do postgame analysis of their decision-making in similar fashion. Consider this a meta-skill that applies to practically everything.— Tim Ferriss
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Prophetic’s Morpheus-1

Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · twitter.com

Prophetic’s Morpheus-1. I have not tried this product, but my interest in lucid dreaming goes back to my high-school wrestling days, when I used it for performance enhancement. Here’s the one-liner about Morpheus-1: “The world’s first multi-modal generative ultrasonic transformer designed to induce and stabilize lucid dreams.” Has anyone used this device or something like it? If so, please let me know your results on X/Twitter @tferriss with #lucid.— Tim Ferriss
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▶Singularity (Original)

Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Stephan Bodzin · youtube.com

“Singularity (Original)” (YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music) by Stephan Bodzin.— Tim Ferriss
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Chimpanzees seen self-medicating with healing plants when sick or injured

ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · washingtonpost.com

“Chimpanzees seen self-medicating with healing plants when sick or injured” (Washington Post). Thanks to Dr. Mark Plotkin of Amazon Conservation Team for sharing this. Alternate link. From the article: The team observed two chimpanzee communities in the Budongo Forest for four months each. They tracked what the great apes ate and analyzed components of 13 plant species that seemed wholly unappetizing to a chimpanzee, such as bark and resin, to determine whether the materials had healing effects. … Those struggling the most with parasites—something the scientists ascertained through testing the— Tim Ferriss
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“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
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The Bear

BooksTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Andrew Krivak · amazon.com

The Bear by Andrew Krivak. Thank you to CK and TS for recommending this parable. I ended up devouring it over 3–4 evenings. The prose is gorgeous—the author has been a National Book Award in Fiction finalist—and it’ll take around 20 pages for your brain to get accustomed to its unusual weaving. I’ve pared down the description on purpose, but here’s a taste: “In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. … The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmo— Tim Ferriss
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▶Generation K-Pop

DocumentariesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Mahyar Goudarzi · youtu.be

Generation K-Pop (YouTube), directed by Mahyar Goudarzi (@good.artsy). I first watched this documentary on a plane, and I’ve since only found a YouTube version in German. Fear not, my non-German-speaking friends: to watch with English subtitles, first turn on the German subtitles, and then change them to English (or another language of your choice). Here is a step-by-step video on how to turn on English subtitles. >From the description [Google-translated from German]: “Korean pop music, or K-Pop for short, captivates an entire generation worldwide. … The hub is the South Korean capital Seoul, — Tim Ferriss
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FDA advisors voted against MDMA therapy – researchers are still fighting for it

ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Rachel Nuwer · bbc.com

FDA advisors voted against MDMA therapy – researchers are still fighting for it (BBC) by Rachel Nuwer. There is a make-it-or-break-it moment unfolding right now for psychedelic medicines. By August 11, the FDA will decide whether or not to approve MDMA therapy as a treatment for PTSD. This is decades in the making and will have ripple effects for the broader future of psychedelics in the US. The data clearly show that the FDA should approve, but it’s been thrown into confusion by an advisory committee almost entirely without knowledge of these compounds. Longtime readers know I’ve spent 10+ ye— Tim Ferriss
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▶Clean My Wounds

MusicTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Corrosion Of Conformity · youtube.com

“Clean My Wounds” (YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music) by Corrosion Of Conformity.— Tim Ferriss
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“Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is itself liberating. Therefore, those who seek to benefit themselves alone actually harm themselves by doing so, while those who help others also help themselves by doing so.” — Musō Kokushi (1275–1351)
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A grain of salt

Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · en.m.wikipedia.org

A grain of salt. From Wikipedia: “The phrase is thought to come from Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia, regarding the discovery of a recipe written by the Pontic king Mithridates to make someone immune to poison. One of the ingredients in the recipe was a grain of salt. Threats involving poison were thus to be taken ‘with a grain of salt,’ and therefore less seriously.”— Tim Ferriss
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Elephants call each other by name, study finds

ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · theguardian.com

“Elephants call each other by name, study finds.” From the article: “A team of international researchers used an artificial intelligence algorithm to analyze the calls of two wild herds of African savanna elephants in Kenya. The research ‘not only shows that elephants use specific vocalizations for each individual, but that they recognise and react to a call addressed to them while ignoring those addressed to others,’ the lead study author, Michael Pardo, said.” Related: “How AI is decoding the animal kingdom.”— Tim Ferriss
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Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department.

ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Sarah Mervosh · nytimes.com

“Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department.” by Sarah Mervosh (New York Times). Alternate link if trouble with the above. >From the article, and bolding is mine: While the achievement of U.S. students overall has stagnated over the last decade, the military’s schools have made gains on the national test since 2013. And even as the country’s lowest-performing students—in the bottom 25th percentile—have slipped further behind, the Defense Department’s lowest-performing students have improved in fourth-grade math and eighth-grade reading. “If the Department of Defense schoo— Tim Ferriss
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▶Stephen Fry on living the artistic life

Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2024 · youtu.be

Stephen Fry on living the artistic life. The link will take you to 1:24:33. This particular segment caused me to think deeply. I’m not sure I totally agree with the premise, but that’s part of the magic that makes it good to chew on.— Tim Ferriss
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The Well of Being: A Children’s Book for Adults

BooksTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Jean-Pierre Weill · amazon.com

The Well of Being: A Children’s Book for Adults by Jean-Pierre Weill. This was introduced to me by one of the most thoughtful, present, and playful couples I know. They have also infused the raising of their daughters with a similar ethos. From the book description: “The Well of Being, from Jean-Pierre Weill, is an illustrated inquiry into the art of happiness and what it means to be radically alive in our daily moments. Images and a graceful philosophic text invite us to awaken from our constructed stories that we may return to this world and live in the present. The book opens with a perenni— Tim Ferriss
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“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” — Gustave Flaubert
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▶Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 In A, K. 331 - III. Alla Turca

MusicTim featured this 1× · 2024 · youtube.com

Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 In A, K. 331 - III. Alla Turca. This piece will be familiar to many of you, but it takes on a special flair in this performance by concert violinist Daniel Hope and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. Mozart composed it at the ripe old age of 27.— Tim Ferriss
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Gut Microbiota in Anxiety and Depression: Unveiling the Relationships and Management Options

ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

“Gut Microbiota in Anxiety and Depression: Unveiling the Relationships and Management Options.” Something must be in the air, as several people have sent me this in the past few months. Thanks to each and every person. Here are a few snippets of many that stuck out to me: Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium species were found to be capable of reducing depression to a large extent. The points mentioned above suggest that gut microbiota has a role in developing anxiety and depression. Anxiety and depression are gut–brain axis disorders that can be treated with the help of the gut microbiota, which— Tim Ferriss
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▶The Most Complete Puncher EVER - Naoya Inoue 井上尚弥

Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2024 · youtu.be

The Most Complete Puncher EVER - Naoya Inoue 井上尚弥. Inoue is one of my favorite boxers to watch. His accuracy is lethal, and his bodyweight-to-power ratio defies belief. Exhibit A: his short right hand.— Tim Ferriss
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The Secret To Hosting A Party For The Ages

ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Elsa Maxwell · vogue.co.uk

“The Secret To Hosting A Party For The Ages.” This short piece is hilarious and tactical in equal measure. It was originally published in Vogue in 1930 by Elsa Maxwell, whom George Bernard Shaw described as “the eighth wonder of the world.” Hat tip to Sriram Krishnan for mentioning this in his X thread about curating private WhatsApp groups. Miss Maxwell had a way with words: I have often been moved to sudden inward unholy laughter when, upon entering salon or ballroom, I first catch sight of the harassed and anguished face of an unhappy hostess, so obviously suffering at being trapped by her — Tim Ferriss
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“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons—the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night.” — Walt Whitman
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Can psychedelics treat people with a severe brain injury?

ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Jonathan Moens · nationalgeographic.com

“Can psychedelics treat people with a severe brain injury?” by Jonathan Moens for National Geographic. (Alternate link.) This is a deeply researched and deeply moving piece. It underscores some of the hopes and gaps related to treating “disorders of consciousness.” Coverage of psychedelics tends to overstate how much we understand, and this is a good counterbalance with open questions. Here is an excerpt: At the heart of this scientific initiative is the notion of brain “complexity.” In neuroscience, complexity is a measure of how diverse and unpredictable brain activity is. Brain activity tha— Tim Ferriss
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Wounded orangutan seen using plant as medicine

ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · bbc.com

“Wounded orangutan seen using plant as medicine.” (BBC) This isn’t a trivial observation. For more, see “Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan.” Hat tip to Dr. Mark Plotkin of Amazon Conservation Team (ACT).— Tim Ferriss