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Anatomy Of A Twitter/X Account Takeover Hack

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · avc.xyz

“Anatomy Of A Twitter/X Account Takeover Hack.” If Fred Wilson can get caught, so can you, and this short post is a great reminder. NOTE ON TWO CURRENT TIM FERRISS SCAMS: First, there are multiple scammers emailing people from “The Tim Ferriss Show,” offering to pay them to appear on the podcast. These are all a scam. I don’t pay people to appear, and no one has ever paid me to appear on the show. The grift appears to be this: they eventually get you on a Zoom call, have you share your screen, then either take over your Facebook page (possibly to drain crypto wallets with fake offerings) or co— Tim Ferriss

A former church girl’s search for a new spiritual home

🎙️ PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · npr.org

“A former church girl’s search for a new spiritual home.” Sex, drugs, and Pentecostals? Doms and dungeons? You betcha. Not for the faint of heart. There’s something in this that will make nearly everyone uncomfortable. I strongly suggest you feel the discomfort and ride it through. Think of it as an auditory BDSM meditation. There are quite a few gems sprinkled throughout. Sometimes “life begins at the end of your comfort zone” (Neal Donald Walsch), so you might as well get some practice.— Tim Ferriss

The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs

📚 BooksTim featured this 1× · 2024 · andrewchen.com

“The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs.” This is an oldie but goodie from podcast guest Andrew Chen. It still applies. NOTE: If his giant popup covers your screen, there is a light-colored, gray “X” exit at the very top right.— Tim Ferriss

How Taylor Tomlinson Nailed the Closing Joke in her Netflix Special

🛒 Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · nytimes.com

“How Taylor Tomlinson Nailed the Closing Joke in her Netflix Special.” This text-plus-video feature shows how comic Taylor Tomlinson spent a year workshopping the closing joke of her Netflix special. It’s incredible that all of this was captured and woven together. As they say, writing is rewriting. This is true for nearly everything. In the world of tech, Steve Blank has said, “No plan survives first contact with customers.” Same same. Quality begins with a shitty first draft, so just get started and take the punches. That’s how you press the carbon into diamonds: pressure and time.— Tim Ferriss

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“The hardest thing to teach a student—and the hardest thing to believe consistently—is that there is nothing ‘out there’ to go and get. There is no part, no career, no opportunity for which you should be searching and scrounging and coveting. All of the preparation is within, and you keep yourself mentally and physically fit; you remain generous with yourself and others; you stay deeply in study about your craft. Whatever is yours will then arrive.” — Marian Seldes

▶Ryan Reynolds on the SmartLess podcast

🎙️ PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · open.spotify.com

Ryan Reynolds on the SmartLess podcast. Special thanks to everyone on Twitter who shared their favorite episodes of SmartLess. This one came up repeatedly and doesn’t disappoint. The official description: “The super-handsome, ultra-talented, and mildly-funny Ryan Reynolds joins us this week on the show. We go deep with the double-R, from stocking shelves label-out, to vulnerability as a performer and business owner… while touching on his ‘humanitarian efforts’ diving for Melo Melo pearls that he bedazzles his new line of toe-loop sandals with. It’s another naughty shipwreck on the S.S. SmartLe— Tim Ferriss

Some wise words from synth pioneer Herbie Hancock.

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2024 · instagram.com

“Some wise words from synth pioneer Herbie Hancock.” This is an amazing story from a very young Herbie Hancock about Miles Davis. Rare video. Special thanks to Dave Elitch for the find.— Tim Ferriss

You Don’t Need More How-To Advice — You Need a Beautiful and Painful Reckoning

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · tim.blog

“You Don’t Need More How-To Advice — You Need a Beautiful and Painful Reckoning.” If you like it, please leave a comment on the blog post. Here is the opener: For most of us, the how-to books on our shelves represent a growing to-do list, not advice we’ve followed. Several of the better-known tech CEOs in San Francisco have asked me at different times for an identical favor: an index card with bullet-point instructions for losing abdominal fat. Each of them made it clear: “Just tell me exactly what to do and I’ll do it.” I gave them all of the necessary tactical advice on one 3×5 card, knowing— Tim Ferriss

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“Most people end up being conformists; they adapt to prison life. A few become reformers; they fight for better lighting, better ventilation. Hardly anyone becomes a rebel, a revolutionary who breaks down the prison walls. You can only be a revolutionary when you see the prison walls in the first place.” — Anthony de Mello

Psychedelics with Joe Green

🎙️ PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · podcasts.apple.com

“Psychedelics with Joe Green” (Apple Podcasts, Spotify) on the On with Kara Swisher podcast. I skip most podcasts about psychedelics, but Joe and Kara both did an outstanding job in this conversation, with hard questions and answers that cover specifics. You’ll learn many stats and facts I’d never heard assembled in one place. This is a great “where we are and where we are going” overview of the ecosystem, especially as related to Oregon, MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as the tip of the spear, and reclassification as only one piece of the fascinating puzzle. For those interested in exploring the — Tim Ferriss

Overlooked No More: Beatrix Potter, Author of ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · nytimes.com

“Overlooked No More: Beatrix Potter, Author of ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’” via JZ, Dr. Jeffrey Zurofsky from The 4-Hour Chef. From the article: With “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” Beatrix Potter created what would become one of the world’s best-known children’s book characters. The book, about a cheeky rabbit who steals vegetables from the garden of one Mr. McGregor and loses his coat and shoes in a narrow escape, became a literary juggernaut that has sold more than 45 million copies. It also spawned a merchandising empire and has left an indelible imprint on children’s book publishing. But Potte— Tim Ferriss

No Biological Free Lunches

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · tim.blog

“No Biological Free Lunches.” It’s alarming how many folks now treat “T” or “TRT” (testosterone replacement therapy) as something akin to taking a multivitamin, when they never would have considered taking androgenic-anabolic steroids (AAS) a few years earlier. Like Patagonian toothfish has become Chilean sea bass on fashionable menus worldwide, it’s quite the rebrand story, but that doesn’t change the underlying biology, which is nuanced. I explore this, performance-enhancing drugs in general, and much more in my brand-new blog post here. Included are some personal experiences with anabolics,— Tim Ferriss

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“The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic, and more despairing: Sacred Awe!” — Nikos Kazantzakis, in Zorba the Greek.

The Lincoln Highway

📚 BooksTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Amor Towles · amazon.com

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. A good friend and bestselling author told me that he considered this the greatest American novel of the last 20 years. I haven’t read enough classics to know if that’s accurate, but it’s one hell of a read, the prose is gorgeous, and you’ll laugh out loud many times. The official book description makes it sound darker than it is. Certainly, parts of the book showcase questionable characters and questionable actions, but this doesn’t detract from the pervasive humor and beauty of the writing, which are pleasures unto themselves. From Amazon: “In June, 1954, e— Tim Ferriss

I Feel Love: MDMA for Autism and Social Anxiety

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Rachel Nuwer · tim.blog

“I Feel Love: MDMA for Autism and Social Anxiety” by Rachel Nuwer. “Why You Should Seek More Awe in the New Year” by Ashley Stimpson. Every time I’ve done a past-year review (PYR), a pattern emerges: peak positive emotional experiences are correlated to awe at least 70% of the time. For at least the past 3–5 years, this has been so consistent that I often determine what big blocks to schedule in the new year based on potential for awe. The payoffs include time dilation and, more broadly, traversing the miraculous canvas of full human experience. Friends have asked me why I do silent retreats i— Tim Ferriss

The Acceleration of Addictiveness

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Paul Graham · paulgraham.com

“The Acceleration of Addictiveness” by Paul Graham (@paulg). This was strongly recommended to me by Matt Mullenweg, who was recently on the podcast. To give you a taste, here are two excerpts that I highlighted for myself: One sense of “normal” is statistically normal: what everyone else does. The other is the sense we mean when we talk about the normal operating range of a piece of machinery: what works best. These two senses are already quite far apart. Already someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pron— Tim Ferriss

Mary Oliver reciting her poem “Wild Geese.

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2024 · instagram.com

Mary Oliver reciting her poem “Wild Geese.” Pause and spend a few minutes with this poem. It’s worth the reminder. The full text is available here, and I read it often.— Tim Ferriss

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“Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I had in my mind as I typed them? We are different, you and I, and the qualia of our consciousnesses are as divergent as two stars at the ends of the universe. And yet, whatever has been lost in translation in the long journey of my thoughts through the maze of civilization to your mind, I think you do understand me, and you think you do understand me. Our minds managed to touch, if but briefly and imperfectly. Does the thought not make the universe seem just a bit kinder, a bit brighter, a bit war

Wine & Prayer: Eighty Ghazals from the Divan of Hafiz

📚 BooksTim featured this 1× · 2024 · amazon.com

Wine & Prayer: Eighty Ghazals from the Divan of Hafiz. Hat tip to Professor Omid Safi (@ostadjaan) for the recommendation. From the description: “Wine & Prayer is a new edition of Elizabeth Gray’s 1995 work The Green Sea of Heaven. In this new volume, Gray has joined with Iraj Anvar, a scholar of Sufism and Persian poetry, expanding the book from fifty to eighty translations of Hafiz’s brilliant ghazals. This work brings to each reader Hafiz’s poetic genius, expressing his passion for the Divine Beloved and his scandalous (to the Muslim clergy of his day) exaltation of music and wine as vehicl— Tim Ferriss

Corvo EKG Electric Kettle from Fellow

🛒 Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · fellowproducts.com

Corvo EKG Electric Kettle from Fellow. I’ve tried a lot of electric kettles for tea and coffee over the decades, and this is my favorite. From the description: “The electric kettle that does it all, precision engineered to meet all your hot water needs. Exact temperature control, 1200 watts for a quick heat time, and a world of features for ultimate control.” Big thanks to Blake from LMNT for the gift! >From NYT’s Wirecutter: “If you like a modern aesthetic, and you don’t mind paying more for smaller capacity: The Fellow Corvo EKG Electric Kettle is attractive, and it performed very well, but — Tim Ferriss

An Irish Goodbye

🎬 FilmsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · vimeo.com

An Irish Goodbye (Vimeo, YouTube, HBO Max). This is one of the funniest and most poignant short films I’ve ever seen. I found this BAFTA and Academy Award winner via ChatGPT. Here is the official description: “On a farm in rural Northern Ireland, estranged brothers Turlough (Seamus O’Hara) and Lorcan (James Martin) are forced to reunite following the untimely death of their mother (Michelle Fairley). But when the pair discover an unfulfilled bucket list belonging to their late mum, their pained reunion takes an altogether different course.” At the very least, watch the trailer. It’s not as hea— Tim Ferriss

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“Health lies in action, and so it graces youth. To be busy is the secret of grace, and half the secret of content. Let us ask the gods not for possessions, but for things to do; happiness is in making things rather than in consuming them.” — Will Durant (Hat tip to Matt Mullenweg who introduced me to this quote in our most recent podcast conversation.)

Classic Norwegian Roasted Salmon from Changing Seas

💊 Supplements & HealthTim featured this 1× · 2024 · wholefoodsmarket.com

Classic Norwegian Roasted Salmon from Changing Seas. These days, I’m doing endurance training in the morning for 3–4 hours, and I like quick turnaround meals. For protein, I’m alternating between these ready-to-eat salmon filets and three sticks of Maui Nui wild-harvested venison.— Tim Ferriss

▶Becorns Episode 3: Orioles vs Catbirds

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2024 · youtube.com

Becorns Episode 3: Orioles vs Catbirds. This is both creatively inspiring and deeply calming. From the description: “A peek at my creative process as I create a Becorn and photograph it with an oriole... and inevitably, with catbirds too.” Thanks to Whitmire for sending me this family-friendly goodness, which makes a great palate cleanser after any craziness on the web.— Tim Ferriss

Would you do it if you could? Advanced DNA testing for embryos is here — and it’s fraught.

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · bostonglobe.com

“Would you do it if you could? Advanced DNA testing for embryos is here — and it’s fraught.” Click here if you have any issues accessing the link. From the article: “This has somewhat flown under the societal radar, but it’s happening,” says Todd Lencz, a professor of psychiatry and molecular medicine in the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and a leading researcher on the new genetic testing of embryos. “It’s not a question of if it will happen, or what the technology will be in three years. People are doing this now.”— Tim Ferriss

▶D’un crépuscule, l’autre

🎵 MusicTim featured this 1× · 2024 · Abderraouf Ouertani · youtu.be

“D’un crépuscule, l’autre” (YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music) by Abderraouf Ouertani via Sr. Mugwort. Excellent for evening and Friday wind-downs.— Tim Ferriss

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“The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed.” — William Gibson

▶The Tim Ferriss Experiment

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2024 · youtube.com

The Tim Ferriss Experiment TV show! I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be releasing all episodes of my TV show, The Tim Ferriss Experiment, on YouTube—for free. It was a maze to secure the rights, but now it’s done. Click here for episode #1! The show is like MythBusters meets Jason Bourne. In every episode, I partner with the world’s best and most unorthodox teachers (e.g., Laird Hamilton, Marcelo Garcia, Stewart Copeland), who train me for a final gauntlet. Shocking breakthroughs, injuries, epiphanies, and disasters are all part of the journey. Along the way, I show you how to replicate resu— Tim Ferriss

Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop

🎥 DocumentariesTim featured this 1× · 2024 · amazon.com

Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop. If you want to see the real Conan, the indefatigable master comic with a penchant for punching people, this is for you. It’s also a portrait of someone in transition. In this case, after Conan’s split with NBC, he was legally prohibited from entertaining on television for one year. So what do you do when your identity is taken from you? Or more broadly, how does someone at the top of their game reinvent themselves for a year? >From the official description: “After a much-publicized departure from hosting NBC’s ‘Tonight Show,’ Conan O’Brien hit the road with a 32-city — Tim Ferriss

A Glimpse of the Future: Electroceuticals for 70%–90% Remission of Depression, Brain Stimulation for Sports Performance, and De-risking Ibogaine for TBI/PTSD

🎙️ PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2024 · tim.blog

A Glimpse of the Future: Electroceuticals for 70%–90% Remission of Depression, Brain Stimulation for Sports Performance, and De-risking Ibogaine for TBI/PTSD. I believe this podcast episode is a sneak peek at what’s coming in the next five years. Pair it with Nolan’s latest groundbreaking study, which was published this morning in Nature Medicine: “Magnesium–ibogaine therapy in veterans with traumatic brain injuries.”— Tim Ferriss

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“And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns...that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale...that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorient myself.” — Bob Dylan

LALO

🛒 Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2023 · lalospirits.com

LALO. I first had LALO at Suerte in Austin, Texas, at the strong recommendation of the waiter. This was several years ago, and it was a new staff favorite. I was having a long overdue dinner with the lovely Chase Jarvis and his even lovelier wife, and we ended up drinking and talking for hours upon hours. I assumed my next day would be a total write-off, as would usually be the case with that much booze. I was shocked to wake up with no hangover, and LALO has been my go-to tequila ever since. The morning after this week’s Random Show with Kevin Rose, he texted me with “Dude, I literally have z— Tim Ferriss

Matter

💻 Apps & SoftwareTim featured this 1× · 2023 · M.G · hq.getmatter.com

Matter. I’ve been looking for a lightweight text2voice solution for listening to articles, blog posts, essays, etc., and I just started experimenting with Matter. It’s remarkably simple, and there are a handful of voices to choose from. Here’s the official description: “Matter pulls everything you want to read into one beautiful place. With powerful tools, curation, seamless audio and more, we’re building a reader for today’s internet.” It was originally put on my radar by M.G. Siegler, who is an investor. Since I’m old-school and also still use Evernote, if anyone has an Evernote-native solut— Tim Ferriss

Safety First: Potential Heart Health Risks of [Psychedelic] Microdosing

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2023 · Dr. Kelan Thomas · blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu

“Safety First: Potential Heart Health Risks of [Psychedelic] Microdosing” by Dr. Kelan Thomas. From the conclusion: “It is important to differentiate the potential risk associated with prolonged and repeated microdosing from the very limited physiological safety risk posed by a few ‘macrodoses’ given weeks or months apart for psychedelic-assisted therapy. That said, given the lack of clinical trial evidence showing any clear benefit for microdosing, and the concerning theoretical safety risk of VHD [valvular heart disease], it is worth proceeding with caution and, at the very least, taking som— Tim Ferriss

Y: The Last Man

📚 BooksTim featured this 1× · 2023 · Brian K · amazon.com

Y: The Last Man Deluxe Edition, Volume One. Stephen King has called Y: The Last Man “the best graphic novel I’ve ever read.” From the description: “The first ten issues of the award-winning series written by Brian K. Vaughan (Ex Machina, Lost) are collected in an oversized hardcover with a new cover.” Excellent illustration work by Pia Guerra. I’ve previously recommended Saga: Compendium One from Brian, illustrator Fiona Staples, and letterer/graphic designer Fonografiks (Steven Finch). Thanks to OP for introducing me to Y!— Tim Ferriss

▶Sir Michael Caine

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2023 · youtube.com

Sir Michael Caine. If you only have 90 seconds, watch this clip on “using the difficulty.” This gem from the archives also features the late Sir Michael Parkinson, who interviewed more than 2,000 renowned guests, including Muhammad Ali, Sir Paul McCartney, and Dame Judi Dench. Equal in prodigious output is the legendary Sir Michael Caine, his guest, who has appeared in more than 160 films.— Tim Ferriss

Masterpieces of Fantasy Art

📚 BooksTim featured this 1× · 2023 · Dian Hanson · amazon.com

Masterpieces of Fantasy Art by Dian Hanson. This is a sumptuous dive back into the most gorgeous art I met through Heavy Metal magazine, fantasy nerdom, and everything in between. I think of it as a buffet of creative inspiration, as the styles vary widely. From the official description: “Fantasy art, that colorful blend of myth, muscle and sexy maidens, took off in 1923 with the launch of Weird Tales magazine, was reinvigorated in the 1960s with The Lord of the Rings, Conan the Barbarian paperbacks with Frank Frazetta covers, and the late ’60s emergence of fantasy psychedelia. This book featu— Tim Ferriss

A Viral Dance and ‘Happiness Campaign’ Frustrates Iran’s Clerics

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2023 · nytimes.com

“A Viral Dance and ‘Happiness Campaign’ Frustrates Iran’s Clerics.” (NYT) Original Instagram video. Alternate link if you have trouble viewing the article.— Tim Ferriss

What’s in My Bag, 2023

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2023 · ma.tt

“What’s in My Bag, 2023.” I have never met anyone more meticulous about everyday carry than Matt Mullenweg. Each year, he publishes an updated “What’s in my bag” blog post, and this is the latest. For a fun comparison, see this photo of Matt’s gadgets from nearly a decade ago.— Tim Ferriss

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“In truth, O judges, while I wish to be adorned with every virtue, yet there is nothing which I can esteem more highly than being and appearing grateful. For this one virtue is not only the greatest, but is also the parent of all the other virtues.” — Cicero

Fan Ho

👤 PeopleTim featured this 1× · 2023 · instagram.com

Fan Ho (@fanhophotography). See some of his work here: Fan Ho Photography. From Wikipedia: “Fan Ho was a Chinese photographer, film director, and actor. From 1956, he won over 280 awards from international exhibitions and competitions worldwide for his photography.”— Tim Ferriss

反面教師

🛒 Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2023 · en.wiktionary.org

反面教師 (hanmen kyoushi). Some languages have elegant ways of capturing things that require a sentence in English. Saudade in Portuguese is close to this. Komorebi in Japanese certainly checks the box. Now I can add hanmen kyoushi to my ever-growing list. “反面教師 (はんめん きょうし, hanmen kyoushi, 反面教员 in Chinese) is a Chinese/Japanese idiom that means ‘an example of bad people/things that you should not follow/imitate.’” (Source) Think of it as “opposite teacher.” Deep bow to Kristy for putting this on my radar.— Tim Ferriss

Steve Young, girls flag football, and finding the next calling

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2023 · Dan Pompei · theathletic.com

“Steve Young, girls flag football, and finding the next calling” by Dan Pompei for The Athletic. Try this link if you are having any trouble accessing the above.— Tim Ferriss

▶The Fire

🎵 MusicTim featured this 1× · 2023 · Celine Cairo · youtube.com

“The Fire” (YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify) by Celine Cairo (@celinecairo).— Tim Ferriss

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“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” — Dr. César A. Cruz

New XPrize Will Award $101 Million to Innovators Who Can Reverse Aging

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2023 · forbes.com

“New XPrize Will Award $101 Million to Innovators Who Can Reverse Aging.” From the article: “On Wednesday, the XPrize Foundation announced its new $101 million ‘Healthspan’ XPrize, which aims to reward research teams that can develop therapies which measurably reverse age-related degradation across three domains in otherwise healthy adults aged 65–80: cognition, immune system, and muscle function.”— Tim Ferriss

Argentina, 1985

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2023 · Santiago Mitre · amazon.com

Argentina, 1985. I absolutely loved this film, and it currently has 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. I was drawn to it for many reasons. First, it stars one of my favorite Argentine actors, Ricardo Alberto Darín, who also appeared in Wild Tales from a previous 5BF. Second, it explains the brutal story—and vindication—of Argentina’s “desaparecidos” or “the disappeared,” which I heard mentioned a lot when I lived in Buenos Aires in 2004. Here’s the official description: “Argentina, 1985 is inspired by the true story of Julio Strassera, Luis Moreno Ocampo, and their young legal team of unlikely heroes in — Tim Ferriss

▶Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, “Summer

🎵 MusicTim featured this 1× · 2023 · youtu.be

Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, “Summer” (YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify), arranged by Pavlo Fenyuk and performed by the incredible Alexandr Hrustevich.— Tim Ferriss

The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2023 · Heidi Blake · newyorker.com

“The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle” by Heidi Blake for The New Yorker. This is an outstanding piece, and here is an excerpt to give you a taste: One sprawling fraud, described by French police as “the heist of the century,” had cost tax authorities five billion euros. After it was exposed, the Danish government admitted that eighty per cent of the country’s carbon-trading firms were fronts for the racket. … BP and Shell had opened carbon-trading desks, and the Saudi government did, too. Gilles Dufrasne, of the nonprofit Carbon Market Watch, observed that credits could be traded over and over be— Tim Ferriss

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When in the night I await her coming, my life seems stopped. I ask myself: What are tributes, freedom, or youth compared to this treasured friend holding a flute? Look, she’s coming! She throws off her veil and watches me, steady and long. I say: “Was it you who dictated to Dante the pages of Hell?” And she answers: “I am the one.” — “The Muse” by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Burnshaw (Thank you to Dr. Fuerza del Mono Araña for sending this to me.)

▶Gangnam Style

🎵 MusicTim featured this 1× · 2023 · PSY · youtube.com

“Gangnam Style” by PSY. Remember this viral hit from 2012, the first YouTube video to pass a billion views? This was one of several inflection points for Korea’s soft power in the last decade. I wanted to revisit the track after exploring the district of Gangnam in Seoul (text description, video), after which the song is named. Some fun trivia: Gangnam literally means “river [gang] - south [nam]” or “south of the river,” which refers to the Han river that runs through Seoul. Also, from the great Wikipedia entry on this song, its background, and unexpected global explosion: The song’s refrain “— Tim Ferriss

K-Pop” on Explained, S1 E4

🎬 FilmsTim featured this 1× · 2023 · Celine Song · netflix.com

“K-Pop” on Explained, S1 E4. This episode covers not only K-pop but the incredible, and not accidental, rise of tiny South Korea to global powerhouse. I’m new to the Explained series and have only seen two episodes (check out the “Monogamy” episode as well), but it seems to pack a lot of education and entertainment into each 20 minutes. I’ll be watching more. Tequila shots and high fives to Ryan Suh for the recommendation. “Conan Learns Korean And Makes It Weird.” Trust me, even if you ignore everything else in this newsletter, take a few minutes and watch this. Conan O’Brien and Jin Shil are — Tim Ferriss

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“Love does not consist of gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

The Man Who Quit Money

📚 BooksTim featured this 1× · 2023 · Mark Sundeen · amazon.com

The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen (@SundeenMark). This is a brilliant book, and I appreciate it more each year. Reading it for a third time on Kindle, I was struck by how much my old highlights differ from what I’m highlighting now. Different life chapters have different contexts, different challenges, and different hopes—yet another reason to reread certain books. Here’s the official description: “In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings—all thirty dollars of it—in a phone booth. He has lived without money—and with a newfound sense of freedom and security—ever since. The Man Who Quit — Tim Ferriss

Salomon’s Xa Forces Jungle Tactical Boots

🛒 Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2023 · salomon.com

Salomon’s Xa Forces Jungle Tactical Boots. To roughly paraphrase my friend, who’s a fan of minimalist packing, “I would rather have one pair of footwear that does everything well enough than carry a bunch of specialist footwear that does things better than I need.” We both only brought carry-on luggage. So instead of packing sneakers, hiking boots, flip-flops, etc., I bought these. From the description: “This lightweight, tactical boot is designed for pushing hard in tough conditions like the jungle. Based on Salomon’s iconic racing XA PRO 3D, this special-forces boot is ultra-durable and rema— Tim Ferriss

Human Planet, S1, Ep. 04 “Jungles.

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2023 · vimeo.com

Human Planet, S1, Ep. 04 “Jungles.” From the synopsis: “The Matis of Brazil carve 4-meter-long blow-pipes to hunt monkeys—in near total silence. Deep in the Congo forests, Tete defies death by scaling a giant tree using nothing more than a liana vine, and he must then negotiate an angry swarm of bees—all to collect honey for his family. Three children from Venezuela’s Piaroa tribe venture deep into the jungle to hunt tarantulas—to toast for lunch! In West Papua the Korowai tribe show off their engineering skills by building a high-rise home 35 meters up in the treetops. Most memorable of all, — Tim Ferriss

Ayahuasca and Tobacco Shamanism: An Interview with Ethnobotanist Dr. Glenn Shepard

🎙️ PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2023 · podcasts.apple.com

“Ayahuasca and Tobacco Shamanism: An Interview with Ethnobotanist Dr. Glenn Shepard” (Apple Podcasts, Spotify) on the Plants of the Gods podcast. Here is part 1 of the interview, and you can find part 2 here. For more from host Dr. Mark Plotkin, check out his recent guest episode on my podcast, which explored all things coffee.— Tim Ferriss

Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’ Complex

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2023 · Michael Schulman · newyorker.com

“Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’ Complex” by Michael Schulman for The New Yorker. Ridley Scott is the filmmaker behind cult classics and mega-blockbusters, such as Blade Runner, Gladiator, Alien, Black Hawk Down, and many more. He is also the director behind the iconic Apple “1984” commercial. Millions know his movies, but far fewer realize that Ridley didn’t release his first feature film until he was 40. Bonus: for a 10-second laugh involving Ridley Scott that you won’t get in the profile, take a gander at this.— Tim Ferriss

Take a Wife … Please!

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“Take a Wife … Please!” by Olga Khazan for The Atlantic. Here’s an alternate link if the prior link gives you trouble. Hat tip to Spider Monkey for putting this on my radar.— Tim Ferriss

Wild Tales

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Wild Tales by Pedro Almodóvar. This was recommended to me by a Colombian friend, as I wanted to resurrect my Spanish prior to a trip to South America. It’s gorgeously shot, impeccably directed, and it will make you laugh and cringe in equal measure. Here’s the description: “[An] award-winning anthology from Argentina composed of six short films united by a common theme of tragedy, revenge, and violence found in everyday detail. Nominated for 2015 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.” You can find the trailer here.— Tim Ferriss