5 Bullet Archive

Introduction to Effective Altruism (EA)

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · effectivealtruism.org

Introduction to Effective Altruism (EA). I wanted to reread the basics of EA, as it’s been a few years since my podcast with Will MacAskill, one of the originators of the movement. This review came about because I was invited to join a psychedelics-focused Ask Me Anything (AMA) on the Effective Altruism Forum, alongside Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan), bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, and Dr. Matthew W. Johnson (@Drug_Researcher), professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. Huge thanks to the community for all of the wonderful questions. I learned a lot and had a blast.— Tim Ferriss

Dear Bill and/or Melinda

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · newyorker.com

“Dear Bill and/or Melinda” (The New Yorker). This caught me off guard and made me laugh out loud. The funniest part—and least funny part—is how many emails I actually receive that are some version of this.— Tim Ferriss

Open Letter to the Psychedelic Movement Regarding Peyote in Policy Efforts and How to Be an Ally to Indigenous Peoples of North America

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Andrew Jacobs · plantmedicinehealing.org

“Open Letter to the Psychedelic Movement Regarding Peyote in Policy Efforts and How to Be an Ally to Indigenous Peoples of North America” and “The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same.” by Andrew Jacobs. P.P.P.S. I am doing an AMA on psychedelic research on the Effective Altruism Forum. I will be joined by Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan), bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, and Dr. Matthew W. Johnson (@Drug_Researcher), professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. Michael and Matthew will be answering questions this Sunday, and I’ll be doing so on Monday. — Tim Ferriss

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“Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business/ Why not find a better job?” ― Hafiz

Porta Sophia

💻 Apps & SoftwareTim featured this 1× · 2021 · portasophia.org

Porta Sophia. “Porta Sophia, meaning doorway to wisdom, is a prior art library for patent reviewers around the world to find relevant prior art in the field of psychedelics. The library provides convenient access, via a simple search tool, to scientific literature, previous patents, historical archives, online forums and more. Key content from the public domain focuses on medical applications, means of production, drug combinations and various drug formulations of multiple psychedelic compounds. Due to historical and cultural aspects of psychedelics, prior art can be difficult or inconvenient — Tim Ferriss

▶Remy: Dogecoin Rap

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2021 · youtube.com

Remy: Dogecoin Rap. I don’t own any doge, except for Molly pup, but I do love this video. Be sure to watch at least 60 seconds.— Tim Ferriss

Control the location granularity that you share with apps

💡 Life HacksTim featured this 1× · 2021 · support.apple.com

Control the location granularity that you share with apps. “To allow an app to use your specific location, leave Precise Location turned on. To share only your approximate location—which may be sufficient for an app that doesn’t need your exact location—turn Precise Location off.” Here are the instructions. On my iPhone in the US, here’s what it looks like: Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > [Select App] > While Using App > Turn Off “Precise Location.”— Tim Ferriss

▶Relaxing Bird Songs and Nature

🎵 MusicTim featured this 1× · 2021 · youtube.com

Relaxing Bird Songs and Nature. The location is Ōtaki Village, Kiso District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. I can’t wait to get back to good ol’ Nihon. Natsukashii! iOS trick I find helpful if any apps require location services— Tim Ferriss

Engineering the Apocalypse

🎙️ PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Sam Harris · samharris.org

“Engineering the Apocalypse” on the Making Sense podcast by Sam Harris, PhD. (@SamHarrisOrg). Description: “In this nearly 4-hour special episode, Rob Reid delivers a 100-minute monologue (broken up into 4 segments, and interleaved with discussions with Sam) about the looming danger of a man-made pandemic, caused by an artificially-modified pathogen. The risk of this occurring is far higher and nearer-term than almost anyone realizes.” Rob and Sam also discuss concrete, affordable, and scientifically-fascinating steps that can be taken now to massively mitigate the risks. Almost all those step— Tim Ferriss

MDMA Reaches Next Step Toward Approval for Treatment

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Rachel Nuwer · nytimes.com

“MDMA Reaches Next Step Toward Approval for Treatment” by Rachel Nuwer (The New York Times). This is a very big deal, and the results further reinforce why I became involved with these Phase 3 trials, the first conducted on psychedelic-assisted therapy. Huge thanks to all of you who supported the campaign! Thus far, the data represent a home run. Here are just a few highlights, and bolding is mine: “Two months after treatment, 67 percent of participants in the MDMA group no longer qualified for a diagnosis of PTSD, compared with 32 percent in the placebo group. MDMA produced no serious adverse— Tim Ferriss

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“To fight the good fight is one of the bravest and noblest of life’s experiences. Not the bloodshed and the battle of man with man, but the grappling with mental and spiritual adversaries that determines the inner caliber of the contestant. It is the quality of the struggle put forth by a man that proclaims to the world what manner of man he is far more than may be by the termination of the battle. It matters not nearly so much to a man that he succeeds in winning some long-sought prize as it does that he has worked for it honestly and unfalteringly with all the force and energy there is in hi

Bill to kill up to 90% of Idaho wolves heads to governor

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · apnews.com

“Bill to kill up to 90% of Idaho wolves heads to governor” (AP). Thanks for reading this one, as it’s very time sensitive for today (Friday), ideally—this weekend, or Monday, May 3rd, at the latest. The governor is expected to decide in the next several days. OVERVIEW: Idaho News 6: “BOISE, Idaho — Nearly 30 retired state, federal and tribal wildlife managers want Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little to veto a bill backed by agricultural interests that could cut the state’s wolf population by 90%. The former workers at the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Fo— Tim Ferriss

Michael Levin: The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2021 · ted.com

Michael Levin: The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life. Think DNA is the code of life? It seems that DNA might just be the starting point… Give this video 5–10 minutes to warm up.— Tim Ferriss

YETI Hopper M30 Soft Cooler

🛒 Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2021 · yeti.com

YETI Hopper M30 Soft Cooler, charcoal color. This was the key bag for successfully bringing frozen food and other goodies on my first trip to Big Bend National Park. Easily packed, easily transported, it allowed me and my girlfriend to also stop over in an Airbnb in Fredericksburg—fully stocked with our own food—en route back to Austin, TX, home of YETI.— Tim Ferriss

99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Kevin Kelly · kk.org

“99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice” by Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly). It’s Kevin Kelly’s birthday this week, and he is arguably the real-life most interesting man in the world, so I jumped on this piece as soon as it was published. For more KK life tips, see his “68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice” from 2020.— Tim Ferriss

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“We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.” — Niels Bohr

▶Mollii helps Kevin who suffers Parkinsonism/idiopathic tremor

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2021 · youtube.com

Mollii helps Kevin who suffers Parkinsonism/idiopathic tremor. This video is just as magical as the above, but it’s a hard science problem. Nonetheless, it’s difficult for me to wrap my head around how it works so well. Has anyone reading this had firsthand experience with such a suit? If so, please let me know @tferriss on Twitter with #parkinsons so I can find you. Here’s the technical description: “[Mollii is] a comfortable jacket and trousers with built-in electro-stimulation for adults and children living with motor function and other disabilities. Each suit delivers individually programm— Tim Ferriss

I was hospitalized for depression. Faith helped me remember how to live.

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Michael Gerson · washingtonpost.com

“I was hospitalized for depression. Faith helped me remember how to live.” by Michael Gerson (@mjgerson) for The Washington Post. If you prefer video, you can watch the original sermon here.— Tim Ferriss

The New Yorker: Fiction podcast

🎙️ PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2021 · newyorker.com

The New Yorker: Fiction podcast (Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Overcast). Based on my brother’s recommendation, I started with “Douglas Stuart Reads Kevin Barry.” It contains a lot of cursing and is hysterical. The first few minutes of the intro are slow, but the reading of the piece is exceptional, and Douglas’ accent is like verbal velvet.— Tim Ferriss

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“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Plenty Coups

👤 PeopleTim featured this 1× · 2021 · en.wikipedia.org

Plenty Coups. From Wikipedia: “Plenty Coups (Crow: Alaxchíia Ahú, ‘many achievements’; 1848–1932) was the principal chief of the Crow Nation (Apsáalooke) and a visionary leader.”— Tim Ferriss

Jocko Podcast: “#277: The War Continues at Home. Fighting Demons and Finding Peace

🎙️ PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2021 · jockopodcast.com

Jocko Podcast: “#277: The War Continues at Home. Fighting Demons and Finding Peace” and “#115: Into the Fire, and Beyond the Call of Duty, with Medal of Honor Recipient Dakota Meyer.” Both episodes feature Dakota Meyer, who is the second-youngest living Medal of Honor recipient, the third living recipient for either the Iraq War or the War in Afghanistan, and the first living United States Marine in 38 years to be so honored. In episode #277, he discusses his personal use of psychedelics for PTSD and the outcomes he’s experienced. The following news from this week is related and includes Dakot— Tim Ferriss

Magic mushroom compound at least as good as antidepressant in UK study

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · reuters.com

“Magic mushroom compound at least as good as antidepressant in UK study” (Reuters) and “Psychedelic drug worked for depression as well as common antidepressant, small trial finds” (NBC News). These articles discuss the first head-to-head comparison of psilocybin therapy and the antidepressant escitalopram, also known as Lexapro. There is a lot of confusing media coverage, but the above two pieces are well done. What is the simple summary? Below is a snippet of how one researcher uninvolved with the study, Dr. Alexandre Lehmann (Scientific Director at PSFC, Cognitive Neuroscience PI at McGill U— Tim Ferriss

A Tiny Particle’s Wobble Could Upend the Known Laws of Physics

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · nytimes.com

“A Tiny Particle’s Wobble Could Upend the Known Laws of Physics” (New York Times). The subheading gives you the gist: “Experiments with particles known as muons suggest that there are forms of matter and energy vital to the nature and evolution of the cosmos that are not yet known to science.” To dig deeper, or if you have issues with the above link, visit this link and see the accompanying short video.— Tim Ferriss

▶Endangered Species

🎵 MusicTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Nickodemus · youtube.com

“Endangered Species” (YouTube, Spotify) by Nickodemus (Raeo Remix)— Tim Ferriss

This Oddball Chef Wants to Serve You Wild Animals

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Daniel Duane · outsideonline.com

“This Oddball Chef Wants to Serve You Wild Animals” by Daniel Duane (@danielduane) for Outside. Josh Skenes and I became friends circa 2011, just before the creation of The 4-Hour Chef, and he appears extensively in its pages. I love his unorthodox approaches to both cooking and life. He’s still pushing the envelope. Trigger warning (pun intended): if you’re vegetarian or vegan, this article might not make for the most compatible reading. But if it whets your appetite, you can find more wild tales from Josh in my podcast interview with him.— Tim Ferriss

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“Writing isn’t so bad really when you get through the worry. Forget about the worry, just press on. Don’t be embarrassed about the bad bits. Don’t strain at them. … Writing can be good. You attack it, don’t let it attack you. You can get pleasure out of it. You can certainly do very well for yourself with it!” — Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in a recently discovered note to himself

The $69 Million JPEG

🎙️ PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2021 · npr.org

“The $69 Million JPEG” on Planet Money (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast). More exploration of NFTs and related Wild West tech territories. If you think things are already cuckoo bananas, just wait until this new frontier really gets warmed up. I think we’re still in the first inning.— Tim Ferriss

Lost in Thought

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · David Kortava · harpers.org

“Lost in Thought” by David Kortava for Harper’s Magazine. I would have dismissed this article were it not for my personal experience with retraumatization and breakdown at a silent retreat in 2017. I recount this experience at roughly 12:11 of my podcast episode on healing from childhood abuse. This is a very well-researched piece on the largely ignored risks of meditation and, more specifically, the enhanced risks of longer retreats for some populations. I still regularly meditate, but I do find there to be a point of diminishing returns, as well as a point (i.e., extended retreats) where the— Tim Ferriss

UCSF establishes the Neuroscape Psychedelics Division with $6.4M in funding

🎙️ PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2021 · eurekalert.org

UCSF establishes the Neuroscape Psychedelics Division with $6.4M in funding. This is huge news for the burgeoning field of psychedelic medicine. Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris (@RCarhartHarris), a renowned psychedelic researcher best known for his work at the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, is joining Neuroscape as the director of the Psychedelics Division, and he’ll be working alongside the founder of Neuroscape, Dr. Adam Gazzaley (@adamgazz). Prior Neuroscape (previously known as Gazzaley Lab) research has been featured on the cover of Nature (cover image and synopsis, — Tim Ferriss

Princess Mononoke

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2021 · amazon.com

Princess Mononoke (Amazon: English, Japanese; iTunes). This animated film, from the legendary Hayao Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli, has thousands of five-star reviews on Amazon and elsewhere. I was in Tokyo for its opening weekend in 1997, and I recall being astonished by the neverending lines of theatergoers bending around city blocks, eagerly awaiting the first showings. It dramatically outearned The Lost World: Jurassic Park at the box office, which opened the same weekend. Even if you don’t watch the entire film, the original Japanese traileris worth watching. Of course, I prefer the Japan— Tim Ferriss

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“Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.” — Karl Popper, one of the most influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century (via Conor White-Sullivan, co-founder of Roam Research)

The 50 Best Places to Travel in 2021

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · travelandleisure.com

The 50 Best Places to Travel in 2021.— Tim Ferriss

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

📚 BooksTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Charlie Mackesy · amazon.com

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (@charliemackesy). This short and beautiful book was gifted to me by my mom. “This book is for everyone, whether you are eighty or eight,” as the Introduction puts it. It looks like a children’s book, and you can read it in 30 minutes, but it’s replete with wisdom for adults. To give you an idea of how popular this book has become, it has 62,862 ratings on Amazon and an average of 5 stars.— Tim Ferriss

Ruby Hibiscus Water

🛒 Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2021 · ruby.fun

Ruby Hibiscus Water. Ruby unsweetened hibiscus water. 0g of sugar and 0 calories. Sometimes you just want a different flavor around, ya know? Thanks to Noah for the recommendation.— Tim Ferriss

▶Out Here

🎵 MusicTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Thornato · youtube.com

“Out Here” (YouTube, Spotify) by Thornato (@thornatomusic).— Tim Ferriss

Oregon is Blazing a Psychedelic Trail

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Ezra Klein · nytimes.com

“Oregon is Blazing a Psychedelic Trail” or “Can Magic Mushrooms Heal Us?” (The New York Times) by Ezra Klein (@ezraklein). Both links go to the same article, as it has had two headlines. The subheadline is “A very promising mental health experiment is taking shape in Oregon,” and the entire piece is excellent. Five-minute read. “Sounding the Alarm on Compass’s Interference with Oregon’s Psilocybin Therapy Program” by David Bronner. This combines well with the above to provide a fuller picture of what is at stake and what is possible.— Tim Ferriss

The Overstory

📚 BooksTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Richard Powers · amazon.com

The Overstory by Richard Powers. This unusual novel has been recommended to me multiple times. I made two attempts but put it down each time because the first pages made little sense to me. Finally, it was Hugh Jackman who, during our conversation on the podcast, gave me the best advice on how to approach this book: “Stick with it. It works on you in the way nature does. It’s patient, and it’s in no rush. It’s slow and it’s steady and it’s true.” Now, I’m in the middle and enjoying it tremendously. Here is a shortened description: “The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, i— Tim Ferriss

Armaid

🛒 Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2021 · armaid.com

Armaid (company website, which includes how-to videos; Amazon). This was put on my radar by competitive rock climbers. I’ve had forearm and elbow issues for years, including one elbow surgery. The nagging tightness and pain can take a lot of exercise off the menu, but Armaid appears to be working surprisingly well to resolve issues. TBD, but so far, so good.— Tim Ferriss

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“I don't trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: ‘Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.’” — Maya Angelou

Schitt’s Creek

🎬 FilmsTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Eugene Levy · netflix.com

Schitt’s Creek, created by Eugene Levy (@RealEugeneLevy) and Dan Levy (@DanJLevy). I’m extremely late to the party, but this show is hilarious and appeared in my life at the perfect time. The writing and acting are outstanding. 2–3 short episodes before bed is a great way to laugh and decompress after a hard day of slogging through the Internet like Atreyu in the Swamp of Sadness. Sometimes you just need some audio-visual Scooby Snacks to get you through the week.— Tim Ferriss

Banksy Work Physically Burned and Digitized as NFT in Art-World First

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Seth Godin · coindesk.com

“Banksy Work Physically Burned and Digitized as NFT in Art-World First” and “The Non-Fungible Token Bible: Everything you need to know about NFTs” (especially sections 1, 2, and 3, as a lot has happened since this piece was published). “NFTs are a dangerous trap” by Seth Godin. Quick note and questions related to Seth’s post — The current energy costs of crypto/blockchain appear to be enormous. For the crypto-literate engineers out there: How should we think about the promise and feasibility of Proof of Stake as a remedy, and how much of the energetic costs might that mitigate? The creator of — Tim Ferriss

Breath-derived versus blood-derived measurements related to ketosis.

🎙️ PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2021 · twitter.com

Breath-derived versus blood-derived measurements related to ketosis. From former podcast guest Dr. Dominic D’Agostino (his first episode, “Dom D’Agostino on Fasting, Ketosis, and the End of Cancer,” was a mega-hit): “Fasting (36 hrs) Data from @mybiosense Breath Acetone and @levels CGM (Libre). Abbott Precision Xtra = 0.8 mM, whereas @ketomojo = 1.8 mM BHB (not sure what to make of that)...” The images and explanations continue in the linked post.— Tim Ferriss

▶Malemolência

🎵 MusicTim featured this 1× · 2021 · youtube.com

“Malemolência” (YouTube, Spotify) by Céu (@ceumusic). This has been one of my favorite songs for 4–5 years, and the entire album is stellar (Lenda is another standout for me).— Tim Ferriss

▶Penn and Teller: Fool Us | Mahdi Gilbert Performs Sleight of Hand without Hands

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2021 · youtube.com

Penn and Teller: Fool Us | Mahdi Gilbert Performs Sleight of Hand without Hands. I discovered Mahdi through this video, which he shared in a comment on the blog and wrote that “everyone needs hope during this long and dark winter.” For more magic, check out my interviews with Penn Jillette and Richard Turner.— Tim Ferriss

Menakao’s Dark Chocolate 63% with Orange & Cranberries

🛒 Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Reid Hoffman · cocoarunners.com

Menakao’s Dark Chocolate 63% with Orange & Cranberries. I found this via Cocoa Runners, a beautiful and delicious service introduced to me by Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman). Thank you, Reid!— Tim Ferriss

When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measle-p

🎵 MusicTim featured this 1× · 2021 · helixsleep.com

When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measle-pox; when death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and I look upon time as no more than an idea, and I consider eternity as another possibility, and I think of each life as a flower, as common as — Tim Ferriss

Ketamine for Depression: What the Treatment Reveals About the Brain

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Lauren Tanabe · elemental.medium.com

Ketamine for Depression: What the Treatment Reveals About the Brain by Lauren Tanabe (@lauren_tanabe). This is one of the best pieces on ketamine therapy that I have read. It covered some familiar ground for me, but it also surfaced several possibilities and combinations that I’d never considered. One such combination is ketamine plus rapamycin, an immunosuppressive drug widely used for organ transplants, which also happens to have profound life-extension implications in many species: “He [Chadi Abdallah, MD] and his colleagues recently published a study that found that giving rapamycin, an an— Tim Ferriss

For 500 days I’ve written 500 words of Morning Pages.

💡 Life HacksTim featured this 1× · 2021 · twitter.com

“For 500 days I’ve written 500 words of Morning Pages. While they’re usually just brain dumps, I’ll sometimes reflect on specific questions. As @tferriss says, if you want better answers, ask better questions. -My Top 10 Reflection Questions (and where I got them)- [THREAD]” from Dickie Bush (@dickiebush).— Tim Ferriss

▶Wrestling Coaches Strip in Protest at the 2016 Olympics, a breakdown

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2021 · youtu.be

Wrestling Coaches Strip in Protest at the 2016 Olympics, a breakdown. This was sent to me by a former Olympian. It’s tragic, hilarious, and nearly unbelievable on several levels. Thanks, Matty T!— Tim Ferriss

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“I am distressed, almost discouraged, and fatigued to the point of feeling slightly ill. What I am doing is no good, and in spite of your confidence I am very much afraid that my efforts will all lead to nothing.” — Claude Monet In a letter to Gustave Geffroy, 1889

▶Guardians of the Amazon

🎥 DocumentariesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · youtube.com

Guardians of the Amazon. “As the Amazon rainforest faces a crucial tipping point amidst the increase of illegal logging activities, Dan Harris [@danbharris] and his team embed with the Guardians, a small indigenous group taking up arms to hunt down illegal loggers and fight for their land.” For a taste of the action, see the trailer here. This is a topic I care a lot about. For another way to help preserve the ecosystems of the Amazon, which includes both the lungs of the planet and indigenous communities, take a look at the Amazon Conservation Team. For my interview with the co-founder, Mark — Tim Ferriss

▶Roses (Imanbek Remix)

🎵 MusicTim featured this 1× · 2021 · SAINt JHN · youtube.com

Roses (Imanbek Remix) by SAINt JHN (YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music). Some fun facts: The song has seen more than NINE BILLION plays on TikTok, became a wild hit on Snapchat, and it reached No. 1 on the United Kingdom’s Official Singles Chart. Rolling Stone crowned it as the song of the summer, and it has scored a Grammy nomination. Not bad for an accidental collaboration between SAINt JHN and a 19-year-old who used to work in a local train station, eh?— Tim Ferriss

Meet the 19-Year-Old From Kazakhstan Who Remixed ‘Roses’ Into a Hit (NYT)

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · archive.is

Meet the 19-Year-Old From Kazakhstan Who Remixed ‘Roses’ Into a Hit (NYT). Sometimes it seems impossible to beat the odds. And sometimes the ruts seem too deeply dug. But when you come across someone like Imanbek Zeikenov, you gain a little hop in your step and a little optimism in your spirit. From the NYT: “Imanbek Zeikenov [@realimanbek] is 19 years old and lives with his parents in the small village of Aksu in Kazakhstan. He studied railway engineering at school, and until last December, held a day job at his local train station. But everything changed in the summer of 2019, when he discov— Tim Ferriss

Metolius Simulator 3D board

📚 BooksTim featured this 1× · 2021 · amazon.com

Metolius Simulator 3D board. I’m finally getting back into rock climbing after a hiatus of roughly a decade. I loved climbing but stopped due to elbow surgery on my right arm and medial epicondylitis in both elbows. Several people suggested this board as a means of improving finger strength, which ostensibly helps prevent over-pulling with the arms to compensate. Question for any experienced rock climbers who’ve dealt with elbow issues — What would you suggest as a minimalist training program for progressive strength gains, which should not pose any risk of flaring up the elbows? Please let me— Tim Ferriss

Still Alive

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Scott Siskind · astralcodexten.substack.com

“Still Alive” by Scott Siskind, better known as “Scott Alexander” (@slatestarcodex). This really struck a chord, and if you are considering growing your audience or “platform,” make this essay part of your required reading. This bullet will be a bit longer and more heated than usual, as it reopened old wounds. Some of my dear friends are journalists, and they’re wonderful people. They measure twice and cut once. They are thoughtful, unrushed, and considerate, despite organizational pressure and incentives to be the opposite. That takes extraordinary discipline, and it’s fucking hard. It isn’t — Tim Ferriss

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“You know, the matrix says, ‘Pick an identity and stick with it. Because I want to sell you some beer and shampoo and I need you to stick with what you are so I’ll know how to market it to you.’ Drag is the opposite. Drag says, ‘Identity is a joke.’” — RuPaul (@RuPaul) (Thank you to Claudia Dawson for the quote, which I found in Recomendo: The Expanded Edition.)

The first episode of Season 3 of Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2021 · vicetv.com

The first episode of Season 3 of Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia (VICE TV, Amazon Prime, Apple TV). I love this series. Hamilton is a legitimate biochemist and also happens to be excellent at film/TV editing (trivia: his father is Errol Morris of The Fog of War fame). Here’s the short description: “Traveling the globe to correct a mistake from his past and experience a euphoria that can create or destroy life on Earth, Hamilton Morris [@HamiltonMorris] explores the anthropological history and science of Meth, LSD, Bufotenine, 5-MeO-DMT, Ibogaine, and Xenon.” Here is the season’s trailer, and you can w— Tim Ferriss

What Is Death?

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2021 · BJ Miller · nytimes.com

“What Is Death?” (Sunday New York Times) by BJ Miller (@bjmillermd). Dr. BJ Miller has helped more than 1,000 people to die. He is a hospice and palliative medicine physician as well as author of A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death. When people ask about episodes of my podcast that deeply affected me, I often mention my podcast with BJ, which was hilarious, heart-wrenching, and transcendent. I still remember many of the lessons, even though it was recorded in 2016. His new NYT piece is an outstanding revisitation of death, alongside the opportunitie— Tim Ferriss

Of Wolves and Men

📚 BooksTim featured this 1× · 2021 · Barry Lopez · amazon.com

Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez. This is probably my favorite nonfiction book of the last five years. I received it as a Christmas gift, I devoured it in one week, and nearly every page is covered in highlighter. It’s truly that phenomenal. Barry’s mastery of structure and the written word echoes of John McPhee, and the beauty of his prose reminds me of Mary Oliver. Repeatedly, I found myself saying aloud, “Wow. How does someone DO this?” Here’s the description, edited for length: “Humankind’s relationship with the wolf is the sum of a spectrum of responses ranging from fear to admiration and— Tim Ferriss