5 Bullet Archive

The very first psychedelic study I ever supported (psilocybin for moderate-to-severe depression) was published this week

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2020 · hopkinsmedicine.org

The very first psychedelic study I ever supported (psilocybin for moderate-to-severe depression) was published this week in JAMA Psychiatry (@JAMAPsych), and it doesn’t disappoint. ⁣Here are a few eye-opening highlights:⁣ ⁣ “The magnitude of the effect we saw was about four times larger than what clinical trials have shown for traditional antidepressants on the market,” says Alan Davis, Ph.D.⁣ [...]⁣ For the entire group of 24 participants, 67% showed a more than 50% reduction in depression symptoms at the one-week follow-up and 71% at the four-week follow-up. Overall, four weeks post-treatmen— Tim Ferriss

Hand balance boards for handstands and hand balancing

🛒 Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2020 · amazon.com

Hand balance boards for handstands and hand balancing (here’s their site if Amazon sells out). I’ve been getting back into spending time upside down. Specifically, I’m working on hand balancing. For a glimpse of mutant abilities and inspiration, check out Andrii Bondarenko. For an easier starting point, or to save your wrists, check out the FeetUp trainer. Are you a pro? I’d love your top 2–3 training tips! Please let me know at @tferriss on Twitter and add #handstands so I can find you.— Tim Ferriss

Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom

📚 BooksTim featured this 1× · 2020 · Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche · amazon.com

Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. This book was first recommended to me by the phenom that is Safi Bahcall, a former physicist and founder of a publicly-traded biotech company, who also knows hypnotism and a dozen other fields inside and out. It took me more than a year to dig into Joyful Wisdom, as I was turned off by the title. I expected another rinse and repeat of the usual Buddhist bag o’ tricks, which have never quite clicked for me. Much to my surprise, I quickly found insights, analogies, and practices that *did* stick in the first 100 page— Tim Ferriss

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“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.” — Anaïs Nin

For the last few weeks, my team and I have gathered language from all of my recent podcast sponsor reads

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For the last few weeks, my team and I have gathered language from all of my recent podcast sponsor reads (which perform well above industry average, based on data from multiple partners) in one place, which also allows us to review what has worked/converted best for different categories of brands. This page shares the end product, which will evolve over time.— Tim Ferriss

The Psychedelic Election

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2020 · Andrew Sullivan · andrewsullivan.substack.com

The Psychedelic Election by Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish). Greek civilization, a mysterious once-in-a-lifetime ceremony at the Temple of Eleusis, and a cameo by Marcus Aurelius… what’s not to like? This fascinating piece touches on a lot, including how people in D.C. or Oregon can, just possibly, be part of the next Renaissance.— Tim Ferriss

▶The Skin Deep

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2020 · youtube.com

The Skin Deep. (YouTube, Instagram). “Explore human connection — one conversation at a time.” The Skin Deep delivers on that promise. Consider “Hard Questions for a Mother to Answer” or, for something lighter, try “Are First Impressions Spot On?” The Skin Deep is an Emmy award-winning creative studio exploring human emotion, intimacy, and connection in the digital age, and if you want to go a step further, check out their question card decks for friends, couples, long-term couples, families, and more. Hat tip to my lovely girlfriend for introducing me to this gem.— Tim Ferriss

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

🎬 FilmsTim featured this 1× · 2020 · Taika Waititi · amazon.com

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Amazon, Netflix, YouTube Movies). This film is both hilarious and gorgeous. Hunt for the Wilderpeople was the first local feature to gross more than $1M NZD in its opening weekend at the New Zealand box office. Written and directed by Taika Waititi (@TaikaWaititi), this upbeat comedy was exactly what I needed after a rough week. Check out this short trailer, and you’ll see what I mean. Bro, good food for the soul, aye!— Tim Ferriss

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“A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.” ― Primo Levi in If This Is a Man

John Arnold: The most prolific philanthropist you may not have heard of

🎙️ PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2020 · peterattiamd.com

John Arnold: The most prolific philanthropist you may not have heard of on The Peter Attia Drive podcast. Even if you have no interest in philanthropy, this podcast is an incredible profile of the mind and mental frameworks of one of the most successful traders of the last 50 years. The first half of the interview focuses on his meteoric rise, key decisions, and key insights. Here’s the official description: “John Arnold (@JohnArnoldFndtn) is widely regarded as the greatest natural gas trader of all time, but in his late 30s, he walked away from it all and turned full-time philanthropist. He a— Tim Ferriss

Why Private Eyes Are Everywhere Now

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2020 · Patrick Radden Keefe · newyorker.com

Why Private Eyes Are Everywhere Now by Patrick Radden Keefe (@praddenkeefe) for the New Yorker.— Tim Ferriss

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“I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village waiting for the light to change, and he pointed down and said, ‘Look.’ I looked and all I saw was the water. And he said, ‘Look again,’ which I did, and I saw oil on the water and the city reflected in the puddle. It was a great revelation to me. I can’t explain it. He taught me how to see, and how to trust what I saw. Painters have often taught writers how to see. And once you’ve had that experience, you see differently.” — James Baldwin(Here is a related exercise you can try: look at leaves or

▶Invocacion (Uji Remix)

🎵 MusicTim featured this 1× · 2020 · Nicola Cruz · youtube.com

“Invocacion (Uji Remix)” (YouTube, Spotify, Bandcamp) by Nicola Cruz (@nicolacruzz).— Tim Ferriss

Callipygian

✨ MiscTim featured this 1× · 2020 · merriam-webster.com

Callipygian (adjective) - \ ˌka-lə-ˈpi-j(ē-)ən \: having shapely or beautiful buttocks. My girlfriend taught me this one. It applies to her, as well as some of the sculptures in the above bullet. The word “calligraphy” has shared roots—kallos, from the classical Greek for “beauty,” plus graphein for “writing,” and thus “beautiful writing.”— Tim Ferriss

Richard MacDonald

👤 PeopleTim featured this 1× · 2020 · richardmacdonald.com

Richard MacDonald (@richardmacdonaldsculpture). For behind-the-scenes process pics, his Instagram account delivers. Here is one that will make your head spin... or invert. Try holding that pose for a few minutes. For more examples, check out this short video created in partnership with Cirque du Soleil (@cirque), which has a permanent gallery exhibiting Richard’s work in Las Vegas.— Tim Ferriss

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“Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.” — Publilius Syrus

Johns Hopkins survey about belief changes following psychedelic use

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2020 · jhmi.co1.qualtrics.com

Johns Hopkins survey about belief changes following psychedelic use. The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research needs your help. They are conducting an anonymous online survey of changes in beliefs that can occur after taking a classic psychedelic (psilocybin-containing mushrooms, LSD, ayahuasca, mescaline, DMT, etc.). Psychedelic-occasioned changes in belief may represent a vital, under-studied mechanism that could account for persisting therapeutic and nontherapeutic effects. Examples of some of the persisting effects that have been observed in patient groups include— Tim Ferriss

Speed bag magic

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2020 · instagram.com

Speed bag magic. This was sent to me by a former world-championship-level kickboxer.— Tim Ferriss

Sometimes, you’d like to see the results of an active poll on Twitter or other platforms, but you don’t want to vote for any number of reasons (e.g., skewing the results).

💡 Life HacksTim featured this 1× · 2020 · twitter.com

Sometimes, you’d like to see the results of an active poll on Twitter or other platforms, but you don’t want to vote for any number of reasons (e.g., skewing the results). Rory Parle (@roryparle) offers this tip: “Turn on airplane mode and vote. It won’t register the vote but will flash up the results briefly.” The current workaround for poll creators is to add a “Show results” voting option, but this is clunky and crowds out other voting options. Perhaps Twitter team members who get this newsletter can see about offering this option natively? Could be important for election season...— Tim Ferriss

Burden of Dreams (Amazon

🎥 DocumentariesTim featured this 1× · 2020 · amazon.com

Burden of Dreams (Amazon, iTunes, The Criterion Channel). This documentary was recommended to me by one of the most phenomenal artists I know, Dustin Yellin, whose wild podcast with me just got released today. Burden of Dreams is a strange and captivating film. It’s a showcase of tackling the impossible, being unrealistic, and failing above others’ successes. On so many levels, the compulsion, single-mindedness, and all-or-nothing drive of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog makes no sense. And yet… to me, parts of his journey, and parts of his worldview, make all the sense in the world. This is— Tim Ferriss

BalanceFrom Puzzle Exercise Mat with EVA Foam Interlocking Tiles

🛒 Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2020 · amazon.com

BalanceFrom Puzzle Exercise Mat with EVA Foam Interlocking Tiles. Six sections is the minimal viable size for what my girlfriend and I use these for: AcroYoga. Here’s a clip of me as Twinkle-Toes Ferriss, doing what I rarely do, which is “fly.” For clarity, the other dude in the video is the co-founder of AcroYoga, Jason Nemer, and not my much smaller and much cuter gf (no offense, Jason; I do love the beard). Now, I only ordered six sections of these ¾″-thick puzzle pieces, but that option on Amazon seems to have disappeared. But fear not! First of all, nine would have been much better. Secon— Tim Ferriss

9 Common Traits in the Lives of Stoic Leaders

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2020 · Stephen Hanselman · dailystoic.com

9 Common Traits in the Lives of Stoic Leaders by Stephen Hanselman (@SteveHanselman).— Tim Ferriss

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“I said: what about my eyes? He said: Keep them on the road. I said: What about my passion? He said: Keep it burning. I said: What about my heart? He said: Tell me what you hold inside it? I said: Pain and sorrow. He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ― Attributed to Rumi

Angela Gram

👤 PeopleTim featured this 1× · 2020 · angelagramart.com

Angela Gram (@angelagramart). To many long-term readers, my reasons for liking Angela’s work will be obvious. To new readers, no explanation will make any sense. Thanks to drumming animal Dave Elitch (@daveelitch) for pointing me to her. And if the art blows your mind, just search her Instagram feed for a clip of her playing guitar.— Tim Ferriss

My Healing Journey After Childhood Abuse

🎙️ PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2020 · tim.blog

My Healing Journey After Childhood Abuse. For me, this is the most important podcast episode I’ve ever published. It describes the most life-shaping, certainly the most difficult, and certainly the most transformative journey of my 43 years on this planet. This is the first time I’ve shared it publicly. If you only ever share one thing I’ve done, please make it this. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, or on your favorite podcast platform. All resources mentioned in this episode, and many more, are listed in the blog post at tim.blog/— Tim Ferriss

Google Contacts

💻 Apps & SoftwareTim featured this 1× · 2020 · contacts.google.com

Google Contacts (contacts.google.com). Just type contacts.google.com into your browser URL bar, and you’ll see something I’d never accessed until this week. Why this week? Because I’m retiring a bunch of email addresses, and I wanted to know whom I’ve emailed most often from the inboxes that are headed to the garbage bin. This feature—hidden in plain sight—makes it super simple, and you can export your list of VIPs. One important note: “Frequently contacted” appears to include people who email you as well, so it requires some minor cleanup to remove newsletters and so on.— Tim Ferriss

Big Berkey water filter

🛒 Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2020 · bigberkeywaterfilters.com

Big Berkey water filter. This was recommended to me by a former Navy SEAL in March, and I’ve bought several units since. These were his selling points, roughly paraphrased: If you can find a swamp or dirty pond, you now have drinkable water. If you have a pool, you now have no reason to stockpile bottles of water. Sold! Here is the partial description from their website: “The black berkey elements that come standard in this system purify both treated water and untreated raw water from such sources as remote lakes, streams, stagnant ponds and water supplies in foreign countries, where regulatio— Tim Ferriss

Atul Gawande on the Armchair Expert podcast with Dax Shepard

🎙️ PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2020 · Atul · armchairexpertpod.com

Atul Gawande on the Armchair Expert podcast with Dax Shepard. This is an excellent dance. On one side, Atul Gawande, MD, (@Atul_Gawande) is one of my favorite thinkers and authors. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, written by Atul, sits face out on my bookshelf as a constant reminder. On the other side, Dax (@daxshepard) is one of the best interviewers in the game, and this episode is a great showcase of his skill level. He’s able to intelligently tackle the serious without sounding too serious but also without swinging too far into comedy for comedy’s sake. That is a very hard— Tim Ferriss

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“With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

YETI Rambler® 20 oz. Tumbler

🛒 Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2020 · yeti.com

YETI Rambler® 20 oz. Tumbler. I bought this in Austin at YETI’s flagship store, and it travels with me everywhere. For the last few months, I’ve used it every morning to keep my tea hot (typically chaga or pu-erh tea, plus unsweetened Laird Superfood Creamer) and every afternoon to keep my iced tea cool. I don’t have to worry about condensation or water puddles on my table, and in my experience, it keeps things hot or cold for HOURS. The MagSlider™ magnetic closing mechanism is a much bigger deal than you’ll realize initially, especially for cleaning. They are available with custom designs, an— Tim Ferriss

▶The Neverending Story

🎬 FilmsTim featured this 1× · 2020 · youtube.com

The Neverending Story. This was both my favorite movie and favorite book for years as a kid. When I got in trouble in elementary school and was sent to detention, I would pretend like I hated the library, as it was one of the detention locations in our tiny school. As “punishment,” I would then get sent to the books and go straight to the shelf where I’d last stashed The Neverending Story. I’d put it in the wrong section so that only I could find it! Watching the movie again as an adult, I was struck by a few things: (1) It ages really well. There are only a few old-school blue-screen portions— Tim Ferriss

Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2020 · Bari Weiss · nytimes.com

Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media (New York Times) by Bari Weiss (@bariweiss). For those seeking extra credit, you can read Bari’s powerful resignation letter from the NYT, which followed just 50 days later on July 14th.— Tim Ferriss

Junya Watanabe

👤 PeopleTim featured this 1× · 2020 · cultrface.co.uk

Junya Watanabe (@jungraphy). Here is one of my recent favorites, and here is another, but the best thing you can do is visit his Instagram profile and scroll for five minutes. There are so many gems, and experimental themes emerge as you look through his larger corpus. The visuals make me want to return to Tokyo immediately. #bladerunner— Tim Ferriss

Maya Kaimal Organic Indian Red Lentil Everyday Dal

🛒 Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2020 · amazon.com

Maya Kaimal Organic Indian Red Lentil Everyday Dal (Amazon, official product page). In February, I stocked up on large quantities of food for COVID lockdown. Some of the items ended up being puke-worthy, many were passable, and a handful stood out with a gut response of “I would definitely continue eating this during ‘normal’ times….” Maya Kaimal’s precooked dal lands squarely in the last category.— Tim Ferriss

The Last Dance

🎬 FilmsTim featured this 1× · 2020 · netflix.com

The Last Dance. After weeks of three close friends texting me repeatedly about this series, I finally bit the bullet. I was hesitant, as I’ve never followed basketball nor been drawn to it, but… this is easily one of the best television series of any type that I’ve ever seen. It’s spectacular. Here’s the official description, but it doesn’t reflect the intensity and magic of what you’ll see: “This docuseries chronicles the rise of superstar Michael Jordan and the 1990s Chicago Bulls, with unaired footage from an unforgettable 1997–98 season.” Huge kudos to director Jason Hehir; the executive p— Tim Ferriss

Silicon Valley and Wall Street Elites Pour Money Into Psychedelic Research

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2020 · Shalini Ramachandran · wsj.com

Silicon Valley and Wall Street Elites Pour Money Into Psychedelic Research by Shalini Ramachandran in WSJ, which should also be going to print today. This is a great piece with some notable and surprising names. That said, the headline doesn’t capture the most important part to me: ~2,500 donors participated, in amounts ranging from one dollar to $5 million, to raise the $30 million needed to complete clinical trials for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for trauma/PTSD. My sincerest thanks to each and every one of you who helped make this happen! Every donation mattered and made a difference. 🙏 NO— Tim Ferriss

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“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.” — Albert Camus

Zero Fasting App

💻 Apps & SoftwareTim featured this 1× · 2020 · zerofasting.com

Zero Fasting App. Kevin Rose (@KevinRose) originally created Zero in 2016, and it is now the most popular fasting app in the world. It has millions of downloads and 4.9 out of 5 stars on the Apple App Store with 268,000+ ratings. Dr. Peter Attia (@PeterAttiaMD), one of my go-to doctors for anything performance- or longevity-related, is co-founder and chief medical officer. He is the person I call for fasting advice, and now Zero gives access to that same advice. For a short sample Q&A on fasting with Peter, click here. They recently released Zero Plus, an upgrade for power users that I’m now u— Tim Ferriss

100 Things I Learned in 10 Years and 100 Reads of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2020 · Ryan Holiday · ryanholiday.net

“100 Things I Learned in 10 Years and 100 Reads of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations” by Ryan Holiday (@RyanHoliday).— Tim Ferriss

The following was sent to me from Joe Green

📚 BooksTim featured this 1× · 2020 · Robb Wolf and his coaches · psfc.co

The following was sent to me from Joe Green and Graham Boyd, co-founders of the Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative (PSFC). This was a parting thought in one of their quarterly update emails related to nationwide scientific and regulatory updates: Over 50 years after Aldous Huxley published Island, science has finally begun to catch up to his understanding of the benefits of combining psychedelics with meditation or other spiritual practices: A 2018 Johns Hopkins study found that the combination of guided psilocybin sessions and a long-term meditation program resulted in significant impr— Tim Ferriss

▶Peace Pipe

🎵 MusicTim featured this 1× · 2020 · Nickodemus · youtube.com

“Peace Pipe” (feat. Jean Shepherd) (YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music) by Nickodemus (@NickodemusNYC).— Tim Ferriss

John McPhee on Writing and the Relationship Between Artistic Originality and Self-Doubt

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2020 · Maria Popova · brainpickings.org

John McPhee on Writing and the Relationship Between Artistic Originality and Self-Doubt by Maria Popova (@brainpicker). Here is one of my favorite quotes in the piece: “as Auden observed in one of his singular strokes of wry perspicacity, ‘some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.’”— Tim Ferriss

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“Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.” — Philip K. Dick

The Four Quadrants of Conformism

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2020 · Paul Graham · paulgraham.com

“The Four Quadrants of Conformism” by Paul Graham (@paulg). Pair this with Paul’s 2004 essay “What You Can’t Say,” which features The Conformist Test: “Let’s start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers? If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you’re supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn’t. Odds are you just think what you’re told.”— Tim Ferriss

▶Ground On Down

🎵 MusicTim featured this 1× · 2020 · Ben Harper · youtube.com

“Ground On Down” (YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music) by Ben Harper (@benharper).— Tim Ferriss

Green Frontier

🎬 FilmsTim featured this 1× · 2020 · netflix.com

Green Frontier (Frontera Verde), co-created by Diego Ramírez Schrempp, Mauricio Leiva-Cock, and Jenny Ceballos. The production company for the series is Dynamo (@DynamoCine), which was also behind Narcos and El Chapo. I’ll skip the text description and just recommend that you watch the trailer here. Suffice to say, I asked my girlfriend if she would watch this with me, and less than 30 seconds into the trailer, she replied with an unequivocal “HELL, NO.” I don’t do creepy often, but when I do, it’s something like Frontera Verde. Thanks to my friend Doug for the recommendation.— Tim Ferriss

Supporting MAPS via Every.org

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Supporting MAPS via Every.org. MDMA-assisted psychotherapy holds incredible promise for not only treating patients—including many veterans, first-responders, and victims of sexual abuse—with treatment-resistant PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) but curing them of PTSD altogether. PTSD is notoriously difficult to treat, but early trials with MDMA-assisted psychotherapy showed that with just 2–3 sessions, 67% of participants were no longer diagnosable with PTSD 12 months later. This is all the more impressive when you consider that many of the patients had suffered for 15+ years beforehand. — Tim Ferriss

From Productivity to Psychedelics: Tim Ferriss Has Changed His Mind About Success

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2020 · gq.com

“From Productivity to Psychedelics: Tim Ferriss Has Changed His Mind About Success” in GQ (@GQMagazine). It might seem strange that I’m reading an interview with myself, but it’s only 90% narcissism. I seldom do interviews these days, and I was very curious to see how this one would turn out. Why? There are rare times when I feel “on,” and this conversation with Clay Skipper (@SkipperClay) was one of them. In the end product, we discuss rethinking productivity, my quarantine philosophy, why not everything that is meaningful can be measured, and how the success I set out to find 13 years ago lo— Tim Ferriss

▶Single-arm kettlebell swings. Here is a great two-minute tutorial on this exercise

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2020 · youtube.com

Single-arm kettlebell swings. Here is a great two-minute tutorial on this exercise from Karen Smith, Master SFG. If kettlebell (KB) swings are totally foreign to you, I suggest starting with this two-handed swing tutorial. I also suggest starting with light weight. This exercise forces you to do counter-rotational work and is incredible for the core and posterior chain. Put more simply, KB swings hit just about everything besides your pectorals. Add some pushups to your routine (more aggressive for pushups: add a weight vest or Rucksack, or perform ring turn-out (RTO) pushups), and you’ve chec— Tim Ferriss

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“Forgiveness is not forgetting. Forgiveness is freedom from hate.” — Valarie Kaur

Pantam Stand

🛒 Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2020 · aviot.com

Pantam Stand from Aviot Woodcrafts Workshop. Short description: “The Pantam Stand is a revolutionary, lightweight, foldable playing stand designed especially for handpans and tongue drums. It allows playing the instrument while both standing up or sitting down and has a custom, easy-to-use, height-adjusting mechanism.” This gadget will only apply to 0.01% of you, but you can all enjoy the virtuosity of great handpan music, like “Prelude No. 1” here.— Tim Ferriss

Crackers from Hu Kitchen

🛒 Products & GadgetsTim featured this 1× · 2020 · hukitchen.com

Crackers from Hu Kitchen. Hu started as a Paleo-inspired restaurant in NYC and quickly developed a cult following for their unique creations, including award-winning Paleo/vegan dark chocolate. I’ve been eating their new crackers as a post-workout (or post-booze, if I’m being honest) treat. They are Paleo, plant based, gluten free, and have no added oils, sugars, or refined starches. Just as important to me, they taste amazing. A note of warning: it’s easy to polish off an entire box in one sitting, as I just did with the pizza flavor, which is my favorite. I liked Hu’s products so much that I— Tim Ferriss

GORUCK, specifically their ruck plates

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GORUCK, specifically their ruck plates, sandbags, and “the Rucker.” I can run, but my knees don’t love it. In the past month, I’ve been “rucking” instead—hiking or walking with weight on my back—2–4x per week. I’m astonished by how much I love it. Huffing on trails while listening to a well-narrated audiobook (currently trying Island by Aldous Huxley) has proven hugely therapeutic, and it can turn an unpleasant day around. For the basics of training, check out this link. The gear isn’t cheap, but even if you only have a short circuit, this can change the game. At 165 pounds, I most often do 2.— Tim Ferriss

A statement signed by 150 people, incl.

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2020 · twitter.com

“A statement signed by 150 people, incl. Bill T. Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Noam Chomsky, J.K. Rowling, Margaret Atwood, and Salman Rushdie….” I link above to the tweet instead of the Harper’s letter itself, as many of the comments should terrify anyone living in the United States. If you think McCarthyism was bad, just wait until we have dozens of labels that can get someone fired, blacklisted, or worse for attempting to have open discussion. I’ve watched this 5x, 10x, and 20x in volume and intensity since the beginning of COVID. If things don’t course correct, I worry we— Tim Ferriss

Duolingo’s Luis von Ahn on Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman

🎙️ PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2020 · mastersofscale.com

Duolingo’s Luis von Ahn on Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman. Every time I hear Luis (@luisvonahn), I learn something new, and this podcast is no exception. How did the founder of reCAPTCHA go on to co-create the world’s most popular language-learning platform, Duolingo? And how on earth can Duolingo make more revenue than all other language-learning apps COMBINED… when nearly everyone uses it for free? It’s an amazing story.— Tim Ferriss

▶The Fountain

📺 Misc VideosTim featured this 1× · 2020 · youtube.com

The Fountain (YouTube, Amazon, Google Play). Thanks to Dr. Amitha Kalaichandran for reminding me to revisit this gem. Here is the description: “Through time and space, one man embarks on a bold 1,000-year odyssey to defeat humankind’s most indomitable foe: Death. Hugh Jackman plays that man, devoted to one woman (Rachel Weisz) and determined to protect her from forces that threaten her existence. His quest leads him to a Tree of Life… and to an adventure into eternity. Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream) directs, continuing his string of imaginative, involving filmmaking with a tale ali— Tim Ferriss

The Fragile, Invisible Connections of the Natural World

🎵 MusicTim featured this 1× · 2020 · npr.org

The Fragile, Invisible Connections of the Natural World. Thanks to Rob Pickering for recommending this short clip. It’s a great description of an amazing phenomenon known as “trophic cascade.” If you’d like to support wolf reintroduction/conservation—and the only imminent, global option to help restore a major predator on a continental scale—here is one interesting avenue.— Tim Ferriss

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“Give more. Give what you didn’t get. Love more. Drop the old story.” — Garry Shandling(Bonus: The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling documentary)

People and Predators Series

📰 ArticlesTim featured this 1× · 2020 · sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu

People and Predators Series, published by The Center for Human-Carnivore Coexistence at Colorado State University. As a preface, I’ll provide a quote that largely explains why wolves in Colorado have caught my attention: “Re-establishing wolves in western Colorado could connect the entire North American wolf population from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan through Canada and Alaska, down the Rocky Mountains into Mexico. It would be difficult to overestimate the biological and conservation value of this achievement.” — Dr. L. D. Mech, iconic biologist Based on what other ecologists have told m— Tim Ferriss

Hugh Jackman on the podcast

🎙️ PodcastsTim featured this 1× · 2020 · tim.blog

Hugh Jackman on the podcast! I’ve wanted to get Hugh on the show for nearly a decade, and—even with my sky-high hopes—he absolutely over-delivered. In our conversation, we dig into lessons learned, routines, favorite books, exercises, intuition, meditation, and much, much more. This is one of the longest interviews he has ever done, and it contains quite a few surprises. Trust me—Hugh delivers the goods. You can hear it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.— Tim Ferriss