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Almost nine years to the day, I had my first ride with my best friend, Molly
Almost nine years to the day, I had my first ride with my best friend, Molly.— Tim Ferriss
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Which companies have the best incentives for health and wellness among employees?
“Which companies have the best incentives for health and wellness among employees?”— Tim Ferriss
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If you have a second, let me know which one you prefer by clicking on it: Hallucinatives (n.) The first generations to take AI/LLM answers as truth without cross-checking.
If you have a second, let me know which one you prefer by clicking on it: Hallucinatives (n.) The first generations to take AI/LLM answers as truth without cross-checking. Hallucinatives (n.) The first generations with unquestioned faith in the truth of AI/LLM answers.— Tim Ferriss
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Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical in Concert
Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical in Concert. If you don’t know Lloyd Price, his story will blow your mind. Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical is playing in London on Saturday, October 11th. Click here to learn more and buy tickets. Lloyd’s story is that of beating unbelievable odds. In the span of one year, Lloyd went from digging septic tanks in Louisiana to becoming the first teenager ever to sell more than a million records. Lloyd’s innovations went beyond performing music. He also promoted the legendary “Thrilla in Manila” and “Rumble in the Jungle” with Muhammad Ali. Price had the f— Tim Ferriss
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There are now multiple deep-fake scams on Instagram and elsewhere that show “videos” of me recommending stocks.
There are now multiple deep-fake scams on Instagram and elsewhere that show “videos” of me recommending stocks. Those are AI-generated and not me. My only real account on Instagram is @timferriss. Be safe out there! Thank you to everyone who flagged this.— Tim Ferriss
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Hawaiian Airlines
Hawaiian Airlines. My recent flights on Hawaiian Airlines have been my best-ever domestic flight experiences. No close second place. Starlink onboard allows you to use uninterrupted Wi-Fi from boarding to 30,000 feet and back down. The staff are phenomenal, as is the food. They give you iPads with movies and entertainment instead of janky screens and remotes made in the ’80s. A++. Hawaiian Airlines has made Travel + Leisure’s World’s Best Awards (voted on by readers) for the last 14 years as well as the Condé Nast Traveler Reader’s Choice Awards nine out of the last 10 years. Nice work, guys!— Tim Ferriss
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The Strangers Project
The Strangers Project. Read just a few one-page stories and you’ll see why I find this fascinating. Here are the basics from the website: “Do you ever see a stranger and wonder… ‘What’s it like being you?’ I’ve been asking that question for the past fourteen years and have received more than 85,000 hand-written, true, and anonymous answers.” Thank you to Soman Chainani for the recommendation.— Tim Ferriss
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Nick Gray’s blind date adventures in Japan
Nick Gray’s blind date adventures in Japan. Fellow Austinite Nick Gray came up with this brilliant idea, which he posted on Twitter/X: “I want to do a blind date and go to Tokyo next weekend. If you’re a woman with a passport who likes sushi and Japanese food and can ride a bike in a big city… let’s go. I’ll pay for everything but in return you have to film stupid videos of me for my socials.” One could apply after reading this Google doc, which he included. Here is his latest moving update at the time of this newsletter. You can learn more about the woman who joined the blind date here, and t— Tim Ferriss
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Löyly
Löyly. One of Time magazine’s “World’s Greatest Places to Visit, 2018,” this is one of the most amazing sauna houses I’ve ever seen. My first visit to Finland had to include a good sweat. Try the smoke sauna followed by a dip in the Baltic Sea to cool off.— Tim Ferriss
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Returning ancestral lands to the Indigenous Kogi people and many more
Returning ancestral lands to the Indigenous Kogi people and many more. One of the most direct ways you can contribute to the psychedelic ecosystem is by helping Indigenous peoples reclaim and protect their ancestral territories. Without the deep knowledge of these peoples and the biodiversity of their sacred lands, “psychedelics” as we know them would not exist. Mycologist Paul Stamets and I are kickstarting a very specific land purchase. We will each commit $50,000 (so $100,000 combined) as a “challenge grant.” This means that our $100K will be activated and donated if others contribute at le— Tim Ferriss
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Callipygian, “having well-shaped buttocks.” From Ancient Greek: κάλλος
Callipygian, “having well-shaped buttocks.” From Ancient Greek: κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”). To easily remember it, think of this word: calligraphy, “the art of beautiful writing, elegant penmanship,” 1610s, from Latinized form of Greek kaligraphia, from kállos “beauty” + graphein “to write.”— Tim Ferriss
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Moravec’s paradox
Moravec’s paradox. Here’s a teaser from Wikipedia: “Minsky emphasized that the most difficult human skills to reverse engineer are those that are below the level of conscious awareness. ‘In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best,’ he wrote, and added, ‘we’re more aware of simple processes that don’t work well than of complex ones that work flawlessly.’ Steven Pinker wrote in 1994 that ‘the main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard.’” Thanks to Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) for introducing this to me.— Tim Ferriss
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3D rigging! I’m releasing a whole bunch of 3D character files here
3D rigging! I’m releasing a whole bunch of 3D character files here, which are the 3D versions of all of the figures I made available in 2D for AI artists a while back. If you are a 3D artist and know how to “rig,” please feel free to experiment away on any of those files and share your work! I’d really love to see what you can do. My team and I will be retweeting some of our favorites, so please be sure to tag @cockpunch on Twitter and use #3D at the end. Have fun!— Tim Ferriss
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My NFT project, “Project 555.
My NFT project, “Project 555.” “Project 555” is the codename for my upcoming NFT project. It’s going to be highly stylized and unlike anything I’ve ever done. I started buying BTC in 2012–2013, I began collecting NFTs in early 2021, I quietly launched my first stand-alone NFT (also my first published fiction) in February 2022 with PROOF/Kevin Rose, and this will be my first in-depth NFT project. It’s going to be very elaborate and unbelievably bizarre. 100% of primary sale proceeds will go to the Saisei Foundation. The Saisei Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit private foundation th— Tim Ferriss
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Drunken monkey hypothesis
Drunken monkey hypothesis. From Wikipedia: “[The Drunken monkey hypothesis] proposes that human attraction to ethanol may derive from dependence of the primate ancestors of Homo sapiens on ripe and fermenting fruit as a dominant food source.” Thanks to Dr. Mark Plotkin (@DocMarkPlotkin) for introducing me to this hypothesis. Learn more about Mark here.— Tim Ferriss
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Fireside Project
Fireside Project. Official description: “Fireside Project’s Psychedelic Peer Support Line offers free, confidential peer support by phone and text message to people in the midst of psychedelic experiences, people holding space for others who are in the midst of psychedelic experiences, and people integrating past psychedelic experiences.” The line is available daily from 3 PM to 3 AM PT at 62-FIRESIDE (623-473-7433), and it has been featured in Esquire, Forbes, Rolling Stone, and others.— Tim Ferriss
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I am donating 100% of my past book royalties from Russia and Ukraine to Ukrainian causes.
I am donating 100% of my past book royalties from Russia and Ukraine to Ukrainian causes. This includes everything from The 4-Hour Workweek (2007) to Tribe of Mentors (2017)—five books in total. Thank you to Ryan Holiday for the inspiration and genius idea. If this gains momentum, it will make a real impact. Do any other authors or creators want to join us? Please share my related posts on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I believe this can move the needle. Credible sources have recommended donating to the following organizations: Flexport.org Come Back Alive The National Bank of Uk— Tim Ferriss
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Mono no aware
Mono no aware. Thanks to WV for introducing me to this! From the Wikipedia entry: “Mono no aware (物の哀れ, もののあわれ), literally ‘the pathos of things,’ and also translated as ‘an empathy toward things,’ or ‘a sensitivity to ephemera,’ is a Japanese term for the awareness of impermanence (無常, mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.”— Tim Ferriss
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An anonymous donor has offered to match up to $1 million in donations to my foundation, Saisei Foundation, and the deadline is 5 p.m.
An anonymous donor has offered to match up to $1 million in donations to my foundation, Saisei Foundation, and the deadline is 5 p.m. PST next Wed, December 23rd! In other words, if you all donate $100K, $200K, $500K, $1M, or anywhere in between by that deadline, they will match and donate at least that much. Click here to learn how I’ll use the funds and what I’m up to. It’s some very exciting and high-leverage stuff. Endaoment—the platform I’m using—allows you to donate cryptocurrencies or cash/USD (just click “Donate via PayPal” to see options for cash/USD) to nonprofits like my foundation.— Tim Ferriss
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1) “For people who are actually investing a large % of their own capital -- what do you consider the current best hedges/investments against inflation?
1) “For people who are actually investing a large % of their own capital -- what do you consider the current best hedges/investments against inflation? Please only reply if you have at least 10-20% of your net worth in your answer. Thanks! #convictioncheck” TIM: [The following is not investment advice; it is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only.] To reciprocate, I’ll share that I have 10%+ in real estate, BTC, ETH, and companies (equities) with both strong global revenue spread and the ability to raise prices. That said, I have absolutely no expertise related to inflation— Tim Ferriss
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This week is the launch of my collaboration with author Michael Pollan: The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship
This week is the launch of my collaboration with author Michael Pollan: The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship. This has been in the works for a long time! If you want to bend the arc of history, longform and investigative journalism is one of the best contemporary tools that we have. The Cambrian explosion of psychedelic medicine brings with it both incredible promise and incredible complexity. Dedicated journalists are needed to help separate fact from fiction, hold people accountable, and much more. Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) is the perfect person to spearhead this— Tim Ferriss
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MoFE
MoFE. This was described to me as “a guided lucid dream,” but here’s the official description: “MoFE is a venue in Brooklyn, NY, for immersive storytelling that combines Virtual Reality and Ambisonic sound design. MoFE productions are seated, ticketed shows that run 70 minutes and are limited to 16 guests.” I was quite surprised how much I enjoyed not only several of the VR segments but also the audio-only sections. Be sure to check out the feathers and library in the front waiting room.— Tim Ferriss
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Bathos
Bathos: “an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous.”— Tim Ferriss
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Callipygian
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
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10 Million Free Rides and Deliveries to Move What Matters
10 Million Free Rides and Deliveries to Move What Matters. Uber is pledging 10 million free rides and food deliveries for frontline healthcare workers, seniors, and people in need around the world. What have they done so far? From one of my sources at Uber: “As of today, we have funded and distributed over 250,000 meals to medical personnel and first responders in the US and Canada, with many more to come given the updated commitment of 10m meals and rides globally.”— Tim Ferriss
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Inktober
Inktober. Created in 2009 by Jake Parker (@jakeparker), Inktober is a simple challenge: every October, artists all over the world take on the “Inktober drawing challenge” by doing one ink drawing a day for the entire month. You can find the rules here. Here are this year’s drawing prompts (so good). If you end up participating and the spirit moves you, please tag me on social (@timferriss on Instagram and @tferriss on Twitter), as I’d love to see your work. Since I’m getting a late start myself, I have some catching up to do! I might end up using a Buddha Board instead of ink to avoid getting — Tim Ferriss
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The Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes
The Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes. This is exceptionally cool, and it captures the adventures of a real-life Indiana Jones in interactive form. I’m hoping I won’t immediately break their website. Here’s the description: “In this interactive map, explore the magical landscapes and indigenous cultures of the Colombian Amazon through the travels of the legendary ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes.”— Tim Ferriss
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San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de Allende. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, San Miguel has been ranked “2018 Best Small City in the World” by Condé Nast Traveler (@CNTraveler). If you need convincing, check out this slideshow from Travel + Leisure. Where else should I go in Mexico? Let me know on Twitter (@tferriss) with hashtag #TimInMexico— Tim Ferriss
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TOMS’ attempt to help end gun violence
TOMS’ attempt to help end gun violence. TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie grew up hunting in Texas. He and I both own guns. He is pro Second Amendment, pro hunting, etc. At the same time, prompted by seemingly endless tragedies in the US, he wanted to try and curb needless gun-related danger and risks. How? By putting pressure on politicians to push forward with universal background checks, something ~90% of Americans — including conservatives — agree is a good idea. If you head to this page on TOMS and spend 10 seconds filling out a few fields, they will print and mail a postcard to Congress, deman— Tim Ferriss
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Lisbon
Lisbon. I’d love to make my way to Portugal in 2019 and check out Lisbon, which I recently learned fromWikipedia is one of the oldest cities in the world. It is certainly one of the oldest in Western Europe, predating other modern European capitals such as London, Paris, and Rome by centuries. Specifically, I’d love to see theSão Jorge Castle and Praça do Comércio. Do you have any other must-see or must-do recommendations for Portugal? Please let me know by sending a tweet to @tferriss with #timinportugal!— Tim Ferriss
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For New Year's Eve, I'll be headed to this unusual event
For New Year's Eve, I'll be headed to this unusual event. If interested, I think there are roughly 10 spots still available.— Tim Ferriss
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Vabali Spa
Vabali Spa (backup pics). Here is the official description: “Stretched over 20,000 square meters, the unique wellness resort boasts a Balinese charm with its authentic interior design materials, impressive architecture, and its vast, striking estate.” The size of this place is unbelievable, the location is gorgeous (you feel like you’re in a forest, despite the fact it’s just a few minutes from a huge train station), and it boasts dozens of pools, dunking tubs, saunas, restaurants, and more.— Tim Ferriss
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Wunderhaus
Wunderhaus (backup pics, as that site will likely crash). I’m not a mom (shocker, I know), but this place saved my ass when I mixed up some details and ended up with hours to kill and lots of luggage. Once inside, my girlfriend and I fell in love with the concept and kept asking ourselves “Why on earth doesn’t this exist in the US and everywhere?” The basic premise is that nearly all places for moms are built for kids, rather than the moms themselves. This location had a hip cafe and Pilates studio feel, with coffee shop, gym, restaurant, spa, and more in one location. Here’s the description: — Tim Ferriss
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I’ve been digging through my photo archives, as part of a potential project.
I’ve been digging through my photo archives, as part of a potential project. In the process, I’ve relived some fun, old memories, including smooching with a giraffe in Kenya, the Buenos Aires Tango Championships, and Brazil in 2005, which proved to be surprisingly popular (especially the hair-related commentary). Should I keep posting pics from the early days? If so, any particular requests? Let me know by sending a tweet to @tferriss.— Tim Ferriss
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Hotel Emma in San Antonio
Hotel Emma in San Antonio. Trust me. Take a look at it. I recently stayed in SA at “The Emma” on a Wednesday night (backyard Latin music session, plus live jazz in the bar, etc.) after several world travelers recommended it. I was skeptical… and walked away stunned by the attention to detail in nearly every aspect of the hotel, restaurants, and surrounding fun.— Tim Ferriss
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Latvia. After seeing photos of Riga
Latvia. After seeing photos of Riga’s stunning architecture, I added the city to my must-visit list. If you need more convincing, check out this post: “48 Hours in Riga For Architecture Lovers.” Please let me know what else I should do in Latvia by pinging me at @tferriss on Twitter and using hashtag #LatviaTim.— Tim Ferriss
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New Mexico — One of my favorite things to do at night is to stargaze after a nice sauna session, and I’d love to check out the Chaco Culture National Historical Park
New Mexico — One of my favorite things to do at night is to stargaze after a nice sauna session, and I’d love to check out the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. It is considered one of the best places on earth to stargaze, and I would love to attend some of their night sky programs. Quote I’m pondering (found among 5-10 quotes in a friend’s email— Tim Ferriss
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If I were to update The 4-Hour Body, which topics would you like me to add or elaborate on?
If I were to update The 4-Hour Body, which topics would you like me to add or elaborate on? Please let me know.— Tim Ferriss
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The Greek word ataraxia: tranquillity that comes from equanimity with respect to outside events.
The Greek word ataraxia: tranquillity that comes from equanimity with respect to outside events.— Tim Ferriss