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2024 New Year’s Resolutions, AI Upheavel, & Much More! | The Random Show (4K)

Brought to you by: Wealthfront high-yield savings account https://wealthfront.com/tim AG1 all-in-one nutritional supplement https://drinkag1.com/tim Shopify global commerce platform, providing tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business https://shopify.com/tim Resources/show notes from this episode: https://tim.blog/2023/12/27/the-random-show-2024-new-years-resolutions/ [00:00] Intro [00:14] Tequila disclosures and investment discourse. [06:04] Startup advisor considerations. [14:17] The hit rate of past New Year’s resolutions. [15:53] Henry Shukman’s new meditation app: The Way. [18:33] An overlooked advantage for the early investor. [20:08] Saucelessness and second brains. [23:38] Protecting your phone’s collage of schwanzes. [30:37] Privacy and liability concerns in an AI-guided world. [35:56] Minimalist delegation, foot faults, and surrender. [41:46] Quick, creative collaborations. [46:55] My post-holiday physical reboot. [54:34] Kevin’s physical reboot. [59:06] Taking a break from caffeine, alcohol, sex, and sweetness. [1:12:34] Cacao ceremonies and perilous tobacco cocktails. [1:18:46] Radical Acceptance and the origin of TimTim. [1:21:07] How NFTs drove Kevin to ketamine. [1:54:43] Kevin’s robot-enhanced Tyler Hobbs tattoo. [2:00:21] What kind of tattoo might I get, and why? [2:07:07] Advice for our former (and current) versions. [2:19:39] Ayahuasca agony alleviation and alternatives. [2:32:49] Gratitude for each other and parting thoughts. Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's free weekly email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-yt/ Follow the Tim Ferriss Podcast: https://tim.blog/podcast/ Visit the Tim Ferriss Blog: https://tim.blog/ Follow Tim Ferriss on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tferriss/ Follow Tim Ferriss on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timferriss/ Like Tim Ferriss on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/ Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 900 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.

Tim FerrisshostKevin Rosehost
Dec 28, 20232h 40mWatch on YouTube ↗

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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose on Resolutions, Ketamine, Caffeine and Friendship

  1. The hosts discuss startup advising and early investing, with Kevin Rose describing no-strings advisor equity that vests over time and can be cancelled, and Tim Ferriss noting that most of his startup earnings came from advising.
  2. They share simple 2024 resolutions: Kevin plans three months without alcohol, daily meditation, a second-brain note app and a podcast relaunch, while Tim plans minimalist delegation, quick creative collaborations and a physical reboot.
  3. Kevin warns about AI and privacy risks, including a friend's iCloud hack via social engineering, and Tim raises liability and scammer concerns over AI versions of creators.
  4. Tim describes a month without caffeine, alcohol, sugar and supplements that improved his sleep and showed him his baseline, while Kevin recounts ketamine therapy that eased his anxiety after the stress of his NFT project.
  5. The conversation closes on love and gratitude, including Tim's account of an ayahuasca session after which his back pain largely resolved, and both men telling each other what the friendship means.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Keep advisor deals simple and easy to say yes to

Kevin Rose says advisor equity should come with no fancy strings, vest over time and be cancellable, especially with celebrities, and Tim Ferriss agrees that time kills deals.

Set resolutions you can actually clear

Both estimate a roughly 50% hit rate on past lists, so they chose fewer, simpler goals this year, with Tim advising to set the bar where you are sure you can clear it.

Delegate the why and who, not the how

Tim wants to give minimal instructions and accept something like 10% foot faults in the service of speed, and Kevin adds that over-prescribing stops people building their own muscle.

Removing a dependency reveals your real baseline

After a month off caffeine, alcohol, sugar and supplements, Tim's long-standing sleep problems vanished, and he found that feeling tired was often just not being stimulated.

Digital security can fail through social engineering

Kevin recounts a friend's iCloud being compromised through a call-forwarding trick and recommends a separate, locked-down backup number and hardware keys.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

Humans have a finite capacity for building and sustaining really deep relationships. You just can't do that with everyone.

— Tim Ferriss

Just because someone needs other things, things that are different from your needs, does not make them high-maintenance.

— Tim Ferriss

I had had a 35-pound weight on my chest the entire time I was doing ab workouts.

— Kevin Rose

The secret that no one will tell you is no matter how much money you make, no matter how much success you have, we're all still figuring it out.

— Kevin Rose

I don't think prevention is the key. I think repair is the key.

— Tim Ferriss

Startup advisor equity and early investing2024 New Year's resolutionsAI, privacy and iCloud securityCaffeine and baseline experimentsKetamine therapy and safetyAyahuasca and lower back painFriendship, love and gratitude

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