I'm an idea dealer
San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2010
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If you’ve got an hour drive this week, listen to this podcast
1/ The A-B-Z framework to stop overthinking
2/ Why your hometown might be holding you back
3/ The story of “Iron John”
youtu.be/XnQ2Da7HcRk?si=7iaB…
If I had to compress one important idea I've learned about podcasting, it would be this:
"notice what you have an contagious irrational passion for -- and bottle it up for the rest of us"
Contagious, irrational passion.
If your interest level is rational...you're not gonna make it.
Irrational is you fall asleep listening to old talks on youtube about it. You read everything you can get your hands on. You care about it far beyond it's usefulness to you.
Contagious is also important. You know how some people's laugh makes you laugh, even when the joke isn't funny to you? You need that as a creator. Your passion must be so contagious that you get me excited about stuff I don't even care about. I watched a youtube documentary yesterday on the best scrabble player in the world.
5 minutes before that, I didn't care. But 5 minutes into it, I was hooked. The guys excitement about this scrabble god was contagious.
Most people don't have anything they're irrationally, contagiously passionate about. That's fine. Most people don't need/deserve to have a popular channel.
But I suspect many more people could have one, than currently do. That's because most people underestimate themselves. They think they need some special skill or experience. Nope.
And even if you do notice it, most people lack courage to actually go for it. They're so afraid to fail, they will instead will try to fit for what they're guessing people want. No no no. bad bad dumb dumb.
Gotta own what you nerd out about.
For me, that's business & life wisdom. I love underdog entrepreneur stories. I'm a sucker for a good quote. I love brainstorming bad business ideas. I love marketing/growth hacks. So I bottled that up into a podcast. 100M+ downloads later, I get paid handsomely to talk to my friends who are also business junkies.
Not everybody has contagious irrational passion, but if you do -- don't underestimate it.
You can tap dance to work everyday, and make hundreds of millions of dollars as a byproduct.
Bill Simmons has an irrational, contagious passion for sports & pop culture. For 20 years he's been podcasting & blogging about it with his friends.
David Senra is irrationally passionate about biographies of great men. There's a dude on youtube called "Ryan Hall Y'all" who's obsessed with the weather. I don't care about the weather, but he's so into it, I'll get sucked in.
True crime, food, business, movie breakdowns etc.. there's an infinite number of niches. But it's harry potter. you don't choose the niche. the niche chooses you. It's already chosen you. You just have to notice & accept it
A life well lived is a life well edited. When you want to improve your life, reach for scissors not glue
just discovered @sharifshameem's blog. very good. go read a couple posts sharif.io/posts
3 types of friends
1/ hot tub friends --> fun, but unproductive
2/ cold plunge --> productive, but no fun
3/ sauna friends --> enjoy challenges, fun, leave you energized
do you believe we live in a simulation?
42%yes - likely
58%no I don't think so
1,281 votes • Final results
who do you know that has a noble mission that they are working towards?
Who is that person, and what is the mission?
a few people I can think of that genuinely seem to have a mission bigger than themselves that they pointed the full strength of their talents at
@scottharrison - bringing clean drinking water to everyone on earth
@elonmusk solving the single point of failure risk for humanity/consciousness
@JesseItzler - getting people to be intentional with their time
@bryan_johnson - don't die
Sam/dario etc. mission to build safe AGI/ASI
who else?
Shaan Puri retweeted
@tonyhawk refusing $500k against his future royalties is how he made his first $1,000,000.
Great episode @thesamparr and @ShaanVP !!
today if you write something by hand and someone asks if it's AI, it's seen as an insult
soon, it will be a high compliment.
i know i'm cooked because AI is solving problems that I'm not even qualified to pronounce
Announcing a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the seven Millenium Prize problem.
Represents a major milestone for both AI and mathematics, as well as pointing to an upcoming renaissance in scientific discovery.
Hoping that the knowledge created by this model can help the community better understand non-linear PDEs, which are used to model much of the physical world.