#109: Writer and entrepreneur Derek Sivers joins Chris to discuss decision-making, having meaningful experiences, personal happiness, journaling, saying no, and parenting. They also touch on the subject of traveling with children and aligning your actions and personal values to achieve goals in life
Derek Sivers (@sivers) is an entrepreneur, writer, musician, and self-proclaimed "slow thinker" who has optimized his life for creating and learning. He founded CD Baby, an online platform that helped independent musicians sell their music directly to fans, and has published several books, including Hell Yeah or No.
Full show notes: https://allthehacks.com/decision-making-derek-sivers

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Resources Mentioned
Derek Sivers: Website | Twitter 
Book: Hell Yeah or No: what's worth doing
Articles: My Heroes | Actions, Not Words, Reveal Our Real Values | Parenting: Who Is It Really For? | Travel Is Best With Young Children | Relax for the Same Result
Books Mentioned: The Paradox of Choice | Brain Rules for Baby
New Zealand Recommendation: Staglands Wildlife Reserve

Full Show Notes
(02:02) Pursuing Change Through Exploration
(03:54) Turning Intentions into Reality
(09:05) Reflecting on What You Want and Why
(11:22) Learning to Pause, Reflect, and Push Back Through Journaling
(19:06) Methods for Decision-Making
(22:20) Analysis Paralysis: Making Decisions When There Are Too Many Options
(29:51) Coin Toss: Noticing Your Feelings While the Coin Is in the Air
(32:06) Paradox of Choice: Satisfice Not Maximize
(40:19) Theory vs. Practice
(43:50) Living with the Culmination of Your Decisions
(47:30) Decision-Making Based on Personal Goals and Aspirations
(51:13) Actions Reveal Values
(55:29) Choosing the Correct Decision-Making Strategy for Your Situation
(58:15) Prioritizing Family
(1:00:31) Saying No
(1:06:49) Parenting Perspective
(1:10:18) Traveling with Children
(1:18:03) Adjusting Expectations and Being Open to Unexpected Encounters
(1:26:13) “Relax for the Same Result”
(1:37:15) Derek Sivers’ New Zealand Recommendations

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Living a Happier Life, Saying No, and Prioritizing Goals with Derek Sivers

Learn all the hacks to upgrade your life, money and travel – all while spending less and saving more. Host Chris Hutchins is a life hacker who has saved millions by breaking down every aspect of life, looking to maximize happiness at the lowest cost. Chris and guests like Tim Ferriss, Tony Hawk, Codie Sanchez and Gary Vaynerchuk will help you learn the strategies and tactics they used to shape their success.

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#168: Former portfolio manager Chris Doyle joins to discuss strategic ways to build and manage your investment portfolio. They do a deep dive on diversification, tax-award allocation, capacity and tolerance for risk, tax-loss harvesting, rebalancing and more.
Chris Doyle is a Research Scientist at the Stanford Autonomous Agents Lab. He co-founded the technology startup Grove to make financial services accessible and affordable for everyone. Before that, he was an investor at a macro hedge fund and had a trading career at Barclays Capital.
Link to Full Show Notes: https://allthehacks.com/investment-portfolios-chris-doyle

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Wealthfront (Get $5k managed free and get a 0.5% APY boost)
Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns
Articles

Mutual Funds That Consistently Beat the Market? Not One of 2,132. (Published 2022)

Lump-sum investing versus cost averaging: Which is better?

All the Hacks Episodes

#19: Becoming a Better Investor with Andy Rachleff


#59: Save Money, Build Wealth and Just Keep Buying with Nick Maggiulli



Full Show Notes
(00:00) Introduction
(02:14) Important Factors to Consider Before Building a Financial Portfolio
(05:54) One of the Major Mistakes Made by Retail Investors
(07:50) How to Think About Financial Risk
(08:33) Importance of Asset Class Diversification
(13:47) How to Determine Which Asset Classes to Include
(20:19) Why People Add Emerging Markets to Their Portfolio
(21:15) The Argument for International Stocks
(22:18) The Case For or Against Real Estate
(23:41) Trading Commodity Futures
(28:18) Investing in Crypto
(30:52) Non-Traditional Investments
(37:04) Bonds and Fixed Income Allocation
(43:30) Cash Interest Rate vs. Long-Term Bond Interest Rate
(46:11) How to Think About Investing
(50:34) Ways to Migrate from One Portfolio to Another
(54:06) The Role of Tax Rates
(1:01:31) Rebalancing Portfolios
(1:03:04) Tax Loss Harvesting
(1:09:39) Direct Indexing
(1:12:37) How Often Should You Change Your Portfolio?
(1:14:50) Uninvested Cash
(1:17:22) How to Pick the Right Perfect Portfolio
(1:20:22) Financial Advisors: Humans vs. Software

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Building an Investment Portfolio to Grow and Protect Your Wealth with Chris Doyle

#167: Points and miles experts Greg Davis-Kean and Chris discuss how you can optimize hotel award search tool features to save money and get the best deal for your next hotel booking. They also offer tips to get perks like complimentary breakfast, room upgrades, resort credits, early check-in, late checkout, and more.
Greg Davis-Kean is the founder of Frequent Miler, a blog dedicated to helping people maximize their travel rewards and loyalty programs, mostly without flying. He is also the host of the Frequent Miler on the Air podcast.
Link to Full Show Notes: https://allthehacks.com/greg-frequent-miler-hotel-award-tools/

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Greg Davis-Kean: Frequent Miler | Frequent Miler on the Air | Twitter
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Bay Harbor, Michigan: Inn at Bay Harbor


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#166: Best Tools for Booking Flights with Points & Miles with Greg the Frequent Miler


#49: Bora Bora (Almost) for Free with Miles and Points



Full Show Notes
(02:09) Things to Consider Before Booking Hotels
(03:05) Awayz Features
(06:55) Review of Rooms.Aero
(09:16) Tools for Full Year Award Availability
(12:51) How to Optimize Different Features on Hotel Award Tools
(16:39) AwardTool's Hotel Tool
(19:40) Use Case for a Stay at the Inn at Bay Harbor
(22:52) Planning Trips Around Hotel Award Availability vs. Flight Award Availability
(28:19) How to Get Perks in the Luxury Travel World
(32:03) New Hotel Tool from PointsYeah

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Best Tools for Booking Hotels with Points & Miles with Greg the Frequent Miler

#166: Award search pros Greg Davis-Kean and Chris share insider tips to save hundreds (or thousands) of dollars when utilizing points and miles to book flights. They showcase practical use cases to help evaluate the pros and cons of the best award flight tools out there, both free and paid versions. They also discuss the best tools for flight trip monitoring and seat alerts.
Greg Davis-Kean is the founder of Frequent Miler, a blog dedicated to helping people maximize their travel rewards and loyalty programs, mostly without flying. He is also the host of the Frequent Miler on the Air podcast.
Link to Full Show Notes: https://allthehacks.com/greg-frequent-miler-flight-award-tools

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Greg Davis-Kean: Frequent Miler | Frequent Miler on the Air | Twitter
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AwardTool ($20 off annual plans with code ALLTHEHACKS)


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SeatSpy

AwardLogic

PointHound

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ExpertFlyer (Free Seat Alerts)

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Frequent Miler Blog Post: Which award search tool is best?
Award Search Tools Comparison Spreadsheet
All the Hacks Episode #167: Best Tools for Booking Hotels with Points & Miles with Greg the Frequent Miler

Full Show Notes
(00:00) Introduction
(02:30) Overall Episode Topic Breakdown
(06:41) Important Info to Know Before Using Award Flight Search Tools
(09:27) Essential Award Flight Search Tool Features
(12:34) Why You Should Always Set Flight Alerts
(14:59) The Best Award Search Tools (April 2024)
(20:43) How to Find Which Airlines Fly Direct
(22:45) Paid Features on PointsYeah & AwardTool
(23:33) Review of point.me
(32:48) The Impact of Award Flight Search Tools
(39:11) Roame Travel
(40:09) Flight Discovery for the Best Deals
(44:39) Seats.Areo Review
(53:46) How to get Free Access to point.me
(55:29) More Flight Tools
(59:23) ExpertFlyer for Seat Alerts
(1:00:34) Tools for Trip Monitoring

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Best Tools for Booking Flights with Points & Miles with Greg the Frequent Miler

#165: Bryan Johnson shares takeaways from his $2M longevity project, Blueprint. He and Chris discuss ways to utilize the power of sleep, food, supplements, and fitness to help reverse the aging process and achieve optimal health. They also discuss zeroth principle thinking and the future of medical interventions.
Bryan Johnson is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, writer and author. He’s currently the Founder/CEO Blueprint, Kernel and OS Fund. In 2013, he sold his company Braintree Venmo to PayPal for $800 million.
Link to Full Show Notes: https://allthehacks.com/bryan-johnson-blueprint-longevity

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Bryan Johnson: Website | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Newsletter
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DunedinPACE Algorithm: TruAge PACE
All the Hacks email for questions, hacks, deals, feedback: podcast@allthehacks.com

Full Show Notes 
(02:50) Why ‘Don't Die’?
(05:38) Zeroth Principle Thinking
(09:16) Structuring Life Around 'Don't Die’
(13:30) Examples of Popular Zeroth Principle Discoveries
(16:24) How Bryan Is Utilizing Super Intelligence
(21:56) Bryan's Biggest Takeaway From Blueprint
(25:25) Surprises That Came Out of Blueprint
(26:02) Biological Age Vs. Chronological Age
(28:34) Why Sleep Is the Most Important Factor in Life
(30:40) The Role of Food in Longevity
(33:28) Foods Worth The Nutritional & Caloric Value
(34:53) The Power of Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil
(41:10) Supplements in The Blueprint Protocol
(42:51) Types of Biomarker Measurements
(44:33) The Importance of Fitness & Types of Exercise
(47:07) Everyday Actions to Increase Longevity
(49:43) Does Bryan Ever Get Sick?
(50:30) The Future of Medical Interventions

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Reverse Aging and Live Longer with Bryan Johnson

#164: Chris shares a unique way to earn points: using your credit card to pay taxes. He outlines the various options available to help you evaluate whether it’s worth paying taxes on your credit card. Chris also shares the latest news in the world of points and miles, including transfer partners and bonuses, recent devaluations, card-linked offers, and more.
Link to Full Show Notes: https://allthehacks.com/paying-taxes-on-credit-cards

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Full Show Notes
(01:53) Can You Pay Taxes on a Credit Card?
(03:56) Making 3% Profit
(06:58) Meeting Minimum Spend on Big Welcome Bonus
(11:07) Buying Cheap Points with Cards
(15:56) Earning Status
(28:54) Bilt Rewards Adds Alaska Airlines & Loses American AAdvantage
(31:06) News from Wells Fargo
(37:27) Current Transfer Bonuses (March 2023)
(39:42) News Around Devaluations
(47:01) point.me for Amex Membership Rewards® Points
(47:36) Chase Freedom Q2 Bonus Categories
(48:04) Current Card-Linked Offers

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Living a Happier Life, Saying No, and Prioritizing Goals with Derek Sivers

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