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Ben Greenfield Fitness

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• “You can’t be successful in thinking if your body isn’t healthy and fit.” – Keith Rabois
• For better body composition, do morning workouts in a fasted state
• Keep the majority of carbohydrate macros for dinner to have energy & stamina for the morning workout
• Tips for two-a-day exercise: keep more complex lifts and strength training for afternoon/evening; space workouts around 8 hours apart
• Heart rate indicators of fitness and recovery: resting heart rate, heart rate variability, two-minute recovery
• Good sleep is critical! It’s worth the effort to experiment with tools, supplements, devices to optimize
• The biggest opportunity for innovation is in personalization and tailoring is the biggest area for fitness and health space
• Most current guidance and technology suffers from the law of averages and doesn’t account for differences in people’s genetics and biology

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Keith Rabois is the General Partner at Founders Fund. He has a unique background as an entrepreneurial executive and investor. Since 2000, he has been instrumental in driving five startups from their early stages to successful IPOs. He has provided seed capital to another ten companies that are currently valued at over $1 B, including Airbnb, Lyft, YouTube, Wish, Yammer.

Since March 2013, Keith Rabois has served as a senior partner at Khosla Ventures, a technology venture capital fund founded by Vinod Khosla. He specializes in funding early-stage companies with a primary focus in consumer, financial services and health care innovation.

At the same time, Keith co-founded Opendoor, a startup which transforms the painful process of selling a home into delightful and immediate experience. At KV, Rabois has led investments in a broad array of startups including, DoorDash, Stripe, Thoughtspot, Affirm, Even Financial and Piazza.

Over the prior decade, he forged several of the most important new social and commerce platforms.

Keith began his career in the industry as Executive Vice President of Business Development & Public Policy at PayPal [NASDAQ: PYPL, later acquired by EBAY] and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn [NYSE: LNKD] and as a chief operating officer of Square [NASDAQ: SQ].

But he's also a bit of a fitness and optimization nerd, often heard championing the value of fitness, sleep and heart rate tracking, and recently leading 'big tech' scions in Miami fitness bubble, as a recent news article cited "The former PayPal exec, who has invested in LinkedIn, Square and Yelp, is teaching a Barry’s Bootcamp class in Miami with tech industry insiders", where he was quoted as saying that he believes the future of fitness in a post-pandemic world will be a combination of at-home meets in-person workouts.

“I think the future will be a hybrid. Resistance training is a critical ingredient for everybody’s workout and it’s very difficult for people to do strength training at home. People need both guidance and form correction. I think some people will allocate some time to training at home just for convenience, then people like to get inspired with in-person classes -- running next to someone on a treadmill urges you to run faster; seeing other people lifting dumbbells encourages you to lift heavier weights, plus you’re in a community meeting new people and engaging with new people. Some people will take one or two classes a week and then exercise on their own."

During our discussion, you'll discover: -How Keith measures his health through the heart rate...08:30 -A typical workout for Keith...12:20 -How Ben and Keith track and manage their sleep...22:55 -Keith and Ben's big wins in caring for the body and brain...28:55 -Supplements and biohacks Keith uses to enhance sleep...45:48 -What Keith has for breakfast...50:45 -Hacks in the workplace...54:45 -What a typical day looks like for both Keith and Ben...57:40 -What things in the fitness and biohacking industry excites Keith...1:04:20 -Flaws with the exciting, yet underachieving personalized health services and products industry...1:08:55 -And much more... Episode sponsors:

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Extensive show notes, including links to all products and resources Ben and Keith mentioned can be found at BenGreenfieldFitness.com/Keith

In this episode Sam (@theSamParr) and Shaan (@ShaanVP) break down a multi-million dollar opportunity to unbundle Etsy ($24B market cap). Shaan also shares how he would approach it if he were doing it himself. The guys also talk about the multi-billion dollar elevator industry, a training program to become an MMA fighter, and whether tax incentives make Canada an attractive place to run a startup.

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Show notes:

* (1:10) Intro

* (3:30) The elevator industry

* (11:08) Unbundling Etsy

* (22:43) A crash course to become an MMA fighter

* (28:02) Mental Fitness

* (39:01) Moving to Canada + SRED credits

* (45:53) Reese Witherspoon's massive exit

* (51:45) Delta airlines meet Delta variant

Max Greenwald (@MaxPGreenwald), founder and CEO of Warmly, joins Erik to discuss:

- Max’s journey navigating the idea maze to start the company.

- The problems with virtual meetings and why they lead to fatigue.

- How to ask questions of prospective customers without leading them into providing the answers you want to hear.

- Why he says that all interviews, first-time meetings, and team meetings are better done virtually than in-person.

- The future of work post-pandemic.

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Journalist and author Jonathan Rauch talks about his book  The Constitution of Knowledge with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Rauch argues that the constitution of knowledge--the norms and institutions for testing the reliability of new ideas and accumulating knowledge--has been dramatically altered by the internet and social media. Along the way, they discuss epistemology, the parallels between journalism and the sciences, the waning of religion, the value of new ideas, tribalism, and how incentives affect journalists who want to pursue truth.

Huberman Lab

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• “Sleep is probably the single most effective thing you can do to reset your body and health” – Dr. Matthew Walker
• Sleep is so significant in our health, you really can’t sacrifice non-REM deep sleep or REM sleep without damage
• “There is no major psychiatric disorder we can find in which sleep is normal.” – Dr. Matthew Walker
• REM sleep is the most predictive of longevity and lifespan
• Any amount of alcohol and THC will disrupt REM sleep
• If you can nap without disruption to your sleep at night – go for it! Otherwise, stay away from naps
• Pro-sleep behaviors: sleep and wake up at regular times, keep the temperature cool, keep the room dark, limit caffeine intake window, do your best to minimize or eliminate alcohol, have a wind-down routine
• Priority of events to improve sleep: behavioral tools (light viewing behavior, caffeine, and alcohol, etc.) – nutrition – supplementation – prescription drugs – brain-machine interface
• Unconventional tips for better sleep:
  • Don’t alter your sleep schedule if you have a bad night of sleep
  • Have a wind-down routine
  • Write down your worries from the day 1-2 hours before sleep
  • Remove all clocks from your room and don’t check the time on your phone

Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org



In this episode, my guest is Dr. Matt Walker, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology and the Founder & Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the author of the international best-selling book Why We Sleep and the host of "The Matt Walker Podcast." We discuss the biology of sleep, including its various stages and what specifically happens to those stages when we don't get enough sleep. We also discuss the effects of sunlight, caffeine, alcohol, naps, hormones, exercise, marijuana, sexual activity, and various supplements on sleep. The episode consists of both basic science information and many science-supported actionable tools. 

 

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• 00:00:00 Introducing Dr. Matt Walker
• 00:02:00 Sponsors: Roka, InsideTracker, Belcampo
• 00:06:00 What Is Sleep?
• 00:10:20 REM (Rapid Eye Movement) aka 'Paradoxical Sleep'
• 00:16:15 Slow Wave Sleep aka 'Deep Sleep'
• 00:24:00 Compensating For Lost Sleep
• 00:32:20 Waking in the Middle Of The Night 
• 00:39:48 Uberman (Not Huberman!) Sleep Schedule
• 00:42:48 Viewing Morning SUNLight
• 00:49:20 Caffeine
• 01:07:54 Alcohol
• 01:14:30 Growth Hormone & Testosterone
• 01:16:14 Emotions, Mental Health & Longevity
• 01:20:40 Books vs. Podcasts
• 01:21:20 Lunchtime Alcohol
• 01:25:00 Marijuana/CBD 
• 01:36:00 Melatonin
• 01:54:14 Magnesium
• 01:58:10 Valerian, Kiwi, Tart Cherry, Apigenin
• 02:15:00 Tryptophan & Serotonin
• 02:19:24 Naps & Non-Sleep-Deep-Rest (NSDR)
• 02:28:23 Is It Possible To Get Too Much Sleep?
• 02:34:35 Sex, Orgasm, Masturbation, Oxytocin, Relationships
• 02:47:30 Unconventional Yet Powerful Sleep Tips 
• 02:59:10 Connecting to & Learning More from Dr. Walker
• 03:04:42 The New Dr. Matt Walker Podcast, Reviews & Support

 

Please note that The Huberman Lab Podcast is distinct from Dr. Huberman's teaching and research roles at Stanford University School of Medicine. The information provided in this show is not medical advice, nor should it be taken or applied as a replacement for medical advice. The Huberman Lab Podcast, its employees, guests and affiliates assume no liability for the application of the information discussed.

 

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Conversations with Tyler

Podcast Notes Key Take Aways

• People are haunted by doomsday scenarios because they’re seared in their subconscious by religion
• “We’ve created a whole bunch of technologies that have actually increased the probability rather than reduced the probability of an extinction-level event.” – Niall Ferguson
• Humans are interested in history’s implications, in the light that it sheds on their own predicament
• Naill likes Michael Burleigh’s The Third Reich: A New History, because it emphasizes Hitler’s messianic political-religious side and explains his terrifying star quality
• “The redeeming feature of Keynes’s life is the heroic effort he made to keep Britain from going under in World War II – he had to fight to prevent Roosevelt and his advisers dismantling the British Empire in 1945.” – Niall Ferguson
• Naill’s view is that the benefits of the British Empire outweighed the costs and believes it was a benign empire compared with other available empires
• The great defect of British investment in India was that there was a serious shortfall in investment in basic education
• Doctor Who was Naill’s favorite science fictional character because he was the only superhero who used his brain, not his muscles

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While the modern historical ethos can be obsessed with condescending to the past based on our current value system, Scottish-born historian Niall Ferguson has aimed to set himself apart with his willingness to examine the past in its own context. The result is some wildly unpopular opinions such as “The British Empire was good, actually” and several wildly popular books, such as his latest Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe.

Niall joined Tyler to discuss the difference between English and Scottish pessimism, his surprise encounter with Sean Connery, what James Bond and Doctor Who have in common, how religion fosters the cultural imagination to produce doomsday scenarios, which side of the Glorious Revolution he would have been on, the extraordinary historical trajectory of Scotland from the 17th century through the 18th century, why historians seem to have an excessive occupation with leadership, what he learned from R.G. Collingwood and A.J.P. Taylor, why American bands could never quite get punk music right, Tocqueville’s insights on liberalism, the unfortunate iconoclasm of John Maynard Keynes, the dystopian novel he finds most plausible, what he learned about right and left populism on his latest trip to Latin America, the importance of intellectual succession and building institutions, what he’ll do next, and more.

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Bitcoin Magazine Podcast

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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• A recent infrastructure bill saw the addition of crypto regulations with the stated aim of collecting an additional $28Bn of tax revenues
  • The bill treats anyone who uses crypto as a broker and requires reporting any crypto transactional activity to the IRS
    • “Literally, every kind of transaction that you would get involved in crypto would generate a reporting requirement” – Congressman Warren Davidson
  • “This is a big banks protection act in my view” – Congressman Warren Davidson
• America has lead with the industrial revolution, automobile, aviation and aerospace, and the Internet.
  • However, this bill is a de facto ban on all blockchain and means abandoning the fintech revolution.
• Bitcoiners should call their senators in large numbers and let them know how bad this language would be for you personally, for your district and state, and for America’s innovation

Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 48 hours, you’ve likely heard about the last-minute addition of a cryptocurrency tax to the U.S. Senate’s forthcoming infrastructure bill. 

In this episode of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” host David Zell sat down with one of D.C.’s strongest Bitcoin supporters, Representative Warren Davidson (R-OH), to talk about the specific language and potential impact of this cryptocurrency tax legislation. As it stands now, the bill’s language is so broad that it could apply to a myriad of crypto-related activities that have no business being taxed. Worse still, the additional compliance costs that this bill could trigger would gravely jeopardize the viability of companies and startups in the Bitcoin space. Davidson blasted its stunningly poor verbiage, lamenting that it must have been written by people either totally ignorant about the industry or worse, by people looking to harm it. In his view, passing the bill in its current form would be a disaster both for the cryptocurrency industry and the American economy overall. 

Davidson spoke about how this bill marks a departure from America’s longstanding role as a nation that spearheads innovation. Should it pass with its current language, he warned, America risks missing out on one of the most revolutionary technological strides in history and falling behind our adversaries in this vital innovation. 

“America led in the Industrial Revolution, the advent of the automobile and the development of the internet,” said Davidson, “and now America is about to forfeit that leadership with this new technology.” 

The congressman discussed how the bill might be altered for the better and how much time there is to fix it. At the end of our discussion, Davidson called on the Bitcoin community to jam up the phone lines of their elected officials and implore them to fight the cryptocurrency tax language in the bill. You won’t want to miss this. 

Marty Bent is the man and legend behind Marty's Bent, a daily newsletter about Bitcoin, along with the host of Tales from the Crypt, one of the most popular Bitcoin podcasts.

In this conversation, we discuss bitcoin mining, ESG initiatives, gas flare capture energy production, proof of work, proof of stake and whether bitcoin is winning. 

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What Bitcoin Did

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Flag Theory: Having multiple citizenships limits your dependency on any particular state to obtain the benefits of multiple jurisdictions for business (tax laws) or personal (security, government) reasons
  • Jurisdictional arbitrage is the concept around creating a cross-country free market for monetary, political, and legal discrepancies
• Plan B Passport
  • Company that helps you obtain a second passport in a country that matches your values and goals
  • Designed to create an opting-out strategy from your country of citizenship if changes in policy are not advantageous to you financially or personally
  • Passports come from 5 Caribbean countries (Antigua seems to be the most advantageous) as well as more countries on the way, including Portugal
  • Tax advantages (no income tax, inheritance tax, or capital gains tax) in most of the countries offered
• Citizenship by investment
  • Many countries like El Salvador are creating opportunities to donate Bitcoin to their country in return for residency/citizenship and more advantageous laws
  • Bitcoin makes this borderless transaction possible
  • Bitcoin allows the digital-nomad to practice business across multiple countries as a borderless currency
• Governments operate in the customer service industry and should be treated as free market

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“As the world becomes borderless for us remote workers and people with borderless money...we don’t see the borders anymore; and because of that the borders will start to fall.”
— Katie The Russian

Location: Remotely
Date: Monday 19th July
Project: Plan B Passport
Role: Founder

Bitcoin and libertarianism go hand in hand. As such, avoiding tax and limiting reliance on the government is a significant goal for many bitcoiners. Plan B Passport, a company set up with bitcoiners in mind, aims to make that happen, and through their work, they want to accelerate the 'Sovereign Individual' thesis.

By enabling people to obtain a second passport and removing their dependency on any single state, it empowers the individual while taking power away from governments. People can now vote with their money and their feet.

So how easy is it to obtain a second passport, and what are the pros and cons?

In this interview, I talk to Plan B Passport Founder, Katie the Russian. We discuss flag theory, the state as a service provider, why some nation-states will fail to compete in a free market and how Bitcoin enables all of this.

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Modern Wisdom

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Basic Breathing Recommendations:
  • Stop mouth breathing; focus on habitual nasal breathing
  • Breathe slow and low
  • Use nasal tape and dilators to acclimate nasal breathing
  • Use incline bed therapy
  • Avoid sleeping on your back
  • Efficiency is more important than quantity of breath
• “The further away we get from a natural environment, the more patches we rely on to keep our body sustaining”-James Nestor
  • The lungs are an organ you can control unlike our kidneys, liver, heart, etc. The control of the lungs can directly control many vitals and overall health of the body.
• The need to breathe is dictated by tolerance for CO2, not oxygen
  • The more acclimated you become to holding more CO2 in your body, the more oxygen your body can deliver
• Breathing is not a one stop solution but can help rebalance the body
  • Dysfunctional breathing can directly accelerate chronic health problems like diabetes

Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org

James Nestor is a journalist and an author.

We get more energy from our breath than we do from food or hydration or sleep. And yet most people have never considered assessing how properly they breathe. Thankfully James has spent years speaking to the world's leading researchers, breathwork teachers, monks and free divers to find out exactly what we need to know.

Expect to learn why computer use is affecting your breath, how poor breathing can cause diabetes, why snoring is a dangerous habit, James' tips for optimising your daily breathing, the best strategies to use for athletic performance, how to improve your breathing while you sleep and much more...

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