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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• The reason Lambda School is so successful is that they cover the downside for their students: Students don’t have to pay anything until they get a job 
  • “If it doesn’t work out, you don’t pay anything” – Austen Allred
• When you raise a round of capital, chances are you’re also letting that investor join your board
  • “It is a marriage” – Austen Allred
• Hiring a Chief Operating Officer requires customization, you can’t just hire one off the shelf. You want the COO’s strengths to be the founder’s weaknesses and vice versa.
  • “It’s a really symbiotic relationship” – Austen Allred
• Silicon Valley was like Florence during the Renaissance except for tech
• Austen believes that because so many people are moving out of San Francisco, you no longer have to go there to network and build a great company. The next tech city will be in the cloud.
  • “I definitely think we won’t ever really go back to 2019 Silicon Valley” – Austen Allred

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Austen Allred is the Founder & CEO @ Lambda School, the startup that remotely trains people to become a web developer or data scientist and the students pay no tuition until they are hired. Just last month, Lambda's $74M Series C was announced led by Gigafund bringing their total funding to date to over $129M with prior investors including Stripe, Bedrock, GV, Gigafund and GGV to name a few. Prior to founding Lambda, Austen was Senior Manager for Growth @ LendUp and before that co-founded Grasswire.

In Today’s Episode You Will Learn:

1.) How Austen made his way into startups having slept in a Honda Civic and how he went from homeless to rockstar founder @ Lambda?

2.) How does Austen evaluate his own attitude to risk? How does Austen think about downside protection today? How has this changed over time? How does Austen feel about founders taking secondaries? How does Austen think about his own relationship to money?

3.) Having raised his Series C last month, why did Austen choose the investors he did? How did the round progress? What made Gigafund different to alternate options? What makes the best board members in Austen's mind? What makes the worst?

4.) What have been the most challenging elements for Austen of scaling the team? How does complexity change with time in team scaling? Why did Austen bring in a COO? What did he look for in the role? How does Austen advise others on bringing in a COO?

5.) Why does Austen believe that post-COVID we will never go back to the valley as we knew it? Why does Austen believe the valley represents the biggest potential squandering of wealth in history? How does Austen evaluate the government intervention we have seen?

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Bret Weinstein is an American biologist and evolutionary theorist who came to national attention during the 2017 Evergreen State College protests. He is considered a member of the informal group of personalities known as the Intellectual Dark Web.

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My thoughts on 8 possible long-term futures of Neuralink after attending the August 2020 progress update. This is a solo episode #2 of the podcast. Hopefully it’s interesting to some folks. The aim is for these episodes to be focused on a particular topic, at times challenging, at times personal, at times exciting to me on a technical and philosophical level like the episode today. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/podcast or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• People tend to describe and view reality not objectively, but rather filtered through the lens of personal identity
• The human mind tends to have a difficult time grasping to large concepts (such as reality or numbers in the millions):
  • “The tragedy of a single person is relatable primarily, and perhaps exclusively because it evokes a strong emotional reaction. Statistics, on the other hands rarely, if ever evoke an emotional reaction.” – Tinkered Thinking
• “This is why our narrative about reality is most often fuelled and filtered through a lens of personal identity. If personal identity in current times can be summed up as anything, it’s probably fair to say it’s a collection of those things that are most likely to make us emotional.” – Tinkered Thinking

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What's our most prevelent view of reality?

My guest today is Eric Jorgenson, a Product Strategist at Zaarly and the author of the Almanack of Naval Ravikant: a guide to wealth and happiness. The book collects and curates Naval's wisdom from Twitter, podcasts, and essays over the past decade. Naval is the founder of Angel List, an angel investor who has invested in companies like Twitter and Uber, and the man behind one of the most popular Twitter accounts in the world.

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• “If the feet aren’t working correctly, the injury can go all the way to the neck.” – Peter Attia
• Running shouldn’t be just a skill, it’s an activity of daily living – we run from danger  
• The two features most often seen with injuries are high impact (landing hard), and malalignment – most commonly the knees tracking inward towards each other
• The impact is lower when you run on the ball of your foot, which happens more naturally when running barefoot  
• Choose shoes that let your feet do what they were supposed to do
• Walking in minimalist shoes is as effective as a foot strengthening program
• Even kids should wear minimalist shoes as prevention for many of the gait issues and chronic joint pains developed in adulthood

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Irene Davis is the founding Director of the Spaulding National Running Center at the Harvard Medical School. In this episode, Irene describes how her research of biomechanics and clinical work with running injuries, as well as research by others, has shaped her views on maintaining body alignment and foot health. Irene discusses her argument for the role of modern footwear in running-related injuries and how minimalist footwear helps resolve the subsequent biomechanical issues.

We discuss:

• Irene’s path to her Ph.D., her entry into physical therapy, and her interest in biomechanics [3:20];
• How Irene’s thinking about the use of orthotics has changed [7:15];
• The evolution of the human foot and the transition from walking to running [10:30];
• The evolution of shoes and its impact on running injuries [17:30];
• An overview of running injuries [26:00];
• Cushioned running shoes, heel striking and impact forces [29:30];
• Shin splints [33:45];
• How heel strike patterns promotes knee stress through rate of loading [35:30];
• The critical importance of exercise [42:15];
• Impact forces and injury potential [45:45];
• How shoe cushioning alters impact forces despite forefoot striking [49:00];
• An overview of minimalist shoes [52:30];
• Irene’s protocol for transitioning people out of orthotics [58:45];
• Transitioning to minimalist shoes and a forefoot strike [1:05:30];
• Foot muscle volume, minimalist shoes, and orthotics [1:07:00];
• The recognition of the importance of foot strength in podiatry [1:09:45];
• Minimalist shoes across the lifespan—from children to adults [1:12:30];
• Why learning to forefoot strike on soft surfaces is not the best approach [1:20:00];
• Knee valgus and factors related to knee injury [1:21:45];
• IT band syndrome [1:28:30];
• Physics and ground reaction forces [1:33:15];
• Irene’s approach to retraining a runner’s gait [1:36:00];
• Case study—How the transition to minimalist shoes decreased injury and improved performance [1:42:15];
• Importance of proper movement patterns and the negative influence of our modern environment [1:45:30]; and
• More.

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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• A National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program has been ruled unlawful, seven years after it was exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden
  • “What they had ruled was that the NSA’s bulk collection of American’s phone records was illegal” – Edward Snowden
• “This is a huge victory for privacy rights” 
• Seven years after Snowden released that information, there are been 0 cases showing Snowden harmed or put national security at risk:
  • “The government has never shown a single example of any harm that has come as a result of the publication of these documents back in 2013” – Edward Snowden
• It’s relatively easy to install spyware, such as Pegasus, into someone’s phone and get access to their text messages, calls, passwords, camera, and microphone
  • “The number one target is the iPhone” – Edward Snowden
    • Why? The rich, political leaders, business CEOs, and other important figures tend to all have an iPhone
• Unfortunately, there’s no real punishment if the government breaks a law:
  • “There is no punishment…There is no criminal liability for all the bastards at the head of the FBI, the head of the NSA, who were violating American’s rights for decades.” – Edward Snowden
    • The heads of those organizations don’t go to prison or even lose their jobs. Some government officials even lied under oath and still weren’t held responsible for their actions.
      • “Because of that, it creates a culture of unaccountability”
• “I think you’re a hero and I think that what you’ve done, history will be kind to you…I think our government is on the wrong side of history” – Joe Rogan
• The US needs to end the war against whistleblowers that don’t actually reveal any government secrets, but rather simply share the faults of the government to the American people who they serve:
  • “There are times when the only thing you can do is tell the truth and that should not be a crime” – Edward Snowden

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Former CIA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden shocked the world when he revealed the misdeeds of the US intelligence community and its allies. Now living in Russia, he is a noted privacy advocate and author who serves as president of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. His book, Permanent Record, is now available in paperback from Henry Holt and Company.

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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• When Mike was 11, he was sent to a detention center. One day, the center played a movie about Muhammad Ali. After the film finished, Muhammad Ali walked in to talk to the young boys.
  • Within a couple of months after meeting Ali, Mike was training to be a boxer:
  • “I knew I was going to be successful. I knew everything was going to go right. I knew it. It was in my blood. I was only a kid but I said I want to be like that guy [Muhammad Ali].” – Mike Tyson 
•  Getting in shape and being in fighting condition are two different things:
  • “Getting in shape is able to fit your clothes, you know that’s getting in shape… Being in condition is being able to come outside of your soul.” – Mike Tyson
• Mike went vegan for a few years but stopped a few months ago. He eats a lot of elk and bison meat. There are certain foods Mike avoids because it’s not good for his body or blood type (ex: kale):
  • “Kale will kill me…Kale is toxic to my blood.” – Mike Tyson
• Mike enjoys fighting because sometimes it arouses him:
  • “Sometimes it’s orgasmic” – Mike Tyson
    • “What does it mean when fighting gets you erect?” 
• “Impossible is nothing to somebody that tries. Everything that somebody said was impossible has happened.” – Mike Tyson
• “Delusion is only delusion when you don’t accomplish the goal of making your delusions a reality” – Mile Tyson
• “I am a conqueror now because I conquerer myself and my demons” – Mike Tyson

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Mike Tyson is the former undisputed heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Check out his new podcast called “Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson” on Spotify.

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“The goal is to make people laugh and then to really break their heart.” — Chuck Palahniuk

Writer Chuck Palahniuk (@chuckpalahniuk) has published twenty-three national and international best-selling books. These include fifteen prose novels, a collection of short stories, two graphic novels, two coloring books, a travel guide, a collection of essays, and a memoir about his life as a writer. He was raised in a desert town with a population of three hundred at the time of his birth in 1962. He received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Oregon.

Palahniuk is best known for his novels Fight Club and Choke, both of which were made into films. Publication of his short story Guts in the Sunday Guardian prompted a sharp drop in circulation. He frequently contributed fiction to Playboy, where his stories Romance, Cannibal, and Zombie had to be personally approved by Hugh Hefner. His new book, The Invention of Sound, is coming out on September 8th.

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