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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Everyone worships something
  • Perhaps it’s better to worship a higher power that may not exist compared to something like power or money
• If you want to make your time on Earth count, think of the people who would miss you 5 years from now if you died today
  • Spend more time deepening relationships with those people
• Be aware of the hedonic treadmill – the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive events
• You treat others the way you treat yourself
• Everyone’s an addict – we all just have different addictions

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Peter is the founder of Attia Medical, PC, a medical practice with offices in San Diego and New York City, focusing on the applied science of longevity.

Peter trained for five years at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in general surgery, where he was the recipient of several prestigious awards, including resident of the year, and the author of a comprehensive review of general surgery. He also spent two years at NIH as a surgical oncology fellow at the National Cancer Institute where his research focused on immune-based therapies for melanoma. He has since been mentored by some of the most experienced and innovative lipidologists, endocrinologists, gynecologists, sleep physiologists, and longevity scientists in the United States and Canada.

Peter earned his M.D. from Stanford University and holds a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics.

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Woah. This one was the hardest interview I've ever done. Kapil warned me that what he had to share was not what any of my other guests had shared before and he was right. 

I actually had to cut out 8 minutes of the interview because all that could be heard was silence and heavy breathing as a tried to integrate the intense truth he shared. My life has changed drastically in the few days since I have done this interview.

Yours will too if you listen to this. You have been warned.

You should be able to pick up any book in the library and read it.

Cernovich and Hardy Haberland share how to win in your 20s and beyond. You can follow Hardy here: https://twitter.com/HardyHaberland

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Mental models serve as a framework that you use to make sense of the world
• To make sense of complexity, use a variety of mental models
  • “By looking at the world through an ensemble of logically coherent lenses, you can actually make sense of the complex world”
• It’s valuable to have a group of people with diverse backgrounds
  • Different people have different assumptions of how the world works (they have different mental models), so they’ll see different parts of a problem
• The Wisdom Hierarchy
  • At the bottom there’s data
  • On top of the data is information (how the world is structured)
  • On top of information is knowledge (understanding either correlative or causative relationships between pieces of information)
  • Then there’s wisdom (understanding which knowledge to bring to bear on a particular problem)
• Think of yourself like a tool box – you have the capacity to accumulate tools (mental models/ways of thinking)
  • You could become the world’s expert on a particular subject and have a ton of mental models in that specific area
  • Or you could spread out – have an awareness of a bunch of models which cover a variety of topics
• “In a complex world, your ability to contribute and succeed is going to depend on you filling a niche that’s valuable”
• Probably the most important mental model mentioned:
  • Try to consider what a problem looks like through the lens of each person involved

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On this episode, Scott Page, 5x Author and Professor of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan explains the power mental models have in how we view the world, discover creative solutions and solve complex problems.

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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• A lack of sleep is one of the most significant lifestyle factors that determines your risk for Alzheimer’s Disease
  • During the deep stages of sleep, the brain’s glymphatic system kicks into high gear and clears away metabolic waste that accumulates while we’re awake
    • One of the substances that the glymphatic system washes away is called beta-amyloid (one of the two core proteins whose build up is thought to contribute to Alzheimer’s Disease)
• The stages of sleep:
  • Non-REM (N-REM)
    • Stage 1, 2, 3, and 4
      • Stages 1 and 2 are lighter
      • Stages 3 and 4 are the deepest/most restorative
  • REM (rapid eye movement)
• Here’s what a typical 90-minute sleep cycle looks like:
  • When you’re lying in bed with your eyes closed, the back of the brain goes into an “alpha rhythm” and starts to settle down
    • The back part of the brain stops processing the outside world and slows the frequency of its brain waves (from 50 cycles/second to 10 cycles/second)
  • As you begin to fall asleep, your eyeballs start to roll in your sockets (called “slow rolling eye movements”)
  • Then you enter Stage 1 and 2 N-REM sleep
    • In Stage 1, alpha brain waves are diminished, and theta brain waves start to appear
    • In Stage 2 , the frequency of brain waves (now all theta) is ~6-7 cycles/second
      • The amplitude of the waves also increases
      • During this stage, sleep spindles occur
  • After 20 minutes, you enter into Stage 3 and 4 N-REM sleep (deep sleep)
    • At this point, the brain’s waves (now delta waves) are more slow/chant-like (1-2 cycles/second) – the amplitude of these waves are very large
  • After about 70 minutes, you fall back into Stage 2, and then transfer into REM sleep
  • Then you fall back into Stage 1, completing the 90 minute cycle
• As the night goes on…
  • In the first half – the majority of your 90-minute sleep cycles are comprised of deep N-REM sleep, and little REM sleep
  • In the second half – the majority of your sleep cycles are comprised more of REM sleep, and almost no deep sleep
    • THIS IS WHY YOU CAN’T JUST SLEEP 5-6 HOURS/NIGHT – YOU MISS OUT ON A TON (ALMOST ALL) OF YOUR REM SLEEP
• With a lack of REM sleep, you’re more prone to mental health issues (like depression, anxiety, and suicidality)
• Adults around the world are now sleeping less than ever before

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In part 1 of this 3 part series, Matthew Walker, professor of neuroscience at UC Berkeley and expert on sleep, describes the different stages and cycles of sleep, including what he calls the 4 pillars of sleep, and how they contribute to memory consolidation and numerous important pathways to mental health. We also get into the dangers of chronic sleep deprivation, such as the development of dementia, and the more acute dangers of sleep deprivation like fatal car crashes which are most often caused by drowsy driving. We also discuss the different and important roles of REM vs. non-REM sleep, and the impact that bad sleep habits can have specifically on those sleep stages. 

 

We discuss:

• Matthew’s background and interest in sleep [6:03];

• Sleep and Alzheimer’s disease, and the 4 pillars of sleep [12:18];

• Stages of sleep, sleep cycles, and brain waves [41:18];

• Memory and sleep, and the risk of insufficient REM sleep [55:48];

• Evolutionary reasons to sleep [1:02:03];

• The early riser vs. the night owl, and tips for overcoming jet lag [1:10:18];

• Is there one type or stage of sleep that is most important? [1:17:33];

• The dangers of drowsy driving [1:28:48];

• The timeliness of Matthew’s book, and how the conversation of sleep has changed over the past several years [1:35:18]; and

• More.

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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Video has a lot of room to penetrate markets that we currently still rely heavily on text for
• The internet and social media have essentially increased the surface area of status seeking to the digital and virtual realm
• Today with content, at any point in time you are competing with what’s on a person’s smartphone
• There’s much more to learn from the people who don’t use your product than those who do

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My guest this week, Eugene Wei, has one of the most interesting backgrounds of anyone I’ve had on the podcast. He worked at Amazon early in its life, was the head of product at Hulu and Flipboard, and head of video and Oculus.

 

Our conversation is about the intersection of technology, media, culture. We discuss Eugene’s concept of invisible asymptotes: why growth slows down (for both companies and people) and how some can burst through. I’d list more of the topics, but we covered so much that you should just listen.

 

Finally, I’ll say that after spending a day with Eugene (including a wildly interesting dinner with Eugene, past podcast guest Sam Hinkie, and future podcast guest Kevin Kwok) that he is the type of uniquely interesting and kind person I am always searching for and one that I wish I could bet on somehow. If you know more people like this, reach out and suggest them for this podcast. Now, enjoy our conversation.

 

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Show Notes

1:38 - (First Question) – Idea of cuisine and empire

            1:52 – Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History

4:20 – Key takeaways from the Defiant Ones Documentary

8;25 – Being convinced to buy a sports coat

11:10 – The concept of invisible asymptote

17:43 – How the medium shapes the messaging and the impact of cameras everywhere on society

            17:48– Invisible asymptotes

            17:56 –  Selfies as a second language

22:57 – Proof of work in building a social network

32:51 – Magnification of inequalities in digital networks

            34:01 – The Lessons of History

36:47 – His thoughts on the media industry’s impact on society as a whole

39:42 – His time at Hulu

44:48 – Places where video could replace text

47:30 – The need for media for any business looking to grow

            49:35 – Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

53:08 – Personal asymptotes

57:19 -  Habit building and goal setting

1:00:29 – Travel recommendations

1:03:24 – Movie recommendations

1:08:16 – Product recommendations and what makes them indispensable

            1:10:44 – Creation: Life and How to Make It

1:13:23 – Thoughts on the art of conversation

            1:14:59 – The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive

1:18:30 – Kindest thing anyone has done for Eugene

 

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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• The benefits of red light therapy (RLT) include:
  • Better skin health, muscle recovery, athletic performance, less joint pain and inflammation, improved brain health and improved recovery time from a traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• How does red light therapy work?
  • In enhances the mitochondrial activity within cells
    • Thus, the mitochondria make more energy (ATP), and with more energy, cells can function more efficiently, rejuvenate themselves, and repair damage
• Americans now spend over 90% of their time indoors under artificial light
  • This lifestyle is radically different from that of our ancestors and we don’t yet know all of the negative effects this will have on our health
• As a general rule, you can get the most natural red and infrared light during the morning and evening (when the sun rises and sets)

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In modern life, most of us do most everything under artificial light - at the office, at the gym, at the store. The light bulb allows us to not be beholden to the sun and clearly a huge technological step forward for human life.

But have we gone too far? What if we’re missing something valuable to our health and performance from sunlight, especially the parts of the light spectrum that are missing from artificial light?

Scott Nelson, the co-founder of Joovv, is working to help us better understand this question. Scott has spent much of his career in leadership positions at some of the largest medicine technology companies, Medtronic and Boston Scientific to name two. Now with Joovv, he is commercializing full-body red light therapy and photobiomodulation devices designed for consumer use.

What is red light therapy and its benefits? Users report improved skin, accelerated muscle recovery, enhanced cognitive ability...even increased testosterone production.

These are sweeping claims. Is it too good to be true?

Host Geoffrey Woo raises up this exact question and more to Scott, and we learned a ton about Joovv's approach to red light therapy and how we can all benefit from being more thoughtful of the light we're around.

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“The biggest problem we run into is going, ‘This is who I am, this is what I’m like, this is how I function’ while failing to notice that you don’t do that anymore.” — Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) is the bestselling author and creator of books, graphic novels, short stories, film and television for all ages, including Neverwhere, Coraline, The Graveyard Book, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, The View from the Cheap Seats and the Sandman series of graphic novels. His fiction has received Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and Will Eisner Awards, among many other awards and honours.

His novelistic retelling of Norse myths, Norse Mythology, has been a phenomenon, and an international bestseller, and won Gaiman his ninth Audie Award (for Best Narration by the Author).

Recently Gaiman wrote all six episodes of, and has been the full-time showrunner, for the forthcoming BBC/Amazon Prime mini-series adaptation of Good Omens, based on the beloved 1990 book he co-wrote with Terry Pratchett.

Many of Gaiman’s books and comics have been adapted for film and television including Stardust (starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer), Coraline (an Academy Award nominee and the BAFTA winner for Best Animated Film), and How to Talk to Girls at Parties, a movie based on Gaiman’s short story. The television series Lucifer is based on characters created by Gaiman in Sandman. His 2001 novel, American Gods, is a critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated TV series, now entering its second season.

In 2017, Neil Gaiman became a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Originally from England, he lives in the United States, where he is Professor in the Arts at Bard College.

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