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After working at McKinsey and getting an MBA from MIT, Paul Millerd was succeeding well on a path that “made sense”. However, things started changing when he had a health crisis, which ended up with him embarking on a pathless path. Since 2017, he’s been tinkering with multiple side-hustles, writing newsletters, creating podcasts, traveling, and helping others join the pathless path.

• Paul’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/p_millerd
  
• Paul’s newsletter: https://boundless.substack.com/
  
• ‘The Pathless Path’ book: https://think-boundless.com/the-pathless-path/
  

Show Notes:

• Having fun paying bills
  
• Jumping off your fitness landscape
  
• The first few years of being self-employed
  
• Connecting with the subconscious self
  
• Internet as an off-ramp
  
• How to stir up curiosity
  
• Lessons from DJing
  
• The social construct of retirement
  
• Internet economy requires showing up daily
  
• Design for liking your life
  
• Tinkering
  
• Embracing laziness
  
• Luxury of doing what you want
  
• The shift from cynicism to optimism
  
• Societal progress over the last decades
  
• What’s next for Paul?
  

Books Mentioned:

• The Pathless Path; by Paul Millerd
  
• The Body Keeps The Score; by Bessel van der Kolk

Step inside the Group Partner Lounge to hear Y Combinator Group Partners Harj Taggar, Michael Seibel and Brad Flora discuss the many different mistakes founders make when they approach hiring for their startup and how to grow your team the correct way.  

• David Goggins has turned down millions in corporate speaking fees to fight remote wildfires in British Columbia earning $15/hr
• If David wants to help people get better, then he must continue to get better himself; he cannot rest on his existing resume, he must add to it
• How David Goggins does what he does: “At the end of the day I ask myself one question. ‘Can I take one more step?’ And usually, that answer is yes.” 
• The David Goggins One-Second Decision Theory says that it only takes one second for you to fail at what you are pursuing

• Do not let your mind take control of you during that one-second 

David Goggins is a retired United States Navy SEAL, ultramarathon runner, triathlete, public speaker and an author. 

The ability to overcome challenges in life is one we will all need sooner or later. Make no mistake, discomfort is coming for you whether you're ready or not. Goggins happens to be one of the best individuals on earth at dealing with hard things and after a long time without any podcast appearances, I met him in Vegas to find out what new insights he's uncovered.

Expect to learn what most people get wrong about motivation, Goggins' thoughts on claims that SEAL selection is too hard, what the most painful experience of his life was, the danger of success making you soft, why he ran the MOAB 240 twice with no knee cartilage, why he recorded a mixtape of insults from the internet, how to overcome laziness, what David's entire daily routine looks like and much more...

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• We are entering an exponential trajectory of technological progress and our antiquated minds cannot possibly keep up unless we change the stories, programming, and hardware
• Technological progress is like a snowball rolling down a hill, picking up more matter and evolving as it goes 
• Today, we are operating on the programming that worked really well in caves and savannas but does not work quite as well in the massive groups that we find ourselves in now   
• Stories can help us overcome the deeply-rooted social wiring that does not always serve us
• Negative storytelling appeals to our base emotion of fear, especially novel fear regarding things that new
• The heretics working on the leading edge of technology must reframe their innovation’s impact with better stories  
• We may fall victim to a self-fulfilling prophecy of a tech dystopia if we do not get the stories right  
• Humans evolved during times of zero-sum conflict, so all of the stories we told around the campfire were zero-sum conflict-based stories
• Upgrading the human operating system will not solve all the world’s problems, but it will create new and better problems that can also be solved 
• Humans control what pumps the gas or slams on the break for the AI, which are control measures that we barely have for ourselves 
• Our current system is optimized for growing GDP, not human flourishing 
• Reduce the flow of negative information into your mind and increase the volume of positive information in the world
• Try to be optimistic about the future, and see yourself as a human on earth instead of being a member of a specific tribe 

Author, CEO of VUDU Marketing and digital nomad Sam McRoberts returns for his second appearance on Infinite Loops. This week, Sam and Jim discuss Sam’s latest book ‘The Grand Redesign’.
Part science-fiction, part operating manual for upgrading human OS, ‘The Grand Redesign’ touches on a number of recurring Infinite Loops themes, and is available for free online (see ‘Important Links’ section below).

Important Links:

• The Grand Redesign
  
• Sam’s Twitter
  
• Sam’s Substack
  
• The Thinker and The Prover
  
• Tinkered Thinking’s winning entry to our ‘White Mirror’ competition
  

Show Notes:

• Why Sam wrote the book
  
• Is the Watcher a reliable narrator?
  
• Interfering with complex systems
  
• An overview of Social OS
  
• Why we need White Mirror
  
• The kindness pledge
  
• Incentives and the Cobra Effect
  
• How do we break the Shannon limit?
  
• Jim’s movie idea
  
• Improving the political and legal system
  
• The opportunities of AI
  
• Optimising our system for flourishing
  
• Finding the hidden geniuses
  
• Sam’s solutions; reaching the tipping point
  
• Sam’s hopes for the book
  
• MUCH more!
  

Books Mentioned:

• The Grand Redesign; by Sam McRoberts
  
• The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It; by Will Storr
  
• Prometheus Rising; by Robert Anton Wilson
  
• House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth; by Robyn Dawes
  
• The Lessons of History: by Will Durant and Ariel Durant
  
• Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine; by Derren Brown
  
• The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future; by Kevin Kelly
  

• Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath), Jason Calacanis (@Jason), David Sacks (@DavidSacks), and David Friedberg (@friedberg) give their 2023 predictions on politics, business, and more!
• Follow along with All-In Podcast Notes throughout 2023 to see which bestie is the most (and least) accurate

(0:00) Bestie New Year catch-up!

(2:44) Prediction 1: 2023's biggest political winner

(17:25) Prediction 2: 2023's biggest political loser

(21:57) Prediction 3: 2023's biggest business winner

(30:34) Prediction 4: 2023's biggest business loser

(42:03) Prediction 5: 2023's biggest business deal

(52:41) Prediction 6: 2023's most contrarian belief

(1:03:03) Prediction 7: 2023's best-performing asset

(1:07:50) Prediction 8: 2023's worst-performing asset

(1:14:46) Prediction 9: 2023's most anticipated trend

(1:21:40) Prediction 10: 2023's most anticipated media

(1:27:07) Breaking news: OpenAI reportedly in talks to sell existing shares at a ~$29B valuation

Follow the besties:

https://twitter.com/chamath

https://linktr.ee/calacanis

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks

https://twitter.com/friedberg

Follow the pod:

https://twitter.com/theallinpod

https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast

Intro Music Credit:

https://rb.gy/tppkzl

https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg

Intro Video Credit:

https://twitter.com/TheZachEffect

Referenced in the show:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/citadel-posts-record-revenues-for-hedge-fund-securities-operations-11672942665

https://www.reuters.com/world/saudi-arabia-gathers-chinas-xi-with-arab-leaders-new-era-ties-2022-12-09/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/business/europe-natural-gas-prices.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/technology/salesforce-layoffs.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-lay-off-over-17-000-workers-more-than-first-planned-11672874304

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1598076726671642624

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/world/asia/xi-putin-china-russia.html

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1611052287954149377

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-03/blackstone-s-breit-gets-4-billion-from-university-of-california

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-rebels-block-kevin-mccarthy-defiance-trump-rcna64280

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-creator-openai-is-in-talks-for-tender-offer-that-would-value-it-at-29-billion-11672949279