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Hiten Shah is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nira. A company that specializes in protecting companies documents from unauthorized access. Hiten has been working remotely for close to 18 years. Today he joins James to talk about The Remote Workspace Utopia. James and Hiten start the episode by giving listeners insight into all the technological gadgets used to help complete daily tasks and meetings remotely. James and Hiten also dive deep into the topic of meetings. Hiten explains the detrimental effects of mixing strategy and execution and why each topic should be discussed separately. To conclude the episode, James and Hiten talk about Communication in the remote workspace and what are the best practices in keeping your team on track.

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• “It’s trying to find the magic in people and shining a light on it”– Fidji Simo
  • Great management is allowing people to be flexible in the path to success, giving them the right tools and conditions for their best functionality. All while being inflexible to the goal.
• Mentors are not critical, sponsors are
  • “Sponsors are the people who put their butt on the line for you and help you open doors when you need them the most” – Fidji Simo
  • Sponsors are advocates for the next step in your career; mentors mold you day-to-day in the role that you’re in
• If you want an opportunity, let your uniqueness overpower your experience (or lack thereof). Your uniqueness is your advantage.Make the hiring decision of you obvious.
  • “People who are curious and hungry will figure anything out. This will overcome a lot of experience” – Fidji Simo
• You’ll never experience burnout if you make creativity the focal point of everything that you do
• Instacart is planning for an evolution in the way people view, consume, and interact with food
  • Personalization, convenience, and nutrition are key themes

Fidji Simo is the CEO @ Instacart, the company that allows you to order whatever you want from local stores, delivering it straight to your door. Fidji joined the Instacart board 10 months ago and just 3 months ago, Fidji joined Instacart full time as CEO. Prior to Instacart, Fidji spent an incredible 10 years at Facebook in numerous different roles including Head of Facebook App and before that Vice President of Games, Video and Monetisation. If this was not enough, Fidji earlier this year announced her co-founding of Metrodora, an integrated medical ecosystem with the vision of advancing women’s health.

1.) How Fidji made her way from a small coastal fishing town in France to leading the Facebook App and becoming one of the most powerful CEOs in tech with her new role at Instacart?

2.) The Rise @ Facebook: How did Fidji rise in the ranks at Facebook so much faster than anyone else? What were the biggest inflection points in her rise? What bets did she make that others did not see? How did they play out? Did any of the bets go wrong? What did Fidji learn about management style when the bet went wrong?

3.) Problem Solving and Decision-Making: What framework does Fidji use to have the most effective problem-solving and decision-making process? How does Fidji built such tight trust and honesty with her team members? In what way can leaders make people feel safe to take big bets but also not lose accountability if it does not work out?

4.) The Move To Instacart: Why did Fidji decide that CEO of Instacart was the right next move for her? What was Fidji's hypothesis of how the first 100 days would go? What has been a surprise in the first 100 days? How do the best leaders onboard into new CEO roles? How does the role of CEO change when moving from private to public company?

Fidji’s Favourite Book: The Night Circus

• “The main problems of the internet are not caused by algorithms, they’re caused by people. Algorithms are just a reflection of human behavior”– Gurwinder Bhogal
  • “We have re-primitivized our technology”– Gurwinder Bhogal
  • In the age of information, the internet, and social media we often find that our tribal instincts overpower the search for truth that these tools should be enabling and accelerating
• Law of large numbers – given a wide enough data set, any pattern can be observed
  • “The world hasn’t gotten crazier, we are just seeing more of everything” – Gurwinder Bhogal
• Brandolini’s Law – it takes more energy to refute bullshit than to produce it, the world is left with a lot of unrefuted bullshit
  • It doesn’t take much effort to be wrong on social media – it creates an illusion that society is dumber than it is
• The Tocqueville Paradox – if living standards rise, people’s societal expectations also rise. When expectations rise past living standards, disaffection towards society results.
  • We misinterpret our conditions by measuring them in relativity rather than absolutes
• Bulverism – in debate, we assume our opponent is wrong and attempt to retroactively confirm our assumption usually by appealing to the opponents’ character or motives
• Reactance Theory – when someone is restricted from expressing a point of view or pressured into an opposing point of view, they tend to hold their original view even stronger

Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.

I got tagged in a monstrous thread of Gurwinder's on Twitter exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media. It's one of the best things I've read this year, so I just had to bring him on.

Expect to learn how saying ridiculous things can be a test of loyalty, why people can be too stupid to know that they're stupid, why million-to-one odds happen 8 times a day in New York City, why The Bullshit Principle is actually a thing, why everyone is seeing racism everywhere and much more... 

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• Sleep-related fasting is particularly important for repair functions in the gut, brain, liver – and can be optimized by not eating 2-3 hours before bed
• Tenants of ideal time-restricted feeding: (1) delay the first meal at least one hour after waking; (2) don’t eat within 2-3 hours of bedtime; (3) stick to a consistent schedule every day
• The best target feeding window is 8 hours; shorter windows between 4-6 hours tend to lead to overeating
• Consistency is best: a feeding window you can stick to in the context of social and life balance is best – if you’re new, try a 12pm-8pm window where no calories are consumed before 12pm and after 8pm
• From a pure health objective standpoint, it would be best to keep feeding to the middle of the day, i.e., 10am-6pm but this is difficult to sustain socially
• One meal per day eating seems to lend itself to weight loss but is less likely to be sustained over time
• To enhance muscle growth, consume protein early in the day – ideally by 10am (which can be difficult considering 8-hour target window)
• If you’re feeling weak during fast, some salt in water can have a stabilizing effect on blood glucose and give you a boost

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• “It may be lucky but it’s not an accident” – Chris Sacca
  • Don’t dismiss your success, it will always be an unexpected combo of luck and hard work
• “Training by way of tragedy. When things are going up you tend to correlate it with talent, when things are going down you tend to correlate it with luck.”– Chris Sacca
  • With more experience, you eventually invert this curve. You learn how to properly self-reflect on your own failures and successes
• Let the large amount of good in the world outweigh the small amount of bad
  • When investing or decision making in general, don’t let the small potential for bad results overpower your ability to say yes
• “There’s a surplus of assholes coming down the pipeline”– Chris Sacca
  • Many young adults growing up in computer science have never had a job that required human interaction, shaping their interpersonal capabilities often for the worse
  • The sheer ease of access to information is contributing to this as well as kids are not used to hearing no
• Chris is leading the climate change firmLowercarbon Capitol where every deal has the potential for more than 1 gigaton of carbon removal
  • Climate change efforts are not just charitable, they are profitable

Chris Sacca is the Founder and Chairman @ Lowercase Capital, one of the best performing funds in the history of venture capital with a portfolio including Uber, Stripe, Twitter, Instagram, Twilio, Docker and many more. Despite this incredible success, in 2017, Chris and his wife, Crystal announced they would be stepping back from day to day investing to focus on ongoing efforts to rescue our democracy, heal the planet, promote diversity within venture capital. Earlier this year, they announced Lowercarbon Capital, with $800M AUM, with the mission to back companies that make real money slashing CO2 emissions, and buying us time to unf**k the planet. Fun fact: As a result of his incredible investing success Chris has also been a Shark on Shark Tank and even starred in an episode of Billions.

1.) How Chris made his way into the world of investing having started life as a lawyer? What was his first investment? How did the first Twitter $25K angel check come about?

2.) How does Chris evaluate his own relationship to money and wealth? Why did Chris and Crystal interview some of the wealthiest people? What did they learn from those discussions? How does Chris view the role of luck? Why was it when Chris lacked optimism he lost the most money? How did being $4M in the hole from public markets impact his mindset?

3.) What does it mean for Chris to bring up healthy and happy children? Why does Chris believe today's parenting has bred a generation of asshole kids? In what way is great parenting aligned to great team management? How does Chris give feedback to his teams vs his children? What tone should be used? Should it always be "radical candor"? Should it be immediate?

4.) Does Chris believe that VCs really add any value? What does Chris believe is his secret sauce? Why does Chris believe that as a VC you have to be outspoken and loud about the value you provide? What have been some of the biggest lessons for Chris from sitting on boards and working with Bill Gurley? Why does Chris believe that most VCs are shitty managers?

5.) Why did Chris decide to come back from retirement and found Lowercarbon with Crystal? Why did he not decide to do it all with his own money? Why is now different for climate tech than prior generations of climate tech innovation? How big does Chris want to scale Lowercarbon? Will Chris make more money from climate investing than from tech?

Chris’ Favourite Book: Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived, How To Raise an Adult

• The Thinking Ladder:Primitive mind vs Higher mind, Left vs Right
  • Tim Urban’s thesis around ideologies introduces nuance to the conversation, there is great value in not only identifying what you think (progressive, conservative) but also understanding how you think (scientific method)
  • “When society is stable, we develop etiquette” – Tim Urban
    • Currently, tribalism and self-proclaimed moral hierarchy create a diversion from the search for truth, leading to further and further diminishment of collaborative, collective, and respectful communication
    • Primitive minds on the low end of the ladder often take advantage of situations where right and wrong isn’t clear(for example: pushing a narrative regardless of truth)
  • Every quadrant in the graph is valuable, diverse perspectives will shape the future for the better
• Due to the exponential nature of technology, we don’t really know the implications that lie ahead. Utopia and dystopia are both potential options.
  • “We are not going to have an equal world, we are going to have one that is, either way, better or way worse” – Tim Urban
  • The Great Filter – similar to the Fermi Paradox, states that since there is no evidence of other intelligent civilizations, the potential that ours lasts is unlikely
• Capitalism doesn’t require people to be rational
  • Current economic incentive systems don’t align with nuanced discussion and search for truth

This episode is a recording of a special live conversation we had with Tim Urban of Wait But Why on Twitter Spaces! After a discussion with Jim, we had a QnA session with the audience as well. Our discussion revolves around:

• The Wait But Why book
  
• The Great Filter
  
• Left vs. Right ideologies
  
• Twitter as an intelligence network
  
• Live Q&A session
  

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Today we’re going take some of life’s biggest questions, toss them into a Vitamix, press hyperblend, and whip up a Metaphysical Milkshake.

My sous chefs for this cosmic concoction are Rainn Wilson & Reza Aslan.

Do I really need to introduce these two?

Star of screens big and small, Rainn is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on The Office. An OG in the online high-vibe content space, Rainn is also the founder of SoulPancake, a digital platform for people from all walks of life to discuss and question what it means to be human—a place to wrestle with the spiritual, philosophical, and creative journey that is life.

Reza is a scholar of religions, a professor of creative writing, a television host, an Emmy-nominated producer, and the author of many bestselling books on religion, faith & spirituality.

These two have teamed up on a fantastic new podcast worthy of your attention called (you guessed it) Metaphysical Milkshake.

In a mild departure from my typical interview format, the idea for this episode was to tackle some of those big life questions, themes that recur on both of our shows, and have some fun doing it. So I wrote down various queries on a stack of index cards, wadded them up, tossed them in a bowl, and let Rainn and Reza take turns fishing them out for today’s round-table.

Among the threads pulled today are:

• What does it mean to be human?
• How do you be a good person?
• Why are humans prone to spirituality?
• How do you reconcile science & rationality with faith & spirituality?
• Are we addicted to everything?
• What is the role of consciousness?

To read more click here. You can also watch listen to our exchange on YouTube. And as always, the podcast streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Prepare to have your noodle bent—and have some laughs along the way. Good times!

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• At age 15 Lance wanted to be an Olympian so he turned his efforts to cycling fully
• There was a clear change in cycling from 1993-1994, marked by a significant uptick in prevalence and potency of performance-enhancing drugs
• Erythropoietin and blood transfusions were rampant in the sport during Lance’s rise – Lance used them no more, no less – in many ways, the backlash he received is probably because of how poorly he treated people
• Most major Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED) busts weren’t because athletes were failing drug tests; it was because people were caught with paraphernalia and banded substances on them or in their car
• One area Lance voiced regret is that Livestrong was implicated in his PED use when the organization was completely separate and really doing a lot of good at the time (Livestrong has since recovered)  
• Lance is in a place where he’s not living in regret, but learned from his past and acknowledges there were different ways to get where he wanted
• The sport of cycling started more of an effort to clean up by 2007

Lance Armstrong is a legendary figure in professional cycling having won seven consecutive Tour de France titles but also a controversial figure facing scrutiny for the use of performance enhancing drugs. In this episode, Lance takes us through his meteoric rise to one of the most famous athletes in the world and his equally accelerated fall from grace. Lance describes how he persevered through his brutal diagnosis of testicular cancer before rattling off a historic run of seven consecutive Tour de France titles all while facing tremendous scrutiny for his alleged use of performance enhancing drugs such as EPO and cortisone. Lance opens up about his decision to come clean about his use of performance enhancing drugs, the remorse for how he treated other people during that time in his life, and the personal growth that’s helped him emerge on the other end of that. Finally, Lance recounts some of favorite stories from his cycling career, reflects on his legacy, and explains how he stays fit at age 50.

We discuss:

• What everyone wants to know—yes and no questions [2:15];
  
• Lance’s childhood and beginnings of a great athlete [4:15];
  
• Lance’s realization that he had a knack for racing after his first pro race at age 15 [13:00];
  
• The move to cycling full time and a desire to compete in the Olympics [16:30];
  
• Metrics tracked early in Lance’s career and his time with Motorola team [20:00];
  
• The grueling nature of the Tour de France and the beginnings of serious drug usage in cycling [27:00];
  
• The impact of EPO on cycling performance [35:15];
  
• Testicular cancer diagnosis—denial, torturous symptoms, and treatment [38:15]
  
• Livestrong is born [50:45];
  
• Return to cycling post-cancer and a crossroad in Lance’s career [53:45]
  
• Lance’s rise to prominence in the late 90s and the growing use of EPO in the sport [1:00:00];
  
• Racing in the early 2000’s, blood transfusions, and rivalry with Jan Ulrich [1:12:00];
  
• Retirement in 2005 and a comeback in 2009 [1:22:45];
  
• Lance’s decision to come clean and tell the truth [1:27:30];
  
• Growth through downfall: learning from his mistakes and helping others after their own fall from grace [1:33:00];
  
• Moving forward: Living his life, reflecting on his legacy, the state of Livestrong [1:42:30];
  
• Turning back the clock: Advice Lance would give to his 15 year-old self [1:46:45];
  
• Keeping fit at age 50 [1:51:00];
  
• More.

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