The Nik Hawks Show

I managed to fail at the MPM project, this is a little bit of the background regarding what happened.

I managed to fail at the MPM project, this is a little bit of the background regarding what happened. 

This is classic podcast material: A dive into a fascinating topic that you wouldn't normally hear about.

Jeff Shapiro is a well known climber, base jumper, wingsuit pilot, hang glider, and paraglider but for this show we focused on his passion for falconry.

Jeff is a Master falconer and has been working with raptors since becoming an Apprentice 2000.

We talk about how you get birds, how to train them, and about some of the peak experiences he's had hunting with falcons and one that he still hopes to have.

Enjoy the show!

This episode with Massimiliano (Max) de Zambotti came about when I found his paper on comparing the Oura ring against the gold standard of sleep assessment, polysomnography.

Being the curious type, I clicked his name on the Pubmed link and found a whole list of papers he's worked on. As it turns out, he studies insomnia up at SRI and is deeply and narrowly focused on understanding mechanisms of insomnia.

We cover wearable sleep tech and how accurate it is, where it's accurate vs where it ain't, and then dove into his work, from adolescent insomnia to menopausal insomnia.

If you missed some of the big words, or the list of what behaviors have the biggest effect on sleep (hint: It's not the top secret cold water keto rainbow cure), or you just want to remember what Max's favorite strategies for sleep are without having to take notes every 7 seconds, sign up at the Deep Diver level on my Patreon feed.

Finally, before we hung up the phone I asked him if there is any technology he sees coming down the pipe. I'll put that bonus episode (just under 9 minutes long and covering 2 wild pieces of tech he's excited about) on Patreon for my Patrons only. Thank you for your support!

This one covers one of my favorite stories, Ralph A. telling us about the opportunity of a lifetime. Enjoy the wanderings, for how often to lift weights on a maintenance plan to the latest hobby and books I'm reading. I finish off with a reading of the Letter to Jake. Yaww!

Head over to https://www.patreon.com/nikhawks and support the show, thank you!

Random thoughts, recent news, and books I'm reading. Capacity for luck, creating a long term high, towels vs toilet paper and what happens when you're not prepared for the best day ever. Let's do this!

This show with Roy Harris skips most of his (DEEP!) martial arts history and jumps into two things he's passionate about and equally stoked on: Teaching and Human Movement.

Roy has the kind of resume you might build if you were writing a character for Hollywood that needed to be able to fight anybody, anywhere, with anything, but never needed to.

He's known for his Jiu Jitsu courses, so we jump way into how he came up with his teaching style, what he thinks is important with teachers and students, and (of course) we can't avoid his love for Filipino Martial Arts.

If you're looking to up your teaching game, or if you just want to hear about one more path to excellence, this show'll get you a little further down that road.

Enjoy!

NFH

Thanks for the push, Jamie A! This one's for you. For the rest of ya...

I had a rad guest lined up who got themselves in a spot of trouble stealing deer stands in Utah. Suffice to say there's more to the story than has been generally reported, but since he's gotten death threats I figured adding information to the internet about him probably wasn't going to help him & his family. So that one's gone.

In the meantime I've gotten some good feedback from listeners, including to do a lot more of these Nik-i-sodes.

If you have any questions that you'd like to hear me answer, please post 'em up here or shoot me an email and I'll get them answered.

Cheers, NFH

Charlie is my kind of adventurer. Father, husband, pilot, sailor, and general fixer of anything broken, Charlie's been a mentor and example to me for a long time. Listen in to hear how a regular guy has lived the life you probably dream about. More at nikhawks.com