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Daniel Thorson spent 5 years in residential training at The Monastic Academy with 2 years in cumulative silent retreat. He has decades of deep engagement with contemplative practice, systems theory, and transformative work. He’s also the beloved host of The Emerge Podcast and writes at The Intimate Mirror, where he’s exploring how people can develop a secure attachment with reality.
Resources:
* Spirituality is Secure Attachment with Reality
* AI for Emotional Unfolding
* Steve March on Self-Improvement vs Self-unfoldment
* https://x.com/dthorson
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Rich Bartlett helps people grow high-trust communities & decentralized organizations. He’s the co-founder the community building network Microsolidarity, and non-hierarchical management consultancy The Hum. He also co-runs Fight Wise an online course about developing courage in your relationships, standing up for yourself, skillfully navigating conflicts, and asking for what you want.
Resources:
* Improvise for Real
* Keith Jarret
* Fight Wise: Find Your Backbone
* People mentioned: Guy (RivalVoices), Visakan, Romeo Stevens, Vivid Void
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Brooke Bowman is the founder of Vibecamp. She also runs events to help foster connection and social cohesion such as Ms. Bowman's School for the Socially Inept, and The Network Society Camp. For nearly a decade before that, she was in an affair with heroin. Her mental and physical health declined slowly at first, then plummeted, leaving her sleeping on the streets of Los Angeles for two and a half years. Then came a series of insights that led her to essentially rewire her own brain.
Resources:
* Brooke’s Twitter
* vibe.camp
* Brooke’s talk at The Network State Conference
* Bowman’s School for the Socially Inept
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Romeo Stevens is one of co-founders of the Qualia Research Institute and the founder of Mealsquares. He writes extensively about buddhism, pedagogy, skill development and psychotherapeutic modalities. You can find his work on his blog, Lesswrong and Twitter.
Resources:
* Romeo’s Twitter
* Neurotic Gradient Descent (Romeo’s blog)
* Math Academy
* Practiceopedia (out of print music practice book)
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Dr. Tataryn is a long-time meditator (47+ years) and founder of the Bio-Emotive Framework. He conducts seminars in integral theory, sports psychology, and the integration of psychology and spirituality. He also hosts emotional clearing workshops intensives around North America. His is presently working with advanced meditators and spiritual teachers on balancing life after enlightenment, using his own version of the Four Facets (integral) Model of Human Transformation.
Resources:
* The Bio-emotive Framework
* Doug’s viral pinned Tweet
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Stephen Zerfas is the CEO and cofounder of Jhourney — a startup that targets specific meditative states known as jhanas using novel teaching methods and technology. Their first product is a week-long meditation retreat that’s won hyperbolic testimonials from tech executives and engineers (e.g. OpenAI, DeepMind). Most participants learn to enter states previously thought to require thousands of hours of practice in under 40 hours.
Resources:
* jhourney.io
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Soryu Forall is an ordained Zen Buddhist monk and the guiding teacher at the Monastic Academy for the Preservation of Life on Earth (MAPLE) in Vermont. With over two decades of intensive monastic training, Forall was ordained in 1998 by Zen Master Shodo Harada at Sogen Temple in Japan. He has since trained in monasteries across India, Tibet, and China, and draws on various spiritual traditions, including Buddhism, Native American practices, and Quaker teachings.
Resources:
* The Monk Who Thinks the World is Ending - The Atlantic
* Buddhism for AI Course
* monasticacademy.org
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Andrés is the Co-founder and President of the Qualia Research Institute (QRI). He has a Master’s Degree in Psychology with an emphasis in computational models from Stanford and a professional background in graph theory, statistics, and affective science. His work at QRI ranges from algorithm design, to psychedelic theory, to neurotechnology development, to mapping and studying the computational properties of consciousness.
Andrés blogs at qualiacomputing.com.
Resources:
* qri.org
* Andrés on Twitter
* 4D Rotation Visualizer
* Chanca Piedra for kidney stones
* Arthur Juliani’s research
* Mike Johnson’s Vasocomputation Paper
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Michael Edward Johnson is a philosopher, neuroscientist and entrepreneur. He’s the author of Principia Qualia and the co-founder of the Qualia Research Institute. He’s done pioneering work at the intersection of mathematics and consciousness studies, seeking to systematically map and measure subjective experiences. He writes at opentheory.net.
Resources:
* Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex
* Thread on Wittgenstein, Normies and Wordcels
* Quick model of jhana
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Dr. Marc Gafni has been described as a world philosopher, integrating wisdom from across multiple disciplines into what he has called a New Story of Value. He is the president of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion and has authored twelve books including Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment.
Today we talk about his latest book First Principles and First Values.
Resources:
* Amazon page for First Principles and First Values
* Download Chapters 1-5 of First Principles First Values
* Marc's Socials: Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Substack
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Michael Edward Johnson is a philosopher, neuroscientist and entrepreneur. He’s the author of Principia Qualia and the co-founder of the Qualia Research Institute. He’s done pioneering work at the intersection of mathematics and consciousness studies, seeking to systematically map and measure subjective experiences.
Resources:
* Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex
* Autism as a disorder of dimensionality
* Qualia Formalism and a Symmetry Theory of Valence
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Steve Schlafman is a recovering venture capitalist and professional transition coach. In 2017 he made partner at a multi-billion dollar VC firm and then promptly walked away from it all. Now he helps high performers in midlife discover and manifest their next calling. He draws upon a range of disciplines and brings a very sensitive, compassionate approach to the question of how to live well. Steve is also a writer, podcaster and father.
Resources
* Where The Road Bends (Steve’s Substack)
* www.schlaf.co
* Steve’s Twitter
* The Mind Illuminated
* Jhourney (a startup that’s biohacking the jhanas)
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Malcolm Ocean is a multitude-containing, wildman systems design expert who founded the productivity app Intend.do. It’s a tool that prioritizes intentionality over task management and provides a compelling counterpoint to David Allen’s Getting Things Done method. Malcolm also writes extensively about goal crafting, trust dynamics and group coordination. He’s great at combining big picture galaxy-brain thinking with uncompromising practicality.
You can learn more about Malcolm on his website or follow him on Twitter.
Resources:
* Malcolm’s article on “Goal Allowing”
* “Feral free agent chat” withvisakan veerasamyand others
* Malcolm’s thread on the “do nothing” meditation
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Howard Bloom is an author and polymath. He was also a publicist in the 70s and 80s, running the biggest PR firm in the music industry. He helped build or sustain the careers of Michael Jackson, Prince, Bob Marley, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Queen, Kiss, Run DMC, ZZ Top, Joan Jett, Chaka Khan and 100 more. What’s his deal? He’s a student of ecstatic experiences.
You can learn more about Howard on his website.
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Today I talk to Wolf Tivy, the founder of Palladium Magazine. It’s a San Francisco-based publication that’s low-key coordinating the next generation of elites to do great things.
Skip this episode if you don’t want to quit your job.
Topics include:
* Why you should quit your job.
* Why civilization suffers from philosophical problems — not technical ones.
* Why American technology basically stopped advancing in 1973.
* “Pre-rational commitments” and how they rule your world.
* Why today’s elites are uncoordinated and what that means for citizens.
* Why psychedelics are haram.
* What it takes to live your convictions and be a live player.
Resources:
* Quit Your Job
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Khe Hy is the Founder and CEO of RadReads, an online education company that helps professionals lead productive, examined and joyful lives. He used to be one of the youngest managing directors at Blackrock, outperforming other teams by teaching his analysts GTD. Now he teaches the popular cohort-based course Supercharge Your Productivity, using productivity as a trojan horse for existential inquiry.
Khe is enchantingly candid and conspicuously kind. In this conversation, his presence gave me the permission to be more honest with myself. It will likely do the same for you.
Topics include:
* How Khe went from high-powered Wall Street MD to professional blogger, teacher and online creator
* How “fuck it” moments tend to improve people’s lives (e.g. quitting your job)
* How Khe’s team at Blackrock outperformed others because he taught them GTD
* Why being a “tinkerer” is an insane competitive advantage
* How having kids has radical effects on your experience of time
* How samskaras (persistent emotional patterns) dictate your life and what to do about them
* How to use the Enneagram test to identify your childhood wounds
* Why “emotional solvency” is the real obstacle to financial freedom
* Golden handcuffs and the fragility of never seeing your bank account go down
Check out Khe’s blog RadReads.co, his Twitter and his course Supercharge Your Productivity.
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“The flinch is your real opponent, and information won't help you fight it. It's behind every unhappy relationship, every hesitation in your business life, every missed opportunity, and every regret you ever had." - Julien Smith
Julien Smith is a serial tech entrepreneur and NYT best-selling author of the books Trust Agents and The Flinch. In 2012 he founded Breather a flexible real-estate company that raised over $150M. His latest venture is Practice, a tool for solopreneurs funded by a16z and Tony Robbins.
In this episode we discuss Julien’s life and his highly practical, courage-inducing, stimulant-of-a-book The Flinch.
Topics include:
* On courage and The Big Life
* Why people don’t do the things they claim they want to do
* What is “the flinch” and how is it robbing you of our dreams?
* How Seth Godin challenged Julien to create something he’d be in awe of (and how it made him mad)
* The relationship between art and suffering
* The primary quality that defines exceptional founders
* Silicon Valley’s executive coaching secret
* How to choose successful long-term projects and make big bets
* How accepting discomfort engenders vitality
Check out Julien’s Twitter and his company Practice.do.
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Daniele Bolelli is martial artist, writer, professor, and host of History On Fire and The Drunken Taoist podcasts. He’s the author of several books on philosophy and he’s disarmingly down to earth.
He also has a cool name and very smooth Italian accent.
Topics include:
* Real Philosophers vs Academic Philosophers.
* The story of Ikkyu Sojun. An enlightened monk that loved sake and women.
* How to deal with tragedy.
* Foundational insights on parenting and being a good spouse.
* What is sacred and what is profane?
* How rituals can maintain sacredness.
* Why kindness is the best measure of one’s philosophy.
* Speculations on Nietzsche and his perspective on Love.
* On being “life-affirming.” Why is it so important and why is it so hard?
* The defiant power of gallows humour.
Check out Daniele’s website and his Twitter.
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This is probably the most inspiring conversation I’ve had all year.
Fen de Villiers turns blocks of stone into powerful art. Just look at this. He willed it out of stone. With. His. Hands.
Fen studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. He’s on a mission to reinvigorate sculpture to its most vital and energetic form. Maybe you’ll be reinvigorated too.
Topics include:
* How do you even become a fine art sculptor?
* What makes art energizing? Why is most contemporary art the opposite?
* Cultural vitality and it’s relationship to physical vitality
* Modernism, art deco, futurism and vorticism
* How western culture forgot how to celebrate life (and became a death cult)
* Why now is the best time to create a new artistic movement
* The revolutionary act of simply making things
* How Fen has been shunned by the current art scene
* Why Duchamp’s Urinal was legitimate art at the time (but wouldn’t be today)
* How Fen stays motivated to wake up every day and make things
Resources:
* Fen’s Manifesto for Aesthetic Invigoration
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Political philosopher and sociologist Daniel Görtz is a leader of "the Nordic school" of metamodernism. He co-authored The Listening Society and The Nordic Ideology under the pseudonym Hanzi Freinacht. Today we discuss his new “self-help” book with the working title “12 Better Rules for Life (and beyond).”
Topics include:
* The subtle art of sublime mediocrity
* Why Rule #2 is “Fuck like a beast”
* Why Jesus was right and how secular people can learn from that
* What is post-postmodernism?
* The life-changing practice of Rogerian listening
* A necessary steelman of critical race theory and modern feminism
* Why feminist forums descend into language-policing
* How to improve your default levels of contentment (from a 7 to an 8)
* Where Jordan Peterson went wrong with post-modernism
* Why playfulness is essential
* A big spoiler on the book (and a key secret to living well)
Resources:
* https://metamoderna.org/
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