Decoding the Gurus

Guru Right to Reply with Jamie Wheal

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Dec 9, 2022

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I'm Sorry, Max, but They're Good for You

Elon Musk, I Don't Want to Kill the Lily, Is That the Correct?

The Elon Musk Retweet Ecosystem

Sam Harris Quits Twitter

When or Lose Hashtag Got Your Back

Beyond Synth Podcast Review

The Flow Genome Project, Jimmy Wiel

How Did You Get Into the Sense Making Ecosystem?

Those Are the Kinds of People Who Are Able to Self-Promote Themselves in a Nutshell

Do You Know What You're Saying About the Ontology?

Is Meditation Helpful?

The Other Issue I've Got With It Is There Is No Reality Testing

Are You Anti-Vaxxing?

Is There a Brain Hacker in the Supplements Industry?

How to Tap the Fuck Out of Reality Tunnels

Chris and I Are Not in a Good Place to Throw Stones

The Omega Rule - Shouldn't We Be Critical?

Is There a Mega Principle?

01:03:08 • 6min

I Fucking Take the Piss Out of Them and Absolutely Hold His Feet to the Fire

01:08:49 • 5min

I Still Want Your Flags Flying at the End of the Day

01:14:12 • 2min

Is There a Mixing of the Personal and the Professional?

01:16:04 • 5min

I Like Gay Me. I'm a Gay Me Guy

01:21:02 • 6min

I'm Not a Skeptic, but I Think You're All Set, Right?

01:26:53 • 4min

Is There a Game B?

01:30:59 • 5min

Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine

01:35:32 • 4min

The Science Is Correcting Inside the Blue Church, Right?

01:39:39 • 2min

Science Is Coming Down to Guys

01:41:19 • 5min

The Fucking Gadfly Cassandra

01:46:20 • 5min

Alternative Media Is a Good Thing, Right?

01:51:41 • 5min

01:56:39 • 3min

Is This a Formative Event for You Guys?

01:59:22 • 2min

Is It Just Going to Be a Question?

02:01:26 • 2min

The Quality of Evidence on Cloth Masks in a Pandemic

02:03:18 • 5min

The Benefit of the Doubt

02:07:54 • 2min

The Final Word, Jamie.

02:09:49 • 2min

You're Like a Dwarf Dwarve

02:11:28 • 2min

I've Got a Crash Bandicoot, Please and Thank You.

02:13:05 • 2min

Waste of Time - A Negative Review

02:14:45 • 2min

Brett Weinstein, That's Dead in the Lower?

02:16:39 • 2min

You've Got a Backlog, Don't You?

02:18:50 • 3min

The Decoding Academia Club - I Wasn't Invited to a Conference, but They're There.

02:21:25 • 3min

The Revolutionary Thinkers

02:24:18 • 2min

Donate 10 Bucks a Month to the Revolution's Podcast

02:26:05 • 2min

The Galaxy Green Gurus

02:28:25 • 2min

The Distributed Idea Suspension Complex and Attribution-Begated Institutional Narrative on Your Way.

02:30:01 • 2min

Is It Okay to Tell Middle-Aged Women What's Wrong With Their Body?

02:32:14 • 2min

Today we are joined by Jamie Wheal, who comprised a full one-third of the subjects covered on our prior "Sensemaking Cubed" episode also featuring Daniel Schmachtenberger and Jordan Hall. Jamie has kindly taken advantage of our standing offer of a right to reply to all podcast subjects and here is our conversation in its entirety.

As well as being a sometime interlocutor with Daniel and Jordan, Jamie is an author of books such as Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, Navy SEALs and Maverick Scientists are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work and Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death In a World That's Lost Its Mind. He's the founder of the Flow Genome Project, an organisation that aspires to train ultimate human performance, and does leadership seminars and wilderness excursions with many famous organisations such as Deloitte, Red Bull, Google, Lululemon, Facebook, TD Ameritrade, Nike, and Goldman Sachs.

So, the three of us get into it a bit about that sensemaking about sensemaking video, but pretty quickly move into the issue of making sense of things more broadly, as it's transpired with fraught issues such as COVID; both in the popular social media space, and within the 'blue church' of academia.

From what we knew of Jamie, we expected to have a pleasant chat with him, and as you'll hear: it was a pleasant chat! Even if our worldview and understanding of things diverged a fair bit, there were a number of things we could agree on as well.

A big thumbs-up to Jamie for taking our (relatively scathing) coverage of the infamous video with the best of grace and, in the best tradition of what the IDW purports to do, be willing to have a frank public chat with a couple of blokes who have been highly critical of some of the people and ideas he's (somewhat) aligned with.

Our intros and outros are - as usual - quite indulgent, so be sure to take advantage of those bookmarks if you want to skip straight to the interview proper.

Enjoy!

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