#712: The Random Show — 2024 New Year’s Resolutions, Tim’s 30-Day No-Caffeine Experiment, Mental Health Breakthroughs, AI Upheaval, Dealmaking and Advising for Startups, The Next-Gen of Note-Taking, Digital Security Tips, and Much More

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Dec 27, 2023

Join a lively conversation exploring fascinating topics! They delve into the world of additive-free tequila and strategic investments, sharing tips on building genuine founder relationships. A unique meditation app is introduced, alongside insights into personal health journeys and the impact of ketamine therapy. The hosts humorously recount their caffeine-free challenges and discuss digital security in the age of AI. Plus, touching stories about tribute tattoos for beloved pets highlight emotional bonds and personal growth.

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Investing in Startups

Share what you love, add value first, and be genuinely helpful to get founders' attention.
Offer your skills or platform to startups, even if you lack capital, to potentially earn equity.

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Alternative Equity Strategies

Offer your skills or services in exchange for equity if you can't invest cash.
This strategy can be very lucrative if the company succeeds.

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Startup Advising

Advise startups for equity, typically 0.25% early on, vesting over two years.
This allows the company to assess your value and cancel anytime, while you potentially benefit from growth.

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A Toast to Lalo: Exploring Additive-Free Tequila and Investment Ventures

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Strategic Investments and Advisory Relationships

07:32 • 14min

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Exploring a Revolutionary Zen Meditation App

21:28 • 2min

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Product Evolution and Personal Growth

23:11 • 4min

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Navigating Digital Privacy

27:01 • 5min

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Navigating Digital Security: Protecting Yourself from Hacks

31:41 • 2min

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Navigating Privacy in Digital Communications and Note-Taking

33:30 • 4min

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Navigating AI, Health, and Personal Growth

37:10 • 22min

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Caffeine, Health, and Personal Experiments

59:02 • 17min

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Cacao: Culture, Consumption, and Consciousness

01:16:27 • 13min

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Navigating Health: A Journey with Ketamine Therapy

01:29:11 • 22min

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Exploring the Impact of Ketamine Therapy on Mental Health

01:50:52 • 3min

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Exploring Mental Health and Tattoo Innovations

01:53:33 • 9min

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Tattoos and Tributes: A Journey of Love

02:02:26 • 21min

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Personal Health Journeys and Transformative Experiences

02:23:43 • 2min

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Healing Through Heartbreak

02:25:30 • 15min

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Promotion of Personal Ventures and Health Solutions

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Tobacco and Shamanistic Healing in South America

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Johannes Wilbert

Johannes Wilbert's "Tobacco and Shamanistic Healing in South America" delves into the profound cultural and ritualistic significance of tobacco among indigenous populations. The book explores the diverse uses of tobacco in healing ceremonies, spiritual practices, and social interactions. Wilbert meticulously documents the intricate knowledge and traditions surrounding tobacco use, highlighting its role in shaping indigenous worldviews. The book provides a rich ethnographic account of tobacco's multifaceted role in South American societies. It offers valuable insights into the complex relationship between humans and plants in shaping cultural practices and beliefs.

The Easy Way to Quit Caffeine

Live a healthier, happier life

Allen Carr

This book by Allen Carr helps readers understand the nature of caffeine addiction and how it tricks the mind into believing it provides benefits. By challenging these beliefs, Carr offers a method to quit caffeine without relying on willpower, leading to a healthier and happier life. The approach is based on cognitive behavioral therapy principles, helping readers change their perception of caffeine and its role in their lives.

Radical acceptance

Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Tara Brach

Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach offers a transformative practice to help readers overcome habitual feelings of deficiency and better relate to their experiences and emotions. The book emphasizes two key pillars: observing one's experience clearly and responding with compassion. Through personal stories, case histories from her clinical psychology practice, and guided meditations, Brach provides practical guidance on mindfulness, compassion, and acceptance. The book helps readers stop being at war with themselves and live fully in every moment, addressing issues such as self-judgments, conflicts, addictions, and perfectionism. It also clarifies that Radical Acceptance does not mean self-indulgence or passivity but rather empowers genuine change and healing.

The 4-Hour Body

An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

Tim Ferriss

In 'The 4-Hour Body,' Tim Ferriss shares the results of over a decade of self-experimentation and research, involving hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of personal testing. The book covers more than 50 topics, including how to lose weight quickly, gain muscle without steroids, sleep less and perform better, and improve sexual health. Ferriss emphasizes the importance of finding the smallest changes that produce the biggest results, making it accessible for readers to achieve significant improvements in their physical health and performance.

Healing Back Pain

The Mind-Body Connection

John E. Sarno

This book, written by Dr. John E. Sarno, presents a groundbreaking approach to understanding and treating chronic back pain. Dr. Sarno's research on Tension Myoneural Syndrome (TMS) suggests that stress, anxiety, and other psychological factors, rather than structural abnormalities, are the root cause of chronic pain. The book explains how repressed emotions trigger tension in the body, depriving muscles and nerves of oxygen, and provides guidance on recognizing the emotional roots of TMS and severing the connection between mental and physical pain. It also advises on how to accept negative emotions, resume physical activity, and change the brain's behavior to heal shoulder, neck, and lower back pain without drugs, surgery, or physical therapy.

Healing Back Pain

The Mind-Body Connection

John E. Sarno

The Power Law

Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

Sebastian Mallaby

In 'The Power Law', Sebastian Mallaby provides a riveting and meticulously researched account of the venture capital industry. The book delves into the history of tech incubation in Silicon Valley and worldwide, featuring key figures from firms like Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Accel, Benchmark, and Andreessen Horowitz. It covers iconic successes and failures, such as the birth of Apple and the rise and fall of WeWork and Uber. Mallaby also examines the 'power law' that drives the VC business, where a few massive successes compensate for numerous failures. The book highlights the industry's influence on innovation, its biases, and the rising competition from China's venture capital sector.

The fellowship of the ring

J.R.R Tolkien

In this epic novel, Frodo Baggins inherits the One Ring from his cousin Bilbo and learns from the wizard Gandalf that it must be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom to prevent Sauron's return to power. Joined by a fellowship of eight other members, including Gandalf, Sam Gamgee, Aragorn, Boromir, Legolas, Gimli, and Merry and Pippin, Frodo sets out on a treacherous journey across Middle-earth. The Fellowship faces numerous challenges, including treacherous landscapes, ferocious enemies, and internal conflicts, as they strive to complete their mission and save their world from darkness.

The surrender experiment

Michael A. Singer

In 'The Surrender Experiment', Michael A. Singer shares his extraordinary story of how, after a deep spiritual awakening, he decided to relinquish his personal fears and desires and simply let life unfold before him. This decision led him to remarkable success, sustained him through crises, and allowed him to cultivate profound inner peace. The book chronicles his life from a young spiritual seeker living in the woods to becoming the CEO of a billion-dollar medical software company, and through a significant legal ordeal. Singer demonstrates how surrendering to life's flow can lead to a peaceful and harmonious life, challenging readers to trust in life’s perfection and let go of the need to control everything.

Good calories, bad calories

Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health

Gary Taubes

In 'Good Calories, Bad Calories', Gary Taubes challenges the conventional wisdom on diet, weight control, and disease. He argues that the last few decades of dietary advice promoting low-fat diets have been consistently incorrect. Taubes posits that carbohydrates, particularly refined ones like white flour, sugar, and starches, are the primary cause of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and other ailments. He supports his assertions with biological, epidemiological, and anthropological evidence, highlighting the role of insulin in fat storage and the flaws in the scientific literature that have led to the current dietary guidelines. The book aims to change how scientists and researchers approach the questions of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes, rather than providing a specific diet plan.

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P.S. Links to everything discussed: https://tim.blog/2023/12/27/the-random-show-2024-new-years-resolutions/

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[00:00] Start

[04:57] Tequila disclosures and investment discourse.

[10:42] Startup advisor considerations.

[18:40] The hit rate of past New Year’s resolutions.

[20:13] Henry Shukman’s new meditation app: The Way.

[22:44] An overlooked advantage for the early investor.

[24:15] Saucelessness and second brains.

[27:41] Protecting your phone’s collage of schwanzes.

[34:20] Privacy and liability concerns in an AI-guided world.

[40:42] Minimalist delegation, foot faults, and surrender.

[46:30] Quick, creative collaborations.

[51:39] My post-holiday physical reboot.