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Why aiming for the best isn't always good for you (w/ Barry Schwartz and Coco Krumme)
Maximizing and Satisfying
AI Key Takeaways
- Herb Simon distinguished between maximizing and satisficing
- Maximizing seeks the best while satisficing looks for good enough
- Maximizing is demanding and requires cognitive resources
- Satisficing allows flexibility in upgrading standards
- Maximizers generally achieve better outcomes but feel worse
- Satisficers may have lower outcomes but feel better
- Subjective feelings about decisions are important
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Tim Ferriss: How to Learn Better & Create Your Best Future
Learn the rules as an amateur so you can break them as a professional
AI Key Takeaways
- The importance of learning the rules as an amateur in order to break them as a professional.
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Tim Ferriss: How to Learn Better & Create Your Best Future
The Slow Carb Diet in a nutshell
AI Key Takeaways
- The diet is designed for people who have struggled with other diets and aims to improve body composition.
- The rules of the diet are simple: don't drink calories, don't eat anything white, and consume 30 grams of protein within 30 minutes of waking up.
- Choose meals that consist of vegetables, beans or lentils, and a protein source.
- Taking one day off per week is allowed for indulging in any kind of food.
- Fruit and fructose should be avoided during the week, along with added sweeteners.
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Tim Ferriss: How to Learn Better & Create Your Best Future
Contrast therapy: hot and cold water
AI Key Takeaways
- Consistency in using contrast therapy is important, especially for injury recovery and mood regulation.
- The Japanese approach of alternating hot and cold water helps with vasodilation and faster heating.
- Cold water has been used historically for mood regulation and as a preemptive intervention for depression.
- Researching the old history and PubMed can provide insights into the benefits of contrast therapy.
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Tim Ferriss: How to Learn Better & Create Your Best Future
Using TK and *** for Gathering and Finding Research and Documents
AI Key Takeaways
- Scrivener is a program designed for screenwriting that can be used for gathering research and organizing documents.
- Scrivener allows users to view research and work simultaneously, using features like split panes.
- The speaker gathered data from various sources and used a web clipper from Evernote to capture information.
- The speaker marked important data with three asterisks to easily revisit it later.
- Using specific symbols like 'TK' can help writers indicate that certain information needs to be inserted later without interrupting the writing flow.
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#682: Bill Gurley Interviews Tim Ferriss — Reflecting on 20+ Years of Life and Business Experiments
How to Choose the Door That Opens More Doors
AI Key Takeaways
- The speaker started intentionally doing something and thinking about a trajectory when making the pitch for 'The 4-Hour Body'
- The speaker wanted to choose a door that opened more doors
- The speaker chose to do something in a completely different section of the bookstore
- The speaker's decision making has defined many of their key decisions
- The speaker's decisions are potentially out of left field but of interest to them
- The speaker's decisions can potentially open new doors
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#669: Kevin Kelly — Excellent Advice for Living
Using Chat GPT to Generate Headlines and Punchlines for Content
AI Key Takeaways
- Having a friend who writes scripts can help identify weak plot points and contradictory plot points
- Creating a list of talking points can be useful for promoting a book
- Using a daily blog to generate multiple post ideas and headlines is a helpful tool
- The speaker has not used say, chat GPT for generating headlines
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Why We Write and Language Models with Maggie Appleton
The Dishonesty of Machine Learning
AI Key Takeaways
- There is a form of dishonesty in machine learning that can undermine trust in information
- Experience and expertise add value to information
- Without grounding in real experience, words lose their anchor in truth
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#670: The Random Show with Kevin Rose — The $1M Bitcoin Bet, Japanophilia, Rare IPAs, Preventing Hangovers, AI Companions, Fringe Discords, Affordable Luxuries, High-Fidelity Audio, and Much More
With ChatGPT you’re no longer limited by your skills
AI Key Takeaways
- GPT-3 can help writers overcome writer's block
- GPT-3 can provide suggestions to improve prompts
- GPT-3 can assist itself in generating content
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#669: Kevin Kelly — Excellent Advice for Living
What Kevin Kelly learned from being in a different century
AI Key Takeaways
- The technology of today allows for more choices and options than before
- In the past, people's occupations were limited and often predetermined based on their gender
- Technology has opened up new career paths and opportunities
- While people in the past had strong support systems and good identities, they lacked choices in their lives
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#669: Kevin Kelly — Excellent Advice for Living
The Obama Test
AI Key Takeaways
- On average, this is a better place to live than at any time in the past
- The Obama test determines what time period people would want to live in randomly, and most people would choose the present time period
- There is a recognition of the factors that allowed for the improvement in living conditions and whether they are still in operation
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#669: Kevin Kelly — Excellent Advice for Living
The Importance of Optimism in Making Good Complicated Things
AI Key Takeaways
- Optimism can be learned and developed over time.
- Being optimistic helps in creating good and complex things.
- Envisioning and believing that something can be accomplished is where optimism comes in.
- Most of the things we have now were made possible by the optimistic views of people who believed they could make it happen.
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