When AI becomes your conscience, keeps you in check and sounds like you? ~ Nir Eyal envisions an AI designed not to control you, but to help you become who you want to be. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mHn8c3IBZ8
'Rebellious teenager' may be a modern invention. Teenagers are not wild, just over-controlled. Nir Eyal uncovers the hidden roots of teenage defiance... Full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mHn8c3IBZ8
You’re not being hijacked by tech. You make the conscious choice of playing Candy Crush. @nireyal dismantles the lazy narrative that tech is doing this to us.
Author, speaker, founder, investor and behavioral design maestro Nir Eyal joins me for his second appearance on the show. Today, we dig into Nir’s first book, “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.” We also discuss the difference between coercion and persuasion, AI’s use case as our personal Jiminy Cricket and…
Cultural evolution: The key to understanding human behavior? ~ Nathan Baschez 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #podcast #evolution #shorts #secret
"Allow yourself to do the thing you've been wanting to do. I think our bodies contain an incredible amount of wisdom in just the idea of motivation, like, what are we motivated to do? And almost every time in my life, when I've gone with that feeling, it's led to…
"We have this idea of starting a business as, well, it should just be a project and the world should pull the company out of you [...] You should just do cool projects and allow the world to pull it out of you. And I think that's totally wrong..." ~…
"There's this kind of meme of, 'oh, well, with AI, everyone's going to be actually curators now rather than creators.' I don't think that's right. " ~ Nathan Baschez... Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CErmIVFX_5k&t=4s Links, highlights & transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/on-ai-writing-thought-design-and #meme #shorts #podcast
Nathan Baschez is the cofounder and CEO of Lex, an AI word-processor. He also cofounded Every, was the first employee at Substack AND co-created Product Hunt. Suffice to say, Nathan knows a thing or two about building on the internet. He joins the show to discuss how AI is changing…
"We have a guy that has 7 million followers. We have a guy who's maybe a laser physicist, AGI researcher. Like a deep marketer, $10+ million in revenue at age 20. Folks declining Doge. It's all over the spectrum because that's where I think these new ideas and perspectives come…
"You get two questions, is what I realized over time. They ask you where are you from, where you go to school, and what are you doing out here?" ~ Tommy Potter on pitching himself to billionaires... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP3ofaJOWA0
"I think if you look at a lot of these top companies that are being built, even the top five and Fortune 500 right now, they're all built by these polymaths, these people that learn a lot about a lot of things." ~ Tommy Potter on the power of living…
Young, polymathic, and full of energy — Tommy Potter is on a quest to build a “CIA for Entrepreneurs.” He calls it “The Power Hour” — a startup community in Michigan that hosts dropouts, undergrads and PhDs across many industries: enterprise, consumer, CPG, aviation, gaming, robotics and AR/VR, as they…
Code is no longer capital, it's labor. Our guest Alex Danco explains...
"I love using memes in my newsletter posts because sometimes it's the best way to encapsulate the concept with a gif that everybody understands." Alex Danco expounds on the signal potential of memes... Full video: https://youtu.be/S4gU9o6ou3M
The current status of 2025? Angst looking for a vessel. If it's no longer cool to talk about meme stocks, what are people to do? Our guest Alex Danco explains... Full video: https://youtu.be/S4gU9o6ou3M
Alex Danco's latest take: throwing dinner parties is now a status symbol. "The true scarce status symbol among the set of upwardly mobile professionals is having any kind of spare time... Look at how relaxed I am hosting all these people in our house...and not having a breezy care in…
Shopify Product Director Alex Danco returns for his NINTH appearance on the show — and he comes in hot. As you’ll hear, I didn’t even get a chance to introduce him before he launched into his take on what everyone gets wrong about Citizen Kane. We also unpack the performance…
"I would invite people to an invitation to Slow Living...I think we live in a society that is unable to appreciate boredom." ~ Vizi Andrei on how rushing can cancel anything of depth and meaning on a spiritual level... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfcX7AYnKvQ
"When you create something that just stays on the digital realm, it's kind of abstract. It's not something real. But when you transfer all of that energy in the real world...that's where the magic starts." ~ Vizi Andrei on the sacredness of building real things... Full video: https://youtu.be/nfcX7AYnKvQ
What is the meaning of life? A tough question...maybe it's better to never answer it. ~ Vizi Andrei reflects on why this question has always bothered us... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfcX7AYnKvQ
My guest today is my former teammate Vizi Andrei, founder of The Sovereign Artist program and author of Sovereign Artist: Meditations on Lifestyle Design. Vizi’s journey has been anything but conventional. After dabbling in various creative projects, he realized that the internet offers a unique opportunity: the freedom to take…
"Two guys going off to World War I..." This is not the beginning of a joke, but the beginning of a wonderful story about compounding... Barry Ritholtz explains how time can turn $1000 dollars into $32million+ Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy4O5Sf6PFg
"I like to tell clients you have to learn how to time travel... what's the world going to be like in 15, 20 years? What are your financial needs going to be like?" ~ Barry Ritholtz on anticipating the future instead of expecting the market to work in your favour...…