Matthew Ball is the CEO of Epyllion, which makes angel investments, provides advisory services, and produces television, films, and video games. He’s also a Venture Partner at Makers Fund, Senior Advisor to KKR, Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, and sits on the board of numerous start-ups. Matthew is one…
“When you see a cult as the main backing unit of a currency instead of a powerful military…that’s a sign that there's just not enough here to actually rely on”. — Nat Eliason on not buying the hype of crypto projects and their hard-charging leaders… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABFm4-vZk1o
“[Most people saw] the token going up, they saw the news coming out, they all got excited.” Little did they know that investors were “were chumming the water”. “[It was] just brutal sharks all the way down.” — Nat Eliason on why sometimes regulation is much needed… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABFm4-vZk1o
The prevalence of Diamond Hands “is a way to get other people to be your exit liquidity”. — Nat Eliason on the cultish doctrine of crypto’s ‘Diamond Hands’… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABFm4-vZk1o
“I only wanted to do things where if I lost, it would be a small loss, and if I won, it could be a really big win…” The long term opportunity is in actually “build[ing] something real” in the industry. — Nat Eliason on taking the longview and avoiding speculation……
Nat Eliason is a writer with a keen interest in writing about challenging and revealing things. His debut book, Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance (out July 9th, 2024), charts his personal odyssey into Crypto’s Get-Rich-Quick underbelly. Nat joins the show to discuss the…
“We're spending trillions of dollars managing the symptoms rather than the root causes of these diseases…” — Noor Siddiqui on how solving the problem of disease can lead to better resource allocation for generations… Full episode: https://youtu.be/Gu135TROGr8
"I think that sex is going to be ... for fun with your partner, and for something really important like having kids, everyone is going to choose to do embryo screening." — Noor Siddiqui’s spicy opinion on the future of reproduction… Full episode: https://youtu.be/Gu135TROGr8
"12 million people wouldn't exist today if IVF wasn't invented." — Noor Siddiqui on thinking about future generations when considering new technologies... Full episode: https://youtu.be/Gu135TROGr8
“You can work on something incredibly ambitious, even starting at a super young age and not having spent 20 years in the field...” — Noor Siddiqui on inspiring young ambition… Full episode: https://youtu.be/Gu135TROGr8
Noor Siddiqui is currently building Orchid, a reproductive technology company that measures genetic predisposition to disease and provides embryo screening for couples going through IVF. Noor joins the show to discuss the ambitious culture of the West Coast, getting into the Thiel Fellowship, her personal reasons for starting Orchid, the…
"Here we don't create help, we can only create conditions...that's the only thing that you have power over, is the current conditions that you're working with." --@The4thWayYT on the path to agency Catch the entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw3UssUNEMM
"The deputy steward is like a metaphor for the mind..." --The Fourth Way on getting your house in order🏠🗣️ Catch the entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw3UssUNEMM
'When the pupil is ready, the Master will appear.'🧘🏹 @The4thWayYT on the origins of Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, and the philosophy of The Fourth Way Catch the entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw3UssUNEMM
"He called it the Fourth Way because he essentially is taking all that knowledge from all those schools, combining them, and trying to find practices that affect the mind, body, and heart at the same time..." --@The4thway Catch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw3UssUNEMM
The Fourth Way is an anonymously run YouTube channel and Twitter page dedicated to the path of psychological and spiritual growth and self-improvement. Built around the philosophy of two thinkers - George Gurdjieff and Peter Ouspensky - the ultimate aim of the Fourth Way is “to assist individuals in achieving…
“Becoming a scientist, I think honestly strips away parts of your humanity.” — Mona Sobhani on what we lose when we approach things from a skeptical, aggressive stance… Full episode: https://youtu.be/VMcLKPbOmE8?si=MYrJdb4QR4JH9lg8
“So a lot of these things that we in mainstream science or physicalism take for granted—we keep saying they're established—they're really not…” — Mona Sobhani on the surprising things we can find in our study of the sciences… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMcLKPbOmE8
"...'it's not science, it's pseudoscience.' And that's a false dichotomy. I mean, that's new. They've just decided that that's the case in the last few decades. But that's not how science was before. The natural sciences were philosophy and science." -- Mona Sobhani Catch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMcLKPbOmE8
"Science is actually just a bunch of stories..." --- Mona Sobhani on the subjectivity of scientific narratives Catch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMcLKPbOmE8
Mona Sobhani, Ph.D. is a cognitive neuroscientist, researcher, and author. In 2022 she published her first book, Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A Neuroscientist's Discovery of the Ineffable Mysteries of the Universe, which documents her “transformation from diehard materialist to open-minded spiritual seeker.” Mona joins the show to discuss blowing open…
"[T]hink of someone you love [...] if you had just this one chance to express your love to that person and to leave that person with something to remember you by, what would come out? What would you write down?" ~ Ellen Fishbein shares her advice for aspiring authors… Full…
"Amazon is optimizing for buying the book, not reading the book." ~ Ellen Fishbein Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTTlBXCTVU
"[The] skill set around building online distribution is not the same skill set as writing a really, really, really, really, really awesome book. Sometimes people who can do both of those things overlap, but most of the time, they don't." ~ Ellen Fishbein Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTTlBXCTVU