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Tim Ferriss · 2025-11-05

The Path to 150M+ Daily Roblox Users, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, and More — CEO of Roblox

The Path to 150M+ Daily Roblox Users, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, and More — CEO of Roblox

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Continuous glucose monitor (CGM)

“That would be my biggest recommendation for people is to wear a CGM if you can”
“Many of your audience, they've probably tried CGM, which are continuous glucose monitors now, which are a complement to ketosis”— David Baszucki
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Atmospheric Calm (Spotify playlist)

Spotify (inferred)

“It's my go-to playlist if I need a quick boost in creativity or productivity”
“I still listen to Atmospheric Calm on Spotify. I am unable to function with anything other than ambient noise in the background”— David Baszucki
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The Infinite Game

Simon Sinek

“That one I think really got me thinking. I'm a big fan of that”
“One of our board members gave me this book called the infinite game and it's the original infinite game book... I'm a big fan of that”— David Baszucki
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Finite and Infinite Games

James P. Carse (inferred)

“that that one really got me into thinking fun, play, Roblox is a long game... That one I think really got me thinking. I'm a big fan of that”
“The original finite and infinite games, I believe is Carse. Yeah, that's the one, the original. And so that that one really got me into thinking”— Tim Ferriss

The guest's own work

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The 4-Hour Workweek

Tim Ferriss (inferred)

“when we started chatting before I came on, I had read one of your books literally 10 or 15 years ago and it got me inspired to do kettlebells”— David Baszucki
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Roblox

Roblox (inferred)

“The way Roblox presents today, you could think of it as a 3D gaming play platform with about 120 million people on it every day”— David Baszucki

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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Precision Xtra

Abbott (inferred)

“for people who are wondering, you know, I've used the Precision Xtra device, but then you end up having to do a million finger pricks”— Tim Ferriss
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Continuous ketone monitor (CKM)

“What has started coming out now, and it's surprisingly not available in the United States, are continuous ketone monitors, CKMs. They're available for sale in Canada”— David Baszucki
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Oura Ring

Oura (inferred)

“I wear an Oura Ring, so I'm able to track some of this. You could debate maybe the accuracy of the algorithms and so on”— Tim Ferriss
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Star Trek

“whether it's the holodeck we've seen on Star Trek or some of those things, where maybe instead of a video call, I'm hanging out with my dad”— David Baszucki
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Grow a Garden

“what was recently hot, grow a garden, where your garden is always growing in the background and you're tuning it and you're trying to make it better”— David Baszucki
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Dress to Impress

“a top game is dressed to impress, like a fashion game where you you pick clothes out for 5 minutes and you compete in a fashion show”— David Baszucki
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The Mimic

“There are a couple of them show up a bunch. The Mimic, 99 Nights in the Forest. And there are there are many more”— Tim Ferriss
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99 Nights in the Forest

“There are a couple of them show up a bunch. The Mimic, 99 Nights in the Forest. And there are there are many more”— Tim Ferriss
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Survive the Disaster

“there was a really fun very simple game called Survive the Natural Disaster on Roblox. Early on in the prototyping phase, I had a version running on a very old iPhone”— David Baszucki
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2001: A Space Odyssey

“a long time ago, we had Hal in 2001, and no one's ever going to be like that. And arguably, the AI systems today are are better than Hal in 2001”— David Baszucki
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Good Energy

Casey Means

“we also put it on another axis which we just picked up the good energy axis... And we got the Casey Means book from that and all of that”— David Baszucki
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MCT oil

“your mixing of I forget what kind of oil you were mixing with your coffee... Could have been MCT oil. Could have been any number of things”— Tim Ferriss
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Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane (inferred)

“I'm thinking metaphorically right now just off our whole conversation and then popping back to surrealistic pillow... how about feed your head?”— Tim Ferriss