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Tim Ferriss · 2022-10-11

Relentless Focus, Full-Contact Entrepreneurship, Epigenetic Reprogramming, and More

Relentless Focus, Full-Contact Entrepreneurship, Epigenetic Reprogramming, and More

Recommended on this episode

BookRecommended

Principles for a Changing World Order

Ray Dalio (inferred)

“I thought he did a really good job... I found the book convincing... I've gifted that to a handful of people”
“Ray Dalio's recent book you know principles for a changing World Order and I thought he did a really good job of just kind of looking back at history”— Brian Armstrong
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman

Richard Feynman (inferred)

“That's a classic on my bookshelf that I revisit pretty often”
“one of them is surely you're joking Mr Fineman that's That's a classic on my bookshelf that I revisit pretty often”— Tim Ferriss
MediaRecommended

The Top Idea in Your Mind

Paul Graham (inferred)

“I have one bookmarked that I reread often... that I revisit with some regularity”
“the top idea in your mind... that's one since I have a creative project that I'm focused on at the moment that I revisit with some regularity”— Tim Ferriss
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How to Make Wealth

Paul Graham (inferred)

“it just really nicely explains the idea... I think that's really important for people to understand”
“there's one about how to build wealth or something it just really nicely explains the idea where people think money is zero sum”— Brian Armstrong
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Haters

Paul Graham (inferred)

“that's a good one to go back and read too”
“I go back and read his essay I think it's called haters whenever I'm feeling down like people are whenever I accidentally read the comments online”— Brian Armstrong
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Getting Things Done

David Allen (inferred)

“I like David Allen... has a good book getting things done... I roughly follow some kind of a process like that”
“I like David Allen I think his name is has a good book getting things done right I mean I roughly follow some kind of a process like that”— Brian Armstrong
ProductRecommended

Khan Academy

“KH Academy stuff like that gets me really excited”
“if you look at education it's like KH Academy stuff like that gets me really excited it's like okay let's make a free world-class education available to everyone”— Brian Armstrong

The guest's own work

BookBy the guest

Start Breaking Free

Brian Armstrong (inferred)

“So I wrote a book called start breaking free and then after I wrote this I didn't have a publisher or anything I was doing a self-publishing thing”— Brian Armstrong
MediaBy the guest

Coin (documentary)

Brian Armstrong / Coinbase (inferred)

“I hope people go check out the documentary it's called coin and I partly I created it because I wanted to show people what it's like to try to create something new”— Brian Armstrong
ProductBy the guest

Coinbase

Brian Armstrong (inferred)

“I had launched an early version of coinbase just on Reddit and places like that you know I'd gotten a couple hundred people to come sign up”— Brian Armstrong
ProductBy the guest

Coinbase Wallet

Coinbase (inferred)

“with coinbase wallet we recently set this up where anybody can go in there and claim a free ens name you can get like tim.cb at the end”— Brian Armstrong
ProductBy the guest

Coinbase Card

Coinbase (inferred)

“things like coinbase card have been really useful in terms of getting people using crypto in the real world brick and mortar or online anywhere that Visa is accepted”— Brian Armstrong
ProductBy the guest

Coinbase Earn

Coinbase (inferred)

“coinbase earn is like another one that we've seen that's driven a lot of that activity so yeah peer-to-peer payments it's a bunch of things”— Brian Armstrong
ProductBy the guest

Coinbase Prime

Coinbase (inferred)

“we had to launch an Institutional product and coinbase Prime and we have actually been successful at getting more and more of these large institutions to move”— Brian Armstrong
ProductBy the guest

Coinbase NFT

Coinbase (inferred)

“with coinbase nft we've now launched that the very first version of it is out there which nf.coinbase.com”— Brian Armstrong
ProductBy the guest

New Limit

Brian Armstrong (inferred)

“I encourage people to check it out beautiful website very nicely designed new limit.com yeah so easy to remember so I encourage people to check that out”— Brian Armstrong
ProductBy the guest

Research Hub

Brian Armstrong (inferred)

“this all ties back to research Hub which is another company that I funded and try to help get off the ground the team there is doing really awesome stuff”— Brian Armstrong

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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How to Market Your Book

“I read a book called How to Market your book and you know I basically realized that I had to go make a blog or something to try to market the book”— Brian Armstrong
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Free to Choose

Milton Friedman (inferred)

“Milton Friedman has this book called free to choose I actually have never read the book but there was a TV series he did on PBS”— Brian Armstrong
MediaReferenced

Free to Choose (PBS TV series)

Milton Friedman (inferred)

“there was a TV series he did on PBS back in the day that was also called free to choose and I thought that was kind of interesting”— Brian Armstrong
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Hackers and Painters

Paul Graham (inferred)

“how to make wealth from May 2004 which originally came from his book hackers and panters so I will put both of those in the show notes”— Tim Ferriss
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The Coddling of the American Mind

Jonathan Haidt (inferred)

“Jonathan Height's book about cing the American mind and all these things that kind of started on college campuses I had sort of loosely read a few things”— Brian Armstrong
BookReferenced

Seven Days to the Perfect Puppy

“I think it was seven days to the perfect puppy on the top yeah and then another one that it was hard to get a full read of”— Tim Ferriss
ProductReferenced

Pokémon Go

Niantic (inferred)

“did you ever see like Pokémon go how people had these like AR experiences and they could kind of like geocache things and go find them”— Brian Armstrong