Recommended on this episode
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Texts (Texts.com)
Automattic (inferred)
“I'd love for you to try it, actually. ... it is a great product.”
“It brings them all together. It's really nice. I often acquire apps or invest in things to make up for my own deficiencies.”— Matt Mullenweg
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Day One
Automattic (inferred)
“Day One is a great example. ... Now why do I really like it? I prefer dated entries”
“Day One is a great example. Day One doesn't share any technology with Tumblr or WordPress, but it's a fully encrypted local journaling app.”— Matt Mullenweg
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GitLab
GitLab (inferred)
“GitLab is a really great one led by Sid.”
“GitLab is a really great one led by Sid. They're actually even more open than we are. They publish like everything”— Matt Mullenweg
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Element
Element (inferred)
“really awesome company, I think philosophically very aligned”
“I think Element, which is built on the Matrix ecosystem, so open source messaging ... really awesome company”— Matt Mullenweg
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Signal
Signal Foundation (inferred)
“which is amazing. Signal, very philosophically aligned.”
“He's running Signal, which is an open source nonprofit messaging app, which is amazing. Signal, very philosophically aligned.”— Matt Mullenweg
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Charlie Munger interview on Acquired
Acquired (inferred)
“It was a really great episode.”
“He did, I think it was Acquired. ... we'll link to that in the show notes. It was a really great episode.”— Tim Ferriss
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Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis (inferred)
“Zorba the Greek is spectacular.”
“Zorba the Greek is spectacular. ... And absolutely loved that book, yes. So that is one I go back to revisit.”— Tim Ferriss
BookRecommendedISBN verified
Awareness
Anthony de Mello
“Awareness by Anthony de Mello would be another one”
“Awareness by Anthony de Mello would be another one, very short, very fast. I'm increasingly a fan of rereading”— Tim Ferriss
BookRecommendedISBN verified
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse (inferred)
“just an interesting story of enlightenment and journey”
“Siddhartha. ... just an interesting story of enlightenment and journey”— Matt Mullenweg
MediaRecommended
The Acceleration of Addictiveness (essay)
Paul Graham
“is a really good one”
“"Acceleration of Addictiveness" is a really good one.”— Matt Mullenweg
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How to Do Great Work (essay)
Paul Graham
“I consider his magnum opus ... that one's really good.”
“He just published what I consider his magnum opus ... I think it's called "How to Do Great Work" ... that one's really good.”— Matt Mullenweg
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The Top Idea in Your Mind (essay)
Paul Graham
“one of his essays that I have bookmarked so it's visible in my browser”
“it's "The Top Idea in Your Mind" that is one of his essays that I have bookmarked so it's visible in my browser.”— Tim Ferriss
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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (essay)
Paul Graham
“which I think is a perennial reminder worth paying attention to”
“the "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule," ... which I think is a perennial reminder worth paying attention to.”— Tim Ferriss
MediaRecommended
Marginal Revolution (blog)
Tyler Cowen
“I probably learned more from Marginal Revolutions than I did from Financial Times textbooks”
“I probably learned more from Marginal Revolutions than I did from Financial Times textbooks”— Matt Mullenweg
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Tyler Cowen interview with Paul Graham
Tyler Cowen (inferred)
“I love that one, it was hilarious.”
“He had a conversation with Tyler Cowen. ... I love that one, it was hilarious.”— Tim Ferriss
BookRecommendedISBN verified
Empty Planet
Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson (inferred)
“Read this great book Kevin Kelly recommended called Empty Planet”
“Read this great book Kevin Kelly recommended called Empty Planet, [which] basically says we're not going to have enough people.”— Matt Mullenweg
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1Password
AgileBits (inferred)
“I like password managers, like 1Password.”
“I like password managers, like 1Password. There's also this new thing coming out called passkeys.”— Matt Mullenweg
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Bill Gurley presentation 2,851 Miles (on regulatory capture)
Bill Gurley
“So it's a great presentation. I would say that's a follow-up for everyone listening.”
“Bill Gurley has this amazing presentation ... So it's a great presentation. I would say that's a follow-up for everyone listening.”— Matt Mullenweg
BookRecommendedISBN verified
Fallen Leaves
Will Durant
“Isn't that beautiful? ... It's neat.”
“This is from Fallen Leaves, which is that posthumous book ... Isn't that beautiful? ... It's neat. It's on life.”— Matt Mullenweg
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Waking Up app
Sam Harris
“first thing you do is you're going to do 30 days of the introductory course on the Waking Up app”
“first thing you do is you're going to do 30 days of the introductory course on the Waking Up app from Sam Harris.”— Tim Ferriss
BookRecommendedISBN verified
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
“great book. Very pithy”
“our mutual friend Kevin Kelly in his book of Excellent Advice, which came out not too long ago, great book.”— Tim Ferriss
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The Work
Byron Katie
“is very valuable”
“I think The Work by Byron Katie and doing turnarounds and interrogating your beliefs is very valuable.”— Tim Ferriss
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Delfina (restaurant)
“One that I really like is called Delfina.”
“There's so much good fancy pizza in San Francisco, like Flour + Water, et cetera. One that I really like is called Delfina.”— Matt Mullenweg
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La Connessa (restaurant)
“They served an amazing pizza ... That was amazing.”
“contrast at a restaurant called Connessa in San Francisco, a new one ... They served an amazing pizza.”— Matt Mullenweg
The guest's own work
ProductBy the guest
WooCommerce
Automattic
“but since have expanded to e-commerce with WooCommerce, one I'll talk about with messaging”— Matt Mullenweg
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WordPress
Automattic (inferred)
“At the age of 19, I co-founded open source software called WordPress, which is a blogging content management system.”— Matt Mullenweg
ProductBy the guest
Tumblr
Automattic
“Oh, we bought Tumblr, so we're running Tumblr for the last few years”— Matt Mullenweg
BookBy the guestISBN verified
The 4-Hour Chef
Tim Ferriss
“took a break from the books after The 4-Hour Chef, that's when the podcast was started, 2014.”— Tim Ferriss
BookBy the guestISBN verified
The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss
“this is also on some level synonymous with what I described in The 4-Hour Workweek is the mini-retirement”— Tim Ferriss
MediaBy the guest
Tim Ferriss podcast episode with Dr. John Krystal (on ketamine)
Tim Ferriss
“I did a podcast with Dr. John Krystal, who's the chair of psychiatry at Yale ... everything you would ever want to know about ketamine episode.”— Tim Ferriss
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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Calm
Calm (inferred)
“Like investing in Calm in 2012 or whatever it was, I felt like I needed to meditate.”— Matt Mullenweg
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Beeper
Beeper (inferred)
“There was another one called Beeper that supported iMessage and Apple decided to just shut it down.”— Matt Mullenweg
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Roam Research
Roam Research (inferred)
“You can also interlink the notes, which is actually pretty cool. Not unlike a Roam Research or some of these other — Obsidian.”— Matt Mullenweg
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Obsidian
Obsidian (inferred)
“Not unlike a Roam Research or some of these other — Obsidian. You can interlink things.”— Matt Mullenweg
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Nostr
“what's he funding? Something called Nostr and Bluesky, which are two competing open source Twitters, which is really cool.”— Matt Mullenweg
ProductReferenced
Bluesky
Bluesky (inferred)
“Something called Nostr and Bluesky, which are two competing open source Twitters, which is really cool.”— Matt Mullenweg
MediaReferenced
Slate Star Codex / Astral Codex Ten
Scott Alexander
“like Slate Star Codex, Scott Alexander, Shane Parrish, Knowledge Project. There's these writers now that really drive a lot of folks.”— Tim Ferriss
MediaReferenced
The Knowledge Project
Shane Parrish
“Scott Alexander, Shane Parrish, Knowledge Project. There's these writers now that really drive a lot of folks.”— Tim Ferriss
BookReferencedISBN verified
Body for Life
Bill Phillips
“he got me a book called Body for Life or something, one of these really — Oh. Yeah, Bill Phillips, I think, back in the day.”— Matt Mullenweg
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ChatGPT
OpenAI
“you can go to ChatGPT and say, "Provide me with 10 questions in the flavor of Andrew Huberman, Tim Ferriss, Rich Roll"”— Tim Ferriss
ProductReferenced
Midjourney
Midjourney (inferred)
“She was a first hundred user of ChatGPT, Midjourney.”— Matt Mullenweg
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Mistral (AI models)
Mistral AI (inferred)
“We now have open source, the mistral models like GPT 3.5, maybe even GPT for quality, which is kind of wild.”— Matt Mullenweg
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Khan Academy
Khan Academy (inferred)
“And Khan Academy is doing some really cool stuff, you can sort of make the chat bot so they're safer for kids”— Matt Mullenweg
BookReferenced
Emergency
Neil Strauss
“Or what's the survival stuff we read, Neil Strauss' book. Oh, Emergency.”— Tim Ferriss
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Blueprint (delivery service)
Bryan Johnson
“They just started to be this Blueprint delivery service in San Francisco. ... I'm actually pretty excited about it. It looks —”— Matt Mullenweg
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ZBiotics
ZBiotics (inferred)
“Have you tried ZBiotic? ... It helps metabolize the alcohol in your stomach.”— Matt Mullenweg
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Lantern Bioworks (cavity-preventing bacteria treatment)
Lantern Bioworks
“It's called Lantern Bioworks. ... I'm thinking about trying this. It's a little absurd.”— Matt Mullenweg
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Flour + Water (restaurant)
“There's so much good fancy pizza in San Francisco, like Flour + Water, et cetera.”— Matt Mullenweg
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