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Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded one billion downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded one billion downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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![KneesOverToesGuy — Workouts That Produce Wild Results and Lessons from Charles Poliquin
My workout with Ben: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpM4V6O9f6w
Ben Patrick, better known as “Kneesovertoesguy” (@TheKneesovertoesguy) is the founder of Athletic Truth Group (ATG), an online and brick-and-mortar training system rooted in rehabilitative strength and joint health. After years of debilitating knee and shin pain (including multiple surgeries), he rebuilt his body and performance, going from a sub-20″ vertical to a documented 42″ leap.
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[00:00] Preview
[00:42] How Ben went from Old Man Patrick to Knees Over Toes Guy.
[04:29] Backward sled dragging for safe strength building and rehab.
[11:46] Full range of motion squatting (deep squats vs. 90-degree limitation).
[12:35] “Strength is gained in the range it is trained.” — Charles Poliquin
[14:50] ATG split squat (front foot elevated split squat).
[15:53] Heel elevation and counterbalancing techniques.
[23:26] Ben’s mother’s transformation — from hip deterioration to sprinting at age 71.
[23:42] Ben’s vertical jump progression — unable to grab rim in high school to dunking at 34.
[24:21] Most effective exercises Ben’s mom might recommend.
[25:51] Ben and I reflect on what Charles Poliquin (RIP) gave to us.
[32:37] How backwards sled pulling became a revered exercise.
[35:12] Mr. Universe Bob Gajda’s contributions to Ben’s regimen.
[38:15] ATG prioritizes offering American-made products when possible.
[39:12] Tibialis raises without equipment.
[40:24] Why I included the ATG wrist bar in a recent 5-Bullet Friday.
[43:19] Ben’s videos he most recommends.
[49:27] Applying the minimum effective dose (MED) for maximum results in any endeavor.
[54:40] What I would include in The 4-Hour Body if it were written or revised today.
[56:02] A space-saving alternative for people who want to enjoy the benefits of sled work.
[56:47] Real examples of high-yield workouts that require a low investment of time.
[01:00:53] Ben’s basketball warmup protocols.
[01:01:53] Regularly skip leg day? Try Arnold Schwarzenegger’s one simple trick.
[01:03:46] Maintaining integrity in the ever-fickle world of content creation.
[01:27:15] Parting thoughts.
Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 900 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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![Richard H. Thaler — The Winner’s Curse and Going Against the Establishment (with Nick Kokonas)
Richard H. Thaler is the 2017 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to behavioral economics and the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is the New York Times bestselling co-author of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness and the author of Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics.
His new book is The Winners Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies, Then and Now.
My co-host for this conversation is Nick Kokonas. Nick is an entrepreneur, investor, and author best known as the co-founder of The Alinea Group (sold in 2024) and the reservation platform Tock, which is now owned by American Express.
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[00:00] Preview.
[00:46] First principles: What is economics, really?
[02:33] The “max” assumption and agents as optimizers.
[04:45] Rationality in models: Solving problems like an economist would.
[05:39] “Meh” vs “Max” — shortcuts instead of optimization.
[06:12] Selfishness, fairness, and self-control in economic models.
[08:08] Milton Friedman’s “as if” defense.
[10:38] The cashew nuts story: Origin of behavioral economics.
[12:05] Removing choice and status quo bias.
[13:04] The case for Americans needing forced savings.
[15:04] Academic resistance: Psychologists laughing at economic theory.
[19:56] Loss aversion: Disease cure experiment.
[22:18] Endowment effect: Coffee mug experiment.
[24:05] Restaurant reservations and the power of deposits.
[25:26] Fairness research: Snow shovels and blizzards.
[27:11] Uber surge pricing and the 9/11 thought experiment.
[28:53] Behavioral economics in one sentence.
[29:16] Nudges: 401(k) auto-enrollment case study.
[31:50] The fly in the urinal and nudge durability.
[33:10] Lakeshore Drive lines: Making safety easy.
[35:28] Choice architecture: Good nudges vs. malicious nudges.
[36:37] Online gambling and Robinhood’s gamification.
[38:20] Lessons learned from teaching decision-making for 40 years.
[39:18] Winner’s curse: The jar of coins demonstration.
[41:16] ARCO engineers discover the winner’s curse in oil bidding.
[42:20] Writing papers as competitive strategy.
[44:36] Amos Tversky’s note: People learn through stories.
[45:44] Overconfidence: Amazon River and CFO predictions.
[47:56] NFL draft: 53% success rate (barely better than coin flips).
[49:08] Trading down in the draft as optimal strategy.
[51:07] Applying behavioral insights to daily habits.
[52:36] The law of one price and restaurant deposit resistance.
[55:02] Sports analytics: The three-point shot revolution.
[57:54] Mental accounting: Money in jeans feels like a windfall.
[01:02:38] Sunk cost fallacy: The dessert we don’t need.
[01:05:34] Richard’s daughter and the baseball/concert tickets experiment.
[01:06:55] Temptation bundling: Using cognitive biases for self-improvement.
[01:09:55] Big data and natural experiments in the real world.
[01:10:40] Mental accounting in action: Premium gas during the financial crisis.
[01:14:34] The pragmatic reason Richard invented behavioral economics.
[01:16:30] Strategy: Corrupt the youth, not change old minds.
[01:17:46] The behavioral economics summer camp running since 1994.
[01:18:52] The “Anomalies” column in Journal of Economic Perspectives.
[01:20:36] Citations matter: Writing articles people can understand.
[01:21:09] Availability bias: Homicides vs. suicides.
[01:22:21] Kahneman and Tversky: The reason for everything.
[01:23:41] Systematic bias vs. random errors.
[01:24:38] Amos’ dinner trap: Everyone you know is dumb, except your models.
[01:27:38] Michael Lewis’ The Undoing Project.
[01:28:25] Daniel Kahneman’s assisted suicide decision as peak-end rule applied to life itself.
[01:35:31] What keeps Richard going?
[01:37:00] Why the updated version of The Winner’s Curse should appeal to economists and everyday humans.
[01:40:12] Parting thoughts.
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![Breathing Protocols to Reboot Your Health, Fix Your Sleep, and Boost Performance — James Nestor
James Nestor is a science journalist and the author of the international bestseller Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, with more than three million copies sold in 44 languages.
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Timestamps:
[00:00] Coming up.
[00:51] Why I waited years to interview James about Breath.
[01:46] Maurice Daubard: The mysterious 90-year-old who preceded Wim Hof.
[04:15] Tummo breathing: Ancient Bon Buddhist heat generation.
[07:32] James’ personal breathwork practice and the Wim Hof method (with warnings).
[09:24] How breathwork cured James’ chronic respiratory issues.
[11:08] Sudarshan Kriya: The weekend workshop that changed everything.
[13:47] My nine-minute breath hold experiment (hyperbaric chamber edition).
[15:54] Post-book revelations and angry doctors’ offices.
[17:37] The ADHD-breathing connection: A controversial Venn diagram.
[18:56] DIY breathing assessments for kids.
[22:54] Mouth tape: From hostage situations to sleep optimization.
[25:54] James’ seven-year mouth taping commitment.
[28:14] CO2 levels: Your LEED-certified hotel is suffocating you.
[33:46] Monitoring CO2 with the Aranet4 and building a CO2 database.
[36:44] James’ travel kit: Red lights, granny packs, and a Soviet-era PEMF device.
[47:22] In Weirdville, eyes sing The Body Electric.
[48:22] The supplements included in David’s granny packs.
[49:36] Natto vs. nattokinase.
[51:36] Athletes and breathing: The BOLT score explained.
[58:42] LeBron James’ alternate nostril breathing and diaphragmatic dysfunction.
[01:00:04] Inspiratory muscle training and the back soreness warning.
[01:04:01] The Relaxator: An adult breathing pacifier for focus.
[01:07:58] San Francisco Writers Grotto and the trustafarian invasion.
[01:11:16] Writer’s block: A convenient excuse for hobbyists.
[01:14:09] Cutting the corporate cord: James’ visceral “I quit” moment.
[01:20:36] The freediving story that launched a book deal.
[01:23:03] Deep‘s disappointing launch and publisher betrayal.
[01:26:34] Breath: From 290,000 words to 85,000 in a house in the woods.
[01:28:15] Finding the skeleton: The Stanford experiment as through-line.
[01:30:42] Prayer and coherent breathing: The 5.5-second secret.
[01:33:29] James’ critique of breathwork culture and barriers to entry.
[01:35:55] Sleep optimization: SnoreLab, side sleeping, and incline bed therapy.
[01:39:44] Parting thoughts and where to find James and free breathing protocols.
Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 900 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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