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#106 - Can A Sleeping Pill Help Fight Alzheimer’s? (The Matt Walker Podcast)
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#106 - Can A Sleeping Pill Help Fight Alzheimer’s? (The Matt Walker Podcast)
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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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![Champion of Alone on The Art of Survival — Jordan Jonas
Jordan Jonas grew up on a farm in Idaho, rode freight trains across the US, spent time in remote Russian villages, fur trapped and travelled for several years with nomads in Siberia, and won Alone Season 6, after being the first contestant to truly thrive in the wilderness and harvest big game. You can learn more about Jordans axes at https://JordanJonas.com/Axe
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[00:00] Preview
[00:30] Who is Jordan Jonas?
[01:40] The Siberian axe gospel: Single bevel, wide eye, and why your Lowes hatchet is basically a butter knife.
[05:30] A Montana downpour baptism.
[06:23] Feather sticks and ferro rods.
[10:50] A gnarly axe-ident, a quest for an abandoned boot, and frontier convalescence in a tipi.
[15:45] First Russian word learned, courtesy of a Moscow airport officer with zero chill.
[17:08] Jordans youthful faith crisis and a Trans-Siberian prayer.
[25:24] From building an orphanage to living with the Evenki.
[27:38] Experiencing tug-of-war hospitality between ex-con Siberian families.
[35:32] Reindeer vs caribou.
[38:42] The Gulag Archipelago at 17.
[42:43] The homeschooling advantage: Finishing academics by noon, then deep-diving history for fun
[47:08] Campfire psychology for gentlemen.
[49:25] Why llamas are more practical than reindeer on Jordans expeditions in the northern United States.
[55:05] How Jordans grandparents found purpose and built a joyful family after surviving Assyrian genocide.
[01:04:49] Dads 12-year health collapse and facing death with radical joy.
[01:12:28] Freight train philosophy and evolutionary dopamine alignment.
[01:23:22] Grandma moose rodeo.
[01:26:22] Alone Season 6: The Super Bowl of survival just south of the Arctic Circle.
[01:33:36] How Jordan survived 77 days in the woods barely breaking a sweat.
[01:41:04] Harvesting a moose at day 20 via Russian fence-funneling tactics.
[01:48:43] Wolverine vs. man with axe, a tin can alarm, and a wife who likes rustic jewelry.
[01:54:57] The crappy fate of less-than-lucky rabbit feet.
[01:56:55] Fat as a survival bottleneck, and how to experience the wild with Jordan.
[02:01:07] Jordan hopes his upcoming book will help readers build reservoirs of resilience before theyre needed.
[02:04:03] The most overlooked part of the Serenity Prayer: Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace.
[02:06:18] The wilderness as political neutral ground and other 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 one billion downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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![Dr. Fei-Fei Li, The Godmother of AI — Asking Audacious Questions & Finding Your North Star
Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, a founding co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, and the co-founder and CEO of World Labs, a generative AI company focusing on Spatial Intelligence. She is the author of The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI, her memoir and one of Barack Obama’s recommended books on AI and a Financial Times best book of 2023.
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[00:36] Why its so remarkable this is our first time meeting.
[02:39] From a childhood in Chengdu to New Jersey
[04:15] Being raised by the opposite of tiger parenting.
[07:13] Why Dr. Lis brave parents left everything behind.
[10:44] Bob Sabella: The math teacher who sacrificed lunch hours for an immigrant kid.
[16:48] Seven years running a dry cleaning shop through Princeton.
[18:01] How ImageNet birthed modern AI.
[20:32] From fighter jets to physics to the audacious question: What is intelligence?
[24:38] The epiphany everyone missed: Big data as the hidden hypothesis.
[26:04] Against the single-genius myth: Science as non-linear lineage.
[29:29] Amazon Mechanical Turk: When desperation breeds innovation.
[36:10] Quality control puzzles: How do you stop people from seeing pandas everywhere?
[38:41] The Godmother of AI on what everyones missing: People.
[42:19] Civilizational technology: AIs fingerprints on GDP, culture, and Japanese taxi screens.
[45:57] Pragmatic optimist: Why neither utopians nor doomsayers have it right.
[47:46] Why World Labs: Spatial intelligence as the next frontier beyond language.
[49:47] Medieval French towns on a budget: How World Labs serves high school theater
[53:38] Flight simulators for robots and strawberry field therapy for OCD.
[56:15] The scientists who dont make headlines: Spelke, Gopnik, Brooks, and the cognitive giants.
[57:50] Whats underappreciated: Spatial intelligence, AI in education, and the messy middle of labor.
[01:00:58] Hiring at World Labs: Why tool embrace matters more than degrees.
[01:03:25] Rethinking evaluation: Show students AIs B-minus, then challenge them to beat it.
[01:06:14] Dr. Lis Billboard.
[01:07:54] The fortuitous naming of Fei-Fei.
[01:09:21] 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 one billion downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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