The Random Present, Mega-Vacation Version — 2023 Resolutions and New Instruments, Intensive Bullshitting, Booze and Ethanol Alternate options, The “Yearly Delete,” A Million
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Technologist, serial entrepreneur, world-class investor, self-experimenter, and all-around wild and loopy man Kevin Rose (@KevinRose) rejoins me for one more episode of The Random Present.
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#645: The Random Present, Mega-Vacation Version — 2023 Resolutions and New Instruments, Intensive Bullshitting, Booze and Ethanol Alternate options, The “Yearly Delete,” A Million Sidebars, Ayahuasca Revisited, Recapping the COCKPUNCH Saga, and A lot Extra
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE
- The Mascot
- The Big Reveal: The Legend of CØCKPUNCH — Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss on Tim’s New and Extremely Bizarre Art Project | The Tim Ferriss Show #636
- CØCKPUNCH™
- My Semi-Buzzed Night on Hangover-Free Ketone Alcohol | MEL
- I Will Not Bow to Any Sponsor (Clip) | Wayne’s World
- Suerte | East Austin
- Generation 3 | Oura Ring
- Abbott Precision Xtra Glucose Monitor | Amazon
- Google Translate
- Dom D’Agostino on Fasting, Ketosis, and the Finish of Most cancers | The Tim Ferriss Present #117
- Health Via Modern Nutrition | H.V.M.N.
- Snakewater | KetoneAid KE4
- Vegetation of the Gods — Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ayahuasca, Shamanic Information, the Curse and Blessing of Coca, and Extra | The Tim Ferriss Present #508
- Dry Spray: Decrease Sweating for Hands and Feet | Rhino
- Richie’s Plank Experience | Oculus Quest
- Taiwan: Bungee Jump | Harriet Murray
- Your Personal Digital Fitness and Health Coach | WHOOP
- Cardio Fitness Levels Feature on Apple Watch, Here’s What You Should Know | MyHealthyApple
- The Quantified Scientist | YouTube
- Get an Ultra-Efficient Workout | Peloton Row
- World’s Oldest Skier Turns 105 | InTheSnow
- The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
- What You Need to Know About Pickleball | USA Pickleball
- Peter Attia, M.D. — Fasting, Metformin, Athletic Efficiency, and Extra | The Tim Ferriss Present #398
- Compound Bow | Wikipedia
- Yabusame with Tim Ferriss | Vimeo
- The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
- Kendo Armor | Tim Ferriss, Instagram
- Henry Shukman — Zen, Instruments for Awakening, Ayahuasca vs. Meditation, Intro to Koans, and Utilizing Wounds because the Doorway | The Tim Ferriss Present #531
- Tim Ferriss, Host of ‘The Tim Ferriss Show,’ Author | Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris #120
- Jack Kornfield — How one can Overcome Apathy and Discover Lovely Objective | The Tim Ferriss Present #601
- Waking Up with Sam Harris App
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: Clear, James: 9780735211292: Amazon.com: Books
- San Francisco Zen Center
- Neil Gaiman — The Interview I’ve Waited 20 Years to Do | The Tim Ferriss Present #366
- Marie Kondo – The Japanese Tidying Grasp | The Tim Ferriss Present #234
- The Rise and Fall of Digg | Social Media Today
- An Idiot’s Guide to Understanding the Complicated Porsche 911 Range
- Hodinkee
- Alinea
- All Minus One: The Illustrated Ideas of John Stuart Mill | Heterodox Academy
- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt | Amazon
- Jonathan Haidt — The Coddling of the American Thoughts, How one can Turn into Intellectually Antifragile, and How one can Lose Anger by Learning Morality | The Tim Ferriss Present #644
- Topo Chico Agua Mineral
- Richard’s Rainwater
- Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins | Amazon
- Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue | ChatGPT
- Artist Spotlight: Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda is Dropping ZIGGURATS | PROOF
- Linkin Park
- Stable Diffusion Online
- Freelance Services Marketplace | Fiverr
- Photoshop | Adobe
- Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History Podcast
- Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris | Amazon
- Prompt Hunt
- All The Hacks Podcast
- How I Constructed The Tim Ferriss Present to 700+ Million Downloads — An Immersive Clarification of All Points and Key Choices (That includes Chris Hutchins) | The Tim Ferriss Present #538
- Ken Burns — A Grasp Filmmaker on Inventive Course of, the Lengthy Sport, and the Noumenal | The Tim Ferriss Present #386
- Why the Ford Model T was Such a No-Brainer Over Horses | Energyphile
- Shaun of the Dead | Prime Video
- Dr. Adam Gazzaley, UCSF — Mind Optimization and the Way forward for Psychedelic Drugs | The Tim Ferriss Present #507
- Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Decreasing Nervousness, Crypto Stablecoins, and Crypto Technique | The Tim Ferriss Present #473
- Artist Spotlight: Divergence and the Art of On-Chain Artwork NFTs | PROOF
- South Park TV Show
- Funding Cutting-Edge Scientific Research | Saisei Foundation
- What Does PFP Mean? | Cyber Definitions
- Buy NFTs and More on Ethereum | OpenSea
- COCKPUNCH™ PFP & Excessive-Res Photographs Retrieval Device
- Free and Open 3D Creation Software | The Blender Project
- A Game of Thrones Series by George R.R. Martin | Amazon
- AI Art Generator, AI Art Maker | NightCafe Creator
- DALL·E 2 | OpenAI
- House Hallux | Twitter
- Asserting My New Fiction Podcast Collection | The Tim Ferriss Present #640
- Shamisen | Wikipedia
- The Official PROOF PFP | Moonbirds
- The Legend of COCKPUNCH™ #1005 | OpenSea
- The Legend of CØCKPUNCH™: Circle of Eight | OpenSea
- Ensō | Wikipedia
- Ouroboros | Wikipedia
- CØCKPUNCH: #1: The Seventh Scribe | Apple Podcasts
- Before-and-After Photos of How Presidents Have Aged in Office | Reader’s Digest
- Fight Club | Prime Video
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson | Amazon
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill | Amazon
- The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing by Benjamin Graham | Amazon
- The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko | Amazon
- Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money — That The Poor And Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki | Amazon
- The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale | Amazon
- Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others by Stephen M.R. Covey | Amazon
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson | Amazon
- The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone | Amazon
- Queen
- Harry Potter Complete Boxed Set by J.K. Rowling | Amazon
- About Lockdown Mode | Apple Support
- What an Ayahuasca Retreat Showed Me about My Life | Vox
- Psychedelic-Assisted Remedy (Assets) | Tim Ferriss
- Grasp Magician David Blaine — Fearless with Tim Ferriss | The Tim Ferriss Present #546
- KISS
SHOW NOTES
Editor’s observe: timestamps might be added after the vacations!
- Welcome to The Random Present #4,732 (or so)!
- Tasty grapes and onerous ketones.
- Exogenous keytones — or diabetic horse urine?
- Banana, ketone, tequila, ayahuasca, TV.
- Kevin’s worry of flying vs. my worry of heights.
- Well being monitoring units vs. The Quantified Scientist.
- The Peloton Rower.
- Snowboarding.
- Making Olympic-level picklesport friends on the web.
- Archery, armor, and kettlebells.
- Meditation retreats.
- I’m canceled! You’re canceled! We’re all canceled!
- Kevin’s again within the coding saddle once more.
- The enjoyment of unstuffing.
- Dwelling wealthy as a substitute of dying wealthy.
- Pondering the ethics and implications of AI-generated artwork.
- A Cockpunch colloquy.
- How a lot have I constructed from The 4-Hour Workweek?
- Constructing NFT communities for the lengthy haul.
- Apple lockdown mode.
- Am I accomplished with ayahuasca?
- Parting ideas.
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