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​How To Build A Better BRAIN (+ Ketamine, Nicotine, Alcohol & More!) | Dr. Tommy Wood on the Boundless Life Podcast with Ben Greenfield​

• Once we begin telling ourselves that we are 'too old' to learn this or that, we put ourselves on the fast track of cognitive decline. However, this is a choice, not an inevitability. Dr. Tommy Wood argues that no matter your age, you can maintain cognitive function given that you provide your brain with a conducive environment to do so. After reading these Premium Podcast Notes, you’ll be able to define a healthy brain, practice cognitive preservation tactics, and recognize the potential dangers of AI on brain function

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​Understand & Improve Memory Using Science-Based Tools | Huberman Lab Essentials​

• Your brain is not a hard drive. It doesn't save everything equally. It saves what was followed by an adrenaline spike. Huberman breaks down the neuroscience behind why that's true and gives you six tools to use it, from how you time your caffeine to why 13 minutes of meditation a day changes your recall after 8 weeks

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​The Small Business Succession Crisis & New Possibilities in the AI Age | Will Fry on American Optimist with Joe Lonsdale​

• Will Fry is the founder and CEO of American Operator, a movement that is revitalizing the American Dream one small business at a time. Through their operate-to-own model, they are connecting ambitious entrepreneurs to existing small businesses that still have plenty of good years left in them, and likely tons of untapped potential too! These Premium Podcast Notes break down why small businesses are the backbone of local communities, how young people should rethink their career paths, and why AI poses a far greater threat to Wall Street than Main Street

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​How To Build A Better BRAIN (+ Ketamine, Nicotine, Alcohol & More!) | Dr. Tommy Wood on the Boundless Life Podcast with Ben Greenfield​

The home has a greater environmental impact on a newborn’s brain than the hospital

• A newborn’s brain can be immediately impacted by the hospital environment, through experiencing painful procedures during delivery, needing to stay in the intense care unit, being exposed to opioids at at birth
• “But the home is more important than what happens in the hospital. Even if you had an imperfect start to life, the environment you go back to is the most important thing.”

“The most important thing [for development] is giving that brain opportunities to learn”

• Read to them and teach them to read
• Allow them to practice risky play (not too dangerous, but enough to develop motor skills)
• Involve them in social settings with children their age
• Show them different kinds of... READ THE REST​

The 4×4 Norwegian protocol has shown significant improvements in the function of the hippocampus (memory)

• Train for four minutes at 85 to 95% of your maximum heart rate. Three minute break. Repeat four times. Do this three times a week for six months.
• Studies show that the improved brain function gained from the 4×4 Norwegian protocol is retained for five years even after training has stopped

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​Understand & Improve Memory Using Science-Based Tools | Huberman Lab Essentials​

Key insight: it’s not that something is emotionally important that makes you remember it. The adrenaline spike is what causes the emotional importance AND locks in the memory

Alternatives to caffeine for spiking adrenaline post-learning:

• Cold shower or ice bath
• Hard run or intense exercise
• Any activity that legitimately gets... READ THE REST​

WARNING: don’t take stimulants both before AND after learning thinking you’ll get double the benefit. Chronic elevation of adrenaline actually hurts memory

Optimal protocol stacks everything together:

• Calm, focused learning session with high attention and low baseline adrenaline
• Spike adrenaline immediately after (caffeine, cold, exercise)
• Nap later if it won’t wreck nighttime sleep
• ​Get excellent...​

Déjà vu = a new experience partially activating a previous memory’s neural circuit. You feel like you’ve been here before because some of the same neurons are firing

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​The Small Business Succession Crisis & New Possibilities in the AI Age | Will Fry on American Optimist with Joe Lonsdale​

“Time in the trenches working with humans” is a prerequisite to being a small business owner

• You can’t just leave corporate America and go straight into small business
• Owners, employees, and customers know when you’re “full of shit”
• Domain expertise is only acquired through hard work and first-hand experience

“If an individual wants to take over a business, they better be a unicorn”

• 1. They must know how to buy a business (American Operator helps)
• 2. They need access to capital (American Operator helps, but you also have skin in the game)
• ​3. ????​

Over the past 25 years, two out of every three jobs have been created by small business

• Will expects this to increase to four out of every five

The number one problem for small business is ????, not the cost of labor

• There needs to be better incentives to drive talented, smart individuals away from the traditional education system

Young people should intern at small businesses in their communities

• ‘Just go to college and figure it out’ is an outdated strategy
• Spend time in the real-world and learn what you like
• Only then should you decide if a four-year degree or a trade school is right for you

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​Why Elon Outcompetes Everyone (Eric Jorgenson) | Relentless Podcast​

How to thrive under Elon:

• Get stuff done and then ask for more on your plate
• “The reward for work is more work” and that is all any founder is trying to do, find someone competent and keep loading them up until they break

5 Step algorithm: question every requirement, delete, simplify and optimize, accelerate, automate. In that order

• Every requirement must have an individual human name attached to it. No requirements from departments. Somebody has to own it
• Steps 1 and 2 carry 80% of the value. Everything else is normal engineering
• The mistake everyone makes including Elon at Fremont: doing all five steps in reverse. He tried to automate first, then speed up the robot, then optimize the path, and only later realized the part didn’t need to exist in the first place

Great entrepreneurs follow an S-curve of ambition and the best ones keep the top of the curve shrouded in fog. You can’t see where it ends

• Most companies ride one S-curve. Tesla and SpaceX are a stack of them
  • Falcon 9 is now cash-flowing, Starlink is maturing, Starship is ramping, data centers in space is the next pixie dust
• Appetite comes with eating. The more you achieve, the bigger the next thing you reach for
• “He just announced the Terafab and he’s like now we’re going to basically use the entire moon just to launch AI satellites”

The idiot index is the ratio of what something costs to the raw material cost. A high idiot index means a lot of people are getting paid to not add much value

• Applied to aerospace: government is the main customer, you have subcontractors on subcontractors on subcontractors. That’s an oligopoly with poor incentives. He sees that and says “we can make an order of magnitude improvement”
• SpaceX as an example shows the logic: minimize cost of mass to orbit, and every design decision runs through that one number

Run a constant triage: what’s the most important thing I could be doing right now, what’s the highest leverage action I could possibly take, and how hard can I jump on that lever

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​Dr. Natalie Crawford: How Women Can Improve Their Fertility & Hormone Health | Huberman Lab​

To extend your ovarian lifespan: get autoimmune diseases diagnosed and treated early (Hashimoto’s for example), treat endometriosis, and build an anti-inflammatory lifestyle with food, exercise, and toxin reduction

The top cause of pregnancy loss is random genetic abnormality in the embryo

• It’s not your body failing. Getting pregnant at all still tells you: sperm was present, at least one tube worked, and your body could accept implantation

Women are born with ALL the eggs they will ever have, stored like a vault inside the ovaries

• 6 to 7 million eggs when you are a 5 month old fetus inside your mom
• 1 to 2 million at birth
• 500,000 at your first period

Get tested! Every woman who wants kids or wants to understand her reproductive timeline should get an AMH test, full stop

• This advice is technically AGAINST official medical guidance; the American College of OBGYn says you should not test unless you already have infertility, which is completely wild

The 5 non-negotiables for fertility are: sleep, anti-inflammatory nutrition, stress management, reducing toxin exposure, and building skeletal muscle

• Building skeletal muscle is one of the single best interventions for hormonal health because it is the most effective mechanism for reversing insulin resistance

Protein matters a lot; prioritize it at every meal for muscle building, metabolic health, and hormonal function; a strong skeletal muscle mass is the most effective tool against insulin resistance which sits at the core of so many fertility disorders

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​Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures): Hard truths about building in the AI era | Lenny’s Podcast​

Tactics for getting better at hiring:

• A simple research-backed trick: ask yourself 30 days after any hire “would I make the same decision?” and that 30 day gut check is as accurate a predictor as measuring it a year or two later
• Do 20 references on every senior hire; Tony Xu at DoorDash does exactly this and that discipline has made him very accurate at assessing people
• One investor at Greylock had a rule where you could not stop referencing a founder until you hit a negative reference, meaning you exhausted the search when the first negative finally showed up
• Frame reference questions correctly; the classic mistake was asking “was Max a good employee?” when the right question was “is Max capable of being a world-class entrepreneur?” Wrong question, wrong conclusion, many VCs passed on Fair because of it
• For candidate interviews, ask “if you were CEO of your last company, what would you have done differently?” and then immediately follow up with “why weren’t you able to persuade them to do it?” That follow-up is where the gold lives

How to attract the best talent:

• Vision and mission selling is still mandatory and non-negotiable; talented people always have multiple options
• The more powerful move: convince the person that their specific skill overlaps with the single biggest blocker to the company’s current success, so they are not just joining a good company but betting on themselves
• Keith himself joined Square this way; investors told him there were only two or three people in the world who could do what they needed (someone who knew financial services but was still entrepreneurial) and that argument made him leave Google after two weeks

The existential question every AI founder needs to answer: will the foundation labs become so proficient that there is no oxygen left for startups?

• You need to build something durable for 8 to 20 years and the pace of progress at foundational labs is genuinely threatening even companies that look thriving right now

Criticizing in public vs. private

• Most managers give negative feedback in private, but this optimizes for the individual at the expense of the whole system
• When you only channel criticism privately, the rest of the team has suspicions and concerns but has no idea if leadership is aware or doing anything about it
• Criticizing in public lets the whole team understand that there is an issue and it is being addressed; it also lets other people raise their hand and say they can help
• A mix can work and some things are better channeled privately; it’s not all-or-nothing but the default should tilt toward public