PODCAST
Crazy Wisdom Newsletter
by Stewart Alsop
Investigating into the edge and intersection of spirituality and technology. stewartalsop.substack.com
Episodes
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First day of new 30-day challenge
Reaching out to strangers will change your life. This has been a habit that has had a profound effect on my life. In our abstract world of “value” that only humans really have, other people are usually where the opportunities come from. Those opportunities can be business-related or just...
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Irrational Passion
The faith that will move mountains. You won’t find that faith through a better mental model. That faith will only come from a desperate Sisyphean struggle with truth and trying to do something that matters against all odds. There is a lot of mythology around entrepreneurship and glorifying it. To...
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What is the potential of online learning?
I started taking online courses in my yoga training when a teacher of mine, Harvey Deutch did an online course along with Jules Mitchell. It opened up a world to me that I had been blind to up until then and also helped me heal issues with chronic pain through understanding the science of…
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The question of success
I talked with Lawrence Wang about many things, but we got to a very important point about the nature of success and the importance of relationships. I've been doing a podcast for two years now. In the process, I have uncovered a skill, which is the ability to draw out the most relevant…
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How to update your mental models
This excerpt from my conversation with Laura Behrens Wu is a great example of what happens as we grow up and realize how much we are run by cultural, habitual and genetic conditioning. As children, we form beliefs and opinions about the way the world works based on our experiences. We are by...
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Automatic behaviors and post hoc rationalization
We as human beings tend to behave first and then rationalize later. We tell a story about why we did a certain thing, but in reality those stories don’t accurately represent all the myriad and mysterious forces that were in play at the time of an action. These stories are just images, brief...
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My interview with Bram Cohen
The above is my full interview with Bram Cohen where we get into the details of crypto and why Bram (creator of BitTorrent) is going to create the next generation of programmable money with his new company Chia Network We were able to draw out simple details of how to understand things like proof...
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Everyone is just making s**t up all the time
We, humans, tend to put a lot of value in credentials and institutions as if these things were sacred. In reality, most people are just making s**t up and are fallible humans mucking about in an uncertain environment, with random conditions (more on that here which is the full episode of the…
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Your signal is another person's noise
The above is a small clip from my interview with Tiago Forte who is helping people build a second brain using technology. He says that everyone has expertise not just so-called "experts" and even a child may have the expertise for a particular situation you may be struggling with. I like to make…
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How can you talk about the unnamed Tao if it is unnamed?
A few months ago I saw Jim O'Shaughnessy tweet about the Tao. This caught my eye because Jim is a successful and wealthy financial advisor who has written many books about Wall Street. I immediately asked him if he would be willing to come on my podcast because I'm a fan of narrative violations…
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What will productivity look like in VR?
I’ve edited a short clip from my longer form conversation with Russel Ladson, the CEO of Drop, a browser built for navigating the web in VR. VR is finally starting to take off with gamers and viewers of porn. These two are always the first when it comes to any new consumer platform. Once the...
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My Interview with Mattereum CEO Vinay Gupta
I scored a really important interview today with Vinay Gupta who is the creator of the Hexayurt, the current CEO of Mattereum, and an early employee at Ethereum and I'm giving special access to my subscribers here to this episode. A couple of months ago I wrote about my investigative thesis for…
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A lifestyle or high-growth business?
I'm at an inflection point with my business where I'm considering what the scope of the problem is and whether it is a lifestyle business or one that can rapidly grow. I've learned from interviewing people who have done it that there is very little chance of work-life balance if you build a $1...
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Pain is an ancient signal
The evolutionary mechanisms for pain are ancient and distributed among most living species on this planet. Whether fish feel pain is debated, but it's clear that most animals experience pain meaning that it showed up very early in our evolutionary history. As humans, our experience of pain is...
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The Value of "No"
You can give all you want, but until you start asking you will not receive. I've been doing more sales lately and getting a lot more no's along with some yes’s. To ask is to tempt fate and receive a no, or worse, silence. I used to fear the no, Now I welcome it. It's only information telling you...
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Transactional vs Transformational
This framework I got from one of my yoga teachers, Kaya Mindlin is probably one of the most effective I have ever received when creating for public consumption and working 1-on-1 with people. When you create something for another human being it lies on a spectrum from transaction to...
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Taking Responsibility
This has been a huge theme in my life recently. Taking radical and relentless responsibility for the decisions I have made in my life and the consequences of them, what the yogis call Karma. It showed up twice today, first in a conversation with my business coach Henri Meijer, and then in an...
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How not to find a dentist
Someone on Twitter asked me to go deeper on a video I made there and asked for a specific podcast so I’m publishing the above which is my experience on why you should have caution before allowing someone to move your teeth. Basically I argue that Dentists don’t really have a lot of oversight…
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A Movement Begins
A movement has been underway for a while now with regards to the nature of how technologists can build technologies that make humans better humans. The audio file above will go into more detail, but I want to let you peek into this movement because you might not be aware of it yet. I’m in New…
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Global Problems, Global Solutions
Its a time of great personal ideation for me and ideas for businesses are coming to me out of nowhere. I’m trying to pull out what makes sense and focus as much as I can (an issue for me!). The episode above is my first solo podcast where I’m honest about what I’m doing and why I’m doing it. I…
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A Healthy Chip on your Shoulder
I’ve uploaded a previous podcast episode that I did with Vinay Hiremath about having a chip on your shoulder and whether that’s a healthy thing or not. If you are interested in what I write below I’d recommend listening to that above. It seems to be a rule of a successful enterprise that the ones...
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Interview with Miko Matsumura
Continuing with my theme of the intersection of technology and spirituality I sat down with Miko Matsumura who is a General Partner at Gumi Crypto Capital. TL;DR: We talk about Buddhism, Yoga, Patanjali, Science, Neuroscience, Biology, Atheism, the relationship between Creativity and Stress,...
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My Interview with Farbood Nivi - CEO of Coinmine
Only hours after writing my manifesto about my first investigative thesis for my blog here, I had a conversation with Farbood Nivi, the CEO of Coinmine, a very interesting hardware/software/service solution for consumers to mine cryptocurrencies out of the box. My thesis is that technology and...
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Investigating into the edge and intersection of spirituality and technology.
stewartalsop.substack.com
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