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Crazy Wisdom
Stewart Alsop
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Have you found yourself experiencing a lot of stress recently? Do you want to be more creative? Stewart Alsop interviews successful creatives to find out how they work with and manage the stress that is inherent in creative work. He investigates the questions: "What is the…
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- How do you add uncertainty to your AI prompts? - Kirill Zubovsky
- Does engineering advance science or does science advance engineering? - Pablo Peniche
- How do you preserve knowledge that is implicit and hard to make explicit? - Ivan Vendrov
- How do humans seem to get things wrong and that ends up being their superpower? - Woody Wiegmann
- What are the use cases for distributed networked computing instead of centralized systems? - Eric Helal
- Are the problems of meaning an issue with abrahamic cultures? - Adam Chavez
- What does it mean to reject and transcend triviality? - Trent Gillham
- How is a human similar to a shattered giant ice cube? - Owen Barnes
- How is the brain a filtration system? - Sam Frank
- What is a virtual machine? - Stephen
- Why would someone need interoperability of everything? - Deborah Simpier
- What is the relationship between Kundalini and topological quantum computers? - Dr. Jonathan Paprocki
- What does it mean to build NFT on the BTC blockchain? - Casey Rodarmor
- What is the thing about exponentials? - Kenny Rowe
- How long does delusion traditionally outlast sanity? - Aaron Lowry
- What are the downsides of having everything become easily accessible? - Noah Kumin (Mars Review of Books)
- How are CNC routers changing woodworking? - Steve Heckathorn
- The Nuclear Physics of Spiritual Growth - Nicholas Faulkner
- How is additive manufacturing (3D printing) changing manufacturing? - Stephanie Bonfiglio
- What is the fundamental process behind decentralization? - Mike Townsend
- What happened in China with the recent sanctions on microchips? - Michael Tauberg
- How long until we have the ability to print anything anywhere with 3D printing? - Justin Liguori
- How Can You Create More Intimate Relationships With Everything in Your Life? w/ Liam Ellerby
- What Does It Mean to Shift Around Time? w/ ~Pilwyc-Fastec
- What happened between Socrates and now?
- How Do You Assume Responsibility For Existence? w/ Wade Townsend
- The Invisible Infrastructure of Trust w/ Aaron Lowry
- How Do You Deal With the Necessity of Being an Asshole? w/ Francis Pedraza
- Why is Modernity Difficult on Spiritual Deviants? w/ Neal Davis
- Why Will We Mine Our Own Garbage? w/ Bill Lawrence
- Can You Be a Stoic and a Sex Worker at the Same Time? w/ Dashielle Bark Huss
- What Will Urbit Look Like in 1,000 Years? w/ Time from Uqbar
- What Is the Current State of Psychedelics? w/ Woody Wiegmann
- God is Real, Now What? w/ Jacob Rudolph
- What Was the Big Lebowski About? w/ Zach Puchtel
- How Do We Enable More People to Run Their Small Businesses? w/ Stuart Christoph
- What is Urbit trying to do? w/ Theodore Blackman
- Will Urbit Replace Linux? w/ Peter McEvoy
- Is Bitcoin the Universal Basic Income? w/ Michael Hawaii
- How Do Our Stories Shape Our Realities? - Steven Morris
- Why Do I Need a Personal Server? - Galen Wolfe-Pauly
- What Are the Metaphysics Behind Socialism? - Francis Pedraza
- How can we trust anything anymore? - Sam Patten
- Who was the Bitcoin Jesus? - Bernardo Oliveira
- What is the Tirrel Corporation?
- How can we minimize conflict and maximize collaboration? - Erik Newton
- What is it like to become part of the outgroup rapidly? - Steve Kirsch
- Accessing the Unconditioned Mind - Jonathan Harris
- Reclaiming Personal Agency - Michael Batrano
- What are the three technologies of the future?
- How has the world changed post COVID? - Jim O'Shaugnessy
- What is meant by the phrase "The medium is the message"? - Steven Fan
- What exactly is an NFT? - Daliso Ngoma
- What is the relationship between fear and healing - Keia Lavine
- Will exoskeletons ever become mainstream? - Nihkil Verma (MD)
- Why do kids get cancer? - Courtney Hodges
- God, the boundaries of Biology, and Free Will - Woody Wiegmann
- Do you know you can make music with plants? - Joshua Morrison Cooper
- Should you take the COVID Vaccine? - Mateo Bonells
- What is a fab and why is it the next big thing in the manufacturing industry? Matt Parlmer
- Why you should reach out to strangers you admire online - Rodney Gainous Jr.
- Can AI be taught to hold a conversation? - Bruna Paese
- How can we make our forests resilient again? - Gabriel Bolzani
- How are plant psychedelics different from synthesized psychedelics? - Isabelle Kupka
- Awakening from the Matrix with Alex Levy
- What effects will decentralized currency have on Nation States? - Zura Guerra
- How to greet in West Timor
- How I got hustled in China when I was 21 - Stewart Alsop III
- The Wizard and the Wand: Humans vs AI - Francis Pedraza
- Depression is a disconnection from your body - Dr. Emily Splichal
- What do you believe about your market that most people don’t and why? - Tuto Assad
- How not to die while camping out in the snow - Claire Tiwald
- What is 5-Meo-DMT? - Ruth
- Stepping into your creative genius - Kelsey Stratton
- Why you should treat life as a Videogame - Ray Alejandro
- The individual is actually a group effort - Norland Tellez, PhD.
- How do you find the courage to be disliked? - Woody Wiegmann
- What is the right way to educate a child? - Ryan Delk
- Tantra isn't what pop-culture has you thinking it is - Ashton Szabo
- What is the Meaning Crisis? - John Vervaeke
- How cats got a sweet deal by optimally navigating of the curiosity-survivability loop - Jude Gomila
- The strangest podcast intro you'll listen to this week - Thomas Spellman
- What makes some people contrarian? - Enzo Cavalie
- How do plants communicate? - Yoshua Greenfield
- How do you build the largest audio platform in Latin America? - Pamela Valdes
- - Why does philosophy become more dangerous as society takes a turn for the more challenging? - Zev Weinstein
- What is the relationship between the mind and the Self? - Joscha Bach: Cognitive Scientist
- How did you go from neuroscience to writing for a tech company? - Courtney Nash
- What are the undisocovered parts of iboga? - Clare S. Wilkins: Founder and Director of Pangea Biomedics
- What is the connection with survival situations and mindfulness? - Jessie Krebs: Survivalist at The Prepared
- How can technology make education more abundant? - Hla Hla Win: CEO and Cofounder of 360ed
- What happens when a system gets too big? - Matt Maier: Complexity Thinker
- What has COVID19 done to the experience economy? Michael Morgenstern: CEO and Cofounder of This is Definitely Real
- How do you build an institution that can deal with modern life? - Mike Elias: Founder of Idea Markets
- What does it mean to live a good life? - Warren Gohl of the Seneca Nation
- How much of Civilization depends on the movement of water in and out of homes? - Jesse Aizenstat: CEO of Forward Lateral
- How is internet culture like a mycelium network? - Robin Arnott: CEO of Andromeda Entertainment
- What are the differences and similarities in Finance between 2008 and 2020? - Mike Alfred: CEO of Digital Assets Data and an investor
- How has COVID19 effected the supply chain in the US and China? - Michael Mayer: CEO of Bottomless
- What do most people get wrong about ligaments? Arik Gohl: Founder of Manual Ligament Theory
- What is it like to take Iboga? - Levi Barker: Iboga Provider at Iboga Wellness Center
- Are you working in your flow state? - Matt Mireles
- How do you survive and thrive in our authoritarian future? - Simon Chamorro: CEO of Valiu
- What is the point of studying something that the best minds have already studied? Reid Blackman: Ethicist
- What does Philosophy show us in the age of Information? - Max Brody: Founder of Cent
- How can colors help us improve our mental health? - Sam Hincks: PhD in Computer Science (Tufts)
- What is the free energy theory? - Jacob Falkovich
- How to flip the switch on negative emotional states? - Mathew Belair
- Why did people stop becoming nuclear scientists? - Leslie Dewan: Founding Principle of Nucleation Capital
- What is the substrate of reality? Geoffrey Woo - CEO of H.V.M.N
- What is the current state of Crypto and how do they relate to the fundamentals? - Dan Hannum
- What's it like to see Remote Work from the very beginning? Gary Poster: VP of Engineering at Manifold
- What is the lifespan of the most important technologies? Svilen Rangelov: CEO of Dronamics
- What is the relationship between creativity and venture capital? - Leo Polovets: Susa Ventures
- What happens when you pay someone $10K to move out of San Francisco? Doug Ludlow - CEO of Mainstreet
- What does it look like for humans to adapt to cities? Brian Chen - CEO of Room
- What is the current state of AI? - James Mishra
- What is a fake guru and how does one take them down? - CoffeeZilla from YouTube
- How do use the internet and not let it use you? - Collaboration with Chad from the Random Baddassery Podcast
- What is the relationship between personal change and creativity? - Jan Bozarth
- How can you build a system that succeeds? - Steven Glod: VP of Sales of Machinio
- What narratives are running your life? - Ben Hunt: Epsilon Theory
- How do you create unfair advantages? - Tyler Tringas: Founder of Earnest Captial
- How is technology impacting the flow of patients in hospitals? - James Burns
- What is the stress of growing up in poverty and then creating an abundant life? - Luis-Orlando Isaza Villegas
- Fourth Episode with Kapil Gupta
- What is it like to succeed when 290 investors tell you no? - Benjamin Fernandes: CEO of NALA
- What is the hallmark of true mastery? - Jacob Cole: CEO of IdeaFlow
- What does it mean to be in a community? - Jillian Richardson: Founder of Joy List
- What is the current state of Coliving? Camilo Olarte: Cofounder of Indie Studio
- What's it like to start a company in Medellin, Colombia? - Camilo Usurga: CTO of Talos Digital
- What can we learn about creativity from taking pictures with an analog camera? - Christopher Michel
- What does it mean to commit to something challenging? Dulma Altan - Potion
- Singapore as a technology hub - Ben Reinhardt
- What do you learn from starting a company in Mexico and then selling it in SF? - Domingo Guerra
- What is the intersection of healthcare, technology, and mindfulness? - Tracy Townsend (MD)
- What does it mean to be a public intellectual? - Anna Gat: CEO of Pychon
- How does following interdisciplinary interests make you a better CEO? - Martin Permin (CEO of Pelion)
- What does it mean to love oneself? - Kamal Ravikant
- When does philosophy become divorced from practicality? - James Pierce
- Can you grow a business while being yourself? - Krystal Mobayeni: CEO of Bento Box
- What does the study of philosophy do to our desires? - Crazy Polymath
- How can technology help us prevent injury? - Part 2: FathomAI
- How can technology help us prevent injury? - Ivonna Dumanyan: CEO and Cofounder of FathomAI
- What is really happening with AI? - Josh Tobin: Former Researcher at OpenAI
- How will the next billion users interact with the internet? - Jani Pasha: CEO of GetLokal (YC-backed)
- What does it mean to innovate? - Mark Bünger: Innovation Lab
- What can the culture of Singapore tell us about the future? - Visakan Veerasamy
- What is the difference between prana and breath? - Robin Rothenberg: Founder of Essential Yoga Therapy
- What is information asymmetry? - Huan Nguyen
- Why does one narrative win and another one lose? Mike Solana: VP at Founders Fund
- What is the relationship between money and entrepreneurship? Marco Fuxa: Investor and Entrepreneur
- What does a shamanic practitioner do? Mimi Young: Founder of CEREMONIE
- What is the difference between stress and pressure? - Kulveer Taggar: CEO & Cofounder Zeus Living
- How to think about investing in remote companies? Jeff Morris Jr: Growth at Lambda School
- Why is it stressful to talk to strangers? Ruben Abergel: Founder of the Social Animal
- What does it mean to see reality clearly - Priya Manivannan
- What does it mean to write well? Rachel Jepsen - Senior Editor of Holloway
- What is the global playing field for startups? - Boris Wertz (Version One VC)
- What does it mean to innovate? Wiza Jalakasi: Head of Global BD and Strategy
- What is the long tail of remote work? Ian Livingstone - Cofounder of Dropout Labs
- How has the global startup ecosystem changed? Torsten Kolind: CEO & Cofounder YouNoodle
- How can we learn more effectively? Hossein Nivi: CEO of Pendaram
- What does it mean to sell something? - Shaan Hathiramani: CEO of Flockjay
- How can we incentivize the truth? Is this possible? - Robin Raskin Founder of Living in Digital Times
- What is the relationship between technology, creativity, and modernity? - Dhrupad Karwa: CEO and Cofounder HaikuJam
- What is the difference between a pitch and telling a story? - John Fein: Managing Partner Firebrand VC
- How to tell a computer what to do? - Stephen Wolfram: Founder & CEO Wolfram Alpha
- What is the future of Work? Stacey Ferreira: CEO of Forge
- What is a proper objective for human civilization? - Daniel Thorson: Emerge Podcast
- How can we incentivize a common pursuit of truth? - Preethi Kasireddy (CEO of TruStory
- As a CEO, Executive or Manager, how can self awareness help us build better processes?
- How does Dance help us deal with Uncomfortable emotions - Emily Webb (Founder of Mission Fusion)
- Why did Satoshi remain anonymous? - Dan Hannum (CEO Hannum Capital Management)
- How do you find out what's real? - Mike Slavin from High Existence
- What's really going on in Crypto - Mike Dudas (The Block)
- How do you build a new operating system for the mind - Mark Williamson (COO of Masterclass)
- What is the role of bliss in life? - Andres Gomez Emilsson (Qualia Research: Stanford)
- How do geopolitics and technology intersect? - Nathaniel Raymond (Yale)
- How can you get stronger without buying anything? - Jerry Teixeira
- How do you take a company from idea to IPO? - Joe Alsop
- Kapil Gupta - Is it possible to stop wasting one's life?
- What is the effort involved in appearing effortless? - @SwanVR
- What can we learn about human's by studying fish? - Russ Carpenter from Stanford
- How to build a business that gets people outside? - Sharzad Behzadian
- David Boxenhorn: Modia and Mundia Explained
- Steve Schlafman: Venture Capital, Chronic Pain, Creativity
- Special Interview Series: Investing in the Ocean Technology Sector
- Erics: Fisher and Levin - Improv & VR
- Natalie Nagele: CEO of Wildbit
- Special Interview Series: Bren Smith on Ocean Farming
- Andreas Klinger - What is the future of remote work?
- Norland Téllez: Civilization of Maya, Wisdom, and Psychology
- Special Interview About Ocean Health: Daniela V. Fernandez
- Greg Wendt - the Cosmos, Systems, and Economics
- Lawrence Wang: Modern Wisdom
- Special Interview about Ocean Health: Mary Crowley
- Hiten Shah - Where Tech and Spirituality meet
- Online course for startup founders to raise money for a distributed team
- Ryan Caldbeck - the Other Side of Entrepreneurship
- John Ramey - The art of Prepping
- Farbood Nivi - Making Crypto Easy
- Andy Sparks - How do you write clearly for business?
- Tiago Forte - How do you build a second brain using technology?
- Jim O'Shaughnessy - How do you talk about the unnamed Tao?
- Russell Ladson - How will we interact with computers through VR?
- David E. Weekly: CEO and Cofounder of Medcorder
- Laura Behrens Wu - CEO & Cofounder of Shippo
- Allen Saakyan - Host of Simulation Series
- Safi Bahcall - The stress of firing a loonshot!
- Charlie Pinto - the Art of Becoming
- Peter McCormack - The Stress of Running a Bitcoin Podcast
- Brett J Fox - Lessons from a True Operator
- Marc Bitanga - What is marketing and how does it work?
- Sahil Lavingia - CEO of Gumroad: What happens when you move from SF to Provo, Utah?
- Ryan Delk of Omni - Our Thoughts on Creativity Inc
- Dr. Cameron Sepah: Part II - ACT: A Radical Approach to Anxiety -
- How does uncertainty lead to stress and how can we cope?
- Dr. Cameron Sepah - Part I: the Science of Stress and Resilience
- What happens when you move West?
- Are nuclear weapons an existential threat to humanity?
- What did Jung have to say about stress?
- Arianna Simpson
- Nicholas Brysiewicz of the Long Now Foundation
- Kunal (@crazypolymath)
- Does a chip on your shoulder help you become successful?
- Kapil Gupta
- How will technology make us more mindful?
- How to balance intuition with the intellect?
- Kapil Gupta
- How can Daoism make us less stressed and more creative?
- The medical implications of stress
- The risk of being creative
- Jill Eickmann
- Are we moving into the 5th dimension?
- Tommy Leep of AngelList
- Do rebels experience stress when they rebel?
- How does a healthy relationship make you more creative?
- What are some sources of stress when working remotely?
- Would you live forever if you could?
- What is the relationship between accountability and stress?
- A live business coaching session
- What did the ancient greeks have to say about creativity?
- How to deal with the stress of uncertainty?
- How do you work with the stress of managing others?
- What It's Really Like Being a VC (feat. Stewart Alsop II)
- Starting and Growing a Yoga Studio (feat. Marisa Toriggino)
- How to Use Stress as an Entrepreneur (feat. Mike Maples Jr.)
- Conversation With Mark Lutter
- How to act with integrity
- What is the relationship between pain and stress? Arik Gohl
- What sources of stress are the same for people from Mexico and people from the US? What are some different sources?
- What is the difference between stress and anxiety?
- What can taxes teach us about stress?
- How can we use stress to speak more effectively? John Block of Effective Presentations
- What can you learn from elite athletes about the stress of aging? Jeff Bercovici
- How can a founder of a company work with stress in a positive way? Terrence Yang of Yang Ventures
- How can you learn from stress instead of wishing it away? Ryan Marchman of the Adjustatorium
- Can you build a company with minimal stress? Andy Alsop - CEO of The Receptionist
- Does the process of migration make you a better entrepreneur? - Ana María Alvarez Monge
- What do you do when your home country descends into civil war? Fahd, A Migrant from Syria
- How do labels confuse our perception of reality? - Cecilia Tham of MOB coworking space
- How do you make sure to disconnect? - Marie Schneegans of Workwell
- What is the role of stress in elite performance? Julia Dujmovits - Olympic Gold Winner
- How do you deal with the anxiety that comes from being on stage? - Joey Greiner: CEO of Woojo
- How does meditation help you to find balance while creating something new? Anders Jones - CEO of Facet Wealth
- How do you stay calm when everything around you is telling you to freak out? - Ruben Harris: Founder of Breaking Into Startups
- What is your core emotional value? What is your purpose on this planet? Demian Rosenblatt - Graphic Designer
- How Meditation Can Help You Connect the Puzzle Pieces of Your Life? - Kari Sulenes of the Atlas Project
- Is enlightenment contagious? Andy Richter - Photographer of Yogis
- Can you view stress as a motivator instead of as a disease? - Keith Rabois of Khosla Ventures
- How do you act when surrounded by stress and difficulty? - Julia Vasquez
- Does following your bliss lead to more success in work and life? - Bill Tai of Bitfury
- This is your Brain on Nature - Julia Plevin Founder of the Forest Bathing Club
- Michelle Tsng - Can a robot love a human better than another human can?
- Aldric Negrier - CEO of ZenVow: Can you build a technology product that supports a meditation practice?
- Corvas Brinkehoff, CTO & Cofounder of Meow Wolf - How does mindfulness set the conditions for creativity?
- Francis Pedraza of Invisible Technologies - What do most people get wrong about meditation?
- Andrew Murray Dunn, CEO of Siempo, How can mindfulness and software help us to remain more present in times of rapid technological change?
- Charlie Huguenard of Meow Wolf - How do you create a Therapeutic Work environment?
- Eric Fisher of Mindful Improv - How do you balance Chaos and Structure?
- Dave Fontenot of Mission Control - What are the benefits of ADD when it comes to making music?
- Jeremy Riney - How do you tell the difference between a Psychotic Break and a Spiritual Crisis?
- Damian Taggart of Meow Wolf - Creative Flow through Yoga - Episode #1
- The Language of Yoga Therapy: What makes it different from other types of Yoga?
- Yoga en Espanol: First Yoga Class in Mexico City
- Embracing Formlessness in your Yoga Practice
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