The Tim Ferriss Show

In this edition of The Random Show, Tim and Kevin reunite in L.A. to talk AI super assistants that run your life over text message, agentic shopping, beta-alanine for climbing endurance, walnuts and sperm quality, dream engineering and anesthesia dreams, boner pills, man makeup, The Dark Wizard , Tim's upcoming book, a Jean-Claude Van Damme splits bet, and much more. Please enjoy! This episode is...

Many of us feel like we’re drowning in invisible complexity. So I wanted to hit pause and ask a simple question: What are 1–3 decisions that could dramatically simplify my life? In this episode: Chip Conley shares how a near-death experience on stage changed his life. Greg McKeown reveals what a stormtrooper costume has to do with all the goddamn clutter in our lives. David Allen explains why the...

Kevin Ryan is one of the leading entrepreneurs and investors in New York. Often called the “Godfather of NYC tech,” he is the founder and CEO of AlleyCorp , a New York based venture capital firm that incubates and invests across healthcare, AI and software, consumer tech, deep tech, and more. Kevin is also the co-founder of several notable companies including MongoDB, Business Insider, Zola, Gilt...

My guest today is Tania de Jong , co-founder of Mind Medicine Australia . Tania and her husband, Peter, helped lead the push that, in 2023, made Australia the first country in the world to allow MDMA and psilocybin to be prescribed for psychiatric conditions. I wanted to understand how the hell they helped make that happen and what the rest of the world can learn from it. This episode is brought t...

This episode is a bit different. It's a live, unscripted working session with a founder, and I've only done one other earlier this year. Niels Hoven ( @NielsHoven ) is the founder and CEO of Mentava , a company building software to support fast learners. Eager kids are dramatically underserved by today's education system, and Niels created Mentava to allow students to achieve their potential. Prio...

This is a special episode about overcoming mistakes and failure. What do you do when your work is rejected, when the big bet fails, or when the path ahead suddenly disappears? As you’ll hear in this episode, setbacks can often present opportunities, if you know how to look for them. This episode is brought to you by: Helix Sleep premium mattresses: HelixSleep.com/Tim (20% off any purchase) Gusto s...

This episode is devoted to one deceptively simple question: How do you stay close to your partner over time through the inevitable exhaustion, misunderstanding, conflict, disappointment, and change? This episode is brought to you by: Eight Sleep Pod Cover 5 with dual-zone temperature control, so each partner sleeps at their perfect temperature In this episode:  Esther Perel begins with the ba...

This is a special compilation devoted to reinvention: how to shed an identity that no longer fits, decide on a new chapter, navigate uncertainty, and commit to what’s next. This episode is brought to you by: Shopify global commerce platform, providing tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business Momentous high-quality creatine for cognitive and muscular support In this episode: ...

This is a special compilation devoted to a subject very close to my heart and currently consuming a large percentage of my waking hours: writing. Over the years, I’ve asked some of the writers I admire most questions like: How do you choose a project and stay with it? How do you begin when inspiration refuses to show up? How do you build a practice that reliably produces pages? And how do you keep...

In this wide-ranging Q&A, Tim explores reinvention, enduring skills for the age of AI, friendship, mental health, fitness, language learning, privacy, cognitive longevity, and more. This episode is brought to you by: Gusto simple and easy payroll, HR, and benefits platform used by 400,000+ businesses : Gusto.com/Tim Momentous high-quality creatine for cognitive and muscular support: LiveMoment...

Andrew Huberman, Ph. D. , is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Departments of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he runs the Huberman Lab. He is the author of Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body . This episode is brought to you by: ProLon science-backed Fasting Mimicking Diet that helps activate cellular renewal through fa...

In this edition of The Random Show, Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose reunite over tequila to talk Zen retreats, learning to rock climb at (almost) 50, mortality and grief, why you should stop saying "one day," AI predictions , and much more. Please enjoy! This episode is brought to you by: Incogni, which removes your personal data from the web, helping shield you from fraud, scams, and identity theft: I...

Guy Oseary ( @guyoseary ) has been spotting talent before anyone else could see it for nearly four decades. Under his leadership at Maverick Records, Maverick sold more than 100 million albums. Guy has managed some of the biggest names in music, including Madonna, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and U2, and was named Variety 's Music Mogul of the Year in 2022. He executive produced Twilight , which bec...

For more than 40 years, David Allen has worked with individuals and organizations around the world to help them stay clear, focused, and productive—without burning out. He is the author of the mega-bestseller Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity . Subscribe to David's Substack at davidallen.substack.com . This episode was originally published in September 2019. Show notes: http...

Graham Duncan ( @GrahamDuncanNYC ) is the co-founder of East Rock Capital , a multibillion-dollar multi-family investment office he launched in 2006. He is also Chairman of the Sohn Conference Foundation , which funds pediatric cancer research. This episode was originally published in February 2019. Show notes: https://tim.blog/2019/02/28/graham-duncan/ This episode is brought to you by: Shopify g...

"Coca is to cocaine what potatoes are to vodka" — Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade Davis on the health benefits, sacred history, and unjust prohibition of the most misunderstood plant on Earth. Dr. Andrew Weil is a pioneer in integrative medicine and founder of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he holds the Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair and serves as Clinical...

Sebastian Mallaby ( @scmallaby ) is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the author of six books, including More Money Than God , The Power Law , The Man Who Knew , and The World's Banker . His latest book is The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence . Thi...

Max Levchin ( @mlevchin ) is a serial entrepreneur and investor in 100+ startups. He's the founder and CEO of Affirm , the payment network powering consumer purchases and merchant growth. An original PayPal co-founder, Max served as CTO until its 2002 acquisition by eBay. This episode is brought to you by: ProLon : science-backed Fasting Mimicking Diet that helps activate cellular renewal through...

Jake Becraft is the CEO and co-founder of Strand Therapeutics , a company building one of the most advanced programmable genetic medicine platforms in biotechnology. Under his leadership, Strand is redefining what RNA medicines can do by enabling cell-selective targeting and therapeutic payload delivery inside the body, unlocking a new class of precision genetic therapies. This episode is brought...

Dr. Becky Kennedy is the founder and CEO of Good Inside , a parenting movement that overturns a lot of conventional, modern parenting practices to empower parents to become sturdy, confident leaders and raise sturdy, confident kids. She is the author of the bestselling book Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be , a chart-topping podcast , a TED talk with more than 5 million vi...

Sami Inkinen ( @samiinkinen ) is a Finnish-born, Stanford-trained entrepreneur and the founder and CEO/president of Trulia and Virta Health . Virta is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people using technology, AI, and nutrition. A world-class endurance athlete, Sami is a triathlon age-group world champion and an 8-hour, 24-minute Ironman finisher, having completed the Hawaii...

Jerzy Gregorek ( @TheHappyBody ) is a 4x World Weightlifting Champion, co-founder of UCLA’s weightlifting team, and co-creator, with his wife Aniela, of the Happy Body program .  You can watch the documentary Prisoner No More , directed by Jeff Wolfe and produced by WolfePrideProductions.com , for free here: tim.blog/hardchoices . To fill out the form on Cerebral Palsy Research Project, visit...

Many of us feel like we’re drowning in invisible complexity. So I wanted to hit pause and ask a simple question:  What are 1-3 decisions that could dramatically simplify my life in 2026?  To explore that, I invited four long-time listener favorites—Anne Lamott, Claire Hughes Johnson, David Yarrow, and Diana Chapman. This episode is brought to you by: Incogni,  which automatically re...

Elad Gil ( @eladgil ) is CEO of Gil & Co, a multi-stage investment firm, holding company, and operating company working on the world’s most advanced technologies. Elad is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies, including AirBnB, Anduril, Coinbase, Figma, Instacart, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Stripe. He was previously VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitte...

Cathy Lanier is the Chief Security Officer of the National Football League, where she oversees security across the league office and all 32 clubs. Before the NFL, she served as Chief of Police of Washington, D.C., from 2007 to 2016 — the first woman in the role and the longest-serving chief in the force's history — where her strategies helped cut violent crime by 21 percent even as the city's popu...