Crazy Wisdom

The answer from James: "When it creates problems, rather than dissolving them." If you like the episodes with Kapil and with Kunal you will like this one. Be warned I kept the long pauses as well. Enjoy the pregnant silences! Find James here: https://twitter.com/jimmpierce

We also discuss the topic of using your strengths to help support the areas where we are weak. Krystal runs a business that is past 100 employees and she has a lot of insight into what it means to build such a business from the ground up. If you are starting or running a business this is a good episode for you to listen to. Also if you happen to feel like a 3rd culture kid this would also be inter...

This is the second time I've had Kunal on the show. He gives a great description of what the study of philosophy does to our desires as well as the way he found his way out of some problems that the study of philosophy presents. Find Kunal Here: https://twitter.com/CrazyPolymath

This is the second episode of my 2 part series with the founders of FathomAI. Here we go into the actually biomechanics behind the relationship between technology and injury prevention. I really had fun with this one! Hope you enjoy. Check out the FathomAI device here: https://www.fathomai.com/

This was a very fun episode where I sit down to talk with Ivonna about the device her company (FathomAI) built to help people exercise with less injuries. We talk about the subjective and objective components of injury prevention as well as a little bit into the biomechanics of what their product is measuring.  I enjoyed it so much that I then interviewed her technical cofounder about more of the...

Josh and I have a conversation about the latest in AI research and he gives me the breakdown on what is Unsupervised learning and what is Supervised learning. This would be a good one to listen to if you fear the AI apocalypse (doesn't seem likely). Follow Josh here: https://twitter.com/josh_tobin_

Jani and I talk about how his company helps people in India who don't speak English leverage the internet to reach their goals. This is one of the episodes of the series I'm doing on the rise of innovation outside of Silicon Valley.  This company is particularly interesting for me because there are linguistic borders to the internet and Lokal is breaking them down for people who don't speak Englis...

Mark works with innovation and technology at Innovation Lab. We talk about a lot of science related stuff including: Flying Cars How you can't have both innovation and risk aversion Bioinformatics Modularity interoperability Biohacking spaces Lacoperon Check out Mark's Website: Marsbound.com

We talk all things culture and how culture spreads from place to place. We talk about how burning man culture is changing the culture of Singapore. We also talk about the differences and similarities between the culture of Silicon Valley (where I grew up) and Singapore. There are also some tidbits in here for anyone who wants to thrive in the stressful era we might be entering.  Follow Visa here:...

She is the author of “Restoring Prana - A therapeutic guide to pranayama and healing through the breath. We talk about the connection between breath, posture, and voice. We also talk about the relationship between the breath and the nervous system You can find more info on Robin's website here: https://essentialyogatherapy.com/about

We talk about information asymmetry and what it means and how it shows up in our lives. Check out Huan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HuanWin

I talked with Mike about: narratives and why one wins and another one loses narratives in China the demonization of technology through sci fi since the invention of the nuclear bomb 24 hour online ideological warfare how religion never really went away, it just changed. Find Mike on twitter @micsolana  

Marco is like the Batman of entrepreneurship. No one knows of him in Silicon Valley but the guy has created like 6 companies that are all growing like crazy. Biggest takeaway: Business is the process of creating structure out of chaos. Money serves as the truth validator of the entire process. No business without money. Solve someone's problem and you have created structure out of chaos. Turn it i...

Mimi Young is a shamanic practitioner and founder of Ceremonie , a shamanic and ritual-based brand focusing on in-person and online shamanic education, Remote Shamanic Readings, and an aura + skincare line that is made in ceremony. Mimi works with a blend of modalities including core shamanism and botanical healing, hedge magick, and Chinese shamanic modalities, with a focus on integrating the sub...

We talked about how philosophy can help us do better business. We covered the following questions: What are the most important questions to ask yourself while starting a company? What is the most important thing to know about hypergrowth? Follow Kulveer here: https://twitter.com/kul Find out more about Zeus Living: https://zeusliving.com/  

We recorded this episode right after Jeff started working at Lambda school doing growth. Jeff has a lot of insight into how remote works and how it doesn't. He also has a lot to add about how to think about investing in remote companies as well as companies in general.  It was also very interesting to hear how Jeff broke into tech as well by making a move to Kansas City in response to a tweet!  Fi...

My friend Ruben talks about how he helps people connect with the people around them. I have learned a lot from Ruben about how to start a conversation with someone I don't know and it really has had profound effects on my life and I don't have that much social anxiety anymore (also because I've been doing this podcast) If you want to find out more about how to break down your barriers towards expr...

You will like this episode if you are interested in Advaita Vedanta Non Dual philosophy or if you have a meditation practice. If you aren't interested in those things then this one might not have to much value for you but if you have even a hint of interest in these things then you will want to watch this. If anything doesn't makes sense please feel free to ask and I can explain or show more.  I t...

Here are a few questions which we discussed: What is the difference between writing for your business and writing for yourself? What is the relationship between imagination and writing? How do they intersect? What is the difference between desire and craving? Is writing thinking? How does the idea of human exceptionalism limit our understanding of intelligence? How can confusion be an answer? Find...

If you remember the interview I did with Ian Livingstone last thursday about starting companies outside of Silicon Valley, this is actually the episode that got me on to the trail of Ian and his company Dropout Labs. Boris basically helps me map out the entire global ecosystem for startups and where its headed particularly from the investment angle.  Find Boris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bwer...

We talked about the following questions: What is unique about Africa when it comes to merging of technology, culture and capital? How can individual Africans find role models to model after colonization destroyed the local culture and imposed a different language? How does Nigeria show that the brand of being scammers is only representative of a small part of the population? Also we mapped the sta...

You will like this episode if you are into machine learning, remote work, the rise of entrepreneurship around the world, secure computation, video games and their role in startup creation. Another good question we came up with was:   Can the journey from 0 to 1 be done remotely?

We talk about the rise of startups outside of silicon valley. Also about the interactions between large companies and startups and how their relationships have evolved over the past 10 years.  You will like this one if you want a snapshot into high technology, the replication crisis in science and some of the reasons behind it, or if you are really interested in global business. Find Torsten here...

We talk about the limitations of video for learning and what works best. We talk about the difference between implicit, explicit, and experiential forms of learning. We talk about neuroscience and how the brain works and learns. Find Hossein on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hnivi Find Pendaran: https://www.pendaran.com/

We talk about the following questions: Was Sales the first tech job to go remote? When do you know when to meet someone in person or whether the conversation can be done remotely? How does bias show up when tech companies recruit salespeople? How did Shaan go from mathematics to becoming an expert in sales? Find Shaan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shaanh Checkout Flockjay: https://flockjay.com/