The Best Podcast

Today’s podcast is a reflection on how complicated history is, along with some thoughts on how we will become the history that we look back on today in the future. It’s a tremendous burden we carry, yet it’s a beautiful one in my eyes. I hope you enjoy the episode and find it to be a meaningful monologue. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is my argument for why we should do the hardest thing first each day. Whether it be physically in a workout or mentally with a hard task in our work / studies, I think there are lots of benefits to doing the hardest thing first, which could even be transformative in some circumstances. I hope you enjoy it and perhaps find enough value in it to try it out in your own life. Thanks fo...

Today’s podcast is a return to the typical monologues of the past. It’s a topic I care a lot about and I think merits more attention than it usually gets. It’s about how we talk to each other about politics, religion, social justice, social issues, and other tense topics. I give a rundown of some tools that I use and why I think they’re beneficial. It’s certainly incomplete, but I think it does a...

Today’s podcast is the final installment of my reading of my learnings from quarter three. You can find the full article on my blog at mattbest.net/theplatform . In this episode, I cover various lessons, such as how it’s okay to be behind or down in a given moment and a question that I’ve found to be extremely valuable to ask myself. I hope you enjoyed this series of episodes. As I mentioned, this...

Today’s podcast is the third reading of my learnings from quarter three, which you can find on my blog at mattbest.net/theplatform . I cover various points, from the ease of missing the magnitude of the moment to the value of marginal utility. I hope you enjoy it and tune in for the final episode in a few days. Thanks so much for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

In today’s podcast, Gabi returns for a fun conversation about the harder and less sexy parts of relationships, the challenges and value of small fights, habits and the important structures for developing and maintaining good ones, and the importance of fun time, along with many other topics. It was a really enjoyable conversation, which turned out to be much less serious than our initial conversat...

Today’s podcast is a continuation of the previous one, in which I read through some of my learnings from quarter three of this year. From the being mindful of our information consumption to the affordances of sacrifice, I cover a lot in these learnings. I hope you find these takeaways to be valuable and actionable in some way in your own life and perspective of the world. Thanks for listening. As...

Today’s podcast is one I was excited to record and share. It’s the first of a few that come from the newest article on my website, which you can see at mattbest.net/theplatform/quarter-three-2021 . From deep focus to our assessments of life experiences, I start a tour of the learnings I’ve had over the last three months or so. I hope you enjoy it and stick around for the additional learnings in up...

Today’s podcast is a stream of consciousness reflection on reaching 24 years of life. It’s a reflection on the beauty of life, challenges, love, family, learning, polarization, completeness, and much more. I hope you find it to be a valuable spattering of ideas. Thank you for listening. Here’s to much more life. Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

I’m back after a week’s hiatus! Today’s podcast starts as a reflection on my time away in São Paulo with Gabi and then maneuvers its way into a number of reflections and learnings about myself and my environment that I’ve felt a need to get off of my chest. It’s a particularly vulnerable and self-examining episode, but it’s one that felt good putting out into the world. I hope you enjoy it. As alw...

It has been four years since I recorded the first episode of this podcast. So much has happened over that time, both in my own life and in the world in which I find myself, as a small grain in the vast desert. This episode is a reflection on all of those episodes and all of the life that has passed. I still marvel at it all to no end. I hope you find some value in the reflection I present here. Yo...

Today’s podcast addresses an idea that has been recurring in my head for a long time. If you really believe in something, what behavioral indicator support that belief? If you’re recommending something to someone else, are you doing it / have you done it too in your own life? These are questions I think we need to contend with more, which I bring to the fore in this episode. I hope you enjoy it, f...

Today’s podcast is one in which I reminisce on a quote from an unknown author, which goes like this. “There’s a reason why the windshield is bigger than the rear view mirror.” Perhaps hearing this quote will click for you like it did for me upon first hearing it. If not, don’t worry. I focus on what the quote means and its relevance to life in this episode. I hope you find the message to be meanin...

Today’s podcast is about a line I read in a newsletter recently that jumped out at me. It was this - “What seems expensive is often cheap in the long run.” This quote came from the Farnam Street blog’s newsletter from Shane Parrish. It’s one I enjoy and recommend, as it’s the only newsletter I subscribe to. I hope you find my explanation of the quote to be valuable in some way. Thanks for tuning i...

Today’s podcast is a sampling of relationship check-in questions that Kat Cole published. I really like the questions and think the practice of doing this once a month with your partner could be quite positively transformative. For that reason, I wanted to share them with you here. I hope you find some value in them and the practice, whether you’re in a romantic relationship or not. As always, Muc...

Today’s podcast is a series of reflections on the time dimension, which I consider to be the forgotten dimension. Despite how much power it holds, we are prone to overlooking it. I wanted to acknowledge that and talk about it here, as it has been a recurring theme in my head over the last few weeks and years of my life. I hope you find the reflections to be valuable and interesting. Perhaps they w...

What we see in the news and in popular consciousness often moves us and riles us up. Many significant events and issues have come to the forefront over the past year or so, yet they have all seemingly passed us by quite quickly. What should we make of that? This is the question and the topic I pose in today’s episode. I hope you find it to be a meaningful conversation. As always, Much Love ❤️ and...

Today’s podcast is a quick reflection on a couple of things that have surfaced in my experience that I wanted to share. The first focuses on how easily we may take some things for granted and the second focuses on the balances between having enough information and all of the information. I hope you find the messages to be valuable and meaningful. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and p...

Today’s podcast is a reflection on running away from what we don’t want to talk about (but know we need to). Whether that be a personal problem, something subtle that we’re noticing that is eating away at us, or anything else that is coming up in our minds recurrently. My main thesis here is that allowing the world and time to solve our problems for us is not as good of a strategy as stepping into...

Today’s podcast is about the value of taking yourself seriously. There is plenty of value to not taking yourself seriously, but I would argue that value only manifests itself in some areas of life. In other areas of life, taking yourself seriously holds a lot of benefits, which I focus on and discuss here. I hope you find the content here to be insightful and meaningful. I appreciate you listening...

Today’s podcast is a reading of a recent writing, in which I reflected in the different emotional tensions I was experiencing. It wasn’t an easy reflection to go through, as you’ll see, but I think there are a lot of important things for me to think through in it. Perhaps you’ll relate and feel the same way. Perhaps not. Either way, I hope you enjoy it and find it to be a valuable listen. I apprec...

I’m not a religious person, but the serenity prayer resonates with me tremendously. I’ve come to see its value both philosophically and in practice, and so much more importantly in practice, I will say. I wanted to take some time to talk about it today and the ways it has interacted with my current life circumstances. I hope that you enjoy the discussion and can find something to take away for you...

Today’s podcast stems from a recent conversation I had with my grandma, which led me to all sorts of important realizations and reflections. I wanted to share these with you, as I think they may generalize outside of just this specific context. I hope you enjoy the episode and that you find the reflection to be a valuable one. Thanks so much for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take c...

Today’s podcast is a guided reflection which I’ve come to think about over the last few days. It has arisen in different conversations, and each time the mental exercise grounded me and helped me to see myself and the world more clearly. For this reason, I wanted to share it with you, as it may bring about the same effect. I hope you enjoy it and find it to be valuable. As always, Much Love ❤️ and...

Today’s podcast is about an important question that I think we should ask ourselves more often, which is this - “What might be wrong with my current view?” It’s not an easy question to ask ourselves, but it’s a tremendously valuable one. In the episode, I take some time to explain why. I hope you find this to be insightful and that you can incorporate it into your own thinking. Thanks for engaging...