
Technologist, serial entrepreneur, world-class investor, self-experimenter, and all-around wild and crazy guy Kevin Rose (@KevinRose) rejoins me for another episode of The Random Show.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE
- The Mascot
- The Big Reveal: The Legend of CØCKPUNCH — Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss on Tim’s New and Extremely Bizarre Art Project | The Tim Ferriss Show #636
- CØCKPUNCH™
- My Semi-Buzzed Night on Hangover-Free Ketone Alcohol | MEL
- I Will Not Bow to Any Sponsor (Clip) | Wayne’s World
- Suerte | East Austin
- Generation 3 | Oura Ring
- Abbott Precision Xtra Glucose Monitor | Amazon
- Google Translate
- Dom D’Agostino on Fasting, Ketosis, and the End of Cancer | The Tim Ferriss Show #117
- Health Via Modern Nutrition | H.V.M.N.
- Snakewater | KetoneAid KE4
- Plants of the Gods — Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ayahuasca, Shamanic Knowledge, the Curse and Blessing of Coca, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #508
- Dry Spray: Decrease Sweating for Hands and Feet | Rhino
- Richie’s Plank Experience | Oculus Quest
- Taiwan: Bungee Jump | Harriet Murray
- Your Personal Digital Fitness and Health Coach | WHOOP
- Cardio Fitness Levels Feature on Apple Watch, Here’s What You Should Know | MyHealthyApple
- The Quantified Scientist | YouTube
- Get an Ultra-Efficient Workout | Peloton Row
- World’s Oldest Skier Turns 105 | InTheSnow
- The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
- What You Need to Know About Pickleball | USA Pickleball
- Peter Attia, M.D. — Fasting, Metformin, Athletic Performance, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #398
- Compound Bow | Wikipedia
- Yabusame with Tim Ferriss | Vimeo
- The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
- Kendo Armor | Tim Ferriss, Instagram
- Henry Shukman — Zen, Tools for Awakening, Ayahuasca vs. Meditation, Intro to Koans, and Using Wounds as the Doorway | The Tim Ferriss Show #531
- Tim Ferriss, Host of ‘The Tim Ferriss Show,’ Author | Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris #120
- Jack Kornfield — How to Overcome Apathy and Find Beautiful Purpose | The Tim Ferriss Show #601
- Waking Up with Sam Harris App
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: Clear, James: 9780735211292: Amazon.com: Books
- San Francisco Zen Center
- Neil Gaiman — The Interview I’ve Waited 20 Years to Do | The Tim Ferriss Show #366
- Marie Kondo – The Japanese Tidying Master | The Tim Ferriss Show #234
- The Rise and Fall of Digg | Social Media Today
- An Idiot’s Guide to Understanding the Complicated Porsche 911 Range
- Hodinkee
- Alinea
- All Minus One: The Illustrated Ideas of John Stuart Mill | Heterodox Academy
- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt | Amazon
- Jonathan Haidt — The Coddling of the American Mind, How to Become Intellectually Antifragile, and How to Lose Anger by Studying Morality | The Tim Ferriss Show #644
- Topo Chico Agua Mineral
- Richard’s Rainwater
- Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins | Amazon
- Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue | ChatGPT
- Artist Spotlight: Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda is Dropping ZIGGURATS | PROOF
- Linkin Park
- Stable Diffusion Online
- Freelance Services Marketplace | Fiverr
- Photoshop | Adobe
- Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History Podcast
- Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris | Amazon
- Prompt Hunt
- All The Hacks Podcast
- How I Built The Tim Ferriss Show to 700+ Million Downloads — An Immersive Explanation of All Aspects and Key Decisions (Featuring Chris Hutchins) | The Tim Ferriss Show #538
- Ken Burns — A Master Filmmaker on Creative Process, the Long Game, and the Noumenal | The Tim Ferriss Show #386
- Why the Ford Model T was Such a No-Brainer Over Horses | Energyphile
- Shaun of the Dead | Prime Video
- Dr. Adam Gazzaley, UCSF — Brain Optimization and the Future of Psychedelic Medicine | The Tim Ferriss Show #507
- Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Reducing Anxiety, Crypto Stablecoins, and Crypto Strategy | The Tim Ferriss Show #473
- Artist Spotlight: Divergence and the Art of On-Chain Artwork NFTs | PROOF
- South Park TV Show
- Funding Cutting-Edge Scientific Research | Saisei Foundation
- What Does PFP Mean? | Cyber Definitions
- Buy NFTs and More on Ethereum | OpenSea
- COCKPUNCH™ PFP & High-Res Images Retrieval Tool
- Free and Open 3D Creation Software | The Blender Project
- A Game of Thrones Series by George R.R. Martin | Amazon
- AI Art Generator, AI Art Maker | NightCafe Creator
- DALL·E 2 | OpenAI
- House Hallux | Twitter
- Announcing My New Fiction Podcast Series | The Tim Ferriss Show #640
- Shamisen | Wikipedia
- The Official PROOF PFP | Moonbirds
- The Legend of COCKPUNCH™ #1005 | OpenSea
- The Legend of CØCKPUNCH™: Circle of Eight | OpenSea
- Ensō | Wikipedia
- Ouroboros | Wikipedia
- CØCKPUNCH: #1: The Seventh Scribe | Apple Podcasts
- Before-and-After Photos of How Presidents Have Aged in Office | Reader’s Digest
- Fight Club | Prime Video
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson | Amazon
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill | Amazon
- The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing by Benjamin Graham | Amazon
- The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko | Amazon
- Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money — That The Poor And Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki | Amazon
- The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale | Amazon
- Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others by Stephen M.R. Covey | Amazon
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson | Amazon
- The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone | Amazon
- Queen
- Harry Potter Complete Boxed Set by J.K. Rowling | Amazon
- About Lockdown Mode | Apple Support
- What an Ayahuasca Retreat Showed Me about My Life | Vox
- Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (Resources) | Tim Ferriss
- Master Magician David Blaine — Fear{less} with Tim Ferriss | The Tim Ferriss Show #546
- KISS
SHOW NOTES
- [05:00] Welcome to The Random Show #4,732 (or so)!
- [05:41] Tasty grapes and hard ketones.
- [14:28] Exogenous ketones — or diabetic horse urine?
- [21:29] Banana, ketone, tequila, ayahuasca, TV.
- [22:52] Kevin’s fear of flying vs. my fear of heights.
- [29:33] Health tracking devices vs. The Quantified Scientist.
- [32:47] The Peloton Rower.
- [41:16] Skiing.
- [45:24] Making Olympic-level picklesport pals on the internet.
- [50:55] Archery, armor, and kettlebells.
- [55:45] Meditation retreats.
- [1:06:40] I’m canceled! You’re canceled! We’re all canceled!
- [1:10:44] Kevin’s back in the coding saddle again.
- [1:11:58] The joy of unstuffing.
- [1:17:17] Living rich instead of dying rich.
- [1:31:47] Pondering the ethics and implications of AI-generated art.
- [1:46:53] A Cockpunch colloquy.
- [2:22:55] How much have I made from The 4-Hour Workweek?
- [2:30:10] Building NFT communities for the long haul.
- [2:34:42] Apple lockdown mode.
- [2:35:55] Am I done with ayahuasca?
- [2:54:55] Parting thoughts.
PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Bill and Will Harlan
- Chase Jarvis
- Peter Attia
- The Crypt-Keeper
- Darya Rose
- Dominic D’Agostino
- Dan Harris
- Jack Kornfield
- Henry Shukman
- Sam Harris
- James Clear
- Neil Gaiman
- Chris Sacca
- Marie Kondo
- Scrooge McDuck
- John Stuart Mill
- Jonathan Haidt
- Chris Hutchins
- Bill Perkins
- Vincent van Gogh
- Mike Shinoda
- Dan Carlin
- General Subutai
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Addison Kowalski
- Ken Burns
- Adam Gazzaley
- Brenden Mulligan
- Divergence Harri
- Divergence Arran
- Barack Obama
- Steve Ross
- Benjamin Graham
- Michael Jackson
- Harry Potter
- David Blaine
- Paul Stanley
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Great conversation between you and Kevin. I tend to tune out of NFT conversations, but hearing about it from the creator perspective was fascinating.
Two key takeaways:
1. From James Clear: Stick to the schedule, reduce the scope (when needed)
2. For cleaning: If you rate an object below an 8 for usefulness, donate it. Because someone who needs it would rate it a 10. And you can generally replace it if needed
Cheers and thanks for all you do, Tim!
Warning: if you bring your own instructor to any major ski mountain (anything Epic/Icon), your day/season WILL get revoked. You MUST pay the $1,000/day rate for their staff instructors.
Also, for full resolution NFTs, we invented a way to compress the data without any loss of image quality — notice how Furballs.com NFTs look on OpenSea, and can be displayed at any image size without losing quality.
what’s the unofficial Cockpunch discord?
If you go to Twitter, TimTimFansFans has a link to the Discord.
I would love to see more muse examples in the New Year! Reading the 4-hour Workweek and I’m very curious what kinds of businesses people have created since the pandemic.
Wonderful, gem-packed episode. Thank you Tim and Kevin.
I read Die with Zero. It changed my thinking and is changing my life. And I am by far not in the same league as you guys.
When it comes to eating out at fancy restaurants, here is how I come to a semblance of equilibrium with it: every quarter, I add up the receipts for eating out (any bill with more than one person and above $30) and go online to UNICEF and donate 50% of the amount to any cause related to providing food for kids. I don’t make as much as Tim Tim or Kev Kev, but let’s’ say I had $850 worth of eating out receipts for a quarter (say January 1 thru March 31). So, on April 1st, I make an online donation of $425 to UNICEF to feed like a bunch of families for a month, or vaccinate a bunch of babies, or help provide clean water for a place in need of that utility…but this could be applicable to buying clothes, buying books or other entertainment media…whatever it is you gravitate toward spending liberally on…does this make sense?
Listening to this episode on New Years Eve and had a fun thought: Is this what happened to the women in CockPunch? Chaos Walking – fun movie, I enjoyed watching this during a recent flight.
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Meditation is exercise for the mind. If you stop, the mind gets out of shape. The best source for mind workouts that are challenging and fun is Vajrayana Buddhism. The best coach is His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso.
Thank you Tim for the realness. A fantastic conversation full of interesting threads and more than a few laugh out loud moments.“Slowsh”.
I’ve always admired the friendship between Tim and Kevin. I don’t really have any friends. Aquaintances, yes. People I work with, yes. It was even difficult as a kid to make friends. Can you guys do an episode on the challenges of making friends when you’re an adult?