"So when I think about whenever I engage in an endeavor, whenever I commit my mind to something, whenever I invest time into something, I think of it as time that I'm not spending with my dog, with my family, with my friends." ~ Yuk Chi Chan shares how he…
"All things are cyclical, and we're coming back to the point where it is now cool to build, it is now cool to manufacture, it is cool to look at something and go, 'You know what? I am going to do that. Fuck it.'" Here's Yuk Chi Chan on why…
"But I do think it's going to be whoever can lay claim to something, whoever can defend it, owns it." Here’s Yuk Chi Chan on the ‘finders keepers’ model of space ownership… Substack: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/space-space-space Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd3nvCnP3Gk&t=2483s #space #Elon #rocket #Mars #Moon #NASA #Apollo
"If all of our satellites went down right now, we'd be so fucked as a civilization..." Yuk Chi Chan explains why the space industry is FAR more ubiquitous than you think… Substack: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/space-space-space Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd3nvCnP3Gk&t=2483s #satellite #spaceindustry #space #rocket #Elon #Mars #GPS
My guest today is the human Swiss Army Knife, Yuk Chi Chan, who has packed more into the last decade than many people do in a lifetime. Yuk Chi is the founder of Charter Space, the first British space company to graduate from the Techstars Space Accelerator. Before that, he…
New technology means new social contexts. It's almost a given. People adapt. 100 years from now, listening to AI music won't be weird at all. Dan Shipper explains👇 Full video available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km3CxFRODFs
The new Masters of the Universe are those who can effectively orchestrate and allocate intelligence—both human and artificial. Taste + Vision + Allocation ability = Mastery Dan Shipper explains the new paradigm of the Allocation Economy... Check out the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/km3CxFRODFs?feature=shared
"...AI models work a lot like human intuition in that they can make predictions without explanations. Those AI models have a lot of the properties of explanations. So they are transferable, they're inspectable and de-buggable, so they take this innate human thing, intuition, and then they put it out into…
'The Stonecutter's Credo' is a profound parable, credited to Jacob Riis, that still hangs in the locker room of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs. It reads: "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much…
“Ignoring what is obvious incurs a huge cost. It requires you to go about your day numbing yourself to the reality of who you are and what you want—which is a waste of time for you and everyone around you. By contrast, admitting what is obvious is freeing and motivating.…
"Actually do the thing or ship the product. Get some feedback from customers on this first iteration. They don't care if it's shiny, they want to see if it works, you want to know if it works. And so quit procrastinating by futzing over the design of your title slide…
"Healthy human functioning is to be moving toward things, is to be anticipating and excitedly awaiting, but also acting to bring about things.” Here's Dr. Gena Gorlin with a refreshing counterargument to the idea that we are a fear-driven species... Substack: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/how-to-build-a-builder Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKzjxLPdlT8&t=1s #Agency #Evolution #Love #Progress
“There's no such thing as a collective good. Society doesn't have a brain, society doesn't face the kinds of moral alternatives that individuals within that society face. Society is a collection of people..." ~ Dr. Gena Gorlin Substack: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/how-to-build-a-builder Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKzjxLPdlT8&t=1s #individual #society
"The ultimate solution will be [...] technological, it will be creative, it will be top-down and systemic. And who is going to drive those solutions? It's going to be the people who are out there doing the really hard stuff. It'll be the builders." Dr. Gena Gorlin unpacks her mission…
My guest today is Dr. Gena Gorlin, a psychologist specializing in the unique needs of the ultra-ambitious. Unlike many in her field. Gena doesn’t aim to simply lift the floor of her clients’ ambitions — she wants to raise the ceiling. In this episode, she breaks down the “Builder Mindset”…
"The neighborhoods of America used to sing with the song of kids playing every afternoon. You don't hear that anymore. " Kids today are spending more time indoors, and on their phones. But are phones and social media the real culprit? Nir Eyal explains... Check out our full episode with…
Doctors today have a tendency to overdiagnose our kids. But medication doesn't actually give you the skills to combat distraction. Here's Nir Eyal on why that's such a bad idea, and why we should focus on 'skills before pills'... Check out our full episode with Nir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDj4PgaT9Rk
Fear really is the mind killer... In our case, it feeds our distraction too. Nireyal explains... Check out our full episode with Nir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDj4PgaT9Rk #nireyal #mind #distraction #fear #productivity #focus #study #college
Hey you! Stop scrolling. This is a distraction... Come back again when you have done what you said you would do. (here's Nir Eyal on the right metric of success) Check out the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDj4PgaT9Rk #Focus #Distraction #Timeblocking #Productivity #Time
“Most people don’t want to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth that distraction is always an unhealthy escape from reality.” My latest guest, Nir Eyal - https://www.nirandfar.com/book-nir-eyal/, writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology - https://www.nirandfar.com/consumer-psychology-articles/, technology, and business. Nir previously taught as a Lecturer in Marketing - https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/super-power-tomorrow-being-indistractable at…
To make the green transition easier, we need to be MORE grateful for oil and gas. Alex Danco explains... Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYsyqDP62Q8 Transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/finding-method-in-the-madness Twitter: https://x.com/Alex_Danco #oilandgas #oil #greentransition #environment #climatecrisis
The Alex Danco guide to developing agency... Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYsyqDP62Q8 Transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/finding-method-in-the-madness
Friction in product design: Friend or foe? 🤔 Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYsyqDP62Q8 Transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/finding-method-in-the-madness
“Without mystery, there is no margin." — Alex Danco Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYsyqDP62Q8 Transcript: https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/finding-method-in-the-madness