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“We're spending trillions of dollars managing the symptoms rather than the root causes of these diseases…” — Noor Siddiqui on how solving the problem of disease can lead to better resource allocation for generations… Full episode: https://youtu.be/Gu135TROGr8

"I think that sex is going to be ... for fun with your partner, and for something really important like having kids, everyone is going to choose to do embryo screening." — Noor Siddiqui’s spicy opinion on the future of reproduction… Full episode: https://youtu.be/Gu135TROGr8

"12 million people wouldn't exist today if IVF wasn't invented." — Noor Siddiqui on thinking about future generations when considering new technologies... Full episode: https://youtu.be/Gu135TROGr8

“You can work on something incredibly ambitious, even starting at a super young age and not having spent 20 years in the field...” — Noor Siddiqui on inspiring young ambition… Full episode: https://youtu.be/Gu135TROGr8

Noor Siddiqui is currently building Orchid, a reproductive technology company that measures genetic predisposition to disease and provides embryo screening for couples going through IVF. Noor joins the show to discuss the ambitious culture of the West Coast, getting into the Thiel Fellowship, her personal reasons for starting Orchid, the…

"Here we don't create help, we can only create conditions...that's the only thing that you have power over, is the current conditions that you're working with." --@The4thWayYT on the path to agency Catch the entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw3UssUNEMM

"The deputy steward is like a metaphor for the mind..." --The Fourth Way on getting your house in order🏠🗣️ Catch the entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw3UssUNEMM

'When the pupil is ready, the Master will appear.'🧘🏹 @The4thWayYT on the origins of Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, and the philosophy of The Fourth Way Catch the entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw3UssUNEMM

"He called it the Fourth Way because he essentially is taking all that knowledge from all those schools, combining them, and trying to find practices that affect the mind, body, and heart at the same time..." --@The4thway Catch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw3UssUNEMM

The Fourth Way is an anonymously run YouTube channel and Twitter page dedicated to the path of psychological and spiritual growth and self-improvement. Built around the philosophy of two thinkers - George Gurdjieff and Peter Ouspensky - the ultimate aim of the Fourth Way is “to assist individuals in achieving…

“Becoming a scientist, I think honestly strips away parts of your humanity.” — Mona Sobhani on what we lose when we approach things from a skeptical, aggressive stance… Full episode: https://youtu.be/VMcLKPbOmE8?si=MYrJdb4QR4JH9lg8

“So a lot of these things that we in mainstream science or physicalism take for granted—we keep saying they're established—they're really not…” — Mona Sobhani on the surprising things we can find in our study of the sciences… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMcLKPbOmE8

"...'it's not science, it's pseudoscience.' And that's a false dichotomy. I mean, that's new. They've just decided that that's the case in the last few decades. But that's not how science was before. The natural sciences were philosophy and science." -- Mona Sobhani Catch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMcLKPbOmE8

"Science is actually just a bunch of stories..." --- Mona Sobhani on the subjectivity of scientific narratives Catch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMcLKPbOmE8

Mona Sobhani, Ph.D. is a cognitive neuroscientist, researcher, and author. In 2022 she published her first book, Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A Neuroscientist's Discovery of the Ineffable Mysteries of the Universe, which documents her “transformation from diehard materialist to open-minded spiritual seeker.” Mona joins the show to discuss blowing open…

"[T]hink of someone you love [...] if you had just this one chance to express your love to that person and to leave that person with something to remember you by, what would come out? What would you write down?" ~ Ellen Fishbein shares her advice for aspiring authors… Full…

"Amazon is optimizing for buying the book, not reading the book." ~ Ellen Fishbein Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTTlBXCTVU

"[The] skill set around building online distribution is not the same skill set as writing a really, really, really, really, really awesome book. Sometimes people who can do both of those things overlap, but most of the time, they don't." ~ Ellen Fishbein Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTTlBXCTVU

"You can see [Shakespeare] going through the reps of learning how to handle this constraint and getting better and better at saying something worth saying within this quite challenging constraint of the sonnet form." ~ Ellen Fishbein on sonnets, tweets & writing under constraints… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTTlBXCTVU

Described by David Perell as “like Rick Rubin for writing,” Ellen Fishbein is an author, writing coach and founder of Altamira Studio, an independent publisher specializing in short-form books. She joins the show to discuss how traditional publishing disrespects intelligent readers, her advice for aspiring authors, what she’s learned from…

Context is needed to make sense of math. “And that’s not taught a lot. Instead, the formal procedures are emphasized... almost to the exclusion of anything else” — John Allen Paulos on metamathematics & figuring out the independence of events… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fExWBy3FlGE&t=279s

“[With stories] you can get a mathematical idea across without raising people's unnatural fear of mathematics” — John Allen Paulos on teaching math through storytelling… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fExWBy3FlGE&t=279s

“Uncertainty is the only certainty, and the only security is learning how to live with insecurity.” — John Allen Paulos on the varying degrees of certainty, and our fear of the unknown… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fExWBy3FlGE&t=279s

“If you never play a song, you're not going to be real fond of your piano lessons….” — John Allen Paulos on why rote problem solving doesn’t unlock the playful nature of mathematics… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fExWBy3FlGE&t=279s