Wisdom

More, Not Less to Save the World: The road to sustainability is to advance technology to find better ways of giving people what they want, not asking people to consume less. “Over the past 500 years, the human race has seen our global population increase 14x while our consumption has grown by 115x and our production has increased by 240x” - David Friedberg

Conservation is the Wrong Word: “It’s almost like the word conservation paralyzes you from working with the earth”. If you see a piece of conserved earth in an unhealthy state, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t touch it. That would be like saying, don’t help someone who is having a heart attack. – Chad Johnson

Sometimes It's Good Not To Know: Her dad was always supportive, encouraging her to figure out her likes/dislikes. “He never told me there were no black female pilots.” – Dr. Sian Proctor

Reading Tip: Some people who have trouble with attention benefit from reading the book while listening to the audiobook simultaneously - Dr. Andrew Huberman

Read Real Books: People retain information better when reading from a physical paper copy versus reading on a phone because people stop physiological sighs when reading on the phone - Dr. Andrew Huberman

You Are The Average of What You Read: “The information we consume sets the internal context of our subconscious and sets the internal context of what we decide to do consciously. In many ways, it’s garbage in, garbage out, and if it’s positive stories and inspiration in – that’s how you’re basically going to react in the world.” – Dr. Andrew Huberman


Wealth

Slowly, and Then All At Once: Incumbents always underestimate the exponential nature of technology, they are right for years, then they are suddenly very wrong - David Friedberg

The Haber-Bosch process: Accounts for 3-6% of global electricity consumption and nearly 100% of global food production -David Friedberg

The Tools of a Top VC Are Available To Anyone, The Effort However...: Subscribing to a lot of science journals, following interesting people on Twitter, reading books, meeting people, scientists and attending tech talks - David Friedberg

Emergent Properties: “All of these little moments, zig and zags that you have in your career they add up and they complement each other in ways you don’t realize until further down the road.”- Dr. Sian Proctor

Health

Don't Fear Fruit: Fruits have been improperly demonized; the fructose content of fruit is quite low – it’s the high fructose corn syrups and sugary beverages we really want to avoid - Dr. Andrew Huberman

They Hide Sugar to Trick You Into Over Eating: It’s no accident that “hidden sugars” are hidden with salt or other flavors – it’s done so people will ingest more of a particular food regardless of how sweet that food tastes. Neuropod cells in the gut sense nutrients, particularly sugar, which activates areas of the brain that increase dopamine and cause you to seek out more of that food - Dr. Andrew Huberman

Home Remedies to Offset Glucose Spikes: (1) a few tablespoons of lemon juice or lime juice – or (2) a little pure cinnamon – before, during, or after a large meal or sugar intake can blunt glucose response. - Dr. Andrew Huberman

Stop Drinking Sugar: If glucose is replaced with fructose in sugary drinks, there’s a decrease in type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome associated with high fructose corn syrup, even if the same number of calories is ingested - Dr. Andrew Huberman

Don’t Force Sleep: It’s dangerous to stay awake in bed for long periods of time. “You’d never sit at the dinner table waiting to get hungry, so why would you lie in bed waiting to get sleepy?” Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning: your brain will begin to bond a negative association with your bed and being awake.  – Matthew Walker

Snoozing is a Bad Sign: “The snooze button is the perennial expression of the human frustration of chronic lingering sleep debt” – Matthew Walker

Night Caps are Dumb: Alcohol and Caffeine before bed reduce your body’s ability to benefit from sleep. Alcohol is the opposite of a sleep aid, it is a sedative and sedation is not sleep. Try to cut off caffeine consumption 10 hours before bed – Matthew Walker

Orthosomnia: The anxiety of perfecting your sleep routine ends up being counterproductive – Matthew Walker

You CAN Multitask: We are actually very good at splitting attention and can multi-task on two things (more than two is difficult) – you can also weigh your attention between those tasks depending on which is more important - Dr. Andrew Huberman