📝 1000 MINUTES IN 15 TAKEAWAYS

We covered damn near 1,000 minutes of podcasts this week and boiled that down to 10 key takeaways. There is a TON more, but you’re welcome.

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1/ Sleep Hygiene: Regularity, Keep it Dark, Keep it Cool, Don’t lie awake in bed, avoid alcohol and caffeine, don’t stare at a clock, NO Tech in the room/after waking up – Dr. Matthew Walker

2/ Infrared Saunas, If You Have The Time: Lower temperature saunas such as infrared saunas require a longer duration of use for the same benefit – Dr. Rhonda Patrick

3/ Wealth is What You DON’T See: “What we see is what people have spent money on, that’s what’s visible in the world. The cars they drive, the homes they have, the things they’ve spent money on…Wealth though is what you don’t see.” – Morgan Housel

4/ When/If the Time Comes, Which Will You Be? At many moments in history, each individual had one of three options on how to conduct their lives, he could be a hero, a villain or a coward – Tom Hanks

5/ No Love is No Life: Death is when you remove all the people you love out of your life – Miley Cyrus

6/ Stoicism = Mindfulness: “The ability to pause, be thoughtful and determine the way you wish to interact or be at peace with circumstance is the core aim of stoicism. It’s also, as it turns out, much the same result that a practice of mindfulness meditation achieves.” – Tinkered Thinking

7/ Nobody Can Take Your Mind: “Nobody can take away how we define the situation. And it is that choice that’s the very essence of human freedom, liberty, and dignity.” – Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

8/ Homeschool is the cool school: 81% of parents are considering alternatives to traditional education this year with a focus on home-schooling – Robert Borins

9/ Bullish or Bearish on Bitcoin? The Bitcoin halving coincided with global uncertainty, the largest ever quantitative easing, and a bullish BTC-USD price chart. “I think that on a risk-adjusted basis, Bitcoin probably has the best opportunity on Earth at this point going forwards” – Raoul Pal

10/ Bitcoin As A Reserve Currency Is Coming: “My expectation is that in 6 months from now, the Apples, the Amazons, the Googles, they are going to have Bitcoin on their balance sheets” – Preston Pysh

11/ Woke-ism is Here: “Right fundamentalism is authoritarianism, left fundamentalism is mass murder. That’s communism, that’s Marxism, we played that experiment in the 20th century and we see what happens with that. Tens of millions of people die.” – Tucker Max

12/ Memoirs Aren’t About You: “No one reads your book to learn about you, they read your book to learn about themselves. But the way they learn about themselves, is through your honest and vulnerable expressions of your emotions and experience.” – Tucker Max

13/ What Are You Guarding? Dragons in mythology often represent greed. They are usually found guarding some sort of treasure like heaps of gold or virgins. Although the dragon can’t use either, it wants them both. – Joseph Campbell

14/ The Hateful Eight Industrial Seed Oils: Canola, Corn, Cottonseed Soy, Sunflower, Safflower, Grapeseed, and Rice bran - Dr. Cate Shanahan

15/ What the Hell is a SPAC? A SPAC is a pool of capital that is used to invest in a private company and help them go public. The capital is raised through a traditional IPO is held for up to two years. The SPAC management team then has an opportunity to go find a partner company, negotiate a deal with them, and take them public. – Kevin Hartz