Crazy Wisdom Newsletter: Recent Episodes
Stewart Alsop
Investigating into the edge and intersection of spirituality and technology.
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Reaching out to strangers will change your life. This has been a habit that has had a profound effect on my life.
In our abstract world of “value” that only humans really have, other people are usually where the opportunities come from. Those opportunities can be business-related or just people-related, most times we have fun are with other people too.
When we make a habit of reaching out to strangers with humility and an attempt at grace (often this one takes a while), we can open ourselves to entirely new vistas of human existence and reward (and pain).
Join us as we build this habit!
Attached is an episode that I did with Rodney Gainous Jr (@Rg2official) where we came up with the idea. My Chief of Staff, Ayooluwa is also joining us (@uthmanzi).
If you would like to help me choose who to reach out to first (today), then answer this question:
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The faith that will move mountains.
You won’t find that faith through a better mental model. That faith will only come from a desperate Sisyphean struggle with truth and trying to do something that matters against all odds.
There is a lot of mythology around entrepreneurship and glorifying it.
To someone who has never done it before this might seem like a bit much.
Yet to those of us who have it makes complete sense.
It’s really hard. You will probably fail.
It’s probably not as hard as the poverty traps that exist for those us with the bad luck to be born into a family who doesn’t have lot of material or social capital.
But that doesn’t take away from how hard it is. Not everyone can or should do it.
If you like the clip above, listen to the full episode here.
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I started taking online courses in my yoga training when a teacher of mine, Harvey Deutch did an online course along with Jules Mitchell. It opened up a world to me that I had been blind to up until then and also helped me heal issues with chronic pain through understanding the science of movement.
I realized that instead of limiting myself to the knowledge of those in my immediate geographical, I could find the best functional and yoga anatomy teachers all over the world.
I had learned a lot off of YouTube, but the time and energy put into these courses made the learning much easier and effective than doing the work of finding the best information from the smorgasbord that is the internet.
I recently interviewed Tiago Forte who has been offering online courses for a few years now and this clip is inspiring for anyone considering a course. If you want to hear the whole episode it can be found here.
As Tiago mentions, we are just at the beginning of a huge revolution in the way people learn on the internet. The internet has had the potential for a while, but the actual cultural practice of learning online hasn't been there while the technology has been. This is starting to change.
This info is super important for me as I'm offering my first live online training in August for startup founders who want to raise money. I'll be collaborating with Anders Jones who raised $30 million in a Series A recently for his company Facet Wealth.
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I talked with Lawrence Wang about many things, but we got to a very important point about the nature of success and the importance of relationships.
I've been doing a podcast for two years now. In the process, I have uncovered a skill, which is the ability to draw out the most relevant information from people who don't have the time or energy to make that knowledge explicit.
This has led me to a relationship incentives where many of my relationships could be transactional, where I'm just trying to get things from other people without considering their humanity.
That doesn't work for me so I have become interested in the question:
Can my relationships be both transactional and meaningful? Can I derive meaning from my relationships with people who I will only talk with this one time?
Lawrence helped me to frame this in an effective way in the audio above. If you want to hear the whole episode here it is:
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This excerpt from my conversation with Laura Behrens Wu is a great example of what happens as we grow up and realize how much we are run by cultural, habitual and genetic conditioning.
As children, we form beliefs and opinions about the way the world works based on our experiences.
We are by default vulnerable and we find ways through the trauma of growing up that don't really work that well when we get older.
As adults, it becomes a tricky process to uncover these beliefs and shine the light of truth on them so to speak.
This can be a very uncomfortable process, particularly for those of us with childhood trauma. Yet the feeling of liberation on the other end of our fault models is truly limitless in its relief.
If you want to listen to the whole episode, here it is.
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We as human beings tend to behave first and then rationalize later.
We tell a story about why we did a certain thing, but in reality those stories don’t accurately represent all the myriad and mysterious forces that were in play at the time of an action.
These stories are just images, brief snapshots of reality. Nothing wrong with images or stories until we start mistaking them for reality itself.
The truth is that we are not that far off from animals in our behavior. We look at famous people (the top of the hierarchy) and then we copy them.
You can see this in fashion whether that fashion happens to be the clothes we wear or the appropriate opinions we share at the dinner party.
But the story we tell ourselves usually goes something like this:
“I believe this very astute thing because I came to the rational understanding based on my own intelligence and will”
When in reality we were subconsciously making decisions based on what other people were doing like those monkeys we think are below us.
The above audio is a small clip from my longer episode with Jim O’Shaugnessy.
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The above is my full interview with Bram Cohen where we get into the details of crypto and why Bram (creator of BitTorrent) is going to create the next generation of programmable money with his new company Chia Network
We were able to draw out simple details of how to understand things like proof of work (which powers Bitcoin), proof of space, and proof of time.
These are the technologies that are being developed in order to build technology that makes trusting fallible humans unnecessary when it comes to transacting value between two or more parties.
I learned in this episode that money is being unbundled. Typically banks perform a lot of services for their customers that are opaque for anyone not working in the banks. Customers trust banks to do all of this which has worked relatively well for a long time.
Crypto is unbundling all of this with its first incarnation: Bitcoin.
Bram is building Chia in order to unbundle a lot of the other services that banks provide which Bitcoin still cannot.
If you want to understand the current state of crypto and the foundational technologies underlying it, I highly recommend listening to the above interview.
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We, humans, tend to put a lot of value in credentials and institutions as if these things were sacred.
In reality, most people are just making s**t up and are fallible humans mucking about in an uncertain environment, with random conditions (more on that here which is the full episode of the audio above).
Credentials and institutions are all built by fallible human beings. They are therefor fallible and should be treated with the requisite skepticism.
I've been watching a movie about the relationship between Freud and Jung. They both made up psychology! They got a lot right and they also got a lot wrong!
There was also this guy named Adler who nobody remembers but got a lot more right (in my opinion).
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The above is a small clip from my interview with Tiago Forte who is helping people build a second brain using technology.
He says that everyone has expertise not just so-called "experts" and even a child may have the expertise for a particular situation you may be struggling with.
I like to make a similar point which is that the definition of whether something is signal vs noise to you is mostly subjective.
Yes, there are situations where what people consider to be a signal is incredibly similar for people, for example, an exit sign in a burning building.
But for most people, most of the time our interests are unique and not necessarily shared with our neighbors.
At this point, it becomes an individual journey to uncover what is signal vs what is noise.
If you want to listen to the whole episode, here it is.
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A few months ago I saw Jim O'Shaughnessy tweet about the Tao.
This caught my eye because Jim is a successful and wealthy financial advisor who has written many books about Wall Street.
I immediately asked him if he would be willing to come on my podcast because I'm a fan of narrative violations and a successful money manager quoting the Tao is the biggest one I could imagine.
I was lucky enough to do the interview in person at his office in Stamford, Connecticut and I've uploaded a small part of our conversation above. I won't try and do it justice here because I would butcher it so I'd recommend you listen to him directly.
If you do like this clip then check out the whole episode here.
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I’ve edited a short clip from my longer form conversation with Russel Ladson, the CEO of Drop, a browser built for navigating the web in VR.
VR is finally starting to take off with gamers and viewers of porn. These two are always the first when it comes to any new consumer platform.
Once the problems have been ironed out by consumers, then businesses descend on the new platform and build solutions that solve problems getting in the way of human productivity.
In this very short clip above we discuss Russell's insights into what this will look like and the first major solution that will need to be built, a virtual keyboard or some other way of communicating with the computer given the new constraints.
If you'd like to listen to the full episode it can be found here.
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I scored a really important interview today with Vinay Gupta who is the creator of the Hexayurt, the current CEO of Mattereum, and an early employee at Ethereum and I'm giving special access to my subscribers here to this episode.
A couple of months ago I wrote about my investigative thesis for my podcast which is that the worlds of spirituality and technology are about to form a supernova of BS, along with some important insights for the authentically inclined.
This interview corroborates my thesis and I'm excited for you to listen.
Be warned though there are no punches pulled. If you don't have an inclination towards investigating reality as it is, not as you would like it to be, I do not recommend you listen to this episode.
If you do want to come more into alignment with reality as it is and are prepared to look directly at what it takes to survive the next 20-50 years, I highly recommend listening and also subscribing to this blog.
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I'm at an inflection point with my business where I'm considering what the scope of the problem is and whether it is a lifestyle business or one that can rapidly grow.
I've learned from interviewing people who have done it that there is very little chance of work-life balance if you build a $1 billion company. It can happen but it’s not likely.
With a lifestyle business, there is plenty of room for a well-balanced life.
Another question that comes up:
How in control am I of making this decision?
Many times the biggest companies were started with not an inkling of intention and were almost byproducts of tinkering and curiosity.
At an early stage, it's very difficult to tell what the size of the endeavor you are signing up for.
I'm leaning towards a model where I aim for a lifestyle business and then be happily surprised if something more happens. I don't really want to raise money unless its from investors who are extremely aligned.
I've uploaded my interview with Sahil Lavingia above, who raised money for a billion dollar company but ended up with a lifestyle business.
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The evolutionary mechanisms for pain are ancient and distributed among most living species on this planet.
Whether fish feel pain is debated, but it's clear that most animals experience pain meaning that it showed up very early in our evolutionary history.
As humans, our experience of pain is highly emotional. The word itself brings up a host of emotions. Ask yourself right now:
What comes up when I say the word "pain"?
Like the word "sex" it awakens a deep sense of something visceral.
The most common reactions humans have towards pain, particularly young ones, is to run away from it. Aversion to it.
Yet when we take this approach it limits us. We section off a part of reality and say "No I don't want to go there".
If we want to live a more full life we must look at pain differently. Most recently, I have learned to welcome it and I invite you to do the same.
This does not mean to make pain where no pain exists, i.e. the "no pain, no gain" model. It just means to uncover that pain which we buried sometime during childhood and accept it completely.
If you want a personal understanding of how pain has informed my life listen to the short audio clip above.
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You can give all you want, but until you start asking you will not receive.
I've been doing more sales lately and getting a lot more no's along with some yes’s.
To ask is to tempt fate and receive a no, or worse, silence.
I used to fear the no, Now I welcome it. It's only information telling you where to keep digging and where to leave it alone.
What I find much less valuable is silence in response to a direct question (which can mean so many things) or a lukewarm yes. Even worse is a yes when someone really wants to say no.
Don't fear the no. Welcome it as another piece of feedback.
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This framework I got from one of my yoga teachers, Kaya Mindlin is probably one of the most effective I have ever received when creating for public consumption and working 1-on-1 with people.
When you create something for another human being it lies on a spectrum from transaction to transformational.
Transactional work:
Blog posts
Podcast episode
Art
Transformational work:
a 1-on-1 coaching or therapy session where you help someone make a personal change to their lives
Some people are better at transactional activities and I have been focusing a lot on those over the past couple years.
Others, like therapists, are really good at transformational work that radically helps someone change their own lives through the sharing of a very deep and intimate space.
It’s a useful framework for understanding creating the change you want to see in the world.
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This has been a huge theme in my life recently. Taking radical and relentless responsibility for the decisions I have made in my life and the consequences of them, what the yogis call Karma.
It showed up twice today, first in a conversation with my business coach Henri Meijer, and then in an interview, I did with Ryan Caldbeck of Circle Up based on this tweet.
After we have done the work of taking responsibility for own actions and build this habit, we must also look for the same in others.
Henri brought up a great point which is if you see someone who never takes responsibility for their actions run like the plague. It spells trouble.
If they are there when it's good and take responsibility for it, but then when things go bad they disown it, then you never want to do business with that person.
Ryan brought up a framework they use in the company he cofounded, which is the trust equation:
Trust = Credibility + Authenticity + Reliability (responsibility).
This seems to be an elegant equation for building trust within an organization.
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Someone on Twitter asked me to go deeper on a video I made there and asked for a specific podcast so I’m publishing the above which is my experience on why you should have caution before allowing someone to move your teeth.
Basically I argue that Dentists don’t really have a lot of oversight which the New York Times also recently argued and which can be read about here. There are a lot of dentists out there who are ethical, but a lot who are not as well.
There is a reason why you shouldn’t extend trust to all dentists just because they have years of training.
It takes a long time to develop a model of how the human body works, but you don’t need to be a doctor in order to develop that model. If you are in pain I would strongly urge you to start doing five minutes a day of research about the part of body that is pain.
Over time you will develop a model of the body that will at least allow you to ask the right questions when interfacing with medical providers. Unite the rational mind with the intuition and really dig into what these people tell you.
You might save yourself a lot of time and pain in the long run by doing the research up front. Please let me know if I can help with this.
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A movement has been underway for a while now with regards to the nature of how technologists can build technologies that make humans better humans.
The audio file above will go into more detail, but I want to let you peek into this movement because you might not be aware of it yet.
I’m in New York City getting ready to moderate a panel this evening at the Amazon AWS headquarters here about stress and burnout within the context of remote work. Its being live-streamed at 7 PM (EST). It can be found here if you want to tune in.
Earlier today a friend and previous podcast guest Andrew Murray Dunn invited me to his coworking space to hear more about his new plans for his company Siempo.
I wasn't thinking much of it more than catching up and seeing if I could help.
Instead, I walk in and meet Andrew's friend Alex Malorodov, and we immediately have a deep conversation about a recent intention I formed to do take the Iboga medicine for healing purposes.
This is a powerful medicine that few people would describe as fun, but I was recently advised by a coach that this medicine, in particular, may be helpful for uncovering the disconnect which leads to a thorny issue I'm facing in my personal life.
After a few minutes, another friend of Andrew's walks in who is named Giancarlo Pitocco.
Giancarlo is a former Facebook employee who left to create an organization called Purposeful that has a goal of liberating our creative intelligence from distractive technology.
All four of us descended into a deeply interesting discussion of the nature of technology and how it can be used to promote the movement of consciousness towards solving some of the existential problems we humans are going to face over the next 30 years.
Over and over again the conversation returned to the starting point which is:
Our relationship to technology is only a symptom of the quality of our relationship to Self.
So the technology we must build is the technology that points to That, it must remove barriers to That, it must support our healing so we can see That.
Once each of us, as individuals, has more deeply connected with our true nature, we will know what we must do personally to make a better world possible.
So you ask:
What is our true nature?
Well, that is a big question and one I don't have time to answer in this single post but here is a small piece of the answer.
It’s the part of us that has been there since the day we were born and is present even when we dream. The light of consciousness that we all share and is so mind-numbingly ordinary that often times we forget it is even there.
The next question:
Can we build technology that does this?
I don't know but I have faith that we can. It is the future that I want to help build. I now have enough evidence that other motivated people with capital and the capability to execute share a similar faith.
What about you?
If you do I highly recommend checking out Siempo as they are building the community of people like those mentioned above. They also have some exciting news that they will be releasing later this month.
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Its a time of great personal ideation for me and ideas for businesses are coming to me out of nowhere. I’m trying to pull out what makes sense and focus as much as I can (an issue for me!).
The episode above is my first solo podcast where I’m honest about what I’m doing and why I’m doing it.
I see the globe headed for a contraction in the next 10-30 years. I don’t want to be a doomsday pundit, I do want to help people prepare and want to do what I can to unite a part of humanity that is interested in solutions that work.
Human beings have always had great problems facing them. They have overcome them. That is why we are here breathing, as individuals, reading this, existing and becoming.
I’m optimistic in our fundamental ability as humans to band together and solve these problems. The problems we will face over the next 10-30 years are going to be of a different scale than before. It will require a level of consciousness or connection to innate presence that most people have not had access to.
My plan is to create media and content that will help to unite the global english speaking population around ideas that work and ways we can use self-awareness and self-knowledge to help find solutions to sticky problems with no easy answer.
Please join me by subscribing to this blog if you haven’t already.
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I’ve uploaded a previous podcast episode that I did with Vinay Hiremath about having a chip on your shoulder and whether that’s a healthy thing or not. If you are interested in what I write below I’d recommend listening to that above.
It seems to be a rule of a successful enterprise that the ones most motivated to succeed by external measures have a chip on their shoulder from childhood experiences that motivate them to do whatever it takes to prove the world wrong.
In proving the world wrong we are playing out something that happened when we were younger as if it were happening right now. We are trying to prove the offending party wrong, whether that was our parents, the high school bully, or our first lover.
This is very personal for me as I grew up in a family with enough chips on our shoulders to build a wooden bridge across the San Francisco Bay. I have been struggling for many years with gigantic chips on my shoulders that have defined my identity in many ways that I find useful and a whole lot more which I do not.
In the episode above, Vinay recognizes his own chips on his shoulders and gives nuance to the discussion by saying that whenever he hires for the company he co-founded (Loom), he actually looks for someone with something to prove to the world.
But he doesn't leave it at that. He also looks at whether they are aware of their desire to prove something to the world. If someone is not aware that they have a giant chip on their shoulder then it can lead them to be a massive jerk.
Self-knowledge seems to be the key to channeling the rebellious energy of our past into a productive and effective future.
I uncovered a lot of wisdom in my life from hearing Vinay's thoughts on this subject. Since this episode a few months ago, with the help of a coach, I have gone further and started to explore the following questions:
Is it possible to integrate the chip on my shoulder totally while still achieving external metrics of success? To not let it run my life?
Can my desire for success come from a sense of abundance and serving rather than proving the world wrong?
What I've been finding is that the chip on my shoulder has lead me to invest energy in building an identity named Stewart who had a difficult childhood and overcame that childhood and was right.
There is nothing inherently wrong with this identity but I do believe that investing energy into this identity makes me less than agile or antifragile when it comes to certain situations.
My benchmark for a healthy or effective human interaction is one where I'm able to respond to the conditions of the moment rather than to how my identity should be acting in a given situation to maintain consistency.
To really listen deeply to what the other person is needing in that moment or what I myself need (not the identity). To respond from a place from the unknown potential of what could be as opposed to what should be.
I believe an identity gets in the way of that type of listening and so I'm going to try and get to the root of all the chips on my shoulders. To find freedom in all things!
*PS - The history of the term “chip on your shoulder” is very interesting.
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Continuing with my theme of the intersection of technology and spirituality I sat down with Miko Matsumura who is a General Partner at Gumi Crypto Capital.
TL;DR:
We talk about Buddhism, Yoga, Patanjali, Science, Neuroscience, Biology, Atheism, the relationship between Creativity and Stress, Bhagavad Gita, Thich Naht Hahn, The Religion behind Bitcoin, and much more.
For the spiritual and scientific insights listen to the first 45 minutes. If you are interested in keen technology insights Miko has about the nature of blockchain, check out after 45 minutes.
My Thoughts on this Episode:
This episode is the theological and philosophical backdrop to my entire thesis which can be found here.
Miko has a masters in Neuroscience and has been involved with the technology industry for the past two decades. He also has a deep spiritual practice from growing up in the Soto Zen tradition as well as finding inspiration in a years long relationship with the Bhakti tradition of Yoga.
We discussed the core principles of Patanjali Yoga sutras and how when we look into the nature of our consciousness and awareness we find that there is both an observer and an observed.
You can try it right now by reading these words and asking yourself who is reading the words. Try to focus your awareness on the part of you that is observing the words on the screen.
Then focus on the part of you that is observing the observation of these words on the screen. You will find that there is an almost infinite hall of mirrors that takes place when you try to observe the observer and that there is always another layer from which you can observe.
(If this doesn’t make sense and you want it to, don’t hesitate to get in touch.)
Miko states that whatever can be observed is essentially part of nature and thus is subject to deterministic laws that can be studied by science. We can even observe our own brains and how they work through analyzing and integrating our thoughts and emotions.
Yet there is always an observer that is witnessing all this take place. This realm of the observer is the world of spirituality and the numinous, what cannot be deduced through the laws of the universe, what can only be experienced subjectively through consciousness.
If the above sparks inspiration in you or you want to find out more, then I highly recommend listening to the whole episode above.
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Only hours after writing my manifesto about my first investigative thesis for my blog here, I had a conversation with Farbood Nivi, the CEO of Coinmine, a very interesting hardware/software/service solution for consumers to mine cryptocurrencies out of the box.
My thesis is that technology and religion/spirituality have always been tightly coupled and played off of each other for the entire history of humanity. I wrote in my thesis that one of the most influential technologies, writing, was originally developed because people wanted to express their inner spiritual lives with the universe at large (think cave paintings turning into linguistic characters).
Farbood took this one step further and said that there are two technological inflection points for humanity that dwarf any other when looking at it from a very high level. Language, as I have already mentioned, and one more that is vastly more important:
The microprocessor.
This technology allows us to cryptographically protect data moving from one source to the next, which is what Farbood argues is the major innovation of Bitcoin:
Before this the government with its monopoly on violence was the only actor powerful enough to secure money and the information exchange that money represents. Now the microprocessor is able to do this without the government being involved. This is huge!
Now what does this have to do with the intersection of religion and spirituality?
Well for anyone who knows someone who owns Bitcoin and is vocal about it, you can see the religious fervor in their eyes. Let me explain further (this is not what Farbood argues in our episode):
I would argue that in the age of secular humanism, nationalism, and the moving of power from the church to the state, our nation states have become religious institutions. They hold the power of life and death over their citizens (death penalty?). During World War II, citizens would give their lives for their countries.
To a secular individual in the United States, the US constitution is as close to religious scripture as it comes. In schools around the country, student pledge allegiance to the flag, not to God (although the flag is under God). Flags serve the same purpose as the major religious icons and imagery do for religions (the cross for christians).
Bitcoin is a threat to the nation-state paradigm. I believe it will help us transcend it (not necessarily overthrow it). The ones who know this and hodl Bitcoin end up becoming part of a new in-group that is almost completely decentralized in its organization (except for the centralized channels like Coinbase that regulate the flow in and out to Fiat currencies).
Bitcoin also has a messiah figure, the famed Satoshi Nakamoto. Thankfully Satoshi decided to become anonymous, making it much easier to have a decentralized religion that lasts beyond his/her life.
So we have a mythical messiah figure who created an organization with highly motivated prophets with skin in the game who proclaim loudly that the revolution is here and you will receive all the worldy resources you can imagine if you just buy and Hodl, like they have done. Sounds pretty similar to a religion to me!
There is also an aspect of doomsday in that many people who buy into Bitcoin also believe that the US government is printing money recklessly which will cause an unprecedented financial crisis in our lifetimes and rocket Bitcoin into the seat of dominant global reserve currency.
What do you think? Is Bitcoin the currency of the new geopolitical revolution which may or may not lead to a new religion? Are the people who hodl Bitcoin the priestly class who brings noobs into the ranks?
Listen to the full episode with Farbood and let us know what you think!
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