Shane Parrish
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Uncovering the timeless principles that drive success. Host @tkppodcast https://t.co/QyyGX9g37W https://t.co/O8PqBBcZco
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My conversation with David Baszucki, co-founder of Roblox. 0:00 How he Saved his Son's Life 2:38 The Physical & Mental Health Link 4:40 Metabolic State & Decision Making 6:32 Why You Need to Destroy Bureaucracy 8:44 The Email You Should Never Send 9:53 Patterns in Bad Decision Making 10:38 Principles of Good Decision-Making 12:58 When Instinct and Data Disagree 27:05 The Economic Model that Almost Ruined Roblox 32:22 Robux as Future Digital Currency 36:11 Age Ban and Verification Policy 39:43 The Future of Immersive Gaming (Includes paid partnerships.)
Shane Parrish477,526 Aufrufe • vor 27 Tagen
My conversation with Dr. Giulia Enders, the leading authority on the gut microbiome. I was curious about how to build, maintain, and restore gut health, the link between the gut and the brain, the truth about prebiotics and probiotics, and the report card your bowel movements give you every day. This episode is fast-paced and packed with practical advice, including one simple thing that changed how I make rice forever. Enjoy! (Includes paid partnerships)
Shane Parrish1,373,938 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Steve Jobs almost disappeared from history. After being ousted from Apple, he spent 12 years struggling. He: • Alienated the people closest to him • Blew up deals that could have saved his company • Refused to compromise • Drove away his co-founders and investors • Burned through hundreds of millions of dollars Fortune wondered if he was a “snake oil salesman.” But those 12 years of failure taught him the lessons that would eventually save Apple and turn him into the Steve Jobs we remember. I sat down with biographer Geoffrey Cain to unpack the lost decade and the lessons Jobs learned the hard way. Enjoy! (Includes paid partnerships.)
Shane Parrish164,556 Aufrufe • vor 13 Tagen
My interview with Kaz Nejatian, CEO of Opendoor. This is a rare look inside a turnaround, while it's happening. It's raw, real, and violent. Kaz took over $OPEN when it was months away from bankruptcy. His wife shipped a mattress to the office and told him not to come home until he had a plan to break even. Some of what he told me: • "All success is unique, but all failures rhyme." • The most dangerous people in a company are competent but not mission aligned. • Meetings are a bug in the system. • The comfortable lies that sink a company are the same ones that sink careers (and countries). (Shane and guests may hold positions in assets discussed in this episode. Nothing in this conversation should be considered investment advice, financial guidance, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security.)
Shane Parrish622,155 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Steve Cohen and PGA Golfers share the same performance coach. For the next hour, he’s yours too. Dr. Gio Valiante is the world’s top performance psychologist. We discuss why most people never reach their potential, how both confidence and fear shape performance, and what separates those who consistently excel from those who stay stuck. Enjoy! (Includes paid partnerships)
Shane Parrish647,901 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
How a simple kitchen gadget made an entire island gain weight
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My conversation with Bill Gurley on thinking, making decisions, and the future 0:00 Systems Thinking & Mental Models 05:21 The Power of Knowing Industry Bedrock 08:50 Traits in Founders 11:44 Surprising AI Use 13:13 The Future of AI 23:04 Is Tesla Self-driving THAT good? 24:15 Non-Consensus Opinions 24:53 The AI Buildout (Bubble?) 29:40 The Role of Retail Investors 34:26 Stablecoin 39:55 AI and Debt Analysis 45:05 Storytelling as a Superpower 50:12 Lessons from Uber 52:10 Inside the Benchmark Structure 59:42 Success Listen and Learn! (Includes paid partnerships.)
Shane Parrish496,374 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
My conversation with liemandt on why the future of education is better than you think. 0:00 The current education system 7:01 What makes Alpha School different 11:01 What are the results 23:20 Current classroom struggles 26:40 What does mastery mean? 35:37 Changing the education system 39:19 Teaching through AI 44:27 How do you solve motivation? 57:01 What makes a good teacher? 1:01:04 Coaching 1:05:17 What life skills matter? 1:08:18 Doing hard things 1:13:25 AI Monitoring 1:21:08 Effort vs. IQ 1:24:40 What happens after Alpha School? 1:38:21 The Genius of Jack Welch 1:45:49 Trilogy IPO: the choice to not go public 1:51:40 Physical vs. virtual learning 2:03:18 Does Paying Kids To Learn work? 2:11:01 What Is Success For You? (Includes paid partnerships)
Shane Parrish833,098 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
The Doorman Fallacy 'You have a five-star hotel and it has a doorman, welcoming incoming guests. McKinsey or Accenture will come in and say, “Your doorman currently costs you X thousand dollars a year. We have defined his or her function as opening the door. We’ll replace said doorman with an automatic door-opening mechanism and an infrared human detector and we’ll save you $30–$40,000 a year.” They walk away, and they take the credit for the cost savings. Two years later, the hotel’s a catastrophe ... because the doorman was doing multiple things, many of which were human and kind of tacit. Security would be one; there are no vagrants asleep in the doorway. Hailing taxis, dealing with luggage, recognizing regular guests, providing status to the hotel—there are loads and loads of value creation components to that doorman which aren’t captured in the open-the-door definition." It's easy to see the visible things, but the invisible things make the difference.
Shane Parrish1,199,049 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten
Norway has an unwritten cultural rule: don't think you're special. When Nicolai Tangen got to Wharton, one of his classmates stood up and said all he wanted to achieve in life is to "conquer the world." Today he runs the world's largest sovereign wealth fund. But his views on ambition were shaped by America. "If you have really, really high ambitions, you achieve great things even if you fail. If you have low ambitions, you achieve nothing even if you succeed."
Shane Parrish94,357 Aufrufe • vor 26 Tagen
My conversation with James Clear James understands habits, motivation, and psychology better than nearly anyone and has a knack for making things practical and useful. Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 00:56 The Role of Identity in Habit Formation 03:38 Lack of Patience Changes the Outcome 13:46 Creating Conditions for Success 17:44 Finding the Confidence to Start 34:32 Positioning in Business and Life 01:07:21 Sequencing Through the Eras of Your Life 01:25:34 The Most Important Habits 01:37:31 Become Stronger Than Your Feelings 01:54:40 Consistency vs. Intensity 02:06:40 Prioritization
Shane Parrish846,530 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten
My conversation with Morgan Housel 0:00 Intro 7:22 Happiness vs Contentment 11:45 Independence Is a Spectrum 14:40 Survival Beats Intelligence 21:05 Why You’ll Underperform 22:32 Should You Buy a House? 22:32 Housing Is the Problem 35:08 Money Across Life Stages 43:50 Raising Kids With Wealth 55:46 The Vanderbilt Warning 1:07:51 Depressions, Panics, Downturns 1:14:20 Passive Income 1:32:27 What Matters 1:40:38 What Can History Teach Us About Inflation? 1:47:46 How Morgan Invests 1:53:36 Defining Success (Includes paid partnerships. Thanks Granola for sponsoring this episode.)
Shane Parrish730,486 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
My conversation with OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman This is the most detailed first-person account of the 72 hours after Sam Altman was fired. We also go deep on what comes next: the global race to AGI, why ChatGPT stopped showing reasoning, how much of OpenAI's own code is now written by AI ("it's hard to know what percent is not"), and the untold story of how OpenAI actually started in 2015. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:49 Meeting Sam Altman and Starting OpenAI 00:02:40 Building the Founding Team 00:04:25 DeepMind's Lead Over OpenAI 00:04:54 Changing OpenAI to a For-Profit Model 00:06:05 Breakthrough Moments at OpenAI 00:08:22 What Dota 2 Meant for OpenAI 00:10:04 Reasoning Versus Prediction 00:11:59 Tensions Grow at OpenAI 00:15:44 Sam Altman's Firing 00:17:49 Greg Quits OpenAI 00:19:56 Sam Explores Deal with Microsoft's Satya 00:20:28 Petition for Altman's Return 00:23:43 Ilya Sutskever Leaves OpenAI 00:24:59 Lessons Learned after Sam Ousting 00:28:22 The Thing Ilya Said that Greg Can't Forget 00:32:22 Is AI Going Parabolic? 00:33:24 How Much of OpenAI's Code is Written by AI? 00:36:21 Do AI Chatbots Tell Us What We Want to Hear? 00:38:06 The Global AI Race to Reach AGI 00:38:40 What Happens if US Doesn't Reach AGI First? 00:39:49 Are Countries Stealing AI Advancements? 00:40:38 Why ChatGPT No Longer Shows Reasoning 00:41:47 The Finite Constraints of Compute 00:43:38 On Investing Early in Data Centers 00:46:31 The Future of Data Center Specialization 00:47:52 How to Decide Whose Queries to Serve 00:49:08 OpenAI on Consumer vs Enterprise Models 00:53:05 Data Centers in Space? 01:00:56 What Should AI Regulation Look Like? 01:04:33 The Future of AI-Powered Entrepreneurship 01:04:44 AI and Job Loss 01:07:15 The Skills Young People Should Invest In 01:11:30 What Does Success Look Like For You? Full episode on X below. Also find it on: • YouTube: • Spotify: • Apple:
Shane Parrish450,952 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
My conversation with mark pincus, founder of Zynga creator of Farmville, Words with Friends, and so much more. 00:00 The Principles of Great Products 12:04 The Book of Life 17:56 Good Instincts and Bad Ideas 22:29 Copying Your Competitors 24:05 Proven Better New 37:25 Pitching Zynga to Steve Jobs 41:24 The Peter Thiel and Sequoia Fight 54:03 Speed Beats Accuracy 58:50 Democratic Dictatorship 1:03:44 Jeff Bezos' Invaluable Management Trick Includes paid partnerships.
Shane Parrish307,443 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
My conversation with Winston Weinberg, co-founder of Harvey. 0:00 The List that Powers His life and Work 2:20 How to Say “No” 7:26 3 Principles for Decision-Making 8:18 How Harvey is Changing the Legal World 11:36 The Cold Email to Sam Altman 12:56 The Demo Strategy that Shocked 17:55 Advice Winston Didn't Take 19:34 The Deal that Almost Killed Harvey 21:56 How to Build Resilience to Failure 24:00 How Winston Hacks His Stress 29:36 Creating a Sense of Urgency on Your Team 31:29 Who Not to Hire 35:09 How to Screen for Resiliency in Interviews 45:28 Does AI Make a Better Lawyer? 48:54 The Future Law Firms 54:52 Why Legal Costs Aren't Going Down 00:56:48 3 Principles The Work 01:00:54 How Winston Defines Success Listen now 👇 (Includes paid partnerships.)
Shane Parrish313,359 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
"I never thought of advertising as wasteful, because the word “wasteful” is a tricky word. Economists use it in a special sense. I suppose that most advertising is a waste of money and most advertising is a crashing bore and an intrusion and there is too much of it. And you can say all sorts of bad things about advertising. But people go on using it, you know, so it must have…perform some function." — David Ogilvy
Shane Parrish19,437 Aufrufe • vor 6 Tagen
Greg Brockman talked about this on The Knowledge Project. "Our data centers use incredibly little water." "That's actually misinformation." "It's less than a household. It's because it's a closed loop." "Think of it as like a swimming pool of water, and you just circle it around. And so it's a fixed amount of water that's not very large." And then he goes on to nail what's really happening. People are scared. They don't know how AI will benefit them.
Shane Parrish274,244 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Why do smart people make bad decisions? Charlie Munger discovered 25 tendencies sabotaging your judgment right now. Here they are: 1. Reward and Punishment Superresponse Tendency 2. Liking/Loving Tendency 3. Disliking/Hating Tendency 4. Doubt-Avoidance Tendency 5. Inconsistency-Avoidance Tendency 6. Curiosity Tendency 7. Kantian Fairness Tendency 8. Envy/Jealousy Tendency 9. Reciprocation Tendency 10. Influence-from-Mere-Association Tendency 11. Simple, Pain-Avoiding Psychological Denial 12. Excessive Self-Regard Tendency 13. Overoptimism Tendency 14. Deprival-Superreaction Tendency 15. Social-Proof Tendency 16. Contrast-Misreaction Tendency 17. Stress-Influence Tendency 18. Availability-Misweighing Tendency 19. Use-It-or-Lose-It Tendency 20. Drug-Misinfluence Tendency 21. Senescence-Misinfluence Tendency 22. Authority-Misinfluence Tendency 23. Twaddle Tendency 24. Reason-Respecting Tendency 25. Lollapalooza Tendency—The Tendency to Get Extreme Consequences from Confluences of Psychology Tendencies Acting in Favor of a Particular Outcome Listen now "Charlie Munger and The Psychology of Human Misjudgement on The Knowledge Project"
Shane Parrish676,237 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten
