#645: The Random Show, Mega-Holiday Edition 2023 Resolutions and New Tools, Extensive Bullshitting, Booze and Ethanol Alternatives, The Yearly Delete, A Million Sidebars, Ayahuasca Revisited, Recapping the COCKPUNCH Saga, and Much More

I am absolutely going to be, simultaneously, the beneficiary and the cock punch recipient of artificial intelligence, 100%. Oh, it's gonna rock the boat in such a significant way. But what I'm committed to doing is being a student of the craft because it is the Model T and the car coming after horse-drawn carriages, and this is inevitable.

When I talk to people who have been deep in the trenches with NFTs for like 6 months, a year, 2 years, it is like looking at a before and after photo of Obama when he got elected and 4 years later. People are worn down. They got the thousand-yard stare, their black hairs all gone gray. I'm like, holy shit. You really gotta pace yourself.

...What you resist persists ... It's not that the emotion is the problem; it's your response to the emotion that's the problem.

My body tolerates wine of any type increasingly poorly ... If I have 3 glasses, man, I feel like somebody put a pillowcase over my head and just punched me in the face for like an hour in the middle of the night.

The ketones provoked... by fasting, say on day 2 or 3, where my ketones will naturally be in the 1.5-2.5 mmol range, that condition feels different and I feel sharper than I do when I use exogenous ketones, supplemental ketones, to get to the same measurement using a single device ... You feel much sharper when you get there through fasting, in my experience.

Do not assume that you do not have access to really good teachers. It's right there, but people don't look for it because they assume that it's not.

When in doubt, keep the schedule, reduce the scope.

Every one of you, if you had your group texts shared, would go down in flames like the rest of the world ... The entire world would be canceled ... And, if you wouldn't be cancelled, I'm sorry your life is so boring, and your friends have no sense of humor.

If I'm going to keep something new, I try to get rid of something. So, if I'm going to accept one thing in, one thing's got to go.

My advance for 'The 4-Hour Workweek,' which was paid out in 4-6 installments, I want to say, I don't recall exactly, over probably a year and a half, was $75,000.

Austin is also not only the third-coast capital of ayahuasca and unending ayahuasca conversations but also pickleball. There's a lot of pickleball here.

If you're early, you can learn how to use the tools rather than be abused by the adoption of the tools.

About a year and a half ago, maybe two years ago, I had an extended deep depressive episode for several months precipitated by two nights of consuming ayahuasca.