Tim Ferriss

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“Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.” — Albert Einstein

Excellent read from the mind of @tferriss "The older I get, the more I think that self-help can be a trap. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease." tim.blog/2026/03/04/the…

“Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.” — George Bernard Shaw

My conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), co-founder of @a16z and Netscape. 0:00 Caffeine Heart Scare 0:56 Zero Introspection Mindset 3:24 Psychedelics and Founders 4:54 Motivation Beyond Happiness 7:18 Tech as Progress Engine 10:27 Founders Versus Managers 20:01 HP Intel Founder Legacy 21:32 Why Start the Firm 24:14 Venture Barbell Theory 28:57 JP Morgan Boutique Banking 30:02 Religion Split Wall Street 30:41 Barbell of Banking 31:42 Allen & Company Model 33:16 Planning the VC Firm 33:45 CAA Playbook Lessons 36:49 First Principles vs. Status Quo 39:03 Scaling Venture Capital 40:37 Private Equity and Mad Men 42:52 Valley Shifts to Full Stack 45:59 Meeting Jim Clark 48:53 Founder vs. Manager at SGI 54:20 Recruiting Dinner Story 56:58 Starting the Next Company 57:57 Nintendo Online Gamble 58:33 Building Mosaic Browser 59:45 NSFnet Commercial Ban 1:01:28 Eternal September Shift 1:03:11 Spam and Web Controversy 1:04:49 Mosaic Tech Support Flood 1:07:49 Netscape Business Model 1:09:05 Early Internet Skepticism 1:11:15 Moral Panic Pattern 1:13:08 Bicycle Face Story 1:14:48 Music Panic Examples 1:18:12 Lessons from Jim Clark 1:19:36 Clark Versus Barksdale 1:21:22 Tesla Versus Edison 1:23:00 Edison Digression Setup 1:23:13 AI Forecasting Myths 1:23:43 Edison Phonograph Lesson 1:25:11 Netscape Two Jims 1:29:11 Bottling Innovation 1:31:44 Elon Management Code 1:32:24 IBM Big Gray Cloud 1:37:12 Engineer First Truth 1:38:28 Bottlenecks and Speed 1:42:46 Milli Elon Metric 1:47:20 Starlink Side Project 1:49:10 Closing Includes paid partnerships.

This week, I testified before the Select Committee on China on U.S. biotech competitiveness. We are offshoring clinical trials the same way we offshored manufacturing. The good news is that there are straightforward ways to fix this, but we must act. Now. Video link in 🧵

What a gem of a piece @tferriss tim.blog/2024/03/22/how…

Read this two years ago when it was published by @tferriss Hunted it down again today for a reread. Apparently that's how much I enjoyed it. tim.blog/2024/03/22/how…

@jzipdamonsta @grok Oh, I'm reading the replies, but I was curious how well Grok would do :) Needs some improving on this one.

@tferriss @grok The irony of having grok summarize this…

Do you think that OpenAI, Anthropic, and other foundation model companies are undervalued or overvalued? What's your rationale?

“If your goal is to not outperform your peers this quarter or this year, if your goal is to maximize wealth over the course of your life, pretty much the variable that matters more than anything is just how long you do it for. And I know that if I can be an average investor for an above average period of time, I'm going to outperform the huge, huge majority of investors.” — Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) Listen to this special episode on how to simplify your life in 2026: tim.blog/2026/03/10/how…

Seeing these two together makes me smile everytime 🫶

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Woohoo, new Random Show episode is out! @tferriss @kevinrose 🥰 youtu.be/1dsTfXILUsM

“Easily the lowest energy in/biggest impact out simplification of my life has been to drop alcohol by the side of the road like a sack of stinky, dead cats.” — Craig Mod (@craigmod) Listen to this special episode on how to simplify your life in 2026: tim.blog/2026/03/10/how…

“The moment you begin apologizing for how you manage your time, you are essentially apologizing for your priorities, which means apologizing for your life.” — Maria Popova (@themarginalian) Listen to this special episode on how to simplify your life in 2026: tim.blog/2026/03/10/how…

A 2008 e-mail I received from a mentor: "While many are wringing their hands, I recall the 1970s when we were suffering from an oil shock causing long lines at gas stations, rationing, and 55 MPH speed limits on federal highways, a recession, very little venture capital ($50 million per year into VC firms), and what President Jimmy Carter (wearing a sweater while addressing the nation on TV because he had turned down the heat in the White House) called a 'malaise.' It was during those times that two kids without any real college education, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, started companies that did pretty well." "Opportunities abound in bad times as well as good times." "In fact, the opportunities are often greater when the conventional wisdom is that everything is going into the toilet." "Well … we’re nearing the end of another great year, and despite what we read about the outlook for 2009, we can look forward to a New Year filled with opportunities as well as stimulating challenges."

“When you make a prediction about where the US economy's going, where AI is going, whatever it might be, it's less about what you truly think is going to happen given the evidence and more about what you want to happen, given the biases and the lens of your own history and your own life and your own incentives.” — Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) Listen to this special episode on how to simplify your life in 2026: tim.blog/2026/03/10/how…