#408: The Random Show — New Year's Resolutions, 2010-2019 Lessons Learned, Finding Joy, Energy Management, and Much More

Generally speaking [with supplements], the greater the effect, the greater the side effect. If you don’t know what the side effects are, and the supplement has a very high amplitude effect, then you’re just the sucker at the poker table who doesn’t realize he’s the sucker. There are very rarely free lunches when it comes to biochemical enhancement.

Peace isn’t found through understanding; peace isn’t found through more striving; peace isn’t found through more achieving; peace is found through greater acceptance.

How you treat yourself, in some way, influences how you treat other people. If you’re violent and angry towards yourself, there will be an element of violence and anger towards other people.

Time management is important, but time management doesn’t matter unless you have attention management.

Supplements can become a crutch for people who aren’t paying sufficient attention to their diet, sleep, and other parameters—they become a Band-Aid to cover other bad decisions.

Looking back on the last decade, the one thing that I didn’t do soon enough was admit to myself and others that I didn’t know certain things. The quicker you are to come forward with the fact that there’s a hole in your knowledge, the quicker that hole will be filled.

For me, luxury in a way, more than anything else, is the feeling of being unrushed.

You can either meditate once or twice a day for two weeks or just cut your caffeine consumption down to one cup of coffee a day; the results are very often the same.

Psychedelics, in a proper setting with supervision, can provide one the opportunity to do a radical self-assessment that shows you where your blind spots are and where your stories & software are out of date.

What's so incredible about the psychedelic research space right now is that for 10 or 20 million dollars, you can potentially bend the arc of history. So much can be done with so little—what would be considered a drop in the bucket for cancer research could lead to fundamental breakthroughs.

Hire for reliability, trustworthiness, and attitude first. There are lots of skilled, smart people out there who may not have the best ethical compass, and you have to guard against that.

If you phrase things such that you’re taking full responsibility for your experience and emotions, it disarms people and helps to avoid head-butting and defensiveness.

You should view every agreement as a disagreement because its most important function is to tell you what happens and what the options are if there’s a disagreement.

It's not about how many years I can put into my life but also about how much life I can put into my years.

The one thing people don't realize about the internet ... Just like in society, if you were to put 500 people in a room, there are going to be some assholes in that room—some complete dicks that are mean-spirited people that want to see other people in misery. The internet is no different.

'Adversity doesn't build character; adversity reveals character.' You want to know that your partner can navigate rough emotional waters when things are difficult, and not immediately pull out a gun and shoot you in the face.

Tim currently has 618,952 unread emails, 287 unread texts, and 99 unread Asana notifications.

I'm moving from these knowns into this area of unknowns with psychecelics where ... we’re in a position to discover fundamentally new ways of looking at the mind and consciousness—and therefore reality as we experience it.

A lot of people who pride themselves on being achievers spend the vast majority of their time whipping themselves.

You can fuck up a lot as long as you play to your core strengths and make a few good decisions once a year, or once every few years, in the startup investing game.