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For every tech visionary like Mark Zuckerberg, there’s a Susan Li making sure their futuristic ideas pass a financial sanity check. At Meta, Susan became the youngest ever Chief Financial Officer of a Fortune 100 company. In her first ever podcast appearance, she is deeply transparent about Meta's core business objectives, future goals, and current headwinds. She also shares tech-forward advice that is invaluable for startups and corporations alike, including why it’s smart to build a portfolio of bets, how to look beyond short-term ROI, and why free cash flow is a more meaningful metric than EBITDA in a capital-intensive world.
What if your brain is wired for a world that no longer exists? While we chase endless dopamine hits through social media, shopping, and instant gratification, we're actually rewiring our brains into a state that resembles clinical depression. Dr. Anna Lembke reveals how modern life has turned our natural reward systems against us... and what you can do about it by resetting your reward pathways and finding joy in simple pleasures again
Nate Hagens exposes 10 core misconceptions still dominating business schools, from the illusion of infinite growth to the myth that GDP equals human wellbeing, revealing how these outdated theories are driving us toward civilizational collapse. These aren't just academic errors; they're fundamental delusions that prevent us from building an economic system rooted in biophysical reality rather than fantasy.
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We don’t have anything we HAVE to do, so we’re forced to...
People vary in their need for…
If they don’t have enough...
A Lot of People with Addiction Are People Who Need More ... they’re unhappy not because something’s wrong with their brain, but because their brain isn’t...
One of the Biggest Neuroscience Discoveries in the Last 75 Years: pleasure and pain are...
Tool: Reset Dopamine in 30 Days:
The average time to reset your dopamine system is about 30 days
During that time, dopamine pathways recover
Weeks 1 and 2 are the...
Week 3: mood starts...
Week 4: small joys...
Social Media Is a Drug: “The first message I would want to get across about social media is that it really is a drug and it’s engineered to be a drug, which doesn’t mean that we can’t use it.” – Dr. Anna Lembke
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The Vagus Nerve Isn’t Just About Calming Down… (common myth btw.)You can make yourself more alert, calm down on demand, alter your mood, and improve your learning ability
Wake Up Your Brain with Big Muscle Work: When feeling unmotivated/lethargic, do high-intensity work with large muscles to wake up your brain
Best Time to Learn: Do cognitive learning 1-4 hours AFTER high-intensity exercise (not to exhaustion)
Most Psychiatric Problems Are Not Mental Health Issues... they are brain health issues
Get your brain healthy and your mind will follow
We need to stop making dark-age diagnoses based on symptom clusters without biological data
Keep Your Brain Healthy by Addressing the Bright Minds Risk Factors:
Improve blood flow; stay active to avoid issues with retirement & aging
Reduce inflammation and understand your genetics
Protect your head from Head trauma; avoid toxins
Care for your mental health; support your Immunity and fight infections
Balance your neurohormones; manage diabesity (diabetes and obesity)
Ensure good sleep
The Best Supplements for Mental Health and Anxiety (more here): Saffron, theanine, GABA, magnesium, ashwagandha, curcumin, omega-3, SAMe, vitamin D
Saffron is the most effective supplement for treating depression, relative to antidepressants
How to Do Diaphragmatic Breathing (this can break a panic attack in a few breaths):
Breathe in for 4 seconds and stick your belly out as far as it will go
Hold it for 1 second
Then exhale for 8 seconds
The 18-40-60 Rule:
When you are 18, you worry about what everybody’s thinking of you
When you are 40, you do not give a damn what anybody thinks about you
When you are 60, you realize that nobody has been thinking about you at all
Brain Function and Life Experience Both Shape How We Choose Our Partners: People are often drawn to partners who reflect an emotional gap or unresolved issue within themselves
The Question That Can Fix the Unhappiest Generation: “Whatever I do today, is it good or bad for my brain health?”