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​Meta CFO Susan Li on Headcount vs. GPU Allocation, “Free Cash Flow” Hats, and Almost Becoming a PM | Cheeky Pint with John Collison​

  • 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.

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​Essentials: Understanding & Treating Addiction | Dr. Anna Lembke ​

  • 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

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​The 10 Core Myths Still Taught in Business Schools | The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens​

  • 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business schools, from the illusion of infinite growth to the myth that GDP equals human wellbeing, revealing how these outdated theories are driving us toward civilizational collapse.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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​Meta CFO Susan Li on Headcount vs. GPU Allocation, “Free Cash Flow” Hats, and Almost Becoming a PM | Cheeky Pint with John Collison​​​​

Mark Zuckerberg’s Feedback Style:

  • Mark is the tech visionary. Susan is...
  • Mark gives feedback that is always time...
  • Susan believes the ability to receive feedback well is...
  • She was one of the last people at Meta to give up her...

AI and Productivity: Meta’s New Argument

  • Make the most operational parts of...
  • Enable production tasks that were once...

The AI Gamble: Meta is investing heavily in training frontier AI models, but there are risks...

  • If the anticipated AI products don’t...
  • AI infrastructure (especially GPUs) is hard to...
  • Scaling compute indefinitely may hit hard const...
  • The viability of future models depends on breakthroughts, but
  • Backup Plan Risk: If flagship AI products (like Llama) fall short, compute might be repurposed for...

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​Essentials: Understanding & Treating Addiction | Dr. Anna Lembke​

Modern Life Is Too Easy and Too...

  • 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

  • Try to use it as an awesome tool to...

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​The 10 Core Myths Still Taught in Business Schools | The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens​

Myth #10: Price Equals Value

  • Reality: Prices reflect ability to pay, not actual need or systemic importance
  • Implication: Markets inevitably prioritize luxuries and ignore essentials

Myth #9: Humans Are...

  • Reality: We act from emotion, status, and...
  • Implication: Models built for robots will...

Myth #8: Supply Curves Always...

  • Reality: Scaling lowers...
  • Implication: Scale concentrates...

Myth #7: Energy Is Just Another...

  • Reality: Energy underpins...
  • Implication: Our entire economic recipe neglects...

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​Control Your Vagus Nerve to Improve Mood, Alertness & Neuroplasticity | Huberman Lab​

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)

Gut Serotonin Boosters: Food Tools

  • Eat 1-4 servings daily of low-sugar fermented foods (kimchi, sauerkraut, kefir, quality yogurt)
  • Get enough tryptophan in your diet (turkey, dairy products)
  • The gut microbiota creates short-chain fatty acids that are required for converting tryptophan into serotonin

Vagal Calming Tool #1: Neck Stretch

  • Sit with elbows on the table, palms down
  • Push elbows down and away from your ears
  • Turn your head up and to the right, then up and to the left
  • Feel a stretch on the sides of the neck where the vagus runs
  • Physiological sigh is still best for FAST calming, and exhaling is still best for HRV

Vagal Calming Tool #2: The Right Way to Hum

  • Key: extend the “H” part, not the “M” part of humming
  • Try to move the vibration from the back of your throat down into your chest and belly
  • This is like gargling, you want that vibration at the back of your throat

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​How to Master Anything—at Any Age: Lessons from World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand | The James Altucher Show​

An Indian Kid Who Crushed Grown Men in 5 Minutes:

  • In 1986 at the World Open in Philly, everyone was talking about this Indian kid
  • He was just an international master, but crushing everyone in 5 minutes (games usually took hours)
  • That kid was Vishy Anand
  • He became world champion, and stayed at the top for the next 40 years

Being Part-Time Doesn’t Work at the Top...

  • Anand was invited to Norway Chess, but he declined
  • He realized he couldn’t float in and out anymore
  • When you’re full-time, your life revolves around chess
  • It takes months to get sharp again
  • He enjoys commentary more now

Youth Is a Cheat Code (Even the Inaccurate Confidence):

  • Back in 1986, he hadn’t faced enough adversity
  • He believed in himself blindly, even after massive blunders
  • Lost winning games because he was careless or too quick
  • “Even inaccurate self-confidence that youth gives you is a treasure.”
  • As you get older, failure piles up and changes your assumptions
  • The trick is reframing past failures
  • Sometimes you need to see the player’s face from that game to relive it
  • Longevity = keeping the belief that change is possible

Why Wisdom Doesn’t Help as Much Anymore:

  • When he was younger, older players had an edge (wisdom and experience)
  • Now, computers have leveled that playing field
  • Wisdom is neutralized...
  • Calculation is king, and it declines with age
  • The top 10 players today average 21–22 years old
  • In 1984, it was mid-30s
  • Even with “dinosaurs” like him still around, the average keeps dropping
  • He has to revisit everything... openings, middle games, endgames
  • You can’t reach zero (perfection), but you have to try

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​The 11 Risk Factors That Are Destroying Your Brain | Dr Daniel Amen on Modern Wisdom with Chris Williamson (#958​

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?”

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​4-Hour Workweek Success Stories — Charlie Houpert on Building “Charisma on Command” to 10M+ Subscribers, From Charging $10 for Seminars to Making Millions, Living in Brazil, Critical Early Decisions, and The Secret to Freedom | Tim Ferriss Show (#817)​

How Greg McKeown’s Essentialism Helped Solve Charlie’s “Herbie” Problem:

  • Charlie committed to weekly YouTube videos in 2016 but found them tedious and didn’t like doing them
  • He read Essentialism