It's really easy in this world right now to just consume information, right? Whether it's Instagram or TikTok or Snapchat, you can just go on there and consume, but you're not producing anything; you're not making anything; you're not creating anything. You shouldn't be in a deficit. You should be hating if you end up at the end of the day that you've consumed more information than you've actually produced or you've consumed more creativity than you've produced.

We have not yet experienced a winter with COVID-19. And loosely speaking, if you look at outbreaks, if you look at hot zones, one of the key drivers and the key signals is when people have to spend time indoors ... When the Northeast, when the Midwest, when the Rust Belt, when it starts to get cold up there, this could get really fucking ugly. I mean really world-class ugly.

My true skill set as a podcaster was developed through sitting in thousands and thousands of AA meetings, listening to people tell their stories and learning how to tell my own story. That was my training ground for being a public speaker and being a podcast host. You learn how to be empathetic, you learn how to listen, you develop this great capacity [and] compassion for the human condition that I think lends itself towards creating a safe and interesting environment to explore those very themes with another person sitting across from you.

If you don't get to know yourself better, there is somebody out there who is, right now, trying to hack you. And not just one—Amazon is trying to hack you, and Google is trying to hack you, and Coca-Cola is trying to hack you, and the Russians and the American government and the Chinese. They are all trying to hack you right now.

You only need about 30 grams of protein per day. Now, what does that look like? It's about three whole eggs, two to four ounces of salmon, or one small can of tuna. All of that will get you your protein needs for 24 hours. It's not much.

Neither [political] party has anybody with a clue at the top about technology and where we're going. That's a real problem because that's how we're going to compete, that's how we're going to recreate the economy, and that's how we're going to get our growth.

What we do need to do, though, is reconfigure the priorities of education around learning how to learn, and learning how to make decisions, and learning how to interact with people—life skills that transcend pure memorization.

If you want to get fat, eat fruit

Valter Longo makes the point that protein dramatically ages us. If he had one thing to take away from people to allow them to live longer, it would be protein.

We have three big problems ... And these are nuclear war and climate change and technological disruption. And each of them is enough to destroy human civilization by itself. And when you combine them, you get a really toxic mix.

One of the best things you can do to support your brain is eat a SMASH diet: sardines, mackerel, anchovies, salmon, and herring.

Usually, somewhere around a 12,000 to 15,000 step count per day is ideal ... A lot of the research on step counts shows that 12,000+ is the sweet spot for metabolic health.

The two greatest things you can do for overall longevity and to decrease your risk of all-cause mortality is to control your glycemic variability and inflammation.

We are losing more people per day right now [as of late November 2020 due to COVID-19] than we have lost in any crisis. We are losing more people per day right now than we lost in World War II, the AIDS crisis, the Vietnam conflict. We have never had this velocity of death in any crisis in America.

If I'm writing something, I don't publish it unless I'm afraid of what people are going to think of me.

Everyone wants to talk about decentralized social media right now ... How many users are going to leave YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook for decentralized YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook? Zero. Nobody's leaving because it's just decentralized. Instead, what you gotta do is you gotta build a 10x better product.

San Francisco, right now, is a hellscape ... It is an ad for what happens when [the] far left takes over a municipality ... San Francisco is just a lesson in how not to run a city right now.

America is resilient ... I don't think there's any country in the world that's more adaptive, resilient, and innovative than we are. We are a nation of entrepreneurs, and that's what we do.

The harder you guard your ego, the more obvious it is that you're insecure.

When you double down on your curiosity and you have the willingness and tenacity to follow that... it creates a compounding interest that, in a real-world context, shows up in opportunities that you couldn't have predicted or imagined.