Michael Pollan
American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism (b. 1955)
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The Random Show — AI Super Assistants, Dream Engineering, Wizards, Supplements, and More!
Tim Ferriss
Author whose book discusses the mysterious efficacy of anesthesia on plants, despite different nervous systems.

Dr. Andrew Huberman — The Foundations of Physical and Mental Performance
Tim Ferriss
Author and journalist whose public education efforts, including the book and Netflix miniseries 'How to Change Your Mind,' have been crucial in destigmatizing psychedelics.

How to Learn Better & Create Your Best Future | Tim Ferriss
Andrew Huberman
Collaborated with Tim Ferriss and the Saisei Foundation to fund the Ferris UC Berkeley Journalism Fellowship for psychedelic journalism.

Overcome Addictions and Obsessions of All Kinds | Dr. Anna Lembke
Andrew Huberman
Author and expert on consciousness and psychedelics, mentioned as a guest on the podcast.

Q&A with Tim — The Upcoming AI Tsunami and Building Offline Advantage
Tim Ferriss
Author of 'How to Change Your Mind', mentioned as a potential marker for experienced practitioners in psychedelic healing spaces, suggesting a preference for those experienced before the book's popularity.

Cultivating Awe & Emotional Connection in Daily Life | Dr. Dacher Keltner
Andrew Huberman
His new book on consciousness is mentioned in the context of the feeling of emotion and later as a friend who wrote about psychedelics.

How to Build Discipline in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
Author of a new book on consciousness that Cal Newport found insightful but difficult to organize.

How We Grew Koch Inc. to $150 Billion Without Going Public: Charles & Chase Koch
All-In Podcast
A chemist who became a philosopher, whose book 'Personal Knowledge' is cited by Charles Koch as a difficult but insightful read on developing personal knowledge and rewiring one's brain for different thinking.

Michael Pollan on Consciousness, Psychedelics, and the Limits of Neuroscience
Sam Harris
Author and speaker discussing consciousness. His books 'How to Change Your Mind' and his new book 'This Is Your Mind on Plants' are central to the discussion.

How Do I Stop Wasting Time?
Cal Newport
Author whose book 'In Defense of Food' Cal Newport is rereading for research on his next book.

Is Psychedelic Therapy Ready for FDA Approval?
Sam Harris
Author whose bestseller 'How to Change Your Mind' (published in 2018) contributed to a hype cycle in psychedelic research.

AI Makes My Job Miserable. How Do I Escape?
Cal Newport
Author of 'In Defense of Food', whose book Cal Newport reread as inspiration for his potential new book, 'In Defense of Thinking'.

How to Legalize Medical Psychedelics in Your Country — Tania de Jong on Australia’s Breakthrough
Tim Ferriss
Author of 'The Trip Treatment' and 'How to Change Your Mind', key figure in psychedelic literature.

🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)
Latent Space
Eric Nguyen's lab colleague with whom he collaborated on the initial design of Pythia, a convolutional architecture.