Dopamine Fasts, Cruise Ship Investing, and Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos Feuds with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-Founder of Tiny

My First Million

English - October 19, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 2.3K ratings
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Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson), Co-Founder of Tiny, joins Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) to talk about how he found joy through a four-week dopamine fast, why it can be better to make safer “cruise ship investments” rather than startup investments, how Andrew’s last appearance led him to start a D2C maternal healthy company, and much more.
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Show Notes:
* 00:20 - Andrew’s monk-like retreat from technology
* 01:45 - What triggered his “digital meltdown”
* 09:20 - The power of a 4-week dopamine fast
* 22:40 - Why Andrew bought Aeropress
* 30:45 - “Cruise ship investing” vs “speed boat investing”
* 37:30 - The benefits (or lack thereof) of being famous
* 39:33 - How coming on MFM led Andrew to be able to start a DTC pregnancy health company
* 49:15 - Readwise and the Feynman method for learning
* 52:41 - The pitfall of constant optimization
* 01:07:35 - When Andrew met Steve Jobs
* 01:17:32 - Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos’s Twitter beef
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Links:
* Tiny
* JoelOnSoftware.com
* Wanting
* Readwise
* Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
* Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos Thread