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[06:57] Clearing up two burning questions: what are Mike’s Speed Racer pants, and has he ever piloted a helicopter down Prospect Avenue?

[09:27] What was Mike’s Princeton experience like?

[11:34] Athleticswise, what flipped for Mike in his junior year?

[12:39] What part has wrestling played — and continues to play — in Mike’s life?

[14:00] How did Mike work his way through a particularly painful part of his journey — when he thought, after resigning from Goldman Sachs, his life was over at age 33?

[22:38] What did…

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[08:06] A story about the first time I was (kindly) rejected by Michael Lewis.

[09:35] How handing in a book report almost got Michael kicked out of middle school.

[12:39] What Michael’s thesis advisor at Princeton thought about his writing as an undergrad.

[16:38] How did Michael develop the ability to write without studying it directly?

[23:24] What was it about writing that got Michael hooked enough to keep submitting content to various publications even when he’d get more rejections than acceptance?

[25:46] Was it a hard decision…

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[04:45] What is Josh’s history with chess Grandmaster Maurice Ashley, and how have their shared and individual ideas about assumptions and shared constructs changed in the past 20 years?

[10:16] How Josh’s approach to learning differs from his friend and fellow athlete Dan Caulfield.

[11:38] What is foil boarding, and how does it overcome the conditions that restrict traditional surfing in a way that makes it a metaphor for Josh’s relationship to learning?

[13:14] eFoiling, one-wheeling, and the importance of learning how to fall safely.

[15:37] Foils and…

Prerequisite: The article assume you know Postgres and Docker. To learn more about Docker, please feel free to check out my Docker series.

Create a Docker volume as data storage

Docker containers don’t have permanent storage, so we’ll start by creating a Docker volume. This makes it easier to destroy and launch a new Postgres container without losing your database data.

Run the following command to create a Docker volume. Note that the example uses the name pgdata, but you can change this to whatever you like. Be sure to use the same name in all subsequent commands too if you do change it though.

docker volume…

[07:15] The high cost of not being in control of our own emotions under pressure and how astronauts train to keep panic at bay on risky missions.

[10:35] Cultivating apatheia.

[11:34] What important things are you missing because you chose worry over introspection, alertness, or wisdom? Does getting upset provide you with more options?

[12:00] Being in control of your emotions doesn’t mean you don’t have to feel them.

[12:54] We defeat emotions with logic.

[14:48] How General Eisenhower found opportunity to defeat Germany within its own seemingly unstoppable Blitzkrieg strategy during WWII.

[17:45] Controlling our emotions allows us to…

[06:10] Does Naval still agree to do this podcast — in spite of declining to appear as a guest on others — in hopes of capturing Podcast of the Year laurels that were snatched from his grasp by Jamie Foxx the first time around?

[08:02] Who is the person currently featured in Naval’s Twitter profile, and how has he inspired us (and countless others)?

[11:32] Why there’s no such thing as science with a capital S, and what Nassim Taleb recently said about what he considers to be the opposite of education, and what it’s easier to macro than micro.

…

[07:40] Who is Tyler Cowen?

[09:14] How does Tyler pronounce “economics,” and why is the subject his teaching vehicle of choice? What is he really trying to convey?

[10:44] Tyler says that economics is parasitical on anthropology. What does he mean by this?

[11:40] What did playing chess for money teach young Tyler?

[12:57] What is meta-rationality?

[13:48] As a self-confessed hyperlexic, how does Tyler think about parsing information and sources around something like the current COVID-19 coronavirus news?

[15:51] How can one cultivate the ability to remain meta-rational during times of duress or panic?

[17:36] How does Tyler use…

[08:33] Richard begins with a non-story story involving wines and spirits, chat show reinvention, Michael Parkinson, Windsor Castle, and David Bowie.

[10:10] Why I’ve made the rare exception for Richard with my “I don’t give quotes for books” policy.

[11:02] What secrets were revealed to Richard in Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries?

[16:35] What’s Richard’s own peculiar talent, and how did he discover it?

[19:34] How is it possible for Richard to be somewhat hopeless with numbers, yet have such a good investing track record? Here’s where the star principle comes into play.

[29:02] How did Richard decide on a bet size…