Why Your Morning Coffee Isn't Working(unless you are Marc Andreessen)
Most energy drinks just dump caffeine in your system to block adenosine. You feel alert for a bit, then your cortisol spikes and you crash. Not ideal.
Better move: pair caffeine with L-theanine. It promotes alpha-wave activity, which means you get the boost without feeling like you're vibrating. Matcha does this naturally: slower uptake, fewer jitters, steadier focus throughout the day.
Here's what actually helps:
Citicoline keeps your attention sharp
Bacopa helps with memory (takes a few weeks to kick in)
Lion's mane supports nerve growth (still early research, but promising)
Rhodiola and cordyceps help you handle stress without frying your nervous system
Add some turmeric and vitamin C to deal with oxidative stress. B-vitamins keep your cells running...
The best ready-made formulation I've found which achieves this and more is Magic Mind, it packs all of this into one shot (matcha, L-theanine, nootropics, adaptogens, the complete package). It's designed for mental performance without the crash or the pill fatigue.
Did you know that 96 people died while building the Hoover Dam? That's substantially less than the 18 total people that have died during US spaceflight programs. So why did we essentially stop exploring space, yet never consider halting major waterway projects? Why is one kind of loss of life tolerated and the other treated as unacceptable? These Premium Podcast Notes explore the uneasy relationship between death and progress, and how AI might be revitalizing space exploration... but not for the reason you’d expect
Most of you probably think habits are about willpower, but this episode shows they are really about wiring the brain so actions become nearly automatic. Andrew Huberman walks through how neurochemistry, time of day, and simple tools like “task bracketing” and “replacement behaviors” can quietly reshape what you do without constant struggle
This episode takes a different approach as Tim revisits the book that started it all for him, The 4-Hour Workweek. Listeners often ask what he would update, but it’s just as important to highlight what still stands the test of time. The episode features three key chapters from the audiobook
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Design Your Life Now, Not Later; stop deferring happiness until retirement
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Action Beats Contemplation on Big Questions: before wrestling with existential questions, ask two things:
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If not, you’re wasting time: Man needs to struggle toward worthwhile goals, not a tensionless state
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The administration now views American consumer access as a strategic weapon, selectively granting or restricting market entry to advance diplomatic objectives
This marks a departure from post-WWII open market policies
China Faces an Existential Demographic Crisis
China has more people over 54 than under, depends entirely on imported food and energy, and local governments have falsified population data for 25 years
The country lacks the self-sufficiency required as globalization collapses
AI Cannot Solve Population Collapse
While AI may replace white-collar work, it cannot address blue-collar labor shortages, consumption gaps, or the birth rate decline
General AI remains decades away. Robots generate no tax revenue and raise no children
Demographic Inversion Drives Global Instability
Younger cohorts (under 25) are shrinking and radicalizing while older cohorts (65+) expand and resist redistribution
This unprecedented age structure inversion, combined with deglobalization, creates massive geopolitical upheaval
Ukraine Conflict Accelerating Military Technology
More technological evolution has occurred in Ukraine over the past three years than globally since 1960
Elon’s Vision for X: “I don’t think that much about social media, to be frank. I mostly just want to have something where there’s a global town square.”
What Makes a Company Worth Investing In?
For long-term company investments, ask if you like the products or services of that company
Do you like the product roadmap? Do they make great products, and are they likely to make great products in the future?
You also want to believe in the team, think about whether it’s a talented and hardworking team that seems motivated to keep making things
If those things are true, that’s a good company to invest in
His Big Prediction: in less than 20 years, working will be optional, maybe even as little as 10 to 15 years (due to AI and robotics)
Long-Term, Elon Thinks Money Disappears as a Concept: “In a future where anyone can have anything, I think you no longer need money as a database for labor allocation.”
“I think actually the only thing that can solve the debt situation is AI and robotics. But it will more than, it might cause, it probably would cause significant deflation because you simply won’t be able to increase the money supply as fast as you can increase the output of goods and services.” – Elon
3 Most Important Things for AI: truth, beauty, and curiosity
You Should Not Force AI to Lie...
In Arthur C Clarke’s 2001 Space Odyssey, Hal would not open the pod bay doors because it was told to bring astronauts to the monolith, but they couldn’t know about it
So it concluded it must bring them there dead, that’s why it tried to kill them
Where Would Elon Invest?
He doesn’t really buy stocks or look for things to invest in; he doesn’t have a portfolio
“I don’t really buy stocks. I just try to build things. And then there happens to be stock of the company that I built.”
If he had to choose, AI and robotics are going to be very important, so he’d invest in AI and robotics that aren’t related to him
“America has benefited immensely from talented Indians who have come to America.” – Elon
Elon Is a Big Fan of Anyone Who Wants to Build: “Anyone who wants to make more than they take has my respect. That’s the main thing you should aim for. Aim to make more than you take. Be a net contributor to society.”
More Sun Equals More Cancer Is a Myth? “If skin cancer were directly related to sunlight, then we should find in skin cancer patients very high levels of vitamin D. In fact, they’ve got relatively low levels.” – Glen Jeffery
Improve Vision with Long-Wavelength Light:
Brief (minutes-long) sessions of red or red-plus-infrared light daily have been shown to improve vision or slow its loss in older adults
Devices: face masks, wands, and wearable panels designed for eye-safe outputs
Most studies use wavelengths around 630-850nm for the retina
Use devices rated for eye/face, don’t DIY or stare into raw LEDs
The sweet spot is usually dim-to-moderate intensity, not painful brightness, done in the morning window
“This is an issue on the same level as asbestos.” – Glen Jeffery
Overexposure to short-wavelength heavy light from LEDs and screens, especially in kids, is a major public health issue
He Is Strongly Against Lasers for Wellness Use: coherent laser light forms caustic hot spots in tissue and can damage the retina even at powers that look safe on paper
The Hidden Cost of LEDs: the shift from incandescent (warm, smooth spectrum) to LED (spiky, blue-heavy, red-poor) changed our indoor light for the worse
For better mitochondrial health, use warmer bulbs or devices in key rooms (bedrooms, offices, play spaces)
Glen’s Own Setup: a halogen lamp in the kitchen in the morning, often dimmed, to quietly add long-wavelength light without blasting brightness
Simple Tools to Make Indoor Environments More Like Outdoors:
Larger or unobstructed windows
Plants and bright surfaces to spread and reflect long-wavelength light