Congrats! I've been sober for 31 years by practicing the principals of the 12 steps. You should check out "The 12 Step Guide for Skeptics - Clearing Up Common Misconceptions of A Path To Sobriety" There's so much information out there! Hope this helps xo
It’s inspiring to read about your willingness to embrace change. Day by day you are discovering the way to be present and to leave the illusion of the past and the future. The present is the only place you can feel joy.
Could be! I was there for 2008 with the JPG Magazine crew and we also had a Metblogs meet-up that year too. My friends told me on the plane there that the game was to drink the value of your plane ticket and hotel in free booze. Challenge accepted! That means I came back with about 4 memories and a tattoo. No joke.
Kevin, I don't think the timestamps on https://feeds.transistor.fm/less-than-one are correct. It's a 90 min podcast but the timestamps only go through 40 minutes. Might want to revise!
I couldn't disagree more. Shyness is partly genetic and partly shaped by the environment. I believe I am shy mostly because I was treated terribly by parents, teachers, other kids, etc. when I spoke. This caused me to feel unsafe in the world and fearful of how people will react to me. Maybe nothing bad happened to YOU when you were little but that is not everyone's experience. Also, I know many outgoing people who only think or talk about themselves. If it works for you to think of shyness as selfishness, then by all means go ahead. It feels like victim blaming to me.
Equating shyness with selfishness sounds very much like what an extrovert would say. For me, shyness was an end result of being overwhelmed with emotions and fear. A combination of being a natural introvert and abuse suffered as a young child.
SAME!, then I unpacked it a little more after the interview, I'm now thinking about it this way: if one is focused on the self, "I'm shy" "I might be seen as X" then you're likely avoiding/blocking meaningful human connections. In some cases, shyness is often driven by intense worry about how one appears to others.
Shyness usually shows up when you’re obsessing over yourself. How you look, how you sound, if people are judging you, or if you’re saying the “right” thing. It’s this mental loop where everything revolves around you. And yeah, it feels like insecurity, but underneath that, it’s a kind of ego trip. You’re so caught up in your own image and fear of embarrassment that you’re not really thinking about anyone else. The spotlight stays locked on you, and that’s not just self-consciousness, that’s self-importance in disguise.
Many years ago I was complaining about my personal defects to my girlfriend at the time and she said "even if you're thinking bad things about yourself, you're still thinking about yourself." That really stuck with me.
Kevin just want to say Thanks for all you do! Found you, Attia, Sacca thru Tim Ferriss, then a Chris H, Huberman, Patrick, and others thru your old Podcast, your NFT venture etc... keep up the great work! Can you name the mfg of the Ester Ketones you did on the recent a16z pod with Anish?
Congrats! I've been sober for 31 years by practicing the principals of the 12 steps. You should check out "The 12 Step Guide for Skeptics - Clearing Up Common Misconceptions of A Path To Sobriety" There's so much information out there! Hope this helps xo
Just picked up a copy. You buried the lede that you wrote it :-)
Thank you! Yeah I felt funny with the whole self-promotion thing. lol I can't wait to hear what you think! xo
It’s inspiring to read about your willingness to embrace change. Day by day you are discovering the way to be present and to leave the illusion of the past and the future. The present is the only place you can feel joy.
Great episode 👏👏👏
Congrats on 62 days! Just crossed over 700 myself.
Edit: dunno when but I’m positive I hung out with Jason at a party once. Probably one of my blotto nights at SXSW 2008-2011
Could be! I was there for 2008 with the JPG Magazine crew and we also had a Metblogs meet-up that year too. My friends told me on the plane there that the game was to drink the value of your plane ticket and hotel in free booze. Challenge accepted! That means I came back with about 4 memories and a tattoo. No joke.
Actually, now that I’m listening I think it might have been one of the Chris Pirillo’s events in Des Moines. Did you go to that?
Hell yes! Gnomedex 2 & 3. I was at both of those!
"Chris Pirillo"
Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while! Immediately thought of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F32Fb6DugLU
Kevin, I don't think the timestamps on https://feeds.transistor.fm/less-than-one are correct. It's a 90 min podcast but the timestamps only go through 40 minutes. Might want to revise!
fixed!
Will do, thanks!
I couldn't disagree more. Shyness is partly genetic and partly shaped by the environment. I believe I am shy mostly because I was treated terribly by parents, teachers, other kids, etc. when I spoke. This caused me to feel unsafe in the world and fearful of how people will react to me. Maybe nothing bad happened to YOU when you were little but that is not everyone's experience. Also, I know many outgoing people who only think or talk about themselves. If it works for you to think of shyness as selfishness, then by all means go ahead. It feels like victim blaming to me.
Equating shyness with selfishness sounds very much like what an extrovert would say. For me, shyness was an end result of being overwhelmed with emotions and fear. A combination of being a natural introvert and abuse suffered as a young child.
You lost me at shyness is selfishness.
SAME!, then I unpacked it a little more after the interview, I'm now thinking about it this way: if one is focused on the self, "I'm shy" "I might be seen as X" then you're likely avoiding/blocking meaningful human connections. In some cases, shyness is often driven by intense worry about how one appears to others.
Shyness usually shows up when you’re obsessing over yourself. How you look, how you sound, if people are judging you, or if you’re saying the “right” thing. It’s this mental loop where everything revolves around you. And yeah, it feels like insecurity, but underneath that, it’s a kind of ego trip. You’re so caught up in your own image and fear of embarrassment that you’re not really thinking about anyone else. The spotlight stays locked on you, and that’s not just self-consciousness, that’s self-importance in disguise.
Many years ago I was complaining about my personal defects to my girlfriend at the time and she said "even if you're thinking bad things about yourself, you're still thinking about yourself." That really stuck with me.
Kevin just want to say Thanks for all you do! Found you, Attia, Sacca thru Tim Ferriss, then a Chris H, Huberman, Patrick, and others thru your old Podcast, your NFT venture etc... keep up the great work! Can you name the mfg of the Ester Ketones you did on the recent a16z pod with Anish?
Thanks again!!
I loved this episode! More power to your elbow Kevin.
So good giving alcohol a swerve - just love the extra 20% mind focus - better mental health, body is less inflamed! General demeanor is up!
Only a month in… it‘s a lifestyle choice for me.. and I’m enjoying the ride!
Kevin, you practically raised me on TechTV (also got me suspended from school)
i sat and watched you for years and years - you were basically my big brother.
I'm filming a docuseries on AI / Humanity
would be honored and grateful for an opportunity to chat about it
Weird can't get info searching Jason DeFilippo?
Got links?