#827: Pablos Holman — One of The Scariest Hackers I’ve Ever Met

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show, where it is my job to deconstruct world class performers to tease out how they do what they do. My guest today Terrified me so much when I first saw him in person, Pablos Holman, that I effectively avoided him for fifteen years. Although we've crossed paths and now we are friendly, but I saw him stealing. few dozen credit card numbers from people on the front row of an event using hacking technology. And I thought, you know what? Maybe I should just keep my distance. Pablo Solman is a hacker and inventor and the best selling author of Deep Future Creating Technology That Matters, the indispensable guide to deep tech. And we'll talk all about what that means previously. Pablos worked on spaceships at Blue Origin, you know that thing might be Jeff Bezos, may have heard of him, and helped build the Intellectual Ventures Lab to invent a wide variety of breakthroughs, including a brain surgery tool, a machine to suppress hurricanes, 3D food printers, and a laser that can shoot down mosquitoes. Part of an impact invention effort to eradicate malaria with Bill K.

Gates. Pablos hosts the Deep Future podcast, and his TED Talks have been viewed more than thirty million times. He's also a managing partner at Deep Future, investing in technologies to solve the world's biggest problems. We talk about his upbringing in Alaska of all places, commonalities between skateboarding innovators and hackers in the more common computer science sense of the term. We get into all sorts of nooks and crannies and we have a few mutual friends in common. So I was able to ask a lot of questions that were This was a bit from behind the scenes, which I really enjoyed. So you can find all thingsPablos at deep future.tech. You can find him on X at Pablos. Optimal minimal.

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