#859: Q&A with Tim — The Upcoming AI Tsunami and Building Offline Advantage, Book Recommendations, Spotting Psychedelic Red Flags, Courage as a Learnable Skill, and More

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Barris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Verris show. This is an in-between episode, an experimental format that I have revisited a few times, and it's the good old fashioned QA. That is I answer questions submitted. And live questions by a small but elite group of test readers who of my upcoming no book. That's the working title. Kind of a code name. See Tim dot blog slash the no book for more information and I think ten or twenty Free pages of uh the book, which should be forthcoming. This episode explores a wide range of topic, including the age of AI.

Close to half of these submitted questions were related to artificial intelligence and I include a bunch of caveats. related to my limitations, but there are some thoughts that folks might find Interesting, including the closest thing to an AI Nostradamus that I have found. Career pivots and figuring out what to do next. This is related to the AI questions, certainly. Very, very interwoven. Networking at conferences, building offline advantage. This includes a callback to my strategy for South by Southwest two thousand seven. When I launched the four hour work week, everything still applies, in my opinion, even more so now. How to vet psychedelic practitioners and spot red flags, building great communities with zero tolerance policies.

Have some experience with that. Book recommendations from my personal shelf, literally the shelves right behind me when I recorded this. Thoughts on parenting. I'm sure many of you did not know that like Pavel Durov of Telegram, I have 120 children scattered throughout. this wonderful world. And much, much more. And without further ado, please enjoy a very wide ranging, I would say conversation, more of a monologue with yours truly. Thanks for listening. Optimal minimal. At this altitude, I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking. So now I'll do those questions.

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