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Rick Rubin has low heart rate variability.
So he looked up everything that raises it, picked one technique, and started doing it every day.
It worked.
The technique: coherence breathing. 10 to 20 minutes a day, at least once, sometimes twice.
Now he and @hubermanlab do it together on camera so you can follow along:
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I just spoke with @BenWilsonTweets and he said the response to the episode has been “life-affirming”. Since it was released he’s received introductions to other people who have beaten advanced cancer and so far you have helped raise over $800,000 for Ben and his family. Ben’s doctor originally gave him a year to live. With the new medication Ben is on (that’s working!) the goal is to push that out to 2 to 3 years and then with new therapies push 2 to 3 to 10, and then 10 to 25, and 25 to 50 and Ben gets to see his 4 small children grow up. Even today someone offered to make an introduction to Ben for a promising new therapy.
I’d like to ask you to keep helping spread the word about Ben. Someone out there that doesn’t know about Ben (yet) could have information that could save his life. And if you’d like to donate you can do that here. Every little bit matters: gofundme.com/f/help-ben-figh…
Ben Wilson (@BenWilsonTweets) has stage 4 cancer and 4 kids under the age of 5.
I want to help him as much as possible, so I invited him on the podcast to talk about his work studying history’s greatest leaders and what it’s like getting told he’s going to die at 38.
He’s a good guy, a close friend, and one of my favorite podcasters.
His work has benefited millions of people all across the world.
Please watch this episode and see if you can help with medicine, introductions, or donations.
0:00 What Ben has learned from making How to Take Over the World and studying history’s greatest leaders.
55:51 Living like you're dying. Ben on facing cancer.
A child learns to recognize a cat after maybe 10 cats. AI needs essentially the internet's worth of cat images.
In 2006 Dr. Fei-Fei Li decided the field's bottleneck was data, not algorithms, and led ImageNet: 15 million images.
The 2 extremes of risk she sees for young people using AI (Huberman Lab):
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I’m tired boss
Stay safe online.
Here is what I do:
1. I use a password manager (Passwords, which comes preinstalled on Apple's ecosystem)
2. I have 2FA enabled everywhere.
3. If the site supports hardware keys, that's what I use. I have 3 YubiKeys 5C. I keep them in different locations. These keys are a bit more inconvenient, but they make it 1000x harder for anyone in the world to access your stuff.
4. If there is no hardware key support, I enable Passkeys and store them on my computer or phone.
5. I do not send authentication codes via text messages unless there's no other alternative to enable 2FA. SMS codes are vulnerable to SIM swapping and interception.
6. My iPhone uses an alphanumeric password. This is much better than a simple 6-digit PIN.
7. I also use a long, complex password on my laptop. It's inconvenient, but if someone steals it, they'll have a hard time breaking in.
8. I enabled Number Lock and SIM Protection with my phone carrier so hackers can't swap my SIM or steal my phone number.
9. I enabled Stolen Device Protection on my iPhone.
10. I have full disk encryption on every device that supports it (starting with my laptop and phone).
11. I have automatic updates enabled on my computers and my phone. I never skip an update, and also update the browser every time I get the notification.
12. I check every critical account every 3 months and make sure security is updated. Critical accounts are your bank, email, social media, and investment accounts. I make sure I don't have old emails, 2FA using SMS, etc.
In Dr. Helen Blair Simpson's research, CBT cut OCD severity scores from 25 to about 11 in four weeks.
Placebo did basically nothing. Adding SSRIs on top of CBT didn't beat CBT alone.
Why there's very little evidence the serotonin system is what's disrupted in OCD (Huberman Lab Essentials):
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Ben Greenfield: "Nearly every human being on the planet with a breath rate of around 5 1/2 seconds in, 5 1/2 seconds out achieves peak HRV."
It's resonance breathing, the easiest health tool from a Modern Wisdom roundtable with Dr Gabrielle Lyon and Brigham Buhler.
You can do it while working, watching TV or lying in bed.
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It's been months that I keep saying Hitler was far left. Every time, thousands of clowns show up in my replies to give me history lessons.
So I made a video to answer all these low IQ takes at once.
Topic closed. Next.
Soichiro Honda sold about 50 piston rings to Toyota. They sent 47 back as rejects.
The humiliation made him obsessed with precision. He designed automatic equipment so less-trained workers could make consistent rings, practice he later used to build motorcycle factories.
"Success represents 1% of your work, which results only from the 99% that is called failure."
(Founders)
For heart rate, recovery tells you more than your max.
Dr. Andy Galpin's target: after hard exercise, drop about 30 beats in the first minute and about 60 by two minutes.
His other benchmarks you can test without a lab, from push-ups to plank holds (Huberman Lab Essentials):
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After the dot-com crash, Silicon Valley adopted 4 rules. Peter Thiel flips every one.
"Improve on the competition" becomes "competitive markets destroy profits." All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.
The other three flips, and the question Thiel says you should be asking (David Senra, Founders #424):
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Look guys, stop being shocked. You want giga TVs for under $1k at Costco, then YOU are the product.
Raising Prices is HARDER than scamming your data to sell
Raising Taxes is HARDER than printing money and inflating your dollar.
Incentives gonna incentive. Munger been telling you.
WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.
Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.
Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was.
Got a root shell.
then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.
This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
About 1,500 neurons on each side of your brain, roughly 3,000 total, are enough to generate explosive aggression.
They sit in the ventromedial hypothalamus. Huberman walks through David Anderson's work at Caltech: one subgroup, the neurons that make an estrogen receptor, is both necessary and sufficient.
(Huberman Lab Essentials)
Rick Rubin's editing rule: if you want to end up at 70 out of 100, don't trim down to 70.
Force yourself all the way down to 40. Then add back only what's absolutely necessary.
Stack 10 things on top of each other and each becomes one tenth as important as one thing alone.
(David Senra)
Get a 5% raise, increase spending by 6%.
Caleb Hammer says that lifestyle inflation does more personal damage than inflation itself. In his telling, the closer people get to $100k, $200k, even half a million a year, the worse the debt.
The net worth he says lets you weather almost any emergency, and the budget he'd teach first (Modern Wisdom):
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Pancho hadn't really spoken in 15 years.
Dr. Eddie Chang's team put electrodes over the brain areas that control his vocal tract, started with a 50-word vocabulary and added autocorrect. When words appeared on screen, Pancho giggled, which threw off the decoding of the next words.
Where the work goes next, and the question Chang says we haven't thought through (Huberman Lab Essentials):
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In animal studies, BPC-157 was injected at 1,000 times the typical dose with no adverse effects.
Dr. Abud Bakri says that's a problem, not a selling point. Nobody knows its LD50, which matters for FDA approval.
And Huberman skips it when he isn't injured. It upregulates VEGF, the same blood-vessel mechanism tumors use to grow.
(Huberman Lab)
James Dyson built 5,126 vacuum prototypes that failed. Number 5,127 worked.
That took over a decade in a small carriage house workshop, with his kids watching him fail.
David Senra calls Dyson's autobiography his top recommendation for any ambitious person. It got him through five and a half years of an unprofitable podcast.
Caffeine does more than block adenosine.
Huberman: at 100-250 mg, taken regularly, it increases D2 and D3 dopamine receptors. The dopamine you already have hits harder. Morning sunlight in the first hour raises receptor density too.
The dopamine supplement he says to skip because of the crash, and the 3 phases of your day by brain chemical:
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📚🚨 The book UNELECTED is finally out - order it today if you haven't! 🇺🇸
There'll be more Democracy Files drops today - but as it happens, today is launch day for my book UNELECTED. It is a coincidence that I stumbled into an archive of these ex-USAID officials less than a week before the book's release. The UNELECTED is about how and why a massive global network of NGOs came to dominate our everyday American policies.
And crucially, UNELECTED ends in a whitepill that shows us the way out of this mess.
UNELECTED is a joint collaboration between @JoshuaLisec and myself. I started this effort because my own doxxing happened during the Tesla Takedown protests, while I was in the process of being recruited by DOGE. DOGE employees were having their life made miserable, and I had to take my own children and flee out of state.
While researching who organized and financed the protests, I noticed all the backers were all about democracy. Democratic resilence, strengthening democracy, protecting democracy. I was like ... "wait, why are democracy groups behind this?" DOGE was cutting silly DEI foreign aid awards, it wasn't overturning any elections.
What I came to find was shocking - these silly USAID awards added up to a global regime change machine. "Democracy" has nothing to do with elections. "Democracy," to them, means diffused governance outside of the three branches of our Constitutional Republic via private citizens in the form of NGOs. The network started assembling over a hundred years ago with the founding of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and has snowballed into a machinery worth trillions of dollars that has sucked taxpayer money, philanthropic money, union dues.
That became UNELECTED.
You've been reading about the coup the past couple of days. UNELECTED shows how and why the coup came to be.
I'm so lucky to have met wonderful people throughout this journey - @petermarocco, "Big Balls" @as400495 , and countless others who sacrificed so much more to right our country.
Vote straight Republican on November 3rd, and buy UNELECTED.