Jocko Academy

Getting lost on a 23 mile hike, the worst weather in the world, bears in the area, coming down a mountain at 1am, hitchhiking.

Compounding improvement over a long period is magic, learning from Cars 3, Sam Walton didn't open his first Walmart until he was 44 years old, yoga is a martial art you do against yourself, the things you don't like doing? you have to do them, it is pleasurable to get fat, it is painful to do the opposite, how Rob is using stressors to improve at snowboarding, striving to be uncommon among uncommon people.

What's wrong with a system where one college spends its marginal dollar on gathering smart, poor kids while another school spends that dollar on artisanal cheese?

Ideas are the most powerful things we have, ideas are the operating system for human life, two people with different beliefs communicating without anger.

Theodore Roosevelt on political parties, social media soaks up immense amount of your time for very little reward for it, to say the obvious fact that Capitalism is better than Communism is taboo in academia, the natural tendency of humans is to amass the strongest possible case for your own side.

Why are humans excited by violence, hundreds of thousands of people watched public executions, violence is inherent to human nature, when conversation fails all we have is violence, , guns as technology, flooding The Coliseum, the end of revolutions and more...

"Thats what these kids are like. The ones who make it out. They learn from a very early age where the exits are and they don't let anything get in their way."

How Steve Rinella Spent a Year in the American Wild to Re-create a Feast from the Classic Recipes of French Master Chef Auguste Escoffier, The village storyteller is as old as language. Only there are 6 billion villagers and podcasts are the campfire, building bonds over shared experiences.

They started with babies, history doesn't repeat, human nature does, default skepticism of "leaders", cui bono

Passive consumption vs active participation, are we meant to be a global species?, sugar for the mind, is it possible to have a monopoly on information?

Doing what you dread immediately, early employees of Facebook refusing to use Facebook, the downside to training your brain for short term feedback loops, "billionaire? what the fuck is that word?", hang around smart high functioning people and copy what they do.

How Japan studied wildlife to improve bullet trains, using evolution as R&D, if you could have one trait from any animal what would it be?

Humanity is one unbroken chain of life stretching back 4 billion years, there is only one place in the universe where atoms can contemplate atoms, we can be both valuable and insignificant at the same time.

Sidewinder intro, the value of old advice, drink shit that is a thousand years old, wasteful twitter addiction, a lake that is a thousand miles wide and an inch deep, no one gets out alive, Naval Ravikant's idea on this moment.

History is the autobiography of a madman, Hitler as the Lil Jon of military strategists, Dan Carlin's reason for starting a new podcast