Today's guest is Khe Hy, owner of radreads.co and creator of the excellent Notion Course, Supercharge Your Productivity. In our chat we skip right past the talk about notion dashboards or productivity hacks and dive right into some deeper existential questions.
We discuss introspection techniques, telic vs atelic activities, the core reasons for our behaviors, and much much more.
I really enjoyed this chat with Khe, and I think you will to.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Teaser - On fiction books
00:46 Introduction
01:43 What Khe would have done differently if he started all over
06:02 Authentic Networking and Duty
11:28 On Introspection and Reactivity
15:30 Why bring existential questions into a productivity class?
23:14 The existential producitivty crew
25:31 Telic vs Atelic activities (Meditating to focus better at work)
31:38 The core reasons for our behaviors
31:20 How to vet a life coach
41:15 Finding new friends on twitter
42:28 What is Khe truly scared of?
44:49 Khe's favorite fiction book
46:24 Where to find Khe online
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In this episode of the Strangely Earnest Podcast, we chat with Tasshin Fogleman. Tasshin has been meditating for over a decade, and has trained and taught extensively at the Monastic Academy. We talk about:
- different types of meditation you might not have heard of
- common meditation misconceptions
- recommendations for beginners
- and much more.
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Meditation tips from Tasshin:
- https://tasshin.com/blog/meditation-tips-for-a-lifetime-of-practice/
On Loving-Kindness (Metta) meditation:
- https://tasshin.com/blog/practicing-love/
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:57 Introducing Tasshin Fogleman
01:19 How Tasshin started meditating
03:44 Why join a monastery?
07:18 Vocabulary for describing different meditation practices
12:08 Style of meditation at the Monastic Academy
12:47 Common misconceptions about meditation
15:23 How would you approach meditation if you had to do it all over again
18:36 You don't have to sit still to meditate
20:55 On Loving Kindness (Metta) meditation
28:31 For beginners, Consistency matters more than technique
30:32 On standing or moving meditation
34:26 Why is most of the focus on sitting first?
36:49 Hatha yoga was prep work for sitting meditation
37:40 100 days of solitary retreat
44:19 The role of exercise in Tasshin's meditation training
46:42 On Non-Doing meditation
51:57 Final thoughts
52:21 Where to find Tasshin online
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In this episode of the Strangely Earnest Podcast, we chat with the one and only Marie Poulin. We talk permaculture, the creator economy, sharing revenue numbers in public, impostor complex, and more.
Marie helps business owners level up their digital systems, workflow, and product ecoystems, so they can spend more time on what matters.
Marie's Website: https://mariepoulin.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mariepoulin
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/marieisanerd
Notion Mastery: https://notionmastery.com/
Marie's Imposter Complex coach: http://tanyageisler.com/
00:00 Preview
00:27 Introduction
01:14 Marie's Tower Garden
01:59 How does permaculture influence Marie's thinking?
08:56 Doubling down on notion
11:02 What if notion went out of business tomorrow?
14:21 The Creator Economy
18:02 Talking about money in public
26:09 How to grow an online course
30:28 Stacking functions
31:47 What it's like to become "well known"
33:45 The impostor syndrome is because you care
36:53 You can teach by being one step ahead
38:06 Beta test your course
41:02 The price tells a story
43:30 Next steps for Marie
45:31 Improving at YouTube
48:33 100 Ways to say the same thing
51:19 Where to find Marie online
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A fantastic chat on public speaking, learning by doing, and vulnerability with Kyle Bowe (@kylebowe4)
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- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6AQMAfs-T24uKwHbldgo6Q
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:13 creativity requires letting go
03:29 Podcasting requires active listening
04:13 How to pick a niche
06:36 Put content out there and see what lands
07:44 How can you trust that a niche will emerge from doing?
09:11 First and foremost, create what you want
10:17 Learning in public requires psychological safety
11:35 Learning in public helps the hive mind
12:03 How to find uplifting communities
15:19 What would you tell a student who’s not participating?
16:26 Kyle’s Journey from the back of the classroom to the front
17:33 How Kyle takes online courses
22:04 Blacking out during a presentation
23:14 Become a leader by being vulnerable
24:02 How Kyle became a professor
27:13 Teaching isn’t about you, it’s about the discussion you generate
28:56 Get comfortable being uncomfortable
30:42 Shifting from teaching in person to teaching online
34:55 How to avoid the gear trap
36:09 Learning must be fun
37:46 You cannot design the perfect system up front
40:13 Time spent researching gear is better spent doing
43:11 Why we fixate on gear instead of creating
45:57 Watching a journey is more interesting than a perfectly polished ideal
47:35 Make friends by looking foolish in public
52:24 Where to find Kyle online
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A fun playful chat with Reddy aka @reddy2go
Timestamps below.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
01:27 What does play mean to you?
04:34 Can we play and be serious at the same time?
04:44 You never say you're 'playing' towards your goals
06:24 Children and animals are the true experts at play
08:36 Why do we lose the ability to play?
11:51 Play is the beginning of our lives and play is the end of our lives
12:09 Learning the drums through play
13:32 Play helps with adherence
14:46 Play - Serious - Play Circle
17:34 How to play for people who are too serious
19:41 Meditate on your death
20:30 Rewind to your childhood
22:39 Play with the constraints around you
23:14 The moment you do something silly or irreverent, you're playing
26:39 3 Pillars of Play
28:17 Why does play involve a rulebook?
28:30 The Rules of Play
32:07 An Artist is someone who cares
35:02 If you love something, let the creator know!
37:42 Remixing Austin Kleon's 'Keep Going'
40:37 Play and emotion
42:44 The moment a child can fake a smile, they're an adult
45:00 Find Reddy online
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A fantastic chat with Alysson Costa from the University of Melbourne. Timestamps below.
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgrnlGt7v8Y&
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- https://twitter.com/alycosta
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?...
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:23 Alysson's Background
04:16 Childhood traits stick with you
06:09 Clifton's Strengths
07:51 Knowing what makes you happy is like another level of happiness
10:09 Pandemic has accelerated Alysson's understanding of himself
13:07 Working and resting based on mood, not time of day
16:03 Pomodoro technique feels too artificial
18:27 It's part of the deal to get bored
19:45 If you realize you don't want to do a masters before you do a masters, you already did a masters
20:11 The need for context when giving advice
23:44 Taking Building a Second Brain again, not about the apps, but how someone with the same tools as you can do something completely different
25:14 Sharing workflows online
26:11 Building an amazing twitter experience
28:09 You're the sum of 500 people you follow https://gregfrontiero.com/2020/11/20/...
28:46 Possible solution to algorithms: make them transparent?
31:28 "Everybody needs to quit social media" is not a good solution
32:50 Over-focus on measurable metrics
33:38 Student's obsession with marks/grades is systemic
39:06 The one thing marks/grades don't measure
41:47 Looking for lost keys under the lamppost
43:13 Questioning whether or not to stay in academia
44:33 The spirit of engineering
45:40 Using multiple metrics rather than one
47:11 Where to find Alysson online
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We talk with Ben Ford about the his course, Communicate to Operate. Timestamps below:
Apologies for the audio quality on my end.
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- https://commando.dev
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Timestamps:
00:27 Ben's Commando Background
02:43 3 Principles of Communicate to Operate
04:02 OODA loop is a hierarchy, not a loop
04:22 Full OODA loop diagram
05:59 How can companies stay in touch with reality?
06:35 Getting inside the ooda loop is more than just going faster
08:45 Why a course?
10:14 3 fundamental concepts
10:37 Challenges when building this course?
12:21 More participation in online courses
13:31 Company inflection points
15:39 OODA Loop as a meta-process
15:50 Shifts in military and industry thinking
17:04 Team of Teams
20:49 In a complex world you need to use emergent behavior
20:59 Applying these principles as a 'low level' developer
21:18 There's always a locus of control
22:51 Agile vs Shape Up
23:06 Context and Boundaries
24:20 Ben's newest thinking on dev/biz separation
27:07 Can you skip the siloing stage?
29:55 Avoid siloing with a clear roadmap
31:13 Mission Command
31:34 Three building blocks of blitzkrieg
31:41 Don Vandergriff
33:59 3 aspects of Mission Command
34:58 The Doctrine of Empowerment
35:28 Group flow as a security team
37:16 Can't get to emergence by only thinking about individuals
39:16 Psychological safety
41:21 Where to find Ben
41:44 Twitter serendipity
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We talk with Michael Ashcroft about the development of his course, Fundamentals of Alexander Technique. Timestamps below:
Watch this chat on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n09tGb6mJKI
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- https://twitter.com/m_ashcroft
- https://expandingawareness.substack.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdgbX...
Timestamps:
0:25 What is Alexander Technique?
3:22 Shifting in-person teaching to online courses
5:18 Michael's Energy Sector background
8:46 Where are the double-blind studies??
9:45 Michael's iterative approach to course building
13:37 First lesson anxiety and getting buy-in
16:52 The structure of Michael's AT course
19:04 What do you wish you would have known before making the course?
22:40 What's coming in the next iteration?
24:18 Building slower, peaceful learning communities
25:13 No deadlines for students?
27:05 How building this course transformed Michael
29:32 Meta-skills gained from course building
30:41 Figure out who you are, then make a course
34:38 The creation of the Digital Productivity Course
37:33 Scene building and filling the gaps in the eco-system
39:06 Becoming an on-ramp and breaking into new markets
40:22 Using twitter to make friends
46:17 Coercion
49:16 Music Recommendations: https://open.spotify.com/album/7pmQoB...
50:23 Where to find Michael
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We chat with Wendell Britt about his course, Mastering the Game of Allyship. Timestamps below.
Watch this chat on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II3yaF-0XSw
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- https://www.instagram.com/wendell_britt
- https://twitter.com/wendell_britt
Check out Mastering the Game of Allyship:
- https://integralemergence.xperiencify...
Timestamps:
0:30 Michael Ashcroft's Alexander Technique Course
4:08 Wendell's Allyship Course
6:53 Embodying a desire to learn
8:12 Pokemon card packs and personal development
10:26 Make it fun
11:33 It's okay to take shortcuts
14:19 Convincing students that it doesn't need to be difficult
18:59 Too much self-consciousness at once can lead to self-sabotage
23:38 Give students easy quests
25:11 People who need allyship need to be good allies to their allies
26:29 Taking world-building to the realm of personal development
27:31 Pivoting to larger organizations
29:40 On course pricing
30:21 Students need to feel a buy-in cost
32:54 Can gain buy-in from students with low-cost info or products
33:58 Marketing is Education
37:20 Marketing as the final boss
38:03 Using Worldbuilding in an online course
39:52 For inner work to be effective, your inner world needs to feel like a real place
42:02 What style of game did you enjoy as a child? Hide & Seek? Tag?
42:39 Figuring out your core games frames your progress
44:48 Figuring out your superpower
45:51 Building your team of allies
49:57 Internal resistance to change
50:58 Courses as a peer creation engine
52:48 Everyone should build a course as a learning experience
56:52 Allyship "gym leaders"
59:34 What kind of course is James going to make?
1:01:50 Sharing your own personal shifts
1:03:49 How can we scale deep personal change?
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