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The Andrej Karpathy episode.

During this interview, Andrej explains why reinforcement learning is terrible (but everything else is much worse), why AGI will just blend into the previous ~2.5 centuries of 2% GDP growth, why self driving took so long to crack, and what he sees as the future of education.

It was a pleasure chatting with him.

Watch on YouTube; read the transcript.

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Timestamps

(00:00:00) – AGI is still a decade away

(00:29:45) – LLM cognitive deficits

(00:40:05) – RL is terrible

(00:49:38) – How do humans learn?

(01:06:25) – AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth

(01:17:36) – ASI

(01:32:50) – Evolution of intelligence & culture

(01:42:55) - Why self driving took so long

(01:56:20) - Future of education

Your current circumstances can influence your thinking—but they do not have to determine the person you become next.

In this episode of The Level Up Podcast, Paul Alex breaks down how aspiring entrepreneurs can separate their temporary environment from their long-term identity and start making decisions from the perspective of the future they are working toward.

You’ll learn why allowing frustration from your current job to consume your attention can slow your progress, how thinking from the perspective of your future self can improve decision-making, and why maintaining a clear long-term vision makes temporary obstacles easier to navigate.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why your current environment does not have to define your identity

• How to separate temporary frustrations from long-term goals

• Why making decisions from your future perspective can change your actions today

• How a clear vision helps you stay focused during difficult transition periods

The truth is simple: Where you are today does not determine where you have to remain.

Keep the destination clear. Make decisions that serve the future you are building and use today as another step toward becoming that person.

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This is a special episode about overcoming mistakes and failure. What do you do when your work is rejected, when the big bet fails, or when the path ahead suddenly disappears? As you’ll hear in this episode, setbacks can often present opportunities, if you know how to look for them.

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In this episode: 

• BJ Miller, a triple amputee, on his years-long quest to ride a motorcycle.
• Terry Crews on missing a season-ending shot—and the mindset shift that stayed with him for life.
• Tim McGraw on his debut album flopping and betting his career on next steps.
• Jessica Lahey on being told her first book was “unpublishable” and turning brutal feedback into a New York Times bestseller.
• Dax Shepard on the collapse of an identity and career he thought he wanted—and the unexpected much better life it made possible.
• Cathy Lanier on becoming a teenage single mother, passing her GED by a single point, and beginning an unlikely climb.
• Janna Levin on the liberating realization that life is not a smooth path interrupted by obstacles—life is the obstacles.
• Boyd Varty on using the mindset of a lion tracker to move through uncertainty and the paralysis of not knowing what comes next.

Dr. BJ Miller is a triple amputee, longtime palliative-care physician, cofounder of virtual palliative-care service Mettle Health, and coauthor of A Beginner’s Guide to the End.

Terry Crews is an actor, artist, author, television host, and former NFL player best known as Terry Jeffords on the Emmy-nominated TV series Brooklyn Nine-Nine and as the longtime host of America’s Got Talent.

Tim McGraw is a three-time Grammy-winning country-music superstar, an actor, and a 2026 Country Music Hall of Fame inductee.

Jessica Lahey is an educator and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gift of Failure and The Addiction Inoculation.

Dax Shepard is an actor, writer, and director and the co-creator and host of the hit podcast Armchair Expert.

Cathy Lanier is the NFL’s chief security officer and the first woman—and longest serving chief—to lead Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department.

Janna Levin is a theoretical cosmologist, the Claire Tow Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College, a Guggenheim Fellow, a PEN-winning author, and the founding director of sciences at Pioneer Works.

Boyd Varty is a lion tracker, wildlife activist, TED speaker, and author of The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life.

Timestamps:

00:00 — Introduction from Tim

01:23 — BJ Miller: Making an Impossible Motorcycle Dream Real

05:35 — Terry Crews: Why You Have to Take the Shot

16:28 — Tim McGraw: Failing on Your Own Terms

27:31 — Jessica Lahey: From “Unpublishable” to Bestseller

31:48 — Dax Shepard: When Failure Saves You From What You Want

38:11 — Cathy Lanier: Rebuilding a Life

47:33 — Janna Levin: Life Is the Obstacles

54:36 — Boyd Varty: Finding the Next Track When You’re Stuck

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Jerzy Gregorek (@TheHappyBody) is a 4x World Weightlifting Champion, co-founder of UCLA’s weightlifting team, and co-creator, with his wife Aniela, of the Happy Body program. You can watch the documentary Prisoner No More, directed by Jeff Wolfe and produced by WolfePrideProductions.com, for free here: tim.blog/hardchoices. To fill out the form on Cerebral Palsy Research Project, visit tim.blog/cp.

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Timestamps

• [00:00:00] Start.
• [00:01:29] The transformation I’ve been chasing for a decade.
• [00:02:39] When an unstoppable coach meets an immovable cerebral palsy diagnosis.
• [00:04:35] Three pounds to 170: the bench press that woke a brain up.
• [00:07:17] Navigating autism and building the basics of communication that sustain higher education.
• [00:10:41] Treadmills exhaust, athletes progress: why physical therapy stalled where coaching took off.
• [00:19:00] Lethargy, sleeping in the car, and the quiet power of resting energy.
• [00:20:22] The 16-inch box that opened the bathroom door — and everything after.
• [00:24:26] Micro-progressions, certificates, ceremonies, and writing history onto a blank brain.
• [00:29:16] Parental dedication and appreciation.
• [00:31:54] The adulthood gambit: quit piano, quit training — if you can stick an 18-inch jump.
• [00:35:14] License plates as the gateway drug from counting to math five hours a day.
• [00:40:04] Jerzy’s coaching style doesn’t court approval.
• [00:42:42] Genghis Khan vs. Admiral Yi Sun-Sin vs. Jerzy vs. Tae Jin.
• [00:46:35] In search of the science behind such transformations: 25 patients, five years, and a method built to be replicated (interested researchers, visit tim.blog/cp).
• [01:05:39] Hard choices, easy life — and the call to find your starting point.

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This is a video recording of a post I wrote last week. You can read the original here.

Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Departments of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he runs the Huberman Lab. He is the author of Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 — Who is Dr. Andrew Huberman?

00:02:03 — Dean Potter, The Dark Wizard, and the physics of raw energy.

00:04:11 — Why competition destroys performance.

00:05:45 — Laird Hamilton, tow-in surfing, and the lure of big waves.

00:06:27 — Training with Dorian Yates.

00:18:29 — The full weekly split that keeps building strength at 50.

00:21:00 — Neck training.

00:25:56 — AssaultBike vs. Airdyne.

00:31:12 — Revisiting MDMA and psychedelics.

00:48:06 — Inducing plasticity is only half the job.

00:53:17 — The one-day protocol that cut my anxiety by 90%.

01:00:27 — Cortisol as the master key.

01:03:26 — Peptides demystified: GLP-1s, growth hormone, and BPC-157.

01:14:44 — The Enhanced Games, the Deca burrito, and the honesty problem.

01:17:56 — Pinealon, epitalon, and the hunt for more REM sleep.

01:25:02 — Why women, not gym bros, are the real peptide market.

01:35:52 — Why "no reported side effects" is a trap.

01:43:48 — Stem cells, cartilage regrowth, and mining the body for medicine.

01:46:37 — AI, wearables, and the race to write to the nervous system.

01:54:12 — The MIT mask that puts you to sleep in six minutes.

01:56:09 — Inside Andrew's new operating manual, Protocols.

02:03:30 — Navigating grief and remapping loss.

02:04:40 — Shut up, suit up, show up.

02:08:03 — Parting thoughts.

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Bras are loved and hated, sometimes at the same time. But as difficult and restrictive as they can be, they rescued women from a much cruel contraption: corsets. The question remains, though, do women need bras at all? Listen to this classic episode to find out.

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