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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Wed Apr 17 2024
Tetragramaten. It was a kind of a co one for me working on revising something I wrote 30 years ago in part because the world has changed so much also in part because I've changed so much. I mean, 30 years is 30 years. And I kind of felt at the time that it was a pretty good book that it was nothing more that I wanted to do with it, that it was kinda like I accomplished my goals at that moment with it when I wrote it. And then there was a an opportunity to come out with a 10th anniversary edition. And they said, do you wanna write a new forward to it? And I said, no. I wouldn't wanna touch the beginning of it, but I'll put an afterward on it, which is what happened. And then 20 years later, when I looked at it again, when they proposed this 30th anniversary edition, I realized, I thought this book was fabulous, but I'm not that happy with it in a certain way, but I'm not gonna rewrite the whole book. I mean, it's like, it's a the piece of a certain time. So what I'm gonna do is put a new forward on it, put a new afterward on it that's got part of the old one, And then everything that rings a bell as I go through the entire manuscript that feels a little off or needs something else I will just tweak it in whatever way it feels necessary. And that's what I did, and that's what you've got. It feels like there's something more than was in the original volume feels more alive, and there's also a new audio because I've lived with the old audio for a long time. And
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Laird Hamilton
Wed Apr 10 2024
Past the feeling of holding weights underwater, your brain goes insane. Your brain says we're drowning. Yeah. Now, I remember the feeling because I'm holding dumbbells. Yeah. I'm underwater. I can put the dumbbells down anytime I want, but the mind is saying, you're being held under, you have cement shoes on. Yeah. Took a while to pass that feeling of DNA level, You don't want weight on you pulling you underwater. No. Yeah. That it is interesting that cause, you watch people go through that, especially when they've never experienced pool training. They come in there, you give them some weights and they'll have the weights in their hand. And they're literally either trying to swim with weights in their hand or just completely freak out. Like, and and and like, oh, and then tell them, hey. All you have to do is just set them down. Yeah. Even though they hear that and they know that, it's like you've attached it to them and they're stuck with it. It's like they have it in there. You'll see it in their face. They'll have the weight in their hand, and you'll look and they'll look at you like, I what am I gonna do? I can't headlights. Cannot let go. Like, I can't how do I I'm being held I'm being held against my will. And you're like, well, no. You just set them down on the ground. Like, it's okay. And so and and I think that's where a lot of the transformation happens too, is once you start to be able to override that primal instinct and with conscious, like, hey, I have time. I can set the weights on the ground. I'll be able to jump to the surface and get air. Once you start to get that part in your head, you know, I always the word that comes up for me is submission, Submitting. Like, I and I see that throughout other aspects of life in general is just to submit. Like, you gain time, you gain something when you submit, when you're able to just let go, let go and be okay. Take me, do what you're gonna kinda that kind of mentality, like, do
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Chris Dixon
Wed Apr 03 2024
Should we walk through the book? It's the first thing I've read that explained blockchain in a way that I understood it. That's great. Yeah. And look, that's why I wrote it. I mean, I wrote it very much for, you know, the general reader. Blockchains are my view is that there are 2 kind of cultures that are interested in blockchains. And I call them the casino and the computer. The casino are people that, you know, speculate on token prices and create websites, like, it's essentially a kind of a gambling culture. And then there's another culture, which I see myself as part of, which is a big culture, you know, I think, you know, wrote the book because I felt like that second view had not been properly explained. I think no one knows about that second view other than those tens of thousands of people. Yeah. I think that's that's my that's my feeling. And so that's why I, you know, I have a bottle of water in front of me, and, like, to me, like, I've been working on the Internet for 25 years. The ideas in this book are it's just the way I see the world. It's as clear to me as this bottle on on the table. And I feel this, like, frustration that I feel, like, so wildly misunderstood. That's true. And that I'm not expecting people to read the book and, you know, change their lives and, and devote it to blockchains, but I wanted to just explain why people like me are excited about it. So that's the idea behind the book. Why do people dislike the blockchain? What's the negative? So kind of the thrust of the book, and the reason it's called read, write, own, and the word own is there, is that blockchains enable digital ownership. And so that means that today in the digital world, there are very few things that you really own that essentially every you're always using most of the time you're on the Internet, you're using a service, and the things in that service, your username on Twitter, your friends on Facebook, your data, your audience, how the money flows, how the
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Nicole Shanahan
Wed Mar 27 2024
Patient, every clinical trial I could get my hands on. And it was actually Jack Cruz that made me realize that perhaps there was something related to the way that the brain was responding to some kind of outside influence and how to heal the brain. Jack Crews talks a lot about melanin restoration. And I had actually just read a paper about where, you know, the vestibular system is in the ear because at that time, I was getting my daughter going with OT because they believe that when you stimulate the vestibular system, you stimulate the brain, and that can result sometimes in the development of speech. What is OT? Occupational therapy. You know, you take your child there and there's oftentimes a gym setup, and they'll have your child swing and jump and roll and move, and that that moves their vestibular system. And so in a podcast I was listening to with Jack Cruz and and, again, I don't know if there's any relationship, but it did trigger a different course of action for me. He says that the largest store of melanocytes in the body is in the inner ear. And I thought to myself, okay, the vestibular system, melanin, melanocytes, melanin is a is like the screen that receives photons. Those photons then get taken into mitochondria. Mitochondria have a function of providing energy, but also signaling to the cell and can be part of the healing process. That made me think completely differently about autism that there was the vestibular system working in tandem with this healing process, and you could heal the brain into
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Merlin Sheldrake
Wed Mar 20 2024
Reputable or that's a bit woo woo. You know, I think you can find that in whatever field. But, yeah, I enjoy it because there's there's a kind of terra incognita about it. I mean, there's lots of people who I don't want to give the impression that fungi have not been studied. I mean, there have been astonishing fungal scientists for decades studying fungi, and many of the things I say are derived from the careful, brilliant work of fungal scientists who've been working on this for decades before I was born. But there's still so many basic things that we don't know, that there's a kind of a sense of real excitement, that you're always a half step away from a big question. Tell me about that process of soil that first fascinated you. How does it actually work? Could you describe it? Well, I mean, soils are astonishing places, complex places, and there's lots of different types of soil, right, depending on where you are and which ecosystem you're in. But one way to think about soils is just the the guts of the planet, a place where digestion and transformation takes place. And so much of life happens in the soil. Right? There's perhaps a quarter of species alive, live underground. Even with organisms like plants that we see growing above ground, a huge part of them is underground that we don't see. So soils are busy, busy places, fantastically busy places, and complex places as well. Like, if you were on the scale of a a tiny soil animal, you know, or a bacterium, these are, like, the most insane multidimensional labyrinths you could imagine with surface tension of water when you're small. It's like it's it's like a big barrier. It's this all these patterns of water and water movement really shaping what's possible physically in physical space. And then with these chemical weather systems as things transform and change and decompose. And then all the other creatures busily doing their their things. And then big changes, like when the weather changes, like when there's rain or when there's heat or so great fluxes going on underground. Electrical charged microcavities, where some things can happen and some other things can't happen. So I think of it as as like a