Dopamine Fasts, Cruise Ship Investing, and Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos Feuds with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-Founder of Tiny
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Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson), Co-Founder of Tiny, joins Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) to talk about how he found joy through a four-week dopamine fast, why it can be better to make safer “cruise ship investments” rather than startup investments, how Andrew’s last appearance led him to start a D2C maternal healthy company, and much more.

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Show Notes:

* 00:20 – Andrew’s monk-like retreat from technology

* 01:45 – What triggered his “digital meltdown”

* 09:20 – The power of a 4-week dopamine fast

* 22:40 – Why Andrew bought Aeropress

* 30:45 – “Cruise ship investing” vs “speed boat investing”

* 37:30 – The benefits (or lack thereof) of being famous

* 39:33 – How coming on MFM led Andrew to be able to start a DTC pregnancy health company

* 49:15 – Readwise and the Feynman method for learning

* 52:41 – The pitfall of constant optimization

* 01:07:35 – When Andrew met Steve Jobs

* 01:17:32 – Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos’s Twitter beef

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Links:

* Tiny

* JoelOnSoftware.com

* Wanting

* Readwise

* Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

* Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos Thread

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