Tim Ferriss x Andrew Huberman Podcast
High-Level Thoughts
The ability to look around corners starts with talking to the right people and asking the right questions. The future is already here, its just not evenly distributed.
Summary Notes
Tim makes a practice of looking at the most prevalant belief or assumptions in a field and questioning them
If anyone says "always, never, should" pay attention and make note of that. If anything is said in absolutes, stress test it.
He began interviewing 1-2 people in a given a field asking questions like,
- What are nerds doing on the weekends or at night after they've put in a really long day or week
- What are rich people doing now that everyone that millions of people might be doing 10 years from now
- Where are people piecing together awkward solutions. Is there room for some type of innovation?
While interviewing he would ask the interviewee to ... "push into the realm of science fiction and speculation....." and ask what is coming.
Then after interviewing he would as "who are two of your close friends or two thinkers you pay attention to who are kind of at the bleeding edge of things/ or unorthodox?"
The extremes inform the mean. You can actually learn a lot by studying the edge cases.
William Gibson - "The future is already here, its just not evenly distributed"
Assume the practicioners are going to be ahead of the papers. 5 - 10 years.