The Metagame
by Daniel Kazandjian
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#57 - Tamara Andreas | Becoming an Emotional Billionaire
#57 - Tamara Andreas | Becoming an Emotional Billionaire
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Practical philosophy for playing with life.
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- #57 - Tamara Andreas | Becoming an Emotional Billionaire · 1 h 28 minTamara Andreas is an international transformational seminar leader and co-author of the book, Core Transformation: Reaching the Wellspring Within. It’s a parts work method that…
- #56 - Steve March | Why Self-Improvement Fails · 1 h 54 minSteve is a coach and the founder of Aletheia Unfolding. His work integrates things like developmental psychology, contemplative practice and neo-Reichian somatic work into a…
- #55 - Aaron Nesmith-Beck | The Metagame of Inner Work · 1 h 15 minAaron is an entrepreneur, writer, and coach. He famously founded one of the first legal psilocybin retreats and has spent over a decade navigating inner and outer frontiers. He…
- #54 - Jessica Vellela | A Gentle Introduction to Ayurveda · 1 h 28 minJessica is the first American-born woman to graduate as an Ayurvedic Physician and practice independently. She studied for 8 years in India completing Bachelor of Āyurvedic…
- #53 - Guy (@nosilverv) | How to Avoid Psyops · 2 h 39 minGuy is an independent researcher, author, Emergent Ventures Fellow, and hands-down the most prolific/insightful shit-poster I know on twitter. If you’ve been around long enough…
- #52 Kathryn Devaney | The Neuroscience of Awakening · 1 h 7 minKati Devaney is a neuroscientist and meditation teacher with over 25 years of practice. She earned her PhD in 2018 using fMRI to study attention and prediction updating in…
- #51 - Elena Lake | Nondual Bodywork, Fascia, and Somatic Healing · 1 h 17 minElena Lake is a bodyworker and former mathematician. After studying math, CS, and physics at MIT and two years doing ML at Meta, she left tech to study touch. When her early…
- #50 - Alex Olshonsky | You're Probably Addicted to Thinking · 1 h 28 minAlex Olshonsky is a coach, somatic therapist, and writer. After a polysubstance addiction nearly killed him during his Silicon Valley years at Twitter, Salesforce, and Slack, he…
- #49 - Richard Ngo | The Case For Virtue Ethics In The Age of AGI · 1 h 57 minRichard Ngo is one of a handful of people who've worked on AGI safety at both DeepMind and OpenAI. After three years as a futurist on OpenAI's Governance team, he left to pursue…
- #48 - Matt Southey | A Gentle Introduction to Nick Land · 38 min"Nothing human makes it out of the near future." - Nick Land Matt Southey is a leading expert on the philosophy of Nick Land with a PhD in Religion from Rice University. He is…
- #47 - Michael Smith | Hostile Telepaths: Why Your Brain Deceives Itself to Survive Social Reality · 1 h 47 minMichael “Valentine” Smith is a co-founder of CFAR (the Center for Applied Rationality) and the author of influential LessWrong essays including The Hostile Telepaths Problem…
- #46 - Jake Orthwein | Unraveling the Dream: Psychedelics, Meditation, and the Brain · 1 h 21 minJake Orthwein is the creator of Frame Problems, a video essay channel on science, art, philosophy, politics, and culture. In this episode, Jake talks about his upcoming film for…
- #45 - Alex Zhu & Romeo Stevens | Debating the Perennial Philosophy · 1 h 36 minAlex Zhu is a math olympian and researcher exploring the convergence of analytical rationality and religion. He’s also the co-founder of AlphaSheets. He’s currently working on a…
- #44 - Pranab Sachi | Getting Things Done by Feeling Your Feelings · 1 h 24 minPranab Sachi is the co-founder of Attention Copilot, a service that blends meditation and therapy techniques with real-time productivity support. He applies non-dual teachings…
- #43 — Max Shen | How Trapped Emotions Create Physical Pain · 1 h 31 minMax Shen is a pain researcher with a background in computational cognitive science and degrees from MIT. After developing severe RSI in grad school, he devoted himself to…
- #42 - Connirae Andreas | The Origins of Core Transformation · 1 h 42 minConnirae Andreas is a living legend in the world of personal development and NLP. She’s best known for creating Core Transformation, a parts-work modality that follows troubling…
- #41 - Michael Stroe | Solving Happiness, Oneshotting Procrastination & Speed Running Stream Entry · 1 h 24 minMichael Stroe (@Plus3Happiness) is a phenomenologist and “happiness concierge.” Through a combination of the Buddhist Fetters & somatic practices, he’s allegedly reduced his…
- #40 - Alex Zhu | Rational Spirituality, AI Alignment & Chris Langan's Metaphysics · 1 h 27 minAlex Zhu is a math olympian and researcher exploring the convergence of analytical rationality and religion. He’s also the co-founder of AlphaSheets. He’s currently working on a…
- #39 - Justin Skycack | Math Academy & The Science of Learning · 1 h 53 minJustin is the Chief Quant & Director of Analytics at MathAcademy.com (the best way to learn math). He optimizes learning efficiency in students’ brains with cutting edge…
- #38 - Jeff Lieberman | Rites of Passage, Emotional Healing & A Map of Consciousness · 1 h 5 minEver met someone whose presence is so clean and luminous it changes the energy of the room? That’s today’s guest. Jeff Lieberman is an artist, musician, MIT-trained scientist…







