Tim Urban

Tim Urban was in the news this month for quite unexpected reasons. It turns out the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s alleged assassin Luigi Mangione is a big fan. Mangione had posted several times about Tim’s work including in his pinned tweet on X. Well it just so happened I had sat down with Tim in Austin last month. Tim is an author and one of the Internet's most popular writers. With iconic illustrations and epic prose on everything from A.I. to politics. His wildly popular blog ‘Wait But Why’, has earnt him millions of fans. Not just Mangione, but a certain Elon Musk… We sat down to discuss Elon Musk and his work. Tim told me the real story of SpaceX - how Elon built a new space empire and the future of space travel… (For an exclusive extended discussion about Liberalism in America with Tim please head over to www.winstonmarshall.co.uk) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To see more exclusive content and interviews consider subscribing to my substack here: https://www.winstonmarshall.co.uk/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Substack: https://www.winstonmarshall.co.uk/ X: https://twitter.com/mrwinmarshall Insta: https://www.instagram.com/winstonmarshall Linktree: https://linktr.ee/winstonmarshall ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapters 0:00 SpaceX and the Future of Space Travel 3:48 The Decline of NASA 7:58 The Role of Private Companies in Space Exploration 22:27 The Business Model and Future of SpaceX 26:04 The Ambition to Colonise Mars 43:55 The Significance of Space Travel and Its Impact on Society 54:38 The Philosophies and Divides in the Tech World 59:11 The Future of AI and Its Ethical Considerations 1:00:30 The Role of Elon Musk and His Vision 1:01:52 Impact of AI and Technology on Society 1:05:10 The Role of Technology in Shaping Culture and Politics 1:08:11 Tim Urban's Perspective on AI and Future Projects Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is there a new divide in America? Thanks to our friends at The Village Square, join us this week as Manu sits down with Tim Urban, renowned writer and thinker shedding light on some of our most pressing problems.. Tune in as they address high rung and low rung thinking, the left vs right divide, as well as another divide that may be even more sinister…. Episode 71 guest: Tim Urban Tim Urban’s info: Twitter: https://x.com/VillageSquareUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/villagesquareus/ Blog: https://waitbutwhy.com/ Book: Check out Tim’s book The Village Square: https://tlh.villagesquare.us/ PODCAST INFO: Website: thehopefulmajority.com Spotify: spoti.fi/42GYjec Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hopeful-majority-with-manu-meel/id1690865971 Youtube: https://bit.ly/youtube-hopefulmajority Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/manumeel_/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ManuMeel_ OUTLINE: 8:16 the primitive and higher mind 18:19 right vs left 22:08 truth 27:30 idea supremacy 31:25 dehumanizing your opponents 34:50 golems and genies 48:09 high rung vs low rung thinking 55:39 social media and outrage 1:05:07 navigating human nature 1:09:32 knowledge and conviction 1:12:49 Politicians 1:16:34 What can we do Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Moment of Zen, Erik Torenberg sits down with Tim Urban, writer of the popular blog Wait But Why , and author of the 2023 book What’s Our Problem? where he offers a framework for thinking about our chaotic political landscape. Tim unpacks the clash between freedom and equality in modern society. He explores how social justice movements and political extremes threaten open dialogue. Urban argues for a return to classical liberal values, challenging listeners to consider: Are we fostering true diversity of thought, or silencing dissent in the name of progress? 🔥 Apply to join over 400 Founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj -- 🎙️ Dealcraft | Insights from Great Negotiators is the brand new weekly podcast that features interviews with world’s greatest dealmakers and diplomats, including Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, and music industry super-lawyer John Branca, on their most challenging negotiations. Each episode, host Jim Sebenius (Harvard Business School professor and renowned negotiation expert) relates fascinating deal stories and distills useful insights for listeners to apply in their toughest deals and disputes. Subscribe on all platofrms: https://link.chtbl.com/3CG3TbHY?sid=Turpentine -- SPONSORS: GiveWell spends 50,000 hours every year doing deep-dives into different charitable programs to try to find the ways to do the most good for your dollar. GiveWell has now spent over 17 years researching charitable organizations and only directs funding to a few of the HIGHEST-IMPACT opportunities they’ve found. Visit https://www.givewell.org to find out more or make a donation. Select PODCAST and enter Econ 102 at checkout to make sure they know you heard about them from us. 💥 Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist. -- RECOMMENDED PODCAST: 🎙️ This Won't Last - Eavesdrop on Keith Rabois, Kevin Ryan, Logan Bartlett, and Zach Weinberg's monthly backchannel. They unpack their hottest takes on the future of tech, business, venture, investing, and politics. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765665937 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HwSNeVLL1MXy0RjFPyOSz YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThisWontLastpodcast -- Follow on X: @eriktorenberg (Erik) @waitbutwhy (Tim) @turpentinemedia TIMESTAMPS: (00:00) Intro (01:04) Tim Urban Describes the Genesis of his Book (02:11) Why Does Tim Believe Classical Liberalism is the "Least Bad" System? (06:56) The Existential Threat of Today's Technology (07:36) The Anomalous Nature of Our Era (11:44) "What's Our Problem?": A Self-Help Book for Societies (14:15) Trump's "Full-Fledged Demagogue" Presidency (21:22) Summary of the Right & Left's Illiberal Actions (24:13) Mistake Theory vs. Conflict Theory (29:23) Sponsors: Givewell | Dealcraft (37:49) The Debate on Gender Disparities i

" Why do we need enlightenment in the first place? " - Tim Urban. Isra Garcia interviews Tim Urban about self-help for societies, seeing the big picture for solving our cultural problems, fixing the value crisis and overcoming the resistance and the ego, leaving aside the so dangerous survival mode, what he has learned from living six months with Elon Musk, most significant takeaways from writing and building one of the most successful blogs that today still thrives more than some media companies, productivity and procrastination hacks, life advice, building lifestyle hacking systems, and some other little treasures. " I'm just a human looking for the truth " - Tim Urban. " I am always doing a game with me to come up with systems that help me to achieve things " - Tim Urban. Tim Urban leads one of the most successful blogs on the Internet, Wait But Why; Tim also has one of the most well-known and popular TED talks about productivity and procrastination. Tim was invited by Elon Musk - a big fan of his blog - to spend six months with him on SpaceX and Tesla. Tim Urban is also acknowledged for his domain on writing, productivity, handling procrastination, building games for playing with systems and being creative. " All your values fall because you are in primitive survival mode " - Tim Urban. Index of contents - and what you will learn in this episode A previous notice about an unexpected ending. Intro. What is our problem? - and Tim's recipe for that. The most surprising thing Tim Urban discovered while writing his last book. Ego vs Value Crisis. Where and how Tim Urban finds daily wisdom. Biggest learning about writing his previous book, What is Our Problem. How bias changes when you sit to write a book about how biased we are. Learning from writing two posts a week for more than ten years. How Tim Urban sees blogs nowadays, and not only to keep them alive but to live too. Best practices from blogging from a master blogger. And best practices for writing a book. <span data-prese

PIRATE WIRES EP#19 🏴‍☠️ - This week on the pod, Tim Urban jumps on with Solana to discuss his new book, What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies. Topics include mental frameworks for thinking clearly about politics, staying cool when issues become heated, the gollums of the Trump right and the social justice left, and soberly navigating Israel and Palestine in a moment of mass hysteria. Featuring Mike Solana, Tim Urban Subscribe to Pirate Wires: https://www.piratewires.com/ Topics Discussed: https://waitbutwhy.com/whatsourproblem Pirate Wires Twitter: https://twitter.com/PirateWires Mike Twitter: https://twitter.com/micsolana Tim Twitter: https://twitter.com/waitbutwhy Brandon Twitter: https://twitter.com/brandongorrell River Twitter: https://twitter.com/river_is_nice Sanjana Twitter: https://twitter.com/metaversehell TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro IMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 0:50 - Welcome Tim Urban To The Pod! Discussing His Book "What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies" 6:45 - What We Are Missing Right Now.. 11:45 - Existential Threats 21:30 - Group Think - How Gollums Take Over 40:30 - Social Wars 55:45 - What Do We Do? 59:00 - Where To Find Tim Online & Go Read Tim's Book - See You All Next Friday!

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Tim Urban is the writer/illustrator and co-founder of Wait But Why , a long-form, stick-figure-illustrated website with over 600,000 subscribers and a monthly average of half a million visitors. He has produced dozens of viral articles on a wide range of topics, from artificial intelligence to social anxiety to humans becoming a multi-planetary species. Tim’s 2016 TED main stage talk is the third most-watched TED talk in history with 66 million views. In 2023, Tim published his bestselling book What’s Our Problem? A Self Help Book for Societies. In Today's Episode with Tim Urban We Discuss: 1. The Founding of Wait by Why: What was the a-ha moment for Tim that Wait but Why should be his life's work and sole focus? What does Tim know now that he wishes he had known when he started? What does Tim believe he is running away from? Why is he so fearful of constraints? 2. Wait But Why: The Scaling Journey to 600,000 Subs: What was the first piece to really go viral? How did that change the trajectory? What single piece is Tim most proud of? What piece is he least proud of? What has been the hardest element of scaling Wait But Why? What was the most surprising and unexpected elements of Wait But Why's scaling? 3. Topic Selection: Choosing What To Write: What does the process look like for Tim when deciding what topic to write about? How does Tim know what his audience will want to hear about vs what they will not? What topics has Tim thought would be interesting but post initial research, are not? 4. The Writing Process: How does Tim approach the writing process? How has his changed over time? What mechanisms does Tim put in place to avoid writers block? What are some of Tim's biggest tips to aspiring writers and authors? 5. The Distribution Process: How does Tim approach distributing the content once produced? What works? What does not? Why did Tim choose newsletter, Twitter and Instagram as his channels of choice? How important has the newsletter been to the growth of the business? 6. AI: Super-Intelligence and The Future: On reviewing his pieces on AI back in 2015, what does he believe he got right? What would he change with the benefit of hindsight? Is Tim more or less positive looking forward at AI proliferating through all of society? What is Tim most concerned about in the world right now?

I’m excited for the second part of this episode with Tim Urban, the man that turned his blog into a global movement who is now bringing us a new framework through which to through complex societal issues. You’re possibly one of over 65 million people that watched Tim Urban’s legendary TedTalk, Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator. We’re continuing this conversation where Tim introduces ideas from his book, What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies, and this leads into the last part of this epic conversation unpacking the power games, why liberal games are a necessity and why the alternative to equal opportunity is possibly a disaster to steer clear from. Check out Tim’s book, What’s Our Problem: https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Our-Problem-Self-Help-Societies-ebook/dp/B0BTJCTR58 QUOTES: “The dictator and their little consortium have the power to do what they want, so they do and other people don't so they can't.” “It's a very disempowering thing to teach kids that this country, because there is inequality, is inherently oppressive and I think it is just demotivating.” “What concerns me about our current political environment is that we have so many hard problems ahead, big discussions we have to have as a species, and our society has to be able to have its wits about us. We have to have our wits about us going into this future where we're getting more godlike power and be wise about it because the stakes are going up.” Follow Tim Urban: Website: https://waitbutwhy.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/waitbutwhy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waitbutwhy/ SPONSORS: elizabeth@advertisepurple.com Are You Ready for EXTRA Impact? If you’re ready to find true fulfillment, strengthen your focus, and ignite your true potential, the Impact Theory subscription was created just for you. Want to transform your health, sharpen your mindset, improve your relationship, or conquer the business world? This is your epicenter of greatness. This is not for the faint of heart. This is for those who dare to learn obsessively, every day, day after day. Subscription Benefits: Unlock the gates to a treasure trove of wisdom from inspiring guests like Andrew Huberman, Mel Robbins, Hal Elrod, Matthew McConaughey, and many, many, more New episodes delivered ad-free Exclusive access to Tom’s AMAs, keynote speeches, and suggestions from his personal reading list You’ll also get access to an 5 additional podcasts with hundreds of archived Impact Theory episodes, meticulously curated into themed playlists covering health, mindset, business, relationships, and more: Legendary Mindset : Mindset & Self-Improvement Money Mindset : Business & Finance <str