Audience of One Podcast
1) #057 - John Koenig on Sorrow, Identity, Contradiction, & The Human Experience
John Koenig is the author of The New York Times' Best Seller Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a dictionary of made-up words for emotions that we all feel but don't have the words to express. We talk abo...Show More
#057 - John Koenig on Sorrow, Identity, Contradiction, & The Human Experience
56:38 | Jun 13th, 2024
2) #056 - Dylan O’Sullivan on Lying to Yourself, Timelessness, Discipline, & Writing
Dylan O’Sullivan is a curator, editor, and writer at O'Shaughnessy Ventures and Essayful. Dylan and I talk about writing, taste, discipline vs. inspiration, timelessness vs ephemerality, boredom and s...Show More
#056 - Dylan O’Sullivan on Lying to Yourself, Timelessness, Discipline, & Writing
1:06:01 | Mar 21st, 2024
3) #055 - Steve Schlafman on Lostness, Downshifting, & Becoming
Steve Schlafman is a venture capitalist turned transition coach. We talk about lostness, transformation, curiosity, mindfulness practices, his new Downshift program, being a husband and father, and mo...Show More
4) #054 - Matt Clifford on Talent Investing & AI Uncertainty
Matt Clifford is a co-founder of Entrepreneur First and leads their AI efforts, as well as chair of ARIA, the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency. We talk about EF, talent investing, ambition,...Show More
5) #053 - Joscha Bach on Modeling Reality & Self-Organizing Software
Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist and AI researcher. We talk about our relationship with & models of reality, creativity and curiosity, animism and self-organizing software, stages of development, ...Show More
6) #052 - Gabe (@VividVoid_) on Identity, Art, Authenticity, & Courage
Gabe (@VividVoid_ on Twitter) is a writer and coach, and former Marine. We talk about inferiority, art, nothingness, spirituality, courage, fear, alignment with The Void, representations of reality, e...Show More
7) #051 - Nathan Baugh on Storytelling, World Building, Fiction, & The Internet
Nathan Baugh writes fiction and the World Builders newsletter. We talk about writing, non-fiction vs. fiction, storytelling and world building devices, Kurt Vonnegut and other authors, getting the mos...Show More
#051 - Nathan Baugh on Storytelling, World Building, Fiction, & The Internet
1:06:58 | Jan 24th, 2024
8) #050 - Billy Oppenheimer on Writing, Research, Boredom, & Putting in The Work
Billy Oppenheimer writes the Six at 6 newsletter, and has been a writing and research assistant for Ryan Holiday, Robert Greene, and Rick Rubin. We talk about research, naive optimism, working for leg...Show More
#050 - Billy Oppenheimer on Writing, Research, Boredom, & Putting in The Work
1:25:06 | Jan 18th, 2024
9) #049 - John Coogan on AI, Ozempic for Risk Taking, Tech Media, & Curiosity
John Coogan is the co-founder of Soylent and Lucy, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Founders Fund, and a YouTuber and podcaster. We talk about AI, pioneering vs. wire-heading, identifying problems to s...Show More
#049 - John Coogan on AI, Ozempic for Risk Taking, Tech Media, & Curiosity
1:07:26 | Jan 10th, 2024
10) #048 - Sasha Chapin on Awakening, Meditation & Writing
Sasha Chapin is a writer, coach, and the co-founder of a fragrance line. We talk about his book, awakening, meditation, Deep Okayness, coaching, writing, fragrance, and more. — (00:54) Writing a book ...Show More