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NonTrivial

Sean McClure

NonTrivial is a podcast about the patterns that exist at the intersection of science, philosophy and complexity, and how these speak to universal principles related to skills, growth and life. The longer you listen, the more you’ll internalize these universal principles and see how they inform your work, your ideas, and the way you shape the world around you. Become a Member at nontrivialpodcast.com or patreon.com/8431143/join Premium members get access to the full member app. This includes data visualizations of the core concepts in each episode, a Study Space for learning fundamentals, and premium articles on Techniques and Mindsets. Members can also save personal notes, explore episode summaries and transcripts, search across episodes, track watch history and progress, and participate in the community forum. Premium membership includes ongoing support.

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133 episodes

  1. Stop Doing One Thing at a Time 28:00
  2. The Best Way to Learn Is to Stop Following Instructions 31:00
  3. Stop Compromising. Find the Intersection. 32:08
  4. Your First Draft Should Be the Entire Thing 25:00
  5. Going Deep Without Going Slow 45:00
  6. When Thinking Makes You Dumber 34:01
  7. Your Passion is Not Your Business 37:00
  8. AI Just Killed Our Definition of Smart 43:00
  9. Stop Trying to Find Closure 30:00
  10. Be Calm, and Blunt 35:09
  11. Be Really Good at One "Useless" Thing 25:00
  12. Stop Expecting Things 22:00
  13. Humans Passing as Machines 30:06
  14. Get Yourself Distracted 24:48
  15. You Don’t Need Cliches to Fix Your Life 23:00
  16. Stop Caring How Long Things Take 20:45
  17. Don't Educate the Mouth, Educate the Mind 30:00
  18. Always be in the Zone 30:05
  19. Protect Your Growth: How Not to Betray Your Own Evolution 28:34
  20. Learn by Exposure: Immersing Yourself into Real Environments 26:51
  21. Spend Before You’re Rich 34:15
  22. Finding Peace in the How, Not the What 26:07
  23. Essence Generates Abundance 24:17
  24. Relentlessness is the Mother of all Skills 20:01
  25. Chase Patterns, Not Your Reasons for Them 26:07
  26. Stop Prioritizing 29:58
  27. Doing It All in a Day: Nature’s Way 26:11
  28. Balance is the Decision 36:08
  29. Reading as Mental Training, and More 44:10
  30. Build Your Life, Literally 17:46
  31. Let the Environment Build You 31:19
  32. Throw it In and See what Sticks: The New Engineering 33:12
  33. When the Ink Fades; Why (and How) We are Now the Media 42:11
  34. AI, Creativity, and the Benefit of Being Chased by the Machine 40:47
  35. Dynamics are Truer than Facts: How to "Win" Debates 56:54
  36. Life Goes Better with Guarantees 27:35
  37. Stop Offloading Your Memory to the Machine 50:07
  38. Infinite Palaces: The True Potential of the Mind 27:37
  39. Hover and Wait: It Eventually Works 21:46
  40. Be Niche, and Grow 21:13
  41. You Should Be Reading at the Speed of Thought 23:55
  42. You Only Need the Title to Make the Rest Work 24:46
  43. Work, Play, One Life 23:50
  44. You Should Probably be Caring Less 22:59
  45. You Have to Pick Up the Sword 20:32
  46. What You Read Doesn't Matter 20:01
  47. Diversity Works if You Don't Force It 24:07
  48. Is Music Only for Dumb People? 26:14
  49. What Does "Smart" Look Like? 29:23
  50. You Can't Learn from Scratch 33:27