Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferriss. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show. This is an in-between episode. So this is an episode between longer deep dive interviews with world-class performers. And in this case, I am being asked questions. I do these every once in a while. I enjoy doing them, and we tend to cover a lot of ground. In this particular Q&A, I am answering questions

submitted by a small group of test readers for my latest book project, The Nobook. If you want to

see what that's about and see a few sample chapters, go to tim.blog slash the no book for more

information. And you can check out that. The community is now closed

because we have a critical mass of people needed for providing edit feedback and book feedback

and so on, but might expand it once the book comes out. Who knows? This episode was all over the

place. We talked about what my commandmentsments would be if I were to start

a cult, which I'm not. Don't worry. Also talk about what my costumes would look like, what my

cult uniforms would look like. The risks of delegating your thinking to AI, how I use and do

not use AI in creative endeavors, stoicism, how I balance that with other types of

philosophies, perils of audience capture, how I think about platforms and audience, and so on,

the exercises from the four-hour work week that I still use. Inefficiency, where I actually

deliberately introduce inefficiency in my life, and there are more examples

than you might expect, and much, much more. So without further ado, actually with a little further ado,

a few words from the people who make this podcast possible, and we'll hop right into the Q&A.

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