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Episode 9 - Foolish Consistency Is The Hobgoblin of Small Minds

0:00 — Welcome; ring / spiritual protection aside; filming on phone today

1:00 — Stopping book episodes; Emerson “foolish consistency”

2:04 — Bhagavad Gita editions; Peter Thiel book in the backpack

3:17 — Value of Senra / not competing; spiritual double-down temptation

4:08 — Why not ceremonies/healer; ~17 years on that path

5:39 — Mechatronics for 2 years (EE, ME, math, physics); technical calling

6:31 — Not the Tony Robbins path; God pointing to technical work

7:28 — AI, coding, agents, products; helping founders vs selfishness tension

8:24 — Studied spirituality for himself (dad, mother); money / independence / infinite games

9:18 — Likes talking on camera; body of work, off-script

9:48 — Mechatronics opens a door (atoms over bits); life was in the unseen

11:45 — No more book summaries; build instead; Bending Spoons / Tiny / Buffett model

13:08 — Commoditized markets; novelty + one basket; healing as unused hedge

15:03 — Mechatronics as optionality; consumer tech inspiration (Valve, Basecamp, Mailchimp, Dyson) without hardware conviction

16:02 — Building with Grok Bot / agents (research, cuts, timestamps, posts)

17:16 — Crypto fan (not trading); LHV spend-cap story; want to build on blockchain / Polymarket-style

18:52 — Close


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