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What psyops are out there?
In this episode, we discuss pysops: are things like 'eight hours of sleep a night' really necessary, or are we just unfoundedly made to believe them? Enjoy xx
Catching Up on the FTX Crypto Drama
In this episode, we catch up on the past 6 weeks of our lives, discuss some calendar hacks and then break down our thoughts on the FTX crypto drama that’s been rampant...
Catching Up + Book Discussion - The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
In this episode, we discuss what we've been up to since the last episode, and we also continue discussing the book we've been reading. Enjoy xx
Book Discussion - The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman
In this episode, after a bit of rambling about our lives, we discuss Carl Trueman's book "The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self". Enjoy xx
Our Journey into Spirituality
In this episode, we discuss the spiritual journey that we're both dabbling with. Enjoy xx.
Should we Platform Controversial Guests?
In this episode, we ramble a bit about what’s going on in our lives, Ali’s recent discovery of Alan Watts, and the idea around whether or not we should give a ‘platfo...
Taimur got Married: Life Update
In this episode, we discuss Taimur’s biggest life update in a long time. We explore the feelings behind being engaged vs being married, try to work out whether an expe...
When is enough, enough?
In this episode, we discuss the idea of ‘enough’ and where our drive for ‘numbers go up’ comes from. Enjoy xx
Faffing, Hiring and General Life Updates
In this shorter episode, we discuss some general life updates, the issue of faffery and how it relates to procrastination, and some stuff around hiring people for our ...
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
In this episode, we discuss a book Taimur’s recently read called The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry. Please note that the content in this episode m...
How Our Lives Have Changed Through 3 Years of this Podcast
In this episode, we take a look back over the past 3 years of doing this podcast, and how our lives have changed since that fateful day in March 2019 when we decided t...
The Conversation that Changed Ali's Life (in theory)
In this episode, we discuss Ali's theoretically life-changing conversation with Will MacAskill, a professor of moral philosophy, about how to orient his career for imp...
Should we share our personal life on the podcast?
In this first episode of the new season of the podcast, we discuss the extent to which we should / want to be open about our personal lives on the podcast. Taimur take...
Mind Viruses
In this episode, Taimur presents his new theory of Mind Viruses. We discuss the aetiology, pathophysiology and implications thereof. Enjoy xx
The Pathless Path
In this episode, we discuss our friend Paul Millerd’s new book The Pathless Path, which is all about reimagining our relationship with Work and Careers. Enjoy xx
Pills & Paradigm Shifts
In this episode, we discuss the discourse around pills - Blue Pills, Red Pills, Black and White Pills - and share some of the ‘pills’ that we’ve taken in our own life ...
Exploring Taimur's New Relationship
In this episode, we discuss Taimur's new relationship! If you've got any questions about it, please do leave a comment down below and we'll maybe discuss them on a fut...
Eye Surgery, Mind Chatter and Spirituality
In this episode, we do our usual life update (Taim’s just been to Turkey, Ali’s had Laser Eye Surgery), followed by a discussion of ego, which somehow segues into a co...
Thriving in Life
In this episode, we discuss the various ways in which both our lives seem to be going swimmingly at this point, and then meander around various business-type things ar...
Trying to Understand Crypto
In this episode we go over our histories with crypto, how we understand it, plans for the future and a short overview of NFTs.
Critiquing Ali's life choices
In this episode we discuss angel investing and going back to school. Taimur analyzes my life choices and offers some insight on my future plans. Enjoy!
How can we find peace in our lives?
In this episode, Taimur shares his continuing woes about his calendar. We discuss the zen, peaceful nature of Benjamin Franklin’s calendar, and Ali attempts to coach T...
The Asymmetry of Cringe
In this episode, we discuss the philosophy of “cringe”, and opine about the shrinking of the “cringe” overton window, especially amongst the youth of today. Enjoy!
Why are we running these businesses?
We get back from a low optionality trip to Croatia and talk about how it went. This leads us to talk about why we’re doing what we’re doing with our lives.
How to Setup a New Social Life
In this episode, we discuss Ali’s new move to the big city of London, and Taimur shares some thoughts on how to setup the optimum social life. We also end up talking a...
What is the purpose of group holidays?
For the first time in the history of the podcast we have a six people on this episode - a new record for Not Overthinking. Given that we're on a group holiday in the C...
Do we have a specific personality type?
After discussing why we've become consistently inconsistent in publishing episodes (sorry, not sorry), we spend the rest of this episode discussing the Enneagram - a m...
Why is agency a precious resource?
We're back into our weekly schedule and in this episode, after diving into why Taimur has signed up to do a triathlon and why Ali suddenly wants a dog, we discuss thou...
Why are childhood memories so varied?
In this episode of the podcast, after Ali explains the revelations he’s had about his business, we take a trip down memory lane. Following a family trip to the area wh...
What do debates on Twitter reveal about identity?
After a short sabbatical from recording, we’re back once again. In this episode, we catch up with what’s been going on in our lives over the past few weeks before disc...