How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don't Scale, and Press (How to Start a Startup 2014: 8)

[humming] MELISSANDE: You were gone a long time. Yes, I stopped to watch a bird. A bird. A cunning black bird. It was going after a woodchuck. And after, where did you go? If you wish, I will fetch Rene Sel down from his work so you can ask him, or perh…

So it all started with wondering what I could learn about someone from that little piece of themself that they left behind. A walk around the city, and everywhere you see these genetic artifacts—little clues that could tell you something about a person. I…

What if our universe comes with a self-destruct button to eliminate itself so cleanly and efficiently, that every single physical thing would just stop existing and life would be impossible forever? The ultimate ecological catastrophe - vacuum decay. (The…

So I tried to get Wayne Shorter to express sounds of the universe through jazz, through his saxophone. OK. So I prepped him for a cosmic phenomenon to see how he—can he roll with it. Uh-oh. This is going to be deep. Let’s check it out. I want to describe…

The problem with smoking is that it’s kind of amazing – this is an irresponsible thing to say – but if we’re going to talk about it, we might as well do so honestly. Smoking creates a temporary problem and offers an instant solution. Once your brain is us…

If I’d reach my hand up right now, I could probably catch ten back. We were literally surrounded; millions of bats about us, running into us. Unbelievable! It’s so incredible! We have 20 million bats all coming out of a cave at the same time. Perhaps one …