Dave Asprey

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5,579 appearances 13 recordings 8 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 17 Aug

Dave Asprey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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So I know very well that I should have my water that ideally would be out of a glass bottle drawn from a spring and lab tested.

And we might as well add some hydrogen or oxygen and treat it with lasers and bless it with monks.

Cause I'm sure some of that makes a difference.

And I could stack rank which of those probably makes a difference depending on the monk.

But for God's sake, I just needed some water.

Right.

So I don't worry about being perfect.

I say, how perfect or how close to perfect can this thing be given the constraints of the system?

It helps that I'm a former computer hacker, I studied computer science and worked in Silicon Valley as a tech entrepreneur for a long time.

So how good can you make it?

Elon has a similar mindset.

He has something

It's it's a ratio.

I think he calls it like the idiot ratio or something.

And it's basically, okay, what is the cost of the raw material in this mug?

And he'll say, okay, there's metal and plastic.

Okay.

That's worth two and a half cents if you were to buy the raw materials.

And so why are you paying five dollars for a mug that costs two and a half cents in materials?

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