Tim Ferriss

I would say a physicist focused on time.

Not just a science communicator.

There are physicists who have certain credentials who are primarily science communicators, but like a working physicist.

Somebody who's still an operator, who's kind of at the forefront of work that involves consideration of time, fundamentally, I think would be squirrely enough to be fun for you and mind-bending for listeners.

Because...

It's weird.

It's very strange.

Fascinating topics.

Yeah, I think all three.

And because at the very end of the day, it's like, what can we be certain of?

Like, how do we know we're not a brain in a jar in a simulation?

What can we actually know is true?

And I think one of the few things we can know is true is that we're aware of the fact that we are aware.

And therefore...

Maybe it makes sense to really put that under a microscope, try to understand it, which mindfulness and meditation practice has done for millennia as well.

So that would be if I had to pick a fourth, just to round out the dinner table.

Someone who has a lot of experience.

I've known one guy in particular, Henry Shookman, who I've ended up doing some collaborations with because he just blew me away.

But he's specifically a Zen practitioner, which is like...

layering weird on top of weird, but in ways that are