The Metagame

#56 - Steve March | Why Self-Improvement Fails

Steve is a coach and the founder of Aletheia Unfolding. His work integrates things like developmental psychology, contemplative practice and neo-Reichian somatic work int

#55 - Aaron Nesmith-Beck | The Metagame of Inner Work

Aaron is an entrepreneur, writer, and coach. He famously founded one of the first legal psilocybin retreats and has spent over a decade navigating inner and outer frontie

#54 - Jessica Vellela | A Gentle Introduction to Ayurveda

Jessica is the first American-born woman to graduate as an Ayurvedic Physician and practice independently. She studied for 8 years in India completing Bachelor of Āyurved

#53 - Guy (@nosilverv) | How to Avoid Psyops

Guy is an independent researcher, author, Emergent Ventures Fellow, and hands-down the most prolific/insightful shit-poster I know on twitter. If you’ve been around long

#52 Kathryn Devaney | The Neuroscience of Awakening

Kati Devaney is a neuroscientist and meditation teacher with over 25 years of practice. She earned her PhD in 2018 using fMRI to study attention and prediction updating i

#51 - Elena Lake | Nondual Bodywork, Fascia, and Somatic Healing

Elena Lake is a bodyworker and former mathematician. After studying math, CS, and physics at MIT and two years doing ML at Meta, she left tech to study touch. When her ea

#50 - Alex Olshonsky | You're Probably Addicted to Thinking

Alex Olshonsky is a coach, somatic therapist, and writer. After a polysubstance addiction nearly killed him during his Silicon Valley years at Twitter, Salesforce, and Sl

#49 - Richard Ngo | The Case For Virtue Ethics In The Age of AGI

Richard Ngo is one of a handful of people who've worked on AGI safety at both DeepMind and OpenAI. After three years as a futurist on OpenAI's Governance team, he left to

#48 - Matt Southey | A Gentle Introduction to Nick Land

"Nothing human makes it out of the near future." - Nick Land Matt Southey is a leading expert on the philosophy of Nick Land with a PhD in Religion from Rice University.

#47 - Michael Smith | Hostile Telepaths: Why Your Brain Deceives Itself to Survive Social Reality

Michael “Valentine” Smith is a co-founder of CFAR (the Center for Applied Rationality) and the author of influential LessWrong essays including The Hostile Telepaths Prob

#46 - Jake Orthwein | Unraveling the Dream: Psychedelics, Meditation, and the Brain

Jake Orthwein is the creator of Frame Problems, a video essay channel on science, art, philosophy, politics, and culture. In this episode, Jake talks about his upcoming

#45 - Alex Zhu & Romeo Stevens | Debating the Perennial Philosophy

Alex Zhu is a math olympian and researcher exploring the convergence of analytical rationality and religion. He’s also the co-founder of AlphaSheets. He’s currently worki

#44 - Pranab Sachi | Getting Things Done by Feeling Your Feelings

Pranab Sachi is the co-founder of Attention Copilot, a service that blends meditation and therapy techniques with real-time productivity support. He applies non-dual teac

#43 — Max Shen | How Trapped Emotions Create Physical Pain

Max Shen is a pain researcher with a background in computational cognitive science and degrees from MIT. After developing severe RSI in grad school, he devoted himself to

#42 - Connirae Andreas | The Origins of Core Transformation

Connirae Andreas is a living legend in the world of personal development and NLP. She’s best known for creating Core Transformation, a parts-work modality that follows tr

#41 - Michael Stroe | Solving Happiness, Oneshotting Procrastination & Speed Running Stream Entry

Michael Stroe (@Plus3Happiness) is a phenomenologist and “happiness concierge.” Through a combination of the Buddhist Fetters & somatic practices, he’s allegedly reduced

#40 - Alex Zhu | Rational Spirituality, AI Alignment & Chris Langan's Metaphysics

Alex Zhu is a math olympian and researcher exploring the convergence of analytical rationality and religion. He’s also the co-founder of AlphaSheets. He’s currently worki

#39 - Justin Skycack | Math Academy & The Science of Learning

Justin is the Chief Quant & Director of Analytics at MathAcademy.com (the best way to learn math). He optimizes learning efficiency in students’ brains with cutting edge

#38 - Jeff Lieberman | Rites of Passage, Emotional Healing & A Map of Consciousness

Ever met someone whose presence is so clean and luminous it changes the energy of the room? That’s today’s guest. Jeff Lieberman is an artist, musician, MIT-trained scie

#37 - Johnny Miller | Releasing Trauma with Your Breath

This is the first in person Metagame episode! Be sure to check out the video. Jonny Miller is a writer, nervous system coach and podcaster. We met at Edge Esmerelda wher