Farnam Street
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 30, 2016 by Shane Parrish · said 781 times in 236 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Shane Parrish (748), Neil Pasricha (5), Jeff Annello (4), Venkatesh Rao (3), Todd Herman (3), Matt Mullenweg (3), Adam Grant (3), Rory Sutherland (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 103 mentions in 40 episodes 3 per episode
- Estée Lauder: A Success Story
- Mickey Drexler: The Art of Selling with Retail's Merchant Prince
- Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
- Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers]
- Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- Codie Sanchez: Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom
- Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]
- 32 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 97 mentions in 25 episodes 4 per episode
- Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
- David Segal: Building a $200m Business
- Chris Davis: Three Generations of Wealth
- Maya Shankar: The Toolkit to Accomplish Your Hardest Goals
- #197 Michaeleen Doucleff: The 4 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make
- Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
- Dr. Becky Kennedy: The One Thing You Can Say That Changes Everything
- Ryan Holiday: How to Win the War with Yourself
- 17 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 54 mentions in 21 episodes 3 per episode
- Todd Herman: Unleashing Your Secret Identity
- Jerry Colonna: The CEO Whisperer
- Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 2): Failure and Success
- Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 1): Discipline and Resilience
- Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success
- Shreyas Doshi: Better Teams, Better Products
- Dr. Julie Gurner (Part 2): Caring Deeply, Challenging Directly
- Dr. Gina Poe: The Science of Better Sleep
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 67 mentions in 26 episodes 3 per episode
- Neil Pasricha: Simple Rules for Happiness
- Gary Klein: Insights For Making Better Decisions
- Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
- Laurie Santos: The Pursuit of Happiness
- Andrew Huberman: The Science of Small Changes
- #131 Matthew Walker: The Power of Sleep
- Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- #132 Ret. Gen. Stanley McChrystal - The Essence of Leadership
- 18 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 68 mentions in 27 episodes 3 per episode
- #100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key
- #112 Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position
- #122 Robert Cialdini - The Principles of Persuasion
- #115 Danny Meyer: Hospitality and Humanity
- #117 Kat Cole: The Power of Possible
- #111 Joel Greenblatt: Investing Made Simple
- #103 Loch Kelly: Effortless Mindfulness
- #127 Best of 2021: Conversations of the Year
- 19 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 103 mentions in 26 episodes 4 per episode
- #98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present
- #96 Randall Stutman: The Essence of Leadership
- #93 Matt Holland: Zero Day
- #92 Lisa Feldman Barrett: Balancing the Brain Budget
- #87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms
- #77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
- #82 Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up
- #74 Jeff Hunter: Embracing Confusion
- 18 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 82 mentions in 22 episodes 4 per episode
- #72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- #67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion
- Gabriel Weinberg: Practical Steps to Safeguard Your Data and Identity Online
- #63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
- #50 Josh Wolfe: Inventing the Future
- #59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull
- #55 Scott Page: Becoming a Model Thinker
- #51 Celeste Headlee: The Dying Art of Conversation
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 85 mentions in 22 episodes 4 per episode
- #31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn
- #30 Margaret Heffernan: Collaboration and Competition
- #28 Michael Mauboussin: A Decision Making Jedi
- #40 Ben Thompson: Thriving in a Digital World
- #34 Amelia Boone: Learning How to Suffer
- #33 Dan Ariely: The Truth About Lies
- #32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
- #29 Dacher Keltner: Survival of the Kindest
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 47 mentions in 11 episodes 4 per episode
- Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising
- #18 Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher
- #26 Warren Berger: Improving The Questions You Ask
- #22 Adam Grant: Givers, Takers, and the Resilient Mind
- #25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
- #24 Susan Cain: Leading the Quiet Revolution
- #23 Ray Dalio: Life Lessons from a Self-Made Billionaire
- Santorini Wine with Panayiota Kalogeropoulou
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 47 mentions in 9 episodes 5 per episode
- Are we too busy to pay attention to life?
- #7 Venkatesh Rao: The Three Types of Decision Makers
- #15 Samuel Arbesman: Future-Proof Your Knowledge
- #14 Morgan Housel: Reading, Writing, and Lifelong Learning
- #12 Véronique Rivest: Wine Lessons
- #11 Ryan Holiday: The Stoic Whisperer
- #9 Maestro Alexander Shelley: The Architecture of Music
- #8 Julia Galef: The Art of Changing Minds
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2016 →
2015 27 mentions in 6 episodes 5 per episode
Everything said about Farnam Street, oldest first
Mar 30, 2016
Parrish: Require unsolicited long documents to be physically mailed as friction
“So what I've started asking people to do to add friction,
Is, oh, well, why don't you print that and mail it to me?
And if it's worth your time to print and mail it to me, it's something I'll look at.
And if it's not worth your time to print and mail it to me,…”
Nov 28, 2023