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You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator Jun 2, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 58:21 Mark Pincus And that was like our Instagram moment, like when Facebook bought Instagram, and it would have just been a different trajectory, and if I had 2 times in the scene

Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want Jan 20, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:40 Morgan Housel Or like, oh, like I got this kitchen, but like I saw this picture on Instagram.
  • ▶ 48:57 Morgan Housel Um, I think by comparison, they won't, they, they won't appreciate it in greater degrees than we didn't appreciate our progress because of social media, because they have only known an era when, which not just there are some, but there are… 2 times in the scene

How to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear Jan 1, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 33:56 James Clear I do this with my Instagram account. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:03:00 James Clear It could get repurposed onto Instagram as like a quote card or something. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:22:27 James Clear It's so easy that like a couple of years ago, Instagram, when you would scroll and somebody put up an album, they, and if you came back to Instagram, like five minutes later, if you had already seen that post, they would auto swipe to the… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:25:45 James Clear And it has been so nice because if you had looked at my behavior on the phone before that, I think my average time on Instagram before I deleted it was like 42 minutes a day or 48 minutes a day, something like that.
  • ▶ 1:46:10 James Clear We, you get forced into it by the shape of Twitter or the shape of Instagram or whatever.

The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success Dec 30, 2025 · 1 mention

7 Principles of Inner Excellence to Stay Calm Under Fire | Jim Murphy Nov 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:02 Shane Parrish George, or Beth might have got a new car, but by and large, everybody's sort of in the same boat, but now we live in a world where you flip open Instagram, and these celebrities who are flying on private jets, or people like, you remember…

Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [Outliers] Nov 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:40 Shane Parrish You open Instagram and you can instantly see both people you know and people you don't know with a new car or on vacation or with a new watch or a new and sexy partner or whatever it is.

Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers] Oct 7, 2025 · 1 mention

Barry Diller: Building IAC Sep 30, 2025 · 1 mention

Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers] Sep 23, 2025 · 1 mention

How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey Sep 16, 2025 · 1 mention

Fred Smith: The Story of FedEx [Outliers] Sep 9, 2025 · 1 mention

Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 30:04 Benedict Evans But you, there's a big difference between Instagram and Flickr.
  • ▶ 32:57 Benedict Evans But then, of course, then you get, then Instagram comes along, and then TikTok comes along. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:21 Benedict Evans And on social, people said, well, hang on, if you're using Instagram once a month, you're not using it.
  • ▶ 1:04:21 Benedict Evans But the counter argument would be to say, yeah, you'll use it to do chat GPT, and DoorDash, and Uber, and Instagram, and that cool new game, and that other new cool game that's enabled by LLMs, and to do TikTok, and to do and, and, and,…
  • ▶ 1:06:19 Benedict Evans I think Instagram is probably in a very good place there in terms of changing what advertising looks like and how that works. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:12:36 Shane Parrish Follow myself and Farnham Street on X Instagram and LinkedIn and

How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers] Aug 26, 2025 · 1 mention

The Science of Lasting Love with Dr. Sue Johnson Aug 19, 2025 · 1 mention

Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers] Aug 12, 2025 · 1 mention

Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport Aug 5, 2025 · 1 mention

Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers] Jul 29, 2025 · 1 mention

Daniel Kahneman: Algorithms Make Better Decisions Than You Jul 22, 2025 · 1 mention

Les Schwab: Why Real Ownership Outperforms Experience, Capital, and Credentials [Outliers] Jul 15, 2025 · 1 mention

Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year Jul 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers] Jul 1, 2025 · 1 mention

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi: Lessons from the Top Jun 24, 2025 · 1 mention

Anna Wintour: Vogue [Outliers] Jun 17, 2025 · 1 mention

Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment Jun 10, 2025 · 1 mention

Harvey Firestone: Men and Rubber [Outliers] Jun 3, 2025 · 1 mention

Bill Belichick: 8x Super Bowl Champion on Winning, Leadership, and Discipline May 27, 2025 · 1 mention

Andy Grove: Only The Paranoid Survive [Outliers] May 20, 2025 · 1 mention

Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World May 13, 2025 · 3 mentions

Rose Blumkin: Women of Berkshire Hathaway [Outliers] May 6, 2025 · 1 mention

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders Apr 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:16:03 Garry Tan Like you can't use Facebook or Instagram without, or even WhatsApp without seeing like, hey, Meta has AI now.

Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier Apr 15, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:17 Bret Taylor Uh, I think YouTube, Instagram, being two of the more prominent that have clearly changed the shape of, of the acquiring company. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:43 Bret Taylor Uh, you know, in the case of something like an Instagram, imagine our ad sales team attached to your, you know, amazing product and how quickly we can help you realize that value, whatever it might be.

Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI Mar 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:19 Josh Wolfe They've got all my Instagram likes and preferences and every detail of how long I spend and linger on something and what I post and all of that content. 2 times in the scene

Codie Sanchez: Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom Jan 7, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 57:39 Codie Sanchez Um, but I remember, you know, I posted this one picture on Instagram, really sort of like flippantly.
  • ▶ 1:15:06 Codie Sanchez Like, I always like to use The Rock, who I think really highly of, but when you look at The Rock's Instagram, for instance,
  • ▶ 1:51:38 Codie Sanchez If, you know, if you see me on Instagram, a lot of times the stuff I'm buying is from small businesses and stuff like that.

Best of 2024: The Blueprint for a Transformative New Year Dec 24, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:23 Dr. Becky Kennedy I, you know, interesting enough, you're catching me on, like, last night I was walking in Times Square, and as I do, I film videos myself for Instagram when I'm, like, on my, on the way to the subway, so I was, like, filming myself, and…

John Mackey: Building Whole Foods Oct 29, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 58:21 John Mackey You have certain Instagram followers, or, uh, you see who has more, and you want more.

Brian Halligan: Building HubSpot into a Multi-Billion Dollar Company Aug 6, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:24 Brian Halligan I don't think Dig's around and Reddit's gone through all these iterations, but obviously with Facebook and now it's TikTok, it's Instagram.

#197 Michaeleen Doucleff: The 4 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make Jun 25, 2024 · 1 mention

Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home Jun 11, 2024 · 1 mention

David Segal: Building a $200m Business Apr 16, 2024 · 1 mention

Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Diet Essentials For Healthy Living Apr 2, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:57 Shane Parrish And, and like, and I say this having seen, I think last night on Instagram, you know, some, uh, guy putting baking soda and vinegar and like soaking it for 20 minutes and like, is that how we wash produce?
  • ▶ 1:27:44 Shane Parrish You know, it doesn't have to be sort of the, uh, Instagram that you see of the vinegar and the baking soda and the water and soaking it for 15 minutes.

Dr. Becky Kennedy: The One Thing You Can Say That Changes Everything Feb 6, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:29 Dr. Becky Kennedy I, you know, interesting enough, you're catching me on, like, last night I was walking in Times Square, and as I do, I film videos myself for Instagram when I'm, like, on my, on the way to the subway, so I was, like, filming myself, and…

Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone Jan 9, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:09 Blake Eastman It's about survival and looking good when you post this Instagram post and making sure it doesn't offend this, this, this, this.

Paul Assaiante: Learning to Face Your Fears Dec 12, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 32:43 Paul Assaiante And, and it's very hard right now with Instagram and all of these things in our phones, because everything is short snippets now, and everything is going on fast, and we don't, we don't really stay with the thought for very long.
  • ▶ 47:11 Shane Parrish Just mental toughness to be able to look through Instagram and not get caught up in those moments of other people.

Todd Herman: Unleashing Your Secret Identity Nov 28, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 13:28 Todd Herman Everything is a highlight reel on, you know, Instagram or Twitter or LinkedIn.
  • ▶ 26:39 Todd Herman In 2010, when Instagram came around, you can see it literally in Google search algorithm.

Jerry Colonna: The CEO Whisperer Oct 17, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:50 Shane Parrish Uh, we live in a world where Instagram and all these other social media apps feed us the very, very best moments of other people's lives.

Rey Flemings: A Different Definition of Success Aug 22, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:12 Shane Parrish As you were saying, sort of the hustle culture, it also had me thinking about how it relates to our connectedness through Instagram and Facebook and everything else where we're
  • ▶ 52:59 Shane Parrish Um, they might allow their kids to have like an Instagram account, but it's private.

Dr. Julie Gurner (Part 2): Caring Deeply, Challenging Directly Jul 25, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:33 Shane Parrish We just naturally hold ourselves to a higher standard of, you know, the people scrolling Instagram, looking at photos of food, uh, before they pick a restaurant rather than just looking at the reviews, right?

Kevin Kelly: Excellent Advice for Living May 16, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:43 Shane Parrish In a world of Instagram, what we're seeing is the best successes from everybody else, and that we're feeling less about our own self, in part because maybe that ruler that we're using is sort of malleable in a way.

Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success Apr 18, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:02 Ravi Gupta And so I think that's the constant battle, at least as I've seen in the ones that are successful as people kind of, it's hard, you know, funny enough, when I was at Instagram, one of the values that we had was this is your baby.

Best of 2022: Conversations of the Year Dec 27, 2022 · 1 mention

TKP Insights: Making (Even) Better Decisions Oct 25, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:53 Patrick Collison I mean, the fact that WhatsApp was such a minuscule team and Instagram too, of course, despite operating at such a scale.

Laurie Santos: The Pursuit of Happiness Jun 14, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 35:54 Laurie Santos I could use, you know, Instagram to, you know, be really present with my food and, like, you know, mindfully notice it and really be there.
  • ▶ 41:56 Laurie Santos If you're, you know, if you see, you know, great vacation shots on Instagram,
  • ▶ 1:10:52 Laurie Santos Sometimes I feel like, you know, you hop on Instagram or Twitter, and it's just bad news, bad news, bad news, people complaining, people complaining, and then you kind of catch that, but, but it's worth remembering, like, you can seed the…
  • ▶ 1:29:13 Laurie Santos You know, my, my spouse doesn't have, like, an entire team of, like, you know, Google engineers making his bids for my attention more interesting, you know, but Instagram does, and so, um,

Luke Burgis: The Power of Mimetic Desire May 31, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 54:31 Shane Parrish And now you, you open up Instagram or TikTok and, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:01:11 Luke Burgess And, you know, Instagram and TikTok have, have allowed them to do this, making millions of people feel like they're more of that internal mediator of desire. 2 times in the scene

Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State Apr 5, 2022 · 1 mention

Andrew Huberman: The Science of Small Changes Mar 22, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:58 Dr. Andrew Huberman What I recommend is actually something quite low cost and works just as well, which is you get a ring light, like the selfie ring lights that the YouTubers and the, and the Instagrammers use, and just put that on, on a table, uh, or facing…
  • ▶ 1:06:22 Dr. Andrew Huberman Even if you're scrolling on your phone, it's go scrolling Instagram or something.

#124 Douglas Rushkoff: The Perils of Modern Media Nov 16, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:05 Douglas Rushkoff Just watching, you know, my daughter got home from this party, and all people were doing at the party was, you know, typing into their phones and taking Instagram pictures and all that, and it used to be, you'd go to a party, I mean, in…

#114 Noreena Hertz: The Crisis of Loneliness Jun 29, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:35 Noreena Hertz From teenagers who I interviewed, one Peter, a fourteen-year-old boy, told me about how he would post, um, on Instagram, and then wait, wait, wait, hoping for somebody to like his post, and when they didn't, asking himself, what am I doing…

#106 Josh Kaufman: Maximizing Our Locus of Control Mar 9, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:09:43 Josh Kaufman And the same goes for somebody else's is always going to have more followers on Instagram and
  • ▶ 1:11:00 Shane Parrish You could see that Joe got a new car or whatever, and you know, it's this one reference point, but it's your, your little tiny community, but now you're inundated with Instagram and Facebook, and you're connected in a way that everybody is…

#104 Nir Eyal: Mastering Indistraction Feb 16, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 54:30 Nir Eyal We see this, the companies are doing this voluntarily, you know, Instagram, big, bad Facebook owns Instagram. 3 times in the scene

#90 Apolo Ohno: Process Versus Prize Aug 18, 2020 · 1 mention

#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future Mar 3, 2020 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 36:12 Mike Maples Jr. Like when I talked to the Instagram guys, they're like, I never remember wondering if it would succeed. 4 times in the scene

#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits Dec 24, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:54 Neil Pasricha So that when you get two likes on your Instagram photo, it now feels like I have no friends.
  • ▶ 12:48 Neil Pasricha and I have today after we record, somebody will be at a lobster buffet in the Maldives on Instagram.
  • ▶ 14:28 Neil Pasricha It's called Instagram comments, Twitter feeds, blog rolls, news headlines, texts, alerts, and notifications, and the average knowledge worker receives a 147 emails today.

#67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion Oct 1, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:42 Shane Parrish Um, you know, and you saw your neighbors, and your neighbor got a new car, and it would happen once every, once in a while, and you would see that, and you'd kind of know them, and be happy for them, and, uh, it was this rare event, but…

#61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad Jul 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 19:17 Jonathan Haidt So my twelve-year-old son really wants to be on Instagram because his friends are, and it's really hard because I want him to be connected. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:18 Jonathan Haidt The social media sites, especially the ones where it's one to many, like Facebook or especially Instagram, um, those are the ones that are bad for the mental health.

Gabriel Weinberg: Practical Steps to Safeguard Your Data and Identity Online May 14, 2019 · 4 mentions

#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success Apr 16, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:29 Daniel Gross Well, obviously it's, it's popular knowledge now that Instagram is kind of more important than the core product, but again, it's an acquired asset.

#50 Josh Wolfe: Inventing the Future Jan 22, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:08:56 Josh Wolfe It could be, so there's one that I remember just a few weeks ago of a kid who was on Instagram that was standing on a roof or something like this and plummeted to his death.

#46 Sophie Grégoire Trudeau: Authenticity, Kindness, and Self Love Nov 27, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:14 Shane Parrish We were talking a little bit before the podcast started about the Photoshop sort of like generation and Instagram and why people choose to, what's your take on why people choose to accentuate these moments in their lives that are…

#40 Ben Thompson: Thriving in a Digital World Sep 5, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:48 Ben Thompson What about the micro brand that can target me on Facebook or, or Instagram because it understands who I am and what is it?
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