# #857: How to Simplify Your Life in 2026 — New Tips from Maria Popova, Morgan Housel, Cal Newport, Craig Mod, and Debbie Millman Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tim-ferriss-show-739525/857-how-to-simplify-your-life-in-2026-new-tips-from-maria-popova-morgan-housel-cal-newport-craig-mod-and-debbie-millman Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tim-ferriss-show-739525/857-how-to-simplify-your-life-in-2026-new-tips-from-maria-popova-morgan-housel-cal-newport-craig-mod-and-debbie-millman.md Podcast: [The Tim Ferriss Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tim-ferriss-show-739525) Published: 2026-03-10T18:30:00+00:00 Episode link: https://rss.art19.com/episodes/3e80d493-c8ed-4b4e-891f-53d730fda1ca.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Audio file: https://rss.art19.com/episodes/3e80d493-c8ed-4b4e-891f-53d730fda1ca.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-tim-ferriss-show-739525/episodes/857-how-to-simplify-your-life-in-2026-new-tips-from-maria-popova-morgan-housel-cal-newport-craig-mod-and-debbie-millman Duration seconds: 2574 ## Resource Many of us feel like we’re drowning in invisible complexity. So I wanted to hit pause and ask a simple question:  What are 1-3 decisions that could dramatically simplify my life in 2026?  To explore that, I invited five long-time listener favorites: Maria Popova, Morgan Housel, Cal Newport, Craig Mod, and Debbie Millman. This episode is brought to you by: Shopify  global commerce platform, providing tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business:  Shopify.com/tim Helix   Sleep  premium mattresses:  HelixSleep.com/Tim Timestamps: [00:00:00] Start. [00:01:49]  Maria Popova [00:02:04] The Cherish Quotient: Stop giving hours to people who rank as “fine.” [00:03:15] When you apologize for your priorities, you’re apologizing for your life. Stop! [00:04:41]  Morgan Housel [00:04:50] The do-nothing thesis: Be average long enough and you’ll end up in the top 1%. [00:08:42] Read more history, fewer forecasts — and watch the news lose its power over you. [00:09:32] How Stephen King’s  11/22/63  illustrates the futility of prediction. [00:12:21]  Cal Newport [00:12:36] What deserves a “yes” when the default is “no?” [00:16:38]  Deep Work  sells two million copies and creates a schizophrenic double life. [00:19:07] The unifying insight: Both careers were always about technology and human flourishing. [00:24:07]  Craig Mod [00:24:46] How quitting alcohol has been Craig’s highest-ROI decision. [00:27:13] Therapy after a decade of sobriety: The cliché that actually cleared the water. [00:30:27] The compounding interest that comes from committing to one craft. [00:33:09]  Debbie Millman [00:34:30] How being offered the CEO seat at her company led to four months of paralysis. [00:36:10] The sente… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-tim-ferriss-show-739525/episodes/857-how-to-simplify-your-life-in-2026-new-tips-from-maria-popova-morgan-housel-cal-newport-craig-mod-and-debbie-millman/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tim-ferriss-show-739525/857-how-to-simplify-your-life-in-2026-new-tips-from-maria-popova-morgan-housel-cal-newport-craig-mod-and-debbie-millman.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.