Talk:Tim Ferriss#Add Philanthropy section

Hello, I work for Tim Ferriss, and I would like to help update the article, specifically his philanthropic work. Some of the information is already included under Career (paragraph 7), but I think it would be clearer as its own section as follows:

Coyoteadventures (talk) 17:14, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

; Philanthropy

Tim Ferriss works to advance psychedelic medicine for treatments in the mental health field. He became interested in the potential of psychedelics due to personal experiences with depression, as well as bipolar disorder, depression, and addiction in his family.{{Cite news|last=Carey|first=Benedict|title=Tim Ferriss, the Man Who Put His Money Behind Psychedelic Medicine|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/health/ferriss-psychedelic-drugs-depression.html%7C|date=September 6, 2019|website=New York Times}}{{Cite news|last=Skipper|first=Clay|title=From Productivity to Psychedelics: Tim Ferriss Has Changed His Mind About Success|url= https://www.gq.com/story/tim-ferriss-interview-quarantine-psychedelics|date=July 22, 2020|website=GQ}}

In 2015, Ferriss met Dr. Roland Griffiths, who was leading research in psychedelics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Ferriss organized a crowdfunding campaign to support Dr. Griffiths’ research into depression.

In 2019, Ferriss contributed to Imperial College London’s Center for Psychedelic Research, the first research facility in the world dedicated to psychedelics.{{Cite news|last=Brodwin|first=Erin|title=Tim Ferriss just helped launch the world's first research center dedicated to turning psychedelics into medicines|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-ferriss-first-psychedelic-research-center-launches-imperial-london-2019-4%7C|date=April 26, 2019|website=Business Insider}}

That year, Ferriss also donated more than $2 million to fund the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic & Consciousness Research led by Dr. Griffiths, and he organized an additional $8 million in commitments.{{Cite news|last=O’Brien|first=Jeffrey|title=Business gets ready to trip: How psychedelic drugs may revolutionize mental health care|url=https://fortune.com/longform/psychedelic-drugs-business-mental-health/%7C|website=Fortune}}

The Center was the largest in the world and the first in America to focus on psychedelic drugs.{{Cite news|title=New Johns Hopkins Research Center Tests Psychedelics to Treat Mental Health|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/new-johns-hopkins-research-center-tests-psychedelics-to-treat-mental-health/2019/09/06/651521b8-cffa-11e9-8c1c-7c8ee785b855_story.html|date=September 10, 2019|website=Washington Post}}

In 2020, Ferriss donated $1 million to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies for research into PTSD treatments using psychedelic-drug MDMA. He issued a $10 million challenge grant, and helped to raise a total of $30 million for the research by publicizing the challenge on his podcast.{{Cite news|last=Ramachandran|first=Shalini|title=Silicon Valley and Wall Street Elites Pour Money Into Psychedelic Research|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-and-wall-street-elites-pour-money-into-psychedelic-research-11597941470%7C|date=August 20, 2020|website=Wall Street Journal}}{{Cite news|title=2020’s Most Groundbreaking Developments in Psychedelics|url=https://www.lucid.news/2020s-most-groundbreaking-developments-in-psychedelics/|date=December 20, 2020|website=Lucid News}}

The following year, Ferriss donated to promote psychedelic research at the Neuroscape Psychedelics Division at the University of California, San Francisco, led by Robin Carhart-Harris and Adam Gazzaley.{{Cite news|last=Love|first=Shalya|title=Harvard Lawyers Will Study the Legal Questions Around Psychedelic Treatment|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avneq/harvard-lawyers-will-study-the-legal-questions-around-psychedelic-treatment%7C|date=June 30, 2021|website=Vice}}

Saisei Foundation

In 2018, Ferriss founded the Saisei Foundation{{Cite web |title=Saisei Foundation|url=https://saiseifoundation.org/%7C |website=Saisei Foundation}} to provide funding for early-stage science in the areas of mental health, life extension, and psychedelics.{{Cite news|last=Andrew|first=Hayward|title=Author Tim Ferriss Tops NFT Sales Charts With 'Cockpunch'|url=https://decrypt.co/116682/author-tim-ferriss-tops-nft-sales-charts-with-cockpunch%7C|date=Dec 7, 2022|website=Decrypt}}

In 2021, the foundation committed $800,000 to UC Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics to create the Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship with author Michael Pollan.{{Cite news|last=Jarvie|first=Emily|title=Tim Ferriss and Michael Pollan Team Up to Launch UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship|url=https://psychedelicspotlight.com/tim-ferriss-michael-pollan-launch-uc-berkeley-psychedelic-journalism-fellowship/%7C|date=September 15, 2021|website=Psychedelic Spotlight}}

The fellowship provides ten annual grants of $10,000 each to journalists working on in-depth print and audio stories focused on psychedelics.{{Cite web |title=The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship – UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism|url=https://fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/bcsp/#:~:text=About%20the%20Fellowship,this%20new%20era%20of%20psychedelics. |website=fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu}} Articles supported by the fellowship have appeared in media outlets including National Geographic{{Cite news|last=Nuwer|first=Rachel|title=This Psychoactive Plant Could Save Lives – And Everyone Wants to Cash In|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/ibogaine-pschedelic-drug-root-fair-trade-gabon|date=March 8, 2023|website=National Geographic}}{{Cite news|last=Moens|first=Jonathan|title=She Had A Sever Brain Injury – So Her Husband Turned to an Unprecedented Therapy|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/severe-brain-injury-unprecedented-therapy-psychedelic|date=April 2, 2024|website=National Geographic}}, Rolling Stone,{{Cite news|last=Rosenblum|first=Cassady|title=These Mormons Have Found a New Faith- in Magic Mushrooms|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/psychedelics-mormon-church-divine-assembly-1375027/|date=June 28, 2022|website=Rolling Stone}} NPR,{{Cite news|last=Prichep|first=Deena|title=As Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Grows, So Does Interest From a New Group: Chaplains|url=https://www.npr.org/2023/09/24/1201095225/as-psychedelic-assisted-therapy-grows-so-does-interest-from-a-new-group-chaplain|date=September 24, 2023|website=NPR}} and The Washington Post.{{Cite news|last=Davids Landau|first=Meryl|title=Psychedelics Gave Terminal Patients Relief From Their Intense Anxiety|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/01/13/psychedelics-terminal-illness-cancer/|date=January 13, 2024|website=Washington Post}}

The Foundation also collaborated with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and co-funded POPLAR, the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation.

Ferriss was also a member of the National Advisory Council of DonorsChoose and, as of 2016, was a donor and a member of the advisory board of QuestBridge.{{Cite news|last=Schawabel|first=Dan|title=Tim Ferriss: What You Can Learn From the Habits of World-Class Performers|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2016/12/06/tim-ferriss-what-you-can-learn-from-the-habits-of-world-class-performers/|date=December 6, 2016|website=Forbes}}{{Cite news|last=Carlton|first=Jim|title=Venture Captitalists Help Connect Low-Income Students with Elite Colleges|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-venture-capitalists-help-connect-low-income-students-with-elite-colleges-1431535621|date=May 13, 2015|website=Wall Street Journal}}

In 2016, as part of a #BestSchoolDay campaign led by Stephen Colbert, Ferriss funded all 145 classroom projects on Long Island,{{Cite news|last=Sampson|first=Christine|title=All by Himself, 145 Projects|url=https://www.easthamptonstar.com/archive/all-himself-145-projects|date=May 17, 2016|website=East Hampton Star}} as well as all the classroom projects in New Hampshire and Sacramento, California with DonorsChoose.org.{{Cite news|last=Lee|first=Rebecca|title=Stephen Colbert Unveils Donors for #BestSchoolDay|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen-colbert-best-school-day-donors-choose-funding-american-classrooms-in-need/|date=March 10, 2016|website=CBS News}}{{cite news |last1=Kitchen |first1=Patricia |title=Author Tim Ferriss ‘flash funds’ 145 school projects on LI |url=https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/author-tim-ferriss-flash-funds-145-school-projects-on-li-s15254 |publisher=Newsday |date=March 12, 2016}}

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The duplicate information can be removed from the Career section. Thanks for your time! Coyoteadventures (talk) 17:14, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

: Okay, it looks pretty good, so I have added it. What "duplicate information" is there? -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 19:03, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

::Thank you so much.

::As some of this information was in the Career section already it now appears as duplicate content. Specifically, the following two sentences (in paragraph 7 of the Career section) can now be removed from that part only:

::"Ferriss has raised funds for the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and for the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London. Since 2016, Ferriss donated at least $2,000,000 for clinical research into psychedelic drugs.[25][26]"

::Can you kindly remove? Coyoteadventures (talk) 19:59, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

::: I hope I got it right. I have to run now. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 21:12, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I’m grateful to the community for helping to create the Philanthropy section. I’d like to propose additional edits to the "Career" section to further update the page:

At the end of the 2nd paragraph of the Career section (which begins with: Ferriss has been and angel investor and startup advisor), please add:

• Tim Ferriss was an advisor to Shopify,{{Cite news|last=Feloni|first=Richard|title= These Entrepreneurs are Leading 8 Of the Fastest-Growing New Retailers in the World -and Now Tony Robbins and Tim Ferriss Will Help|url= https://www.businessinsider.com/tony-robbins-shopify-build-a-bigger-business-winners-2017-9|date=September 5, 2017|website=Business Insider}} helping them to launch the "Build a Business" competition that fostered web-store startups in 2010 with a $100,000 prize.{{Cite news|last=Kolodny|first=Lora|title= Shopify, a Start-Up, Starts Its Own Business Competition |url= https://archive.nytimes.com/boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/shopify-gains-customers-with-a-competition/ |date=February 2, 2010|website=NYT}}{{Cite news|last=Baldwin|first=Stephen M.|title= The Invisible Selling Machine|url=https://fortune.com/2017/03/15/shopify-ecommerce-revolution/|date=March 15, 2017|website=Fortune}} He was also an investor in Duolingo{{Cite news|last=Spangler|first=Todd|title=Tim Shey, Former YouTube Programming Exec, Joins Duolingo (Exclusive)|url=https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/tim-shey-youtube-originals-duolingo-1202835993/|date=June 11, 2018|website=Variety}} and Twitter.{{Cite news|last=Guo|first=Jerry|title=‘The 4-Hour Body’: Tim Ferriss’s Latest Book Wows|url= https://www.newsweek.com/4-hour-body-tim-ferrisss-latest-book-wows-66817 |date=January 4, 2011|website=Newsweek}}

To the 6th paragraph (which begins with: In December 2013, The Tim Ferriss Experiment debuted on HLN), please add:

• In 2015, Ferriss acquired the rights to all of the show’s episodes. He distributed them on iTunes, where they were featured in the most-downloaded chart.{{Cite news|last=Feloni|first=Richard|title=How Tim Ferriss Beat Depression and Became an Inspirational Icon|url=https://www.inc.com/business-insider/tim-ferris-life-40-hour-work-week.html|date=November 28, 2017|website=Inc}} In 2016, Ferriss was listed in Fortune (magazine)’s 40 Under 40.{{Cite news|title=40 Under 40|url= https://fortune.com/ranking/40-under-40/2016/tim-ferriss/|date=2016|website=Fortune}}

In the second-to-last paragraph (which begins with: Ferriss continues to release episodes of The Tim Ferriss Show), please replace this sentence: Ferriss continues to release episodes of The Tim Ferriss Show, an interview-centered podcast running since April 22, 2014, with the following:

• Ferriss is the host of The Tim Ferriss Show, an interview-centered podcast that has been running since 2014.{{Cite news|last=Mattox|first=Brendan|title=Tim Ferriss Wants to Show You his Toolkit|url=https://podcastreview.org/review/the-tim-ferriss-show/|date=May 8, 2019|website=Podcast Review}} The podcast has more than one billion downloads.{{Cite news|title=Best Business Podcasts|url=https://www.ramseysolutions.com/business/best-business-podcasts|date=August 20, 2024|website=Ramsey Solutions}} Popular podcast guests include Brené Brown,{{Cite news|last=Pugachevsky|first=Julia|title=A Resurfaced Clip From Bestselling Author Brene’ Brown Explains Why Marriages Should Never Be 50/50|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/brene-brown-tim-ferriss-50-50-rule-marriage-debunk-2023-6|date=June 16, 2023|website=Business Insider}} Jamie Foxx,{{Cite news|last=Feloni|first=Richard|title=Jamie Foxx Explains the Insight That Fueled His Highly Successful Career|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/jamie-foxx-shares-his-best-advice-2015-12|date=December 11, 2015|website=Business Insider}} Arnold Schwarzenegger,{{Cite news|last=Flannagan|first=S.|title=The Trick Arnold Schwarzenegger Used to Defeat His Bodybuilding Competitors|url=https://www.grunge.com/1394025/trick-arnold-schwarzenegger-defeated-bodybuilding-competitors/|date=September 18, 2023|website=Grunge}} Maria Sharapova,{{Cite news|last=Elkins|first=Kathleen|title=Tennis Star Maria Sharapova Wakes Up At 6:30 A.M. Every Day – Here’s Her Morning Routine|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/08/grand-slam-champion-maria-sharapovas-morning-routine.html|date=September 8, 2017|website=CNBC}} LeBron James,{{Cite news|last=Davis|first=Scott|title=LeBron James has a Detailed Sleep Plan, and his Trainer Says it’s the Key to his ‘Never-Ending’ Recovery|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/lebron-james-says-sleep-critical-recovery-2018-11|date=November 28, 2018|website=Business Insider}} Margaret Atwood,{{Cite news|last=Hayward|first=Andrew|title=Author Margaret Atwood Wants Students to Envision Future Utopias – And Mint Them as NFTs|url=https://decrypt.co/98745/margaret-atwood-future-utopias-nfts|date=April 27, 2022|website=Decrypt}} and Matthew McConaughey.{{Cite news|last1=Gupta|first1=Boshika|last2=Pereira|first2=Sergio|title=The Tragic Real-Life Story of Matthew McConaughey|url= https://www.grunge.com/297056/the-tragic-real-life-story-of-matthew-mcconaughey/|date=December 16, 2020|website=Grunge}}

To the last paragraph of the Career section about the Legend of Cockpunch, please add:

• Sales of The Legend of Cockpunch NFTs earned more than $2 million, and proceeds were donated to the non-profit Saisei Foundation .{{Cite news|last=Hayward|first=Andrew|title=Author Tim Ferriss Tops NFT Sales Charts With ‘Cockpunch’|url=https://decrypt.co/116682/author-tim-ferriss-tops-nft-sales-charts-with-cockpunch|date=December 7, 2022|website=Decrypt}}

I'm pinging {{u|Valjean}} who has been helpful in the past.

Thank you for your assistance, Coyoteadventures (talk) 13:41, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

: {{Done}}. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 15:08, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

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Hello, thanks again for all your help. I have a few more suggestions for the page, and I'd be grateful for assistance in implementing:

In the Early life section, please add:

• At age 15, he spent a year in Japan as an exchange student.{{Cite web|title=Tim Ferriss: How travel helped me learn to kick ass|url= https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/tim-ferriss-4-hour-workweek-japan-trip/index.html|date=5 November 2015|website=CNN}}{{Cite web|last=Feloni|first=Richard|title=How Tim Ferriss Beat Depression and Became an Inspirational Icon|url=https://www.inc.com/business-insider/tim-ferris-life-40-hour-work-week.html|date=28 November 2017|website=Inc.}}
• He was a member of the wrestling team in high school.{{Cite web|last=Mead|first=Rebecca|title=Better, Faster, Stronger|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/09/05/better-faster-stronger|date=29 August 2011|website=The New Yorker}}

Please create a Personal life section with the following information:

• Ferriss won a National Chinese Kickboxing Championship.
• He holds the Guinness World Records for tango spins.{{Cite web|last=Rosenbloom|first=Stephanie|title=The World According to Tim Ferriss|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/fashion/27Ferris.html|date=25 March 2011|website=The New York Times}}

Lastly, please update the lead to reflect Tim's giving. The last sentence of the lead should say:

• He is known for his 4-Hour self-help book series—including The 4-Hour Work Week, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef —that focused on lifestyle optimizations, and for his support of scientific research into psychedelic treatments.

Thank you so much for your help, Coyoteadventures (talk) 15:32, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

: {{Done}} -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 16:29, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

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