#758: Jamie Foxx and Jacqueline Novogratz

Tim Ferriss (0:00)

Okay, this is going to be part confessional. As some of you know, I am recently single and navigating the world of modern dating. What a joy that is. Sometimes it's fun, but it's mostly a goddamn mess, as many of you probably know. I've tried all the dating apps, and while there's some slick options out there, the most functional that I have found is the League.

Why did I end up using the League? First, most dating apps give you almost no information. It's a huge time suck. On the League, you're starting with a baseline of smart people, and you can then easily find the ones you're attracted to. It's much easier. It's like going to a conference where everyone is smart and then just looking for the people you think are cute to go up and speak with. So more than half of the League users went to top 40 colleges, and you can make your filters really selective. So if that's important to you, then go for it. It does work, and that is one of the reasons that I use it. Second, people verify using LinkedIn, so you can make sure they have a job and don't bounce around every six months. It's a simple proxy for finding people who have their shit together. It's infinitely easier than trying to figure things out on Instagram or whatever.

Third, you can search by interest and in multiple locations. I haven't found any other dating app that allows you to do this.

So for instance, I usually search for women who love skiing or snowboarding, have those as interests, as I like to spend, say, two to three months of the year in the mountains. I'm a rivers and mountains guy. The UI is a little clunky, I'll warn you, but it's incredibly helpful for finding good matches and not just pretty faces. So you can search by interest and specify multiple cities. So to summarize a few things that I think make it stand out, features available on the league include multi-city dating, LinkedIn verified profiles, ability to block your profile from coworkers, bosses, family, et cetera. That's very easy to do.

You can search by interest.

You can get profile stats and there is a personal concierge in the app, so there's someone you can text with within the app as a personal concierge to get help. So what am I looking for? I am looking for a woman who is well-educated and who loves skiing or snowboarding or both.

These are, and I've used this word already, proxies for like 20 other things that are important. So just, I'll leave it at that for now. Someone who's default upbeat, likes to smile, smiles often, class half full type of person, who would ideally like to have kids in the next few years.

Her friends would describe her as feminine and playful, and she would love polarity in a relationship. She's athletic and has some muscle. I like strong women, not necessarily bodybuilders, but you get the idea. It could be a rock climber, dancer, whatever, but has some muscle, loves to read, and loves learning. If this sounds like you, send hashtag date Tim, so hashtag date Tim, in a message to your concierge in the app to get us paired up. So these are all reasons why I was excited when the league reached out to sponsor the podcast. They even have daily speed dating, where you can go on three three-minute dates with people who match your preferences, all from the comfort of your couch. So check it out, download the league today on iOS or Android, and find people who challenge you to swing for the fences, and who are in it to win it. I found it to be super fascinating. You can really get good matches instead of just looking at pretty faces and kind of rolling the dice over and over again.

Much better. So download the league today on iOS or Android, and check it out. Message hashtag Tim to your in-app concierge to jump to the front of the wait list and have your profile reviewed first. Check it out, the league on iOS or Android.

I don't know about you guys, but I've had the experience of traveling overseas and I try to access something, say a show on Amazon or elsewhere.

And it says not available in your current location, something like that. Or creepier still, if you're at home and this has happened to me, I search for something or I type in a URL incorrectly, and then a screen for AT&T pops up and it says, you might be searching for this. How about that? And it suggests an alternative. And I think to myself, wait a second, my internet service provider is tracking my searches and what I'm typing into the browser.