Oli Fairhurst

Breath-led nervous system coaching for founders & leaders. Breathwork, movement, mindset, nutrition, recovery & sleep. Alchemy of Breath certified.

[Oli Fairhurst @fairhurst_oli]

Most founders don't burn out suddenly🔥🪫
They burn out slowly, while feeling unstoppable.
Here's what's actually happening in your body, and what to do about it 🧵

[Oli Fairhurst @fairhurst_oli]

@SahilBloom Love this! What book?

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

This is so good.

[Andre @Youkhna]

One of the coolest parts of building a hardware company is watching something that once existed only in your imagination become something you can actually hold.

Thousands of decisions. Countless prototypes. Late nights. Trips across the world.

Onyx and Pearl. Which one are you picking?

[Oli Fairhurst @fairhurst_oli]

@Youkhna @MinimalCompany Ember 🧡🔥🧡

[Chai with AI ☕ @ChaiWithAi]

Its real. One click and its working in telegram. I even tested it and created a pally page that shows the capability of pally https://t.co/tG5WtkSdbu

Impressive !! @pally

[Oli Fairhurst @fairhurst_oli]

@noahrshinn It’s so damn good. Joined today and it’s blown my mind. Well played sir 🫡

[Noah Shinn @noahrshinn]

I’m Noah, the founder of Instinct.

Instinct is a personal agent that we’ve been building for the past few months. The interface is simple: there are no new interfaces. You can text or call it. It's trained to use a phone and a computer in the same way that humans do. Instinct combines simplicity with extreme capability.

I’m thrilled with everything our early users are doing with Instinct. They’ve told us they’ve planned cross-country road trips, bought weekly groceries and concert tickets, and cancelled hundreds of dollars of subscriptions. Someone’s even planning their wedding with Instinct.

We want to make Instinct the best personal agent for all of you. It’s available in an invite-only beta program while we’re actively bringing up more compute. I’m excited to see what you all do with it.

https://t.co/lVra3kd4TT

[Haz Hubble @hazhubble]

BIG announcement: @pally is now completely FREE!

Every user now gets everything that used to be reserved for Max:

- Our best AI models
- Connect every app: iMessage, WhatsApp, Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Calendar, Notion, and more
- Unlimited automations, including ones that fire the moment something happens (“text me when my landlord emails”)
- Pally gets its own phone number and email. Give them out like you would a real assistant’s
- Pally makes calls for you: it books the table, chases the contractor, gets the quote
- Pally books and buys things on the web for you, end to end
- Media generation (videos, images, and songs)

AND to celebrate, we launched a new website and updated brand! Check it out > https://t.co/OxmcX68Ems

Oh... and one more thing... 👀

[Andre @Youkhna]

We wanted to see how far we could push the Minimal Phone 2's 3,400mAh battery.

So we charged it to 100%, unplugged it, and put it through nonstop real-world use.

YouTube. Instagram. X. Chrome. Emails. Phone calls. Photos. Video recording. And more.

Screen on the ENTIRE time. No breaks. No charging.

We kept going until the phone completely shut down.

The result genuinely surprised us.

Here's the entire battery test condensed into a timelapse. See how long it lasted. 🔋

And we're still optimizing.

https://t.co/KcbbvRsJP5

[Andre @Youkhna]

Physical keyboard. Minimal OS. No endless grid of apps fighting for your attention.

This is what a smartphone looks like when you design it around getting things done, then getting off it.

[Oli Fairhurst @fairhurst_oli]

@milesdeutscher What are you using the most now?

[Oli Fairhurst @fairhurst_oli]

@innerpathing Very good idea.

[Oli Fairhurst @fairhurst_oli]

Officially a certified Alchemy of Breath Conscious Connected Breathwork Facilitator. 🌬️

Burnout taught me what a nervous system stuck in overdrive feels like. The breath brought me back. Now I get to share it.

Thank you @alchemyofbreath.

[Oli Fairhurst @fairhurst_oli]

@jonnym1ller @bduffez @ElevenLabs I was expecting your voice 😭

Your nurration of nervous system mastery was sublime. Made the whole course more enjoyable 🫶🏻🏆

[Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller]

After months of writing, 'How to Unclench' is finally live!

It's an interactive essay packed with stories, science & guided practices to help you unclench.

→ https://t.co/UTYPJkkrKH

[Oli Fairhurst @fairhurst_oli]

@jonnym1ller This is phenomenal Jonny.

I’ve been practicing unclenching in my ice bath in the mornings. 🥶

[Nick Di Fabio @NickDiFabio1]

This 82 year old man explaining his regrets & how he’d live his life over again might change how you view your life forever…

[Huberman Lab Clips @HLPClips]

How to rewire negative thoughts:

- Find one delight a day - something you taste, see, or hear that makes you smile
- Write it down. Ross Gay wrote a short essay on each in "The Book of Delights"
- Keep them small and silly: purple flowers, an 80s song you love
- Share them, other people's delights become your own
- Stuck in traffic and stressed? Take a breath and name one good thing you notice
- Why it works: you're training your attention toward the good and retraining the built-in negativity bias

@lauriesantos on @hubermanlab

[Ben Smith @bensmithlive]

I completed the journey to re-gain my child-like energy.

This is the supplement protocol that stuck:

Morning:
- Vitamin C, 1000mg
- TRU Niagen, 300mg (NAD+ precursor)

Pre-workout:
- Steeped green tea + mint + ginger + honey + citrulline + creatine (10g), topped with coconut water

Post-workout:
- Potassium-rich electrolytes

Lunch:
- CoQ10, 100mg (mitochondrial support)
- ZINZINO Essent+, 2 softgels (omega-3/polyphenol)
- Eterna T3 Tocotrienol, 125mg (advanced vitamin E)
- RAW Adrenal (adaptogen blend)

Evening:
- RAW Tri-Magnesium, 2000mg
- Eterna T3 Tocotrienol, 125mg (2nd dose)

Pair with sunlight, feet on grass, deep sleep, contrast therapy.

Foot notes:
*Noticeable boost when minerals and electrolytes are in check (especially with high sauna frequency)
*Replaced beef liver capsules to dietary: 200-300g/week when it was accessible
*Nutritionally dense smoothies synergises well (lots of maca, cacao, greens {cycled}, variety of colours)
*Acetyl-L-Carnitine/PQQ over stimulated me
*Taurine/glycine/TTFD slots right into the protocol above, non-essential but added for more extensive approach
*Colostrum and lactoferrin in early phases bulletproofed my gut (lean mass also noticeably easier to put on)
*Methylene blue excellent as a tool, currently cycled off for 6+ month

[Ben Smith @bensmithlive]

I spent 3 years off all social media aside from X to learn these lessons:

1. Your thoughts become your own when you stop consuming everyone else's

2. Social media is optional, I missed out on absolutely nothing

3. There's a whole world spinning around you that has no idea your world even exists

4. Real life has more to offer than social media, and exploring it doesn't require travelling (often it's right under your nose)

5. Going offline for too long makes it increasingly hard to come back

6. Your meaningful people will find other ways to communicate and connect with you

7. You live in a small bubble online, and only when you leave do you realise just how small it is

8. You have full control of your time and focus when social media is removed (this one is real)

9. Social media doesn't have to be bad for you, providing you establish seperation and boundaries

These are 5 boundaries I try to maintain:

> Put your phone away as often as you can: You’ll reach a much deeper sense of real-world connection and relaxation with your phone out of reach (or switched off). Switched on and in your pocket doesn’t count.

> Don’t check social media immediately upon waking: This is when you’re most impressionable, and you just received a totally free reset of your brains chemistry (sleep)—why pour this down the drain in the first 5 mins?

> Don’t capture everything that you see and like: I spent years looking for photo/video opportunities in every living moment, cutting this to zero opened my eyes to how much I missed, or didn’t get to enjoy for myself.

> Do ‘nothing’ in the in-between moments, instead of doom scrolling: It’s reasonable to believe that we weren’t designed to be stimulated or occupied every moment of every day. These are windows of opportunity to be still and regulate yourself, take them.

> Regularly uninstall all social media off your phone (take a break): Feel free to check in on your laptop, you’ll realise that you haven’t missed much. Your real friends will find other ways to reach you.

That’s it. 5 boundaries. Or, like me, take a few years off.