"I think if you look at a lot of these top companies that are being built, even the top five and Fortune 500 right now, they're all built by these polymaths, these people that learn a lot about a lot of things." ~ Tommy Potter on the power of living…
Young, polymathic, and full of energy — Tommy Potter is on a quest to build a “CIA for Entrepreneurs.” He calls it “The Power Hour” — a startup community in Michigan that hosts dropouts, undergrads and PhDs across many industries: enterprise, consumer, CPG, aviation, gaming, robotics and AR/VR, as they…
Code is no longer capital, it's labor. Our guest Alex Danco explains...
"I love using memes in my newsletter posts because sometimes it's the best way to encapsulate the concept with a gif that everybody understands." Alex Danco expounds on the signal potential of memes... Full video: https://youtu.be/S4gU9o6ou3M
The current status of 2025? Angst looking for a vessel. If it's no longer cool to talk about meme stocks, what are people to do? Our guest Alex Danco explains... Full video: https://youtu.be/S4gU9o6ou3M
Alex Danco's latest take: throwing dinner parties is now a status symbol. "The true scarce status symbol among the set of upwardly mobile professionals is having any kind of spare time... Look at how relaxed I am hosting all these people in our house...and not having a breezy care in…
Shopify Product Director Alex Danco returns for his NINTH appearance on the show — and he comes in hot. As you’ll hear, I didn’t even get a chance to introduce him before he launched into his take on what everyone gets wrong about Citizen Kane. We also unpack the performance…
"I would invite people to an invitation to Slow Living...I think we live in a society that is unable to appreciate boredom." ~ Vizi Andrei on how rushing can cancel anything of depth and meaning on a spiritual level... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfcX7AYnKvQ
"When you create something that just stays on the digital realm, it's kind of abstract. It's not something real. But when you transfer all of that energy in the real world...that's where the magic starts." ~ Vizi Andrei on the sacredness of building real things... Full video: https://youtu.be/nfcX7AYnKvQ
What is the meaning of life? A tough question...maybe it's better to never answer it. ~ Vizi Andrei reflects on why this question has always bothered us... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfcX7AYnKvQ
My guest today is my former teammate Vizi Andrei, founder of The Sovereign Artist program and author of Sovereign Artist: Meditations on Lifestyle Design. Vizi’s journey has been anything but conventional. After dabbling in various creative projects, he realized that the internet offers a unique opportunity: the freedom to take…
"Two guys going off to World War I..." This is not the beginning of a joke, but the beginning of a wonderful story about compounding... Barry Ritholtz explains how time can turn $1000 dollars into $32million+ Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy4O5Sf6PFg
"I like to tell clients you have to learn how to time travel... what's the world going to be like in 15, 20 years? What are your financial needs going to be like?" ~ Barry Ritholtz on anticipating the future instead of expecting the market to work in your favour...…
"Your gun jams in a firefight, what's your plan B? How do you deal with it? [Do you] try and fix it? When do you abandon the weapon? If your reaction is panic, you're going to get yourself and your teammates killed." ~ Barry Ritholtz on the important lesson he…
"Tennis is two different games. The winner's game is [what] the professionals play... by scoring points. The rest of us amateurs, that's not how we win a tennis game. We [win] by letting the other person beat themselves." ~ Barry Ritholtz on the nature of Tennis (and investing) Full video:…
Barry Ritholtz — Make Fewer Errors, Make More Money | Episode 261 My friend Barry Ritholtz has spent his career being an astute market observer, investigating behavioral finance and data analytics. He runs Ritholtz Wealth Management which has been named ETF Advisor of the Year, Financial Times Top 300 Advisors,…
"The number one problem with our age... is that far too many people today couldn't imagine [doing] impossible things...and that it all just comes from a limiting self-belief." ~ Jason Carman on the devastating effects of limited self-belief... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9mUBinPv-w
"[Sci-fi], much like history, ... gives you the ability to think beyond your lifespan." After all, it took more than 300 years to build the most beautiful cathedrals... ~ Jason Carman on cultivating a sense of the long-term Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9mUBinPv-w
Kubrick, Spielberg, George Lucas. All businessmen. "The directors of old, ... all the greats that you can think of built businesses to make their movies. That's how dedicated they were to this." ~ Jason Carman on filmmakers as Founders ...
"You could give a great editor bad footage and he can make a great edit. You could give great footage to a bad editor and you would get a very bad edit." ~ Jason Carman on the importance of editing to making movies... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9mUBinPv-w
The relentlessly prolific Jason Carman is making the films our culture needs: optimistic, inspiring and positioned at the frontiers of modern tech and science. In under two years, he has shipped more than 70 high-quality mini-documentaries exploring the startups shaping the future, racking up over 130,000 YouTube subscribers along the…
Why do people tie their self-worth to their productivity? Anne-Laure Le Cunff helps us answer this question by discussing societal incentives. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5y0ZSgsjgc&t=1s
What does it mean to replace the Ladder with the Loop? "It's really about letting go of this linear approach and replacing it with a more cyclical approach...Maybe if I do this, this will happen. Let's go through the cycle and let's see what happens" ~ Anne-Laure Le Cunff Full…
Don't fall for the illusion of safety. "The people who love us, they want us to be safe. And so they will very often push us towards [life] scripts that give us this illusion of safety..." Anne-Laure Le Cunff's words of wisdom... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5y0ZSgsjgc&t=1s