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018 Chicago Black Sox

Inspiration: Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof http://amzn.to/22xPejF Lessons. 1/ We get emotionally invested in the thing we do. 2/ Home field advantage helps; from sports to law to war. 3/ Dominos can fall in unexpected directions. 4/ In strengths are weaknesses and in weaknesses are strengths. The players were incredibly unorganized, and they earned less in bribes than promised. But, this proved to be their (legal) escape hatch. 5/ Extras help. Airplanes have extra space, companies have extra mon...

Jun 16, 2016•24 min

#017 Three lesssons from the life of Charles Ponzi

Inspiration: http://amzn.to/1TOa0ba Big ideas: 1/ History isn't always rosy, with quotes from Charlie Munger and Marc Andreessen. 2/ Two paths diverged in a woods...and Ponzi went with the devil on his shoulder. 3/ Incentives matter. Part of the reason Ponzi was so successful was because of his salesmen. Read more at, https://thewaiterspad.com/2016/06/08/charles-ponzi/

Jun 13, 2016•22 min

014 Mental Scripts

We all have default choices for things (like how you take your coffee). Some of these defaults - we'll also call them scripts - can be like levers, where only a small amount of effort has dramatic results. The most damaging are the negative mental scripts we have. In this episode the characters are Barbara Corcoran, Felicia Day, and Gary Vaynerchuk. We'll look at a story from each and how they rewrote their mental scripts.

Mar 25, 2016•12 min

013 Good Things Take Time

Good things take time. This podcast uses stories from Gary Vaynerchuk, Steven Pressfield, and Felicia Day to encourage people who haven't made a destination yet. Good things are also fractal, that is, no matter what level you're at there are rewards and obstacles. Our characters all face challenges now that they are "successful" just like they did "before they were successful." Now, the challenges are different.

Mar 18, 2016•12 min

012 Constraints Help

Our three characters: Austin Kleon, Mark Webster, Maria Popova. Sometimes we think that the things we don't have access to are the things that we need. "If only I had more time/money/freedom/connections." Maybe that's not what we need. Maybe it's exactly what we don't need.

Mar 11, 2016•12 min

011FinishLineFallacy

Our three characters to explain the finish line fallacy; Warren Buffett, Tadas Viskanta, and Josh Williams. Also, what I think about when I run on the treadmill, and why it's harder each year I get older.

Mar 04, 2016•11 min

010Lowoverhead

One way to have optionality (episodes #001, #002) is to have low overhead. In this episode we look at how commedians, failed startups, and Sophia Amoruso approached this idea and why.

Feb 28, 2016•12 min

009 Survivorship Bias

Survivorship bias explained with World War 2 airplanes, basketball players from New York City, and mutual funds. This episode is part of the https://medium.com/survivorship-bias project.

Feb 16, 2016•15 min

008 The Gear Dosn't Matter

The gear you use doesn't matter. It's not about the best mic or software or camera. It's about doing the work. We'll use the examples of Casey Neistat, B.J. Novak, and Gina Trapani to see how.

Feb 11, 2016•12 min

007 The X-MBA

What if instead of paying someone for an MBA you did it yourself? What if you took that money and invested it, or bought books, or built a car wash? What would that look like? Let's find out how 3 people did just that.

Feb 05, 2016•14 min

004 Listening to Systems

Systems are everywhere around us. They're as simple as Lego bricks and as complicated as the stock market. If we can learn to listen to systems we can hear the signals more clearly. We'll know when it's bad to climb down mountains, when football plays won't work, or how not to surf.

Dec 18, 2015•20 min

003 How to solve "hard things."

Inspired by the book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, there are ways to think about difficult problems that help us solve them.

Dec 08, 2015•7 min
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