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7 things i learned talking to David Senra (Founders podcast) for 2 hours: 1. Dan Carlin from hardcore history reads 30 books then records a single podcast episode over 9 months. that's why it sounds scripted but isn't 2. Bill Burr's early "podcast" was literally him calling a phone... number, leaving a voicemail, and a service converting it to an MP3 3. a "tofu name" is a podcast name with no flavor. he renamed his pod to something searchable and it 3x'd in 90 days 4. Larry Ellison texted Elon "a billion, whatever you want" with a thumbs up emoji when asked to invest in buying Twitter. Elon talked him UP to $2B 5. Daniel Ek told him during the Rogan controversy, Spotify added 2 million subscribers. turns out when someone's heard you talk for 1000+ hours, a 2-minute news clip can't change their mind 6. david's startup idea: the best one is whatever you're already doing. just do it until you die 7. the founder of Perdue chicken ($10B+ poultry company) wanted to start selling hot dogs. someone asked him how it was going. he said "i haven't found my Mr. Hot Dog yet" meaning: the guy who goes to bed thinking about chicken hot dogs and wakes up thinking about chicken hot dogs that's the whole game. find the thing you can't stop thinking about this was recorded 18 months ago on The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 (thanks David Senra - come back on soon!) easily one of my favorite conversations evershow more

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RedWave Press

2,267,328 views • 2 months ago

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Patrick OShaughnessy

33,016 views • 4 months ago

Elon Musk is so famous you'd think you've heard it all. So when Jimmy Soni interviewed him, he opened with the one question that humanizes him. Jimmy asked about Greg Kouri, a close friend and early investor in Elon's first company, Zip2. Greg died at a very young age: "I said, Elon, I want to begin our interview a little bit differently. I had read about this gentleman that had helped you early on in your life. I found his widow, and we talked. Can you talk about him? There's a pause. And he goes, 'Oh my god.' He gave me this minute long meditation on Greg and their friendship and everything that it meant to him. Nobody's talking to him about Greg Kouri. The human beings that I interview, they have lives that exist outside of the very narrow frame of reference that we see them for. What's the thing that they never get talked about that reveals something about their character?"

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157,349 views • 2 months ago

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Tobi: If you don't read books, you live a lifetime. If you read books, you live a thousand, right? David: I'm going to interrupt you real quick because I took notes on this podcast six years ago. This is the first time I came across you and you said something that I absolutely love, and I had in my notebook, and I went to find when I took it. It was 2020, and you said, "Books are the closest thing you ever come to finding cheat codes for real life. You can access the entire learnings of someone else's career in a few hours." Tobi: It tracks, doesn't it? David: I dedicate my life to this, so of course, I'm going to agree with that. Tobi: Absolutely. I really think we need to shout this more from the rooftops, right? The one weird trick seems to be just read books.

David Senra

349,021 views • 6 months ago

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Kyle Becker

24,057 views • 1 month ago

Quentin Tarantino recounts a dinner with Robert De Niro during the making of Jackie Brown, where he asked him whether he understood when he landed the role of Vito in The Godfather Part II, that it would change his life. De Niro’s answer revealed a great deal about his mindset at the time. “I was working with Robert De Niro on Jackie brown, and we went out to dinner once. - When he got Vito in the Godfather Part II, that was going to be a big thing for him. He won the Oscar for it - it set him up to be a movie star. So I asked him - and I've asked this to quite a few actors when it comes to when they got the role that would end up changing their career - did he realize that the moment when he got the role, that it would have this sort of effect? And he goes oh, “I tried not to let it do that. I tried not to think about that” I go, "really? and why did you try not to think about that?" “Well because I’ve seen it happen and then go the other way” And then he used an example. “There was this guy, he was a young actor, and he was part of our crowd in New York. He'd been doing okay, but we were all in the same boat. Then all of a sudden he got a lead role. He's one of the two leads in a brand new movie by a director who had just done a smash hit.” And he's talking about Larry Pierce (the director) and uh... Goodbye Columbus. ”And he started dining out on it. And all of a sudden I go to the places that we used to go to, and now he's there and everyone's kind of revolving around him. He's kind of holding court. He's not doing anything bad; he's just arisen in the way that none of us have - and we're all treating him different. Then the movie comes out; nobody likes it - The movie comes out, and it goes away, and he's exactly in the same place he was. And I just wanted to make sure that that would never happen to me because I watched it happen to him.” Quote from Video Archives Podcast, sourced from James Whale Bake Sale YouTube channel. Clip below from the Godfather Part II (1974)

Gangster Cinema Central

97,458 views • 4 months ago

Scott Jennings reveals details from his 17-minute phone call today with Mitch McConnell from the hospital. JENNINGS: “Yeah, he called me this morning before I did my radio show. We talked for about 17 minutes.” “You know, he talked a lot about the situation with Iran, talked a little bit about Ukraine and what’s going on in Europe.” “I told him I had been to the Teddy Roosevelt library. We talked a little bit about the history of the vice presidency and how Roosevelt had transformed that and the modern presidency. A little history of the Senate.” “You know, it was a wide ranging conversation. I talk to him often. I hadn’t talked to him since he’d been in. I’d gotten a few text messages from him, but I hadn’t spoken to him. So it was good to hear his voice.” “Voice sounded strong and sounded like he was keeping up with the news to me.” HUNT: “Did you ask him how he was feeling?” JENNINGS: “Yeah, he said, you know, he said he was feeling okay. You know, obviously well enough to call me on the phone and obviously well enough to talk to Barrasso and Thune.” “Now, look, I’m not qualified to discuss any medical issues or give you any information about that, that’s really for him or his staff to do.” “But, you know, I talk to him from time to time, and I see him from time to time. And, you know, we had a conversation today about the things that we normally talk about, which are news of the day political stuff.”

Scott Jennings reveals details from his 17-minute phone call today with Mitch McConnell from the hospital. JENNINGS: “Yeah, he called me this morning before I did my radio show. We talked for about 17 minutes.” “You know, he talked a lot about the situation with Iran, talked a little bit about Ukraine and what’s going on in Europe.” “I told him I had been to the Teddy Roosevelt library. We talked a little bit about the history of the vice presidency and how Roosevelt had transformed that and the modern presidency. A little history of the Senate.” “You know, it was a wide ranging conversation. I talk to him often. I hadn’t talked to him since he’d been in. I’d gotten a few text messages from him, but I hadn’t spoken to him. So it was good to hear his voice.” “Voice sounded strong and sounded like he was keeping up with the news to me.” HUNT: “Did you ask him how he was feeling?” JENNINGS: “Yeah, he said, you know, he said he was feeling okay. You know, obviously well enough to call me on the phone and obviously well enough to talk to Barrasso and Thune.” “Now, look, I’m not qualified to discuss any medical issues or give you any information about that, that’s really for him or his staff to do.” “But, you know, I talk to him from time to time, and I see him from time to time. And, you know, we had a conversation today about the things that we normally talk about, which are news of the day political stuff.”

Overton

506,637 views • 1 month ago

A mental model everyone should know: The Regret Minimization Framework. This is how Jeff Bezos used this model to decide to start Amazon: I went to my boss and told him, "I'm going to go do this crazy thing — I'm going to start this company selling books online." This is something I had already been talking to him about in a more general context, and he said, "Let's go on a walk." So we went on a 2-hour walk in Central Park in New York City. The conclusion of that was, he said, "This actually sounds like a really good idea to me, but it sounds like it would be a better idea for somebody who didn't already have a good job!" He convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. So I went away and was trying to find the right framework to make that kind of big decision. I had already talked to my wife about this, and she was 100 percent supportive, saying, "You can count me in – whatever you want to do." It's true, she had married this guy with a stable career and path, but she was 100 percent supportive. So it was really a decision I had to make for myself. The framework I found, which made the decision incredibly easy, was what I called — only a nerd would call — a regret minimization framework. I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, "I'm looking back on my life, I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have." I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret participating in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn't regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not having ever tried. And I knew that would haunt me every day. When I thought about it that way, it was an incredibly easy decision. If you can project yourself to age 80 and think, "What will I think at that time?" it gets you away from some of the daily pieces of confusion. I left this Wall Street firm in the middle of the year, and when you do that, you walk away from your annual bonus. That's the kind of thing that in the short-term can confuse you, but when you think about the long-term, you can really make good life decisions that you won't regret later. *** Summary Ask yourself: in X years, will I regret not doing this? • If Yes → DO IT! • If No → Don't bother. This can apply to any decision: • Should I switch jobs? • Should I start my dream business? • And more... *** Takeaway: Optimize for Asymmetric Upside • Record content (podcast, video) • Write content (book, blog) • Go to a cocktail party • Move to a big city • Invest in startups • Go on first dates • Build in public • Start a biz • Tweet Shoot. Your. Shot. Life is too short not to do so. *** That's a wrap and I hope you found this helpful. If you found value in this post: 1. Follow me Arjun Mahadevan (Mr. LLC 🇺🇸) for more. 2. Re-post this, if you can, to share this mental model with a friend and to remind them to: Shoot. Your. Shot. Life is too short not to do so.

A mental model everyone should know: The Regret Minimization Framework. This is how Jeff Bezos used this model to decide to start Amazon: I went to my boss and told him, "I'm going to go do this crazy thing — I'm going to start this company selling books online." This is something I had already been talking to him about in a more general context, and he said, "Let's go on a walk." So we went on a 2-hour walk in Central Park in New York City. The conclusion of that was, he said, "This actually sounds like a really good idea to me, but it sounds like it would be a better idea for somebody who didn't already have a good job!" He convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. So I went away and was trying to find the right framework to make that kind of big decision. I had already talked to my wife about this, and she was 100 percent supportive, saying, "You can count me in – whatever you want to do." It's true, she had married this guy with a stable career and path, but she was 100 percent supportive. So it was really a decision I had to make for myself. The framework I found, which made the decision incredibly easy, was what I called — only a nerd would call — a regret minimization framework. I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, "I'm looking back on my life, I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have." I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret participating in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn't regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not having ever tried. And I knew that would haunt me every day. When I thought about it that way, it was an incredibly easy decision. If you can project yourself to age 80 and think, "What will I think at that time?" it gets you away from some of the daily pieces of confusion. I left this Wall Street firm in the middle of the year, and when you do that, you walk away from your annual bonus. That's the kind of thing that in the short-term can confuse you, but when you think about the long-term, you can really make good life decisions that you won't regret later. * Summary Ask yourself: in X years, will I regret not doing this? • If Yes → DO IT! • If No → Don't bother. This can apply to any decision: • Should I switch jobs? • Should I start my dream business? • And more... * Takeaway: Optimize for Asymmetric Upside • Record content (podcast, video) • Write content (book, blog) • Go to a cocktail party • Move to a big city • Invest in startups • Go on first dates • Build in public • Start a biz • Tweet Shoot. Your. Shot. Life is too short not to do so. *** That's a wrap and I hope you found this helpful. If you found value in this post: 1. Follow me Arjun Mahadevan (Mr. LLC 🇺🇸) for more. 2. Re-post this, if you can, to share this mental model with a friend and to remind them to: Shoot. Your. Shot. Life is too short not to do so.

Arjun Mahadevan (Mr. LLC 🇺🇸)

25,594 views • 3 years ago

Chris Bosh says it took him months to forgive LeBron James for leaving Miami “Through a text. I thought he was bullshitting, and then about 10 minutes later it’s everywhere. At the time, I didn’t understand it. In my mind I was ready to put the team back together because we had just lost” “I took offense to it, to be honest with you, at first. I was only thinking of how I felt about it. Me and Bron talked about it, but I’m a competitor. When you go back to the locker room and Bron ain’t in that chair, and then everybody’s kind of looking at you for that 25 points and looking at D for that 25 points” “It still worked out for everybody, but I was upset. It took some time to get over it. I want to say it took months to get over it. We had to be in the same place and talk about it. Nothing deep, but just talk and get back on good terms and get back to where we were”

Chris Bosh says it took him months to forgive LeBron James for leaving Miami “Through a text. I thought he was bullshitting, and then about 10 minutes later it’s everywhere. At the time, I didn’t understand it. In my mind I was ready to put the team back together because we had just lost” “I took offense to it, to be honest with you, at first. I was only thinking of how I felt about it. Me and Bron talked about it, but I’m a competitor. When you go back to the locker room and Bron ain’t in that chair, and then everybody’s kind of looking at you for that 25 points and looking at D for that 25 points” “It still worked out for everybody, but I was upset. It took some time to get over it. I want to say it took months to get over it. We had to be in the same place and talk about it. Nothing deep, but just talk and get back on good terms and get back to where we were”

dank

140,735 views • 14 days ago

Travis Scott reveals Christopher Nolan personally called him to star in The Odyssey “My phone went off and it just said, ‘Chris.’ I'm thinking, okay, I don't know what this is about. Maybe he wants to go to a show” “I pick up and he's like, ‘Would you be interested in acting in a movie?’ I'm like I mean I guess... I didn't even think it was for him” “He's like, ‘Well, I'm working on this movie. I haven't really told people about it yet and I want you to be in it” “I'm like whoa, wait you know I make music?” “He gave me his whole thesis on why. He's a real mentor of mine, so I was like whatever you're down with, I'm down” “I showed up thinking it was just going to be me and maybe some extras. I didn't know it was going to be Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson and all these amazing people”

Travis Scott reveals Christopher Nolan personally called him to star in The Odyssey “My phone went off and it just said, ‘Chris.’ I'm thinking, okay, I don't know what this is about. Maybe he wants to go to a show” “I pick up and he's like, ‘Would you be interested in acting in a movie?’ I'm like I mean I guess... I didn't even think it was for him” “He's like, ‘Well, I'm working on this movie. I haven't really told people about it yet and I want you to be in it” “I'm like whoa, wait you know I make music?” “He gave me his whole thesis on why. He's a real mentor of mine, so I was like whatever you're down with, I'm down” “I showed up thinking it was just going to be me and maybe some extras. I didn't know it was going to be Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson and all these amazing people”

Jack

1,787,835 views • 26 days ago

Ajahn Brahm demonstrates how easy it is to stop overthinking in 2 minutes: "The biggest problem in people's meditation is the mind which is always thinking. People keep telling me, 'I can't meditate. I'm always thinking, thinking, thinking about something, thinking about anything. I can't stop thinking.' That becomes one of the biggest obstacles to being a meditator." But he reveals the truth: "It's very easy to stop thinking. A lot of people do it quite naturally, very often. They stop thinking." He shares a demonstration: "When I am speaking, also be aware of the reaction to my words inside your mind. Don't just listen to what I'm saying, listen to what it does to you inside your mind. Because as I am speaking, if you're mindful inside a little bit, you will begin to notice something strange." Here's what he wants you to see: "Between my words, there are long gaps. In those spaces between my words, what was happening in your mind? You were silent. You were aware. But not a thought was going on in your mind." He pauses. "You can do it. And this is what it feels like. Being aware. Hearing the sounds of the birds. But without a thought going on in your head. Easy, isn't it?" He adds with a laugh: "Now just carry on for another two hours." Then he shares the real question: "Now you know what silence is and how beautiful it feels. Now we have to try and understand: why is it that we keep destroying this silence with all these thoughts? You're all old enough now to realize 99% of your thoughts are total rubbish. And I'm being quite generous."

Ajahn Brahm demonstrates how easy it is to stop overthinking in 2 minutes: "The biggest problem in people's meditation is the mind which is always thinking. People keep telling me, 'I can't meditate. I'm always thinking, thinking, thinking about something, thinking about anything. I can't stop thinking.' That becomes one of the biggest obstacles to being a meditator." But he reveals the truth: "It's very easy to stop thinking. A lot of people do it quite naturally, very often. They stop thinking." He shares a demonstration: "When I am speaking, also be aware of the reaction to my words inside your mind. Don't just listen to what I'm saying, listen to what it does to you inside your mind. Because as I am speaking, if you're mindful inside a little bit, you will begin to notice something strange." Here's what he wants you to see: "Between my words, there are long gaps. In those spaces between my words, what was happening in your mind? You were silent. You were aware. But not a thought was going on in your mind." He pauses. "You can do it. And this is what it feels like. Being aware. Hearing the sounds of the birds. But without a thought going on in your head. Easy, isn't it?" He adds with a laugh: "Now just carry on for another two hours." Then he shares the real question: "Now you know what silence is and how beautiful it feels. Now we have to try and understand: why is it that we keep destroying this silence with all these thoughts? You're all old enough now to realize 99% of your thoughts are total rubbish. And I'm being quite generous."

Peak Thinkers

18,573 views • 3 months ago

Former DP Rigathi Gachagua: The President should make up his mind on how much money I was supposedly asking for. His 'chief propagandist', Dennis Itumbi, wrote that I asked for KSh 6.5 billion. His 'Mr. Fix-It', Kimani Ichung’wah, claimed it was KSh 8 billion. Then Ruto himself said I asked for KSh 10 billion. Can they sit down and agree on a figure Rigathi Gachagua is supposed to have asked for? But it’s all just a narrative he wanted to push in the Mountain. If it were true, it would have come up during the impeachment. Earlier, the President called me and said he couldn’t work with me anymore. He offered me KSh 2 billion, but I refused. He told me, 'Instead of going home empty-handed, I want you to at least leave with your retirement package — I can get you something to start off with, like KSh 1.5 to 2 billion, i told him i was not interested

Former DP Rigathi Gachagua: The President should make up his mind on how much money I was supposedly asking for. His 'chief propagandist', Dennis Itumbi, wrote that I asked for KSh 6.5 billion. His 'Mr. Fix-It', Kimani Ichung’wah, claimed it was KSh 8 billion. Then Ruto himself said I asked for KSh 10 billion. Can they sit down and agree on a figure Rigathi Gachagua is supposed to have asked for? But it’s all just a narrative he wanted to push in the Mountain. If it were true, it would have come up during the impeachment. Earlier, the President called me and said he couldn’t work with me anymore. He offered me KSh 2 billion, but I refused. He told me, 'Instead of going home empty-handed, I want you to at least leave with your retirement package — I can get you something to start off with, like KSh 1.5 to 2 billion, i told him i was not interested

KTN News

132,617 views • 1 year ago

"You should have Ezra Firestone on your podcast and ask him, 'What HASN'T changed in ecommerce over your career?'" A client suggested that a couple months back and I loved it. Perfect question, and perfect guy to ask. Ezra was the first "ecom influencer" I ever knew about back in 2014 when I got into ecom. He was a reliable guide then. He's a reliable guide now. So that was the question I asked him to kick off a conversation that I published yesterday. And I've been pondering his answers for the week since we recorded it. The clip here is a good taste of his answers: clear, simple, but critical and easy to overlook. It's great weekend listening. Get it wherever you get the Andrew Faris Podcast. And while you're at it, tell me your answer: With everything changing all the time in ecom, what hasn't changed since you started? I'd love to hear.

"You should have Ezra Firestone on your podcast and ask him, 'What HASN'T changed in ecommerce over your career?'" A client suggested that a couple months back and I loved it. Perfect question, and perfect guy to ask. Ezra was the first "ecom influencer" I ever knew about back in 2014 when I got into ecom. He was a reliable guide then. He's a reliable guide now. So that was the question I asked him to kick off a conversation that I published yesterday. And I've been pondering his answers for the week since we recorded it. The clip here is a good taste of his answers: clear, simple, but critical and easy to overlook. It's great weekend listening. Get it wherever you get the Andrew Faris Podcast. And while you're at it, tell me your answer: With everything changing all the time in ecom, what hasn't changed since you started? I'd love to hear.

Andrew Faris

13,673 views • 3 months ago