Smart Friends
126 episodes - English - Latest episode: 26 days ago - ★★★★★ - 96 ratingsCasual conversations with founders, technologists, investors, and artists about building a brighter future, together. Welcome to our digital living room.
With science, technology and entrepreneurship we can *continue* to create unfathomable leaps in quality of life. We show you how to find, apply, build, and invest in technologies to change your life and the world.
When we have smart friends, we do smart things. When we do smart things, we save the world.
No matter who, where, or when you are – now you have smart friends, too.
Outside this podcast, I’m the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant and The Anthology of Balaji. Connect at ejorgenson.com
Laugh and learn with people like Balaji Srinivasan, Naval Ravikant, Andrew Wilkinson, Austen Allred, David Senra, Josh Storrs Hall, Ashley Rindsberg, Zach Pettet, Bret Kugelmass, Omar ElNaggar, Grace Guo, Brett Kopf, Max Olson, Chris Williamson, Shane Mac, Tim Hwang, David Perell, Jason Hitchcock, Natalia Karayaneva, Sebastian Marshall, Taylor Pearson, Mitchell Baldridge and more.
Join conversations with my partners in early-stage tech investing, Bo Fishback and Al Doan. Our Rolling Fun Episodes cover our investments and escapades as angel investors and startup helpers. We invest in startups creating the *next* industrial revolution. Learn more at rolling.fun
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Episodes
Channeling Anger to Fix the Finance Industry with Deregulation, Technology, and Crypto with Zach Pettet
March 22, 2022 08:30 - 1 hourThe sponsor for this week’s episode is Founders Podcast. David Senra, the host of Founders Podcast, is a biography-reading machine. If you don’t have time to spend 40 hours reading the full-length biography of some gilded-age entrepreneur, listening to David’s high-quality recap is the next best thing. The Founders Podcast is a paid podcast that costs $99/year or $299 for lifetime access. Subscribing gives you access to more than 200 episodes including the back catalog with episodes about A...
#033 Channeling Anger to Fix the Finance Industry with Deregulation, Technology, and Crypto with Zach Pettet
March 22, 2022 08:30 - 1 hourThe sponsor for this week’s episode is Founders Podcast. David Senra, the host of Founders Podcast, is a biography-reading machine. If you don’t have time to spend 40 hours reading the full-length biography of some gilded-age entrepreneur, listening to David’s high-quality recap is the next best thing. The Founders Podcast is a paid podcast that costs $99/year or $299 for lifetime access. Subscribing gives you access to more than 200 episodes including the back catalog with episodes about A...
Solocast #3: Nuclear, Nanotech, and the next Industrial Revolution (Book Recap: “Where is my Flying Car?”)
March 15, 2022 08:30 - 53 minutesLinks: Where Is My Flying Car? By J. Storrs Hall WTF Happened in 1971? To support this costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/ >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage >> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun >> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter >> Text the ...
#032 Solocast #3: Nuclear, Nanotech, and the next Industrial Revolution (Book Recap: “Where is my Flying Car?”)
March 15, 2022 08:30 - 53 minutesLinks: Where Is My Flying Car? By J. Storrs Hall WTF Happened in 1971? To support this costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/ >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage >> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun >> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter >> Text the ...
I’m Building an Early-Stage Fund with Al Doan and Bo Fishback (Rolling Fun #1)
March 08, 2022 09:30 - 1 hourLinks: Rolling.Fun Alan Doan Bo Fishback Airtasker Lambda Additional Episodes If You Enjoyed: Chris Powers: Starting a Real Estate Empire at 17, Focus, Podcast Flywheels Shane Mac: Building Messaging Protocol for Web3 (XMTP), Company Culture, and Scaling Trust To support this costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/ >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage >> ...
#031 I’m Building an Early-Stage Fund with Al Doan and Bo Fishback (Rolling Fun #1)
March 08, 2022 09:30 - 1 hourLinks: Rolling.Fun Alan Doan Bo Fishback Airtasker Lambda Additional Episodes If You Enjoyed: Chris Powers: Starting a Real Estate Empire at 17, Focus, Podcast Flywheels Shane Mac: Building Messaging Protocol for Web3 (XMTP), Company Culture, and Scaling Trust To support this costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/ >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage >> ...
#030 Self-reinvention & building leverage in podcasts with Chris Williamson
March 01, 2022 09:30 - 1 hourLinks: Modern Wisdom Podcast Chris Williamson on Twitter Eric’s leverage course Jordan Peterson & Chris Williamson Podcast Mathew Fraser on Instagram Sky King on Twitter The School of Life Sam Harris Taylor Pearson Chris Sparks Aubrey Marcus, CEO of Onnit on what he would change about his life Essentialism by Greg McKeown The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel Chasing Excellence by Ben Bergeron Tim Ferriss: 11 reasons not to get famous Additional Episodes If You Enjoyed: Sky King: Th...
Self-reinvention & building leverage in podcasts with Chris Williamson
March 01, 2022 09:30 - 1 hourLinks: Modern Wisdom Podcast Chris Williamson on Twitter Eric’s leverage course Jordan Peterson & Chris Williamson Podcast Mathew Fraser on Instagram Sky King on Twitter The School of Life Sam Harris Taylor Pearson Chris Sparks Aubrey Marcus, CEO of Onnit on what he would change about his life Essentialism by Greg McKeown The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel Chasing Excellence by Ben Bergeron Tim Ferriss: 11 reasons not to get famous Additional Episodes If You Enjoyed: Sky King: Th...
#029 Bringing Real Estate onto the Blockchain with Natalia Karayaneva & Adam Brown of Propy
February 22, 2022 09:30 - 1 hourLinks: Propy NAR (National Association of Realtors) Natalia on Twitter Natalia on LinkedIn Adam on LinkedIn Additional Episodes If You Enjoyed: Sean O’Connor: How Blockchain is Changing Society with Costless Transactions Shane Mac: Building Messaging Protocol for Web3 (XMTP), Company Culture, and Scaling Trust To support this costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/ >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal...
Bringing Real Estate onto the Blockchain with Natalia Karayaneva & Adam Brown of Propy
February 22, 2022 09:30 - 1 hourLinks: Propy NAR (National Association of Realtors) Natalia on Twitter Natalia on LinkedIn Adam on LinkedIn Additional Episodes If You Enjoyed: Sean O’Connor: How Blockchain is Changing Society with Costless Transactions Shane Mac: Building Messaging Protocol for Web3 (XMTP), Company Culture, and Scaling Trust To support this costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/ >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal...
Finding an edge in HR & Culture for growing Startups, with Jeannine Seidl of Density
February 15, 2022 09:30 - 1 hourDuring this conversation on Jorgenson’s Soundbox, I have my beautiful and brilliant fiancé Jeannine on as my guest, and we talk about all things HR, now known as the People Function or People Team in many organizations. Currently, Jeannine is leading the People Team at the startup Density, which has grown from 40 employees to 180 in the last year and a half. To start our discussion, I ask Jeannine to dispel some of the misperceptions of HR – she says often they are spending more time and ene...
#028 Finding an edge in HR & Culture for growing Startups, with Jeannine Seidl of Density
February 15, 2022 09:30 - 1 hourDuring this conversation on Jorgenson’s Soundbox, I have my beautiful and brilliant fiancé Jeannine on as my guest, and we talk about all things HR, now known as the People Function or People Team in many organizations. Currently, Jeannine is leading the People Team at the startup Density, which has grown from 40 employees to 180 in the last year and a half. To start our discussion, I ask Jeannine to dispel some of the misperceptions of HR – she says often they are spending more time and ene...
#027 Finding the 100 highest-quality public businesses in the world with Will Oliver and Will Barnes, founders of In Practise
February 08, 2022 09:30 - 1 hourWill Barnes and Will Oliver are two fantastic individuals I met through Latticework and got to know by bonding over our fandom of Charlie Munger. They are the co-founders of In Practise, a company that conducts interviews with executives and sells them to investors looking at the companies and building conviction in their portfolio. They conduct one-to-one interviews in pursuit of finding the best investment opportunities for their clients. During our conversation, we talk about how they came...
Finding the 100 highest-quality public businesses in the world with Will Oliver and Will Barnes, founders of In Practise
February 08, 2022 09:30 - 1 hourWill Barnes and Will Oliver are two fantastic individuals I met through Latticework and got to know by bonding over our fandom of Charlie Munger. They are the co-founders of In Practise, a company that conducts interviews with executives and sells them to investors looking at the companies and building conviction in their portfolio. They conduct one-to-one interviews in pursuit of finding the best investment opportunities for their clients. During our conversation, we talk about how they came...
#026 Jason Hitchcock #2 w/ Four Moons: structuring a DeFi Fund, Liquid Staking & How to get involved in Web3
February 01, 2022 08:17 - 1 hourThis episode is a conversation about investing in the DeFi space with my previous podcast guest Jason Hitchcock and his partners of Four Moons Capital, Adam and Boz. They talk about how they all got together to form Four Moons and came to partner with Kingsley Capital to create a 100-million-dollar fund to be invested in DeFi. Throughout the conversation, we chat about some of their favorite tokens, projects, and ecosystems and how early it is in the space. We talk about how they all keep up ...
Jason Hitchcock #2 w/ Four Moons: structuring a DeFi Fund, Liquid Staking & How to get involved in Web3
February 01, 2022 08:17 - 1 hourThis episode is a conversation about investing in the DeFi space with my previous podcast guest Jason Hitchcock and his partners of Four Moons Capital, Adam and Boz. They talk about how they all got together to form Four Moons and came to partner with Kingsley Capital to create a 100-million-dollar fund to be invested in DeFi. Throughout the conversation, we chat about some of their favorite tokens, projects, and ecosystems and how early it is in the space. We talk about how they all keep up ...
#025 Shane Mac: Building Messaging Protocol for Web3 (XMTP), Company Culture, and Scaling Trust
January 25, 2022 09:30 - 2 hoursIn this episode of Jorgenson’s Soundbox, I continue exploring the world of web3 with my friend and former coworker Shane Mac. Shane is now the cofounder of XMTP, a decentralized and economic messaging protocol being built for web3. During our conversation, we talk about XMTP as a new protocol for building communication tools. We can spam-proof the next generation of the web! How Shane builds company culture to help him compete with world renowned companies and his personal and professional in...
Shane Mac: Building Messaging Protocol for Web3 (XMTP), Company Culture, and Scaling Trust
January 25, 2022 09:30 - 2 hoursIn this episode of Jorgenson’s Soundbox, I continue exploring the world of web3 with my friend and former coworker Shane Mac. Shane is now the cofounder of XMTP, a decentralized and economic messaging protocol being built for web3. During our conversation, we talk about XMTP as a new protocol for building communication tools. We can spam-proof the next generation of the web! How Shane builds company culture to help him compete with world renowned companies and his personal and professional in...
SquidDAO: Web3 Project Deep-Dive: Part Crypto Hedge Fund, Part NFT DAO. An Anonymous Conspiracy for Mutual Enrichment
January 18, 2022 07:27 - 1 hourSquidDAO is an “Economic Flywheel denominated in Ethereum.” What does that mean? Good question, I wondered too. It’s basically a conspiracy amongst anonymous people on the internet to make money together. And anyone can join! I dug in with a few members to see what it’s all about. They sell NFTs, they issue tokens, they invest a treasury… they earn money! And they share it with token and NFT holders. This is my first pseudonymous podcast as well as the longest one I’ve ever done. In this ep...
#024 SquidDAO: Web3 Project Deep-Dive: Part Crypto Hedge Fund, Part NFT DAO. An Anonymous Conspiracy for Mutual Enrichment
January 18, 2022 07:27 - 1 hourSquidDAO is an “Economic Flywheel denominated in Ethereum.” What does that mean? Good question, I wondered too. It’s basically a conspiracy amongst anonymous people on the internet to make money together. And anyone can join! I dug in with a few members to see what it’s all about. They sell NFTs, they issue tokens, they invest a treasury… they earn money! And they share it with token and NFT holders. This is my first pseudonymous podcast as well as the longest one I’ve ever done. In this ep...
#023 Tim Hwang: Trade Journal Cooperative, Robot Lawyers, Bubble in Digital Ads, Zuck Being Quantitatively Weird, and Misinformation as Warfare
January 11, 2022 09:30 - 1 hourTim Hwang is the most interesting man on the internet. He runs a project called the Trade Journal Cooperative, which I've subscribed to for years. We talk about how the Trade Journal Cooperative got started it, how Tim *secretly* went to law school, and several other projects Tim is working on including an academic journal dedicated to bizarre images of Mark Zuckerberg. Thought that was all? That’s not all. Also using bots to wage information wars on social media, and Tim’s book which predict...
Tim Hwang: Trade Journal Cooperative, Robot Lawyers, Bubble in Digital Ads, Zuck Being Quantitatively Weird, and Misinformation as Warfare
January 11, 2022 09:30 - 1 hourTim Hwang is the most interesting man on the internet. He runs a project called the Trade Journal Cooperative, which I've subscribed to for years. We talk about how the Trade Journal Cooperative got started it, how Tim *secretly* went to law school, and several other projects Tim is working on including an academic journal dedicated to bizarre images of Mark Zuckerberg. Thought that was all? That’s not all. Also using bots to wage information wars on social media, and Tim’s book which predict...
Solocast #2 - Web3 by a Winter Fire
January 04, 2022 09:30 - 44 minutesThis week’s podcast is my second SoloCast, and during the episode, I share my thoughts and some predictions on the potential impacts and implementations of web3. The blockchain can be basically defined as a cryptographic breakthrough that allows for openness but with very careful editing permissions. While web1 resulted in costless publication and web2 in costless communication, web3 allows for costless transactions. This will likely increase the number of transactions we make. Web3 can also ...
#022 Solocast #2 - Web3 by a Winter Fire
January 04, 2022 09:30 - 44 minutesThis week’s podcast is my second SoloCast, and during the episode, I share my thoughts and some predictions on the potential impacts and implementations of web3. The blockchain can be basically defined as a cryptographic breakthrough that allows for openness but with very careful editing permissions. While web1 resulted in costless publication and web2 in costless communication, web3 allows for costless transactions. This will likely increase the number of transactions we make. Web3 can also ...
Track Zach Marshall #2: Focusing on customers, building MVPs, and creating trust as a new startup.
December 28, 2021 09:30 - 1 hourWelcome to the second episode of Track Zach, a series of quarterly podcast episodes in which we will be following Zach’s journey as he starts and scales his private security marketplace, Conterra. We will check in on how the previous goals Zach set are going, hear about what he’s learned and how he’s pivoted, and see what he is looking to accomplish in the next quarter in the huge, fragmented, and heavily middle-manned $50 billion industry of private security. This quarter, Zach’s target was...
#021 Track Zach Marshall #2: Focusing on customers, building MVPs, and creating trust as a new startup.
December 28, 2021 09:30 - 1 hourWelcome to the second episode of Track Zach, a series of quarterly podcast episodes in which we will be following Zach’s journey as he starts and scales his private security marketplace, Conterra. We will check in on how the previous goals Zach set are going, hear about what he’s learned and how he’s pivoted, and see what he is looking to accomplish in the next quarter in the huge, fragmented, and heavily middle-manned $50 billion industry of private security. This quarter, Zach’s target was...
#020 Chris Powers: Starting A Real Estate Empire at 17, Focus, Podcast Flywheels
December 21, 2021 09:30 - 1 hourIn the last episode, we discussed alternative assets, and in this episode, we take a deep dive into the career of Chris Powers, the master of one specific alternative asset: real estate. Chris began his real estate career when he was just 17 years old and has spent the last 17 years building Fort Capital, a real estate firm in Fort Worth, Texas. Chris was a hungry 17-year-old, just showed up at college, bought his first house with no money down in 2004. By the time he left college, he had 12 ...
Chris Powers: Starting A Real Estate Empire at 17, Focus, Podcast Flywheels
December 21, 2021 09:30 - 1 hourIn the last episode, we discussed alternative assets, and in this episode, we take a deep dive into the career of Chris Powers, the master of one specific alternative asset: real estate. Chris began his real estate career when he was just 17 years old and has spent the last 17 years building Fort Capital, a real estate firm in Fort Worth, Texas. Chris was a hungry 17-year-old, just showed up at college, bought his first house with no money down in 2004. By the time he left college, he had 12 ...
Phil Huber: Crazy Alternative Assets, Crypto for Financial Advisors & the Book Writing
December 14, 2021 09:30 - 1 hourIn this week’s episode, I talk with Phil Huber, the Chief Investment Officer at Savant Wealth Management and author of the new book The Allocator’s Edge. This episode does not include financial advice.* Rather, we talk about the advice Phil gives other people about their finances and the book he wrote about financial advice. We begin the episode with a discussion about financial advising and what goes into becoming a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and a CFP (Certified Financial Planner). W...
#019 Phil Huber: Crazy Alternative Assets, Crypto for Financial Advisors & the Book Writing
December 14, 2021 09:30 - 1 hourIn this week’s episode, I talk with Phil Huber, the Chief Investment Officer at Savant Wealth Management and author of the new book The Allocator’s Edge. This episode does not include financial advice.* Rather, we talk about the advice Phil gives other people about their finances and the book he wrote about financial advice. We begin the episode with a discussion about financial advising and what goes into becoming a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and a CFP (Certified Financial Planner). W...
#018 Bram Kanstein: Effing around on the internet - MicroStartups, Crypto/NFT’s & Course Building.
December 07, 2021 09:30 - 1 hourBram Kanstein has become a professional at fucking around on the internet. He has built dozens of products, three of which he successfully sold, and he previously spent time working for a VC and Product Hunt. We dive right into talking about Startup Stash, which is listed as the number one product on Product Hunt. Startup Stash is described as a curated directory of resources and tools for startups. Two years after launching and going viral, he sold the micro product for Ethereum. He also dis...
Bram Kanstein: Effing around on the internet - MicroStartups, Crypto/NFT’s & Course Building.
December 07, 2021 09:30 - 1 hourBram Kanstein has become a professional at fucking around on the internet. He has built dozens of products, three of which he successfully sold, and he previously spent time working for a VC and Product Hunt. We dive right into talking about Startup Stash, which is listed as the number one product on Product Hunt. Startup Stash is described as a curated directory of resources and tools for startups. Two years after launching and going viral, he sold the micro product for Ethereum. He also dis...
Chris Sparks: High-stakes Poker, the training regimen of a world-class mental athlete, and coaching the top 0.01%
November 30, 2021 08:02 - 1 hourChris says he isn’t the best poker player in the world, but he may be the most profitable. Pro poker player Chris Sparks is training for the highest-stakes tournament he has ever played in after a long sabbatical. He says he has already decided he is going to win, and now he is doing the necessary things to create that outcome. What is the dynamic amongst poker friends? Chris says “frenemies” – all bets are off when the cards are on the table. Chris only plays when he expects to make money, ...
#017 Chris Sparks: High-stakes Poker, the training regimen of a world-class mental athlete, and coaching the top 0.01%
November 30, 2021 08:02 - 1 hourChris says he isn’t the best poker player in the world, but he may be the most profitable. Pro poker player Chris Sparks is training for the highest-stakes tournament he has ever played in after a long sabbatical. He says he has already decided he is going to win, and now he is doing the necessary things to create that outcome. What is the dynamic amongst poker friends? Chris says “frenemies” – all bets are off when the cards are on the table. Chris only plays when he expects to make money, ...
Kevin Espiritu: Bootstrapping Epic Gardening to 8 figures by mixing Media + D2C Biz models. Oh and Poker, Pink Pineapples, and Male Models
November 23, 2021 09:30 - 1 hourThis week’s guest is my friend, Kevin Espiritu. Kevin is the founder of Epic Gardening, the world’s biggest gardening education platform. We became good friends over the internet--Kevin and I talked about the trend of parasocial relationships and how you can get to know someone despite having little to no in-person interaction. We talked about how Kevin transitioned from making a living out of playing poker, to building websites, to marketing and blogging, and finally, working full-time on Ep...
#016 Kevin Espiritu: Bootstrapping Epic Gardening to 8 figures by mixing Media + D2C Biz models. Oh and Poker, Pink Pineapples, and Male Models
November 23, 2021 09:30 - 1 hourThis week’s guest is my friend, Kevin Espiritu. Kevin is the founder of Epic Gardening, the world’s biggest gardening education platform. We became good friends over the internet--Kevin and I talked about the trend of parasocial relationships and how you can get to know someone despite having little to no in-person interaction. We talked about how Kevin transitioned from making a living out of playing poker, to building websites, to marketing and blogging, and finally, working full-time on Ep...
David Perell: Intellectual Openness, Mental Models for Success, and Peculiar Ways of Looking at The World
November 16, 2021 09:30 - 1 hourThis week’s guest is David Perell. David is a creator, a writer, and a teacher at his massively successful online writing course, called Write of Passage. The success of his course gave me inspiration for my own course, and gives me fundamental optimism about the future of education. David and I have been friends for years, so this is less of an interview and more of a one-sided hang-session, where I get the pleasure of drawing out new ideas and experiences from David that I haven’t heard bef...
#015 David Perell: Intellectual Openness, Mental Models for Success, and Peculiar Ways of Looking at The World
November 16, 2021 09:30 - 1 hourThis week’s guest is David Perell. David is a creator, a writer, and a teacher at his massively successful online writing course, called Write of Passage. The success of his course gave me inspiration for my own course, and gives me fundamental optimism about the future of education. David and I have been friends for years, so this is less of an interview and more of a one-sided hang-session, where I get the pleasure of drawing out new ideas and experiences from David that I haven’t heard bef...
#014 Dan Reecer: What Is Polkadot And Why It’s The Future of Web3
November 09, 2021 09:30 - 1 hourToday, my guest is Dan Reecer. Dan joined the crypto world 3 years ago instead of going to get his MBA, and is now VP of Growth for Acala, the Defi Network launching soon on the Polkadot Blockchain Platform. Don’t worry, all of those words get explained in the podcast. In this conversation, I try to bring us all (myself included) from basics to applications of blockchain, and help us all see around the next few corners we’ll all go through together over the next decade. We talk about: Dan’s ...
Dan Reecer: What Is Polkadot And Why It’s The Future of Web3
November 09, 2021 09:30 - 1 hourToday, my guest is Dan Reecer. Dan joined the crypto world 3 years ago instead of going to get his MBA, and is now VP of Growth for Acala, the Defi Network launching soon on the Polkadot Blockchain Platform. Don’t worry, all of those words get explained in the podcast. In this conversation, I try to bring us all (myself included) from basics to applications of blockchain, and help us all see around the next few corners we’ll all go through together over the next decade. We talk about: Dan’s ...
Cliff Kuang: Optimizing User Interface And The Massive Opportunities Within Design
November 02, 2021 08:30 - 1 hourToday my guest is Cliff Kuang, author of a fantastic book called User Friendly: How The Hidden Rules of Design are Reshaping The Way We Live, Work, and Play, which was called a "tour de force" by the New York Times. He was the Design editor of Fast Company, and Editor at Wired Magazine. From there he went on to work at Google as a Senior Staff Designer on an innovations team. Cliff is obsessive about the deepest challenges facing UX design today such as the metaphors that undergird what we do...
#013 Cliff Kuang: Optimizing User Interface And The Massive Opportunities Within Design
November 02, 2021 08:30 - 1 hourToday my guest is Cliff Kuang, author of a fantastic book called User Friendly: How The Hidden Rules of Design are Reshaping The Way We Live, Work, and Play, which was called a "tour de force" by the New York Times. He was the Design editor of Fast Company, and Editor at Wired Magazine. From there he went on to work at Google as a Senior Staff Designer on an innovations team. Cliff is obsessive about the deepest challenges facing UX design today such as the metaphors that undergird what we do...
#012 Mitchell Baldridge: Defeating Taxes, Financial Planning, and Flipping A Bored Ape NFT for $250k
October 26, 2021 08:30 - 1 hourMitchell Baldridge is an accountant and financial planner who also identifies as a libertarian anarchist crypto-degenerate. We talk through the creation of his firm, everything financial planning entails, and how he flipped a Bored Ape NFT for $250k. A little something for everyone today! Mitchell can’t be everyone’s personal planner and accountant, (though he is mine and I’m very grateful for that!) but he offers expertise that can help anyone. Taxes are likely your single largest expense ov...
Mitchell Baldridge: Defeating Taxes, Financial Planning, and Flipping A Bored Ape NFT for $250k
October 26, 2021 08:30 - 1 hourMitchell Baldridge is an accountant and financial planner who also identifies as a libertarian anarchist crypto-degenerate. We talk through the creation of his firm, everything financial planning entails, and how he flipped a Bored Ape NFT for $250k. A little something for everyone today! Mitchell can’t be everyone’s personal planner and accountant, (though he is mine and I’m very grateful for that!) but he offers expertise that can help anyone. Taxes are likely your single largest expense ov...
Eric Jorgenson: Metagames, Feedback Loops and Transcending The Muggle World
October 19, 2021 08:30 - 57 minutesJust me and you today, dear listener -- and I’m going to talk through some ideas that have been fascinating me recently, weaving together authors like Rory Sutherland, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Nassim Taleb. As I reviewed my highlights from books, blogs and articles that I’ve been collecting over the past 10 years the main ideas that jumped out at me are playing the metagame and feedback loops. Both of these are ways to transcend the muggle world and start playing a different game. I hope you e...
#011 Eric Jorgenson: Metagames, Feedback Loops and Transcending The Muggle World
October 19, 2021 08:30 - 57 minutesJust me and you today, dear listener -- and I’m going to talk through some ideas that have been fascinating me recently, weaving together authors like Rory Sutherland, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Nassim Taleb. As I reviewed my highlights from books, blogs and articles that I’ve been collecting over the past 10 years the main ideas that jumped out at me are playing the metagame and feedback loops. Both of these are ways to transcend the muggle world and start playing a different game. I hope you e...
#010 Codie Sanchez: Learning Leverage From Drug Cartels, Vanguard, And Goldman Sachs
October 12, 2021 08:30 - 1 hourCodie Sanchez has been a journalist embedded with cartels, worked fancy-pants finance jobs at Goldman Sachs and Vanguard, and now -- she is an independent investor and entrepreneur. She owns a direct interest in FORTY FIVE businesses, with more than 25 cash flows. Codie’s interests include boring businesses (like laundromats and property managers), online media companies, and service businesses. You’ll hear us drop “leverage” a few times in this interview, and though it wasn’t what I’d planne...
Codie Sanchez: Learning Leverage From Drug Cartels, Vanguard, And Goldman Sachs
October 12, 2021 08:30 - 1 hourCodie Sanchez has been a journalist embedded with cartels, worked fancy-pants finance jobs at Goldman Sachs and Vanguard, and now -- she is an independent investor and entrepreneur. She owns a direct interest in FORTY FIVE businesses, with more than 25 cash flows. Codie’s interests include boring businesses (like laundromats and property managers), online media companies, and service businesses. You’ll hear us drop “leverage” a few times in this interview, and though it wasn’t what I’d planne...
Track Zach Marshall Vol 1: From Navy SEAL To Marketplace Founder -- Future of Private Security
October 05, 2021 08:30 - 1 hourToday, we’re kicking off a new long-term segment, called Track Zach -- my buddy Zach Marshall just founded a company called Conterra, and is about 3 months into the journey. I plan to have a conversation with him every 3 months or so to get a real-time, much more honest, interesting look at startup life. Zach, now in his second career after the Navy SEALs, is setting his considerable will against a new challenge -- starting a venture-backed company to fix today’s outdated, broken system for h...
#009 Track Zach Marshall Vol 1: From Navy SEAL To Marketplace Founder -- Future of Private Security
October 05, 2021 08:30 - 1 hourToday, we’re kicking off a new long-term segment, called Track Zach -- my buddy Zach Marshall just founded a company called Conterra, and is about 3 months into the journey. I plan to have a conversation with him every 3 months or so to get a real-time, much more honest, interesting look at startup life. Zach, now in his second career after the Navy SEALs, is setting his considerable will against a new challenge -- starting a venture-backed company to fix today’s outdated, broken system for h...