Coburn Ventures Podcast

Growth and value are simply boxes we put around two giant categories. It’s helpful for marketing purposes, and for investment process. So what gives? Well, we have been in a period of disequilibrium for over 25 years, and that disequilibrium has skewed massively to growth. Let’s dig in on what this means for process.

The “study of the mind” is now mainstream, but why is this important, and how far ahead are corporations and advertisers?

This student mindedness conversation will help us take a step back, exploring an attitude or approach that can be highly personalized. But what is it? What does it look like in active practice? Pip and Brynne discuss what it is snd why it comes up so often so that you can identify what elements might be helpful to your process.

We continue with biologist Maria Souza on complex systems. In Part 1 we discussed resilience as a key property of complex systems. Now we examine the role of internal feedback loops in resilience and how to identify the lynchpins that could help change your system.

Biologist Maria Souza introduces us to the core properties of complex systems: how to identify a resilient system, and how understanding the property of resiliency — which is neither good nor bad in and of itself — can help us identify effective cultures.

An introduction into Stewart Brand’s pace layering model, from his work The Clock of the Long Now. Movement in this model leads to vast destruction or creation of market cap. We talk through how we identify where companies sit in the model, and when and why there might be movement.

Social psychologist Matt Wallaert offers his thinking on why identity is the most powerful force for behavior change, and how to be aware of it and use it to make better decisions.

Continuing on the topic of decision making, we walk through the data chain and how to use it to identify where you are in the process and to then make the conversion from one node to the next.

JC Herz guides us through risk avoidance vs. risk acceptance, resilience and fragility, and why your first step must be to identify and write down the answer to this question: what is your source of maximal regret?

We know investors are particularly prone to some common decision making biases. We start the discussion today on some of the tactics and tools to bring awareness of these biases to the forefront in order to ameliorate the problems they can stir up.