Podcast Notes Playlist: Business

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Podcast Notes Playlist: Business episodes

February 01, 2024 Robert Greene
Robert Greene is an author known for his books on strategy, power, mastery, and seduction. The 48 Laws of Power, perhaps Greene's most famous book, found a particularly passionate audience among rappers and musicians, as the book resonates with the challenges and dynamics of the music industry. After 50 Cent read it, he approached Greene and the two collaborated on The 50th Law. It’s been mentioned in songs by Jay Z, Kanye West, UGK, Central Cee, MF DOOM, and Drake.
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1 hr 52 min
February 01, 2024 #6 - Chris Dixon on Read Write Own
Read Write Own (readwriteown.com) is a new book by Chris Dixon, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and founder of the largest crypto fund in the world. It's an important work that is simultaneously the best crypto tutorial for newcomers and an accessible reference for experts. Balaji and Chris are long-time friends and worked together at a16z for years. Here they discuss Read Write Own and the state of crypto in 2024.
OUTLINE
00:20 - Chris Introduces Read Write Own
05:04 - Why Books Are Harder than Essays
11:40 - Overview of Read Write Own
18:01 - The 2000s: Open RSS vs Proprietary Social
25:32 - Every Protocol Now Gets Global State
31:42 - Web3 Versions of Web2 Apps
35:27 - Proprietary Networks Are Locking Down
38:47 - Crypto Subsidizes Creatives
42:53 - Virtual Goods and Online Status
44:13 - Own Usernames Like Domain Names
47:55 - What Digital Ownership Means
48:52 - Tech Giants' Power and User Leverage.
58:28 - Collaborative Storytelling
01:02:06 - Digital Identity with Web3
01:09:36 - Conclusion

VIDEO
YouTube: https://youtu.be/_nIQztk5KWY
SOCIAL
https://readwriteown.com
https://thenetworkstate.com/podcast
https://twitter.com/cdixon
https://twitter.com/balajis
1 hr 15 min
January 16, 2024 Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter with Marc & Ben
In this one-on-one conversation, Marc and Ben tackle the university system – what has certainly been a hot topic that’s been dominating the news over the past few months. As Marc states at the top of the episode, universities matter tremendously to our world, but they’re currently in a state of crisis.
Together, Ben and Marc take a “structural” look at higher education, delving deep into the twelve functions of the modern university. They also unpack the numerous challenges that universities face today – student debt and the replication crisis, among them.
They also discuss topics including DEI, student athlete admissions, accreditation, inflation, and much more.
As colleges face an existential threat that could have long lasting repercussions, how can we find ways to improve these institutions, while being open to new entrepreneurial opportunities in education?
1 hr 49 min
January 06, 2024 Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is a prominent entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer best known for his key role in the development of the early internet. In the early 90s, Marc co-created Mosaic, a pioneering web browser, while a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. In 1994, he founded Netscape, launching the popular Netscape Navigator browser. After selling Netscape to AOL in 1999 for $4.3 billion, Marc founded Opsware, selling it later for $1.6 billion. In 2009, he co-founded Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm that has backed, among others, Airbnb, Facebook, Instagram, and SpaceX. Known for his insights into technology, Marc's early work with Mosaic and Netscape significantly shaped the internet's growth, and his ongoing contributions continue to influence the tech industry.
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3 hr 13 min
January 05, 2024 TIP597: Darwin's Investing Lessons w/ Kyle Grieve
On today’s episode, Kyle shares the lessons he learned from reading What I Learned About Investing From Darwin by Pulak Prasad.
The book is authored by Pulak Prasad, an investor out of India who helps run Nalanda Capital. From 2007 to 2022, they compounded their capital at 19% per annum turning 1 rupee into 13.8 rupees during that time sample!! But more important than their track record is the unique ways they run their fund.
The book illuminates 3 key principles that Nalanda uses for its investing framework:
1. Avoid big risks.
2. Buy high-quality at a fair price.
3. Don’t be lazy – be very lazy.
To help readers understand why he invests this way he dives deep into many of Darwin’s principles to help you understand their potential power in investing.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00 - Intro
20:26 - What a cheetah can teach you about risk
24:33 - Why you should be more focused on risk than returns
25:40 - How things in nature and investing mostly stay the same
27:42 - Some interesting data on why great companies remain great, and poor companies remain mediocre
28:29 - What a Russian scientist can teach us about the power of focusing on one investing metric to help identify wonderful businesses
34:58 - The importance of robustness in nature, and why you should search for the same attribute in business
37:00 - How to identify businesses that can evolve in a fast-changing world and remain on top
43:01 - What guppies can teach us about honest and dishonest signaling
46:06 - Why we should prioritize the past over making bold predictions
48:11 - How to invest without ever doing a discounted cash flow ever again
51:05 - What bear teeth and finches can teach us about the importance of avoiding noise
55:20 - How to use the presence of noise as an opportunity to outperform
Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.
BOOKS AND RESOURCES
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1 hr 7 min
January 04, 2024 #407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI
Guillaume Verdon (aka Beff Jezos on Twitter) is a physicist, quantum computing researcher, and founder of e/acc (effective accelerationism) movement. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/guillaume-verdon-transcript

EPISODE LINKS:
Guillaume Verdon Twitter: https://twitter.com/GillVerd
Beff Jezos Twitter: https://twitter.com/BasedBeffJezos
Extropic: https://extropic.ai/
E/acc Blog: https://effectiveaccelerationism.substack.com/

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OUTLINE:
Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) - Introduction
(09:18) - Beff Jezos
(19:16) - Thermodynamics
(25:31) - Doxxing
(35:25) - Anonymous bots
(42:53) - Power
(45:24) - AI dangers
(48:56) - Building AGI
(57:09) - Merging with AI
(1:04:51) - p(doom)
(1:20:18) - Quantum machine learning
(1:33:36) - Quantum computer
(1:42:10) - Aliens
(1:46:59) - Quantum gravity
(1:52:20) - Kardashev scale
(1:54:12) - Effective accelerationism (e/acc)
(2:04:42) - Humor and memes
(2:07:48) - Jeff Bezos
(2:14:20) - Elon Musk
(2:20:50) - Extropic
(2:29:26) - Singularity and AGI
(2:33:24) - AI doomers
(2:34:49) - Effective altruism
(2:41:18) - Day in the life
(2:47:45) - Identity
(2:50:35) - Advice for young people
(2:52:37) - Mortality
(2:56:20) - Meaning of life
3 hr 1 min
December 31, 2023George Mack — The Game of Life (EP.195)
Infinite Loops
Key Takeaways
Viewing life as a video game can help you increase your agency
Don’t look for meaning; look for use
Resourcefulness is the defining characteristic of a high-agency person
“Pessimists sound smart, but optimists make money.” – Jim O’Shaughnessy
The Luck Razor: If you are between two opportunities, choose the one that will give you the potential to experience the greater amount of luck
The alpha is in all the things that the media ignores, but historians will study
If a person can extract all of your opinions based on just one of your opinions, then you might be a non-player character (NPC)
No matter how smart a person is, they cannot create a list of things that will never occur to them
Thinking that you are the genius in the midwit meme is the most midwit behavior possible

Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org

Writer, marketer, entrepreneur, and master of mental models, George Mack, returns to discuss the top 0.1% of ideas he’s ever come across, from treating life as a video game to spotting high-agency individuals.

Important Links:

George’s Twitter

The Lindy Library

Roy: A Life Well Lived (Rick and Morty)

How to Spot High Agency People

The Mack Meditation

What is ignored by the media — but will be studied by historians?

The Early-Late Razor

Show Notes:

Treating Life as a Video Game

Finding the Important Metrics

Embrace Momentum; Embrace Constraints

How to Spot High Agency People

How to Increase Your Agency

The Mack Meditation & Silence as Alpha

Why Pessimism vs Optimism is the Wrong Debate

The Future of Media

What is Ignored by the Media but will be Studied by Historians?

The Reddit to Facebook Continuum

George’s Most Midwit Opinion

Randomness & Feeding the Algorithm

How to Retain Curiosity

George as Emperor of the World

Books Mentioned:

The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (a Little) Craziness and (a Lot Of) Success in America; by John Gartner

Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine; by Derren Brown

What Works on Wall Street; by Jim O’Shaughnessy

The Secret; by Rhonda Byrne

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid; by Douglas Hofstadter

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World; by David Deutsch
1 hr 44 min
December 30, 2023 Ali Abdaal Went From $2.72 To $4.6M+ From YouTube… Here’s How
Episode 530: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk to Ali Abdaal about his most most-effective productivity tactics, how creators should run their channels like CEOs, and how he made $2M in one week.
No more small boy spreadsheets, build your business on the free HubSpot CRM: https://mfmpod.link/hrd
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(2:00) The Neil Patel fallacy
(7:30) Adventure framing the to-do list
(15:00) The hourglass technique
(17:00) YouTube creator CEOs
(22:00) $100k - $1M content side hustle
(27:00) The irresistible offer
(31:00) Challenging Ali's infinite game
(38:00) Rejection as an advantage
(48:00) Viral YouTube titles and thumbnails
(55:30) Distribution + product = $$$
(1:02:00) Prediction: $1b Twitter creator?
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Links:
• The 2-Hour Cocktail Party - http://tinyurl.com/4md6my4k
• DotCom Secrets - http://tinyurl.com/5n7dhddm
• Copywriting Secrets - http://tinyurl.com/a2zudjhc
• Voicepal - http://voicepal.me
• Rize - https://rize.io/
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com/
Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Free 2024 Goal-Setting Session - https://planfor2024.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Free 2024 Goal-Setting Session - https://planfor2024.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/
Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com/
Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.
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Other episodes you might enjoy:
• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits
• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future
• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto
• #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett
• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More
1 hr 14 min
December 24, 2023 The 2023 Milly Awards: Part 1
Episode 531: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) bring you…..The 2023 Milly Awards. Actors have the Oscars, musicians have the Grammy’s and what do business people have? They have The Milly Awards.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(2:30) Favorite MFM Guests of the Year
(10:30) Billies of the Year
(18:00) Biggest Change for 2024
(34:00) Person You'd Bet It All On
(40:30) Best Business for Someone Else to Do
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Links:
• Kevin Ryan’s episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cLWUCE02KE
• Sarah Moore’s episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF6zvTXimxY
• Connor Price’s episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4KFqL3z2fg
• Palmer Luckey’s episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBeosjr7PyY
• Jesse Itzler episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff1z3GUcfO8
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
• Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing
• Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/
• Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/
Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.
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Other episodes you might enjoy:
• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits
• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future
• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto
• #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett
• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates
• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More
54 min
December 22, 2023 When Weakness Turns Your Ego Up | A Simple Way To Measure Our Days
So it goes for ego. To the untrained eye, it can be mistaken for confidence. The person’s self-centeredness, their certainty, their entitlement—this seems like the way that only the most important and gifted person in the world could get away with acting. In reality, the person doesn’t feel that way inside at all. On the contrary, they feel very small. Nero, for instance, demanded that enormous audiences celebrate his greatness. This was also the same emperor who banished a poet from Rome for being too talented, and thus a threat.
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