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  • 82. Building World-Class Athletes with Jamie Smith

    David speaks with Jamie Smith, founder and Head Sports Preparation coach of The U of Strength.

    They talked about:

    🌦️ Impact of Climate on Sports Performance

    🌍 Environment’s effects on athlete development

    🤸 Effects of early sports specialisation

    🤕 Dealing with injuries and burnout in sports

    🏀 Coaching and mindset in sports

    🧠 How the athlete's psychology affects longevity


    📜Full transcript:

    https://theknowledge.io/jamiesmith-1/


    📹 Watch on Youtube:

    https://youtu.be/cnEbofENAx8


    👤 Connect with Jamie:

    Twitter: @TheUofStrength | https://twitter.com/theuofstrength

    Ebooks: Agility 3.0, Gameplay 3.0, Speed Toolbox 2.0 | https://www.theuofstrength.com/store/c6/Digital_Education.html


    🗣 Mentioned in the show:

    The U of Strength | https://www.theuofstrength.com/

    The Constraints-Led Approach | https://amzn.to/4aY3CLB

    Luka Dončić | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luka_Dončić

    Nikola Jokić | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Jokić

    Jusuf Nurkić | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jusuf_Nurkić

    Ben Simmons | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Simmons

    Dynamical systems theory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical_systems_theory

    David Epstein | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Epstein_(journalist)

    Range | https://amzn.to/4aY3A6r

    Kawhi Leonard | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawhi_Leonard

    Michael Jordan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan

    LeBron James | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James

    Draymond Green | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draymond_Green

    Kevin Durant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Durant

    Zion Williamson | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion_Williamson


    👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

    David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist, and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people think deeper and work smarter.

    🐣 Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge

    🌐 Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com

    📽️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/davidelikwu

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delikwu/

    🕺 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@delikwu

    🎙️ Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

    📖 EBook: https://delikwu.gumroad.com/l/manual

    My Online Course

    🖥️ Career Hyperdrive: https://maven.com/theknowledge/career-hyperdrive

    Career Hyperdrive is a live, cohort-based course that helps people find their competitive advantage, gain clarity around their goals and build a future-proof set of mental frameworks so they can live an extraordinary life doing work they love.

    The Knowledge

    📩 Newsletter: https://newsletter.theknowledge.io/

    The Knowledge is a weekly newsletter for people who want to get more out of life. It's full of insights from psychology, philosophy, productivity, and business, all designed to help you think deeper and work smarter.

    My Favorite Tools

    🎞️ Descript: https://bit.ly/descript-de

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    39 min
  • 81. Skill Stacks and Career Evolution with Taylor Pearson

    David speaks with Taylor Pearson, an entrepreneur and author of The End of Jobs.

    They talked about:

    🚀 Deciding not to pursue law

    ⚠️ The trap of traditional career paths

    🤐 The silent risk of staying in a job too long

    📊 The concept of a personal balance sheet

    🌍 Experiencing different cultures

    🌱 How living abroad affects personal growth

    🛠️ How to build a skill stack

    📘 The journey to publishing 'The End of Jobs'


    📜Full transcript:

    https://theknowledge.io/taylorpearson-1/


    📹 Watch on Youtube:

    https://youtu.be/y7PV1izTMIs


    👤 Connect with Taylor:

    Twitter: @TaylorPearsonMe | https://twitter.com/TaylorPearsonMe

    Newsletter: The Interesting Times | https://taylorpearson.me/newsletter/


    🗣 Mentioned in the show:

    The End of Jobs | https://amzn.to/41MVNUU

    Paul Graham | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)

    Paul Millerd | https://theknowledge.io/paulmillerd/

    The Pathless Path | https://amzn.to/3NOb2ak

    Nassim Taleb | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb

    Fooled by Randomness | https://amzn.to/3tKBgDV

    The Black Swan | https://amzn.to/41KSYnm

    Anti-Fragile | https://amzn.to/3S8BWfQ

    David Foster Wallace | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace

    Optimize for Interesting | https://taylorpearson.me/interesting/

    Eric Jorgenson | https://theknowledge.io/ericjorgenson-3/

    Naval Ravikant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Ravikant

    Flatland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland


    👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

    David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist, and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people think deeper and work smarter.

    🐣 Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge

    🌐 Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com

    📽️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/davidelikwu

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delikwu/

    🕺 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@delikwu

    🎙️ Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

    📖 EBook: https://delikwu.gumroad.com/l/manual

    My Online Course

    🖥️ Career Hyperdrive: https://maven.com/theknowledge/career-hyperdrive

    Career Hyperdrive is a live, cohort-based course that helps people find their competitive advantage, gain clarity around their goals and build a future-proof set of mental frameworks so they can live an extraordinary life doing work they love.

    The Knowledge

    📩 Newsletter: https://newsletter.theknowledge.io/

    The Knowledge is a weekly newsletter for people who want to get more out of life. It's full of insights from psychology, philosophy, productivity, and business, all designed to help you think deeper and work smarter.

    My Favorite Tools

    🎞️ Descript: https://bit.ly/descript-de

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    46 min
  • 80. Leverage, Luck, and Happiness with Eric Jorgenson

    David speaks with Eric Jorgenson, the CEO of Scribe Media. He also has a rolling fund investing in pre-seed and seed-stage tech companies, and is the author of two books: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness; and The Anthology of Balaji.

    They talked about:

    🤓 Working smarter, not harder

    🚀 How leverage helps achieve success

    ⚠️ Risks of leverage

    🍀 The four types of luck

    💰 Relationship between wealth and happiness

    😊 Happiness as a skill

    This is just one part of a longer conversation, and it's the third part. You can listen to the earlier episode here:

    Part 1: 🎙️Upgrade your thinking with Eric Jorgenson (Episode 73)

    Part 2: 🎙️Techno-optimism and The Anthology of Balaji with Eric Jorgenson (Episode 76)


    📜Full transcript:

    https://theknowledge.io/ericjorgenson-3/


    📹 Watch on Youtube:

    https://youtu.be/rBQAOFNacYg


    👤 Connect with Eric:

    Twitter: @EricJorgenson | https://twitter.com/EricJorgenson

    Website: Scribe Media | https://scribemedia.com/

    Books: The Anthology of Balaji | https://amzn.to/45UjFqe

    The Almanack of Naval Ravikant | https://amzn.to/47g7ncy


    🗣 Mentioned in the show:

    Naval Ravikant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Ravikant

    Balaji Srinivasan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaji_Srinivasan

    Steve Jobs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

    Oprah Winfrey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey

    J. K. Rowling | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling

    The Joe Rogan Experience | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joe_Rogan_Experience

    Warren Buffett | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett

    Paul Graham | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)

    Superlinear returns | http://www.paulgraham.com/superlinear.html

    Elon Musk | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

    Building a Mountain of Levers | https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage

    Six Degrees of Separation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

    Luke Burgis | https://lukeburgis.com/

    Wanting | https://amzn.to/3v3iub0

    Buy the Future while it's Cheap Now | https://www.nairaland.com/6768049/buy-future-while-cheap-now

    Alexander Graham Bell | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell

    Charlie Munger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Munger

    Paul Kaufman | https://www.umassmed.edu/mccb/faculty-MCCB/faculty-MCCB/faculty-profile-pages/kaufman-paul/

    David Kadavy | https://theknowledge.io/davidkadavy/

    René Girard | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Girard

    AngelList | https://www.angellist.com/

    Lex Fridman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Fridman

    Jared Kushner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kushner


    👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

    David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist, and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people think deeper and work smarter.

    🐣 Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge

    🌐 Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com

    📽️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/davidelikwu

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delikwu/

    🕺 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@delikwu

    🎙️ Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

    📖 EBook: https://delikwu.gumroad.com/l/manual

    My Online Course

    🖥️ Career Hyperdrive: https://maven.com/theknowledge/career-hyperdrive

    Career Hyperdrive is a live, cohort-based course that helps people find their competitive advantage, gain clarity around their goals and build a future-proof set of mental frameworks so they can live an extraordinary life doing work they love.

    The Knowledge

    📩 Newsletter: https://newsletter.theknowledge.io/

    The Knowledge is a weekly newsletter for people who want to get more out of life. It's full of insights from psychology, philosophy, productivity, and business, all designed to help you think deeper and work smarter.

    My Favorite Tools

    🎞️ Descript: https://bit.ly/descript-de

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    37 min
  • 79. Building Enduring Digital Companies with Sondre Rasch

    David speaks with Sondre Rasch, Co-founder and CEO of SafetyWing, a global social safety net for remote workers and companies.

    They talked about:

    🌐 Conceptualizing digital countries

    💼 Sondre's early entrepreneurial experience

    🌱 Formative experiences and aspirations

    🎯 Choosing the right problems to solve

    🤔 Exploring intuition and judgement in decision-making

    🚀 Journey of building two YC-backed companies


    📹 Watch on Youtube:

    https://youtu.be/6Y4wf4Dtoyg


    📜Full transcript:

    https://theknowledge.io/sondrerasch-1/


    👤 Connect with Sondre:

    Twitter: @SRasch | https://twitter.com/SRasch

    Website: Safety Wing | https://safetywing.com/


    🗣 Mentioned in the show:

    Lauren Razavi | https://theknowledge.io/laurenrazavi-2/

    Balaji Srinivasan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaji_Srinivasan

    Safety Wing | https://safetywing.com/

    Plumia | https://plumia.org/

    Superside | https://www.superside.com/

    NFT | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token

    COI | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COI

    Ethereum | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum

    Eliezer Yudkowsky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky

    Robin Hanson | https://theknowledge.io/robinhanson-1/


    👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

    David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist, and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people think deeper and work smarter.

    🐣 Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge

    🌐 Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com

    📽️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/davidelikwu

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delikwu/

    🕺 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@delikwu

    🎙️ Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

    📖 EBook: https://delikwu.gumroad.com/l/manual

    My Online Course

    🖥️ Career Hyperdrive: https://maven.com/theknowledge/career-hyperdrive

    Career Hyperdrive is a live, cohort-based course that helps people find their competitive advantage, gain clarity around their goals and build a future-proof set of mental frameworks so they can live an extraordinary life doing work they love.

    The Knowledge

    📩 Newsletter: https://newsletter.theknowledge.io/

    The Knowledge is a weekly newsletter for people who want to get more out of life. It's full of insights from psychology, philosophy, productivity, and business, all designed to help you think deeper and work smarter.

    My Favorite Tools

    🎞️ Descript: https://bit.ly/descript-de

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    34 min
  • 78. Business Finance, Failure, and Friends with Brandon Pindulic

    David speaks with Brandon Pindulic, President of Spacebar Ventures, a digital business incubator and investment firm. He also previously founded OpGen Media.

    They talked about:

    🔍 Reviewing business decisions

    🤝 The role of trust in business operations

    💼 Building a personal holding company

    💰 Business success on personal finances

    🚫 Avoiding mistakes in decision-making

    🌟 Challenges and potential costs of success

    🤝 Surrounding yourself with successful people

    This is just one part of a longer conversation, and it's the second part. You can listen to the earlier episode here:

    Part 1: 🎙️Building, Buying, and Scaling Businesses with Brandon Pindulic (Episode 75)


    📹 Watch on Youtube

    https://youtu.be/MBVH5Stgxmc


    📜Full transcript:

    https://www.theknowledge.io/brandonpindulic-2/


    👤 Connect with Brandon:

    Twitter: @bpindulic | https://twitter.com/BPindulic

    Website: Spacebar Ventures | http://spacebarventures.com/

    Subscribed | https://www.subscribed.net/


    🗣 Mentioned in the show:

    Subscribed | https://www.subscribed.net/

    Hot hand fallacy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_hand

    Pardon | https://www.pardon.com/

    Optimism | https://www.optimism.com/

    Hermes Robotics | http://hermes-robotics.com/

    Rick Guerin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Guerin

    Warren Buffet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett

    Charlie Munger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Munger

    The cost of being King | https://www.theknowledge.io/the-cost-of-being-king-why-all-the-tech-bros-are-single/

    Jeff Bezos | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos

    Elon Musk | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

    Proof HQ | https://business.adobe.com/products/workfront/proofhq.html


    👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

    David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist, and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people think deeper and work smarter.

    🐣 Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge

    🌐 Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com

    📽️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/davidelikwu

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delikwu/

    🕺 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@delikwu

    🎙️ Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

    📖 EBook: https://delikwu.gumroad.com/l/manual

    My Online Course

    🖥️ Career Hyperdrive: https://maven.com/theknowledge/career-hyperdrive

    Career Hyperdrive is a live, cohort-based course that helps people find their competitive advantage, gain clarity around their goals and build a future-proof set of mental frameworks so they can live an extraordinary life doing work they love.

    The Knowledge

    📩 Newsletter: https://newsletter.theknowledge.io/

    The Knowledge is a weekly newsletter for people who want to get more out of life. It's full of insights from psychology, philosophy, productivity, and business, all designed to help you think deeper and work smarter.

    My Favorite Tools

    🎞️ Descript: https://bit.ly/descript-de

    📨 Convertkit: https://bit.ly/convertkit-de

    🔰 NordVPN: https://bit.ly/nordvpn-de

    💹 Nutmeg: http://bit.ly/nutmegde

    🎧 Audible: https://bit.ly/audiblede

    35 min
  • 77. Scaling Newsletters and Building Audiences with Josh Spector

    David speaks with Josh Spector, a newsletter publisher and an audience and business growth strategist.

    Josh helps creative entrepreneurs to grow their audience and businesses and he also writes a great newsletter called For The Interested.

    They talked about:

    🎬 Josh’s early days in the entertainment industry

    📺 Traditional media and digital media

    💡 How to think about the value of your creations

    🚀 The importance of starting things and taking action

    📧 Building a newsletter from scratch

    🤔 Setting the right intentions to build an audience

    This is just one part of a longer conversation. You can listen to the earlier episode here:

    Part 1: 🎙Creative Entrepreneurs Playbook with Josh Spector (Episode 41)


    📜Full transcript:

    https://www.theknowledge.io/joshspector-1/


    📹 Watch on Youtube

    https://youtu.be/vZcitcFZ6N8


    👤 Connect with Josh:

    Twitter: @jspector | https://twitter.com/jspector

    Website: http://joshspector.com/

    Newsletter: https://fortheinterested.com/subscribe/


    🗣 Mentioned in the show:

    For The interested | https://fortheinterested.com/subscribe

    Substack | https://substack.com/


    👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

    David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist, and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people think deeper and work smarter.

    🐣 Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge

    🌐 Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com

    📽️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/davidelikwu

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delikwu/

    🕺 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@delikwu

    🎙️ Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

    📖 EBook: https://delikwu.gumroad.com/l/manual

    My Online Course

    🖥️ Career Hyperdrive: https://maven.com/theknowledge/career-hyperdrive

    Career Hyperdrive is a live, cohort-based course that helps people find their competitive advantage, gain clarity around their goals and build a future-proof set of mental frameworks so they can live an extraordinary life doing work they love.

    The Knowledge

    📩 Newsletter: https://theknowledge.io

    The Knowledge is a weekly newsletter for people who want to get more out of life. It's full of insights from psychology, philosophy, productivity, and business, all designed to help you think deeper and work smarter.

    My Favorite Tools

    🎞️ Descript: https://bit.ly/descript-de

    📨 Convertkit: https://bit.ly/convertkit-de

    🔰 NordVPN: https://bit.ly/nordvpn-de

    💹 Nutmeg: http://bit.ly/nutmegde

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    34 min
  • 76. Techno-optimism and The Anthology of Balaji with Eric Jorgenson

    David speaks with Eric Jorgenson, the CEO of Scribe Media. He also has a rolling fund investing in pre-seed and seed-stage tech companies, and is the author of two books: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness; and The Anthology of Balaji.

    They talked about:

    📚 Impact of Naval and Balaji's books

    👤 How Balaji Srinivasan became a polymath

    💻 The power of technology and truth

    🔗 Intersection of technology and media

    🌐 The West’s media and technology war with China

    💰 The challenges of funding innovative ventures

    🚀 A techno-optimist future

    🤔 Different types of truth

    This is just one part of a longer conversation, and it's the second part. You can listen to the earlier episode here:

    Part 1: Upgrade your thinking with Eric Jorgenson (Episode 73)


    📹 Watch on Youtube

    https://youtu.be/BkdKIfZuzYk


    📜Full transcript:

    https://www.theknowledge.io/ericjorgenson-2/


    👤 Connect with Eric:

    Twitter: @EricJorgenson | https://twitter.com/EricJorgenson

    Website: Scribe Media | https://scribemedia.com/

    Books: The Anthology of Balaji | https://amzn.to/45UjFqe

    The Almanack of Naval Ravikant | https://amzn.to/47g7ncy


    🗣 Mentioned in the show:

    Naval Ravikant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Ravikant

    Balaji Srinivasan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaji_Srinivasan

    Smart Friends | https://www.ejorgenson.com/podcast

    Chutzpah | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah

    Andreessen Horowitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreessen_Horowitz

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb

    Richard Feynman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

    J. Robert Oppenheimer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer

    Claude Shannon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon

    TikTok | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok

    Musical.ly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical.ly

    Vine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine

    Elon Musk | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

    SpaceX | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX

    Steve Jobs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

    Pixar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar

    David Friedberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Friedberg

    Cana | https://www.cana.com/

    The Power Law | https://amzn.to/3sJTZ1Q

    Sebastian Mallaby | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Mallaby

    Where Is My Flying Car? | https://amzn.to/3sKGPlf

    Bill Clinton | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton

    Mike Maples Jr | https://www.floodgate.com/team/mike-maples-jr


    👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

    David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist, and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people think deeper and work smarter.

    🐣 Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge

    🌐 Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com

    📽️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/davidelikwu

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delikwu/

    🕺 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@delikwu

    🎙️ Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

    📖 EBook: https://delikwu.gumroad.com/l/manual

    My Online Course

    🖥️ Career Hyperdrive: https://maven.com/theknowledge/career-hyperdrive

    Career Hyperdrive is a live, cohort-based course that helps people find their competitive advantage, gain clarity around their goals and build a future-proof set of mental frameworks so they can live an extraordinary life doing work they love.

    The Knowledge

    📩 Newsletter: https://newsletter.theknowledge.io/

    The Knowledge is a weekly newsletter for people who want to get more out of life. It's full of insights from psychology, philosophy, productivity, and business, all designed to help you think deeper and work smarter.

    My Favorite Tools

    🎞️ Descript: https://bit.ly/descript-de

    📨 Convertkit: https://bit.ly/convertkit-de

    🔰 NordVPN: https://bit.ly/nordvpn-de

    💹 Nutmeg: http://bit.ly/nutmegde

    🎧 Audible: https://bit.ly/audiblede

    52 min
  • 75. Building, Buying, and Scaling Businesses with Brandon Pindulic

    David speaks with Brandon Pindulic, President of Spacebar Ventures, a digital business incubator and investment firm. He also previously founded OpGen Media.


    They talked about:

    💼 Early business ventures and lessons

    🎓 Reflections on college and early career

    🏢 Building OpGen Media

    🤝 Landing big clients and growing the business

    🔄 Reflections on selling the first business

    🚫 Learning from failed business ventures

    🚀 The importance of going big in business

    ↔️ Making decisions as a founder, operator, and investor


    👤 Connect with Brandon:

    Twitter: @bpindulic | https://twitter.com/BPindulic

    Website: Spacebar Ventures | http://spacebarventures.com/

    Subscribed | https://www.subscribed.net/


    📹 Watch on Youtube

    https://youtu.be/pZ2aw88-p74


    📜Full transcript:

    https://www.theknowledge.io/brandonpindulic-1/


    🗣 Mentioned in the show:

    Spacebar Ventures | http://spacebarventures.com/

    JasBerry Chauffeur | https://nicholasanglin.myportfolio.com/

    Karmaloop | https://www.karmaloop.com/

    Wasabi Ventures | https://www.wasabivp.com/

    Proof HQ | https://business.adobe.com/products/workfront/proofhq.html

    Workfront | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workfront

    Adobe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe

    Oracle | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation

    Citrix | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrix_Systems

    DocuSign | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocuSign

    American Marketing Association | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Marketing_Association

    Master Service Agreement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_service_agreement

    Companion Ventures | https://companyon.vc/

    American Express | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Express

    Infor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infor

    Ziff Davis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziff_Davis

    Planet Compliance | https://www.planetcompliance.com/

    Regulatory technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_technology

    HubSpot | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HubSpot

    SAP | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP

    Salesforce | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce


    👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

    David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist, and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people think deeper and work smarter.

    🐣 Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge

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    41 min
  • 74. Self-deception and decision-making with Robin Hanson

    David speaks with Robin Hanson, an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and co-author of The Elephant in the Brain.

    They talked about:

    🕵️‍♂️ The hidden self-deception in our beliefs

    🤔 How to improve your thinking

    🙈 Hidden desires in social and economic policy

    🤵‍♂️ Experts, elites, and the institution reform

    🏢 Stratification in hiring and IQ bias

    🧠 Agency in decision-making

    🤖 AI bias and engineering constraints

    📏 How close are we to artificial general intelligence (AGI)


    📜Full transcript:

    https://www.theknowledge.io/robinhanson-1/


    📹 Watch on Youtube

    https://youtu.be/7yHEagad3AI


    👤 Connect with Robin:

    Twitter: @robinhanson | https://twitter.com/robinhanson

    Books: The Elephant in the Brain | https://amzn.to/3m5z7yR

    The Age of Em | https://amzn.to/3ZVIA9X


    🗣 Mentioned in the show:

    lephant in the Brain | https://amzn.to/3m5z7yR

    The Age of Em | https://amzn.to/3ZVIA9X

    Sadiq Khan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadiq_Khan

    Testing Tax Career Agents | https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/testing-tax-career-agentshtml

    Garrett Jones | https://www.theknowledge.io/garettjones/

    Fermi's famous question | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem

    Great Filter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

    Francis Fukuyama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Fukuyama

    The End of History and the Last Man | https://amzn.to/3Kxr86X

    Emil Durkheim | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émile_Durkheim

    Al Agnes Callard | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Callard

    Grabby Aliens | https://grabbyaliens.com/

    Google Glass | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass


    👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

    David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist, and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people think deeper and work smarter.

    🐣 Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge

    🌐 Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com

    📽️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/davidelikwu

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delikwu/

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    My Online Course

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    Career Hyperdrive is a live, cohort-based course that helps people find their competitive advantage, gain clarity around their goals and build a future-proof set of mental frameworks so they can live an extraordinary life doing work they love.

    The Knowledge

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    48 min
  • 73. Upgrade your thinking with Eric Jorgenson

    David speaks with Eric Jorgenson, the CEO of Scribe Media. Scribe is the first, biggest, and best professional publisher. He is also an Angel investor and entrepreneur. He launched his rolling fund on AngelList, a rolling fund investing in pre-seed and seed-stage tech companies.

    He authored the books The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness; and The Anthology of Balaji.

    They talked about:

    🤔 Why some people never change

    🧠 How your beliefs shape your outcomes

    🚀 Naval’s immigrant superpower

    🤖 NPC behaviours and bundled beliefs

    ❓ Why you should question your assumptions

    🤝 Avoiding bias and appreciating meritocracy

    📰 The challenges of media bias


    📹 Watch on Youtube

    https://youtu.be/a76ELXAizZA


    📜Full transcript:

    https://www.theknowledge.io/ericjorgenson-1/


    👤 Connect with Eric:

    Twitter: @EricJorgenson | https://twitter.com/EricJorgenson

    Website: Scribe Media | https://scribemedia.com/

    Books: The Anthology of Balaji | https://amzn.to/45UjFqe

    The Almanack of Naval Ravikant | https://amzn.to/47g7ncy


    🗣 Mentioned in the show:

    Paul Kaufman | https://www.ophth.wisc.edu/blog/people/paul-l-kaufman-md/

    David Kadavy | https://www.theknowledge.io/davidkadavy/

    Naval Ravikant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Ravikant

    Wanting | https://amzn.to/3Ms6sOe

    Luke Burgis | https://lukeburgis.com/

    René Girard | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Girard

    Charlie Munger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Munger

    Balaji Srinivasan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaji_Srinivasan

    Elon Musk | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

    AngelList | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngelList

    Lex Friedman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Fridman

    Jared Kushner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kushner

    Tim Ferriss show | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiYo14wylQw

    Warren Buffett | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett


    👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

    David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist, and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people think deeper and work smarter.

    🐣 Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge

    🌐 Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com

    📽️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/davidelikwu

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delikwu/

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    🎙️ Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

    📖 EBook: https://delikwu.gumroad.com/l/manual

    My Online Course

    🖥️ Career Hyperdrive: https://maven.com/theknowledge/career-hyperdrive

    Career Hyperdrive is a live, cohort-based course that helps people find their competitive advantage, gain clarity around their goals and build a future-proof set of mental frameworks so they can live an extraordinary life doing work they love.

    The Knowledge

    📩 Newsletter: newsletter.theknowledge.io

    The Knowledge is a newsletter for people who want to get more out of life. It's full of insights from psychology, philosophy, productivity, and business, all designed to help you think deeper and work smarter.

    My Favorite Tools

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    40 min

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