The Next Frontier Podcast

Formally launching the Where Stuff Comes From series of the Next Frontier Podcast with this short meditation and essay.

Antifragile: Things that Gain From Disorder (Book)

Thanks A Thousand: A Gratitude Journey (Book)

The Substance Of Civilization (Book)

The world is changing rapidly and dramatically. We are ALL witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces that we have not seen in modern human history (or possibly ever). The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing YOUR freedom and flourish as YOU lead the way into the Next Frontier. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with and support our tactical and strategic insights, please subscribe here.

*CORRECTION: In this episode we reference the “second industrial revolution”, when in fact we meant to reference the “fourth industrial revolution.”

A short solo riff giving clarity and focus as we explore the Next Frontier together and enter the new year.

Resources Mentioned & Other Links of Interest

The Fourth Turning (Book)

The Changing World Order (Book)

Russel Brand - The Great Reset: Conspiracy or Fact? (Video)

Joe Rogan On The Metaverse (Video)

Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Presentation (Personally I find this development creepy)

Elon Musk on AI (Video)

The Singularity Is Near (Book)

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The world is changing rapidly and dramatically. We are ALL witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces that we have not seen in modern human history (or possibly ever). The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing YOUR freedom and flourish as YOU lead the way into the Next Frontier. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with and support our tactical and strategic insights, please subscribe here.

CORRECTION: In this episode we reference the “second industrial revolution”, when in fact we meant to reference the “fourth industrial revolution.”

Ori Saar served in a wide range of innovation roles inside of the Israeli Defense Forces. This episode pairs well with our previous Defense Innovation episodes, #8 Brain ‘Beam’ Maue and #13 Prescott Pauling. We dive into Ori’s experience building innovation infrastructure for the Israeli Air Force and then for the Israeli Defense Force’s planning directorate. Next, Ori shares his take on what innovation really means and why defense innovation is so important. Since we recorded this episode around the time of the last round of the last round of substantial rocket fire from Gaza into Israel, Ori provided his unique perspective on how terrorist adoption of innovation and technology necessitates even more rapid and streamlined innovation processes. To wrap up, Ori shares reflections on his time in the IDF and his transition out of his military service.

DIY Drones

When Your Invention Becomes a Weapon

Hamas Underwater Drones Attacks

Iron Dome Missile Defense System

The Secret Plan of Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi: To Establish An Innovation Division

Inauguration of Shiloah Innovation Unit

Follow Ori on LinkedIn, here.

The world is changing rapidly and dramatically. We are ALL witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces that we have not seen in modern human history (or possibly ever). The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing YOUR freedom and flourish as YOU lead the way into the Next Frontier. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with and support our tactical and strategic insights, please subscribe here.

In this extremely timely episode, we sit down with Mike Howard, Chairman and CEO of Howard Midstream Energy Partners, to develop a deep understanding of where our energy comes from. Since we recorded this episode, the United States experienced a substantial cyberattack on of its largest fuel pipelines that should awaken the country and the world to the importance, criticality, and fragility of our energy stuff-chain. Scalable, reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy sources and infrastructure are critical to human flourishing, the modern high-tech economy, and our high-speed society. Throughout the conversation, we dive into what energy is, how oil and gas enable human flourishing, recent innovations in where we source our energy, and so much more.

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (Book)

How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom (Book)

Enlightenment Now (Book)

A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations (Book)

Energy and Civilization: A History (Book)

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (Book)

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Book)

Interactive map of pipelines in the United States

The Laws of Thermodynamics

About Our Guest

Howard Energy Partners on LinkedIn, here.

Howard Energy Partners Website, here.

The world is changing rapidly and dramatically. We are ALL witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces that we have not seen in modern human history (or possibly ever). The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing YOUR freedom and flourish as YOU lead the way into the Next Frontier. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with and support our tactical and strategic insights, please subscribe here.

Critical minerals are found in nearly every high-tech product we use today. For example, an iPhone is made of over 40 different elements found in dozens of different as-mined critical minerals (e.g. the rocks that come out of the ground). Right now the United States relies on our chief adversary, China, to supply nearly 100 of some of the most important critical minerals. Take for example, the rare earth metals, scandium, and graphite. In this episode I explore a key component of achieving American Minerals Independence: opening new mines for critical minerals. To do this, I sat down with Pini Althaus, CEO of USA Rare Earths. Pini is a mining executive with decades of experience capitalizing and setting up new mining operations. USA Rare Earths is building an integrated mine to magnet rare earth supply chain located fully in the United States.

Critical Minerals Blog #1

Critical Minerals Blog #2 - Rare Earth Supply Chain Disruptions

USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries

Groundbreaking!: America's New Quest for Mineral Independence (Book)

Covid and Rare Earths

What are NEO Magnets?

Matthew Mcguahnehy GOLD Movie

Colorado School of Mines

Pini on LinkedIn, here.

USA Rare Earths on LinkedIn, here.

The world is changing rapidly and dramatically. We are ALL witnessing a collision of economic, political, technological, social, cultural, spiritual, and other powerful forces that we have not seen in modern human history (or possibly ever). The Next Frontier Podcast is THE forum to help you explore, converse, and learn about how our current frontier is evolving and how the next frontier is taking shape. From pro-freedom innovation resources and technology to rethinking where stuff comes from, we are driven to give you the ideas, tools, and information that are fundamental to maximizing YOUR freedom and flourish as YOU lead the way into the Next Frontier. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with and support our tactical and strategic insights, please subscribe here.

Right now, the most important geopolitical competition since World War II, is unfolding between China and the United States. As a result, we need to start to ask Where Does Our Stuff Come From? Asking this question and building an understanding of this great power competition is essential to safeguarding our most important innovation resource: our ability to actually produce stuff. In this episode, we explore some of the high-level strategic moves that are unfolding right under our noses in the ongoing cold-war between the United States and China, and the implications that these moves have for entrepreneurs, industrialists, and innovators. To do this, we talk to Namrata Goswami, an author, strategic analyst and consultant on Great Power Politics, Space Policy, Alternate Futures, and Frameworks of Conflict Negotiation and Resolution.

***Correction: During the conversation, we reference that private companies need to PAY to access the United States’s Global Positioning System. So, to be clear: GPS is completely free and maintained by the US space force (and formerly the Air Force Space Command). You can learn more about how GPS works on www.gps.gov.***

Resources & Links Mentioned

Namrata On “Where are we with China?”

Namrata Goswami Ted

Starlink Beta Video

BeiDou and Belt and Road

US - Taiwan Relations

The Expanse TV Show

A Strategy of Technology (Book)

Moonrush (Book)

The Case For Mars (Book)

Namrata on LinkedIn, here.

Namrata on Twitter, here.

Namrata’s books on Amazon, here.

We are seeing an unprecedented wave of innovation resources that are empowering innovators, entrepreneurs, and industrialists, to build & create with (1) higher fidelity, (2) lower cost, and (3) greater speed than ever before. A key piece of this innovation puzzle is learning to ask Where Our Stuff Comes From. Through the Next Frontier podcast and blog series, I explore precisely where to find these resources and how YOU can efficiently and effectively utilize each resource to execute on your vision. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with these tactical and strategic insights, subscribe here.

Now more than ever, entrepreneurs, innovators, and industrialists must be equipped with the language of digital transformation. In this episode, Keith Gargiulo and I take a tactical approach to digital transformation. As a Vice President at PTC, one of the world’s leading digital transformation technology companies, Keith is one of the best people to help decipher and convey how you can implement digital transformation at all levels of your organization. Through the lens of digital transformation, we dive into Keith’s lifestyle as a serial innovator and business-mind, both within PTC, in several private ventures, and through his generous volunteer work.

PTC

Industry 4.0

Teamster’s Union History

The 6 D’s of Disruption

Vuforia View (Apple | Google)

Vuforia Chalk

Vuforia Expert Capture

Vuforia Studio

Apple AR Suite

Apple’s AR Hardware

Generative Design

OnShape

OnShape for Education

Software As A Service

Culture of SaaS Tee Shirt

FIRST Robotics

The US Ranks Third In Graduating Engineers

The Kill Chain by Christian Brose

Defy Ventures

CASA

Keith on LinkedIn here.

We are seeing an unprecedented wave of innovation resources that are empowering innovators, entrepreneurs, and industrialists, to build & create with (1) higher fidelity, (2) lower cost, and (3) greater speed than ever before. Through the Next Frontier podcast and blog series, I explore precisely where to find these resources and how YOU can efficiently and effectively utilize each resource to execute on your vision. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with these tactical and strategic insights, subscribe here.

A core competency for any entrepreneur, innovator, or industrialist is not only the ability to efficiently and effectively communicate in a wide range of media formats, but to swiftly paint a thrilling, compelling, and visionary narrative for a range of different audiences (your team, your investors, and your customers). In this episode, Max sits down with Marrisa Brassfield to dissect how Marissa (1) built up her world-class communications superpowers, (2) curates a Ridiculously Efficient lifestyle, and (3) uses her world-class skillset to transform how we educate the next generation. 

Resources Mentioned & Other Links of Interest

Ridiculously Efficient

Learn How To Be Ridiculously Efficient

Xploration Center

Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces (Book)

Strategic Coach Entrepreneurial Time System 

Strategic Coach Impact Filter

Peter Diamandis

Genius Network

Tim Ferris Four Hour Work Week (Book)

krisp.ai

Ray Kurzweil Law of Accelerating Returns

Stanford Behavior Design Lab

Kolbe Index

Ad Astra Nova School

Upland Hills Learning Community

“[Marissa] has created strategies, launched products, organized experiences, and recruited small teams that have collectively driven hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for Fortune 100 executives and global leaders like Peter Diamandis. As an international event producer and showrunner, her stages have been the intellectual playground of leaders like Ray Kurzweil, Tony Robbins, Arianna Huffington, Tom Bilyeu, and executives from Microsoft, Uber, HTC China and IBM Watson.”

Marissa on Twitter, here.

Marissa on LinkedIn, here.

We are seeing an unprecedented wave of innovation resources that are empowering innovators, entrepreneurs, and industrialists, to build & create with (1) higher fidelity, (2) lower cost, and (3) greater speed than ever before. Through the Next Frontier podcast and blog series, I explore precisely where to find these resources and how YOU can efficiently and effectively utilize each resource to execute on your vision. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with these tactical and strategic insights, subscribe here.

Prescott Paulin is a Marine Corps Veteran, entrepreneur, and United States Defense Innovator. We dive deep into how and why Prescott built the Defense Innovation Network to help companies improve their technology to benefit our military. Prescott also explains how thought models - John Boyd’s OODA Loop, Design Thinking, and many others - help him become a more effective innovator and entrepreneur. Next, we explore how Prescott’s family business, 300 Below, and his life-changing cardiac arrest incident. To wrap up this wide-ranging conversation, Prescott dives into resources for how every person can gain the skillsets that they need to stay prepared and ready to save their life and the lives of others.

AFWERX Fusion Event

Defense Innovation Network

300 Below

Design Thinking

2018 Innovation Focused National Defense Strategy

OODA Loop

Marine Corps Officer Candidate School

Marine Corps Auto Skills Shop

What Universities Do Well

Defense Innovation Network Virtual Summit

Story Brand

Small Business Innovation Research Grants

Pass Base Passport Verification

Beta Technologies

Prescott’s Harrowing Cardiac Arrest Story

Mayday Alarm

Stop The Bleed

Tactivate

Team Rubicon 

The Readiness Collective

Prescott on LinkedIn here.

Learn more about The Defense Innovation Network here.

We are seeing an unprecedented wave of innovation resources that are empowering innovators, entrepreneurs, and industrialists, to build & create with (1) higher fidelity, (2) lower cost, and (3) greater speed than ever before. Through the Next Frontier podcast and blog series, I explore precisely where to find these resources and how YOU can efficiently and effectively utilize each resource to execute on your vision. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with these tactical and strategic insights, subscribe here.

In this episode of the Next Frontier Podcast, Dan Kuschell shares unique insights into the psychology and marketing of entrepreneurship and innovation. We dive deep into mental models for succeeding as an entrepreneur, tools that Dan uses to thrive as a Dad and sports coach, and how Dan became an expert copywriter. Finally, Dan dives into one of the most often overlooked pieces of the innovation resource puzzle: how risk-taking innovators can start fresh with bankruptcy laws in the United States.

Resources Mentioned & Other Links of Interest

Dan’s Website

Dan’s Podcast: Growth To Freedom

Tony Robbins Turning Your “SHOULDS” into “MUSTS”

Tim Ferris: Rig The Game So You Can Win It

Creating an irresistible offer

Give And Take by Adam Grant (Book)

Adam Grant: Are you a giver or a taker? (Talk)

Bankruptcy - Investopedia 

Different Type of Bankruptcy 

DABDA - Dealing With Grief

Think And grow Rich By Napoleon Hill (Book)

Strategies for Learning from Failure

Tom Hopkins

Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 Hours

Breakthrough 3X

“Dan Kuschell Helps Entrepreneurs Build, Grow, and Multiply their Sales and Profits! Dan has over 25 years of experience building 11 companies, coaching over 5,329 small business owners, selling multiple companies, and a bestselling author of multiple books, and more... Through his work, he has become well known for creating and advancing momentum for small business owners, entrepreneurs, speakers, coaches, and authors. Dan brings simplicity to today's complexities to help you avoid the pain of the day to day operations. He's often been referred to "The Easy Button" for entrepreneurs desiring to gain more clarity, confidence, and capabilities."

Dan on LinkedIn

Dan’s Podcast

We are seeing an unprecedented wave of innovation resources that are empowering innovators, particularly young innovators, to build & create with (1) higher fidelity, (2) lower cost, and (3) greater speed than ever before. Through the Next Frontier podcast and blog series, I explore precisely where to find these resources and how YOU can efficiently and effectively utilize each resource to execute on your vision. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with these tactical and strategic insights, subscribe here.