Cultish Creative is more than just a written Personal Archive.

It’s an expression of what to do with all those ideas and questions that collecting your reflections produces.

This isn’t the only thing you can do with a Personal Archive, but it is a key part of what I’m doing with mine. I collect my reflections to find new connections across ideas, people, and generations, and it’s so much fun.

Me in the wild = me on the official Cultish Creative YouTube channel. This is how I get curious in (usually “virtual”) person. It’s where the archive entries get inspired AND it’s how they’re interspersed back into the world.

Besides my professional work (which is definitionally private, but you can get in touch if you want to hire me for that stuff), my public work shows up primarily on Just Press Record, The Intentional Investor (on Epsilon Theory), and Excess Returns.

The Personal Archive process informs ALL of this stuff. Here’s a rundown of what they are. Come follow anything that appeals to you (please!):

Just Press Record is a show where I take two guests, often complete strangers who I’ve noticed some common interest between, and then introduce them out of pure curiosity for what might happen. These are barstool style conversations, hosted by me (and my most unfettered curiosity level), where you get to be a fly on the wall while two fascinating people figure out why I paired them up. I genuinely believe anybody can talk to anyone about anything if there’s enough curiosity present, and Just Press Record is my proof of concept. Plus, who doesn’t like seeing people make new friends? It’s a be-yoooo-tee-ful thing, I tell you.

You won’t find another show quite like this - subscribe, like, comment, rate, share Just Press Record on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your junk.

But wait, there’s more!

Most business- and finance-adjacent interviews have become the same thing lately. They have some current events/markets commentary, and the more thoughtful ones attempt a “tell me your story” segment. I’m less annoyed by how predictably boring it’s become and more frustrated by how interesting so many of these people actually are.

The Intentional Investor, on The Epsilon Theory YouTube Channel, is where we wonder what happens when you ask a financial professional about everything in their life besides finance? 

One thing that’s immediately obvious, if you ask these questions you will get to the heart of their intentions. Turns out, thoughtful finance people are thoughtful about way more than finance. Who knew?! I did. Rusty Guinn and Ben Hunt at Epsilon Theory did. If you’re reading this, you probably did too. So why are so many finance podcasts so scared to go there?

This is the mission and why The Intentional Investor lives on Epsilon Theory:

“Epsilon is the technical term for the variable in an equation that closes the gap between the model and the reality.” You can’t describe an outcome or a scenario or—the world we all coexist in?!—without including the poetic little error term present in the model itself. Understandably, those gaps are hard to talk about. Nobody likes to admit how critical the “errors” are in order to justify their models of reality.

And so, we created The Intentional Investor to document, conversationally, how the people we admire most in this industry talk about the gaps in their understanding of their lives, histories, and hopes for the future. Come learn with us, on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Certainly not last or least, and emphatically first when it comes to views and subscribers:

If you are a financial professional involved in markets of any form, I am a regular contributor to the content on Excess Returns. Yes, I’m usually the pop-culture/color guy who brings a financial planning angle, but if markets, macro, and systematic strategies are your jam too, come join us.

There’s a revolution amongst people in and around the finance business as more and more of us figure out how to become interconnected. We can’t all use social media publicly (that used to be me!), so platforms like what Excess Returns are building, on top of the normal social platforms, are as critical infrastructure as you get. We help industry entrants (or hopeful entrants, i.e. students, career-switchers, etc.) learn, and industry veterans grow. Excess Returns is modern education at its finest.

Are you still here??? Well, hey—I occasionally record reviews too! Books, music, stuff I write about, I decided to add that to my channel too. It’s a random schedule, but re: Personal Archive Reason Number 4080, I only talk about things that amaze me.