Cultish Creative Weekly Recap (2/15/2025)

First off, my wife decided all she wanted for her 40th birthday was to be able to hand deliver a bunch of the most boringly essential items to Ruth's Place, one of the incredibly important women's shelters in our area, who is, day in and day out, doing work that can and should break your heart wide open.

If you'd like to join me in wishing my wife a happy birthday AND support a more crucial than ever cause, please take a moment to check out the Amazon link where you can add to our haul. You'll give my wife an even happier birthday next week when we drop this stuff off, and, most importantly, you'll help somebody who could really use a brighter spot in their day. (I married well, I love this idea so much I had to share it).

On to the other adventures…

Kris Abdelmessih and Morgan Ranstrom came on Just Press Record to meet for the very first time, and not only did we have an incredible hang, but… if you have kids, and/or if you have an artistic streak that runs alongside your professional life, this conversation felt so, so good to capture.

On Excess Returns, Jack Forehand and I talked about why most recession indicators stink, and all sorts of other lessons from the brilliant 40+ year market veteran, Jim Paulsen:

Personal Archive entries you might have missed:

The Fun Lovin’ Criminals and the background of their wonderous one hit “Scooby Snacks” was more fun to dive into than I ever would have guessed. Great music trivia here.

Cole Schafer told me to “make art, not content” and he is so right.

I have a working theory on the millennials and why their life experience might be just the thing the world needs to not fall apart. I’ll be teasing this idea out more. If you read this and have thoughts, please reach out (I think this is really important to talk clearly about).

You know that “the best way to be interesting is to be interested” advice? I kind of hate it. But I just figured out what to do it.

Switched-off people are not the ones you’re interested in. Switched-on people, like Kris and Morgan above, they are where you want to keep all your energy.