Cultish Creative Weekly Recap (7/27/2024)

Where does summer go? Asking for a friend. Brats and boneless wing headlines, alas…

My Intentional Investor talk with Ryan Krueger came out on the Epsilon Theory YouTube channel this week. He’s proper Texas, and a properly delightful human. I only made him cry 2 or 3 times too! In the good ways people, in the good ways. Give it a listen. His stories, and messages about how good work gets rewarded slowly, I’m still buzzing from this one:

AND, this is pretty wild to say - the YouTube channel I contribute regularly too with my friends Jack Forehand and Justin Carbonneau - Excess Returns broke 15k subscribers! Here’s our latest episode of financial nerdery. If you’re a fellow finance industry person and not subscribed, add to the pile:

Posts you might have missed:

Luniz - it’s still my jam. I loved learning more about the song (and sample) history.

The Zappa quote on coming to terms with stupidity got some great responses - if you haven’t read this, it is worth thinking about! There’s a lot of strategy in this. And once you see it…

On the life philosophy front, I’m pretty proud of this riff on why I want less scaling and more meaning these days (re: less things that grow to the moon, or are promised to, and more things you can put ON scales, so you can assess if not feel their weight in meaning terms).

This week I also learned how the Costco Hot Dog + Soda combo is apparently a known secret to maintaining happiness. The serendipity of that showing up multiple times, I don’t know exactly what to make of it, but the message has weight. Kurt Vonnegut would fart around and buy envelopes one at time - what’s YOUR simple, seemingly pointless thing that keeps YOU connected?

More thoughts on this coming next week, but the polarization pushers are out in full force, as expected. Get small. Ben Hunt’s expression, “Make, Protect, Teach” matters more than ever. I put a short of it on YouTube, from the conversation we had with Paul Millerd. Share it. Free to download too if you want to upload it elsewhere too.

Full original conversation is here too: