Cultish Creative Weekly Recap (9/14/2024)

Last Sunday I shared an essay remembering my Poppop. If you missed it, you can read it here, “All The Light On A Summer Day, It Never Ends.”

I love introducing interesting strangers to each other. Julia C Carreon wrote a piece on change that I’ve been citing at work for 14 years apparently. Hal Hershfield’s (re)definition of the self-change literature is a keystone to how I approach, well, a lot of life to be perfectly honest.

When Julia and Hal both admitted, before we started, that they weren’t exactly sure what they were doing on the podcast, I tried to calm them down with, “Just know I’m a big fan of what you each do, and I’m positive there’s a connection here - so be yourselves, have fun, and I know it’ll click.” Thank the gods they both trusted me enough to just press record, because what we captured, it’s electric. Life-learners and any-stage-of-career journeyers, you need to see this one:

Jack Forehand and I also dove into lessons from our Aswath Damodaran interview for Excess Returns (over 30k views and counting!) that you can listen to here.

Other posts you might have missed!

The Enola Gay story from Utah Phillips is amazing. Right down to his Truman joke and perfect honesty about how bizarre life can be.

I didn’t know I’d be getting life advice from Charlie’s Angels this week, but “Dorks are funny, cool people aren’t” is pretty insightful, even if you’re not writing movie scripts.  

Aswath Damodaran’s point of explaining what’s possible, probable, and plausible is insanely useful when making predictions.

Jim O’Shaughnessy’s take on lucky streaks really got my brain going (and not just with NBA Jam references).