Playing With Networking: The Weekly Remix (3/8/2025)

Confidence, creativity, criticism vs. caring… let’s get you introduced to some people, ideas, and how they mix.

The Cartographer of Confidence Returns

Peter Atwater (re)joined me on Just Press Record, mapping the terrain of what makes us confident and why. The moment when he applied his framework to Frazer Rice's horror movie comment? Peter X in space non-movie magic.

Quote from the (Personal) Archive: "Peter doesn't just describe confidence; he excavates it. Hearing him unpack what's happening beneath our decisions feels like someone finally turning on the lights in a room I've been fumbling around in for years."

Intention vs. Identification

Ben Hunt and I picked up our Intentional Investor conversation with a Part 2 that went deeper than I expected. From Jesus to Hayek to the calculated risks of public discourse, he laid bare the DNA of his thinking process.

Quote from the (Personal) Archive: What struck me most wasn't what Ben said about markets, but how he's weighing the cost of different types of public voice. There's something here about the performance of expertise versus its quiet practice that I can't stop turning over in my head.

Bridging Worlds

Jack Forehand told me he wasn't Bridgewater material, and I told him I'm not even bridge over troubled water material, which can only mean one thing - no, not Ray Dalio, but ex-Dalio associate, Bob Elliott is in focus! Jack and I talked and applied fresh thoughts to a bunch of Bob's clips from prior interviews we've done with him. Bob's brain is brilliant. Watch/listen here

Click Beta

What happens when you put a hedge fund manager (Jason Buck), a financial consultant/marketing master (Dave Nadig), and me in a room with one planned topic, one surprise topic from each of us, and a strict "no Googling" rule? Pure conversational chemistry. We'd do this anyway, so why not record it? We'll be putting these out monthly, come laugh and learn with us. Watch/listen here

Other Personal Archive Entries This Week

Sound Discovery: Oklou's "Choke Enough" has me reconsidering music in an AI world. There's something hauntingly human happening here that I can't quite name.

Anti-Slop League: Ted Gioia's essay on "slop" (AI learning from AI, humans imitating the imitations) hit a nerve. Who's with me in committing to the gloriously unoptimized human touch?

Building Periods & Pyramids: Beyond "eras": what if creativity moved between intensive building phases and legacy-focused monument construction? (Sparked by offline conversations with Kris Abdelmessih and Josh Spector)

Your Turn - who do you know and what do you think about…

Confidence?

Creativity?

The connection between criticism and caring?

Slop?

Building pyramids amidst and beyond your artistic periods?

Write it in your own Personal Archive.  

(then, be sure to let me know where you’re keeping it, I’m in search of the others too)