Podcast Of The Week: Ben Hunt on Panic With Friends

Ben Hunt returned to Howard Lindzon’s Panic With Friends podcast a few weeks ago - and if you missed it, it’s worth the revisit. Hunt is one of my favorite thinkers on how to think about people’s behavior in the context of markets. If you’re not a finance person, think about it as how marketing … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Ben Hunt on Panic With Friends →

Podcast Of The Week: Ben Hunt With JP O’Shaughnessy

I may have to make a separate list of “oh, to have the privilege of being a fly on the wall for this conversation” podcast episodes. Ben Hunt is the market/political game-theorist extraordinaire. JP O’Shaugnnessy is one of the original quant investors. The talk is supposed to be centered on the metaverse, but they cover … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Ben Hunt With JP O’Shaughnessy →

Podcast/Audible Of The Week: Impro (My Non-Business Business Book Of The Summer)

They said to read it. You know who they are, the people that anything they say to read, when you finally get to it, you can’t stop telling your other friends, “OH MY GOD MAN WHY HAVEN’T YOU READ _________ YET?!?! IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.” A few years back when I would try to … Continue reading Podcast/Audible Of The Week: Impro (My Non-Business Business Book Of The Summer) →

Podcast of the Week: Rory Sutherland

For non-marketing industry people in particular, the Marketing Week Meets Podcast is worth subscribing to. Any time you can get an extended discussion from Rory Sutherland you will learn something smart, something funny, and something that will you make you slightly more dangerous next time you're figuring out how to present something. https://www.marketingweek.com/2019/05/02/marketing-week-meets-rory-sutherland/ Based on … Continue reading Podcast of the Week: Rory Sutherland →

Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the (Finite) Game

Simon Sinek’s new book, The Infinite Game, is coming out in mid-2019 and he recently sat with Cal Fussman to discuss the big concepts. Sinek explores the way we personally, professionally, and institutionally approach games that can be won (i.e. sports, bets, aka “finite games”), and those that can’t (i.e. marriage, free trade, aka “infinite games”). Perhaps unsurprisingly, … Continue reading Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the (Finite) Game →

Podcast Of The Week: Sharpen Your Negotiating Chops With Alex Kouts

Negotiations were always an area where if I got a good outcome I’d chalk it up to smarts, and if I got a bad outcome I’d chalk it up to bad luck. I had no internal compass for gauging success, and worse - no strategy. Zero. And then I learned a few things. There were … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Sharpen Your Negotiating Chops With Alex Kouts →

Podcast of the Week: Dr. Pippa Malmgren on Macro Voices

We all have spoken with, or read things written by, people who think Trump (USA), Xi (China), and Kim (N. Korea) are all just maniacs yelling at and taunting one another. While that may not be completely false (I don't really know), let's assume that all three have objectives behind their strategy. How should we … Continue reading Podcast of the Week: Dr. Pippa Malmgren on Macro Voices →

Podcast of the Week: Ben Hunt with Jesse Felder

Markets, political science, game theory - what more could you want? Ben Hunt (one of my favorite Ben's) is taking Epsilon Theory out onto its own, so let's hope this means we all get to read, see, and hear more of him in the months and weeks to come. Felder does an excellent job of … Continue reading Podcast of the Week: Ben Hunt with Jesse Felder →

The Games Visionaries Play

You can’t use results alone to tell you about a process. The best meal you’ve ever had can’t be recreated without the recipe, the ingredients, and a talented chef. That brings us to a somewhat uncomfortable conclusion: we know what the results have been when we compare Jeff Bezos to Bernie Madoff, but at their … Continue reading The Games Visionaries Play →

The New Rules of Game Theory with Professor Dua Lupa

Dua Lupa’s chart topping hit song, “New Rules” is an exercise in pop mastery. With 25 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (the song debuted in July of 2017, and just set its current peak at #8 this week), it’s safe to say that the song has been fairly inescapable. If you actually haven’t … Continue reading The New Rules of Game Theory with Professor Dua Lupa →