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Brendan Frazier’s podcast, The Human Side of Money, recently hit its 100th episode. Clap with me. Maybe tell him we’re clapping for him too - this is a serious accomplishment. While it’s mostly focused on people in the financial advising industry, his human-centric focus makes it much more broadly accessible. And anybody who does something … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Brendan Frazier’s 100th Episode
What are you doing with all of this semi-free holiday time? If you need some YouTube or podcasts, I have some self-promotional fun for you - links at the bottom: “Hold My Beer” Breaking News #9. It’s primary season (and the season lasts a full year, so yeah). As the crazy gets crazier, or goes … Continue reading Get Down On It: What Else I’m Up To, 11/23/2023 Edition
There’s a reason famous people don’t remember meeting me. And you. But I didn’t want to come off as too insulting. Ben Greenman was telling Questlove about researching stories for the autobiographies he’s worked on.* He said it’s amazing all of the stories that are out there, and how one person’s biggest deal encounter can … Continue reading Why Famous People Don’t Remember Meeting Me
Howard Lindzon was telling Ben Hunt why he’s an optimist about the situation in Israel. Lindzon said, “I am an optimist because I remember Tel Aviv as it was.” Memory of the good fuels imagination of the good. You can daydream good too, but when you know something good existed - from experience - you … Continue reading I’m An Optimist Because I Remember Tel Aviv As It Was
You might not be reading this on 11/11/23, but this video/podcast says life is as easy as 111123. The heavy finger or stutter on the 1’s is real. You want it to go 123. But starting is hard. 111123 feels way more accurate. Justin Castelli kicked off a series of live talks (out in Indiana) … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Justin Castelli On Living Your Life
Kenny Beats tells the story about one of his managers. He was showing her new stuff, radio hits, and she’s nodding her head that everything is good, great, fine, etc. Then he plays her the personal project he’s working on. It’s in tribute to his relationship with his father. It’s not for the radio. It’s … Continue reading Artists Want To Work With Artists
If you could send a message to your younger self, what would you say? I just heard Bogumil Baranoski’s Talking Billions episode with Christopher Mayer, where they got to talking about the idea of “time-binding.” The concept comes from a practice called General Semantics* which considers (via Wikipedia): how events translate to perceptions, how they … Continue reading Letters To Younger Selves + Time Binding
When Kenny Beats explains how he mailed cassettes and headphones, with no labels, notes, or explanations, to a bunch of his favorite music people… wild. All he wanted was them to hear it. He had to make the packaging so curious somebody would press play. And it worked. Guy could have had a marketing career … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Kenny Beats And Rick Rubin (Again!)
Joseph Campbell’s “hero’s journey” can work like a plug-and-play template. It’s a proven framework for creating tension and resolving conflict with plenty of main character development along the way. The artistic world is full of similar structures - one of my alternate favorites is a folk song format called “The Cuckoo.” Learning to spot any … Continue reading The Cuckoo (Hero’s Journey Alternates)
There’s poetry in finance, if you look for it. There’s poetry in personal financial planning too. Here’s three business types to strategically understand for personal and professional gains (and maybe more importantly, for avoiding losses too). A melting ice cube is an idea that’s vanishing. A glacier is an idea that’s fortified in place and … Continue reading Melting Ice Cubes Vs. Forming Glaciers