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Notes from Rick Rubin's interview on Tim Ferriss's podcast
• Emergence
• Tao Te Ching & The Artist's Way
• Unraveling his own creative process
• The upside and downside of iterations
Podcast episode 136: NBA x "Same as Ever"
Takeaways from @morganhousel's "Same as Ever", filtered through the eyes of a casual NBA fan
• Best Story Wins: MVP narratives
• Wild Numbers: Why watch games when you can watch highlights for an hour
• Calm Plants the Seeds for Crazy: Load balancing plants the seeds for the In-Season Tournament
• Does Not Compute: You miss 27 straight 3-pointers on hardwood, not on a spreadsheet
• Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast: Cars, clothes, and the 2008 crash
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Some notes from The Cultural Tutor's interview with David Perell
Combining 2 things from @thesamparr solo episodes:
• He loves unconventional books
• He doesn't miss workouts
And he loves good, clear, sometimes old-timey writing.
So here's a passage about concentration from a 1960s book about fitness:
Placing this the 'evergreen episodes' folder
Here are some book notes to pair with Bilal and Kallaway's conversation
• "Hidden Genius" by Polina Marinova Pompliano
• "Almanack of Naval Ravikant"
• "So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal Newport"
Had a 🔥 chat w/ @kanekallaway on creator lab:
– smashing 100mil+ video views
– growing 280k audience on Tiktok & Instagram
– going viral with vertical video
– writing & editing process
– live screen share of his adobe premiere setup & sample scripts
– comedy, storytelling & long-term vision
– quitting his job to go full-time creator
Move from abstract to something real to judge
Kallaway: Make 25
Pick a topic and format and publish 25 things. If you're posting about every weekday, this will be 5-6 weeks.
The most important thing you'll know by the end of it: do you enjoy making that content?
Further Reading —
sharing some book notes related to a (great) podcast episode I listened to
• The Nolan Variations
• Hatching Twitter
• Messi vs. Ronaldo
[NEW] Not Investment Advice (NIA) podcast talks all things:
• Twitter to 𝕏 App
• Barbie & Oppenheimer huge weekend
• Messi-Mania and Mbappe $776m offer
Listen here:
open.spotify.com/episode/0x6…
Messi's huge MLS deal involves revenue shares and ownership stakes
He's not stranger to working some ownership into contracts
When re-signing with Barca, he got 50-50 image rights
Content diet recap (a long video experiment)
• Sam Parr: The Bear x Discipline
• @FoundersPodcast: Kobe x Turning the volume down
• @dailydirtnap: Look up, a big red fireball
