Liberty's Highlights

Liberty
Liberty's Highlights

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  1. SEPT 27

    The Cost of Glory with Alex Petkas: Timeless Lessons from Ancient Greece and Rome 🏛️🏺📜 🏹⚔️🦅⚖️

    I’m excited to share with you one of my favorite podcasts that I’ve recorded! 🎧🥇 I hope you enjoy it and will ➡️ subscribe to ‘Cost of Glory’ ⬅️ (listen on: Spotify or Apple Podcast) and follow Alex’s explorations of the greatest stories from Roman and Greek antiquity. It’s like a time machine for the mind, and might inspire you to read some of the great books we recommend near the end of the podcast! In this episode, Alex and I discuss why the Romans and Greeks of Antiquity were 𝕤𝕠 𝕒𝕨𝕖𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖 and his journey following in Plutarch’s footsteps — telling stories of real heroes and learning from their lives. Except Alex does it with a podcast instead of with a reed pen (I had to look up what they used to write in antiquity…) There’s a lot to love about this one. One of my favorite parts is when we do a lightning-round through a bunch of big names from the era, and Alex gives a highlight on each. We discuss people like Alexander the Great, Sulla, Hannibal, Scipio, Julius Caesar, Pompey, Cato the Elder and Cato the Younger, Xenophon, etc. It gave me a lot of context about names I recognized but didn’t know much about — I feel better equipped to dig deeper! I hope it’ll do the same for you. Enjoy! 💚 🥃 👇 Other Great Links For You * Cost of Glory Substack 📩📫 * Cost of Glory Free eBook on Oratory 📙🗣️ * Alex’s Guide on How to Read All of Plutarch's Lives 📖📚 * Alex’s Interview w/ Nat Friedman on the Mysteries of the Scrolls 📜🤖 * Follow Alex on Twitter/X 🐦 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.libertyrpf.com/subscribe

    1h 39m
  2. JAN 29

    Sicario by Denis Villeneuve: Going Deep with Ed William and Dylan O'Sullivan 🎥 🎬 🎞️ 🍿

    Here’s something a little different. A fun — but dark! — one. I’m a big fan of Denis Villeneuve, and I was due for a re-watch of ‘Sicario’ (2015, written by Taylor Sheridan). It was the perfect opportunity to nerd out about the film, so I recruited my OSV colleagues Ed William (🇬🇧) and Dylan O’Sullivan (🇮🇪) for that task. (You should follow them on Twitter, and while you’re at it, sign up for the OSV Substack so you don’t miss the cool stuff we’ve got coming.) The things you love are always better when you can share them with others and this is exactly what we do here. We go over every aspect of the film, from the writing, the acting, the cinematography, the music, the metaphors, and scene-by-scene analysis. But mostly, we have fun and I hope that you do too! If you’ve never seen the film, watch it before listening, as the podcast is one giant 🚨SPOILER🚨 — and if you’ve seen it but haven’t rewatched it, I hope we can convince you to do so and that you’ll notice a bunch of new cool details this time around. 🎧 Listen on Spotify If you prefer to listen on Spotify, here’s the feed: * Liberty’s Highlights podcast feed on Spotify 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts Here’s the podcast feed on Apple Podcasts: * Liberty’s Highlights podcast on Apple 📺 More Film & TV Podcasts 🎥 * 🎧 The Last of Us: Going Deep on HBO's Amazing Show with Matt Reustle and Tinkered Thinking 🍄 * 🎧 'Severance' Season 1: Going Deep with Mostly Borrowed Ideas (MBI) * 🎧 David Senra on Deadwood (also: founders, entrepreneurs, civilization, Henry Singleton, Walt Disney, David Ogilvy, etc) 💚 🥃 Enjoyed this? Want more? 👇 You can become a paid supporter to get 1-2x additional editions/week + access to the private Discord + support the recording of more podcasts. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.libertyrpf.com/subscribe

    54 min
  3. 2023-09-14

    Trung Phan: Solving the Twitter Puzzle, What He Learned from Rick Rubin, Christopher Nolan, AI, and more ✍️🤣🎥🎬🇻🇳🤖

    Today, I’m joined by my friend Trung Phan! He’s multi-talented, funny and smart, a great writer, podcaster, and just overall good dude 👍 In this conversation, we cover a lot of things from the Trung Expanded Universe, from the network effect at companies like Twitter/X and Facebook to Chernobyl and partying in Vietnam, we talk about creating online and how he got so good at solving the Twitter puzzle, what we learned from Rick Rubin and our mutual love of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Christopher Nolan, writing a newsletter, doing a podcast, how AI is changing things and why he’s building Bearly.AI, and how ambitions of becoming a screenwriter morphed into something else thanks to the permissionless internet. I had a lot of fun recording this, and I hope it translates when you listen! 💚 🥃 Here’s the podcast with Bill Simmons that Trung recommends about 45 minutes into our conversation: * 🎧 How I Built This with Guy Raz — The Ringer: Bill Simmons 🎙️ More from Trung 📩 Make sure you subscribe to Trung’s newsletter (📩). It’s a mix of long-form features about various companies, products, technologies, entrepreneurs, and funny short-form memes and jokes. The same issue could cover both the science and engineering that went into making iPhone glass more shatter and scratch-resistant using space-age tech AND a meme about wealthy vampires because of compound interest. If you need even more Trung, please make sure to subscribe to ‘Not Investment Advice’, the hilarious and educational podcast that he co-hosts with Jack Butcher and Bilal Zaidi. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.libertyrpf.com/subscribe

    1h 23m
  4. 2023-08-19

    Meta Platforms & Mark Zuckerberg: Going Deep with Mostly Borrowed Ideas (MBI)! 🕵️‍♂️🩻

    On his sixth appearance on the pod, MBI joins me to discuss the most polarizing of the Big Tech companies: Meta Platforms (the artist formerly known as Facebook). Of course, it’s impossible to talk about it without talking about Mark Zuckerberg, so we try to better understand how he thinks about the company that he founded when he was 19, and how he compares to other founders. There was a lot to cover, and I think we touched on most of the big things: Facebook, Messenger, Whatsapp, Instagram, Reality Labs (AR/VR), AI, Threads, regulators, competitors, high-variance founders, and even cage matches (😬)… It was a fun conversation for me, I hope you have as much fun listening to it (and learn a few things about Meta too)! 💚 🥃 For more on Meta, check out MBI’s excellent coverage at MBI Deep Dives. He has 10 posts on the company, but I’m going to highlight 5 of them: 📄 MBI Deep Dives — META Coverage 🔐 * Meta's Moat * Meta's Achilles Heel(s) * Meta 2Q'23 Earnings Update * Meta Needs A Decade Of Efficiency * What’s embedded in Meta’s stock price? (2022) 🗄 More podcasts with MBI 🕵️‍♂️ * 🎧 Microsoft: Going Deep with Mostly Borrowed Ideas (MBI) 🕵️‍♂️🩻 * 🎧 Big Tech Compensation: Going Deep with MBI * 🎧 Going Deep on Cloudflare and Datadog with Mostly Borrowed Ideas (MBI) * 🎧 Going deep on Payments with Mostly Borrowed Ideas (MBI): Adyen, PayPal, Stripe, Square, Amazon, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Visa, Mastercard! * 🎧 'Severance' Season 1: Going Deep with Mostly Borrowed Ideas (MBI) * 🎧 Going deep on Constellation Software with Mostly Borrowed Ideas (MBI) This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.libertyrpf.com/subscribe

    1h 35m

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