Intellectual Software Abhishek Kumar

With Bitcoin, it feels like a lot of the early adoption around that was as a counter to what was happening in the United States economically with the financial crash and fiat currency being used by the government to prop certain people up and not others. And I think when people are struck with a real sense of unfairness, they start to get motivated to take action --- Mike

SHOW NOTES

02:54 - Introduction and how the invisible hand of the market guided my IPO

06:02 - Bitcoin and the unfairness of capitalism 

08:03 - The chaos of the early internet brought people together

13:01 - Are we not going to teach people philosophy? 

17:05 - NFTs are certificates of authenticity for an idea

22:35 - DAOs are online Co-ops

27:00 - Growing up in a town of population 10 

30:16 - Experiencing community after a decade of isolation

33:00 - Deconstructing the military machine

37:31 - Oregon, counter-culture and small businesses vs Walmart

41:49 - Plato and sandwich

43:43 - Daily routine 

46:08 - Leveraging the wisdom of the crowds

49:38 - How to operate in the fringes of technology

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What really makes me pause at this point is not that someone has that unique of a thought process, it's that they've been able to distill it in a really memorable way, like Dawkins memetics. Like the idea of being on your deathbed and having no regrets; that's a very basic concept. I feel like a lot of people throughout history have had that idea, but Jeff Bezos put it into The Regret Minimization Framework and that sticks. -- John Coogan

SHOW NOTES

03:32 - Introduction
04:40 - Big tobacco and the end of cigarettes
07:00 - Society needs Einstein's as well as generalists and those building different knowledge sets
11:10 - From high school rivals to co-founders  
14:17 - Fake it till you make it in silicon valley
18:02 - Distilling complex ideas like Jeff Bezos and Paul Graham
21:30 - I had an empty calendar and read books for weeks in YC
24:57 - America should have a very high customer satisfaction rate
30:17 - At what point did Theranos become a fraud?
35:25 - The main Marxist critique is capitalists are well off than workers
40:16 - We don't have enough founders working on multi-decade problems
43:21 - The second-order effects of building tech infrastructure
45:21 - There's lack of fragmentation in the college education market
51:40 - 3 books that will have a huge impact on civilization 

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Check out his Youtube here --> https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnCooganPlus

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I've known Dave for a few months now and It was good to finally have him on the show. We talked about a bunch of stuff ( mentioned in the show notes ) from media in the past to where it's going and everything in between. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. 

SHOW NOTES

03:19 - Bleacher report became my lifeline when I was stuck in the drudgery of a full-time job

09:14 - Lessons from my failure at Inverse and building Audience Builders from first principles

12:40 - Building distribution networks in legacy media brands

17:47 - Deep work and blocking your calendar like Jerry Seinfeld

23:21 - People who shaped my worldview - Kubrick, Scorsese, Lucas, Jake Lodwick, Kevin Rose

29:00 - Taking advantage of platform growth mechanics while building an original voice 

30:55 - Sam Parr is successful because he is a student of history

34:18 - Building a media empire like Pomp 

37:31 - Self-censorship

41:02 - Great brands create an entire world to build deeper fan experiences

45:12 - The promise of the creator economy

49:30 - Creators will start to look more like media companies and media companies will become more like record labels

52:00 - Bringing novelty into interview podcasts 

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Steal My Marketing is back after a long break of self-reflection and doubt. This conversation with Jonathan was recorded a few months back and has everything that I love about podcasting. It allows this 26-year-old to talk to someone I've never met about things I'm deeply interested in. The world is a fascinating place. It feels good to be back :)

SHOW NOTES

01:30 - The accidental entrepreneur

04:30 - Why I bought a 1-way ticket to China right after college

10:00 - Entrepreneurship in China in 1994

13:19 - Business schools teach you working for companies, not entrepreneurship 

16:57 - How we rebuilt our business after the 2008 financial meltdown

23:10 - The markets are the same, the channels have shifted

25:20 - No country matches China's combination of infrastructure & efficiency

28:43 - The miracle of McDonald's is that fries taste the same in London or Beijing 

39:24 - Untangled Coaching

46:15 - Why American capitalism will always triumph over Chinese capitalism

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Chris Hladczuk has interviewed billionaires, built a loyal following of thousands from his awesome Twitter threads, and built atomics habits like reading 365 days in a row, deep work, and sacred hours. In this episode, he shares his exact method of connecting and strengthening his relationship with billionaires, his sources for Twitter threads and how to craft threads that pick up millions of impressions, and building systems for success. It's the same mindset that brought him on the radar of Shaan Puri and other successful entrepreneurs. I loved how candidly he spilled all his secrets. Let him know what you learned from this :)
Here are the show notes :)
02:00 - How I started working with Shaan Puri and lessons on creating 100X content 
08:06 - My schedule for writing tweet threads, engineering social proof, and why you should spend 50% of your time writing headlines
13:05 - How you can reach out to millionaires and billionaires
16:24 - Building a world-class network with ASS framework 
18:43 - Crushing it on zoom calls with strangers
21:50 - How to strengthen your relationship with extremely busy people
24:07 - The exact system I use to keep track of my network 
26:01 - How I built my atomic habit for reading daily, deep work, and my sacred hours 
34:52 - Why First Principles is useless to most people - Michael Seibel
37:27 - How to never run out of tweet ideas again
42:25 - Why I've bookmarked Sam Altman's essay on how to be successful for the past 2 years
You can also follow me on Twitter for similar stuff. My DMs are open (https://twitter.com/AbhishekLpd)
Chris on Twitter (https://twitter.com/chrishlad)
Yale Speaker Series (https://open.spotify.com/show/0KUKSQ65nhZsB9fSFfD8Dv)
Chris' website (https://chrishlad.com/)


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Sachit Gupta is THE best super-connector I know. He started with nothing almost 8 years back and has since worked with Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, and Andrew Warner. His show Conscious Creators reached #1 in entrepreneurship last year and he led the On Deck Podcasting Fellowship. I wanted to bring him on the show to learn his strategies of finding third doors to network with the biggest names in any industry. He shared how he started working with Andrew, told a beautiful story of writing a letter to Tim Ferriss and the exact email he's going to send to Chris Sacca. He's also hosted a ton of poker nights for these influencers and shared his tips on hosting your own poker nights or dinners to increase your network. I also asked him how one could do these on Zoom. And he told us what you should do to connect with someone like Tim or Andrew if they're speaking at a conference. In short, he shared a TON of secrets. 

Here are the show notes :)

05:08 - Cold emailing Mark Cuban, Chris Guillebeau, and Jonathan Fields

09:00 - How I’ll email Chris Sacca and lessons from 1000s of cold emails

14:18 - Standing out in the crowd of 100s of people trying to get attention from your heroes

19:34 - What I learned from Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss, and Andrew warner

22:12 - One starts to build an audience when one gives up the need to build an audience

23:55 - Conversations that are casual and intimate are functions of production, not editing.

27:27 - A cold outreach strategy that will change your life

32:10 - How to connect with your heroes hosting poker nights/dinners

36:44 - Writing a letter Tim Ferriss and a hack to connect with speakers in conferences

43:55 - How to reach out to big publications for collaborations

I share all the articles/podcasts/books I consume during researching my guests as well as other stuff I find interesting in the newsletter (https://stealmymarketing.substack.com)

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Sachit on Twitter (https://twitter.com/sachitgupta)

Conscious Creators Show (http://www.creators.show/)


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