Show Notes
- ‘I brake just like a little girl’ bumper stickers for sale on eBay, not sold by George, but with 100% buyer satisfaction. Act fast!
- George’s Forbes piece about Travis Scott and Fortnite that inspired our first Ask Us Anything segment. Ask your questions here
- The sentence that we are never allowed to say again was actually first said by Winston Churchill, not Henry Kissinger or Warren Buffet, as George and Dan suggested
- Bob Dylan’s tweet about the influence Little Richard had on him
- Brian Wilson’s tweet about the talent and influence that Little Richard was
- Joy Harjo—the first Native American to serve the position—was appointed to a second term and sits as the current poet laureate
- Lucinda William’s Man Without a Soul
- Jake Brennan’s Disgraceland podcast episode about Little Richard
- Carly’s piece on nudge marketing
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Richard Thaler’s book (who did in fact win the Nobel Prize in 2017) Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
- The Boston Manager's Group webinar that didn’t get enough time, but is worth watching
- Subscribe to the Entrepreneurship & Art YouTube channel, where we are pivoting to more video content, a novel concept to George
- One of Melissa Broder’s best tweets on So Sad Today
- George’s latest Forbes piece Sales Of Recording Gear Are Soaring During COVID-19. Just Ask Sweetwater's CEO
Three Things
George
- Reading: The Flow State newsletter, where he discovered the band The Olympians. The newsletter, and its name, reminds him of the book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, written by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (spelled with only one c and one z), which he also recommends
- Re-reading: The Spirit of Buddhist Meditation
- Watching: Amoeba’s What’s In My Bag series and fanboying over Kim Gordon’s episode where she talks about Nas, Zeppelin, Joni Mitchell and the band Spacemen 3
Carly
- Reading: David Sedaris’ Calypso and hearing his voice narrate the story. To get the narration effect, listen to some of Sedaris’ This American Life episodes, particularly this one or this one
- Reading pt 2: Tara Westover’s Educated, that she started reading at a socially safe distance at her aunt’s
- Listening: Transmissions from Jonestown podcast, ending her list on a dark note. She also misspoke twice and said papers were released in 1978 (actually the year the massacre happened) and recommended a song named the Jonestown Massacre when it is in fact the band’s name, ugh (which George knew)
Dan
- Listening: Ali Abdaal’s Not Overthinking podcast, where he talks a lot about productivity but in a tone that doesn’t fall into the dreaded “hustle porn” category, a term coined by Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian
- Learning: Skill Share online classes, creative courses taught by young professionals building their own businesses
- Listening pt 2: Loose Buttons’ Something Better (he recommends the songs Something Better and Hell Is A Lonely Penthouse View) album and getting nostalgic about being in New York and going to shows
And a very special shout out to all the grads of 2020, George’s students and to those all over the world, who are graduating online and remotely. Congratulations!
