George, Dan and Carly get into social media algorithms, when to fire a customer, lessons learned on the job, and self actualization. George continues his incredible writing streak, and Dan shares some of his new favorite tools while Carly struggles to follow along.
Show Notes
- Pick your morning poison and then put it to work: 10 Household Uses For Tea Bags or How to Use Coffee Grounds in Your Garden
- Artist date suggestions and recording equipment recommendations are just of the things we’re sharing in the book club meetings, join us for the next edition this Friday!
- We can’t confirm that Microsoft’s new computer, the Surface Laptop Go, is one you can easily “pop the back off” of but it does look like a nice laptop
- A maker movement is afoot, and it’s not just related to cars. Let CBS’ Sunday Morning give you the lowdown Fighting for the right to repair your own stuff
- Take a trip down (George’s) memory lane and head to White House for a hoagie
- George’s Total Addressable Markets and The Most Passionate Percentile
- Be like Dan, eat some Beyond Beef Tacos (Update: Dan no longer recommends these)
- Watch Let’s Get Lost on Amazon, or just buy it and never watch it à la Dan
- His best Mussolini impression
- Carly fact checked it, according to ABC news, yes people are being paid to attend White House events
- The sorbet of YouTube: E&A Talk #4: Little Richard and Behavioral Economics. Carly is very reluctant to share this as it’s one of her most ridiculous hair looks to date
- How Hip-Hop Coopted a Boot Made for Construction Workers
- How to start an epidemic, an edited extract from Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference
- The Carly and Dan duo episode Setting Up Social Media Ads and Learning From Data
- Everett Rogers Diffusion of Innovations theory + Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm = George’s Most Passionate Percentile
- George recounts how he first learned about psychographics in his latest piece Psychographics, not Demographics
- One of George’s earliest purpose, not product pieces from 2010 don’t sell tools, don’t sell products…sell purpose
- Carly’s Key Takeaways from Spotify’s Annual Trend Report
Three Things
Dan
- Listening: To The Sandman audiobook by Neil Gaiman, which feels more like an old radio program than an audiobook, and is officially one of his favorite new formats
- Using: The MXR EVH 515 Overdrive Eddie Van Halen Signature Pedal in honor of Eddie’s recent passing
- Using pt 2: The Universal Audio OX Amp Top Box Attenuator that is letting him noodle at all hours without starting a war with his neighbors, or at least that’s what Carly thinks he said, but please listen to his explanation of it because this is not doing it justice
Carly
- Growing: And goal setting with her new SheCan Masterminds group which will be a whole year long! This time, she’ll also be getting one one one monthly coaching sessions with Lauren
- Laughing: At writer and comedians Jordan Firstman’s Instagram account where his impressions of actions and inanimate objects has made him semi-famous. His latest, the fly’s publicist, is hilarious
- Attending: Whitney Museum of American Art’s public programs where you can engage with artists, curators, writers online that explore the Whitney’s current exhibitions. Her new favorite artist date idea, thank you Mark!
George
- Sharing: Dr Sarah Taber’s Twitter thread about misclassifying the men who plotted to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer as an example of people “radicalized by economic circumstances”
- Reading: The Rolling Stone interview A Message of Hope From the Dalai Lama, in which he shares how he keeps himself from worrying during the pandemic; a message we could all use these days
- Quoting: The great actor and director John Cassavetes: “The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.”
