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@kejca Roy Disney, Walt's brother was put in charge after Walt passed and he had the weather the company through the transition and the building of Disney World simultaneously. I go over it in Episode 3 of Confidants open.spotify.com/episode/0YgLxj…

Steve Jobs gave Tim Cook one piece of advice when he was named Apple CEO. "Never ask what I would do. Just do the right thing." "[Jobs] had watched Disney go through this paralysis of sitting around and talking about what Walt would do — and he did not want that for Apple."

Here are the 5 big lessons from Episode 4 on George Martin

@jasonfried My podcast Confidants is about famous co-founders and partners open.spotify.com/show/21ThDEXQx…

Where's the podcast for co-founders? There's about a billion 1:1 interview shows with founders. But most business have co-founders, especially in the tech world. Interviewing two people at once may be harder, no question. But doesn't the podcast-founders-sphere keep talking about doing hard things? If you want to get a real look at what it's like to run a business with two+ founders, get them in a room, pepper them with questions, see them disagree, hear their different angles, see which defers to the other on certain topics, watch how they navigate difficult questions, watch decisions being made, watch ideas develop. That's the real view, the real interview. Yeah, maybe one person is way more interesting than the other. Yeah maybe one's the outspoken one and the other sits back. Ok — that's real. Let's see real. So who's going to do it? Huge opening. cc: @R_Mohr

Check out Episode 4 on George Martin and The Beatles!

@asanwal Roy Disney

If you were writing a kid's book for 10 to 13 year olds abt remarkable entrepreneurs and the requirements are: 1. They started a sizable company 2. They treated their people really well 3. They thought about and did good for society Who would you write about?

@BenWilsonTweets Focus was Jony’s superpower. I go over it in my episode on Jony Ive. Check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/37IZY2…

Jony Ive put it well when reflecting on a lesson from Steve Jobs: "What focus means is saying no to something that with every bone in your body you think is a phenomenal idea, you wake up thinking about it, but you say no to it because you are focusing on something else.” And there are more opportunities available today than at any point in history, far more than any king of the past. So it makes sense that it is harder than ever to truly focus on a single project. But nothing great has ever been accomplished through half-hearted commitment. As Arnold says: "Plan B is dangerous to every big dream. It is a plan for failure... once you know that path is there, once you’ve accepted that it’s an option, it becomes so, so easy to take it whenever things get difficult. Fuck plan B! "

Check out Episode 3 on Roy Disney!

"The thing is, it's very easy to be different but very difficult to be better." - Jony Ive

Check out Episode 2 on Steve Job's creative confidant, Sir Jony Ive! open.spotify.com/episode/37IZY2…

open.spotify.com/show/21ThDEXQx… I recently launched Episode One of my brand new show Confidants! Confidants covers lessons from the hidden figures behind the all-time greats. These are the coaches, producers, business partners, and lieutenants who made legends possible!

@taimurabdaal if you like founders (and I know you like podcasts) you should check out my friend's new spin on it Confidants covers the people secretly executing for the big names, last episode was about EdIson's chief engineer open.spotify.com/episode/5j3HEp…

@MohapatraHemant yep Edison was the showman but Batchelder did a lot of the work stumbled on a good pod about this recently open.spotify.com/episode/5j3HEp…

@0xAvious Big if true.....

BTD on ETH since Apr 4 = 43% up finally took profits on my ETH/SOL yesterday and just sold bigly now

@ATRightMovies Downhill Racer

Happy birthday GENE HACKMAN. Which is your favourite film of his?

@jposhaughnessy @osventuresllc How would you answer this from 1930-1960?

Asked our in-house @osventuresllc AI "what is ignored by the media that will be studied by historians?" Some interesting answers: 1. The Collapse of Institutional Trust Ignored: The erosion of public trust in governments, media, and corporations due to chronic underperformance (e.g., infrastructure delays, unaffordable housing) and perceived hypocrisy (e.g., climate elites flying private jets). Future Study: Historians will dissect how institutions prioritized process over outcomes, enabling populist movements and destabilizing democracies. Example: The 2021 U.S. EV charging station debacle ($7.5B for 11 stations) as a case study in bureaucratic failure. 2. The "Invisible" Mental Health Crisis Ignored: Rising rates of loneliness, anxiety, and digital addiction, exacerbated by social media algorithms and remote work. Future Study: The long-term economic and cultural costs of untreated mental health (e.g., declining productivity, collapsing birth rates). Example: South Korea’s "Sampo Generation" (youth abandoning relationships, homeownership, and children) as a harbinger of global trends. 3. Regulatory Capture by Ideological Blocs Ignored: How activist groups, corporations, and NGOs exploit environmental/social regulations to stall projects (e.g., Bayonne Bridge’s 20,000-page review). Future Study: The paradox of "stakeholder capitalism" stifling innovation (e.g., California’s $750K "affordable" housing units vs. Texas’ market-driven solutions). Case: The 16-year Savannah River dredging delay as a lesson in regulatory quicksand. 4. The Weaponization of Financial Systems Ignored: Central banks’ role in exacerbating inequality via prolonged low-interest policies and asset inflation (e.g., housing, stocks). Future Study: How monetary policy created a "rentier economy," fueling populist backlash (e.g., GameStop, crypto revolts). Example: The 2023 banking crisis’ roots in Fed-driven liquidity addiction. 5. The Silent Rise of Non-Western Technocracies Ignored: Authoritarian efficiency in China, UAE, and Singapore (e.g., AI surveillance, smart cities) outpacing democratic gridlock. Future Study: Whether technocratic models undermine democratic ideals or force democratic renewal (e.g., EU’s GDPR vs. China’s Social Credit System). Case: Rwanda’s drone-delivered medical supplies vs. FAA’s 10-year approval process for similar U.S. projects. 6. The Unreported Costs of Decarbonization Ignored: Rare-earth mining’s environmental toll (e.g., child labor in Congo cobalt mines) and geopolitical risks (e.g., China’s lithium monopoly). Future Study: How green transitions replicated colonial resource extraction. Example: California’s electric grid relying on Chinese solar panels made with Uyghur forced labor. 7. The Privatization of Governance Ignored: Corporations and billionaires (e.g., SpaceX, BlackRock) filling voids left by failing states (e.g., Starlink in Ukraine, company towns). Future Study: Whether this trend saved capitalism or accelerated democratic decay. Case: Charter cities like Honduras’ Próspera vs. Puerto Rico’s debt colonialism. Why Historians Will Care: These issues represent slow-moving tectonic shifts—less sensational than daily headlines but far more consequential. Media’s focus on "the story of the day" (e.g., Trump’s tweets, celebrity scandals) obscures the structural decay that historians will identify as root causes of 21st-century upheaval. Future scholars will likely frame this era as a pivotal "age of institutional collapse"—a warning about the costs of prioritizing process over agency, ideology over pragmatism, and short-term optics over long-term resilience.

I wish Joan Didion was still around because you know her essays on these LA wild fires would be straight bangers

Bring it back. 🐙

Wild

@Molson_Hart Where did you start to learn about Buffet’s approach? The annual letters?

About 10 years ago I dedicated myself to mastering Buffett and Munger’s competitive advantage with the intention of building the type of company Berkshire Hathaway would want to buy. I had been rejected by the venture capital community and thought “okay, I’ll create a moated cash flow machine.” Now that we have reached a true recession in my industry (consumer discretionary) and a lot of time has passed, I can tell you that those competitive advantage lessons from Buffett and Munger work. We are getting killed across the board. Sales are down across the brands, but the profits are significantly more resilient where we have competitive advantage. The brand that relied only on scale is rekt. The brand that had scale and some brand name recognition is less rekt but still rekt. The brand that had scale, distribution advantages, some name recognition, and unique hard to imitate designs with some ip is doing okay. The brand that had scale, weaker distribution, a patent, and very good brand recognition in its niche maintained its profits best. Again, all the sales are down, but the ones with weak competitive advantage started losing money whereas the ones with strong ones could maintain it by raising prices to adapt to Amazon’s newfound desire to squeeze as much profit as it could out of its seller community. You’d think that how to proceed is obvious but it’s really not. The weak competitive advantage brands sustain the fixed costs of the company. If you switch to just the best brands, you have to lay off staff and downgrade your operations like shrink your warehouse. The other problem is that even though the strong competitive advantage brand is a banger, there isn’t an obvious way to grow it and thus grow profits. When you’ve tapped out one distribution channel (basically, Amazon) it is not easy to master another. What can you take from this? 1. Learn the Buffett munger competitive advantage principles. It’ll help you no matter what you do. Even if you’re an employee it’ll tell you if need to switch job. 2. Times are real tough in consumer discretionary right now. Look at target’s stock price. 3. Focus on mastering one distribution channel and after achieving it expect to burn a lot of money and time trying to make money somewhere else. I have up to this point failed to do it with one brand but brand #2 is working, mainly because it was a natural transition while brand #1 will require innovation.

Antifragile T Shirt (Detroit Lions).