68: Rules Aren't Real 📐
Dispensing with the status quo is the key to escaping mediocrity.
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🎙️ 143: Why Playing It Safe Could Be the Riskiest Career Move (ft. Taylor Pearson)
David speaks with Taylor Pearson, an author, investor, and principal at Mutiny Fund. Taylor wrote The End of Jobs, a book about how work is changing and what that means for people building their careers today. These days, he focuses on decision-making, risk, and helping investors think about uncertainty through...
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Leave the bones behind: Identifying Good Advice and Making it Useful
Not all advice is good advice. Daphne E. Jones, the ex-SVP and Chief Information Officer of GE Healthcare, once framed this perfectly: “When you’re offered advice, take the meat but not the bones.” - Daphne E. Jones 💡 Advice is incredibly useful - but it’s a mistake to think...
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We all have goals that require some discipline, but once one thing goes wrong it can be easy to let everything else fall apart. You're on a diet and you have a bad day. You miss a gym session and break a solid streak. You have a lapse...
🎙️ 142: From eBay seller to a publicly listed brand empire (ft. Colin Landforce)
David speaks with Colin Landforce, a serial entrepreneur who started his business journey as a teenager and went on to build successful ventures across multiple industries, from tech to cannabis. Colin is the founder of LTRMN, a multi-million dollar consumer cannabis product company, and creator of Cut30, a 30-day bootcamp...
An honourable thief: The Secret to Long-Term Success
At the end of the game show Golden Ball, the two final contestants have to decide whether to steal or split the winnings. The problem is, they have no idea what the other person will pick. It’s the classic prisoners dilemma. 💡If you pick split and the other person...
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