Delighted that O'Shaughnessy Ventures had the opportunity to sponsor the transcript for this podcast, wonderful conversation 👇🏻

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Fantastic lunch with my friend George Mack who is so full of good ideas he left my head spinning with so many great things to consider working on or building! He calls it 'Treadmill versus couch' friends--stick with the ones who energize you so much you could run hours after!

Uncertainty is where alpha resides, stay frosty and keep your eyes open

'The only reliable tracker we have is Circana BookScan, which logs point of sale—i.e., customer purchases at stores, websites, etc.—for most of the print market. BookScan counted 767 million print sales in 2023.'
~Lincoln Michel

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Interesting Person from History

Cleopatra: The Last Queen of Egypt

'Introduction:

Cleopatra VII, the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, remains a figure of mystery and intrigue. Her life, a blend of power, romance, and political drama, has made her a subject…

Two thoughts from Paul Watzlawick

“The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.”

“In human relations, all prediction is connected in one way or another with the phenomenon of trust.”

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Throwback to The Future of Publishing: A Festival in New York City. Niko McCarty 🧫, founding editor Asimov Press, discusses the North Star metric.

'Professor Hinton hopes that he is proving his point that AI needs heavy handed regulation but he's proved the opposite.'
~Daniel Jeffries

“Value resides not in the thing itself, but in the minds of those who value it.”
~Rory Sutherland

'If you break the laws of God, you go to Hell. If you break the laws of people, you go to prison. If you break the laws of physics, you go to Sweden and they give you a Nobel Prize.'
~Arkady

Interesting Person from History

The Enduring Legacy of Cormac McCarthy: A Study of Darkness and Beauty

'Introduction:

Cormac McCarthy, one of the most significant American novelists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, has carved a unique niche in the landscape of…

Main takeaways from my talk for Interintellect 🧭:

- the U.S. economy thrives on immigrant talent. 55% of tech unicorns have been built by immigrants
- over $240 billion in economic value has been generated by immigrant talent in the U.S.
- immigrants are almost twice as…

Love seeing things like this

'There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.'
~Ray Bradbury

Two thoughts from Illya Prigogine

'The main character of any living system is openness.'

“The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism.”

Jim O'Shaughnessy O'Shaughnessy Ventures ❤️❤️❤️

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