Dickie's Digest - Terrible Investment Advice, Ideas, Lessons, Questions, and Coinbase
Hey my friends, happy Sunday.
Let’s get right into it. In this week’s Digest:
🎧🚀 Bilal Zaidi, Jack Butcher, and Trung Phan with Terrible Investment Advice
🎧💰 The All-In Podcast on Coinbase and Capitalism with Brad Gerstner
🧵💎 George Mack’s Top 0.1% Ideas. When someone like George Mack (already very high-signal) publishes a thread of ideas he thinks are the highest-signal, my ears perk up. There are eight gems in this thread, my favorite being the Shaan Club, CEOs > Presidents, and Write Before Action.
🧵📈 Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s Lessons From Age 36. I’m a huge fan of what Patrick O’Shaughnessy is building at Colossus. This thread of lessons he’s learned along the way is filled with valuable advice. A few of my takeaways: always have your own project, use it to learn the skills of building, creating, managing, negotiating, and selling, and think equity first, dividends later.
🎧🚀 Bilal Zaidi, Jack Butcher, and Trung Phan with Terrible Investment Advice. So much of what I listen to on a weekly basis is actionable and focused on learning something new. But I’m looking to have a few weekly listens that are purely entertainment, and this one checked that box. My friends Bilal, Jack, and Trung banter for 90 minutes about NFTs, Crypto, and Tim Ferriss and Balaji’s conversation. Highly recommend this one.
🎧💰 The All-In Podcast on Coinbase and Capitalism with Brad Gerstner. If the All-In Podcast is not yet a staple of your podcast feed, you're missing out. It’s the perfect mix of banter and thoughtful conversation from four dudes who are out there with skin in the game. This one takes a deep dive into the $COIN direct listing, struggles with the vaccine rollout, and the future of capitalism. Highly recommend adding this one to your weekly rotation.
📖 ⁉️ 30 Questions Better than “How are you?” If you know me, you know I’m a big fan of asking better questions, both to myself and others. This diagram breaks down 30 of them that are better than “How are you?” A few of my favorites: “How have you been sleeping?”, “What are you struggling with most at the moment?” and “What’s in your browser tabs these days?”
🔥 Last week’s most popular link: 📒📊Julian’s Growth Marketing Handbook.
Scroll the replies of this one. Such a great example of constraints leading to creativity. Over 1000 replies of tremendous advice, all in three words or less.
That’s it for this week. As always, I appreciate your time and attention. Shoot anything you find interesting this week my way.
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Have an epic week.
Dickie
