T.T. 36: Reflections, Roles, and Models for Deliberate Scaling
Bookending this first year of "Thoreau Thursdays" with renewed emphasis and an expanding vision
Hola amigos,
Feliz navidad from Berlín, El Salvador!
This is my final “Thoreau Thursdays” post of the year.
I started this Substack series — my first ever weekly newsletter/blog — back on the first Thursday of 2023.
I’ve missed a few weeks here or there…
36 out of 52 = 69% success rate
(I promise that final outcome of 69 wasn’t deliberate lol)
But all things considered, I’ve managed to be pretty consistent. And I’ve experienced a huge amount of personal growth as a direct result!
I’m tempted to do a year-in-review post… a detailed tactical retrospective about habits, progress, and more.
I’m also tempted to skip ahead to teasers from my big announcement post next week…
But there are too many other topics — more external, and more immediately relevant to the moment — that I’d rather try to weave together this week instead:
Morgan Housel on Tim Ferriss’ podcast
Michael Malice on Jordan Peterson’s podcast
Giacomo Zucco on Knut Svanholm’s podcast
Gary Cardone’s recent BTC vs Solana Space (I spoke in it)
Zuby on “Blue Collar Bitcoin” podcast
BTC Sessions podcast: Christmas stream
My friend Charlie’s new Substack (first post tomorrow!)
But first, a brief music analogy:
I grew up listening to classic rock.
Listening to old songs again and again comes naturally. If I like a song, it doesn’t matter whether it was written/published four centuries ago, four decades ago, four years ago, or four days ago.
And just because I’ve heard it once doesn’t make it crazy for me to want to hear it again and again.
Same with podcasts that I find particularly insightful.
One that I’ve previously mentioned repeatedly was James Clear’s appearance on the Tim Ferriss podcast from back in January.
I’ve never mentioned any other Tim Ferriss episodes, so (partially to make it clear that it’s not the only one I’ve heard) here’s another extremely useful episode he did more recently.
It’s from two months ago, and I just listened to it for the first time this morning:
Morgan Housel — bestselling author: “The Psychology of Money”
On the podcast of Tim Ferriss — bestselling author: “The 4-Hour Workweek”
Phenomenally insightful clip segment.
I’ll break it down in more detail at some point in a future post.
But speaking of authors who have each published multiple bestselling books, who have also each grown their own huge podcast audiences:
Michael Malice on Jordan Peterson’s podcast
The world’s most popular public intellectual hosting the world’s most prominent anarchist* intellectual…
It’s worth watching.
* anarchist in the Rothbardian sort of sense… NOT the BLM rioting sense
Giacomo Zucco on Knut Svanholm
Lots of interesting stuff in this.
A great breakdown of the Ordinals and OCEAN mining “spam vs censorship” debate.
But also — more interesting to me — Giacomo is one of the world’s foremost Bitcoin educators and entrepreneurs.
Knut is one of the world’s foremost Bitcoin authors.
In addition to mentioning that new Malice + Peterson episode near the end of this new “Freedom Footprint Show” interview…
They also tease a cool announcement for a course on Knut’s “Praxeology” book!
I look forward to hearing more about that as they announce further details.
Gary Cardone vs sh!tcoin casino temptation
Institutional investors have a wide range of perspectives.
And everyone comes at Bitcoin from different backgrounds… with different priorities.
When I first met Gary Cardone in a Space on October 5th — reading and discussing the Bitcoin whitepaper (now 15 years old!) — one of the other maxis on the Speaker stage warned everyone that Gary and his brother (real estate mogul Grant Cardone) were only in it for fiat-denominated gains.
Was he right?
Time will tell.
I haven’t done a ton of research into the Cardones yet — I intend to do more before joining one of Gary’s Spaces again when I find a good time soon — but it’s interesting to see their Bitcoin learning journeys unfold in public.
On a toooootally unrelated note…
Here’s another clip from Morgan Housel’s recent return appearance on Tim Ferriss’ podcast.
Specifically about avalanches and how Morgan narrowly avoided an incident in which two of his skiing friends as teenagers died shortly after he had left early.
I’m definitely not implying a morbid analogy about shitcoin pump-and-dump scams ending with “rug pulls” that often destroy people’s life savings…
Anyway… on a lighter note:
I was gonna explain more, but it’s already after midnight, so I’ll wrap up.
TLDR:
I spoke with Zuby recently on Spaces With Josie.
Soon after, he went on the “Blue Collar Bitcoin” podcast.
Near the end of that great interview, Zuby mentioned Grant Cardone’s book “10x” as one of his top three recommendations.
I’ll probably circle back to this connection at some point. Note to self.
Bonus: Unbelievable engagement stats for Josie TRHL
“Metrics shown for the last 7 days”
Impressions: 29 MILLION
The spike in engagement was because of a dumb beer calendar controversy that’s not worth explaining here.
But still… it demonstrates the unbelievable scale of viral reach on X.
For context, 29 million would be the third largest state in the entire U.S. by population size:
So how many electoral college votes does Josie get now after last week? Lol
Anyway, that’s almost it for this week.
One last shoutout:
Charlie Stevens is one of my Bitcoiner friends here in Berlín.
Among other noteworthy qualities, he was a Speaker at the Adopting Bitcoin conference in November, and he’s been on the Bitcoin Beach podcast.
I encouraged him to start his own weekly Substack series on Fridays.
Subscribe here for his first post tomorrow!
Oh and one last link:
BTC Sessions — 6 hour 39 minute Christmas stream
Phenomenal series of back-to-back-to-back Bitcoiner panels!
JeThoreau@getalby.com
(For optional tips… no pressure)
(DIFFERENT from a “normal” email address, just FYI)
For those who already own their own social identities…
I follow back all fellow early adopters using Nostr:
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Peace, amigos.
“The global peaceful monetary revolution will not be centralized.”