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Curious Worldview Weekender (Early August)
Napoleon, Churchill & Negotiation?
Curious Worldview
August 03, 2024
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The best things I consumed this week(s)…
Winston Churchill - Andrew Roberts
A couple of months ago when Joaquin Phoenix’s Napoleon came out I went on a Napoleon kick consuming both Andrew Roberts biography of the man but as well a (much better than the movie) 4-part PBS documentary on historic Frenchman (sus it out on youtube).
Turns out Andrew Roberts is a formidable historian. He’s written about plenty of GOATs but none as captivating, quotable and entertaining as the great Winston.
Andrew Roberts - Winston Churchill Biography
Andrew Roberts Interview w/Triggernometry on Churchill
Umberto Eco
Nassim Taleb (and I’m paraphrasing here) commented that Dan Brown ripped off the ancient societies and conspiracy style of Umberto for his books, Da-Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, etc.
Umberto was in a sense a real life Robert Langdon. He was a professor of language, semiotics, medieval literature, chaos theory and the best of Italian cliché.
Foucault's Pendulum is a medieval conspiracy that get’s a bit out of hand. I loved it.
Something I’ve produced …
Never Split The Difference deserves its place as one of the best selling negotiation books of all time.
I’m stoked to get to feature Chris Voss on the podcast, the force behind ‘Never Split The Difference’ which is a series of highest stakes negotiations broken down into their parts for examination. Chris was the FBI’s lead negotiator.
Hostage negotiation in Haiti? Terrorism in the Philippines? Egos, money and conflicting interests in a boardroom? Even walking a bank robber from the ledge.
What are the phrases and psychology Chris uses in his communication to get the outcome he wants? And where could it be relevant to you?
‘Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome’ - Charlie Munger (goat of pithy quotes)
I want to grow this newsletter and I want to grow this podcast. Typically, fellow creators in my position will offer you (my dear reader/listener) some reward whereby, if you refer x amount of people I will send you y reward.
For every 5 people you bring to the newsletter, I’d send you custom merch (or something along these lines)
Now, as you know, I work full time at Quartr which means after a long days work, I am booking, researching, recording, editing and publishing a podcast plus (everything on this newsletter), and therefore only left with a few minutes for everything else that makes up a life.
And as such, setting up some type of rewards program hasn’t eventuated. BUT with that being said, I would nonetheless try to do something to incentivise you to share the show.
For the sake of transparency - about 5000 people follow the podcast across both Spotify & Apple, and several hundred subscribe to this newsletter. Not everyone listens to every episode, but so far in a 4 year lifetime I’m extremely chuffed with every new person - and I notice every. single. new. person…
To get to the point where things are monetised I’d say tripling both of those metrics is necessary.
But for now, all I can offer is camaraderie - if you are reading this now you are, and will remain the most important viewership I will ever get… and this is because you are the early adopters. So all I can do is ask… if you enjoy this and if you know anyone who think might enjoy it as well - share it with them one at a time and share it on your socials to the masses. Follow the podcast wherever you listen to it and subscribe to this newsletter and bare with me, not everything will be directly interesting to you, but I endeavour that some of it definitely will be.
So pump your juice, send this to all your mates - and one day you’ll be able to say you were onto all this ‘Curious Worldview’ stuff from day 1.
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