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The best things I consumed this week… (a week of Rory’s)
Rory Stewart
How have I not heard of this guy before coming to London this week? He’s got to be one of the most impressive people with a huge public platform at the moment…
The Places In Between - Rory’s memoir walking across Afghanistan shortly after 9/11… I picked this up at Waterstone’s in Piccadilly (which turns out is the biggest book store in Europe)
Rory Stewart lecturing at Yale on Economic Development. I listened to this on the long train to Chesham to interview John Christensen.
Politics On The Edge - Rory’s frighteningly frank political memoir that confirms politics at its most cynical… narrow behaviour and a cliche of self interest. (I chopped this on audible with a 2 hour delay on my Ryanair return to Stockholm haha)
Rory Sutherland
Rory on Invest Like The Best… one of the best interviews of Rory in my opinion (… Rory’s first appearance on my podcast, and another coming soon)
Something I’ve produced …
From Churchill To Trump & Cicero To Hitchens… one of my most enjoyable podcasts to record to date!
Also, I wrote an essay on the ideas discovered in Sam’s book.
‘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 (merch or something).
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 and 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, share it on your socials, share it to the masses.
AND pump your juice! (that means a 5 star review)
Legends ;)
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