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Curious Worldview Podcast
A charismatic mix of cerebral thinking with straight talking
The best things I consumed this week…
Rupert Murdoch
One of the great Australians. Morality or judgement aside… irrespective of whether he is a figure for good or ill, there can be no arguing against him going down in history as one of the most powerful Australian’s whose ever lived.
The Fall / Michael Wolff - Michael Wolff is the definitive Rupert Murdoch biographer, a figure from which Michael has written several books. The Fall is the latest iteration of the Murdoch dynasty, overseeing the post Trump presidency, questions of succession and the enduring drama which Rupert Murdoch frames.
The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch / Paddy Manning and my #138 Paddy Manning On The Curious Worldview
Succession / HBO - (turns out a little more on the nose than I would have thought… although the rhetorical brilliance of Logan Roy flies in the face of a famously awkward, impersonal, bumbling Rupert)
Something I’ve produced …
At this very moment there are over 40,000,000 people around the world trapped in slavery. A number that is larger than any point before in history… and perniciously, a figure that grows everyday.
Millions of them are children. And then millions of those are living in the most devastating conditions imaginable.
Bruce Ladebu created and operates an initiative called Children’s Rescue where both he and his team identify instances of child slavery and then go and extract those very children from these environments
I’m going to write a post combining the worldview’s from the three episodes I’ve done on slavery (Lisa Kristine #160, Matthew Freidman #151) shortly…
‘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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