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First Weekender Of 2025!
Gary Stevenson, Congo, Conway & Project Brazen
Curious Worldview
March 08, 2025
Curious Worldview Podcast
A charismatic mix of cerebral thinking with straight talking
The best things I consumed this last few weeks…
Project Brazen - Special Shoutout
Project Brazen’s ‘Whale Hunting’ which includes their ‘Weekender’ (direct inspiration for this newsletter’s name) are among the few emails I anticipate every week. Project Brazen is the brainchild of Bradley Hope and Tom Wright. Bradley Hope’s been a guest on the podcast several times, see his latest appearance on MBS.
In short - I couldn’t recommend any higher newsletter to subscribe to than this…
Gary Stevenson
He’s been blowing up youtube in the last few months, but this guys book is terrific. I chopped it in a couple of days.
Ed Conway
Former guest on the pod doing what he does best. Signal through the noise communication. In this clip he’s breaking down defence spending raw and as a percentage of GDP across major countries.
The Rest Is History - Congo
One of my favourite podcasts covering in four episodes one of my favourite regions in the world. Congo has been a perennial theme on the podcast with Tim Butcher’s episode being the one that stands out most. But in response to listening to this Rest Of History pod, I reached out to Adam Hochschild, whose book is the basis of one of the episodes. He was a guest on the pod this week. Will be published shortly!
Something I’ve produced …
There’s been a few this year… all geopolitical (which I guess is a reflection of the current moment). Now I’m in Sydney I’ve teed up a number of extremely exciting guests here whom I will be speaking with over the next few weeks. Nothing geopolitical, but people I’ve anticipated for years since the podcast inception.
‘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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