Nassim Taleb, a celebrated author and scholar on risk and uncertainty, dives into the nuances of modern life with rich insights. He explores the allure and dangers of conventional careers, emphasizing the pitfalls of golden handcuffs. Taleb highlights the importance of aphorisms for wisdom, critiques venture capital's pressures, and discusses the need for individual strategies in decision-making. He underscores practical experience over theory and advocates for a gathering mindset in entrepreneurship, making complex ideas approachable and relevant.

Join Nassim Taleb, author of the Incerto series, as he discusses the importance of 'skin in the game' in decision-making, ethics, employment, and taking risks. Explore concepts like the minority rule, virtues for young people, financial minimalism, and the illusion of business plans. Reflect on the relationship between belief and sacrifice in religion, ergodicity in risk management, and the evolution of rationality over time.

Author Nassim Taleb discusses the core concepts of antifragility, concavity vs convexity, wealth, barbell strategy, Lindy effect, and raising antifragile kids. Exploring the importance of stressors, optionality, and via negativa principle in becoming antifragile. The podcast delves into the ethics of antifragility, signal vs noise, and the Green Lumber Fallacy. Touching on modernity, political systems, and the importance of embracing uncertainty in life and business.

Author Nassim Taleb dives deep into the concept of Black Swans, human blindness to rare events, and the contrast between Mediocrustan and Extremistan. He discusses leveraging Black Swans, cognitive biases, and the importance of balance in managing risks. The podcast explores career choices, venture capital investments, life principles, and the impact of Black Swan events in various domains.

Nassim Taleb discusses randomness, luck, and decision-making. Topics include Monte Carlo simulation, survivorship bias, skewness, System-1 vs System-2 thinking, signal vs noise, heuristics, and the importance of the book 'Fooled by Randomness'.

The hosts discuss their plans to pivot and rebrand the podcast, focusing on dissecting Lindy books and creating timeless content. They talk about the sacrifices and financial implications of living a Lindy lifestyle. They also discuss their target audience's preferred level of analysis and detail. They emphasize the importance of creating timeless content and episodes with just the two of them. They discuss their plans for getting a buzz cut and a specific barber. They also deliberate on the possibility of rebranding the podcast to better align with their focus on dissecting Lindy books.

Jim O'Shaughnessy, a Wall Street legend and venture capitalist, discusses topics like investing in startups, psychological biases in decision-making, meme culture, and wealth creation. He explores the impact of technology and AI, resistance to innovation, and the influence of memes on human nature. Additionally, he emphasizes the importance of entertaining writing and critiques the educational system. The qualities of successful individuals, including curiosity and true leadership, are also highlighted in this engaging podcast.

Jonny is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sprout: an investment platform curating access to Venture Capital deals for private investors. We discussed numerous topics. Check the timestamps below for topics and enjoy the audio, or you can watch the video over on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/wXWu552WyVE Jonny's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-blausten-b5178141/?originalSubdomain=uk Jonny's personal Twitter: https://twitter.com/JBlausten Jonny's GunnerPunner Twitter: https://twitter.com/gunnerpunner Sprout website: https://www.viasprout.com/ 00:00 Teaser 01:18 Intros 04:19 Jonny's background 05:50 Jonny's early startups 12:32 Jonny's parents & real estate 16:02 Corporate life is charlatanism? 33:26 Sprout intro 36:39 Sprout in depth - the problem of access to the best deals 44:33 Sprout's vision and competition 48:37 UK vs US investors 52:06 Sprout community & education 57:42 VC fund access for retail investors 1:03:13 Sprout's 10 T's (assessing VC funds) 1:10:13 Why do VC funds fail and biases 1:17:19 Sprout's monetisation  1:20:52 Future for Sprout 1:25:25 Why is VC hard? 1:28:50 VCs are charlatans? 1:33:50 VC fund skillset diversification 1:45:24 Future of VC & solo GPs 1:54:35 Content creation & side hustles 2:06:48 Jonny's values & principles  2:15:22 Ending thoughts - Get in touch with us: Our website (all essays and podcasts): https://rationalvc.com  Our investment fund: https://rational.fund  Cyrus' Twitter: https://twitter.com/CyrusYari  Iman's Twitter: https://twitter.com/iman_olya  - Disclaimer: The materials provided are solely for informational or entertainment purposes and do not constitute investment or legal advice. All opinions expressed by hosts and guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of their employer(s). No copyright infringement intended. #sprout #JonnyBlausten #VentureCapital

Ben Awad is a YouTuber, software engineer, and the founder of VoidPet.com. He has 500k YouTube subscribers, 800k TikTok followers, and is known for his legendary coding tutorials and humorous and authentic videos. We discussed numerous topics. Check the timestamps below for topics and enjoy the audio, or you can watch the video over on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/BKhV-kPavnk  Ben's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bawad  Ben's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@benawad  Ben's Twitter: https://twitter.com/benawad  Ben's startup: https://voidpet.com/  Ben's GitHub: https://github.com/benawad  Ben's Discord: https://discord.gg/benawad  Ben's programmer outfit: https://youtube.com/shorts/-P418Qerexs?feature=share  00:00 Teaser  00:40 Intro (Guest & Co-host) 03:40 Ben's first line of code 06:00 Turning down FAANG and Leetcode 11:33 Layoffs / Finding jobs 13:15 Skin in the game 13:58 Interviews are broken 16:44 Advice to technical content creators 22:05 Being authentic online 27:57 Coding on Twitch vs YouTube 30:10 Why you should create on TikTok 33:25 Hating Android development / Loving React 36:00 Tech stack 38:18 GitHub Copilot 39:35 Tech stack again 40:39 Deno 42:30 The AI discussion 44:10 VoidPet (Ben's startup) 49:40 Rejected by YC / fundraise vs bootstrap 56:29 Career advice to newbies 1:00:09 Ben's drip 1:01:42 Saffron App 1:04:29 Ben's mentors 1:06:25 Wrap up  - Get in touch with us: Our website (all essays and podcasts): https://rationalvc.com  Our investment fund: https://rational.fund  Cyrus' Twitter: https://twitter.com/CyrusYari  Parsa's Twitter: https://twitter.com/pzrsaa  Parsa's website: https://parsam.io  Iman's Twitter: https://twitter.com/iman_olya  - Disclaimer: The materials provided are solely for informational or entertainment purposes and do not constitute investment or legal advice. All opinions expressed by hosts and guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of their employer(s). No copyright infringement intended. #benawad #coding #programmer

Jack Raines is the fastest growing finance & money blogger on the planet right now. He created the Young Money blog (https://www.youngmoney.co/) just 15 months ago and has already amassed 30,000+ subscribers. He has already been offered book deals by world class publishers. Leverage ftw. We discussed numerous topics. Check the timestamps below for topics and enjoy the audio, or you can watch the video over on our YouTube channel where we recorded this in person with Jack: https://youtu.be/F56YIktbMHY Jack's newsletter: https://youngmoney.co Jack's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jack_Raines Jack's travel blog: https://www.backpackin.blog/ 00:00 Teaser 01:24 Jack intro 04:29 Jack's childhood 07:49 Deported from Norway 11:23 Vagabonding and European life 21:00 Trading at 21 years old 27:25 F U Money 35:40 Stick men drawings 36:58 6 types of wealth 43:49 Crypto and Balaji 58:00 Young Money monetisation 1:03:18 Writing a book 1:07:23 LinkedIn vs Twitter 1:11:13 Distribution 1:13:50 Pitching your work and meeting Morgan Housel 1:17:25 How Jack writes 1:22:20 Inspiring writers 1:26:27 Book shaming and meaningful insults 1:30:57 Opportunity cost of everything 1:35:32 Value in MBAs 1:40:35 Jack's favourite books 1:41:47 Dating in US vs UK - Get in touch with us: YouTube: https://youtube.com/rationalvc  Our website (essays and podcasts): https://rationalvc.com Our investment fund: https://rational.fund Cyrus' Twitter: https://twitter.com/CyrusYari Iman's Twitter: https://twitter.com/iman_olya - Disclaimer: The materials provided are solely for informational or entertainment purposes and do not constitute investment or legal advice. All opinions expressed by hosts and guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of their employer(s). No copyright infringement intended. #finance #money #blogger