Episode 593:  Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Jason Fried ( https://x.com/jasonfried ) open up about personal finances, raising kids around wealth and dealing with risk. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00 ) Sam and Jason play Would You Rather...

(5:15 ) Loosening the grip on the stick

(12:35 ) The pale blue dot

(14:03 ) Why does the businessworld deserve our best lessons?

(18:30 ) Early days vs. vs. middle days vs later days

(24:47 ) "A founder's job is to inject risk"

(29:36 ) “Cool wears off but useful never does”

(31:07 ) Striking balance with a business partner

(34:14 ) The value of talking about money

(37:28 ) Navigating luxury with kids

(40:08 ) Midwestern values on blast

(43:39 ) The truth about luck

(46:55 ) Staying up vs. staying off

(49:45 ) New insights from old biographies

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• [Steal This] Get our proven writing frameworks that have made us millions https://clickhubspot.com/copy

• The Most Important Thing - https://tinyurl.com/9ym3xw5b

• Peter Lynch books - https://tinyurl.com/2nf87pzb

• The Pale Blue Dot - https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot

• The Messy Middle = https://tinyurl.com/2paw5jmk

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

• Newspapers.com - http://newpapers.com/

• Pessimists Archive - https://pessimistsarchive.org/

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

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