PODCAST · business
The Elevator
by David Sherry
Our mission is to help you elevate your skills, expand your network, and enrich your life, one insightful audio journal at a time. davidsherry.substack.com
Episodes
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AI is Turning Content Marketers into Developers (and Vice Versa)
The Elevator: Curated inputs to evolve your business and elevatr your lifestyle. “This took me less than twenty minutes to code.” I received a call from my friend, Tim, a New Zealand-based unicorn. I refer to him as a unicorn because he is the best combination of a growth marketer and web…
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The Financialization of Everything: Understanding Attention Markets to Seek Truth
Welcome to my first “Video Elevator” – where I break down what I’m seeing in a digestible video format that helps you read the tea leaves. I’ll scroll through a few relevant links and talk to you about where I see things going. My goal is to help you build an incredible lifestyle and business in...
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The Elevator: Kaizen, Decisiveness, Quitting Email, Wisdom from Aging
The Elevator is a resource for Entrepreneurs sharing experiments, experiences, books and tools that elevate your lifestyle. Cafe: * I spent last week at Permissionless in SLC learning more about the current state of the Crypto x Energy x AI market. * There are some great emerging hedge fund...
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The Elevator: Getting Outside More, Embracing Sunlight, and Wearing Glasses at Bedtime.
Hey and welcome to The Elevator from David Sherry – A weekly curation of products, services, and opportunities that help entrepreneurs see the bigger picture of creating a unique life and business. Subscribe Here What I’m Paying Attention To When I started my Tiktok account I wanted to learn how…
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What's next for the retail investor?
In 2018/2019 I felt certain that the “retail” investor was on the rise. I was extremely excited about all of the new applications being built to service this class, and even started a 10-part podcast series documenting apps like Robinhood, Public, etc. My thesis was basically that, for the first...
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Using Trend Reports Effectively with Trend Forecaster Matt Klein
The “Trend Council” is a series of interviews I’m testing via Death to Stock with the people who are building what’s next in culture and brand. We dig in through short-form, curated interviews to bring you an updated way of thinking and acting as you build your brand. In today’s edition, I have...
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Symbolic Moments and Signals
Many investors look to “Counter Signals” in the market to tell them when to fade the crowd. The examples tend to be from media that is “Supposed” to be intelligent: Time Magazine, or The Economist. For lack of a better term, there is the idea of the IYI that Nassim Taleb writes about, the...
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Here Comes Disruption
Disruption of money. The immaculate inception moment of Bitcoin over a decade ago marked a new paradigm, one in which all global currencies now face disruptive competition from digital-native currencies. This competition is playing out as we speak, and slowly balances and dislodges the monopoly…
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Slowing your pace (Market thoughts)
Since mid-2020 to Jan. 2022… we’ve been in strong market conditions for risk assets due to massive stimulus and tailwinds from lockdowns. We were in a period where our trades were clear, and working. You could jump from Layer-1 to Layer-1. You could mint and flip JPEGs you knew nothing about. You...
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Cross-Investing These 4 Asset Classes
More than ever, we have new options for investing. What used to just bonds became stocks and bonds, and then become stocks, bonds, derivatives, Forex etc. and now to crypto. It’s to the investor’s benefit that many different investment opportunities continue to emerge. My excitement with crypto…
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Crypto Revelations and Impacts pt 2. (5-9) ~15 min audio
Pre S: This is part 2 of a podcast series on big ideas in Crypto. You can Check out Part 1, takeaways 1-4 right here if you’d like to get the initial context. Now, on with Takeaway 5. Takeaway 5: Always be Incentivizing. The mechanism of marketing in the future is to continually think up how to...
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Crypto's Impacts and Revelations - Podcast Pt. 1 (~15 min) takeaways 1 to 4
You can listen to me talk through these 4 theses in more detail by listening above (~15 min) PRE-S: Unplugging and learnings from time away. In my last post, experiments in cutting inputs, I mentioned that I was away on a bit of a retreat to a cabin in Northern California. The plan was to unplug,...
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Media x Finance Tea Leaves
Hey All, I have so many ideas right now but it’s tough to get it all on paper in a really succinct way. So I apologize if this jumps around a bit. Just sharing the tea leaves. Almost better is that I can share links with you from what I’m reading/listening to. My Telegram has a “read-only”…
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The Pseudonym Call Option
I’ve always studied and obsessed over brands. Brands encapsulate an idea that is difficult to describe in any short amount of time - for example, what is the substance that actually makes up the brand that is “Nike”? Nike is the encapsulation of all actions, decisions, products, and intentions…
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My Filter for Evaluating NFT's
You’ve probably seen the internet buzzing about NFT’s. Non-Fungible Tokens are a feature of Blockchains, they give us the ability to have a unique identifier for digital goods. The internet’s core feature was replication (all information, replicated freely across the web) but now we can do the...
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Saturday Riff: We're Finally Getting off The Treadmill – Whether We Like it or Not
Hey All, this is a longer riff on a broad thesis I have tying together a few ideas from economics and some other books I’m reading. It’s a thesis I’m playing with right now that explains some of what we’re seeing in the Corona world + beyond. It’s less brand-focused but talks some about the…
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Speaking the "Language" of Distribution Channels
How do you identify and select the right distribution channel for your message? 1/ Every Distribution channel has a “language” that it speaks which is hardcoded by features (think Instagram Square, Twitter 180 characters) and then emergent via users breaking those features (think uploading…
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Going Beyond the "Cold Start" Problem for Media Creators.
In this audio note, I discuss the recent phase of media Production… * Medium “thinkpieces” with clickbait listicles. * Twitter Fortune Cookie Lone Wolves * Substack Intelligentsia * FRIENDS style hangouts and discussions. (We are here) To move beyond the cold start problem for attracting an...
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Emotionally, Then Technically
I hosted a Live interview with Andrew Tate from Animalz. (link to interview) Animalz does content for companies like Zendesk, Google, Intercom, and Profitwell. I was curious about their general philosophy and approach, and one question I asked about indirectly was clickbait. "What is the...
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Counterintuitive Brand Signals: Pricing in a Down Market.
Warren Buffet, on bear markets, said: “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” What he failed to mention is that… “And who’s been swimming with life vests and Jet Skiis.” As I said in 2 New Brand Obsessions, when the down market hits, there is both a race to the...
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Counterintuitive ideas about building digital communities.
In this audio note, I talk about the dynamic of building an online digital community in terms of building quality. This is mostly for higher-quality, curated online communities that are thinking about their growth. I also talk about a counterintuitive challenge that community builders face, and…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Our mission is to help you elevate your skills, expand your network, and enrich your life, one insightful audio journal at a time.
davidsherry.substack.com
HOSTED BY
David Sherry
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Our mission is to help you elevate your skills, expand your network, and enrich your life, one insightful audio journal at a time. davidsherry.substack.com
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