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The Nerd Assassin

by Joshua Schmidt

My name is Joshua Schmidt. This podcast is named The Nerd Assassin because it is a combination of all the interests I have. Partially, my mixed martial arts background which included Wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and MMA fights. The assassin part. But my style was always very cerebral and I am currently a Software Engineer Expect an eclectic podcast covering many of my hobbies including religion, mindset, cooking, beer, cocktails, whiskey, financial topics, and software engineering. The podcast will continue to change and evolve as I do.

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Episodes

  1. Dapper Dino Discussion #2 - GOTMokle & DadCaptain

    Dapper Dinos is a play-to-earn blockchain ecosystem. You can breed, stake, play, and earn with your Dino NFTs. You will be able to earn, collect, trade, and be rewarded with two different NFT tokens. Those tokens are $FOSSIL, the governance token, and $BONE which is the utility token. In this...

  2. Dapper Dino Discussion #1 - AlbinoRyno

    Dapper Dinos is a play-to-earn blockchain ecosystem. You can breed, stake, play, and earn with your Dino NFTs. You will be able to earn, collect, trade, and be rewarded with two different NFT tokens. Those tokens are $FOSSIL, the governance token, and $BONE which is the utility token. In this...

  3. Hour 4 - Cryptocurrency Wallets

    I have thought about investing in cryptocurrencies and NFTs but have not been able to pull the trigger. This podcast is my way of investing with something bigger than money. I am investing my time by spending an hour per day reading and learning about all things blockchain. This may include...

  4. Hour 3 - How is Ethereum different than Bitcoin?

    I have thought about investing in cryptocurrencies and NFTs but have not been able to pull the trigger. This podcast is my way of investing with something bigger than money. I am investing my time by spending an hour per day reading and learning about all things blockchain. This may include...

  5. Hour 2 - What is a chain of blocks?

    I have thought about investing in cryptocurrencies and NFTs but have not been able to pull the trigger. This podcast is my way of investing with something bigger than money. I am investing my time by spending an hour per day reading and learning about all things blockchain. This may include...

  6. Hour 1 - Blockchain Background/History

    I have thought about investing in cryptocurrencies and NFTs but have not been able to pull the trigger. This podcast is my way of investing with something bigger than money. I am investing my time by spending an hour per day reading and learning about all things blockchain. This may include...

  7. Hour 0 - Blockchain Learn-along

    I have thought about investing in cryptocurrencies and NFTs but have not been able to pull the trigger. This podcast is my way of investing with something bigger than money. I am investing my time by spending an hour per day reading and learning about all things blockchain. This may include...

  8. Financial Friday #15 - Restraints Upon Importation

    "Each nation has been made to look with an invidious eye upon the prosperity of all the nations with which it trades, and to consider their gain as its own loss. Commerce, which ought naturally to be, among nations, as among individuals, a bond of union and friendship, has become the most fertile...

  9. Financial Friday #14 - Of The Different Progress of Opulence In Different Nations

    "Had human institutions, therefore, never disturbed the natural course of things, the progressive wealth and increase of the towns would, in every political society, be consequential, and in proportion to the improvement and cultivation of the territory or country." ### This Episode ### Chapter…

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  10. Financial Friday #13 - Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock

    "The quantity of industry, not only increases in every country with the increase of the stock which employs it, but because of the increase, the same quantity of industry produce a much greater quantity of work." ### This Episode ### Chapter 1: Of the Division of Stock Stock divides itself into 3...

  11. Financial Friday #12 - Of Rent of Land

    "The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from [employers], ought always to be listened to with great precaution." ### This Episode ### Land is a naturally monopoly price. This causes rent to behave completely differently than profits or wages. Some produce always affords…

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  12. Spiritual Sunday #12 - Ecclesiastes 12

    "Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also imparted knowledge to the people. He pondered and searched out and set in order many proverbs." This episode is a Read-A-Long. I focus on Chapter 12 of Ecclesiastes. After a few verses, I will take a break and interject my thoughts. Ecclesiastes helps…

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  13. Financial Friday #11 - Inequalities Of Wages and Profit Occasioned by the Policy of Countries

    "The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbor , is a plain violation of this most sacred property." ### This Episode ### The policies in…

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  14. Spiritual Sunday #11 - Ecclesiastes 11

    "Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land." This episode is a Read-A-Long. I focus on Chapter 11 of Ecclesiastes. After a few verses, I will take a break and interject my thoughts. Ecclesiastes helps set proper expectations for life. Solomon is...

  15. Financial Friday #10 - Inequalities Of Wages and Profit Arising from the Nature of the Employments

    "If in the same neighborhood, there was an employment evidently either more or less advantageous than the rest, so many people would crowd into the one case, and so many would desert it in the other, that its advantages would soon return the level of the other employments. This at least would be...

  16. Spiritual Sunday #10 - Ecclesiastes 10

    "The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." This episode is a Read-A-Long. I focus on Chapter 10 of Ecclesiastes. After a few verses, I will take a break and interject my thoughts. Ecclesiastes helps set proper expectations for life. Solomon is one of the...

  17. Financial Friday #9 - Of the Profits of Stock

    "A great stock, with small profits, generally increases faster than a small stock with great profits." ### This Episode ### Like wages, rising and falling profits are correlated with the increasing or declining state of society. However the affect is different. As a country is increasing, the...

  18. Spiritual Sunday #9 - Ecclesiastes 9

    "Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun." This episode is a Read-A-Long. I focus on Chapter 9 of Ecclesiastes. After a few...

  19. Financial Friday #8 - Of the Wages of Labour

    "The money price of labour is necessarily regulated by two circumstances; the demand for labour, and the price of the necessaries and conveniences of life." ### This Episode ### Originally, all of the produce went to pay for labour. However, this state will not last long as soon as either land is...

  20. Spiritual Sunday #8 - Ecclesiastes 8

    "There is a proper time and procedure for every matter" This episode is a Read-A-Long. I focus on Chapter 8 of Ecclesiastes. After a few verses, I will take a break and interject my thoughts. Ecclesiastes helps set proper expectations for life. Solomon is one of the greatest philosophers to have...

  21. Financial Friday #7 - Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities

    "The price of monopoly is upon every occasion the highest which can be got. ... The natural price, or the price of free competition, on the contrary, is the lowest which can be taken." ### This Episode ### Every society has an average rate for wages, profits, and rent -- the natural rates. The...

  22. Spiritual Sunday #7 - Ecclesiastes 7

    "When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other." This episode is a Read-A-Long. I focus on Chapter 7 of Ecclesiastes. After a few verses, I will take a break and interject my thoughts. Ecclesiastes helps set proper expectations for...

  23. Financial Friday #6 - Of the Components of the Price of Commodities

    "All taxes, and all the revenue which is founded upon them, all salaries, pensions, and annuities of every kind, are ultimately derived from some one or other of those three original sources of revenue, and are paid either immediately or mediately from the wages of labour, the profits of stock…

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  24. Spiritual Sunday #6 - Ecclesiastes 6

    "For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow?" This episode is a Read-A-Long. I focus on Chapter 6 of Ecclesiastes. After a few verses, I will take a break and interject my thoughts. Ecclesiastes helps set proper…

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  25. Financial Friday #5 - Of the Real and Nominal Price of Commodities

    "Labour alone, never varying in its own value, is the ultimate and real standard by which the value of all commodities can at all times and places be estimated and compared. It is their real price; money is their nominal price only." ### This Episode ### Value of a commodity, not being consumed…

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  26. Spiritual Sunday #5 - Ecclesiastes 5

    "Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income." This episode is a Read-A-Long. I focus on Chapter 5 of Ecclesiastes. After a few verses, I will take a break and interject my thoughts. Ecclesiastes helps set proper expectations for life. Solomon…

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  27. Financial Friday #4 - Of the Origin and Use of Money

    "Every man lives by exchanging, or becomes in some measure a merchant, and society itself grows." ### This Episode ### A very small portion of our labour is put towards goods we consume. We barter or trade for almost everything we need. In case, you don't have something I need right now, I need…

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  28. Spiritual Sunday #4 - Ecclesiastes 4

    "Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up." This episode is a Read-A-Long. I focus on Chapter 4 of Ecclesiastes. After a few verses, I will take a…

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  29. Financial Friday #3 - That the Division of Labour is Limited by the Extent of the Market

    "There are some some sorts of industry, even of the lowest kind, which can be carried on no where but in a great town." ### This Episode ### The size of the market is a limiting factor to division of labour. If it takes more expense to travel, the price of goods to weight ratio need to be…

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  30. Spiritual Sunday #3 - Ecclesiastes 3

    "I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him." This episode is a Read-A-Long. I focus on Chapter 3 of Ecclesiastes. After a few verses, I will take a break and interject my thoughts.…

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  31. Financial Friday #2 - Of The Principle Which Gives Occasion To The Division of Labour

    "He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favor, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them." ### This Episode ### The division of labour occurs from human nature and only exists in humans. The division of labour is a...

  32. Spiritual Sunday #2 - Ecclesiastes 2

    This episode is a Read-A-Long. I focus on Chapter 2 of Ecclesiastes. After a few verses, I will take a break and interject my thoughts. Ecclesiastes helps set proper expectations for life. Solomon is one of the greatest philosophers to have ever lived. In this book, we get to see his principles…

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  33. Financial Friday #1 - Of the Division of Labour

    "The division of labour, ... in every art, [creates] a proportionable increase of the productive powers" ### This Episode ### The biggest reason the productive powers of the world have increased is the division of labour. Whether it is due to increase in dexterity, less task-switching, or extra...

  34. Spiritual Sunday #1 - Ecclesiastes 1

    This is the beginning of Spiritual Sunday!!! This episode is a Read-A-Long. I will be reading Chapter 1 of the Old Testament book Ecclesiastes. After a few verses, I will take a break and interject my thoughts. Ecclesiastes helps set proper expectations for life. Solomon is one of the greatest...

  35. Introduction

    Introducing The Nerd Assassin podcast. Find out who I am, why I am starting a podcast, and what your expectations should be. Twitter: https://twitter.com/thenerdassassin LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thenerdassassin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenerdassassin/ Instagram:...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

My name is Joshua Schmidt. This podcast is named The Nerd Assassin because it is a combination of all the interests I have. Partially, my mixed martial arts background which included Wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and MMA fights. The assassin part. But my style was always very cerebral and I am currently a Software Engineer Expect an eclectic podcast covering many of my hobbies including religion, mindset, cooking, beer, cocktails, whiskey, financial topics, and software engineering. The podcast will continue to change and evolve as I do.

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My name is Joshua Schmidt. This podcast is named The Nerd Assassin because it is a combination of all the interests I have. Partially, my mixed martial arts background which included Wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and MMA fights. The assassin part. But my style was always very cerebral and I am...

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