Better by Subtraction

• The Big Green Egg
• AI article Rob mentions
• Pareto Principle
• Via Negativa
• Your Brain at Work by David Rock
• Quiet Leadership by David Rock
• Punkt phone
• Leatherman
• Utilikilt
• Robertson screwdriver
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• 8 Forms of Capital

• Dependence on access to information [2:00]
• Via Negativa [5:00]
• “We are rich not by what we possess, but by what we can do without” -Kant [5:45]
• The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up [8:00]
• 20 seconds to temptation [9:45]
• How much mental bandwidth is our access to information taking up? [12:20]
• Which analog systems are worth bringing back for quality of life and pre-cortex energy? [13:50]
• One of Javan’s Top Ten Experiences – Utilikilts [18:40]
• Rob as Batman [21:30]
• Strong Opinions, Loosely Held–All of My Opinions Can Be Tested [22:40]
• It’s Quality of Life or Nothing [24:46]
• Unspoken/Untested Beliefs–How we may protect ourselves as business owners [25:10]
• How to get out of the rat race [27:10]
• Effective or Efficient? Do not organized what has not been pruned [28:20]
• Pick your boundaries so they don’t pick you [30:50]
• Slow-time for Go-time [31:55]
• The Importance of Taking Time Out [32:11]
• The Gifts of Being Self-employed [34:55]
• What does productivity mean to you? [36:40]
• Finding Purpose and Meaning [38:08]
• The Life Changing Magic of Choosing What You Want to Do and Investing in It [43:28]
• How has a lack of convenience shaped our approach to life? [46:03]
• Curated content as a result of subtraction [49:25]
• Friction for Filtration [51:57]
• Process over Outcome [54:59]
• Cultivating Base Level Sensitivity [55:50]
• Closing gratitudes [58:54]

Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Author, Antifragile

Immanuel Kant – Modern German Philosopher

Marie Kondo – Author, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Seth Godin – Author, Former dot com Business Executive

Drew Sample – Podcaster, The Sample Hour

Thomas J. Leonard – Author, The 28 Laws of Attraction