Hi friends!
Here is your weekly dose of Arman’s Antics, a list of what I’m pondering and exploring. Please feel free to forward this along to a friend.
Course I’m starting
Write of Passage. Created by David Perell. Just a few days in but I can already tell it is going to be a special five weeks. I signed up because I want to take this writing thing more seriously.
I tell you this to let you know that I will be publishing five articles each Wednesday for the next five weeks (starting tomorrow). It’s my homework for the course. So you will receive those in addition to your weekly dose of Arman’s Antics that come to you live each Tuesday. All for free. 😇
I would love to hear your feedback on the first one dropping tomorrow.
What I’m listening to
My First Million Podcast. Hosted by Shaan Puri and Sam Parr. They talk about entrepreneurship in a way that doesn’t suck. Think of them like younger, sexier versions of Mark Cuban and Kevin O’Leary from Shark Tank.
Listening to them makes you feel like a mosquito on the wall getting to suck the blood of knowledge from two business masterminds. Plus, every episode is guaranteed to make me spit up whatever I’m drinking because I can’t stop laughing. The LPMs (laughs per minute & learns per minute) are off the charts.
My favorite tidbit from their most recent pod:
Turn doing what’s most interesting to you into a money earning venture.
What I’m reading
Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos. I love stumbling upon old books that are still packed with wisdom. This one is from 1988 and it’s an absolute hidden gem. It discusses the consequences of being mathematically illiterate (guilty) in less than 200 pages.
What stuck out most to me was how clueless innumerates are in regards to the distinction between millions, billions, and trillions. Most of us throw around those numbers without any clue to how big they are. “She’s a millionaire.” “That company earned a billion dollars in revenue last year.” “The US has $31 trillion of dollars of debt.” I mean they only have one letter separating them. How different could they be?
Let me show you.
What’s your gut reaction when I ask, How long are each of the following?
1 million seconds
1 billion seconds
1 trillion seconds
Quick math is hard so let me help.
1 million seconds = 11.5 days
1 billion seconds = 11,574 days (almost 32 years)
1 trillion seconds = 11,574,074 days (more than 31,709 years)
🤯
Show I’m watching
Welcome to Wrexham (Hulu). Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia decide to buy a struggling soccer team in Wales. We get to follow their adventures in trying to turn the team around. It will make you smile, laugh, and cry all in one 25-minute episode.
From the site: “In 2020, Rob and Ryan teamed up to purchase the 5th tier Red Dragons in the hopes of turning the club into an underdog story the whole world could root for. The worry? Rob and Ryan have no experience in football or working with each other. From Hollywood to Wales, from the pitch to the locker room, the front office to the pub, Welcome to Wrexham will track Rob and Ryan’s crash course in football club ownership and the inextricably connected fates of a team and a town counting on two actors to bring some serious hope and change to a community that could use it.”
I am loving this series.
Comedian I’m enjoying
Mark Normand. He’s awkward. Introverted. Looks uncomfortable on stage. But it works. He is a master of analogies. Check him out if you want to hear about the hilarious experience of moving into an abandoned mansion in New Orleans as a kid.
Random thought
Why did the “most lucrative job lists” we were shown as kids never include entrepreneur?
That’s all I’ve got for you this week. Please give me feedback. I want to hear from you. I’m most active on Twitter so find me there. What do you want more of? Less of? Other suggestions? Please let me know.
Have a terrific Tuesday, friends!
Cheers,
Arman