Oct 13, 2022
“To get me stop, they’re going to
have to pry the microphone out of my cold dead hand”.
Hot on the heels of his hugely popular appearance on ‘Invest Like
The Best’, David Senra joins a marathon episode of Infinite Loops
to discuss obsession, education, optimism, podcasting, and so much
more.
Unsurprisingly, this one is not to be missed.
Important Links:
- Founders Podcast
-
Founders on
Colossus
-
David’s
Twitter
- David’s Substack
- Runnin’ Down a Dream - Bill
Gurley
Show
Notes:
- David’s grandfather, refugees,
and risk-taking
- Why reading history raises our
ambition
- Obsession and
genetics
- Why founders are the most
important people in the world
- Our failing education
system
- “To get me to stop, they’re going
to have to pry the microphone out of my cold dead
hand”
- “Don’t do anything that somebody
else can do”
- Societal responses to change,
predicting the future
- The benefits of small
teams
- “Plan B should be to make plan A
work”
- Optimism, risk and the bridge of
nihilism
- Why you need to start a
podcast
- “History doesn’t repeat, human
nature does”
- AI and art
- The internet is the greatest
variance amplifier in history
- “You can’t fake
passion”
- Infinite networks
- Luck, burnout, learning and
excuses
- “Don’t be surprised if your best
idea comes 30 to 40 years into your career”
- The blueprint for a great
day
- Pick the right
heroes
Books
Mentioned:
- Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight
Talk From a Business Rebel; by Sam Zell
- The Sugar King of Havana: The
Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon; by John Paul
Rathbone
- The Hypomaniac Edge: The Link
Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America; by
John D. Gartner
- One Summer: America, 1927; by
Bill Bryson
- Reluctant Genius: The Passionate
Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell; by Charlotte
Gray
- Born of this land : my life
story; by Chung Ju-yung
- Shoe Dog; by Phil
Knight
- Pulitzer: A Life in Politics,
Print, and Power; by James McGrath Morris
- Only the Paranoid Survive: How to
Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company; by Andrew
S. Grove
- Time to Make the Donuts: The
Founder of Dunkin Donuts Shares an American Journey; by William
Rosenberg
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the
Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration; by Ed
Catmull
- The Tao Te Ching; by
Laozi
- My Life & Work - An Autobiography
of Henry Ford; by Henry Ford
- One from Many: VISA and the Rise
of Chaordic Organization; by Dee Hock
- Zanies: The world’s greatest
eccentrics; by Jay Robert Nash