Yancey Strickler co-founded Kickstarter and speaks passionately about living in balance with our beliefs. As COVID-19 really started ramping up, we spent an hour discussing COVID, Yancey's new book, his philosophy of Bentoism, and more. Learn more about Yancey's philosophy here: http://bentoism.org/ Get Yancey's book "This Could be Our Future" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/591594/this-could-be-our-future-by-yancey-strickler/

Antipessimists (Public Episodes)

Living in the balance of our beliefs (Yancey Strickler)

Drew is a successful founder, having sold his last company to GoDaddy. In celebration of the launch of @WithPrimer, I'm releasing this recording from October 2019 about how Drew views the journey he and his wife have gone on in homeschooling their children.

Homeschooling with Drew Wilson

This episode is better in video, as we demo the Roam tool. The video can be found here: https://youtu.be/9znmODSYDwA

A new way to write and keep notes (Roam Research)

A deep dive on progress studies with Jason Crawford. We cover what it's like to study and work on human progress. The bulk of this episode is on history, philosophy, and the meta behind Jason's work contributing to the creation of a global movement.

Studying the arc of human progress

Nathaniel was the head of people at Hillary for America. He built a small people ops team that supported one of the largest hiring efforts in the last decade. I'm hard-pressed to think of any team that hired more people and achieved better outcomes in a shorter period of time with fewer resources. Pound for pound, it may be the most impressive People Ops function built in the last two decades, yet they still lost the election. Regardless of your politics, this is a fascinating story to reflect on.

Hiring 4500 people in 18 months (building great people functions)

Sumon Sadhu talks about "Bashful Ambition" and why it's the driving force behind creating big companies in new markets internationally. Sumon seems to be the only person focused on backing these seed-stage companies across many geographies; in this episode, he shares his thoughts on how to find, back, and support the builders of future national empires.

Bashful Ambition: Finding the"Global Empire" Startups

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Antipessimists (Public Episodes)

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