Weekly Kaizen - week 17/2024

Welcome to this weeks Weekly Kaizen. Some highlights of what stood out to me recently and wanted to share this week, with this week a podcast heavy edition. Hope you find it interesting.

Podcasts:

This week a couple of episodes from three podcast’s, to which I listen to on a weekly basis:

• Invest like the best: Michael Mauboussin, Bill Gurley - Putting Theory into Practice

  • Fascinating conversation, one on the highlights for me was their history with the Santa Fe institute, and it sharing background information on Cormac McCarthy and his influence as a trustee.

• Odd Lot’s podcast:

  • Josh Wolfe: The ChatGPT of Robotics is Coming

  • Here's Who's Winning the Global Fight for AI Talent

• Founders podcast:

  • How Walt Disney Built Himself

  • One of my go to listen podcast every week, some of my favorite episodes:

    • Christopher Nolan

    • Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)

    • Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz

    • How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: Samuel Insull

History: The year without summer

• Historia Civilis - One of the few YouTube channels where I watched every single video for the last 8 or so years. Yes, it’s that good. So is this one: the year without summer.

  • Fun Fact, did you know that both Frankenstein was written in 1816 (during a long weekend away to Geneva by a group of friends)

The below image was generated with AI, can you spot what’s wrong with the picture?

promp: landscape of european village in 1816, the year where there was no summer sunshine (MS Copilot)