42.5: Parenting, productivity, & starting more businesses (part 2)

31/08/2021 38 min Episodio 43
42.5: Parenting, productivity, & starting more businesses (part 2)

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In part two of the conversation, Landon and Kyle discuss experimenting with approaches to building businesses, how much is "enough", and reward and incentive structures as companies grow. They also touch on the current moment: the end of the 20-year American occupation of Afghanistan.Today’s Topics:Experimenting with new markets and approaches to building businessesDoubling down vs. autopilot vs. freedom to build other stuffThinking critically about the end goal to maintain optionalityHow much is "enough"?How do we build an asset that affords our team a comfortable life + enables us the freedom to work on anything we want to work onProfit-sharing as a simple, shared incentive structureAcknowledging the moment: the difficult and tragic end of the 20-year American occupation of AfghanistanWhere do these events fall in the arc of history? (local vs. global optima)Podcast chats as historical markersLinks & Resources:fatFIRE subreddit (Wealth and Financial Independence/Retire Early)MwG episode 36 with Tyler Williams of Motion ArrayIncome vs. Happiness curveLocal vs. global optima