What does a Henry Lawson poem read aloud on South Australian election night have to do with your small business? More than you might expect. In this episode, Steve Davis and David Olney take Lawson’s poem The Duty of Australians…

From Ukrainian lecture theatres under air raid sirens to a lawyer’s breakdown in a Sydney office, this episode asks whether you can keep learning, keep building, and keep going when the world feels like it’s coming apart at the seams.…

When an FBI behavioral specialist says you can win trust before you speak a word, and AI spam bots try to do the same thing with a $10 Starbucks voucher, you start to see just how wide that gap has…

From a 19th century Russian novelist’s disarming preface to a 1985 fast food fumble, this episode asks one question that matters more than ever: are you being clever, or are you actually being useful? Mikhail Lermontov wrote a preface designed…

Your mind works like water flowing through channels in a stream, which explains why sometimes the hardest marketing challenges need the simplest solutions. Paul Taylor shows us why hardiness beats resilience every time, through four characteristics that separate the business…

From minimum chips and onstage kisses to the biological drivers that make us click buy, we explore why fond memories boost productivity while rage baiting destroys it, and why Drew Eric Whitman’s eight life forces might be the marketing framework…

From mathematician David Bessis’s meditation on mathematical intuition to Edward de Bono’s 1982 promise of simple computing, we explore why your business problems might need slower thinking than your instincts allow. Mathematician David Bessis claims we need system three thinking,…

The path to greater mental bandwidth isn’t doing more with multitasking magic but achieving unconscious competence that frees your mind for what truly matters. From Christopher Hitchens’ reflections on truth-telling to the paramedic’s competency cycle, discover why mastering basics creates…

From Tim Ferriss’s revelation that systems beat willpower to ChatGPT’s excruciating conversation with itself, we discover why the most disciplined approach involves building structures that remove the need for heroic daily effort. Tim Ferriss explains why he’s become less disciplined…

From Hunter S. Thompson’s scathing Nixon obituary to an intelligence officer’s clarity framework, we explore how separating facts from opinions might save us from both political contortions and peanut butter cowboys. Steve opens with a morbid but revealing question about…