The Social Dilemma - How Misaligned Incentives Are Destroying Society

--Episode 52 - Tim Ferriss (Sort of) Interviews Sam and Jayson--

Sam McRoberts, CEO of VUDU Marketing and the author of Screw the Zoo, and Jayson DeMers, CEO of EmailAnalytics, are (sort of) interviewed by Tim Ferriss.

With many decades of combined business and digital marketing experience, Jayson and Sam will walk you through everything you need to know as you go through your own entrepreneurial journey.

Links to things mentioned in the podcast:

• Interview Questions from Tribe of Mentors
• Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damndest Thing
• The 4-Hour Workweek
• The Grand Design
• Spiky Ball Massager
• Exercise Bench
• Google Penguin Algorithm Update
• Wake Up, and Look Up :)
• Andromeda Galaxy - 2.5 million light years away
• Per aspera ad astra (Through hardship, to the stars)
• Command and Conquer Rivals
• Command & Conquer Rivals, the r3bb Solomon deck ;)

--Going forward, new episodes will be ad hoc as Jayson and I have topics we REALLY want to discuss--

--Episode 51 - Protecting Your Data and Your Mind from Malevolent Manipulation--

Sam McRoberts, CEO of VUDU Marketing and the author of Screw the Zoo, and Jayson DeMers, CEO of EmailAnalytics, talk about Protecting Your Data and Your Mind from Malevolent Manipulation.

With many decades of combined business and digital marketing experience, Jayson and Sam will walk you through everything you need to know as you go through your own entrepreneurial journey.

Links to things mentioned in the podcast:

• The Great Hack on Netflix
• Scott Adams - Linguistic Kill Shots
• Trump speaks at a 4th grade level
• Pizzagate (have a slice of human stupidity)
• Breaking Bad - Los Pollos Hermanos
• Why things are the way they are (blog post)
• Propaganda - Edward Bernays
• The Century of Self (documentary that looks at Edward Bernays, the father of propaganda)
• How to Lock Down Your Social Media (Wired)
• Data Aggregators
• Target Pregnant Teen Girl Ad Targeting
• Psychographic Data
• Scott Adams - Moist Robot Hypothesis
• Persuasion Reading List
• Psychological Warfare
• Dick Costolo tweet
• The Lessons of History
• The pitchforks are coming for us plutocrats (great article)
• How to clean up or delete data brokers profiles on you

--New episodes go live every Monday at 8am Pacific--

--Episode 50 - Random Episode Part Deux--

Sam McRoberts, CEO of VUDU Marketing and the author of Screw the Zoo, and Jayson DeMers, CEO of EmailAnalytics, discuss whatever the hell they want, yet again.

With many decades of combined business and digital marketing experience, Jayson and Sam will walk you through everything you need to know as you go through your own entrepreneurial journey.

Links to things mentioned in the podcast:

• Venus & Phosphine
• Zen and Non-Duality and Nature of Reality - Read the 5 most recent posts here
• Jed McKenna’s books will BLOW YOUR MIND
• Sam’s Epic Movie Philosophy Threads
• 536 AD - Worst Year Ever
• 536 AD Video
• Cover Your Fucking Nose
• Masks Work, Wear One
• Handshakes & Evil Spirits - see the Mormon book D&C 129:8 (where I first recall hearing this)
• Why Things Are The Way They Are
• Neuralink

--New episodes go live every Monday at 8am Pacific--

--Episode 49 - The Social Dilemma - How Misaligned Incentives Are Destroying Society--

Sam McRoberts, CEO of VUDU Marketing and the author of Screw the Zoo, and Jayson DeMers, CEO of EmailAnalytics, discuss The Social Dilemma - How Misaligned Incentives Are Destroying Society.

With many decades of combined business and digital marketing experience, Jayson and Sam will walk you through everything you need to know as you go through your own entrepreneurial journey.

Links to things mentioned in the podcast:

• The Social Dilemma

--New episodes go live every Monday at 8am Pacific--

--Episode 48 - How to Define and Achieve Success, and Common Reasons for Failure--

Sam McRoberts, CEO of VUDU Marketing and the author of Screw the Zoo, and Jayson DeMers, CEO of EmailAnalytics, discuss How to Define and Achieve Success, and Common Reasons for Failure.

With many decades of combined business and digital marketing experience, Jayson and Sam will walk you through everything you need to know as you go through your own entrepreneurial journey.

Links to things mentioned in the podcast:

• Happiness and $75,000 - which Sam thinks is probably a bullshit study
• Alone (TV Series)
• Memento Mori
• The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant - if you never read another book about history, read this one
• The Social Dilemma
• The Italian Job
• The Tao That Can Be Told Is Not The Eternal Tao

--New episodes go live every Monday at 8am Pacific--

--Episode 47 - If We Had to Start a Business Completely from Scratch, What Would It Be?--

Sam McRoberts, CEO of VUDU Marketing and the author of Screw the Zoo, and Jayson DeMers, CEO of EmailAnalytics, discuss If We Had to Start a Business Completely from Scratch, What Would It Be?

With many decades of combined business and digital marketing experience, Jayson and Sam will walk you through everything you need to know as you go through your own entrepreneurial journey.

Links to things mentioned in the podcast:

• SnagIt
• Markup Hero
• Intercom
• ProfitWell
• A bunch of huge lists of business ideas
• The My First Million Podcast - this is one of my favorite podcasts for exploring business ideas and operating knowledge
• The Fantasy Footballers
• What’s Good Games
• Gumroad
• Patreon

--New episodes go live every Monday at 8am Pacific--

--Episode 46 - The Words That Divide Us--

Sam McRoberts, CEO of VUDU Marketing and the author of Screw the Zoo, and Jayson DeMers, CEO of EmailAnalytics, discuss The Words That Divide Us.

With many decades of combined business and digital marketing experience, Jayson and Sam will walk you through everything you need to know as you go through your own entrepreneurial journey.

Links to things mentioned in the podcast:

• The Words That Divide Us - Sam’s post that inspired this episode
• Why Things Are the Way They Are - Another of Sam’s posts that digs into our evolutionary quirks that most lead to conflict
• Auditory Illusion - Brainstorm or Green Needle (video)
• J Krishnamurti on labels and identity
• Donald Hoffman TED Talk - Do we see reality as it is? (hint: not even close)
• Huge list of optical illusions
• Human Brain - 11 Million Bits Unconscious, 50 Bits Conscious

--New episodes go live every Monday at 8am Pacific--

--Episode 45 - Agency vs. In-House Marketing: Pros and Cons--

Sam McRoberts, CEO of VUDU Marketing and the author of Screw the Zoo, and Jayson DeMers, CEO of EmailAnalytics, discuss Agency vs. In-House Marketing: Pros and Cons.

With many decades of combined business and digital marketing experience, Jayson and Sam will walk you through everything you need to know as you go through your own entrepreneurial journey.

Links to things mentioned in the podcast:

• Marketing Agency vs. In-House (blog post)
• SaaS Marketing Agency - a good example of a niche agency

--New episodes go live every Monday at 8am Pacific--

--Episode 44 - How to Suck at Communicating, and How Not to--

Sam McRoberts, CEO of VUDU Marketing and the author of Screw the Zoo, and Jayson DeMers, CEO of EmailAnalytics, discuss How to Suck at Communicating, and How Not to.

With many decades of combined business and digital marketing experience, Jayson and Sam will walk you through everything you need to know as you go through your own entrepreneurial journey.

Links to things mentioned in the podcast:

• Vaguebooking
• How to Be Authentic and Why It Matters
• The Day You Became a Better Writer
• Little Prince Quote
• Active Listening
• Becoming Telepathic - a chapter from Sam’s book that touches on these topics
• Spoken Like a True Gentleman - another relevant chapter from Screw the Zoo
• Media Training
• Jeff Bezos’ recent letter to Congress is an amazing example of perfect written communication
• Tony Robbins on Effective Communication

--New episodes go live every Monday at 8am Pacific--

--Episode 43 - Why Links Aren’t Dead, Guest Posting Rocks, and Google is Full of Shit--

Sam McRoberts, CEO of VUDU Marketing and the author of Screw the Zoo, and Jayson DeMers, CEO of EmailAnalytics, discuss Why Links Aren’t Dead, Guest Posting Rocks, and Google is Full of Shit.

With many decades of combined business and digital marketing experience, Jayson and Sam will walk you through everything you need to know as you go through your own entrepreneurial journey.

Links to things mentioned in the podcast:

• Search Off the Record Podcast
• Google Quality Raters Guidelines
• Matt Cutts: The Decay and Fall of Guest Blogging
• John Mueller - Senior Webmaster Trends Analyst at Googler
• Danny Sullivan - Google Search Liaison
• Google Says Guest Posting for Links is Bad Blah Blah

--New episodes go live every Monday at 8am Pacific--