Cartoonist

Nathan T. Wright is an artist. He has origins in the early days of social media, made impact inside corporate marketing, and now illustates remarkable art with drawings, cartoons, murals, and more. Ben and Nathan jam on The Adventures of Fatberg, the early (fun) days of social media, the speeds in-house at a large company, leading a creative process with clients, real skills for studying the arts, and understanding the business of being a full-time artist.

After the break that features a reading of Aphorism, Nathan and Ben dive back in by talking graphic recording at live events, the positive tension of smart cartoons, and extending value by reformatting great content into books. EP90 of YDNTP is an absolute bop – share with a friend!

EXTRA SHOT

Nathan T. Wright is the friend who illustrated the mug that has become part of a brand that is Ben McDougal.

What started as the caffeinated, community-driven cover art for You Don’t Need This Book, now extends through the Roasted Reflections NFT Collection, imprinted phygital clothing, the front of tiny ideabooks, temporary tattoos, a huge neon sign, and of course, the artwork for this timeless podcast! Cheers to this episode and another shared relic that keeps the fun brewing!

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BONUS MATERIALS

https://nathantwright.com

The Adventures of Fatberg

https://etsy.com/shop/ntwillustration

City of Santa Ana FOG Activity Book

Roasted Reflections Break: Aphorism

https://NewYorker.com/latest/cartoons

http://Cartoonist.YouDontNeedThisPodcast.com

https://MainframeStudios.org

EP21 – Pinball Wizards 🎙️ Ben Sinclair

EP44 – Do What You Love 🎙️ Scotty Russell

EP55 – Inextinguishable Light 🎙️ Jim Morgan

EP60 – Goosebumps 🎙️ Nic Roth

http://YouDontNeedThisPodcast.com

https://BenMcDougal.com/NFT

http://BENBOT.ai

 

 

Aphorism

Personal truths on health, life, wealth, and happiness evolve from entrepreneurial endeavors.

The pursuit of building a business causes people to be more contemplative about other aspects of life. Learning to articulate thoughts as a leader is transformative. Knowing ones self can be parlayed with mindful aging to create curiosity that can be mixed into heartfelt conversations.

How we explore big ideas depends on the environment, people you interact with, and knowledge you pursue. This makes me thankful for my own entrepreneurial experiences, but more important, the immeasurable blessing it can be to expand our minds by plugging into startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems.

A willingness to show up and the trust built through such generosity has allows leaders to become apart of so many other startup stories. As mentioned throughout YDNTB, consistent action over the long run is required, but insight learned along the way provides a path to understanding for anyone, on almost any front.

As we support entrepreneurs through the art of connection, the invitation to have more diverse discussions is unlocked more often. Whether it’s strategic, tactical or philosophical, what a gift toward open-mindedness this becomes.

Along with stimulating conversations with agreeable peers in a support network, Adam Grant reminds us that it’s important to weave in the perspectives from a challenge network as well. Challenge networks consist of disagreeable people we trust to point out blind spots. This helps to overcome weaknesses with critical feedback we may not want, but need. Peculiar interactions within a challenge network also unlock humbling opportunities to be wrong. Intellectual humility helps avoid misguided confidence and brings us closer to different forms of truth.

Extra Shot

Smart people change their mind all the time. Find joy in discovering you were wrong and now less wrong than before. This is not incompetency. It’s being honest, respectful, and willing to learn.

Audacious

scottrepreneur is a nerd you need to know.

How does blockchain layering work? What can composability provide? What’s the value of money being mechanized? Can you translate the difference between centralized, protocol, and blockchain networks? Maybe you’re exploring ways to add digital depth to existing products?

So many questions, here are some answers!

After the 10 Commandments of UX are echoed in the break, we talk about how blockchain can support state management and sourcing truth alongside the power of AI. We brew on getting rugged by Big Tech, tokenomics to incentivize contribution, the lasting value of NFTs, user ownership in social media, Hats Protocol, web3 accelerators, Bitcoin halving, burning digital assets, and zero knowledge proofs. Try to keep up, share with a developer, and stay wild with tons of related episodes below. Let’s keep learning and building… together!

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BONUS MATERIALS

https://scottrepreneur.com

https://x.com/scottrepreneur_

https://warpcast.com/scottrepreneur

http://Audacious.YouDontNeedThisPodcast.com

Roasted Reflections NFT – Audacious 👾 #36

https://BenMcDougal.com/Mechanized-Money

http://YouDontNeedThisPodcast.com

EP3 – Blockchain Orgins 🎙️ Jon Woodard

EP8 – Cryptographic Cowboy 🎙️ Kyle Tut

EP25 – Stablecoins 🎙️ Chase Merlin

EP38 – Tokenomics 🎙️ Joshua Larson

EP39 – Digital Dawn 🎙️ Will Schneller

EP44 – Do What You Love 🎙️ Scotty Russell

EP71 – Still United 🎙️ Alex Myers

Roasted Reflections on Discord

https://ReadWriteOwn.com

http://web3dsm.com

http://BENBOT.ai

Make Better Things

Manufacturing and business geek, Mike O’Donnell is inside Iowa State University. He leads the Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS), which helps small- to medium-sized industry compete and win in the modern world. EP76 is light and fun, but rich in now value. Manufacturing is the largest industry in Iowa. We talk manufacturing types, environmental complexities, manufacturing 4.0, exoskeletons, talent matching, and future effeciencies.

If manufacturing means something to you, if you’re building a physical product, if you need resources to keep building, this is an excellent listen.

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BONUS MATERIALS

https://ciras.iastate.edu

http://Make-Better-Things.YouDontNeedThisPodcast.com

Roasted Reflections Break: Tinker

https://ibm.com/think/topics/industry-4-0

http://Manufacturability.YouDontNeedThisPodcast.com

https://BenMcDougal.com/tag/research

https://BenMcDougal.com/resources

http://RoastedReflections.com

http://BENBOT.ai

Speak Up

Erik Dominguez equips leaders to confidently communicate. He transforms fears into fuel and speaks nationwide. Whether you’re interested in paid public speaking or working to unite a team, EP74 will inspire you to pause, listen, then come off mute.

After your friendly host narrates Anticipation within another classic break without commercials, Ben and Erik share a handful of specific terms to avoid, assets to extend your reach, and how to cut things to create space for storytelling to land. If your message matters, this is yet another timeless relic to savor.

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BONUS MATERIALS

https://ErikDominguez.com

https://ErikDominguez.com/youtube-2

http://Speak-Up.YouDontNeedThisPodcast.com

Roasted Reflections Break: Anticipation

Waukee APEX

http://BENBOT.ai