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The Knowledge Project

Farnam Street

Business

Frequency: 1 episode/17d. Total Eps: 285

Master the best of what other people have already figured out. Skip decades of trial and error. Each episode reveals proven insights from world-class performers. No fluff. No small talk. Just actionable wisdom for your business and life. Instagram: https://instagram.com/farnamstreet LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-parrish-050a2183/ Newsletter: Join over 750,000 people and upgrade your thinking in 5 minutes a week. fs.blog/newsletter

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🇨🇦 Canada - business
20/08/2026
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20/08/2026
#30
🇩🇪 Germany - business
20/08/2026
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🇺🇸 USA - business
20/08/2026
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🇫🇷 France - business
20/08/2026
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🇨🇦 Canada - business
19/08/2026
#18
🇬🇧 Great Britain - business
19/08/2026
#26
🇩🇪 Germany - business
19/08/2026
#72
🇺🇸 USA - business
19/08/2026
#73
🇫🇷 France - business
19/08/2026
#64

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#201 April Dunford: The Marketing Expert

Episode 201

Tuesday, August 20, 2024 • Duration 01:15:05

Former IBM executive April Dunford reveals the sophisticated frameworks behind market leadership. This isn't about marketing tactics but how category leaders reshape markets to their advantage.

Drawing from decades of experience, Dunford shares the nuanced art of market definition, competitive positioning, and strategic narrative. These are essential insights for leaders who understand that winning isn't about being better—it's about being different in meaningful ways.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro

(02:07) Positioning, explained

(16:47) Why is positioning important?

(20:40) B2B vs. B2C positioning

(29:03) When re-positioning a product failed

(32:31) How to identify customer's pain points

(34:35) How to position a product on a sales page

(38:06) How technology has changed positioning

(41:40) How to evaluate product positioning

(45:43) Who's in charge of positioning at a company?

(50:27) On storytelling

(56:35) Should a company have a point of view on the market?

(1:00:21) Dealing with gatekeepers in B2B marketing

(1:03:02) Mistakes people make with positioning

(1:05:21) What schools get wrong about marketing

(1:08:59) Secrets of B2B decision-making

(1:11:18) On success

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#200 Brian Halligan: Building HubSpot into a Multi-Billion Dollar Company

Episode 200

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 • Duration 01:00:27

From Cambridge startup to NYSE heavyweight, HubSpot co-founder Brian Halligan reveals the sophisticated frameworks behind scaling a $30B enterprise. Now a Sequoia Capital Senior Advisor, Halligan shares rare insights into the nuanced decisions that separate exceptional companies from merely successful ones.

Learn the strategic principles of modern company building, including the counterintuitive culture choices, talent algorithms, and leadership pivots that defined HubSpot's trajectory. A masterclass in scaling excellence from startup to global enterprise.

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro

(02:36) Halligan's life-changing snowmobile accident

(09:38) Shane's life-changing medical mystery

(14:38) The different phases a CEO goes through while growing companies

(20:44) Lessons learned from Steve Jobs

(23:18) How to hire and fire people (and when)

(27:55) The problems with "Best Practices" in business

(31:11) The most underrated public CEOs (and why Jerry Garcia from The Grateful Dead is on this list)

(43:38) The history and future of inbound marketing

(51:08) On decision making

(55:18) On work-life balance

(58:28) On success

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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Diet Essentials For Healthy Living

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 • Duration 01:31:43

Dr. Rhonda Patrick explores the intricate world of nutrition and health.

Dr. Patrick provides a deep dive into the role micronutrients play in our daily health, detailing how deficiencies and insufficiencies in vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, and amino acids can lead to serious health issues over time.

Shane and Dr. Patrick also discuss the science behind deliberate heat exposure. She outlines the optimal sauna conditions—temperature, duration, and frequency—necessary for these health benefits and explains the physiological mechanisms.

Rhonda Patrick has a Ph.D. in biomedical science and a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry/chemistry from the University of California, San Diego. She has done extensive research on aging, cancer, and nutrition.

(00:00) Intro

(04:40) A philosophy for nutrition

(15:36) Micronutrients through supplements vs. food

(25:43) Wild-caught vs. farm-raised fish

(28:44) Organic vs. non-organic vegetables

(36:14) On macronutrients

(40:20) How protein levels differ in different foods

(45:27) The best morning smoothie recipe

(54:48) Dr. Patrick grades Shane's "GOAT" smoothie recipe

(59:14) Grass-fed vs. non-grass fed

(01:04:40) On vitamin D (Is sunscreen killing us more than the sun?)

(01:19:48) Deliberate heat and cold exposure

(01:44:27) Top three behavioral and diet interventions for life and health improvements

#101 Jane McGonigal: The Psychology of Gaming

Tuesday, January 19, 2021 • Duration 57:30

Jane McGonigal is a PhD Game Designer who advocates for the use of video games to help people learn skills that transfer to the real world, heal physical problems like concussions and improve attitudes and self-esteem in children. Shane and Jane discuss how video games help with decision making, post-traumatic growth as well as how much is too much, what to watch out for and so much more.

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#100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key

Tuesday, January 5, 2021 • Duration 01:24:20

Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, the open platform that runs most of the sites you visit and the CEO of Automattic. In this episode Matt and Shane discuss distributed work, the 5 levels of autonomous organizations, decision making, running an organization with more than 1300 people, integrating acquisitions and so much more.

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#99 Kris Cordle: Releasing the Ego

Tuesday, December 22, 2020 • Duration 46:38

For over a decade, Kris Cordle worked directly with the CEOs at Yahoo, Twitter, and Slack. She joined Twitter and Slack early and helped them scale into public companies. Most recently she was Chief of Staff at Slack but left to launch Devenu Collaborations, helping rapid-growth CEOs scale. Kris and Shane discuss life in a religious cult, automatic rules for success, lessons in decision making and scaling, why it's hard for founders to scale, the common patterns to success, and much more. It's time to Listen and Learn.

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#98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 • Duration 01:09:02

Sahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, an online marketplace for creators. In this conversation Sahil and Shane cover building a billion dollar business, the most critical skills for success, how he hires, his worst mistake, the patterns of success and failure and so much more.

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#97 Roger Martin: Forward Thinking

Tuesday, November 24, 2020 • Duration 01:27:16

The former Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, Roger Martin is one of the top management thinkering in the world. You’ll walk away from this conversation a better leader and decision maker as he discusses patterns of good leadership, the hardest skill to transfer when decision making, self-sabotage, overcoming fear and integrative thinking.

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#96 Randall Stutman: The Essence of Leadership

Tuesday, November 10, 2020 • Duration 01:34:51

The founder and co-head of the Leadership Practice at CRA and the Admired Leadership Institute, Randall Stutman is an incredible executive coach with an impressive roster of clients. You’ll walk away from this episode with some tools to put into practice to make you a better leader, partner and parent as Randall discusses the behavioral versus psychological view of leadership, what really drives results, and the uncommon routines of the world’s best leaders.

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#95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical

Tuesday, October 27, 2020 • Duration 01:00:51

Managing Director of Mistral Venture Partners Code Cubitt has an interesting origin story. After being kicked out of University twice he still managed to graduate and quickly climbed the ranks for several prominent companies before striking out on his own. Hear how he evaluates founders, his decision-making process, common mistakes companies make as they scale, and much more.

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