100 episodes of the podcast designed not to go viral.
What Dave and I picked as our most valuable episodes, and why none of them were the ones you watched most.
We just hit 100 episodes of Line Your Own Pockets. When Dave pitched it almost two years ago, I figured we’d do a couple months and run out of ideas. He said on day one we never would. He was right, and I was wrong.
He describes the show as the only podcast designed not to go viral. That’s the point. So for episode 100 we pulled the data on what you watched most versus what Dave and I would pick, and here’s the funny part: none of our favorites cracked your top 20. Not one.
Your top three were all the AI episodes, which makes sense, everyone’s figuring out how to use these tools right now. Our picks were different, and they overlapped so hard it was eerie. We independently chose the same three: deep versus wide, keeping track of trading ideas, and the ICE method for prioritizing strategies. We didn’t tell each other beforehand.
The through-line in our picks: they’re the least sexy, least watched episodes, and we think they’re the most valuable. Networking as a trading skill. A system for capturing ideas before they vanish. A method for deciding what to work on when you have too many ideas and not enough time. Boring, foundational, and the stuff that actually moves the needle.
If you’ve been binge-listening, thank you. Just maybe don’t start at episode one. We were rough.
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— Michael Nauss, CMT, CAIA, CDMS