Orthogonal

This week, we continue building the Skyscraper of Wealth. Specifically, we're talking about refinements and efficiencies—what we call tenant improvements.Also, Andrew's kids do not like the mac and cheese.=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

After last week's detour, we return to our discussion of the Skyscraper of Wealth. This week, we talk about walls, roofs, and other structural necessities. Also, Brett switched back to an iPhone."Did you just presume my pandemic?" — Andrew=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

We take a break from our Skyscraper of Wealth discussion to unpack the hows and whys of Brett's first contract hire. Andrew then explains in painful detail why he needs another person.Also, Andrew's love is totally conditional.=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

Once you've start building, you'll need to install some protections and tools to make sure you stay on track. This week, we discuss outfitting your Skyscraper of Wealth with scaffolding.Also, Andrew is going to replace his barbecues and loves 1-800-GOTJUNK because he, like Brett, loves throwing things away.=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

We've done a lot of preliminary work. Now you're ready to start doing actual work. More specifically, the foundational work.Get your shovel—we're breaking ground.=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

This week, we continue our discussion of the Skyscraper of Wealth. Now that you have a concept for what you want to build and you've validated your idea, you start designing the business using what we're calling Architectural Drawings.=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

Before you build your skyscraper, you need to check with the neighbors and, possibly, the authorities. Today, we talk about how your artist's rendering encounters a cold, unfeeling world.Also, Andrew cuts a hole in the side of his house.=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

Before we begin doing anything, we need to figure out two things: What we're doing, exactly Why we're doing it That's this week's discussion. === Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

This week, your boys are embarking on a new... thing.We're going to spend the next several episodes discussing The Skyscraper of Wealth. We've touched on this in the past, but we've decided to dive deep for the next few weeks. And we're calling this Season 3.Today's episode is a survey of the three types of businesses we'll be covering, how they're different, and how the experience growth. We call these three types of businesses "The Trifecta."=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

[Editor's note: This episode is out late. Uncle Brett regrets the error.]In this episode, your boys discuss the notion that, if everything is good, you wait for something to come along to ruin it—and how to deal with that fear.=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0

This week, Andrew educates Brett about scaling due to discomfort.=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

This week, your boys discuss how the problem of mismanaged expectations is both hugely caustic and easily remedied. This gives way to a discussion about the interpretation and effectiveness of communication.Also, Brett gets a weird pizza and Andrew trots out the word "milieu."=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

This week, Andrew delves into legal agreements, an activity which spawns a discussion of interpretation and the durability of the incorrect.=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

This week, Brett and Andrew unpack the difference between costs and investments (and why you should run headlong toward the latter).=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

Brett's digestion becomes a small example of how generally doing the right thing can still result in bad stuff happening. Your will .isn't enough.=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

This week, we're talking about experimentation and failure. Successful experimentation is the result of unsuccessful experimentation."Nobody wants a bowl of warm gin and vermouth.""Lots of little failures are the key to avoiding big failures."=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

This week, your bad boys chat about understanding, weighing, and accepting risk.Andrew splits hairs between confidence and arrogance. "You can't build business equity without risk."=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

This week, your boys chat about how solos and small business owners can slip into a habit of overwork, the fear of stepping away, and the difficulty of recognizing and breaking that mode.Also, Brett doesn't want to hire and employee and Andrew disagrees.=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

A lively discussion about growth, delegation, and comic books.=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

Andrew, entrepreneur par excellence, receives an attractive job offer. He then commences questioning everything.As with most things, Brett turns this into a discussion about opportunity cost.=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

This week, your homies discuss the idea of simply pursuing more money for its own sake, the generational cycles that govern our approach to mindset, and how Brett and Andrew troll their children.=== Links === The Strauss-Howe Generational Theory Art of Manliness: How Millennials Could Be the Next Greatest Generation of Personal Finance === Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

This week, your friendly old farts—mostly Andrew—unpack why giving away value is, counter-intuitively, your best bet."You create wealth not by protecting your knowledge—you create value by spreading it."=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

This week, los caballeros de trabajo discuss how to add value to your own self, why even W-2 employees should act like businesses, and children.=== Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

Using Chris Guillebeau's book, The Money Tree, as a starting point, Brett and Andrew evaluate how people can apply effort and inventiveness to creating and monetizing value in unusual ways. "No matter what's happening, there are always people with money." Adding anti-fragility is the ability to go and find money. Brett thinks everybody is capable of this. Andrew disagrees, sorta. === Connect with Us === Andrew is @cfoandrew on Twitter Brett is @mrbrettkelly on Twitter Brett runs Robot Army Industries Everything Andrew does Mile High by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

Andrew describes how wealth is built during down economies. Brett ignores the rules.

Andrew and Brett explore the hypothetical reality of social and economic "re-opening."

Brett is asked, firmly, to leave Facebook. Chaos ensues.

A non-alarmist, sober exploration/explanation of the various government relief options available to American businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic.

After taking an unplanned podcasting break for a few months, Andrew and Brett return with a new show and a new name. This week, we're discussing how businesses can best proceed during quarantine and an economic aberration. Fun times!

The podcast is changing. Listen to find out how/why.

Brett and Andrew compare turkeys, planning procedures.

How to be secure in an insecure world.

Sometimes, you gotta do what you gotta do.

We discuss various random things but also the ideas behind joining forces with another business. A "Joint Venture" if you will

Would you buy 10% of Brett? Also, should college be an equity investment, not debt?

How Brett and Andrew annoy their wives and why everything is trash.

Be at the elbow of the deal, but sometimes mixers are great! Also, Brett needs business cards.

Andrew and Brett discuss money and what it's actually for.

We revisit our favorite policy - keep moving and get out of the way - and how the IRS doesn't do it.

This week, we are joined by Andrew's mom. Really.

Turning shared obsessions into businesses.

We discuss coming back from Summer Break and how sane families keep things organized

In the last episode before summer break, we talk about the "School of Hard Knocks"

Evidence of decline, democracy, and your business. Sometimes trusting someone with authority is OK.

You don't need to be an expert at things to do them. You just need to be good enough.

It's probably simpler than you think. Seriously.

We dig into what R&D really means in a small business.