Greg Wendt - The Cosmos, Systems, and Economics

And I think everybody that has led the world in new ideas has at one point in their life been crazy in the last, you know, hundred thousand years of innovation of thought. And I feel like if it doesn't sound crazy to me being someone who's a crazy hippie in capital markets, then it's probably not worthy of thinking about. So I like thinking about the thought that most people are unwilling to think about or trying to get to because it's just too big.

Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. My guest today was Greg Wendt, a CFP and a comprehensive wealth management practitioner who helps people understand how to invest their money in ways that are helpful to the world. Greg has access to crazy Wisdom and I learned a lot of things, particularly about biomimicry and circular capitalism. Biomimicry is a really interesting thing because if we can design systems that, that integrate with nature, I believe that will lead to an antifragile world. Well, there's two options. I see. So we either adapt ourselves back into nature, learn how to live in a symbiotic relationship with nature as humans can do, or we go the dystopian route and we section ourselves off in these urban environments as the rest of nature goes to shit and kind of, you know, walk around from air conditioned place to air conditioned place, a little bit like what they do in Dubai. Now, those are the two options I see. If we can harness the power of nature but not use it extractively, purely extractively, and we can kind of copy the systems that nature already sets up, I think we have a better chance of surviving. I don't know. I'd be curious to what you, the listeners think. So if you have some thoughts on that, please tweet to Ewart Allsop III about this. What do you think? Whether it's a dystopia or whether we can mimic biology and essentially learn to live more hormonal, harmoniously with this beautiful earth that we live on. I don't know. I'd be curious to hear what you think, if you have any insights on that. Also, I just want to let you know that I am still accepting applications for the online course with Anders Jones, who raised $40 million in his series A. And we're going to teach startup founders how to raise money for their distributed team. So if you're starting a company at the seed stage or Series A, or going into your Series A, then I highly recommend applying to this course. Anders is extremely smart and has raised $40 million and has done both seed and Series A. He also runs a distributed team out of Baltimore and he is very knowledgeable, has a lot of wisdom. I've previously interviewed him. So yeah, if you are interested in that, you can find out more information by subscribing to my blog. Stuart allsop.substack.com S T E W A R T A l s o p.substack.com and I hope you have a great day. Please let me know what you think of this episode.