Scarcity Brain Workshop Recording

Photo taken early this morning from a hotel room on the media tour. Can you guess the city? (P.S. I signed the cover of this copy to remember not to give it away … it’s the copy I marked up with notes.)

Missed the pre-order workshop? No sweat. Here’s a recording.

Housekeeping

• Publication day is tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who has supported this project and the book. It’s the greatest fuel a writer could run on. ⛽ ✍️

• Thanks to our sponsors Momentous, GORUCK, and Maui Nui for their support of the book as well.

Now onto today’s post …

Last Thursday, we held the pre-order workshop for my new book, Scarcity Brain. The book is out tomorrow, 9/26.

I had such a fun time at the event. It was amazing to see so many familiar names and faces from 2% and answer great questions.

We had a lot of people who weren’t able to attend. So I’m sharing a recording of the event here.

Quick apology: At a certain time of day, bright desert light beams into my office window and reflects off my books. The light made the video wonky for a bit (and we were working in Zoom, so the video quality is already questionable).

Quick note: There aren’t many visuals, so you can let the video run in the background and just listen if you want to treat this like a podcast.

If you pre-ordered Scarcity Brain, it should arrive tomorrow or in the next couple of days. If you order the book tomorrow, good sources within Amazon.com Inc. tell me that Bezos will leave his spaceship momentarily to personally dispatch your copy so it arrives by Thursday.

Or you can walk into a physical bookstore to buy it tomorrow. I ❤️ physical bookstores.

Enjoy!

Have fun, don’t die, read books.

-Michael

P.S. I wasn’t able to get to all the questions at the workshop. I’ll find a way to tackle as many of those questions as possible over the next few months.

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