2026-06-22
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See?
Duracell batteries with power boost ingredients.
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Our first episode is about Benjamin Franklin, who, among many other things, was a best-selling business writer.
Take a listen.
He's writing this much later in his life, consciously creating this image of himself.
And I do want to emphasize how unusual this model is at the time, this self-made man myth.
Because you don't want to be self-made.
It's low class to be self-made.
You know, this idea that we have today is the opposite, right?
And it comes from Franklin.
Today there is the derisive term nepo baby.
Well, exactly right.
And these days, if you are a billionaire, you had better have a Benjamin
Franklin story about starting in a garage, coming up with the idea from nothing.
And here is Benjamin Franklin inventing it right before our eyes.