Fresh Air

Is Jared Kushner a 'walking conflict of interest'?

And so these two very smart real estate guys, not knowing the history, not knowing the complexities, they can parachute in and they can make peace because they're smart and they're quick and they're not burdened by all the baggage of the past.

The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

Did the Economy Kill Marriage? | Office Hours

Every single marriage has a prenup. It's either one that was written by the government and can be modified by the state legislature of the state in which you reside or it's written by you and the person you allegedly like more than the other 8 billion options in the world.

Book of the Day

'This is Where the Serpent Lives' is a sprawling debut novel set in modern Pakistan

By stabbing himself, he's proven how brave he is and yet has uh not gone to the extreme of hurting somebody, which would have lead to trouble because he's the weakest member. He's the poor one. They are rich and if he had hurt them, there would have been severe repercussions. It's a very smart move.

The Prof G Pod

The Most Expensive Boomerang in History

This to me feels like we have the most expensive boomerang in history and that is we have essentially paid a ton of money and credibility in terms of US brand equity such that we could get a worse deal than we had with the JCPOA.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

John Kim - How to Raise a Few Billion Dollars - [Invest Like the Best, EP.482]

Most LPs will tell you what they want to hear, not necessarily what they think. So the way I tell founders to get signal is to ask them to make an intro to another GP. That is a forcing function — if they liked you, they will make that intro.

The Prof G Pod

Top House Intelligence Democrat on How Trump Misread Iran

Some people got in his ear and just said, "You know what you know you need to say to Donald Trump to persuade him," which is, "You will be the greatest leader since Napoleon." And painted a picture of Trump Towers being built in Shiraz and Tehran and that sort of thing.

Pivot

Trump Ruined the Reflecting Pool. Now He's Arresting People for It | Pivot

Trump has delivered on his promise of unconditional surrender. The problem is we're the ones unconditionally surrendering.

Semafor

The Strait of Hormuz will never really be open again, argues Tim McDonnell

What we saw in this case was that the military capacity of the US to force the Strait of Hormuz back open was really a lot lower than I think many people thought it could be. This took, you know, several months and ultimately we're getting a reopening through a negotiated outcome rather than, you know, strictly through military force.

TED

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED

Without these, a peace agreement becomes a lid on a boiling pot. It looks calm until the pressure finds the weakest point -- then it erupts.

The Week

Iran, SpaceX, and a Nervous Bond Market | The Week

I have no leverage. Trump is me in the Hungarian forest right now. Because he never bothered to consult Congress and offended them. Because he never even signed up or even briefed European allies. Because he did not in any way coordinate anything around intelligence around the Straits of Hormuz, getting expats out of the Gulf, figuring out putting in place the right defense mechanisms.

Compound Interest

Mark Cuban's Dallas Mavericks Sale Regrets

I was working under some assumptions that I thought were part of the deal, and they turned out not to be.

Fresh Air

A veteran diplomat breaks down the Iran war

To have a successful negotiation, you really need three elements. You need two parties who are willing and able and are prepared to use diplomacy, not to browbeat or to issue demands for each side, but to actually create some sort of balance of interest. Number two, you need a shared sense of urgency. And finally, you need an end product, some agreement, some deal, text.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Can Puck’s CEO reinvent the news business for the influencer age?

The creator and influencer economy works very differently than journalism does. If you take a high-level look at the business of most creators, they all kind of look like little ad agencies, doing brand deals and negotiating rates in a way that has always felt incompatible with journalism, at least to me.

Fresh Air

John Lithgow

Anyone who is that successful, that much of an asset for a publisher to be fired because he was impossible to work with. I just thought, well, there's something there.

TED

What Makes an Idea Stick? | Singapore | TED Idea Search

Having conversations around money takes the power away from the people up top and gives it back to us.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

I came out of that honeymoon realizing I had learned totally the wrong idea about negotiation. I was, first of all, a lawyer who'd been primed to think that negotiating meant competing, full stop. So you're out to win. And maybe even more than that, you're out for somebody else to lose.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

negotiation is just steering. It's about steering the relationships in your life, building those relationships, so when you get to the place where you do need to negotiate something difficult, you're in a much better place to have successful outcomes.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

Tell me is the biggest question you can ask, and it is the most powerful first question in any negotiation, at work or at home.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

negotiation is just steering. It's about steering the relationships in your life, building those relationships. So when you get to the place where you do need to negotiate something difficult, you're in a much better place to have successful outcomes.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

Tell me is the biggest question you can ask, and it is the most powerful first question in any negotiation at work or at home.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

I came out of that honeymoon realizing I had learned totally the wrong idea about negotiation. I was, first of all, a lawyer who'd been primed to think that negotiating meant competing, full stop. So you're out to win, and maybe even more than that, you're out for somebody else to lose.