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In Ep #38 I am covering how Juan and I implement v4v on our show ‘Mere Mortals Book Reviews’. The unique aspect we bring is that we’ve taken all the knowledge from this show and tried our best to use every single piece of tactics, philosophy and practical takeaways.
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We're coming to a close. So let's review everything we've learned. Dear friends, we made it. Welcome to the final episode of Season two for the Value for Value podcast Yahoo! My name is Kyrin. I'm host of The Mere Mortals and Mere Mortals Book Reviews. More on that shortly. And this is the podcast where I dive deep into the value for value model. So in season one, we've explored the philosophy of everything behind value for value. So why free isn't free? Why you don't want to use the word donations? Why value doesn't necessarily mean money, the value of tough love.
So many different things I examined in those first eight episodes and now roughly another 18 episodes later, we're coming to the finality of season two, where I examined particular podcasts and examined the value for value implementation, maybe something unique that they did or we can take away for our own shows. And indeed, it's going to be a slightly self-promotional one here, but I'll also introduce a bit of a summary, a review, if you will, of it all up. And I'm going to be looking at the Mere Mortals book reviews. So yes, it is another one of my own shows.
So in terms of the description, I can read this from my little own site here. And so it is reviewing the books to transcend beyond mere mortality, emphasis on new learnings, intriguing ideas and pragmatic takeaways that can be applied to your everyday life. So essentially, yes, I for the most part, but also Juan my co-host on the Mere Mortals, will do a book review relatively simple. We've been doing this for a weekly of Slash twice a week for about a year when I was going crazy and I started this around January of 2020. Now might actually say if you look on your podcast that it started sometime in 2021, But that was because I had to move over hosts and more on moving hosts shortly.
And I'm up to about 200 episodes of that with probably now I'd say like 170 of those being mine and the other 30 being ones. Now the length is usually about 25 minutes, but can be slightly more, can be slightly less. And depending on, I suppose, the book size and the themes and interesting things that we found from it. And the format is it's just one of us. So it'll either be me speaking to the mike much like I am now or one, and it's generally a lot more prepared than the Mere Mortals. So you know, I would generally have a kind of little notebook full of, of notes and you know, I've spent a lot more time really thinking about what I took away from it and how I want to review the book.
So this is split into multiple sections. This year of the intro, I give us an obvious of the general plots or what it is generally about. Then I'll go into multiple themes. If there are usually to some of my own personal observations and takeaways as a summary. And then finally a value for value pitch right at the end. So just to give you a taste of what it sounds like, here is the summary. So right at the start of the episode entitled The Bitcoin Standard by safety numbers and you can get a feel for how I do the summary. And we do have a very exciting one today.
It is the Bitcoin standard by C5 and Moose. This book was originally published in 2018, although I have the 2021 updated version and it's about 275 pages in length and each page, the writing on it itself isn't super dense, so it doesn't take a super long time to get through. The book itself is a mix between the history of money and then also the properties of money. So you're really going to get an idea more about what money is than anything else from this book. However, it is also the backdrop for this new form of purely digital money called Bitcoin and why, in comparison to cows shells, gold and even fiat, it is much, much better.
Now, there's ten chapters in this book and I'll read out a couple of them so you can get an idea of what they are talking about. So chapter one Money. Chapter two Primitive Money. Chapter three Monetary Metals. Chapter four Government Money. Chapter five Money and Time Preference. Chapter six Capitalism as Information System. Chapter seven Sound Money and Individual Freedom. And then this is the part where it starts getting onto Bitcoin. Chapter eight Digital Money. Chapter nine. What is Bitcoin? Good for and Chapter ten Bitcoin Questions. So you can see, you know, 7/10 of the book is related to actual money and the history of money.
And then the last three chapters are really diving deep into Bitcoin and analysing it from this perspective that has already been created beforehand. A handsome and intelligent fellow, if I do say so myself. So that's the general in charge of, of what the main models book reviews is about. And you can see how much effort I've put into reading it and definitely a lot less ums. And as you'll notice from there now, how do I implement value for value on this show? Well, it has evolved over the years that I've been doing it first. When I first started, it used to be just simply asking for a view from or, you know, check us out on Apple's or Spotify or wherever you get your podcast.
But when I really didn't really know what I was doing and so I would sort of just mimic what everyone else was saying. But since I found that the value of a value model and since I started learning about, okay, this is why this is much more beneficiary than, say, the advertising model, which I absolutely despise. I cannot stand ads and podcasts and just in general. And I started implementing it in a kind of piecemeal fashion into it. So first I started, you know, honing up my pitch towards the end, recommending podcasts where people could go to other podcasts, places where people could go to more being directional with the value that how people could provide that back to me.
And then once I started to had my eyes opened by the the power of Boostagrams and of using digital money bitcoin, hence the book review on the Bitcoin standard. It forced me to go, okay, I need to do this properly and I can't sort of just provide lip service to it. So I started actually doing a book recap, which was a end of month more loose fitting episode where I would go over the the multiple books that I had read during the month. So whether it be four or eight of them or however many. And then this would also give me a section to close the feedback loop of the Boostagrams and things like this.
So I will, before getting onto the Something Unique section, give you another little taste of how I do my pitch, and then this will lead us nicely into some the review I want to do off of season two. Overall, I'm going to give it a seven and a half out of ten. The sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima. Give it a check out. I think you'll enjoy it. And that is it for today. My Miyamoto Lights. Thank you for joining me to this part of the audio. What are your thoughts on Yukio Mishima on The Sound of Waves, his style? Is it too simplistic?
I would love to know all of these things. The best way you can do that is by sending in a boostagram So Boostagram is a monetary payment of satoshis So that is Bitcoin attached to a message and you can do that via any decent podcasting app. So new podcast app Ask.com choose one of the ones from the list there try them out and I this is a value for value podcast. I provide all this value upfront and so I really hope you got something from the show. And if you didn't, why are you listening? And I just request that you send that back in so you can send it in a monetary form.
I always enjoy getting book recommendations of highlights and your thoughts. And as I mentioned, I call those out and the book books recap at the end of the month and thank you individually, but you could also share the the show. You could also have technical details insights into Mishima that perhaps I don't have all of these different things you could do. So I really do hope you're having a fantastic day wherever you are, especially if you are a Tajima or on the on the on the sea, on the ocean, listening to the sound of waves. And we're going to leave it there, Kyran out.
Okay. There's a couple of things I want to highlight from that section, but to do that, I'm actually going to have to get right into something unique. And so what is something unique that the memorial's book reviews does differently perhaps than every on the show? Well, they implement everything that I've been talking about here in season two of the Value for Value show. So I'm actually going to give a bit of a review of every single show. And in particular, the unique thing that you can take from that and talk about how I've basically applied that to the minerals book reviews or the Memorials podcast, one of the two.
So let's get right back into it. So we started off with none other than podcasting 2.0. And one of the things I really took from that was the feedback loop is critical above pretty much everything else I would say. Now there are many other things you can do, but that feedback loop you need to have it. It's kind of what motivates people to to send support because if they don't do that, then it can feel at times like you're sending things into a void. And I've experienced this before and I've talked about this many times before and I hate it.
So that is what triggered me to actually do this book recap section right at the end of the month and be able to go, okay, and this is where I can complete the feedback loop. Now it's only once a month and we'll talk more about that shortly. But you know, you do have to do that. So one right thing that triggered me to do that from fun fact Friday value return is can be the show content as well. So what they would ask is that you send a boost to Graham in with a fun fact which they use in their actual show so it's becoming more of a and less of a thanking people section and more of a know.
This is you're actually going to create the show for us in a way and I you can kind of here I somewhat did that which was hey if you have any insights into the mission, if you have a book recommendation, you know, that is going to be potentially creating a whole new show for me and I will trust those recommendations more than I will from just random stuff because people are taking the time to come all the way to the end of an episode. If they understand my kind of style, I feel that can be quite applicable. So that was a really good one. They're from the Life Spring Family Audio Bible.
Steve Webb We understood that we need to adapt the loop and change it depending on how we do our shows. And so for him he did a daily show and this was where he would kind of split up these little value portions that he was getting back because it was daily he had split it up into, you know, whatever he got recently so it wouldn't be this kind of big grand Boostagram lounge or anything like that. It would be a this is what some people have sent to me today. This is a story of how some value got provided back to me. Oh, look, here's a boostagram Wasn't that great? Things like that.
So this was also where I was going, okay, how can I adapt value for value to the book review show? I don't particularly want to be reading Outburst of Graham's in the the actual book review itself. You know what? I'm going to create a whole new section for myself and do it that way. So that was really good. The bowl off the bowl. So this is where we really had the passing the bowl analogy. And this is where I would say, okay, you're you're changing up your pitch somewhat to to suit your audience. And you could kind of hear how I did that right at the end, which was, you know what, I'm wishing people a good day.
I'm wishing the people from the island of Dejima off the coast of of of mainland Japan. And, you know, I'd try and do this. I do this a lot better in the memorial show because it's such a a longer free form content that, for example, I was having this week or where it was a week of off opposites, everything was kind of changing and being opposite for me. And so and the value for value pitch right at the end I said, You know what, everyone I just ask, it's been a week of opposites. I ask you do the opposite of what you normally do, which is do not, don't you don't donate.
So do not so donate this time. And that's, I think, a really cool way to to make the pitch not boring as well to to leave people kind of wondering like oh okay what what what's it going to say now? Is it going to be funny? Is it like because you can change it up each time? It doesn't have to be a really structured one now from the secular foxhole. So this was where they talked about simplifying the process for noobs, and this is where they had a even like a whole section on how you can support the show. Now, I haven't gone deep and deep into details, but I did have a little section there.
You heard where I said, okay, to do this, you know, go on to new podcast app WSJ.com and choose one of the ones that you enjoy from there. And this is a lot better than just saying, you know, get a get an app which supports boostagramming. Okay well, what if you'd never heard of boostagramming before? Where the hell do I go? Where do I even start? So that's one little section I've taken from them, from the sleek, the strangest Life I've ever known podcast. They did something really cool with a leaderboard, and whilst I haven't implemented that totally yet into this podcast, into Mere Mortals book reviews, I have done that on the memorial show and it's kind of trying to accumulate that everything into there.
I think I will at some point now that I have access to some better tools such as the Saturn app and I'll be Wallet where you can get a lot more details of of your purse for for a kind of non node user like myself. There are a couple of ways you can do that as well. So I, I think I do want to implement that, but I will admit I haven't done that for the minimalist book reviews, but I have done it for the Mere Mortals podcast and you can check out our monthly goals for more on those details there. The chord cast, this was one where it was kind of highlighting the uniqueness of your value and saying, okay, this is something you're not going to get anywhere else.
And he was saying that because he was reading out texts which were just never going to be read in audio form. Yeah, okay. This is maybe one where I'm slightly lagging in a bit, where I, I try and just rely on the value of everything that I'm doing to speak for itself. Instead of saying the ME models is the best book reviews for X number of reasons, or, you know, check out the Miyamoto's podcast because we do it outside in a, you know, kind of free form format. This is really rare. You're going to get the Australian bush and wildlife. You're never going to hear these sort of things.
You know, I probably could do a little bit of a better job explaining that and saying, okay, this is why you do need to listen to this show because it is so unique. So I'll give myself a negative on that one. The mere mortals, I've already kind of talked about this, but changing up your pitch so you're not doing the same thing day in, day out. So that was, you know, kind of something that I've taken analysed and now reanalysing it good. And from behind the schemes, this was adopting the new tag. So this is really providing even more value for your show.
Obviously, the better your show is, the more people are going to want to return that value back and in a greater format as well. So the more you can do by adopting new tags, by making it easier for them, especially in the the monetary form. So this is where you can have things like the value tag in your podcast, which you can use to include a node link and things like that. There's also, I think it's part of the same tag where you can include a link to a PayPal and this will show up on many of the podcasting apps with a little dollar sign.
And if you click that, it'll take you directly to there. So basically just implementing as many new things, staying ahead or right on track with the the innovations that are going on in podcasting and through podcasting 2.0, which I mentioned just right before, that is a good way to increase the value of your show. Now, just to break this up a little bit before I get onto the other potential nine that are remaining, I'm going to play a section here from the book recap so you can get a feel for how I did implement this. And this will also highlight another point or two, which I do want to make.
Now. I actually have quite a few biz scripts right here because I did something a little bit different. I watched one and I paid for a promotions on the Fountain app just to try it out. I've done it on the Value for Value podcast before, but I wanted also to do it here and just see what it would have felt like, what the kind of outcome would be. And I've also chatted with Nick, Master of the From the Fountain Podcast. So if you listen to episode 329 of the Miyamoto's podcast, you'll learn a bit more about that, which is coming out in a week's time roughly or five days after this is released.
So I'm just going to go run through these kind of rapid fire for some of them because there are quite a lot here. So we have three sets from just 2100 and just assume all of these are from Fountain. He says, Thanks, Nice episode. Keeping up and all of these are for the Bitcoin standard review unless I say otherwise. We have 129 sets and TRANEL a nice book review. I think I need to read the bitcoin standard anyway though. Yeah. I like the point of book reviews I feel is to kind of whet your appetite to be able to go into it or you know, if you're on the fence about it and don't want to read it, you can kind of get the modern interpretation from current law.
I'm doing exactly what I'm railing against. Good ten sets from Leo by Bay or by, and he says, I liked it a lot with images, practically a video. I like it. Hey, that is a fantastic comment, my friend. Thank you for that, because I do actually put a lot of effort into the images and yeah, that's that's great. I'm glad you enjoyed that. A big one here from Mr. Peter the Slav. And this is from meditations on First Philosophy. And he says, I'm going to be honest here. I really have no idea what Rene was talking about either. He lost me at about the third meditation.
Okay, bang on. Same with you. Glad you sort of enjoyed it, though. Yeah, that was a that was a fun book that I'm I was one of the only philosophy books where I, I understood what he was getting at. I like the process of his thought model. I thought that was really cool, what his final outcomes were. I kind of disagreed with and didn't I didn't get the same things that he did. But that was a philosophy book where I went, okay, this, this is this is what I was expecting. This is a mode of thinking which I had never particularly tried before, and I was able to do it for myself.
So kind of maybe dumb philosophy is what I need. 475 sets by Charlie 67j And it says Good book Reviewer Thank you, my friend. 38 sets from user blah blah blah blah blah. Thanks for the info. No walkers mate. So all of that was from the boost agrams galore and I'm done with philosophy episode of the Mere Mortals book reviews. So yeah, plenty of different things to take from there. And you could even see how some of the things that I said I wasn't doing, like highlighting the uniqueness of my value, well, I kind of was in a way that where someone noticed how good my chapters were and I was like, Yeah, thank.
Yeah, chapters are something I do really well. So yeah, yeah, I suppose I do need to highlight it. That's the, the one of the things to take away from that. So continuing on from the different episodes that I covered, we had Kyle Haber as the intergalactic boom box podcast and this was where he was using boosts as a kind of prompt question. So he would have a question for the week. His show was very format, format, format wise. It was very short in the sense of, you know, 10 to 15 minutes. And he would say, Hey, there's this particular question, what are your thoughts on glasses in movies?
I don't know, something like that. And that would be the question to respond to in a boost message. So I kind of did that in a way, which was where I'm saying, Hey, what were your thoughts on the sound of ways? I really want to know that giving something a prompt for someone who's listening to go, Oh, you know what? I am going to give Karen my thoughts on the sound of waves, and I'm also going to boost him at the same time. Ruddy bloody brilliant. We had the podcasting for value. This was Joshua Denham's genesis, excuse me. And he had experimentation and set for teasing.
And this is one where I've kind of taken away and realised, okay, yeah, obviously experimenting with your shows and trying out some unique formats and things like that, that's really cool. And then also using this method of boostagramming to, to kind of promote your shows. And so I do this in a way whenever I boostagram someone it is under the handle Mere Mortals podcast or Kyrin and then in brackets mere mortals podcast just so that people can kind of see okay this is where you know I'm I'm implementing this myself, I'm doing this myself, I'm kind of advertising and God yeah, now I feel hypocritical.
I feel there's a difference between the boostagramming someone and then paying for an advert to appear on Instagram or on a billboard or things like that. There is a difference nuance wise. If you want to check that out, listen to the models, because I've explained that before. Just type in advertising or something in the search bar of our website Mere Mortals podcast dot com and you're you're kind of be able to follow that train of thought there We also had America plus sling sets and be generous was basically the unique thing he was doing.
He wanted to become the person known for giving the most stats back to his audience, which I think is very cool. Cole McCormick And so that's, you know, I've tried it out for myself. You just heard how I had tried out doing this on the Fountain app, and it did get a lot of boost back, not as much as I put in, but I thought it was a fun thing to do. And, you know, it's something I might do again. We had Robert Suzuki's ten Veto podcast 2.0, which was kind of amalgamation of a couple of his shows, and this was where it was highlighting, you know, use other V for V means if necessary.
So although he does have a node and although he does experiment with, you know, value for value, he does do it in a perhaps different sense where he'll he will say, hey, you know, join up onto my course at SUSU so Suzuki Network or I think it was Kaizen, it was the way he explained it and okay, this is maybe one where I do I do try and highlight, I suppose, other ways that you can provide the value of back. So this was where I was saying, you know, if you are an expert on Mishima and I've misinterpreted something, you know, get in touch. If you want to share the show, you know, do that in that way. So I suppose for that one, I probably don't do it as much, but it is definitely trying to to highlight different ways that people can provide the value back.
From Portland News, this is James Cridland and Sam Sethi. If we found keep persisting, just keep doing it. Keep going on. Even though I was showing that Instagram recap there, that was because I had done a, you know, a promotion on Fountain. And for most of the time it is in fact not like that a lot of the time the you'll get one or two in or three maybe. And you know, I have persisted and that's something I am kind of proud of myself on both for the mere and for that show, for ebooks. Now we've learnt that you could use a podcast as a feed to show in a way, and this is something I actually do, do, do do for the memos, book reviews.
So I do now more than ever, highlight. Hey, I'm Kyrin and I'm a host of the Mere Mortals podcast, and I do talk about how if you enjoyed this book, you know, go check out the Mere Mortals podcast, because I tend to analyse these books a bit more. I tend to get ideas from these and then I'll bring it up and have it in a more conversational style. So I do use it, although it is a standalone piece, I do use it somewhat as a feed to show to, to highlight. Hey, this is everything that's going on on the Me and Models podcast. So that's, that's one there.
And then the final one was generational wealth highlighting your ethics. And this was where if you listen to his, his pitch at the end, he was very adamant, I will never take sponsorship money. I would never take advertising money. I don't believe in it. I think that it can have a a corrupting influence on the show. It will change. You know, your ability to trust me that funnily enough, he's doing a a crypto show where the whole point is kind of you don't need to trust anyone but yes, I definitely think that was a great idea. And I have also started implementing that into the Mere Mortals and Mere Mortals book reviews.
So there we go. That's that was a whole lot of different. I think I had written down here 18 episodes, and I really do hope you've taken something from each one of them and and been able to implement it. You know, maybe not all of them, but some of them into your own podcast and into, into your own ideas. And I've learnt a lot of definitely learnt a lot over these this last 18 weeks in in preparing this and doing this all. So that's the review of season two. Thank you for tuning in. And now let's get into the Instagram lounge. Welcome to the Value for Value Instagram Lounge.
So here we are, the Boostagram Lounge, the value for value feedback loop for this show, The value for value show. So this is where I read out all the boostagrams that came in. And I think people individually for doing that and we've got four this week, which is very nice. So we have like Kabui who sent in $0.16 from Fountain, he says Cheers, cheers to use like a boy we have. This is the future love, the generational wealth. And he sent 24 sets in. I have noticed this is the future quite often appearing here. And so I do appreciate you, my friend. I've got 25 sets from Busy Brain.
Good stuff. Keep it coming. Thumbs up. And that was a new name. So I was like a boy. So very cool to see those two. And then finally, you know, my favourite booster is Petar and he says, never came across the show before. But I like the premise and you know how much I love clobbering leaderboards. Yes, indeedy. And so that was 5833 also using Fountain. And yeah, I do want to give a big shout out to Petar He's been very Petar the persistent in in supporting this show as well as my other shows and yeah he definitely does deserve a special mention. And so if you see the name Peter floating around and you'll see him on the Fountain leaderboard charts as well, if you go to Fountain, he's everywhere and he's a very generous fellow and a very great fella. And we've both learnt a lot from each other, especially from the book reviews as well.
So very, very cool. Peter, thank you so much, mate. I can't express how much I appreciate your support. So that is it for season two. So I've talked about this in some of the other shows, but yes, I'm bringing this to a close. I have I feel like I've once again kind of done my job in the sense that for season one it was almost a preparation for talking to Adam Curry on the Mere Mortals podcast, where we just basically talked about value for value for an hour and a half and then, you know, an hour of other stuff as well. This show, you know, the season two, this was for me to learn more about the the kind of practical implementation.
I looked at the kind of philosophy before, but this was why, okay, how can I take away some of these things and do them for my own shows? So I feel like I have taken away a fair chunk and know slightly as well. It was kind of a promotional thing to show that I'm serious about this, and in one way I did that was I included a split for every single show that I reviewed. So in this one, I'm actually going to do something fun, which is fun for me. I'm not sure how much other people will actually really appreciate it, but fuck it, I'm going to do it, which is I'm going to include a split of every single person who's listened into this one.
So there should be. So I said, 18 shows and then plus mine and then plus fountain. So there should be roughly 20 splits for for this. So maybe I'll try and include just 5% for every single one. But yeah, that's kind of like the highlight of value. Value for value. You know, all of these people did cool shows. I, you know, just took out random snippets from their shows and none of them ever came back to me saying, you know, take it out or anything like that. So to show that appreciation, I'm going to chuck in a split now. It's going to be relatively minor, you know, maximum 5%.
But I hope they appreciate it anyway. And, you know, damn, that's going to take me a long time to do as well. And the funny thing is, will be, let's see in a year time how many of these nodes are still active. So I would bet that probably about half of them would be, because that does seem that that is one thing where it's kind of like our link, right? If you've heard of that before, that kind of Internet term of, you know, links just dying because people change web pages or don't update their servers or, you know, just naturally things go away. We might have a case of node rot on our hands in the in the future.
So although it would be silly because you missing out on some glorious sets as people come back and listen to this show. So that is definitely one thing. Another thing to highlight value for value wise is I want your suggestions. I will do a season three at some point. I do just need a break after after doing this and who knows how long it'll be? Probably 3 to 4 months. This is how long I took last time, so I'll probably do that again roughly. And yeah. What are your suggestions? What would you love to hear more of? Do you want me analysing more shows?
What I was thinking of doing was also doing a highlight of a a tag. So one of the new podcasting 2.0. The new namespace tags. I was thinking of doing a kind of highlight of that for each so show. This could be where podcasters could understand, Oh, this is something that I can do for my own show and maybe it will require me to change hosts. Speaking of this show, this episode might be delayed slightly. The feed might be a little bit wonky. It might show I've produced or every single other episode, you know, in the last day or two before this, because I've actually been locked out of my own podcast because my computer broke and now I'm having a lot of trouble getting back in as the admin, so I might have to just re re copy the feed and do a whole, set up a whole new podcast or like a redirect or I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do.
But in any case, this episode will be released at some point because you're obviously listening to it right now. And yeah, suggestions for season three. If you could send through any of those. I would also just highlight here, you know, this is a value for value show. I spend a lot of time making this show and putting the effort into creating the clips, doing it weekly, you know, listening to these other shows. You can use this as multiple different ways. Those ways where you could listen in and get kind of podcast recommendations, because I have reviewed a whole different, different like variety of shows.
Each one of these is actually pretty unique in a way, and there's just so many things that are, you know, there's there's a time for me to thank you for, for tuning in to the Value For Value show. I do appreciate it. And I want to spread the word. So I'm going to keep doing this, and I hope you do too. So spread the word that's never that's what you can do for me today. Spread the word about value for value. Wow. That's a big one. Thank you. Thank you, everyone, for joining in, for tuning in this long. And I really do hope you're having a fantastic day wherever you are in the world.
Kyrin Checking out, but not forever. I'll be back. Chao
We're coming to a close. So let's review everything we've learned. Dear friends, we made it. Welcome to the final episode of Season two for the Value for Value podcast Yahoo! My name is Kyrin. I'm host of The Mere Mortals and Mere Mortals Book Reviews. More on that shortly. And this is the podcast where I dive deep into the value for value model. So in season one, we've explored the philosophy of everything behind value for value. So why free isn't free? Why you don't want to use the word donations? Why value doesn't necessarily mean money, the value of tough love.
So many different things I examined in those first eight episodes and now roughly another 18 episodes later, we're coming to the finality of season two, where I examined particular podcasts and examined the value for value implementation, maybe something unique that they did or we can take away for our own shows. And indeed, it's going to be a slightly self-promotional one here, but I'll also introduce a bit of a summary, a review, if you will, of it all up. And I'm going to be looking at the Mere Mortals book reviews. So yes, it is another one of my own shows.
So in terms of the description, I can read this from my little own site here. And so it is reviewing the books to transcend beyond mere mortality, emphasis on new learnings, intriguing ideas and pragmatic takeaways that can be applied to your everyday life. So essentially, yes, I for the most part, but also Juan my co-host on the Mere Mortals, will do a book review relatively simple. We've been doing this for a weekly of Slash twice a week for about a year when I was going crazy and I started this around January of 2020. Now might actually say if you look on your podcast that it started sometime in 2021, But that was because I had to move over hosts and more on moving hosts shortly.
And I'm up to about 200 episodes of that with probably now I'd say like 170 of those being mine and the other 30 being ones. Now the length is usually about 25 minutes, but can be slightly more, can be slightly less. And depending on, I suppose, the book size and the themes and interesting things that we found from it. And the format is it's just one of us. So it'll either be me speaking to the mike much like I am now or one, and it's generally a lot more prepared than the Mere Mortals. So you know, I would generally have a kind of little notebook full of, of notes and you know, I've spent a lot more time really thinking about what I took away from it and how I want to review the book.
So this is split into multiple sections. This year of the intro, I give us an obvious of the general plots or what it is generally about. Then I'll go into multiple themes. If there are usually to some of my own personal observations and takeaways as a summary. And then finally a value for value pitch right at the end. So just to give you a taste of what it sounds like, here is the summary. So right at the start of the episode entitled The Bitcoin Standard by safety numbers and you can get a feel for how I do the summary. And we do have a very exciting one today.
It is the Bitcoin standard by C5 and Moose. This book was originally published in 2018, although I have the 2021 updated version and it's about 275 pages in length and each page, the writing on it itself isn't super dense, so it doesn't take a super long time to get through. The book itself is a mix between the history of money and then also the properties of money. So you're really going to get an idea more about what money is than anything else from this book. However, it is also the backdrop for this new form of purely digital money called Bitcoin and why, in comparison to cows shells, gold and even fiat, it is much, much better.
Now, there's ten chapters in this book and I'll read out a couple of them so you can get an idea of what they are talking about. So chapter one Money. Chapter two Primitive Money. Chapter three Monetary Metals. Chapter four Government Money. Chapter five Money and Time Preference. Chapter six Capitalism as Information System. Chapter seven Sound Money and Individual Freedom. And then this is the part where it starts getting onto Bitcoin. Chapter eight Digital Money. Chapter nine. What is Bitcoin? Good for and Chapter ten Bitcoin Questions. So you can see, you know, 7/10 of the book is related to actual money and the history of money.
And then the last three chapters are really diving deep into Bitcoin and analysing it from this perspective that has already been created beforehand. A handsome and intelligent fellow, if I do say so myself. So that's the general in charge of, of what the main models book reviews is about. And you can see how much effort I've put into reading it and definitely a lot less ums. And as you'll notice from there now, how do I implement value for value on this show? Well, it has evolved over the years that I've been doing it first. When I first started, it used to be just simply asking for a view from or, you know, check us out on Apple's or Spotify or wherever you get your podcast.
But when I really didn't really know what I was doing and so I would sort of just mimic what everyone else was saying. But since I found that the value of a value model and since I started learning about, okay, this is why this is much more beneficiary than, say, the advertising model, which I absolutely despise. I cannot stand ads and podcasts and just in general. And I started implementing it in a kind of piecemeal fashion into it. So first I started, you know, honing up my pitch towards the end, recommending podcasts where people could go to other podcasts, places where people could go to more being directional with the value that how people could provide that back to me.
And then once I started to had my eyes opened by the the power of Boostagrams and of using digital money bitcoin, hence the book review on the Bitcoin standard. It forced me to go, okay, I need to do this properly and I can't sort of just provide lip service to it. So I started actually doing a book recap, which was a end of month more loose fitting episode where I would go over the the multiple books that I had read during the month. So whether it be four or eight of them or however many. And then this would also give me a section to close the feedback loop of the Boostagrams and things like this.
So I will, before getting onto the Something Unique section, give you another little taste of how I do my pitch, and then this will lead us nicely into some the review I want to do off of season two. Overall, I'm going to give it a seven and a half out of ten. The sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima. Give it a check out. I think you'll enjoy it. And that is it for today. My Miyamoto Lights. Thank you for joining me to this part of the audio. What are your thoughts on Yukio Mishima on The Sound of Waves, his style? Is it too simplistic?
I would love to know all of these things. The best way you can do that is by sending in a boostagram So Boostagram is a monetary payment of satoshis So that is Bitcoin attached to a message and you can do that via any decent podcasting app. So new podcast app Ask.com choose one of the ones from the list there try them out and I this is a value for value podcast. I provide all this value upfront and so I really hope you got something from the show. And if you didn't, why are you listening? And I just request that you send that back in so you can send it in a monetary form.
I always enjoy getting book recommendations of highlights and your thoughts. And as I mentioned, I call those out and the book books recap at the end of the month and thank you individually, but you could also share the the show. You could also have technical details insights into Mishima that perhaps I don't have all of these different things you could do. So I really do hope you're having a fantastic day wherever you are, especially if you are a Tajima or on the on the on the sea, on the ocean, listening to the sound of waves. And we're going to leave it there, Kyran out.
Okay. There's a couple of things I want to highlight from that section, but to do that, I'm actually going to have to get right into something unique. And so what is something unique that the memorial's book reviews does differently perhaps than every on the show? Well, they implement everything that I've been talking about here in season two of the Value for Value show. So I'm actually going to give a bit of a review of every single show. And in particular, the unique thing that you can take from that and talk about how I've basically applied that to the minerals book reviews or the Memorials podcast, one of the two.
So let's get right back into it. So we started off with none other than podcasting 2.0. And one of the things I really took from that was the feedback loop is critical above pretty much everything else I would say. Now there are many other things you can do, but that feedback loop you need to have it. It's kind of what motivates people to to send support because if they don't do that, then it can feel at times like you're sending things into a void. And I've experienced this before and I've talked about this many times before and I hate it.
So that is what triggered me to actually do this book recap section right at the end of the month and be able to go, okay, and this is where I can complete the feedback loop. Now it's only once a month and we'll talk more about that shortly. But you know, you do have to do that. So one right thing that triggered me to do that from fun fact Friday value return is can be the show content as well. So what they would ask is that you send a boost to Graham in with a fun fact which they use in their actual show so it's becoming more of a and less of a thanking people section and more of a know.
This is you're actually going to create the show for us in a way and I you can kind of here I somewhat did that which was hey if you have any insights into the mission, if you have a book recommendation, you know, that is going to be potentially creating a whole new show for me and I will trust those recommendations more than I will from just random stuff because people are taking the time to come all the way to the end of an episode. If they understand my kind of style, I feel that can be quite applicable. So that was a really good one. They're from the Life Spring Family Audio Bible.
Steve Webb We understood that we need to adapt the loop and change it depending on how we do our shows. And so for him he did a daily show and this was where he would kind of split up these little value portions that he was getting back because it was daily he had split it up into, you know, whatever he got recently so it wouldn't be this kind of big grand Boostagram lounge or anything like that. It would be a this is what some people have sent to me today. This is a story of how some value got provided back to me. Oh, look, here's a boostagram Wasn't that great? Things like that.
So this was also where I was going, okay, how can I adapt value for value to the book review show? I don't particularly want to be reading Outburst of Graham's in the the actual book review itself. You know what? I'm going to create a whole new section for myself and do it that way. So that was really good. The bowl off the bowl. So this is where we really had the passing the bowl analogy. And this is where I would say, okay, you're you're changing up your pitch somewhat to to suit your audience. And you could kind of hear how I did that right at the end, which was, you know what, I'm wishing people a good day.
I'm wishing the people from the island of Dejima off the coast of of of mainland Japan. And, you know, I'd try and do this. I do this a lot better in the memorial show because it's such a a longer free form content that, for example, I was having this week or where it was a week of off opposites, everything was kind of changing and being opposite for me. And so and the value for value pitch right at the end I said, You know what, everyone I just ask, it's been a week of opposites. I ask you do the opposite of what you normally do, which is do not, don't you don't donate.
So do not so donate this time. And that's, I think, a really cool way to to make the pitch not boring as well to to leave people kind of wondering like oh okay what what what's it going to say now? Is it going to be funny? Is it like because you can change it up each time? It doesn't have to be a really structured one now from the secular foxhole. So this was where they talked about simplifying the process for noobs, and this is where they had a even like a whole section on how you can support the show. Now, I haven't gone deep and deep into details, but I did have a little section there.
You heard where I said, okay, to do this, you know, go on to new podcast app WSJ.com and choose one of the ones that you enjoy from there. And this is a lot better than just saying, you know, get a get an app which supports boostagramming. Okay well, what if you'd never heard of boostagramming before? Where the hell do I go? Where do I even start? So that's one little section I've taken from them, from the sleek, the strangest Life I've ever known podcast. They did something really cool with a leaderboard, and whilst I haven't implemented that totally yet into this podcast, into Mere Mortals book reviews, I have done that on the memorial show and it's kind of trying to accumulate that everything into there.
I think I will at some point now that I have access to some better tools such as the Saturn app and I'll be Wallet where you can get a lot more details of of your purse for for a kind of non node user like myself. There are a couple of ways you can do that as well. So I, I think I do want to implement that, but I will admit I haven't done that for the minimalist book reviews, but I have done it for the Mere Mortals podcast and you can check out our monthly goals for more on those details there. The chord cast, this was one where it was kind of highlighting the uniqueness of your value and saying, okay, this is something you're not going to get anywhere else.
And he was saying that because he was reading out texts which were just never going to be read in audio form. Yeah, okay. This is maybe one where I'm slightly lagging in a bit, where I, I try and just rely on the value of everything that I'm doing to speak for itself. Instead of saying the ME models is the best book reviews for X number of reasons, or, you know, check out the Miyamoto's podcast because we do it outside in a, you know, kind of free form format. This is really rare. You're going to get the Australian bush and wildlife. You're never going to hear these sort of things.
You know, I probably could do a little bit of a better job explaining that and saying, okay, this is why you do need to listen to this show because it is so unique. So I'll give myself a negative on that one. The mere mortals, I've already kind of talked about this, but changing up your pitch so you're not doing the same thing day in, day out. So that was, you know, kind of something that I've taken analysed and now reanalysing it good. And from behind the schemes, this was adopting the new tag. So this is really providing even more value for your show.
Obviously, the better your show is, the more people are going to want to return that value back and in a greater format as well. So the more you can do by adopting new tags, by making it easier for them, especially in the the monetary form. So this is where you can have things like the value tag in your podcast, which you can use to include a node link and things like that. There's also, I think it's part of the same tag where you can include a link to a PayPal and this will show up on many of the podcasting apps with a little dollar sign.
And if you click that, it'll take you directly to there. So basically just implementing as many new things, staying ahead or right on track with the the innovations that are going on in podcasting and through podcasting 2.0, which I mentioned just right before, that is a good way to increase the value of your show. Now, just to break this up a little bit before I get onto the other potential nine that are remaining, I'm going to play a section here from the book recap so you can get a feel for how I did implement this. And this will also highlight another point or two, which I do want to make.
Now. I actually have quite a few biz scripts right here because I did something a little bit different. I watched one and I paid for a promotions on the Fountain app just to try it out. I've done it on the Value for Value podcast before, but I wanted also to do it here and just see what it would have felt like, what the kind of outcome would be. And I've also chatted with Nick, Master of the From the Fountain Podcast. So if you listen to episode 329 of the Miyamoto's podcast, you'll learn a bit more about that, which is coming out in a week's time roughly or five days after this is released.
So I'm just going to go run through these kind of rapid fire for some of them because there are quite a lot here. So we have three sets from just 2100 and just assume all of these are from Fountain. He says, Thanks, Nice episode. Keeping up and all of these are for the Bitcoin standard review unless I say otherwise. We have 129 sets and TRANEL a nice book review. I think I need to read the bitcoin standard anyway though. Yeah. I like the point of book reviews I feel is to kind of whet your appetite to be able to go into it or you know, if you're on the fence about it and don't want to read it, you can kind of get the modern interpretation from current law.
I'm doing exactly what I'm railing against. Good ten sets from Leo by Bay or by, and he says, I liked it a lot with images, practically a video. I like it. Hey, that is a fantastic comment, my friend. Thank you for that, because I do actually put a lot of effort into the images and yeah, that's that's great. I'm glad you enjoyed that. A big one here from Mr. Peter the Slav. And this is from meditations on First Philosophy. And he says, I'm going to be honest here. I really have no idea what Rene was talking about either. He lost me at about the third meditation.
Okay, bang on. Same with you. Glad you sort of enjoyed it, though. Yeah, that was a that was a fun book that I'm I was one of the only philosophy books where I, I understood what he was getting at. I like the process of his thought model. I thought that was really cool, what his final outcomes were. I kind of disagreed with and didn't I didn't get the same things that he did. But that was a philosophy book where I went, okay, this, this is this is what I was expecting. This is a mode of thinking which I had never particularly tried before, and I was able to do it for myself.
So kind of maybe dumb philosophy is what I need. 475 sets by Charlie 67j And it says Good book Reviewer Thank you, my friend. 38 sets from user blah blah blah blah blah. Thanks for the info. No walkers mate. So all of that was from the boost agrams galore and I'm done with philosophy episode of the Mere Mortals book reviews. So yeah, plenty of different things to take from there. And you could even see how some of the things that I said I wasn't doing, like highlighting the uniqueness of my value, well, I kind of was in a way that where someone noticed how good my chapters were and I was like, Yeah, thank.
Yeah, chapters are something I do really well. So yeah, yeah, I suppose I do need to highlight it. That's the, the one of the things to take away from that. So continuing on from the different episodes that I covered, we had Kyle Haber as the intergalactic boom box podcast and this was where he was using boosts as a kind of prompt question. So he would have a question for the week. His show was very format, format, format wise. It was very short in the sense of, you know, 10 to 15 minutes. And he would say, Hey, there's this particular question, what are your thoughts on glasses in movies?
I don't know, something like that. And that would be the question to respond to in a boost message. So I kind of did that in a way, which was where I'm saying, Hey, what were your thoughts on the sound of ways? I really want to know that giving something a prompt for someone who's listening to go, Oh, you know what? I am going to give Karen my thoughts on the sound of waves, and I'm also going to boost him at the same time. Ruddy bloody brilliant. We had the podcasting for value. This was Joshua Denham's genesis, excuse me. And he had experimentation and set for teasing.
And this is one where I've kind of taken away and realised, okay, yeah, obviously experimenting with your shows and trying out some unique formats and things like that, that's really cool. And then also using this method of boostagramming to, to kind of promote your shows. And so I do this in a way whenever I boostagram someone it is under the handle Mere Mortals podcast or Kyrin and then in brackets mere mortals podcast just so that people can kind of see okay this is where you know I'm I'm implementing this myself, I'm doing this myself, I'm kind of advertising and God yeah, now I feel hypocritical.
I feel there's a difference between the boostagramming someone and then paying for an advert to appear on Instagram or on a billboard or things like that. There is a difference nuance wise. If you want to check that out, listen to the models, because I've explained that before. Just type in advertising or something in the search bar of our website Mere Mortals podcast dot com and you're you're kind of be able to follow that train of thought there We also had America plus sling sets and be generous was basically the unique thing he was doing.
He wanted to become the person known for giving the most stats back to his audience, which I think is very cool. Cole McCormick And so that's, you know, I've tried it out for myself. You just heard how I had tried out doing this on the Fountain app, and it did get a lot of boost back, not as much as I put in, but I thought it was a fun thing to do. And, you know, it's something I might do again. We had Robert Suzuki's ten Veto podcast 2.0, which was kind of amalgamation of a couple of his shows, and this was where it was highlighting, you know, use other V for V means if necessary.
So although he does have a node and although he does experiment with, you know, value for value, he does do it in a perhaps different sense where he'll he will say, hey, you know, join up onto my course at SUSU so Suzuki Network or I think it was Kaizen, it was the way he explained it and okay, this is maybe one where I do I do try and highlight, I suppose, other ways that you can provide the value of back. So this was where I was saying, you know, if you are an expert on Mishima and I've misinterpreted something, you know, get in touch. If you want to share the show, you know, do that in that way. So I suppose for that one, I probably don't do it as much, but it is definitely trying to to highlight different ways that people can provide the value back.
From Portland News, this is James Cridland and Sam Sethi. If we found keep persisting, just keep doing it. Keep going on. Even though I was showing that Instagram recap there, that was because I had done a, you know, a promotion on Fountain. And for most of the time it is in fact not like that a lot of the time the you'll get one or two in or three maybe. And you know, I have persisted and that's something I am kind of proud of myself on both for the mere and for that show, for ebooks. Now we've learnt that you could use a podcast as a feed to show in a way, and this is something I actually do, do, do do for the memos, book reviews.
So I do now more than ever, highlight. Hey, I'm Kyrin and I'm a host of the Mere Mortals podcast, and I do talk about how if you enjoyed this book, you know, go check out the Mere Mortals podcast, because I tend to analyse these books a bit more. I tend to get ideas from these and then I'll bring it up and have it in a more conversational style. So I do use it, although it is a standalone piece, I do use it somewhat as a feed to show to, to highlight. Hey, this is everything that's going on on the Me and Models podcast. So that's, that's one there.
And then the final one was generational wealth highlighting your ethics. And this was where if you listen to his, his pitch at the end, he was very adamant, I will never take sponsorship money. I would never take advertising money. I don't believe in it. I think that it can have a a corrupting influence on the show. It will change. You know, your ability to trust me that funnily enough, he's doing a a crypto show where the whole point is kind of you don't need to trust anyone but yes, I definitely think that was a great idea. And I have also started implementing that into the Mere Mortals and Mere Mortals book reviews.
So there we go. That's that was a whole lot of different. I think I had written down here 18 episodes, and I really do hope you've taken something from each one of them and and been able to implement it. You know, maybe not all of them, but some of them into your own podcast and into, into your own ideas. And I've learnt a lot of definitely learnt a lot over these this last 18 weeks in in preparing this and doing this all. So that's the review of season two. Thank you for tuning in. And now let's get into the Instagram lounge. Welcome to the Value for Value Instagram Lounge.
So here we are, the Boostagram Lounge, the value for value feedback loop for this show, The value for value show. So this is where I read out all the boostagrams that came in. And I think people individually for doing that and we've got four this week, which is very nice. So we have like Kabui who sent in $0.16 from Fountain, he says Cheers, cheers to use like a boy we have. This is the future love, the generational wealth. And he sent 24 sets in. I have noticed this is the future quite often appearing here. And so I do appreciate you, my friend. I've got 25 sets from Busy Brain.
Good stuff. Keep it coming. Thumbs up. And that was a new name. So I was like a boy. So very cool to see those two. And then finally, you know, my favourite booster is Petar and he says, never came across the show before. But I like the premise and you know how much I love clobbering leaderboards. Yes, indeedy. And so that was 5833 also using Fountain. And yeah, I do want to give a big shout out to Petar He's been very Petar the persistent in in supporting this show as well as my other shows and yeah he definitely does deserve a special mention. And so if you see the name Peter floating around and you'll see him on the Fountain leaderboard charts as well, if you go to Fountain, he's everywhere and he's a very generous fellow and a very great fella. And we've both learnt a lot from each other, especially from the book reviews as well.
So very, very cool. Peter, thank you so much, mate. I can't express how much I appreciate your support. So that is it for season two. So I've talked about this in some of the other shows, but yes, I'm bringing this to a close. I have I feel like I've once again kind of done my job in the sense that for season one it was almost a preparation for talking to Adam Curry on the Mere Mortals podcast, where we just basically talked about value for value for an hour and a half and then, you know, an hour of other stuff as well. This show, you know, the season two, this was for me to learn more about the the kind of practical implementation.
I looked at the kind of philosophy before, but this was why, okay, how can I take away some of these things and do them for my own shows? So I feel like I have taken away a fair chunk and know slightly as well. It was kind of a promotional thing to show that I'm serious about this, and in one way I did that was I included a split for every single show that I reviewed. So in this one, I'm actually going to do something fun, which is fun for me. I'm not sure how much other people will actually really appreciate it, but fuck it, I'm going to do it, which is I'm going to include a split of every single person who's listened into this one.
So there should be. So I said, 18 shows and then plus mine and then plus fountain. So there should be roughly 20 splits for for this. So maybe I'll try and include just 5% for every single one. But yeah, that's kind of like the highlight of value. Value for value. You know, all of these people did cool shows. I, you know, just took out random snippets from their shows and none of them ever came back to me saying, you know, take it out or anything like that. So to show that appreciation, I'm going to chuck in a split now. It's going to be relatively minor, you know, maximum 5%.
But I hope they appreciate it anyway. And, you know, damn, that's going to take me a long time to do as well. And the funny thing is, will be, let's see in a year time how many of these nodes are still active. So I would bet that probably about half of them would be, because that does seem that that is one thing where it's kind of like our link, right? If you've heard of that before, that kind of Internet term of, you know, links just dying because people change web pages or don't update their servers or, you know, just naturally things go away. We might have a case of node rot on our hands in the in the future.
So although it would be silly because you missing out on some glorious sets as people come back and listen to this show. So that is definitely one thing. Another thing to highlight value for value wise is I want your suggestions. I will do a season three at some point. I do just need a break after after doing this and who knows how long it'll be? Probably 3 to 4 months. This is how long I took last time, so I'll probably do that again roughly. And yeah. What are your suggestions? What would you love to hear more of? Do you want me analysing more shows?
What I was thinking of doing was also doing a highlight of a a tag. So one of the new podcasting 2.0. The new namespace tags. I was thinking of doing a kind of highlight of that for each so show. This could be where podcasters could understand, Oh, this is something that I can do for my own show and maybe it will require me to change hosts. Speaking of this show, this episode might be delayed slightly. The feed might be a little bit wonky. It might show I've produced or every single other episode, you know, in the last day or two before this, because I've actually been locked out of my own podcast because my computer broke and now I'm having a lot of trouble getting back in as the admin, so I might have to just re re copy the feed and do a whole, set up a whole new podcast or like a redirect or I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do.
But in any case, this episode will be released at some point because you're obviously listening to it right now. And yeah, suggestions for season three. If you could send through any of those. I would also just highlight here, you know, this is a value for value show. I spend a lot of time making this show and putting the effort into creating the clips, doing it weekly, you know, listening to these other shows. You can use this as multiple different ways. Those ways where you could listen in and get kind of podcast recommendations, because I have reviewed a whole different, different like variety of shows.
Each one of these is actually pretty unique in a way, and there's just so many things that are, you know, there's there's a time for me to thank you for, for tuning in to the Value For Value show. I do appreciate it. And I want to spread the word. So I'm going to keep doing this, and I hope you do too. So spread the word that's never that's what you can do for me today. Spread the word about value for value. Wow. That's a big one. Thank you. Thank you, everyone, for joining in, for tuning in this long. And I really do hope you're having a fantastic day wherever you are in the world.
Kyrin Checking out, but not forever. I'll be back. Chao