51. Jared Dillian - Fintwit Bastards

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Jared Dillian writes down every fear, then checks six months later to see it was nothing.

1. Mutiny Investing Podcast episode 51 centers on Jared Dillian's book 'Fintwit Bastards' and the practical business of writing and selling books. 2. Jared Dillian appears as the guest, and the host speaks as a subscriber who has read 'Street Freak' and bought the new book. 3. The episode asks why a finance writer would self-publish, record an audiobook, and still care about distribution, sales, and bestseller lists. 4. Dillian says the audiobook will be out in about a month or two, while the paperback and Kindle editions are already available. 5. He says people can find him on Twitter at '@DailyDirtNap' and subscribe to The Daily Dirt Nap at DailyDirtNap.com. 6. He says he did not want to narrate the audiobook himself because recording is 'tedious' and 'time consuming.' 7. He hires LJ Ganser, the narrator who also did 'Street Freak,' and says Ganser is now his 'personal audio book guy.' 8. He gives a concrete production estimate: audiobook narration usually costs $200 to $400 an hour, and his 100,000-word book came out to about 10 hours and $4,000. 9. He says publishing houses still matter mainly because they provide distribution into stores and airports, where books can be picked up sight unseen. 10. He says book-table placement, a new hardcover, and a good cover can still create sales without the buyer knowing anything about the author. 11. Dillian says finance makes people worldly because traders must follow news on a second-by-second basis and understand politics and monetary policy across countries. 12. He points to a Latin American FX trader as an example of someone who has to understand Brazil, Mexico, politics, and central banking. 13. He says a kid from Staten Island can become someone who can 'have an intelligent conversation with most world leaders' after time on a trading desk. 14. He describes his own information diet in 2001 at Lehman Brothers: reading the Wall Street Journal on the bus, then checking Bloomberg News at work. 15. He says Twitter now feels like 'drinking from a firehose,' and the other 10% of his input comes from ordinary people like his hairstylist and a real estate appraiser. 16. He says moving out of New York to the Myrtle Beach area was the best thing he did because it broke the finance echo chamber. 17. The episode has an interview format with a loose, conversational pace and frequent back-and-forth on essays from the book. 18. The tone mixes business details, cultural opinion, and personal anecdotes, with both speakers riffing on books, markets, and life patterns. 19. People interested in markets, publishing, and trader psychology would likely get the most from it. 20. Listeners wanting a tightly structured investing lesson may skip it.

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