Take That to the Bank with Ian Cain

Your relationship to money was decided before you could speak. Ian sits down with Daemonic for a long conversation on the relationship to money you didn't know you had — the inherited voices, the chip on the shoulder, the chase that has no end, and the work of seeing the system clearly enough that the part of you still running an outdated program can finally update it. Daemonic spent a decade...

You're an addict. So am I. So is everyone you know. And that's exactly why the engineered attention system works on smart people. In Episodes 1 and 2, I showed you that your attention is being hijacked and how political theater gets manufactured. This episode is about why it works — because we're all running on the same addictive wiring, and an entire economy is built to exploit it. RECOMMENDATION...

In 2016, I became the first Black city councilor in Quincy's history. For four years, nobody asked me about Black lives in Quincy. Then George Floyd died in Minnesota, and overnight everyone cared. Except they still didn't call me. This is a case study in how attention is engineered, how political opportunism works, and why your instinct that something felt off was absolutely correct. RECOMMENDATI...

You already know something's off. That instinct you have? Trust it.   In this first episode, I share what I learned from 10 years on Quincy City Council about how narratives get manufactured, why your attention is being directed, and how to see clearly in a world designed to keep you reacting.   📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: → Book: Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson → Watch...