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ISSUE 11/26
THE MONTHLY ECHO #October
Andreas Roth
November 05, 2026
Hi All!
Welcome to this month’s echo - a roundup of what’s been on my radar, what I’ve been pondering, and the gems I’ve stumbled across lately. Enjoy!
“Old opinions shouldn’t define who we are in the future.”
Derek Sivers
PERSONAL NEWS & VENTURES
58g - Extremely happy to announce our new shop experience. A new iconic moment will launch shortly as well.
TECH & DESIGN
What's new in Grok Bot - Nov 2, 2026 - Matt Palmer walks through the latest update. Shopping is the big one: product results as cards, redesigned product pages, order tracking, and payments through the Vault where every purchase needs your approval. Also new: cloud agents with their own modes, team bots, and routines that query connectors in Slack.
Peter Diamandis - Who's creating the leading personal agent? Diamandis tracks where technology is heading and what it means for humanity. Founder, investor and best-selling author, named by Fortune one of the "World's 50 Greatest Leaders".
ON THE WATCHLIST
War - Legal drama from George Kay. Two rival London law firms face off in the divorce of a tech founder (Dominic West) and a film star (Sienna Miller). On HBO and Sky Atlantic.
Lanterns - HBO's Green Lantern series. Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) and John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) get pulled into a murder case in the American heartland.
Nocturne - Apple TV crime thriller. A victim of serial killer Jurek Walter turns up alive, and an investigator races to find the one person still missing. With Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz and Stephen Graham.
How Ben Affleck Makes Movies | Film School - Netflix's Film School series. Affleck on directing actors, positive reinforcement, directing yourself and AI in film, built around his new film Animals.
Adventurer Karl Bushby arrives home in UK after 28-year walk - Bushby started in Chile in 1998 and walked around the world. One rule: no transport, and no going home until he arrives on foot. He is back in Hull.
The Rise of Eileen Gu - Red Bull Snow's profile of freeskiing Olympic champion Eileen Gu.
Golfing 50 States in 50 Days | Day 7 - Good Good Golf plays all 50 US states in 50 days, starting in Alaska. This is Day 7.
ESport - die französische Avantgarde | ARTE - Three-part ARTE documentary (in German) on the early days of competitive gaming: Counter-Strike, LAN parties in smoky basements and cybercafés, told with archive footage and interviews with the people who were there.
FINANCE BABY!
Mohnish Pabrai: I Spent 30 Years in Investing. Here's Everything in 30 Minutes - Pabrai's investing lessons in 38 minutes: checklist investing, never borrow to invest, buy the competitor.
Mohnish Pabrai: Proven Playbook For Quitting Your 9-5 - Pabrai on mental models, compounding and moats. The Dhandho way is his low-risk, high-return framework for business and investing. Worth knowing alongside it: the Rule of 72. Divide 72 by the annual return and you get the years it takes to double your money. At 6%, that's 12 years.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Jiddu Krishnamurti - Indian speaker and writer (1895-1986). Raised by the Theosophists as the expected "World Teacher", he broke with them in 1929 and spent the rest of his life telling people not to follow any teacher or authority. Two books went on my reading list:
Freedom from the Known - Published 1969.
As One Is - Subtitle: To Free the Mind from All Conditioning.
MORE WISDOM
Looking back at a familiar voice: Derek Sivers and his book Hell Yeah or No: What’s Worth Doing.
"No matter what you tell the world or tell yourself, your actions reveal your real values. Your actions show you what you actually want.
There are two smart reactions to this:
1. Stop lying to yourself, and admit your real priorities.
2. Start doing what you say you want to do, and see if it's really true."
—
"Nothing has inherent meaning. It is what it is and that's it. We just choose to project meaning onto things."
THE TO-DO-LIST
/books The Yes Theory Atlas - A decade of Yes Theory in one hardcover: 50+ stories, photos and QR codes to the original videos.
/watching Rolex Paris Masters - ATP Masters 1000 indoor tournament at the Paris La Défense Arena, running October 31 to November 8 this year.
/travel LOST iN Canada Guides - A bundle of three city guides from LOST iN: Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver.
