Ep 30: Tracy DiNunzio, Founder of Tradesy, on High-Velocity Growth and Tactics

Tim Ferriss (0:00)

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Everyone in the country of Japan was in love with this song when I was in high school and it's called Shima Uta. Shima Uta is by The Boom, the name of the band.

And Shima Uta literally means island song. And Shima Uta is more generally speaking, a genre of songs thought to originate from the Amami Islands. And there are two versions of Shima Uta. Shima Uta by The Boom. There are two different versions. The first is in Japanese. What we know is Japanese.

SPEAKER_2 (2:43)

It's actually Hyōjun-go.

Tim Ferriss (2:44)

So Hyōjun-go is basically Edo dialect Japanese in the same way that Mandarin, what people think of as Chinese, is also just a dominant dialect of Chinese. That's why it's called Hanyu. Hanyu is the language of the Han people. That's what many Chinese would describe Chinese as or how they would identify it. So you have Hyōjun-go version of Shima Uta, regular Japanese, and then you have an island dialect. And I always thought it was Okinawa-ben, but I could be wrong. But it sounds nothing like normal Japanese. Absolutely nothing. And you can listen to both versions. It's very, very cool. So that's the first, Shima Uta. The second bit of trivia or recommendation that I'll make for those Japanophiles out there is a comic book. I learned to read and write and speak Japanese through a few different avenues. The first was Bukatsu, so I was in the Judo Club, and I could be Tarzan while still picking up bits and pieces here and there.

But primarily, during the classes that I couldn't understand, I would read comic books, manga.

And specifically, I read a comic book series called Rokudenashi Blues.

SPEAKER_2 (3:50)

So Rokudenashi Blues is Rokudenashi Blues.

Tim Ferriss (3:56)

And that literally means, roughly translated, good for nothing blues.

SPEAKER_2 (4:00)

So Rokudenashi is good for nothing blues.

Tim Ferriss (4:03)

And it is a series basically based on high school gangs and martial arts, and it has incredible artwork, in my mind, very reminiscent of some of the early Jim Lee work.

And it's spectacular. I haven't read it in a very long time, but I was obsessed with this particular series. And you can go online and search Rokudenashi Blues, R-O-K-U-D-E-N-A-S-H-I, Roku also means six, just like the device that you can use to watch Netflix and so on, Roku is six. Rokudenashi Blues, and you can look it up and look at the images, on Google Images for instance, and I think you'll be very impressed. It was a huge hit in Shonen Jump, the weekly Shonen Jump for a very, very long time.