A great rankings debate celebrating me finally getting my rankings out this week by talking through some similarities and some differences in both mine and Sean's

rankings. That's what we're going to be doing on today's episode of stealing bananas.

I'm Ben Gretch. You can find the newsletter at Ben Gretch.com with me as always is Sean Siegel.

You can find all of his great work over at Rodeviz.

And Sean, I always write about this. It's a little bit of a background for listeners to understand sort of, I guess, the point of this, why I introduced it to you as an idea for this

week. And it's this idea that I haven't looked at your rankings yet.

I haven't,

and yours are my favorite in the entire industry of anyone else,

but I haven't looked at anyone else's either.

I stole this quote, not to be too, too dramatic,

but I stole this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

in one of my recent write-ups in the rankings release.

The genius is always

sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. And it's this idea that if you want to

get something really useful and interesting out of your own thoughts, it's hard to do that

when you've looked at other people's that you respects, you know, strong takes and things like

that. And so I always do that. I've talked about it

in past years where I don't look at others rankings. Obviously, I'm aware of your rankings.

We've done drafts together where you've had them uploaded. I've seen like elements of it.

But sitting there and really digging into where you have guys teared out and stuff, I didn't

want to be too influential into my own ranking process because

I think there's something really interesting in where we might land because we do obviously

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