Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Human beings are toolmakers, we create tools to leverage our ability to do more with less. The 4 main examples of leverage:
  • People   
  • Capital  
  • Code
  • Media   
• Be careful of actions that would multiple your life by 0
  • Don’t do any risk that might make your life go to zero
    • E.g: It’s great if you exercise and don’t smoke, but if you drive drunk you could go to jail or die
• Having a forcing function, like some kind of constraint, is beneficial
  • Having a deadline will force you to get the task done in a specific amount of time
  • COVID forced a lot of companies which didn’t think their company would operate well remotely to go fully remote 
• If you’re building a business, focus on the product first and then the marketing
  • If you focus on marketing first and then the product, you could end up with a Fyre Island situation
• “We need more and more weird people” – George MacGill
  • People who are weird think differently and generate unique solutions to problems

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Long time friend of the show and all round great human George Mack joins me today as we revisit the world of decision making.

Mental Models are tools you can use to improve your ability to effectively make decisions.

Today we are upgrading our minds as we delve into some of mine & George's favourite mental models from Warren Buffett, Nassim Taleb, Naval Ravikant, Winston Churchill, Tobias Lutke and many more.

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