• “I kind of look at Twitter as performance art, I find people who are very literal have a very hard time. The magic happens when you’re smart, funny, and entertaining.”– Jim O’Shaughnessy
  • Jim believes that Trung is the ‘posterchild’ for the Twitter success equation
• There are few things with greater asymmetric returns than creating on the internet
  • The upside potential is so much greater than the downside risk
  • The ability to build your own audience on your own terms is killing gatekeepers everywhere
• Advice to young creators: continue reading for details on these bullet points:
  • Leverage optionality, leave doors open
  • Just start, you don’t have to know exactly where you’re going
  • Learn how to shamelessly build an audience
  • Always sprinkle in humor
• Nobody is thinking about you the way you think about yourself
  • People are almost always thinking about what they’re going to say next rather than listening to you
• “People don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.”– Trung Phan quoting Carl Jung
  • This is the greatest explanation for memes
• Worldly point of views can be entirely opposite to that of the United States, but completely valid given life context
  • If you have the opportunity to travel—DO IT!
• Continue reading to see some examples of Trung Phan’s awesome Twitted threads, highlights include:
  • How Steve Jobs leveraged Pablo Picasso
  • That time Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos had dinner
  • Why Ted Lasso is so likable
  • And more!

Trung T. Phan is a creator in the tech, business, and media space. His Twitter threads are full of knowledge and humor, and he also co-hosts the “Not Investment Advice” podcast. Follow Trung on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan and subscribe to his newsletter at https://trungtphan.com/subscribe/

Show Notes:

• Trung’s Vietnamese origins
  
• Humor in your talent stack
  
• Asymmetric returns of creating content online
  
• The power of memes
  
• Getting a CFA
  
• Going back to writing movie scripts
  
• Succeeding in the creator economy
  
• How to acquire people’s attention
  
• Creating content on LinkedIn and Facebook
  
• The importance of traveling
  
• Donald Trump’s popularity in SE Asia
  
• History is not black or white
  
• Steve Jobs with the Picasso
  
• How a Microsoft guy catalyzed the iPad
  
• Musk’s space meeting with Bezos
  
• Not letting complacency set in
  
• Putting historical dates into perspective
  
• Structuring speech to persuade
  
• Jim not dissing Plato
  
• Making Ted Lasso likable in 157 seconds
  
• And MORE!
  

Books Mentioned:

• The Status Game; by Will Storr
  
• The Beginning of Infinity; by David Deutsch
  
• Virus of the Mind; by Richard Brodie
  
• The Republic; Plato

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie star-turned-California governor, has been interested in business since long before he was Conan or the Terminator. For more than four decades, his behind-the-scenes partner has been Paul Wachter, whose Main Street Advisors was born 25 years ago, with Schwarzenegger's encouragement.
The modern multihyphenate -- think LeBron, Drake, Billie Eilish -- are following a template the pair established in the 1980s, as Schwarzenegger successfully expanded his popularity and wealth through savvy dealmaking. The key element: Don't just endorse when you can own a piece of the product.

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• “There is much more talent to tap into than ever before, but in most parts of the world, we are screwing it up”– Tyler Cowen
  • “We’re rewarding homework at every stage of the process, and then we’re shocked when we get too many conformists” – Tyler Cowen
  • Credentialism, seniority requirements, bureaucratized evaluations, and conservative HR departments also contribute to the hiring problem
• Tyler’s definition of talent: people with an energetic spark, who have new and creative ideas that will change how things are done
  • In the market of ideas and technology, the top performers are at least 10x more valuable than the average performers—making hiring of utmost importance
• Talented candidates can look ‘beyond the immediate moment‘
  • “It’s very easy to optimize too locally…always try to be looking one level broader”– Tyler Cowen
  • Example: Ask them if Romeo & Juliet were really in love with each other? Or ask who was the best talent scout in Star Wars? Figure out one of the candidate’s interests and ask a question that explores their perception and thought-process rather than just knowledge.
• Unique interview questions:
  • What tabs are currently open on your browser right now? Engaging this question will give you an idea of how they manage their ideas consumption.
  • Which conspiracy theory do you think is plausible? Regardless of the truth, it shows that the candidate is curious and capable of thinking outside the box.
  • How ambitious are you? It’s very hard to fake this answer.
  • How do you practice and improve? Very few people treat their chosen pursuit like that of an athlete or musician. Exceptional people constantly evaluate how their inputs affect their outputs, but few people do it in their professional work.

Tyler Cowen is the Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University, a columnist, podcaster and an author.

Finding and recruiting the best talent is perhaps the most important job that an organisation has. Skilful, enthusiastic, keen staff can make or break a business, so why is it that most companies are mostly useless when it comes to discovering talent?

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• Backwards walking and backwards sled drags are key to building more resilient knees
  • Less risk and more accessible: With squats or other compact lifts, you must move the weight or the weight moves you. With the sled, you just move the weight or you don’t.
  • Benefits: Every time you’re slowly building up strength and circulation. Tendons and ligaments take much longer to see positive change.
• Without motion and compression, your joints won’t get all the nutrients they need
  • Otherwise, your body assumes your joints don’t need them
  • Pain is an opportunity to get better. Identify it and act. Avoiding it will only make it worse.
• Exercise and Physical Therapy don’t have to be two separate things
  • Continue reading for more about the “Knees Over Toes Guy” routine

This week on The MiFit Podcast I am live with Ben Patrick otherwise known as @kneesovertoesguy. Ben is the founder of Athletic Truth Group (ATG) where his mission is to help people do what they love, without pain, and then become a world class athlete. Ben has trained over 1,000 athletes in 50 countries around the world and has worked with countless NBA players, NFL players, and Olympic Champions along the way. Ben’s training methods starting with training himself through debilitating knee pain as a high school basketball player and he has now re-shaped the way the fitness industry looks at training athletes.

Topics

-How Ben became the Knees Over Toes Guy

-Why backwards walking is the foundation to optimal knee health

-How Knees Over Toes impacts all of your joints, not just knees

-Top 3 exercises to improve your vertical

-Understanding the benefit of sled work

-Using KOT to achieve deeper ranges of motion

-Pain is an opportunity

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Ben Hunt is the creator and primary author of Epsilon Theory, and co-founder and CIO at Second Foundation Partners.
Epsilon Theory is a newsletter that examines markets through the lenses of game theory and history. Over 100,000 professional investors and allocators across 180 countries read Epsilon Theory for its fresh perspective and novel insights into market dynamics.
You can follow Ben on Twitter at https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheory and read Epsilon Theory here: https://www.epsilontheory.com/

Show Notes:

• Neurolinguistic hard reset
  
• Ben’s days at Harvard
  
• Why Klaus Schwab is a raccoon
  
• Human beings are social animals
  
• How language impacts and limits us
  
• The cost of the Metaverse
  
• How the nudging state is rewiring us
  
• Does narrative follow price, or is it the inverse?
  
• Traders respond to stories everyday
  
• How technology can fight the nudging state.
  
• NOAH: An ark of stories on the blockchain
  

Books Mentioned:

• The WEIRDest People in the World; by Joseph Henrich
  
• How the Irish Saved Civilization; by Thomas Cahill