Status Games, Fame, and the Truth about FIRE

Today Greg is joined by Nicolas Cole, the co-founder of Ship 30 for 30, a daily writing challenge. In this episode, Greg and Nicolas talk about how much money it really takes to be free and why it's better to be anonymously rich than it is to be internet famous with no customers. 

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0:00 - Intro

4:37 - Someone somewhere is working harder than you

12:48 - A mental model for competition

20:32 - How much money does it take to be "rich"?

30:51 - Status games