Infinite Loops

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• “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!

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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