Daniel Vassallo on Applied Antifragility – Visión Periférica Podcast • Podcast Notes

When starting for yourself, it’s necessary to have a network of people willing to support you and do business with you

Your brain works best when you are not instructing it on what to do. A lot of creative work is really just sitting around

When dealing with uncertainty, build a portfolio of small bets and work on themConvex bets have more upside than downside. You lose small and stand to win big.

Balance them with stable revenue projects for income security.

Contrary to popular assumption, risk isn’t one-dimensional. Steady salary jobs have a tail risk that people don’t see.

Most people use the internet to find something that can help them. A minority of people aim to supply that demand. Ask yourself, ‘What do you know and how can it help people?’

“Life becomes significantly more pleasant if it’s treated as an adventure”

Do high-intensity work for short periods of time, as opposed to the consistent average 40 hours work week

A hunter-gatherer spent most of his day looking for game. Prolonged low-intensity work follow by a burst of intense chasing and hunting. Whereas a farmer puts in continuous work. Ideally, you want a balance of both to accumulate resources and provide protection in case the hunt fails. That said, “We have taken the farming style too far”