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Ryan Holiday, best-selling author of “The Obstacle Is The Way” and “The Daily Stoic” is a great example. After “The Daily Stoic” became a best-selling book, he realized (through data) his readers wanted more information about stoicism. So he launched dailystoic.com, where he now sells memento mori medallions, rings, pendants, “The Daily Stoic Chall
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Balaji Srinivasan, the tech entrepreneur and crypto advocate, is a classic example of a person who is high in generativeness. He tweets his thoughts just about every single day on a wide variety of topics, ranging from media to crypto to the pandemic. A lot of it is speculative or maybe even wrong, but when he has a hit it is truly important.
Daniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
Tyler’s distribution strategy, application design, intellectual tastes, and influence on awardees all interplay to explain his success as a talent curator.
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Rory Sutherland on why group decision making is often worse than personal judgement https://t.co/Gj6CRLLF40
- Many successful founders work on really boring things in their second act
- Thinkfluencer on Twitter, enterprise Software-as-a-Service venture capitalist, goofy lifestyle business, etc.
- They choose to build what everyone else is building but attach their brand to it in hopes that their brand is what makes their second act successful
- These
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy on Apple Podcasts
Tyler's success at discovering and enabling the most talented people before anyone else notices them boils down to four components:
kulesa.substack.com • Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world
- “I think people are under-estimating how much action you can drive with a relatively small number of people, as long as those people think you’re unique and differentiated, and they have a similar way of seeing the world—a certain kind of belief structure.” – David Perell