Technology is like a coin flip. On one side we live forever, on the other is human extinction. How do you prevent risk reward, or deal with that ratio in terms of how things are accelerated? I think there's a very good erm listeing to a podcast, i've forgotten the exact thing,. But it feels like we haven't quite accelerated in certain industries. With the rise of remote work and people spreading around, what impact thet may have of the us. We can run these a b ts in other countries that we wouldn't i e planes to day, we wouldn't probably be able to do in the us. The environmental impact statement would take ten years now
Description:George Mack is a creator who writes about the intersection of mental models, marketing, and technological tools and tactics. His marketing agency “Multiply” has helped grow some of the fasted growing businesses in the world backed by VCs like Stripe, YC, Sequoia, and LVMH.
Show Notes:
- Specific knowledge and technology
- Rise of TikTok
- Bringing people closer to tech
- Regulation slowing down tech innovation
- High agency filters
- A self-made teenage billionaire?
- New forms of education
- Word of mouth 2.0
- The best marketer doesn’t look like a marketer
- Elon’s 21 second pause
- Optimizing for luck
- The smart friend razor
- Superpower in being weird
- How to build a porn site
- Assess others to assess yourself
- The issue with personality tests
- Advice to the young
Books Mentioned:
- Zero to One; by Peter Thiel
- Tao Te Ching; by Lao Tzu
- The Bhagavad Gita