I think it's weird now because we live in a time where there's more access to optionality for literally everything like career path where you live. I've seen a lot now, especially with young people trying to figure out what they want to do. The opportunity cost of that is you can spend your 20s and 30s doing stuff you don't really like with the intention of buying back the ability to do what you like in your late 30s or 40s or 50s. It's very hard to see how much something costs on just letting the decision to do one thing over another thing.
Jack Raines is an online writer and LinkedIn provocateur, whose newsletter Young Money has already amassed 30,000 readers. Jack joins the show to discuss the importance of travel, the upsides of authenticity, risk, luck, and much, much more! Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Jack’s origin story
- Optionality and opportunity costs
- Hostel hopping
- The healthy life
- Grindset and hustle culture
- LinkedIn pranks
- Slamming the door on opportunities
- Work culture and the Great Reshuffle
- The luck of being alive today
- Crypto skepticism
- Quantifying risk
- Jack’s three favourite places in the world
- The default path is not your destiny