Remote work may be the worst thing to ever happen to skillless people in the developed world. I wouldn't be surprised if we see feats achieved by remote work in africa, in developing countries from just capital flowing into those places. And it's going to be fascinating to know how you am govern that when you can kind of have emmigration into your country - not bya abo or a border, its spiral. If there is a very, very highly skilled person who happens to be in nirobe, so be it. They're in niroBe. Big companies are bringing consultants because they're too cowardly to fire the people themselves. The upsides for talented people are
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