i was born in the mid eighties, and i was born in calgary, alberta. My parents are viens, refugees to canada. They got a way crazier story than me. After university, i really perplexed my parents. I dropped out of premed, not even med school. Then i moved to vietnam, and they were just like, what is going on? And i moved to vienna. In between, i worked at a tech company, spent some time corporate finance, but that's all the boring stuff. The reason i bring these two things up is it's kind of converge to what i do on potter now, is like
Trung T. Phan is a creator in the tech, business, and media space. His Twitter threads are full of knowledge and humor, and he also co-hosts the “Not Investment Advice” podcast. Follow Trung on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan and subscribe to his newsletter at https://trungtphan.com/subscribe/ Show Notes:
- Trung’s Vietnamese origins
- Humor in your talent stack
- Asymmetric returns of creating content online
- The power of memes
- Getting a CFA
- Going back to writing movie scripts
- Succeeding in the creator economy
- How to acquire people’s attention
- Creating content on LinkedIn and Facebook
- The importance of traveling
- Donald Trump’s popularity in SE Asia
- History is not black or white
- Steve Jobs with the Picasso
- How a Microsoft guy catalyzed the iPad
- Musk’s space meeting with Bezos
- Not letting complacency set in
- Putting historical dates into perspective
- Structuring speech to persuade
- Jim not dissing Plato
- Making Ted Lasso likable in 157 seconds
- And MORE!
Books Mentioned:
- The Status Game; by Will Storr
- The Beginning of Infinity; by David Deutsch
- Virus of the Mind; by Richard Brodie
- The Republic; Plato