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The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd cover image

#139 Compounding Memes - Trung Phan on his great grandfather, living abroad, the expat community in Asia, writing, working at The Hustle, children and work, balancing his various activities, going solo, and playing the long game

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

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The Importance of Socializing in Early 20s

I went to a big public school in the States and it was mostly oriented around partying and socializing. Do you think people are undervaluing just like screwing around and having fun in your early 20s as sort of a way for later career success? So Fon admitted he did not understand the meaning of the text in great detail. He's talking about reading the Confucian texts at the time but by age six he was skillful enough to write a variant of the intellect that parodied his classmates which earned him a caning from his father. Now come on. Like my father like great grandfather like great-grandson. The whole point being he knew the power of ideas

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