i remember when i listened to elon lex interview originally, i'm sure it happened to everybody. The magic of the moment was everybody checked their fight because they got my arpons ofe disconnected or have not buffered enough of ther pockas. Sut e, silence sometimes makes the music wrihter. Sometimes some of the people who are on paper from a carismabuk aren't that carismatic. It's the nuances of the intricacy where they go against the clice carismatic sales person that actually makes them caristic. And igais that kind of goes to your mental models point. Some of the best thinkers know when to kind of disregard
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