In your book, you say that the best people to be making decisions should have three qualities: energy, integrity and then aptitude. In my show, i'm trying to help younger people who are helping on a pay forward basis. I cannot tell you the number of people in qua who come to me and said, "This model is the greatest model in the world" It's funny how all these threads just run through the exact same stuff.
Jake Taylor is the CEO of Farnam Street Investments and author of the book ‘The Rebel Allocator’, a book that help readers make better investment and business decisions. You can find Jake on Twitter at https://twitter.com/farnamjake1 and get his book from https://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Allocator-Jacob-Taylor/dp/173268832X Show Notes:
- Iron Law of Economic Survival
- Trade-offs between profit and brand
- Capturing intangible value
- Products as signalling devices
- Journalytic — Getting better at decision making
- Reducing the friction around journalling
- Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey
- Shortening the brain’s feedback loop
- The Great Reshuffle
- The Thinker and The Prover
- Cheng versus Ch'i
- Plato’s cave analogy for business decision making
- What makes a good decision maker?
Books Mentioned:
- The Rebel Allocator; by Jake Taylor
- The Wealthy Barber; by Dave Chilton
- The Nature of Value; by Nick Gogerty
- The Genius of the Beast; by Howard Bloom
- Happy; by Derren Brown