There's a great book by will store i'm going to have him on later in the month, called the status game that i highly recommend. The t l d r is s we are all playing it. There is no way out of it. And so if you're smart about it, you would be a cognitive miser and not spend one second of your time arguing with someone who you'll never change their mind. I used to think you could win by standing outside the hierarchy. No, we play it because we're human beings. It's just part of our dna.
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