Token stream 2024-11-22
2024-11-22
Things I learned
Smiling was once considered a sign of drunkeness. Upworthy.
☢🍌"A banana contains the same amount of radiation as a person would get from living next to a properly maintained nuclear power plant for one year"@NYT pic.twitter.com/pb4gF7m090
— James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ (@JimPethokoukis) November 17, 2024
Observations
A pro / con list means the answer is no.
every decision i've ever made that wasn't an instant "hell yes" has been a mistake. every pro/con list is an admission the thing isn't worth it. the path God has laid out for you is so obvious it feels like getting bludgeoned with an anvil. no analysis makes a bad decision good
— Will Manidis (@WillManidis) November 20, 2024
The essence of being a generalist is:
- Be willing to try just about anything
- Be able to pull yourself to c-minus at just about any task
- Be able to identify which parts of a project need an A+
- Be able to find the people who can do an A+ on those tasks
- Be able to work with those people and help those people work with each other
If you try and tell people 5 interesting things about your product / company / cause, they’ll remember zero. If instead, you tell them just one, they’ll usually ask questions that lead them to the other things, and then they’ll remember all of them because it mattered to them at the moment they asked.
Modern social media rewards information abundance, so if you find yourself with a product / company / cause that has lots of benefits, tell each of those story one at time. People are more likely to remember it and it gives you more to post.