Day #91 Grayleap Reading Challenge #Wealth #Happiness #Blitzscaling
1) Daizy Patel continues the review of the book The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness (By Eric Jorgenson)
Naval talks about how his value system was built around scientists because he believes that applied scientists contribute greatly to providing society with new technology, so he wanted to be a great scientist. But eventually, he realized that he was uniquely good at making money, tinkering with technology and selling people things. Explaining things and talking to people. He says that he possessed some sales skills, a?form of specific knowledge. Further, he had some analytical skills on making money and the ability to absorb data and love tinkering with technology. He states that all this work feels like a play to him but looks like work to others.
He further narrates an incident when he was 16 and was talking to a friend that he wanted to be an astrophysicist; his mother was overheard from the kitchen and told him that he was going to be a businessman. He says that his mother knew what she was precisely talking about and had a fair idea of Naval’s skill set.
Specific knowledge is found by pursuing innate talents, genuine curiosity and following passion.?
Specific knowledge is at the edge of the knowledge so figuring it out is hard. If you aren’t 100% into it, somebody else who is 100% into it will outperform you.
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2) Amarendra completes his review of the book "Blitzscaling" (Authors, Reid Hoffmann & Chris Yeh)
This is the last post about the book. Few closing ideas from the book.
1. Embrace Chaos
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2. Launch a product that embarrasses you
3. Do things that don't scale (inspired by Paul Graham)
4. Ignore your customers
5. Raise too much money
Happy Blitzscaling!
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