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Stocks=Hamburgers, How to Speak CEO & More

Issue #46

Erik Rogne
Jul 27
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Today at a Glance:

  • Quote: Stocks are like hamburgers.

  • Reading:

    • How to Speak CEO

    • Life Is Not Short

  • Learning: Gunslinger Effect

  • Fun: How Normal Am I?

  • Tweet:

    • Look for startups missing something rather than those who have it all

    • Learn how to learn

    • Scrappiness

    • Razors


#QUOTE

If you like burgers, you should root for their price to go down, not up – and the younger you are, the more meals your future holds. - Warren Buffett

Stocks are like hamburgers. Maybe this downturn is actually a good thing! (as long as you're young)


#READING

How to Speak the CEO Code

//caseinterview

Short article on how to speak CEO:

  1. Every problem you mention should have a solution

  2. Separate facts from opinion

  3. Proactively answer the 5 questions a CEO asks

  4. Every proposal should have (1) what you want to do (2) three reasons why (3) resource requirements (4) when it will be done

Life Is Not Short

//dkb

This is a fictitious interview with Seneca about the shortness of life, and how to spend your limited time.

  • The part of life we really live is small.

  • Just because someone lives to old age doesn't mean they've lived long. They've just lasted long.


#LEARNING

Gunslinger effect (Bohr's law)

//wikipedia

Intentional movement is slower than reactive movement

Example: the person who draws second in a gunfight will actually win the shoot-out.


#FUN

How Normal Am I?

//hownormalami

This is a fun 5-minute experience of how AI judges your face.


#TWEET

Twitter avatar for @paulgPaul Graham @paulg
Someone asked me to list 5 up and coming startups I thought would be huge. All 5 companies on my list were missing something big. If a potentially huge startup weren't missing something, it wouldn't be up and coming; it would already be huge.

June 29th 2022

132 Retweets1,420 Likes

If joining or investing in a company, you should look for a startup that is missing something rather than a startup that has it all already.


Twitter avatar for @emollickEthan Mollick @emollick
If you want to learn how to learn, these two charts are where you should start. They are the result of a large meta-analysis of study techniques. You should skip the highlighting, summarizing, and rereading. Instead, practice, quiz & explain. Open paper:
journals.sagepub.com/stoken/rbtfl/Z…
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July 8th 2022

835 Retweets3,909 Likes

The best learning techniques are:

  1. Practice testing

  2. Distributed practice

The research paper can be found here.


Twitter avatar for @moizaliMoiz Ali @moizali
I started Native Deodorant by actually buying deodorant sold on Etsy and then white-labeling it. I don’t talk about this story often, but I think it is a good example of how scrappy entrepreneurs can be, and so wanted to share it. Here’s the story: 👇👇👇

July 11th 2022

418 Retweets3,535 Likes

Scrappiness and resourcefulness are how you get ahead as an entrepreneur. 


Twitter avatar for @SahilBloomSahil Bloom @SahilBloom
A “razor” is a rule of thumb that simplifies decision making. The most powerful razors I’ve found:

July 17th 2022

20,002 Retweets96,139 Likes

A tweet full of razors.

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