115 Ben Franklin: An American Life — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2020-03-16
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“"Over the next decade, he would succeed by building a media conglomerate that included production capacity, products, content, and distribution." Benjamin Franklin…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: product.
Focus
“So I had to make some decisions on what I was gonna focus on, and so I'm gonna focus on the personality…”
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People
“He starts meeting all these other people, and some of these people are extremely powerful, and they, they, they altered the trajectory…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: people.
Persistence
“Uh, that's a very long, uh, long book.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“Money flowed in, much of which he invested quite wisely in Philadelphia property.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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