92 Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2019-10-07
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“He winds up building like one of the first like portable computer devices, and he builds it to try to beat roulette.”
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
“If you do that, it causes you to focus, and you're focusing on an area where you have an edge.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: focus.
People
“I wanna talk about the people that thought-- [chuckles] So I wanna talk about the f- the idea that, that, uh, there's…”
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
“He's, uh, eighty-seven years old, and he wrote, uh, his memoirs two years ago and then he did a lot of publicity…”
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
“And, uh, he loses a large percentage of the little money he has speculating on silver, and he learns a ve-very valuable…”
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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