The side of Paul Allen I wish more people knew about

Re:The side of Paul Allen I wish more people knew about by Reedx on Saturday June 29, 2019 @07:43PM (#20315533)

I'm this way as well and for the longest time was worried I was handicapping myself.

Until I read "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big"[1] which makes the strongest argument I've seen for having a "talent stack" and combining skills that aren't typically combined. Each skill increases your odds and essentially this boils down to Good + Good > Excellent. You can leverage a combination of average skills to great effect.

The author describes himself as mediocre at art, decent at writing a joke and having business experience... not that noteworthy in and of themselves, but mixed together resulted in Dilbert.

1. https://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still-eboo...

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Re:The side of Paul Allen I wish more people knew about by ultrasounder on Saturday June 29, 2019 @08:32PM (#20315696)

Was also quoted by Naval Ravikant's podcast with Nivi, based on his Tweet storm by the title of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75tUgLxzE7Q. The entire Podcast can be listened to here; https://nav.al

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Re:The side of Paul Allen I wish more people knew about by ggambetta on Sunday June 30, 2019 @04:54AM (#20317142)

Thanks for the suggestion, will read.

I've occasionally speculated that in a world with 8 billion people, there exists a job/activity for which I am the absolutely best candidate, because of the perfect match of my very specific mix of skills and the very specific mix of skills required. The tricky bit is finding that match, I suppose :)

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Re:The side of Paul Allen I wish more people knew about by ethbro on Sunday June 30, 2019 @02:31AM (#20316704)

There are three ways to outcompete your peers with skills:

(1) Be best

(2) Be first

(3) Be the only person in a unique niche (a useful unique niche)

(2) & (3) are far easier than (1).

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