The first shtick gets you noticed. It’s usually a job, a core skill, something that makes you credible, competent, and useful. Alone, though, it’s one-dimensional.
The second shtick is the one that keeps you interesting. It’s the twist, the unexpected dimension that makes you versatile, memorable, harder to pin down.
$81.5bn of Warren Buffet’s $84.5bn net worth came after his 65th birthday. Berkshire Hathaway has owned 400-500 stocks over its lifetime, ~90% of their returns came from 10 stocks.
A goal is a win condition. Constraints are the rules of the game. But not all games are worth playing. And some of the most powerful forms of progress emerge from people who stopped trying to win and started building new game boards entirely.