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How can you find your personal moat?
Ask others: What’s something that’s easy for me to do but hard for others? What's a skill or asset I have that’s very difficult for people to reverse engineer?
Ask others: What’s something that’s easy for me to do but hard for others? What's a skill or asset I have that’s very difficult for people to reverse engineer?
Erik Torenberg • Build Personal Moats
You want to build a competitive advantage that will endure over time. You don’t want to build a competitive advantage that is fleeting or that will get commoditized. Some awards, for example, may have been impressive early on, but as they have expanded significantly they’ve become more diluted and thus no longer as impressive. You want to have skil... See more
Erik Torenberg • Build Personal Moats
Ca not be commoditised: Asking the right questions for solving the right problems
What will the new commodities look like in the age of AI agents?
It could be a combination of expertise, relationships, sensibilities, and skills that you’ve accumulated over the years.
Erik Torenberg • Build Personal Moats
If you were magically given 10,000 hours to be amazing at something, what would it be? The more clarity you have on this response, the better off you’ll be.
Erik Torenberg • Build Personal Moats
This is the litmus test for finding good quests. A quest is the journey, but first decide what flavor of journey you aim to keep consisten
If you were magically given 10,000 hours to be amazing at something, what would it be?