Daniel Vassallo on Applied Antifragility – Visión Periférica Podcast • Podcast Notes

Contrary to popular assumption, risk isn’t one-dimensional. Steady salary jobs have a tail risk that people don’t see.

When you pursue a single goal in exclusion of everything else, you become blind to opportunities. This limits your upside potential while positioning you to be harmed by any event

When dealing with uncertainty, build a portfolio of small bets and work on themConvex bets have more upside than downside. You lose small and stand to win big.

Do high-intensity work for short periods of time, as opposed to the consistent average 40 hours work week

“Life becomes significantly more pleasant if it’s treated as an adventure”

Your brain works best when you are not instructing it on what to do. A lot of creative work is really just sitting around

Most people use the internet to find something that can help them. A minority of people aim to supply that demand. Ask yourself, ‘What do you know and how can it help people?’

When starting for yourself, it’s necessary to have a network of people willing to support you and do business with you

Being skilled at something doesn’t necessarily mean you can develop a business around it. Thus, have multiple plans and possibilities, and pursue multiple ones simultaneously, instead of waiting for each one to fail before proceeding

Balance them with stable revenue projects for income security.