Smart Threads and Dumb Memes | Trung Phan on Infinite Loops with Jim O’Shaughnessy • Podcast Notes

We are all playing the status game and there’s no way out of it. Understand human nature, live with it, prosper, and succeed.

The ability to build your own audience on your own terms is killing gatekeepers everywhere

LinkedIn has a huge content deficit: They are begging people to take their money and create on their platform. Find the arbitrage in the market.

Jim believes that Trung is the ‘posterchild’ for the Twitter success equation

“People don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.” – Trung Phan quoting Carl Jung. This is the greatest explanation for memes

There are few things with greater asymmetric returns than creating on the internetThe upside potential is so much greater than the downside risk

When you have no followers, you’re worried no one is going to read your tweets. When you have thousands of followers, you’re worried that everyone is going to see your content and hate it. You can’t be a creator if you can’t handle this

Nobody is thinking about you the way you think about yourself

“I kind of look at Twitter as performance art, I find people who are very literal have a very hard time. The magic happens when you’re smart, funny, and entertaining.” – Jim O’Shaughnessy