Juan Orbea

TIMESTAMPS:0:00 - Intro0:28 - Ali Abdaal’s revenue sources1:20 - Part-time Youtuber Academy, Ali’s high-end course2:03 - Framework: Pricing against the demand curve3:29 - Framework: Vitamins vs Painkillers4:20 - How PTYA can 10x its revenue7:22 - Entrepreneurial Operating Systems8:48 - Ali Abdaal’s book9:07 - The James Clear model: Build in... See more

At some point in the 90s Coca Cola was 40% of BH’s portfolio, and they made a 13x on the investment during the next decade

If you’re taking a short-term look at career growth, then optimizing for your current organization’s pathologies in evaluating impact is the optimal path: go forth and preen gloriously. However, if you’re thinking about developing yourself to succeed as your current role grows in complexity or across multiple organizations, then it’s far more... See more

Reverse Engineering the Human Brain: Five Parallel Auditory Pathways

If you spend your career snacking, preening or chasing ghosts, it’s possible but relatively unlikely that what you’ve done before will be valued at companies you interview with. Instead, the only viable long-term bet on your career is to do work that matters, work that develops your and to steer towards companies that value genuine expertise.

Who are the mitochondria in your company? Make that list. Invest in your relationships with these people, and in the people themselves.

Instead, the most effective places to work are those that matter to your company but still have enough room to actually do work. What are priorities that will become critical in the future, where you can do great work ahead of time? Where are areas that are doing ok but could be doing great with your support?

We also cover some of Chris’ personal passions over the years, including his attempts to reduce what he calls ‘research debt’ by starting a new academic journal called Distill, focused just on explaining existing results unusually clearly.