Parker Conley
@parconley • 1,474 subscribers
Interested in tacit knowledge, SaaS, Anki, and reference works. Podcasting, B2B SaaS, CS @ASU. Prev intern @HarvardMed.
Videos
Emmett Shear (Emmett Shear) on using X/Twitter: "Don't follow really big accounts. Block the big accounts. Anyone who has more than a million followers. Take the log of the number of followers they have. Then flip a coin that many times. If it comes up heads any of the times, unfollow them. The high resonance information that everyone is seeing is basically high complexity. It's synchronizing you with the rest of the system."
Parker Conley147,053 views • 7 months ago
![Emmett Shear (Emmett Shear): "Power is very much in our shadow. San Francisco is a city that's entirely about power. People come here to get rich, but if you really wanted to get rich, you'd stay in New York. They come here because they want to get rich in a way where you have a lot of freedom, a lot of autonomy. No boss telling you what to do. [...] 'I want to put a dent in the universe.' What you're saying is: I would like power to change the universe. [...] All change is not improvement, but all improvement is change. If you want to make the world a better place, at some point you have to wield some power."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1995531361718075560/amplify_video_thumb/1995531275772575744/img/ry66_wX9x8MWER0x.jpg)
Emmett Shear (Emmett Shear): "Power is very much in our shadow. San Francisco is a city that's entirely about power. People come here to get rich, but if you really wanted to get rich, you'd stay in New York. They come here because they want to get rich in a way where you have a lot of freedom, a lot of autonomy. No boss telling you what to do. [...] 'I want to put a dent in the universe.' What you're saying is: I would like power to change the universe. [...] All change is not improvement, but all improvement is change. If you want to make the world a better place, at some point you have to wield some power."
Parker Conley101,880 views • 7 months ago
I interview tylercowen about learning, history, and investing in ideas. Enjoy! 00:00 - Introduction 00:07 - If there were 10 Tyler Cowens 01:10 - Learning curve: ages 14 to late 20s 06:17 - Cracking cultural codes 13:58 - Public intellectuals as investors in ideas 17:16 - Evergreen fields: AI, China, India, Mexico 27:46 - Nuclear war: 70% probability prediction 33:04 - What college students miss 35:58 - Mistakes Gen Z is making 42:12 - Hyperlexia: reading fast as genetic advantage 48:19 - Mentorship 54:27 - Common mistakes mentees make
Parker Conley80,212 views • 7 months ago
![Tyler Cowen (tylercowen) on reading 5-10x faster than the average person has made his career: "I was born that way. I think I'm a hyperlexic, which is a technical term. [...] It made my career. That's an understatement. Everything I do would not be possible without it. If I can read 5 or 10x more quickly than someone who's comparably well educated or similar IQ — just a huge advantage and they're not really going to make up for it. And since I can read fast, my rate of return for reading more is also high. So I'm reading faster and I'm reading more and then that cumulates and it's just very hard for people to catch up to that. It's great."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2006093955453297032/amplify_video_thumb/2006082767088451584/img/t1jFnR7Ri60XfXu8.jpg)
Tyler Cowen (tylercowen) on reading 5-10x faster than the average person has made his career: "I was born that way. I think I'm a hyperlexic, which is a technical term. [...] It made my career. That's an understatement. Everything I do would not be possible without it. If I can read 5 or 10x more quickly than someone who's comparably well educated or similar IQ — just a huge advantage and they're not really going to make up for it. And since I can read fast, my rate of return for reading more is also high. So I'm reading faster and I'm reading more and then that cumulates and it's just very hard for people to catch up to that. It's great."
Parker Conley43,671 views • 6 months ago
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