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If you're a middle manager, you get this advantage of a junior person who's desperate to prove themselves, who is willing to work really hard, but isn't very good, but will be. And they write deal memos over and over again, and they get yelled at or given nice feedback, and eventually they learn how to write a deal memo. And that's how we teach people. You don't have to be good at managing for them to learn. Ideally, you're good at teaching, but you don't have to be. But that's all broken down.

— The Prof G Pod
2w ago

The things that led to peak youth performance were negatively associated with peak adult performance. So if you wanted the best youth performance, you specialized early, basically, and really narrowly. And if you wanted the best adult performance, you start broader.

3w ago

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