Mike's Notes

The gear you use doesn't matter. It's not about the best mic or software or camera. It's about doing the work. We'll use the examples of Casey Neistat, B.J. Novak, and Gina Trapani to see how.

What if instead of paying someone for an MBA you did it yourself? What if you took that money and invested it, or bought books, or built a car wash? What would that look like? Let's find out how 3 people did just that.

006 Danger in Safety by MIKE

With examples from Google, Stephen Gould's cancer diagnosis, and how many games the Cleveland Cavaliers might win.

Systems are everywhere around us. They're as simple as Lego bricks and as complicated as the stock market. If we can learn to listen to systems we can hear the signals more clearly. We'll know when it's bad to climb down mountains, when football plays won't work, or how not to surf.

Inspired by the book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, there are ways to think about difficult problems that help us solve them.

How Jerry Seinfeld described his optionality in 1983.

What is optionality, why is it important, and who has used it?