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Comment on The Margin Matrix: Why successful people are usually wrong by Taylor Pearson

Thanks and great meeting you too!

Comment on The Margin Matrix: Why successful people are usually wrong by Damian Thompson

Dig the shorter format and ALWAYS appreciate a poker analogy.

Comment on The Margin Matrix: Why successful people are usually wrong by Beth Phillips

That’s cool. You could probably write a stand-alone book on applying this principle in real life. Admittedly, this is CONFUSING to me which is one reason I love the detailed explanation but I’m certain I frequently choose the wrong thing….for the wrong reasons.

Comment on The Margin Matrix: Why successful people are usually wrong by Radhika Morabia

Short term is cool, as long as it doesn’t eat into the longer posts. Even if it’s 1-2 per month, those are amazing.

Comment on The Margin Matrix: Why successful people are usually wrong by Steven Moody

More of this

Comment on The Margin Matrix: Why successful people are usually wrong by Paulo Ribeiro

This framework is simple, but great. It’s being put in words where its value resides. Thanks for the clarification.

We just have to make sure we don’t neither screw up the EV calculation nor use the “but the upside will payoff!” as an excuse/rationalization. Keep the posts coming!

Comment on The Margin Matrix: Why successful people are usually wrong by Alastair McDermott

Great post. This is a topic I’ve been thinking about for a long time, but never had a succinct framework like this to use.

I feel your pain on the 10-20 hour blog post, I find it difficult to write anything worthwhile in less than a day and it’s a lot of commitment. There’s a lot of value in this, so if you’re doing more of these keep ’em coming

Comment on Welcome to Extremistan. Don’t Be a Turkey. by Sumeet Padavala

People in direct contact with the real world keep up with the curve, bit those who don’t need to change eventually find their skills obsolete.

Comment on Welcome to Extremistan. Don’t Be a Turkey. by Sumeet Padavala

Essentially what you are saying is that people who expose themselves to the trials and tribulations of the real world constantly evolve and become better, but people in who are complacent in a safe, sterile, unchanging environment are left with nothing when they are forced out of their safe haven.

Comment on Get on the Plane: You Become What You Do at the Margins by JoshFrets

“I’m not 100% sure if this is scientifically accurate, but the mental model is helpful regardless.”
It’s not 100% correct, but the reality is even more compelling. The other one doesn’t get de-myleinated, so it’s only weaker *relative* to the one you’ve reinforced––like habits, you don’t break them so much as displace them.

Far scarier is the “sled on a snowy hill” effect––how you perform the first few reps has an overwhelmingly larger chance of becoming your default, and requires far more e...