Nice article Yeti man (is your profile pic a Yeti?)! I listened to a podcast with Bezos (I think it was with that guy that looks suspiciously like Lex Luther) and Bezos recounted this same story. I too once tried to be a physicist with lackluster results. I do wonder - especially when a guy like Bezos does a podcast - how much they embellish as they are working on building the public persona they want. Great story irregardless
I honestly don’t know what my profile picture is. I think it’s a Yeti of some type.
I feel most of the big personalities, at Bezos tier, aren’t putting up an image. I feel like at that level of success you can afford to be your real self, but what do I know haha
Yeah honestly what do any of us know about such things but I think it’s the opposite - when you have that kind of unfathomable moolah you absolutely have an entire team cultivating your public image and as you get older … your legacy. Bezos makes you think about this more with how he has pivoted from geek to chic with the big boat and big wife and and and
What you call synthesis seems to blend aspects of memory, understanding and creativity. I think the creativity is key. A genius has to do something new!
It’s really cool to hear that Bezos wanted to go down a totally different path. He had an amazing career right out of college too. Pretty inspiring that he took a shot at a startup that people said was a stupid idea and created it into what it is today.
There was a really funny clip I saw from Harvard Business School in the early 2000s. They had Bezos come in to talk about Amazon and some of the MBA students were ripping into Amazon and telling Bezos the things he was doing wrong haha
Nice article Yeti man (is your profile pic a Yeti?)! I listened to a podcast with Bezos (I think it was with that guy that looks suspiciously like Lex Luther) and Bezos recounted this same story. I too once tried to be a physicist with lackluster results. I do wonder - especially when a guy like Bezos does a podcast - how much they embellish as they are working on building the public persona they want. Great story irregardless
I honestly don’t know what my profile picture is. I think it’s a Yeti of some type.
I feel most of the big personalities, at Bezos tier, aren’t putting up an image. I feel like at that level of success you can afford to be your real self, but what do I know haha
Yeah honestly what do any of us know about such things but I think it’s the opposite - when you have that kind of unfathomable moolah you absolutely have an entire team cultivating your public image and as you get older … your legacy. Bezos makes you think about this more with how he has pivoted from geek to chic with the big boat and big wife and and and
Thanks Andrew!
What you call synthesis seems to blend aspects of memory, understanding and creativity. I think the creativity is key. A genius has to do something new!
Thats a good point. I could divvy up Synthesis into those components :)
A very interesting read. I very much enjoyed the Bezos story at the start and what you did with it throughout — you might even say it was genius ;)
Thanks Michael!! 😂
You think you know genius when you see it, but you don't. You know genius when it hits you over the head with a 2x4.
lol
I've heard this story before. It's a great one
It’s really cool to hear that Bezos wanted to go down a totally different path. He had an amazing career right out of college too. Pretty inspiring that he took a shot at a startup that people said was a stupid idea and created it into what it is today.
There was a really funny clip I saw from Harvard Business School in the early 2000s. They had Bezos come in to talk about Amazon and some of the MBA students were ripping into Amazon and telling Bezos the things he was doing wrong haha
Yeah that's crazy