Trung Phan — On Smart Threads and Dumb Memes (EP.109)

Trung T. Phan is a creator in the tech, business, and media space. His Twitter threads are full of knowledge and humor, and he also co-hosts the “Not Investment Advice” podcast. Follow Trung on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan and subscribe to his newsletter at https://trungtphan.com/subscribe/ Show Notes:

• Trung’s Vietnamese origins
• Humor in your talent stack
• Asymmetric returns of creating content online
• The power of memes
• Getting a CFA
• Going back to writing movie scripts
• Succeeding in the creator economy
• How to acquire people’s attention
• Creating content on LinkedIn and Facebook
• The importance of traveling
• Donald Trump’s popularity in SE Asia
• History is not black or white
• Steve Jobs with the Picasso
• How a Microsoft guy catalyzed the iPad
• Musk’s space meeting with Bezos
• Not letting complacency set in
• Putting historical dates into perspective
• Structuring speech to persuade
• Jim not dissing Plato
• Making Ted Lasso likable in 157 seconds
• And MORE!

Books Mentioned:

• The Status Game; by Will Storr
• The Beginning of Infinity; by David Deutsch
• Virus of the Mind; by Richard Brodie
• The Republic; Plato