Short Reads Distilled: Summaries of Rare Lectures, Essays, and Interviews
Outlier Academy
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Listen as we decode rare essays, lectures, and interviews across disciplines — distilling hours of reading into short, definitive conversations. We break down the big ideas and how to apply them. Past guests include Yale professor Verlyn Klinkenborg (Several Short Sentences About Writing), polar explorer Erling Kagge (In Praise of Silence and Philosophy for Polar Explorers), survival expert Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival), geopolitical expert Jacob Halberg (The Wires of Ware), 1-800-GOT-JUNK founder Brian Scudamore (WTF?! - Willing To Fail), and renowned investor Sir Ronald Cohen (IMPACT). Visit OutlierAcademy.com for episode notes, searchable transcripts, videos, and more.
Short Reads Distilled is a mix of Founders Podcast, The Knowledge Project, and The Tim Ferriss Show.
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Listen as we decode rare essays, lectures, and interviews across disciplines — distilling hours of reading into short, definitive conversations. We break down the big ideas and how to apply them. Past guests include Yale professor Verlyn Klinkenborg (Several Short Sentences About Writing), polar explorer Erling Kagge (In Praise of Silence and Philosophy for Polar Explorers), survival expert Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival), geopolitical expert Jacob Halberg (The Wires of Ware), 1-800-GOT-JUNK founder Brian Scudamore (WTF?! - Willing To Fail), and renowned investor Sir Ronald Cohen (IMPACT). Visit OutlierAcademy.com for episode notes, searchable transcripts, videos, and more.
Short Reads Distilled is a mix of Founders Podcast, The Knowledge Project, and The Tim Ferriss Show.
Trailer - "The Playing Field: The Five Levels of Mastery" by Graham Duncan
Short Reads Distilled: Summaries of Rare Lectures, Essays, and Interviews
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Trailer - "The Playing Field: The Five Levels of Mastery" by Graham Duncan
The Playing Field by Graham Duncan is BY FAR the best piece of writing I've read on the journey we must all make to reach mastery in our fields. While Graham writes about the journey to master the art of investing, everything in it is broadly generalizable.
In Graham’s view we must all progress from apprentice, to professional, to self-actualization, operating at scale with impact, and eventually (if we make it) mentoring the new generation. It’s a wonderful meditation on mastery — what it is, what it looks like, and most importantly the journey to get there.
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Short Reads Distilled: Summaries of Rare Lectures, Essays, and Interviews
Listen as we decode rare essays, lectures, and interviews across disciplines — distilling hours of reading into short, definitive conversations. We break down the big ideas and how to apply them. Past guests include Yale professor Verlyn Klinkenborg (Several Short Sentences About Writing), polar explorer Erling Kagge (In Praise of Silence and Philosophy for Polar Explorers), survival expert Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival), geopolitical expert Jacob Halberg (The Wires of Ware), 1-800-GOT-JUNK founder Brian Scudamore (WTF?! - Willing To Fail), and renowned investor Sir Ronald Cohen (IMPACT). Visit OutlierAcademy.com for episode notes, searchable transcripts, videos, and more.
Short Reads Distilled is a mix of Founders Podcast, The Knowledge Project, and The Tim Ferriss Show.
