Kyle Tymo

thinking in systems

[Kyle Tymo @kyletymo]

Reading a single one of Greene's books is worth decades of coaching:

Mastery → Find your life’s work

48 Laws of Power → Influence every outcome

33 Strategies of War → Navigate competition with ease

Art of Seduction → Charm and persuade anyone

[Kyle Tymo @kyletymo]

Robert Greene compressed several lifetimes of wisdom into a single life.

He has written 1000s of pages on how to obtain the things we most want (but won’t admit to): Power. Love. Wealth. Fame.

8 ideas to master yourself and your life:

[Kyle Tymo @kyletymo]

Assume Formlessness

Ebb and flow to life itself. The 48th of the 48 laws of power.

Life is a series of moments strung together. Our respond to each moment influences our lives.

Listen to yourself and meet the moment.

https://t.co/Fuu5VioFa5

[Kyle Tymo @kyletymo]

"There’s this writing style in popular non-fiction that I’ll call the ‘Malcolm Gladwell method of shoving-a-story-in-your-face’.

It substitutes argumentation for storytelling and anecdote, and in so doing sidesteps the difficulty of making a case..." ~@ejames_c

Hilarious & true

[Kyle Tymo @kyletymo]

Lever to improve education: teacher quality

Replacing a bottom 5% teacher with an average teacher was found to add $250,000 in lifetime earnings across the students they teach.

The effect persists for years afterwards too.

LLMs + teachers -> inflect lifetime earnings curves?

[Kyle Tymo @kyletymo]

@jayvas Looks like $PSU.U (-TO) has slightly better returns, net of their higher MER

https://t.co/EMcxcHH1JK

[Kyle Tymo @kyletymo]

Companies should be careful marketing new features as "powered by GPT" in July 2023

Immediately signals either:
a) your team moves slow
b) the AI revolution caught you off guard
c) you market to grandmas

Better to focus on the magic unlock rather than hoping GPT catches an eye

[Kyle Tymo @kyletymo]

Invert the prestige

Before taking someone's advice, strip away everything other than the outcomes they have achieved before. Especially focus on titles.

If they weren't Harvard/McKinsey/Amazon, would you still believe them?

If yes, proceed.

If no, you're buying a narrative.

[Kyle Tymo @kyletymo]

With each Tik Tok live, the half-century of literary progress made after Gutenberg seems further and further away.

[Kyle Tymo @kyletymo]

Maybe if Evernote had anyone left in their product & eng org they could find a way to send me a follow up email asking why I left.

Also downloaded Obsidian again, maybe third time is the charm.

Will try this Notion -> Obsidian sync later this week too: https://t.co/WwsSQyflUR

[Kyle Tymo @kyletymo]

The downfall of Evernote (as we all knew).

Used to be my go-to app for notes. Slowly degraded over time.

Laying off all the staff is the icing on the cake to get the notes out of there asap.

https://t.co/tcdOxLw2pi

[Kyle Tymo @kyletymo]

The interesting part was that importing all of my notes into Notion was one of the easiest Evernote experiences I can recall having.

Notion import UX was easy, and I got a fairly cheerful email from the company that I just churned from (well, the free tier).

[Kyle Tymo @kyletymo]

Zuck's going to know more about me than my girlfriend