Matt Jeż
- Building Leon Hendrix with Leon as prez of yapping operations (smash that sub button).
- Former lead recruiter at Flow Research Collective, a research org that trains executives how to work optimally.
- Previous #2 recruiter in USA at ConsenSys, venture studio that invested in ETH based startups.
- Optimized my 20s to work with entrepreneurs (to learn the game): Tomas Nagys, Nick Tukmanian, Andrew Kirby, Rian Doris.
- Now looking to work with the brightest CEOs who want to invest in their YouTube presence (read: how to get attention & clients towards their backend offers with organic traffic).
~31 & focused on the following in my 30s
- building a family
- building credibility
- building a world-class yapping podcast with Leon Hendrix
some ideas I believe in and remind myself of
- It’s rare for any stimulus to have a universal effect
- science is a story of complexity, nuance, not of all or nothing
- you can improve your own baseline by 500x
- This goes for wealth, health, relationships, attitude
- note: you can do more than you think
- internal anger ceases to exist when you f*** with who you are
- it’s not you against the world, it’s you accepting your current internal state
- don’t kill the part of you that is cringe. kill the part that cringes
- human to human bottlenecks are communication constraints (written, spoken, nonverbal)
- online communication tip: try to lean towards saying things online vs being shy to maximize serendipity
- MMORPGs like Tibia & RuneScape are training grounds for reality
- virtual effort will scale IRL
- Society has similar game mechanics that reward gamers 500x
- stamina underrated > intelligence overrated
- give the NBA a chance (even if you hate sports)
- watching sports allows us mortals to observe world-outliers in a controlled environment w/o real stakes
- that's pretty cool b/c you can easily identify the top players & assume their level of obsession is beyond comprehension
- obsession is a key ingredient to accomplishing anything world-class
- pick a few teams to follow
- watch their entire games (don't just save yourself time by watching the final plays)
- this is how you'll internalize the nuance of the ebbs & flows of one game
- otherwise it's no different than skipping a great song to only get to the end
- work where other people can see your work
- Optimize for visibility and impact with your work
- Then learn how to make your impact shareable (write, post videos, collect emails)
- If you cannot build things you can show at work, you should build things you can show outside of work
- be upfront with your intentions
- tell people what you intend vs asking for forgiveness after the fact
- worst case they tell you to not do it and you don’t do it
- "Should I start a side hustle without my company knowing?"
- the web leaks alpha (health, wealth, relationship alpha)
- most people will read something that is alpha, disregard it as "crazy", and move on while calling that alpha a scam/lie
- you'll randomly stumble upon casual genius spilling knowledge for free
- default to believing & investigating