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