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Aug 2023
50m 11s

Status Games, Fame, and the Truth about ...

Greg Isenberg
About this episode

Today Greg is joined by Nicolas Cole, the co-founder of Ship 30 for 30, a daily writing challenge. In this episode, Greg and Nicolas talk about how much money it really takes to be free and why it's better to be anonymously rich than it is to be internet famous with no customers. 


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SHOW NOTES:
0:00 - Intro
4:37 - Someone somewhere is working harder than you
12:48 - A mental model for competition
20:32 - How much money does it take to be "rich"?
30:51 - Status games

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