Jack Coogan
person on 2 shows · 3 statements across 1 episodes · said 4 times in 2 episodes since 2025
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Coogan: Founders waste time obsessing over mental models instead of building
“There's a lot of that, like hustle porn. Like I need more mental models and need more frameworks before I go and build the thing. And nine times out of 10, it's just like, just go give a shot.”
Coogan: True informational alpha comes from rare, non-digitized, out-of-print books
“The biggest bull signal is when you're searching someone on the Wikipedia page, you go to the sources, it's some ISBN number, you go to Amazon, 2000 dollar book won't ship to you in a month because it's out of stock. You got to find some library that has it in…”