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Shane Parrish

Founder and CEO, Farnam Street · 1 appearance on the record.

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Shane Parrish is the creator of Farnam Street and host of The Knowledge Project podcast, where he explores decision-making, mental models, and timeless wisdom. A former Canadian intelligence officer, he is the author of Clear Thinking and The Great Mental Models book series.

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Everything Shane Parrish said on Capital Allocators that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Parrish: Applying new knowledge provides crucial feedback, despite initial overfitting
“When you use that information in your day-to-day life, whether it's through overfitting in terms of you just learned something new, and you're trying to see it everywhere, and you overfit it, and you're wrong, but you're practicing applying that knowledge, And…”
Shane Parrish Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 22:02 Shane Parrish – Learning to Learn at Farnam Street (Capital Allocators, EP.164)
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Parrish: Map your knowledge on a blank sheet before reading a book
“What I tend to do is if I'm really trying to learn from a book, I do something I call the blank sheet approach, which is I take a sheet of paper, grab the book, and I write down everything I know about the topic before I even open the book and start reading, a…”
Shane Parrish Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 25:13 Shane Parrish – Learning to Learn at Farnam Street (Capital Allocators, EP.164)
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Parrish spends two to three days preparing for each podcast episode
“Like, it's two or three days per podcast, especially if I'm unfamiliar with the topic, and I think that part of what I do is I try to read their most recent book or article, obviously, but also I want to listen to other people interview them. Why? Because then…”
Shane Parrish Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 30:30 Shane Parrish – Learning to Learn at Farnam Street (Capital Allocators, EP.164)
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Parrish: Heuristics for applying Hanlon's razor to perceived personal slights
“And I usually try to choose the most respectful interpretation, which is asking myself what the world would have to look like for me to exhibit that behavior. What would my worldview have to be for me to do what this person is doing? And the second is, is ther…”
Shane Parrish Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 47:13 Shane Parrish – Learning to Learn at Farnam Street (Capital Allocators, EP.164)
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Parrish: I never say yes on the phone or email after 8 PM
“Some of the other automatic behaviors I have is I never say yes on the phone. I never reply to an email past eight PM.”
Shane Parrish Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 1:01:08 Shane Parrish – Learning to Learn at Farnam Street (Capital Allocators, EP.164)
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Parrish: Taking a private portfolio company public via reverse takeover
“Like we're in the process of taking a company or doing an RTO, so a reverse takeover, and going public with one of our private investments, and just seeing the way that the investment bankers make you fit into a mold of what they want to see.”
Shane Parrish Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 1:05:03 Shane Parrish – Learning to Learn at Farnam Street (Capital Allocators, EP.164)
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Parrish: J.C. Penney was my biggest investing mistake due to personal bias
“Well, biggest investing mistake is JC Penney. I got sucked in by Ron Johnson's vision of retail because this comes back to something we talked about earlier, right? Like this was the vision of retail I wanted. This is how I thought retail should work. This is …”
Shane Parrish Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 1:07:18 Shane Parrish – Learning to Learn at Farnam Street (Capital Allocators, EP.164)
Disclosure
Parrish: Cyrus Partners did zero deals in 2020 before closing three in one week
“We did nothing this year up until last week. And then we did three deals in the last week, two of which were small, one of which was larger.”
Shane Parrish Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 52:14 Shane Parrish – Learning to Learn at Farnam Street (Capital Allocators, EP.164)

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Shane Parrish – Learning to Learn at Farnam Street (Capital Allocators, EP.164) Nov 16, 2020 51m
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