George Mack
12 statements across 2 episodes · 10 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 31, 2024 by George Mack · said 13 times in 5 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2025 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2024 4 mentions in 1 episode
2021 6 mentions in 1 episode
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Aug 31, 2024 positive
Aug 31, 2024 positive
Aug 31, 2024 positive
Aug 31, 2024
Mack: Moving away from your hometown indicates high agency
“If they've moved from their hometown, that's a good sign. If they've moved from their home country, that's an even greater sign. Because it takes agency to spot you in the wrong place, resourcefulness to operationalize a move, and a growth mindset to start fro…”
May 5, 2025 positive
May 5, 2025 positive
May 5, 2025 positive
Mack: Depth metrics matter far more than raw view counts in media
“One of the biggest issues that we face with modern media is people go off width metrics, because what gets measured gets managed, and it's so easy to see view count, but it's, so for example, if an episode gets a million views of yours, that's great, but if 10…”
May 5, 2025
George Mack: Generating tasks from core values beats reactive to-do lists
“So the way most people kind of live in the 21st century is like this to-do list model where they empty short-term memory, like what's caching in their memory, and then they do that thing that day. Versus the turning bullshit to reality model is you think of a …”
May 5, 2025 positive
Mack: Asking candidates about weird teenage hobbies reveals intrinsic motivation
“However, I think even with hiring, my best hires that I've placed pretty much all line up in that criteria that they are, have weird, interesting hobbies. I was listening to an interview with Palmer Luckey chatting about this, and he, I mean, it kind of hints …”
May 5, 2025 bullish
May 5, 2025 bullish
Mack: The first self-made teenage billionaire will emerge by 2030
“There will be, thanks to AI and the teaching collapse, I think, I've always said for a while, and I think AI's now accelerated this, is that you'll see the first teenage, first self-made teenage billionaire by the end, by 2030.
And I think that, that makes me …”