The Exchanges

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Andrew Wilkinson no published score: only 2 usable exchanges on raw tape, and a fair score needs 8+ · coarse estimate ≈4.5/5 from 5 raw and produced exchanges record → ← everyone

Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Answered raw tape D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00

Q What, can you explain examples of the way that, um, you're using it now to save and make yourself more productive, like, both personally and in a business level, or is this mostly, uh, like, theoretical where you're like, it's almost there?

A Well, it's a bit of everything. So I'd say, like, we're in the AOL dial-up phase right now, but like AOL dial-up, it's still pretty freaking cool if you've never used the internet. Um, so, you know, basic stuff that everybody should be doing. Like I have a, I have an agent that preps me for every meeting. So, 30 minutes before every meeting, I get a text and it says, hey, you're meeting Sean and Sam. You were emailing them about this topic. You're going to invest in their company. And here's two bios on them. It goes to LinkedIn and, you know, just summarizes it. So, something very basic that otherwise a human would do. Previously, my assistant would do that. Um, I have it monitor my stock portfolio. I have it tell me about local events for the first one.

AI assessment note: “I have an agent that preps me for every meeting.”

Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q They should just replace themselves. Um, and then the second thing that you did, which It might hurt you, but you got, you'll figure your way out as you painted the picture of yourself as this guy who's like, what are you guys talking about? Like so easy. Why are you working so hard? Like, and now that you're doing it, everyone's going to be like, told you, told you.

A Well, I think the way I describe it is when you, okay, so when you look at other people's businesses and you've hired, uh, executives or you've, let's say, let's say you own a bakery, right? And there's, There's your, you're looking at a bakery owner and they're fucking staying up until two in the morning baking. They're sleeping for four hours. They're working the till they're covered in flour. And you're looking at them and going, dude, it's so easy. Just go hire a staff and build a manual, right? Like this is not rocket science. And then you do that. And now you're the CEO of the bakery. And now you got to deal with people problems and a different level of, of issues. And to me, it's like, I've done the right stuff and I've hired great CEOs. I have all that. It's just now there's like too many different things to keep tabs on in my brain. And I think humans aren't designed for thinking about more than like two problems at once.

AI assessment note: “dude, it's so easy. Just go hire a staff and build a manual”

Answered produced feed D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30

Q Okay. What would you be happy with this company in two years?

A Um, yeah, what's cool about it is when we, when we buy a business, uh, we're generally going, you know, if we're wrong about all the big opportunities and we're only right about just base hits. So like, Hey, you know, we've got 250,000 newsletter subscribers. Can we sell 40 or 50,000 dollars a month of ads on that? If we do that, we've got a good little business. And then if we do that on the podcast, we've got A really good little business. And then if we do that on social again, it's bigger and bigger and bigger. Uh, it doesn't need to be huge based on the price we paid. It could do three million bucks a year in revenue and be an amazing business and give us a good return. I think it's a 20 or 30 or fifty million dollar a year business. Once we kind of do the events, we're, we've been thinking about, you know, all sorts of opportunities within the business. Um, But what I like about it is, you know, if we don't do well, if we don't grow it into a huge company, we'll still, we'll still do just fine.

AI assessment note: “It could do three million bucks a year in revenue and be an amazing business”

Partly raw tape D 3 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.25

Q Okay, great. Andrew, what are yours? Uh, Company to Watch, um, Crazy Prediction, and what was the other one? What, uh, Industry to Watch? Yeah, Industry to Watch.

A So, um, company to watch. I mean, it's exciting to talk about all these new, new businesses, but what I'm actually interested in is all these companies that were incredibly hot, like three or four years ago that raised a ton of money and they've been kind of quietly building. So for example, superhuman, uh, you know, everyone was talking about it two years ago. I haven't heard anyone talking about it, but I know they're doing very well. Uh, I can't wait to see what they do with all that money. Uh, and then same thing with pitch. Pitch was like, you know, huge two years ago, uh, and I think they're in a building phase. So I'm excited to see what they do when they come out of that, uh, pitch pitch.com. It's basically replacing PowerPoint. It's like a good version of PowerPoint. It's awesome.

AI assessment note: “So, um, company to watch. I mean, it's exciting to talk about”

Answered produced feed D 4 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.15

Q What's that word you just said? That was a good one.

A It means like an inability to feel pleasure, right? Like nothing, nothing would get me pumped. Nothing would give me a hit. Like, you know, you know, when you like, you're always, you go on Netflix, you're like scrolling endlessly for the perfect thing. You just can't find it. That's how my life felt. And so I basically, you know, it was the middle of August. I live in British Columbia. It's super beautiful. And so I just said to my wife, you know what? I'm out for the next month. Let's just go off to our cabin. We'll, you know, we'll go on some trips and I'm just going to totally check out. And I set a couple of rules for myself. I was like, no phone, no email, no computer, no podcasts, uh, no phone calls, no social media, no news. I couldn't even read nonfiction business books, right? So it's pretty extreme. And I put on my Apple Watch, which has, you know, cellular, so I was like, okay, if there's an emergency, I can get a phone call, and I put my phone in a drawer, and I just disappeared. I went up to my cabin and hung out with my kids, and honestly, for the first, like, three or four days, it felt like there was, like, a bug in my brain. Like, I was just, like, so, like, like, something I, I itch I couldn't scratch. Like, just so irritable as being a huge asshole, Um, I was like slapping my pocket every five seconds to check stuff. I'd be sitting on the beach with my kids,…

AI assessment note: “It means like an inability to feel pleasure, right?”

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