Trevor McKendrick - Become successful

Good morning!

I’m back from Mexico. My Miami trip was cancelled at the last minute (the person I was going to meet had COVID troubles and couldn’t enter the US)

Good to be back and back at it.

Have a great week.

Trevor

Vanity Fair article on Amazon’s new CEO

Andy Jessy feels like a down to earth guy

Questions I had while reading:

• Would a founder every choose someone they think will fail to take over for them so that they look better? (i.e. is it more important to Jeff Bezos that Amazon prospers or that he looks like a genius?)
• Why do interviews always try to look for negatives? To create a narrative most of the article is about whether Andy will attract the negatives that you sometimes seen in Jeff or other big company founders

The Economics of broadway shows (article)

TIL I learned it took 6 months of shows for Hamilton to make back its initial investment, and AFAIK it was sold out for almost all of that? It’s surprising to me that the most successful shows would take such a long time. The offline world is so different from online.

Mr. Beast recreated Squid Game IRL (youtube)

100 million views in 4 days

World Chess Championship Game 3 Recap (youtube)

Chess has become significantly more relevant in the past decade. The Queen’s Gambit was, I think, an output of this, not a cause.

See also Tyler Cowen on how Chess should now be considered an esport.

How to Be Successful (article)

I have a few things that I regularly reread, this article from Sam Altman is one of them. It’s interesting to me that different parts jump out at different times & situations in life.

See also from Sam: what super successful companies have in common

How Bryan Caplan lived “post Covid” starting in June 2020 (article)

I think his general point is that you can be done with Covid as soon as you personally choose so.

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See you next week!

Trevor