🪄 Scott Adams' Talent Stack Principle

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Today's topics:

1. Scott Adams' Talent Stack Principle

2. A tool to Scrape emails of Twitter users

3. One recommended video on 4 BEST AI Programming Tips feat Claude 3.5

Scott Adams' Talent Stack Principle

Scott Adams' has an incredible Talent Stacking Principle, also known as Skill Stacking, that he gives in his blog post on Career Advice.

The first part is very difficult to achieve and in some cases, impossible. Like being an NBA player. You need to be tall to be even considered being the top NBA player.

The second strategy is fairly easy comparatively. You can be top 25% in 2-3 different niches, thereby cultivating a unique skill set to be the one of one.

Here's a video of Talent Stack by Scott Adams where he explains this principle in detail:

Scott Adams isn't a gifted comic. He is as good as an average standup comedian. Nor he is an artist but he can make cartoons reasonably easily.

But when you combine both of these things, you create Dilbert which makes you $20 million.

Joshua Lisec used Skill Stacking as a Ghostwriter to go from $1.67/hour to making $1 million in 1 year. It took him 11 years to get there. But had he known skill stacking, he would’ve gotten there faster.

Brute gives a phenomenal example of Connor Mcgregor. Connor is good at fighting but there are much better fighters than him. But no one shit talks like Connor Mcgregor.

Connor Mcgregor outsells PPV (Pay-Per-View) after PPV due to his shit-talking prowess and martial arts skills.

The same goes with Jake Paul. He's not at all a good boxer. But real fighters lose to him to make more money than they would in a boxing fight because Jake Paul brings in the eyeballs to buy the PPV.

One reply hits hard:

There are better women fighters than Ronda Rousey but no female fighter looked as good as Ronda Rousey when UFC launched. She literally put Women’s UFC on the map.

And another one:

The crux of the matter is you can target industries where the skill you have is in rare supply.

Most software developers want to work in a field full of software developers. Its a Red Ocean where everyone is talented so to have job security, you have to work harder than your peers. Avoid that.

But most software developers don't exist in other fields like construction and dental. Its a Blue Ocean so you can get by in those fields by being pretty darn average. You also get job security. I've heard stories of people automating themselves out of their jobs using Python and cashing pay check for years by pretending to work even though the work was done by a bot.

Naval said it best.

A tool to Scrape emails of Twitter users

TweetScrape allows you to scrape emails from Twitter Accounts.

You can use this to build a super targeted lead list in minutes.

One recommended video on 4 BEST AI Programming Tips feat Claude 3.5

This video covers Claude in a visual prompting way.

Even if you don't program, you will find these tricks useful for other endeavors like writing.

There are very few YouTubers giving non-generic tips like this one.

Top Tweets of the day

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I never considered manual penalty from Google via their SEO algorithm as my thinking was that they can't reasonably bring down millions of sites. But millions of sites aren't engaging in blackhat tactics, only a few are.

And if you can't keep your mouth shut on Social Media, you get manual penalty for performing SEO Heist.

So if you are performing an SEO Heist, tell no one and print.

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Best explanation that answers the function of how your job makes your boss more money.

Rabbit Holes

1. I spent $60 for 2500 backlinks and it worked - If you are new to SEO, buying backlinks might seem unbelievable but it is the tactic everyone uses. You can do it 2 ways: (1) do original research to get backlinks or (2) buy backlinks for a price. #2 is much easier unless you are willing to spend tons of effort in creating original content piece. And if you have a valuable website, you can sell backlinks too.

2. This Guy Spent $162K on Clothes to See if it got Him More Business… - Appearance is the easiest way to gain respect by everyone. A fit body and fit clothes easily increases your perceived value subconsciously. I often notice the stark difference when I wear good clothes vs so-so clothes. Its absurd how signaling matters in the real world. There's a reason teenagers flex rented lambos on Instagram. The rich ones can see through it but the rich ones aren't their target audience.

3. The honest truth about private infrastructure & email resellers for B2B Cold Email. - Google and Outlook don't want you to be doing cold email. Every dollar you make from cold emails is a dollar you could have made for their advertising platforms so they are clamping down on cold email.

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