Arm Yourself With Specific Knowledge

you want to talk a little bit about the skills that you need in particular specific knowledge accountability leverage and judgment so the first tweet in this area is arm yourself with specific knowledge accountability and leverage and I'll throw in judgment as well I don't think you covered that in that particular tweet if you want to make money you have

to get paid at scale and why you that's accountability at scale that's leverage and just you getting paid as opposed to somebody else getting paid that's specific knowledge so specific knowledge is probably the hardest thing to get across in this whole tweet storm and it's probably the thing that people get the most confused about the thing is

that we have this idea that everything can be taught everything can be taught in school and it's not true that everything can be taught in fact the most interesting things cannot be taught but everything can be learned and very often that learning either comes from some innate characteristics in your DNA or it could be through your childhood

where you learn soft skills which are very very hard to teach later on in life or it's something that is brand-new so nobody else knows how to do it either or it's true on-the-job training because your pattern matching into highly complex environments basically building judgment in a specific domain classic example is investing but it could be in

anything it could be in judgment in running a fleet of trucks it could be a judgment in weather forecasting so specific knowledge is the knowledge that you care about especially if you're later in life let's say your post 20 21 22 you almost don't get to choose which specific knowledge you have rather you