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Sam Corcos

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“It was definitely just literally in the Constitution. It's definitely constitutional. Like, okay, well, it shouldn't be constitutional. It's like, fair enough. But it's definitely constitutional.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's surprising. It takes like two hours to read it. It's a really short document. And it is surprising how often it ends up coming up in a discussion or a debate, like one recently related to the election, somebody was saying, the electoral college is unconstitutional. And I said, no, no, it's in the constitution. It's Article 2, Section 1. They're like, no, no, it's not. It's like, I have a constitution right now.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it's bad. So doing the slit works. But then it turns out this slit was a little bit too wide. So I just put some tape on it. But this is the final form of the focus goggles.”
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“This is a third version. The first version was just dots, just circles. But turns out with that form factor, you get really dizzy.”
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“Yeah, they're kind of like horse blinders. So when you're on an airplane, I have the attention span of a goldfish. And so if I'm trying to work and the person next to me is watching Transformers, I'm just going to end up watching Transformers with no sound. And so having these just blocks my ability to see anything for a film. I have them here if you want to check them out.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You have a lot more cables than you would anticipate. There's like six or eight different cables that I have to do to connect things.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They made the cut. They did They're honestly, they're a bit too thin. And so whenever it gets hot, I feel like I'm glued to them. And it's very hard to take them off.”
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“These shirts are definitely good. These shirts are definitely quality. These are the Calvin Klein modal is the material. They're super breathable. They don't get smelly. Yeah, these are great. The pants are... That my wife picked out. I don't actually know what they are”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I have this pair of pants. This is my only pair of pants. I have three shirts, I have 10 pairs of underwear, I have 10 socks.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's never been like a philosophical practice for me. It's really just been pragmatic. It was what I think is now called a digital nomad for quite a few years. And over time, just having stuff was really inconvenient. And so over time, I just had less and less stuff to the point where like all my stuff fits in that backpack at this point.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sleep this whole time, it's been the thing that I don't even like oatmeal. I was just doing it because I was told it was healthy and it's actually the source of a lot of my problems.”
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“Sure. And very simple things, too, like going on a walk after a meal has a huge impact on your glucose response. And the thing that got me interested in it, I'm pretty thin. I'm pretty fit. I played sports in college. The thing that got me interested in glucose monitoring was the energy swings. It's crazy to think that I used to believe this, but I was convinced that what you eat, it's just calories in, calories out. What you eat does not impact how you feel. Makes no difference. It's all just calories. And then I started wearing a glucose monitor and I had my normal healthy breakfast of orange juice and oatmeal. And I just went on this roller coaster in like around noon I'm falling asleep and I see that I've crashed into deep hypoglycemia. And just it just clicks. You can read about this stuff, but when you see it in your own data, it's like, this is it. It's not caffeine. It's not.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Literally measuring molecules in your body is this is the ground truth. You don't have to trust honey nut cheerios, which says it's heart healthy. You don't have to trust them. You can just see it in your body, in your own data, and you can make your own decisions. That's the intent of the company.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Totally. So levels show you how food affects your health using biosensors like continuous glucose monitors. The metabolic health crisis is a compounding problem. When we started this company four years ago, the diabetes rate was about 10%. It's now 13%. The rate of diabetes is increasing at an increasing rate. It's second derivative positive. There are 90 million prediabetics in the US. The CDC estimates that 70% of those people will be diabetic within 10 years. This is a very serious problem. The numbers are really frightening if something does not dramatically change. So what almost everybody learns is something that is in their diet. Oatmeal, ketchup that they don't realize has sugar in it. They almost always discover something that is causing problems in their life that they didn't realize. And so the goal of wearing a biosensor where you're”
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“Very high. Yeah. You could just see it in the faces of the investors. They were just like, oh my God, that is, I want one of these. I need to get one of these for my wife. This is so cool. And so that was the first moment when realized there's some real magic in getting these feedback loops because it's like, you think this is healthy, it's definitely not. It's mostly just sugar.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's drinking it while we're in this meeting, and then this is an early investor pitch to see if there's any traction there. And sure enough, 30 minutes in, we do the scan. And he has just rocketed up like over 200 milligrams per deciliter. And he's like, whoa, wait a second.”
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“Yeah, it's funny. At the time, it was my friend Josh. We hadn't started the company yet. And we were thinking about could this software with continuous glucose monitoring, could this be a business? And Josh, he went to a juice cart before the meeting. Every good pitch has some amount of theater to it. And so our idea was we would go, we'd have a thing of juice. And while we're in the meeting, he'll sip on it. And then there'll be the big reveal at the end. Like, actually, I can show you right now. And we would see his glucose go up. And so he went to a juice cart. He got the thing called health drink. Literally called Health Drink. We have a picture of it.”
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“Question that you get. And my answer is honestly pretty pedestrian. It's just stamina. It's like, I have no issue working 90, 100 hours a week really does not bother me at all. And I only realize that as an advantage, like as I'm seeing other people struggle with this stuff, it's just, it's not that I can work more than other people. It's that I'm very protective of what I spend my time on. And I just want to do more because it's exciting.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I get it. I'm an INTJ on the Myersburg because I'm a pretty deep introvert. And I think the way that I'm able to be protective of it is that I don't do things that I don't want to do. And like doing the Friday forums, my co founder does them. And it's only because everyone said the CEO has to be the one who does it. But I said, look, I am not going to be able to do this every week. I can do it for two weeks, but then it's just going to be super draining. And Josh likes doing this. So he should be the one to do it. Similarly, my co-founder, Casey, goes on a bunch of podcasts talking about metabolic health. I don't have the stamina. to go on a bunch of podcasts with the same sort of talking points and really pitching the vision of metabolic health. That's not something that I can do consistently. And so this comes back to the novelty seeking thing. And so we had her do it. And she's way better at it than I am. So I'm really protective of only doing the things that give me energy. And so like people have asked me the question of what is my superpower as a common.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so there's a lot of new people and there are, I would describe them as vectors, but all of these different dense networks, there are many of them that I haven't even discovered yet that just through serendipitous meetings may end up becoming really useful. There was a specific example, which I probably shouldn't say for work reasons, but there was a serendipitous encounter through a friend who said that they knew somebody who was really into continuous glucose monitors, could I meet them? And I had a breakfast slot open. I said, sure, happy to chat with them. Six months later, they reach out to me and ended up connecting me to a very important business contact that I had no idea that this person was in touch with. It was like, wow. Who would have thought And so you never know where these sorts of things are going to come from.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I don't have any synchronous time available, but I'm happy to connect by email. And then people are usually okay with that. And if they, you know, they say, hey, could you connect me with this person? It's like, great, I didn't need a 30 minute meeting to do that. It's like happy to. Sure, here. So I think in my case, I'm 34. There's still a lot of building in terms of network.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it depends on one's goals. And so I think one of the things that would be different is that your signal-to-noise ratio is going to be a lot better than mine because you are through the podcast, you can get recommendations from people on future guests that are extremely high signal. Somebody's putting their social capital on the line to say you should meet this person. I think the nature of it is I don't say yes to every intro. Oftentimes I'll say, I'm happy to connect with them, but I probably don't have any synchronous time available. So I'm happy to correspond by email.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure, this is a slightly different thing, but yes, that would be called diffusion centrality. Degree centrality is basically popularity. If you're the mayor of a small town, You have high degree centrality, but probably nothing beyond that. You are the most connected person in a dense network. Eigenvector centrality is how many people do the people that you know know? And so it expands really exponentially beyond what you would get from degrees centrality.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because they probably know all the people in the apparel space, knowing one person who's a professional basketball player is way different than knowing zero because they know all the people in pro basketball. And so this is more thinking about it from a professional lens of when you're doing fundraising or you're building a company. You never know where this value is going to come from. And so finding ways of creating this strong eigenvector centrality as opposed to what most people think of when they think of popularity is what's called degree centrality, which is how many people you know. And like if you're the mayor of a small town or”
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“Exactly. It's what's known as a dense network. It is a network where all the people in the network know each other. And so almost necessarily, you already know all those people and you already have all that information. So if there was a job in that group, you would already know about it. And so the second degree and the third degree, eigenvector is like the nth degree outside of your network are the people who you should really be thinking a lot more about. And that's where a lot of the value comes from. And so eigenvector centrality is When I really understood this concept, I started shifting the way that I spend my time in building a network of it is infinitely more valuable to have one friend who is in a different dense network than another friend in the same dense network because you suddenly have access, like knowing one person in the apparel space versus zero makes a massive difference.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really underappreciated form of network centrality is what's called eigenvector centrality. There's a famous paper by Paul Granovetter, I think written in the 70s called The Strength of Weak Ties Yeah, it's a very important paper in network theory, which it talks about how much more important weak ties are than strong ties. How you are more likely to find your next job You are more likely to find your life partner from an acquaintance rather than a friend.”
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“Exactly. Yeah, yeah. And so at some point, I realized, you know, I'm just going to change my list. I'm only going to have people on here who I think also want to spend time with me. So it's in both directions. And so if I keep reaching out and they keep canceling or ignoring, it's like, that's fine. I don't take it personally anymore. It's just they maybe have kids now, they have different life priorities. It's 100% okay. And maybe in five years we can be friends again. It's not a big deal. I used to take these things a lot more personally and I just don't anymore. And so network theory is really understanding why some of these relationships are more valuable in whatever way you choose to describe value. Is it professionally valuable? Is it personally valuable? Whatever the thing is. And there are several categories that are especially relevant for interpersonal human networks. One that is it's a real”
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“Yeah, exactly. And I don't think I'd fully appreciated that. Energetically, it was very hard because I was trying to force these people to want to spend time with me. And they clearly didn't.”
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“So hard So, I think some of it is, and this was something that I learned during the process of really trying to be more intentional about who I spend my time with. One of my values really is friendship and people that I care about. And I wasn't prioritizing that to the degree that I thought that I was given how important it is to my life pretty quickly within, I don't know, some amount of time, I realized that the list that I had put together of the people I want to stay in touch with, not all of them wanted to stay in touch with me. And”
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“I'm going to really put a lot more attention towards who the people are in my life. And so I set a goal, which I still have, of keeping up with a thousand people that I care about every quarter.”
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“So, this was another topic that I was particularly interested in, more understanding from first principles. A lot of people know things that are tangentially related to network theory, like the Dunbar's number, 150 people. People have some general sense that having a strong network is good. And I wanted to better understand it from first principle. So it's both network and graph theory are sort of the two related topics. Network theory in my experience is the language that people typically use for interpersonal human networks and graph theory is more math. I did a gratitude exercise maybe five years ago during the time off when I just listed all the good things that have happened to me in my life. And I think I listed 100 things was the goal. I think 97, 98 of them were because of somebody that I knew not because of something that I did, which was really surprising. And so I decided.”
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“They'll fight and say that it's not a religion, but like the bundling and unbundling example is specifically, I brought up the example of all of my burning man friends. It's like, you have committed to a bundle. And you can call that bundle a religion. You can call it something else. It definitely rhymes with religion, whatever it is that you've bundled here”
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“More relativism is exactly, it is postmodernism in a nutshell. It's like your truth is just as important and real as anybody else's. There is no truth, there is no commons that we can agree on. It's just purely individual truth is all that matters. That leads to bad outcomes. Just in every society that has these postmodernist beliefs, Marxism, as an example, tends to lead to really bad outcomes. And so I'm still struggling to figure out how one believes that without leading to some really negative outcome.”
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“Positive aspects of religion and what it does for people. I think the deep dive into epistemology also is pretty mind-bending where it caused me to recognize that this is actually something that I'm still wrestling with is that I really do not believe there is such a thing as objective truth. All truth is subjective. You can maybe asymptotically approach truth, but there is no such thing as objective truth. The only way to believe in that is to believe in some specific higher power. Where I struggle with it is that that path almost always leads to postmodernism and to really bad things. And so I struggle.”
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“Yeah, I think the most interesting thing was this recognizing the separation of community ritual, that form of religion and the deep spiritual belief side of religion. And I hosted a salon dinner on this, as I often do. And I had what I thought was this unique insight. And of course, I brought all my friends who are way better read on this than I did. I opened it with my thoughts around this separation. One of my friends who was there, it's like, yeah, that sounds a lot like varieties of religious experience by William James. And he explained it. It's like, yeah, it's exactly the same thing. And he wrote about this more than 100 years ago. I thought I had this unique insight. And it was something that's been known for a long time. I would say one of the things that came out of it more than anything was an appreciation and a deeper respect for”
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“Yeah, and it was interesting just to see how different people got different values out of religion. One of the most recent salon dinners that we hosted was on the bundling and unbundling of religion, which is a particularly fun one. It's basically how I've over time I started to realize the convergence of these bundles where I was at a dinner with some Burning Man friends and we all held hands to say gratitude. It's like this is like grace.”
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“And she said, Well, Catholicism is about the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. So, okay, so Father's God. Son is Jesus. What's the Holy Spirit? She said, I don't actually know. It was just...”
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“Yeah. And so it's an interesting story because when I talk to some of my other religious friends, they say, well, that guy's not a real Christian because he doesn't actually believe in God. He came to it through ritual and community and practice, not through some deep spiritual awakening. And what was interesting was how different religions, at least the sample size that I had, which was about 30 people, a lot of the Catholics that I talked to, they had this deep connection to their community, to the rituals of going to church. But I was often surprised at how they could not even answer basic questions about their religion. I remember the first conversation I had with one of my Catholic friends. I said, all right, let's talk about Catholicism. What is it that you believe?”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In his case, he just went, he's like, I'm just going to do all of it now. And it's an interesting thing, this dive into theology as it almost always does, ended up taking me down a path towards epistemology as well.”
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“Red Doorknob or whatever. He was like, I just described Christianity. And so he went to a church and just immediately was like, this is it. This is what I've been missing my whole life was this. I talked to a lot of other people. There's this separation of the ritual, the”
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“Who knows? And he, uh, He did an exercise where he wrote down all of the things that he wants out of life, which is he wanted a community of people that shared the same values. He wanted to be married to somebody who shared this set of values. He just came up with this whole list and then had this realization, this is Christianity. He was like, oh my God.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Means to people. He is somebody who I didn't know this because as long as I've known him, he's been very Christian. And he told me how he grew up an atheist. And when he was, I think 30, he was going through a bit of a midlife crisis, if that counts quarterlife crisis, whatever the number is.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Some of it just very tactically I knew a lot more about it. I went to Sunday school growing up, so I knew a lot more about Jewish tradition. I knew a lot less about Christianity. The version of Christianity that was on my mind was like all the bad things, the Crusades, the bigotry, all of those things. And what was fascinating going to this Bible study class was how the opposite it was of that. It was all about humility. It was about love and caring. And just over and over and over again on all of these courses. And it was a very different feel for religion than I was expecting. What came up having talked to a whole bunch of religious friends, part of the reason why I also went to it is some of my friends were going to that church and they invited me. What was really interesting was this one friend in particular changed my perception of what religion”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's like, how is this possible? And so My conclusion was that there's something about religion. It is more likely there's something I don't understand than it is all of these people smarter than me are missing something that I think is obvious. And so I spent a lot of time. I interviewed a whole bunch of my religious friends. I went to a Bible study class for 10 weeks, so a Christian Bible study. And it was really, really interesting. I think the”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, for sure. I grew up. My father is Jewish and secular. My mother is like Richard Dawkins style atheist. And so I grew up not really Knowing anything about religion, we went to temple every once in a while, but more as like a cultural thing. And if I'm being honest about it, I probably spent the first 25 years of my life generally condescending towards religious people. And then as I got older, I kept recognizing that these people who I knew were smarter than me were also religious. Which was very strange because this would be a really big oversight”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One of them was getting up to speed on the state of AI. This was five years ago now. And the last time I had done it was maybe 10 years ago. And it was really hard. There were no libraries. There was no real tooling. And then next time I get into it, a friend recommended the fast AI course. And it was so easy. My goal was to create, to create something that can recognize images of cats. And it was literally the tutorial. And now they ask us.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I had a whole list of topics. Some of them ended up being much simpler or more shallow than I was expecting. One that was simpler, I had all my listener cases.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, exactly. You have to constantly come up with the process for, hey, this screenshot that we just made on this new website, this will be out of date next time we update our app. And so you have to create a process for on some regular basis, maybe weekly, maybe monthly. Check, is the current state of our app aligned with this screenshot of this surface? And then you have 50 surfaces. You have to check all of them to make sure. And if your conclusion is that is too much maintenance, then the answer is, well, then you need fewer surfaces and you need to figure out how to reduce that complexity of maintenance.”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“As in, like, if you create a new screen on your app, you now have to maintain that forever, or somebody does. It's not just done, and then you can move on with your life. You always have to have some process for saying your...”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, there's quite a few of them. I think one of them is an article you wrote on Organizational Entropy. Broadly on strategies for fighting it. And I think that was really helpful for a lot of our managers to just recognize, I was talking to somebody on our team who this is a bad habit a lot of engineers find themselves in as well, where you get really deep into a project and then the code base gets kind of complex and then you just say, I just want to start over. And then you start over with something smaller, which is lower complexity, but it takes you a long time to just get back to status quo. But now it's lower complexity. And then at some point, it starts to get complex again. And you say, I don't know, let's just start over. It is almost always the case that what's happening is parts of the code base are rotting and there is no mechanism for keeping the documentation up to date. And the assumption that a lot of people have is once it's shipped, then it's done. But really, you just created a new evergreen obligation for yourself. Every new surface that you add is”
2023-09-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #694: Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT