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Sam Corcos

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“Yep, sent from my email by my EA. And at the bottom it says sent on Sam's behalf by Sam's EA. People then respond to it, those get tracked, and I also, usually about a week before the event, when things have sort of finalized, my EA goes through everyone on the waitlist and sends them a note saying, like, sorry, but there wasn't space in this one, but we hope you can join in a future dinner. I find that's a nice instead of just ghosting people, closing the loop on it. And very rarely, but occasionally somebody flips out and then I just remove them from the list and they don't get invited anymore.”
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“So, the specific text of the emails in the Notion doc. So that'll be easy to share. I basically say I'm hosting another dinner. Here's the topic. Here's where it's going to be. Here are the motivating questions”
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“So, yeah, I've been adding people to the list as I meet people, as I find people I think would be interesting people to have at these dinners. I just add them to a list. Once I come up with a topic and the motivating questions, I pick a date and then I tell one of my EAs to send out the invitations. The whole rest of the process is basically done by them. My only real involvement is I pick a topic and then she compiles all of the people that have opted in. And then it's usually 20 or so people, depending on where it is. And then I will curate who I think will make for the most interesting conversation from that list.”
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“Yeah, so I generally pick the topic. I always send out some explanatory text of motivating questions of what is the topic. I use ChatGPT for that. So a recent example for the Epistemic Commons salon, I asked ChatGPT. I'm planning on hosting a salon dinner. I need five questions for this topic. Here are the issues that I think are relevant. Can you create some motivating questions for the dinner? And it nailed it first time, almost every time it does. It's pretty remarkable.”
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“For a board game. Yeah, it may be better for a board game. You can do it, it just doesn't feel like it's an event. So I optimize. I try to get it to eight to ten is how many I actually want to come to get to that number. I tend to invite 12 and I usually end up with 8 to 10. If you have a couple people who are maybe not the most engaged or engaging, it doesn't throw a wet blanket on the whole event. And you can kind of bring them in slowly. And so I found 8 to 10 is really the number to shoot for that I think balances all those variables particularly well.”
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“The answer is not going to be very straightforward, which is that there's a bunch of dials that you have to balance. The best dinners I've ever done were six people who are all super engaged with the topic. That is the perfect number, six highly thoughtful deep people on the topic. I would say. The problem is you always end up with something like a 20% attrition rate. And so if you invite six people, you might end up with four people. And four people you can do, but it feels less like a salon dinner.”
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“Move on. Yeah. But let's bring it back to the topic of this. And then maybe you call on somebody else to get their opinion.”
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“It was great. And somehow somebody was like, well, something, something, something, wine on the blockchain. And you have to bring them back to the conversation. People will have their thing they want to talk about, but all the other people there came from the topic that you originally planned on. And so you have to be ruthless when things get off topic. And that specific tactical thing that I found to be helpful, I always have a notepad. And so I say that sounds like a really good topic for a future salon dinner. So I'm going to make a note right now and I'll add that to the list.”
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“Yeah, totally There was a point when every dinner I did would eventually meander into blockchain, no matter the topic. And the one that was the most egregious was we did a dinner on the wine industry. In San Francisco, which is really just an excuse for my friends who have vineyards to bring their nicest bottles of wine. It was fantastic.”
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“And it can be awkward, but just set the ground rules very clearly in advance, which is at the start of the dinner, you just say, all right, the rules are no phones at the table. We have one conversation at the table. If things get off topic, I'm going to bring it back to the conversation. And so there was a period, this would have been, I don't know, five, six years ago when blockchain was like the thing everyone. Now it's AI, but back then it was blockchain. I remember.”
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“Yeah, exactly. And I'll tell them sometimes in advance, hey, I'm going to invite you to this, but I don't want you to talk at all for the first 30 minutes And I need you to do that, or I can't have you come to this. It's never been an issue if you're just really upfront about it.”
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“Signal anything at the beginning. So the intros are always just your name and the last book you read. And that tends to lead to a much better conversation. And what almost always happens, we did a salon a while back on globalism and nationalism. And it was in New York. And there's about 12 people. I curated the group because I know who all these people are. And it went particularly long. It was a very good conversation for at least three hours. And at the end of this dinner, one of the people, I won't throw them under the bus. But he said, so this is all well and good, but we're just a bunch of New York Democrats talking about this. Where are all the Republicans? And I happen to know that six people there were Republicans and I just waited. And each person was like, I'm a Republican. I'm a Republican. And he was just flabbergasted. But I thought we were agreeing on this stuff.”
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 a society is becoming harder and harder over time. We did one shortly before that on expression of love. That was a really good one. And so they range from deeply intellectual to more personal and experiential. We had a really good one a little while back on human connection and friendship. I always curate the group in some way to make sure that there's some interesting set of diversity that would make the conversation interesting. So if it's something that's more political, I make sure that maybe half the group has one point of view and the other half has another. Or in the human connection and friendship salon, I wanted to make sure that I had people represented from many different social groups, some people who are very wealthy, some people who are not people who have different life experiences. I always try to make sure that people don't”
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“Yeah, we had one a few weeks ago that was on the epistemic commons on this challenge of sense making collectively as we have these different versions of the truth of the world that continue to separate our ability to just agree on what is real.”
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“I've been hosting these for a long time, like well over a hundred of them at this point. The salons I like to host, they tend to be really intellectual. And so there's a topic that is usually just something that I am personally very interested in.”
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“It's a classic. I probably reread it every one to two years. And every time I face palm, like, how did I forget this? We should obviously be doing this. There are a lot of books like that. Another one that I frequently come back to is nonviolent communication. It's a similar book every time I read it. It's just like, I need to be doing more of that. There's a whole series of them. I keep track of all the books that I read on Goodreads.”
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, and all of those books were added to the list because I thought at one point that I would be interested in it. And then things changed. Maybe I'm not interested in it anymore. And so, yeah, it's just like in the moment, right now, what do I want to read? I found that to be something that really also keeps the velocity up of the books that I want to read.”
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“And it's usually a slog, and my rate of reading is way lower when that happens. And so I now, when I finish a book, I go through and I'm just glancing through the titles. It's like, you know what? I do actually want to read a book on complexity right now. I'm going to do that. That sounds really interesting. Or I do want to read this science fiction book that I've been hearing about.”
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“The answer is it's purely based on feeling. I used to read a lot more books optimistically of like, I should read more about that, even though I don't really want to. I just feel like I should”
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“That's for sure I just realized I'm just going to put them on my wish list. And then when I feel like reading a When I finish whatever book I'm reading now, I go to it and I scroll through it. What am I feeling like right now? You know what a biography feels really good? I'm going to download that. So my wish list is probably two 300 books. So I have a pretty deep backlog.”
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“I just found that stacks of books that I have committed to reading that I have not read felt like a betrayal of my own commitment to myself.”
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“A lot of them are through recommendations. I host these salon dinners maybe roughly once a month. And one of the questions that I always ask people is the intros are always your name and the last book you read. And so that's sort of my hack for getting good book recommendations. And I just, I add them to my wish list on Audible. And then one of my new rules over the last couple years is I will only purchase a book if it is the next book that I'm going to read. Because I found that”
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 do a lot of walks. I try to read at least two books a week, and I do most of those as audiobooks, just going on long walks”
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“Chronically bad for you. The same exact thing happens when people watch the news or they see things that make them anxious and they say, well, it's just information, but that's not a neutral thing.”
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“I think people really underestimate the physical impact that it has. Taking maybe an extreme example of there is information that can affect you physically. Example is you're walking through the jungle and a tiger jumps out in front of you. Your body will physically change based on that stimulus, right? A fight or flight response adrenaline, all kinds of stuff that is bad for you.”
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 a really good book, which really just goes over there. There are so many things that are getting better. And yet almost everyone thinks that those things are getting worse.”
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
“On the news will make you fear planes, subconsciously. It is an availability bias problem. You can know the statistics and you can say that it's safer, but in your mind, if you see it happen or you see something on the news, you assume that it is representative of the world and it's really hard to beat. There's a really good book, Factfulness. I don't know if you've heard of that”
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 the biggest ones is news sobriety. And I think that encapsulates a lot more. One of my personal philosophies is that I do not allow others to impose upon my attention. And so if I am getting information, I would like to seek it out. And I don't want other people to take my time against my will or tell me what I should be thinking or focus on, whether I want to or not, that's been a big challenge is I think almost everyone underestimates how impactful, even seemingly trivial information is of like seeing a plane crash.”
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've tried doing meditation. I did the Sam Harris. I didn't notice any benefit. I did it for, I think, a month. I think I just might.”
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“As in when somebody says to me, Hey, I was trying to book time on your calendar, but you're booked for the next two months, then I start sacrificing some of my Wednesdays to allow for meetings to be scheduled. The term comes from how stainless steel works, where it's covered in something. I think it's zinc in that case. And how it works is the zinc starts to get deteriorated before the steel does. So you're sacrificing a different material in order to keep the steel working well”
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“Mondays are my meeting days. So I tend to stack all of my meetings on Mondays. It's common for me to have like 14 hours of meetings on Mondays. I just get them all done with so I don't have anything else during the week. Fridays I often have meetings as well, but they tend not to be the recurring ones other than maybe the Friday forum or some maybe the book club, which I think we do monthly on Fridays. So Mondays are a lot of my recurring team meetings. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday are almost always just open. I tend to leave Wednesdays as Like a sacrificial anode of”
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“And then, if you have to move it, you now know that you can say, hey, something came up, I'll get it to you on Monday. And you can just keep them in the loop on that, as opposed to just ambiguously dropping the ball. So for me, when I get a new task, it just immediately goes into my calendar. So if somebody was to say, hey, can you write a memo on this topic so that this team has context on it of where this has gone over the last year? I'll say, sure, how soon do you need it? Can you have it to me by Wednesday? I'll go to my calendar and I'll block off two hours because I think that's about how long it'll take. I'll block off two hours on Tuesday that I have open and I'll say, cool, I'll have a two by Tuesday night. And that's it. The calendar is the to-do list.”
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“Might be. And it's a stress thing. It is very stressful to have. I have nothing pending right now. I have not dropped any balls because I know that anything that is time sensitive, that needed to be done today is already done. And there's nothing, there's no ambiguous deadlines looming that I'm not aware of because they're in my calendar. And if you change it, this is where closing the loop is a helpful factor, which is if you say I'm going to block this off for Thursday, you can tell that person, hey, I'll get back to you on Thursday”
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“So, you're going to spend this 30 minute block responding to this email. What's the next one? That's going to take me a full hour because I have to write something for them.”
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“Yeah, the answer is you just skip the to-do list step entirely. So when I get a new task, a lot of my tasks effectively come in through email. So I'll get an email. And this is also another thing that I worked with a couple of people on who really, really struggled with email. And the thing they struggle with is using their email as a to-do list, which is a very common thing that people do. The problem, it creates a lot of anxiety when you have this stack of uncategorized things. It could be 15 minutes. It could be 50 hours. You have no idea until you open up each one individually to figure out how much work it is. And so the same process of translating your to-do list into your calendar, you can do the same thing with email, which is I work with somebody recently where I said, all right, let's open each email. How long is this going to take you to respond to? These are like the chunkier ones. It's like 30 minutes. Great. Market is done. Copy the link and put that link in your calendar.”
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“Breaks everything downstream. That's a real problem. And over time, as you get better, you can reduce that amount of slack. But 50% is a pretty good goal. So you have my goal for today. I'm going to have a four hour block where I'm going to do X. And then I have some time. For me, I know I need to process email or communications broadly for at least two hours a day. So I just have those blocks every day. They're just repeated. So when I start scheduling things, I can't actually fit this in because it's not like I can't do my email. My role requires a lot of email. And so it's just clear as day. I cannot do this on Thursday. I can do it next week.”
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“Especially if you retroactively update your calendar as well, which is how long did it actually take me? And when you realize that your estimates were off or they were right, you can start to hone that skill. So I always try to have people put it at 50% open space because something's going to come up. A friend calls you, something happens during the day, you get a message that kind of throws you off. The problem is that it's way easier to pull something in from tomorrow into today because you had extra space than it is to have this cascading problem of just like disastrous. It's like then I have to push this to this day. Then next thing you know, you have this tetris game that you're playing a month out because one thing changed in your schedule and everything breaks. These concepts come from manufacturing where you have this line, whatever the assembly line is. You need to have Slack in the system in order to be able to operate effectively because something will come up. And if there's one thing that comes up that”
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“And as you get better at it, I would say I'm probably at 25% open because I've been doing this for many years, at least five years, probably longer, to the point where I can estimate how long it will take me to do something with maybe 90% accuracy. It's like I need to write a memo on this thing. It's going to take me three and a half hours. And I just know because I've written so many of these, I just know how long it's going to take.”
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“As opposed to the number of things that you can fit in your finite time of your calendar. And so we then work on, all right, you probably need Slack during the course of the day, usually like 50% is a good target because things.”
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“Fit all these items. This is the point of the exercise. There literally is not enough time. Your time is finite and the number of digital items you can add to it to-do list is infinite. You are working with the wrong constraint, which is like the amount of items you can fit in a database row.”
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“Yeah, totally. I've worked with a lot of people on our team, people who are friends of mine through this. And the thing that almost always happens is they have this long to-do list and I say, all right, here's what I want you to do. Take everything on this to-do list with the dates that you think they'll get done by, which is usually this week or next week. And I want you to just put them on your calendar with the amount of time you think it's going to take. And then we'll have another follow-up call next week. And we'll see what happens. And then we have the call. And then they say, this process doesn't work. They say, why is that? So while I tried to move it over there, but there'sn't enough space in my week.”
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“This is probably the single most important tactic in time management for me personally. I tend to be overly optimistic about how much I can achieve”
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“Yeah, they might have it because they have an editor within it. If not, there's definitely, like our EAs do this already for a Friday forums, we sometimes have sensitive information in there that we don't want to share publicly. Sometimes it's the most common one is something related to a third party that they don't want shared. And so we still talk about it as a team.”
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“Worst case scenario, you delete it, or even more realistic, you just don't share it It's like, eh, I don't know. I went over some weird things in there. I'm just going to not share it. And then you don't.”
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
“No, it's not a live stream. That's the thing that people really struggle with is like the first assumption is if it's recorded, it's going on the front page of the New York Times tomorrow.”
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 a big part of the answer is that the worst case scenario is you turn on a three-hour loom and then you delete it.”
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, she's been trying to figure out how to offload some of the tedious things in product where it's like, make sure these things are up to date, shuffle tickets around, set reminders for things, which often is what product managers do. And we're figuring out how to offload those to our EAs so that the product people can spend their time doing higher leverage things like strategy and much longer-term thinking. And it's been interesting to see how she's overcome this is something where it's really uncomfortable to just record yourself doing your work. That is a big hurdle for a lot of people is just turning Lumon for three hours.”
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
“Into the radio mic. Yeah, exactly. If you really lean into what's possible with the everything is content model, the amount of leverage that you get is much, much higher. This is the shift is that people are not super comfortable with that yet. I've been working with Kozima who runs product for us, and she's been Just really getting used to, there's a lot of process Oh, Koza.”
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 opposed to something that you're doing in the real world where you don't have that. If you're on a Zoom call with somebody, that could just be content in a way that it wouldn't be if you're going on a walk. So really leaning into what's possible with this remote work style.”
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
“Just try that. It's effectively zero effort, zero cost, and you can have a three hour loom and just share that with your EA and say, is there anything in here that you think you could do that would help me? And almost every person that's done this is amazed at how many things come out of just a simple workflow recording like that. So just figure out how to lower the perceived risk of it. This is something that's different about remote versus in-person is that when you're remote, remote first is a concept that I think GitLab came up with, which is whether you're in person or not, you have the same principles as you would if you were remote. And if you're remote first, everything that you do is on a computer and it is therefore necessarily content if you want it to be. And so typing at your keyboard could be content if you wanted it to. It's like a Twitch stream of your actual work.”
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