Hong and Andrew do a book review of Pitch Anything, by Oren Klaff, which covers the emotional aspects of pitching that everybody gets wrong.

Show notes:

• 00:35 - Introducing Pitch Anything
• 00:55 - The shortcomings of the methodical personality
• 02:02 - The problem with (Hong’s) scientific writing
• 03:02 - A human nature book disguised as a pitching book
• 04:00 - The problem of projecting neediness
• 05:01 - The social consequences of eating another man’s apple
• 06:37 - The primal Lizard Brain vs. the logical Ape Brain
• 08:16 - How to get past the lizard brain’s defenses
• 10:14 - The curse of knowledge
• 11:24 - How car commercials hook your reptilian mind
• 12:38 - Painting a picture in the mind to sell your pitch
• 13:58 - Parallels to the book “Thinking, Fast and Slow”
• 16:41 - How to apply human nature insights to a real pitch
• 17:25 - Pitching to someone who really needs to pee
• 19:00 - Balancing positive and negative emotion in a pitch
• 19:45 - Playing the Good Cop and the Bad Cop
• 21:20 - The cross-cultural value of wild pitching stories
• 22:10 - The dire pitching consequences of projecting neediness
• 23:22 - The problem with neediness in all areas of life
• 24:35 - Don’t lose sight of the transactional aspect of your pitch
• 26:58 - The inherent selfishness of displaying neediness
• 27:30 - Don’t fear all negativity, use it as a tool
• 28:48 - Translating the Mad Men boardroom into the civilized world
• 30:36 - Separating the gold from the ore

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Ever have those moments where you feel like the day just flew by? Our chatters felt the same way and wanted to learn more. Hongbo (@c0fpv) shares his reasons for time tracking his daily life and compares it with how Andrew (@liuandrewk) has recently started time tracking.

Links:

• The time tracking app that Andrew uses: https://toggl.com/track/
• The time tracking app that Hongbo uses: https://clockify.me/

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Andrew (@liuandrewk) and Hong (@c0fpv) chat about Apple's departure from Intel CPUs and Intel's attempts to get back into the limelight. The conversation then delves into a tangent about upgrading to Windows 11.

Links:

• Intel's anti-Apple ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp0xzapm-zY
• Intel's CEO wants to win Apple back: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-ceo-my-job-is-to-win-apple-back-205012699.html
• Window's 11 system requirements: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifications

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Facebook's been having a rough week. On October 4, 2021, there was a complete outage of all Facebook-owned systems, including Instagram and WhatsApp. The next day, a whistleblower testifies before congress about how Facebook prioritizes profits over public safety, implying that the company may have been complicit with the storming of the Capitol Building earlier in the year. Andrew (@liuandrewk) and Hong (@c0fpv) opine about the whole debacle and discuss whether this news is evening surprising in the first place...

Links:

• ARM China splits from ARM UK: https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/the-semiconductor-heist-of-the-century
• ProtonMail amends its policy after giving up data to the feds: https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-giving-up-activists-data/
• Prior research shows that Instagram is in fact unhealthy for adolescents: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739
• The whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies before congress: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043377310/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-congress
• Facebook engineering's official blog post on how the site-wide outage occurred: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/
• Mark Zuckerberg's response to the whole debacle: https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/10113961365418581/?d=n

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The company behind ARM processors is currently in disarray. The business has split up into two independent companies, and their CEO is holed up in China. Andrew (@liuandrewk) and Hong (@c0fpv) go over the hilarious story that caused the company to be in these circumstances. Later, they discuss how ProtonMail (the so-called "privacy" email provider) has given out user data, and what it means to have a realistic view of privacy.

Links:

• ARM China splits from ARM UK: https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/the-semiconductor-heist-of-the-century
• ProtonMail amends its policy after giving up data to the feds: https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-giving-up-activists-data/

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Github has released a new editor tool called Copilot. It claims to be able to generate code for entire functions. Andrew (@liuandrewk) and Hong (@c0fpv) explore whether Copilot will live up to the hype and the future of licensing issues around training machine learning models off of source code.

Links:

• GitHub Copilot's Official Website: https://copilot.github.com/
• Licensing Concerns with Copilot: https://twitter.com/liuandrewk/status/1412818109329707011

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In this episode, Andrew (@liuandrewk) and Hong (@c0fpv) debate the safety of self-driving cars after a Waymo car hits a pedestrian in SF. Later, they dive into Tesla's decision to rely solely on camera vision for its autopilot system and discuss whether that's a wise choice.

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Links:

* Waymo car teaches innocent pedestrian a lesson: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj83vw/futuristic-self-driving-car-hits-person-the-old-fashioned-way

* Tesla stops using radar for autopilot: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-drops-radar-is-autopilot-system-safe-2021-06-02/

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In this episode, Andrew (@liuandrewk) discusses Spotify's acquisition of various podcasting startups and shares his predictions of the industry with Hong (@c0fpv). Hong shares his experiences as an indie creator, and the chatters compare the strategies of Spotify, Apple, and YouTube in the race to lure creators.

Links:

* Spotify acquires Podz: https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/17/spotify-acquires-podz-a-podcast-discovery-app/

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