Casual Chat Andrew Liu & Hongbo Tian

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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