Rational VC Podcast

The long awaited episode on Nassim Taleb's "The Black Swan" is now live on all platforms 🎙📺 Trailer below 👇🏻 . @iman_olya and @CyrusYari break down the key concepts from the book, discuss their experiences and provide actionable takeaways from the book rationalvc dot com

@CyrusYari 🔥🔥🍻

me to rational[.]school clients, days before they secure multiple remote tech job offers, squeezing the companies for every last penny possible, leaving no money on the table in their comp package. remote. no commute. high pay. use as non-dilutive financing to build ur own thing

@CyrusYari 🐐

“Random Tinkering (antifragile) → Heuristics (technology) → Practice and Apprenticeship → Random Tinkering (antifragile) → Heuristics (technology) → Practice and Apprenticeship … In parallel to the above loop, Practice → Academic Theories → Academic Theories → Academic Theories → Academic Theories … (with of course some exceptions, some accidental leaks, though these are indeed rare and overhyped and grossly generalized).” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Happy Nowrooz // Happy Persian New Year ❤️ hungover today from a rare 2 drinks last night, game's gone. hUbErMaN wAs RiGhT. no ability to use brain today so decided to do quick makeover of personal site after yrs. was doing too much before, now nice simple: cyrusyari dot com

few years ago i learned to code & talked about wanting to become a "craftsman" - well i never did, cos once i learned code i realised i dgaf about all that signalling nonsense, what matters is cash flow from users. & despite been senior swe at tesla w great performance reviews, i'm not a coder. I'M A SALESMAN WHO CODES. what a time to be alive, as soon as i felt the tools are good enough, NOW I HAVE A BITCH CODE FOR ME & i'm very bossy it listens to everything i say. the better your english language, taste, ideation, ocd, instructions & prompting, the better the outcome, & significantly faster than you or an entire team of normie miserable "cRaFtSmEn" doing it. & if you deny this, you'll be in for a shock when the tools get even better. SUDDENLY I'M BACK IN VSCODE AGAIN. f7ck the mundane craftsman aspect. CAN YOU GET QUICK FEEDBACK? DOES IT SOLVE PROBLEMS & VALIDATED BY GENERATING CASH FLOW & GOOD FEEDBACK? NO? ASYMMETRIC BET THEN, LET'S MOVE ON TO NEXT ONE. -- the above is just one element. the next & even more necessary element is distribution which is entirely different game & story for another day. ✌️

@CyrusYari 🐐🐐

- rational.fund portfolio company @MaximusTribe come on bruv 💪 Persian excellence @DrCamRx

feeling down in life? this all you need to feel unstoppable bruv:

@CyrusYari 🔥🔥🍻

👍new pod dropped - i got interviewed on @techjobberpod, touched on: - ai / future of work - embracing uncertainty - hacking the hiring game - outreach scripts - rational school + more great chatting w Chris🐐 brill youtube channel. check the interview bruvs. L ink in replies

@CyrusYari 🐐🐐

"mohnishmaxxing" (using day job as non-dilutive financing to fund ur burn so u can work on ur eventual escape) before mohnish was Munger -- Godfather of this strategy. having job long-term is risky, but medium term it's great. tech jobs easiest to get: rational.school

Gold 👌 h/t @imidaily

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**Charlie Munger on multidisciplinary thinking** Most people approach problems with one "mEnTaL MoDeL" - An economist sees incentives - An engineer sees systems - A psychologist sees bias Munger believed this is exactly how people end up making bad decisions. His solution was what he called a latticework of mental models. Core idea: If you only understand one discipline, you are forced to interpret every problem through that lens. And that creates blindness. Munger said: "To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." His approach was the opposite. Instead of specialising narrowly, he tried to understand the big ideas from the major disciplines. - Physics - Biology - Psychology - Economics - Mathematics - Engineering Not everything. Just the foundational ideas. Not too dissimilar from Naval Ravikant's advice on what to study. And now in an age of rapid AI advancement, generalism & being multidisciplinary seems to be a safer path anyway. Nassim Taleb also talks about the dangers of domain dependency. Reality does not respect academic departments. Business problems often involve psychology, incentives, systems, probability, and human behaviour all at once. If you only understand one of those, you are guessing. This is why Munger spent so much time reading outside of finance. He wasn’t trying to accumulate information. He was building frameworks. Another famous line from him: "You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience both vicarious and direct on this latticework of models." Basically: knowledge compounds when it connects. If you understand incentives, human bias, and probability together, you suddenly see things most people miss. This is also why he believed wisdom requires reading very broadly. "In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time." The goal is not to memorise facts. It's to build better judgement. And better judgement usually comes from seeing problems through multiple lenses at once. That is the essence of multidisciplinary thinking, and being a Rational Founder. Founder of not just an entity, but Founder of a rational life, family etc. Owning your sovereignty, moving from external dependency to inner authority.

emails just went out for this! if you purchased the course in the past 2 months (early supporter) you have the opportunity to join this free mega group Q&A call to help you with any lingering tech hiring questions. call will be held on Sunday March 22nd. checks ur emails bruvs.

@CyrusYari 🍻🍻

WeWorks are usually full of VC-backed bros they judge ur worth as a human based on: a) how much u raised, b) who u raised from, c) who u know in the circle jerk, & d) how many employees u have best way to make them run away fast: "oh i'm solo here, i have a small lifestyle biz"

@CyrusYari @techjobberpod 💪💪

just got interviewed on the @techjobberpod podcast... discussing all things tech industry, ai / future of work, outreach, hacking the hiring game, rational school, & more. Chris is an awesome interviewer & he's killing it on youtube - check out his channel - our pod drops soon:)