
Asymmetric Opportunity | Determining The Right Risk Vs Reward Ratio
About this episode
How do you determine the tradeoff's when judging an opportunity?
In Episode #376 of 'Musings', Juan and I discuss: the twitter threads popping up for Juan, why it's hard to judge risk, why I place physical safety above emotional well being and material concerns, a sad puppy week, why you don't want to handstand on cliff faces, subjective value changing the opportunities for everyone and why v4v/crypto/introspection/cold approaching might be good opportunities.
A huge thanks to Dave Jones for supporting this week. So so consistent.
Timeline:
(0:00) - Come join live
(0:47) - Twitter inspiration for the topic
(2:00) - AI assisted research
(4:04) - Do we view life in these terms?
(7:54) - Judging risk/reward
(13:05) - High risk examples
(18:24) - Retrospecting on opportunities
(22:41) - Boostagram Lounge
(27:42) - Are first dates asymmetrically positive?
(33:49) - High reward examples
(39:47) - Juan summary
(43:41) - Kyrin summary
(45:35) - Universal opportunities
(52:21) - V4V: It's better if you have to struggle
Intro Music by 'Signs Of New Growth':
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