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Convex Strategies

Convex Strategies

Written by: Naveen Katragadda
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Our time on earth is limited. We could be working on a million things..but not all of them will yield results in the same manner. In this podcast we'll talk about doing things that will exponentially increase your returns. Some topics we'll cover: Buying, growing, and selling businesses - because M&A is one of the highest leverage activities. Marketing and using the right words. Creating leverage by capitalizing on under utilized resources and opportunities. Finding the ONE THING that you need to work on to move your needle forward. General philosophy - because philosophy is the foundation for everything. Some politics - because it gives us the context to talk about philosophy.Copyright 2025 Naveen Katragadda Economics Leadership Management & Leadership Philosophy Self-Help Social Sciences Success
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  • Reading, listening, watching - where to spend your time?
    Mar 1 2025

    Text > Audio > Video

    In terms of Providing Educational Value


    This is a factor of how engaged the user is while consuming content.

    How active or passive they are in terms of their cognitive participation.


    When reading, the user usually pauses and introspects.

    Listening, the user may or may not pause, but he is still thinking actively.

    When watching, they rarely pause and introspect the least.


    Video is much more of an emotive medium.


    That's why For Entertainment Value the order is reverse.

    Video > Audio > Text


    If you're looking to be maximally entertained or you want to maximally entertain people, you'd want to go for video because it engages both visual and auditory senses.

    Visual content is much more of a dopamine trigger. But when the user is in that mode they are also easily distracted. You'll need to keep them hooked to keep them engaged!


    People also judge the messenger along with the message


    Text can be focused. The reader doesn't know or care how the author looks or sounds.


    With Audio - user is distracted by the way your voice sounds, your audio quality, your audio

    delivery - how fast or slow you speak, how clearly you speak, loud or quiet,

    ums and uhs.. Etc.


    With Video - everything above plus the way you look, your environment, your body language, your self-consciousness or confidence, they all affect the user.


    So your message is very much diluted!


    If you've conquered all these though, video can be a great medium.


    If you are looking to conquer all these, video is also a great tool to work with.


    Above all Your own independent thinking is the most valuable thing.

    Production is more valuable than consumption any day.

    But for the time you're in consumption mode, use the above to track your time.

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    5 mins
  • Body - Mind - AI
    Feb 27 2025

    Want to make millions with AI?

    Go lift some weights.


    How well you can use AI will depend on how well positioned your mind already is to capitalize on it.

    That's your constraint. (It's not your knowledge of AI)


    And your mind can't function well in a weak body.

    Your body will BECOME your constraint. (If you don't keep on top of it)


    Body -> Mind -> AI

    That's the priority order


    A workout a day

    For body and mind

    will keep Jonny

    healthy, sharp, and prepped for AI

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    4 mins
  • Getting Outsized Results - What this pod is about
    Feb 23 2025

    Here goes my first episode!

    Here are the topics we'll cover in this podcast:


    • What you work matters much more than how well you work.
    • Buying, growing, and selling companies
    • There are things you can do to create a large amount of leverage in your favor
    • There are ways you can phrase your words that position you as the pre-eminent resource
    • There's probably one thing in your business that's holding you back in a way that no matter how much you improve the other things, you will not move the needle.

    Just an intro pod. See you around!

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    4 mins
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