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g, you have to spend less money on the old thing. That's it. Just like every company, every household, everybody else in the world makes do with what they have. They don't just say give me some more. They just make do. So that was his philosophy. I don't know if it was a good one or a bad one, but it's the cleanest one I've ever heard of. Now let me — I'm going to close on my favorite Michael J.…
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Well that could be another example. My book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. It introduced the ideas of systems are better than goals and talent stacks. Now I don't think it's bragging to say that those two things made a huge difference in the world because I hear about it all the time. You know, talent stacks is the way smart people recommend anybody prepare their career now. And systems are better than goals pretty much has been adopted as the standard way of thinking of stuff. None of that would have happened without Michael Goodwin.
So not only did he have the cleanest political opinion I've ever heard — I vote against everything that raises my taxes — he summed up all of human nature with one sentence: depends how hungry I am. He named Dilbert, which basically caused a chain of action that brings us to this moment. So I just had to honor him for that. So you took his ide
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as. He gave me his ideas. And all right. So yes, let's have a sip to Michael J. Goodwin. Go. And that is my show for the day. YouTube, I'll see you tomorrow.
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