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Cliff Weitzman29 February 2024

'Tell People Your Goals!': The Secret To Accomplishing Anything - Cliff Weitzman

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13Insights

Frameworks in this episode

Insights & moments

The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.

Myth Buster· 1

Myth Buster2:20:30

Money increased security, but it did not create his peak happiness

no but I'll tell you what did change my freedom changed and the quality of life of people around me changed because anyone who I…

Cliff Weitzman · 2:22:00

it's a mix of like feeling proud of yourself and having meaningful relationships with other people those are the two most important things and that's…

Cliff Weitzman · 2:25:00

Hot Take· 3

Hot Take12:30

Progress comes from repeatedly attacking one brick wall

you don't make progress like this going in a bunch of different directions you make progress like this going in One Direction

Cliff Weitzman · 12:30

you go again against the same brick wall over and over and over and over again until it cracks

Cliff Weitzman · 12:30
Hot Take1:12:00

Extra work can yield exponential returns in winner-take-all markets

extraordinary results require extraordinary inputs

Cliff Weitzman · 1:12:30

in markets and games where it's win or take all it's exponential marginal returns

Cliff Weitzman · 1:14:00
Hot Take1:45:00

Speechify wants competition to weaken the audiobook monopoly

speery is the only company in the world that offers an audiobook subscription with a credit model the only other company is audible

Cliff Weitzman · 1:45:00

the goal is to take down a monopoly that is mistreating authors and Publishers and so the more people that you have who are credible…

Cliff Weitzman · 1:50:00

Explainer· 1

Explainer1:36:30

Diagnosis can replace shame with practical accommodations

I was so happy to learn I had dyslexia I finally had a place to hang my hat and I go see I'm not like…

Cliff Weitzman · 1:42:30

I need to journal I'll need to use my calendar obsess I need to have commitments with other people I need to have my phone…

Cliff Weitzman · 1:43:00

Story· 4

Story01:30

Dyslexia led Cliff to turn inaccessible text into audio

we ran it into my iPhone overnight and it worked and I listened to it on the plane and that's how I finished the book…

Cliff Weitzman · 02:30

every time I couldn't listen to something I would code to figure out how to make that thing listenable

Cliff Weitzman · 04:30
Story41:00

Cliff jumped onstage, demoed Speechify, then fixed bugs in class

keynot speaker finished speaking I look around there's like couple of thousand people in the audience I jump on the stage I plug in my…

Cliff Weitzman · 41:30

if they had a bug I'd sit in the back of the class and I would code to fix it and that's how I got…

Cliff Weitzman · 42:30
Story55:00

Speechify put the founder’s phone number inside the product

15% of the screen real estate at speedi for the first three years was a button that says the message us/ help and if you…

Cliff Weitzman · 55:00

it doesn't matter if it's 3 in the morning 4 in the morning we were responding

Cliff Weitzman · 55:30
Story58:00

Five teammates built Speechify from a one-bedroom apartment

now there's five of us living in a one-bedroom apartment in LA and then Co hits

Cliff Weitzman · 58:00

it was like summer camp we lived there for like maybe four months and by the end of those four months speech fight started to…

Cliff Weitzman · 58:30

Takeaway· 4

Takeaway13:30

Founders should understand code even if they are not elite engineers

if you want to be a Founder in 2022 you have to learn how to codee you don't have an option not to

Cliff Weitzman · 13:30

computer science gave me like an equal amount of data structures and algorithms for how to think

Cliff Weitzman · 18:00
Takeaway51:00

Hire for learning speed, loyalty, and output—not pedigree

I don't care what your pedigree is I don't care if you went to Brown or Harvard or Stanford I don't care if you worked…

Cliff Weitzman · 51:00

the core philosophy of speech ofi is Extreme product quality and user Obsession leading with love we talked about cadin uh frugality and speed that's…

Cliff Weitzman · 51:30
Takeaway1:18:00

Success means character, love, and creating value

the three things that I want number one is to be the best person that I can be and to have kids who are greater…

Cliff Weitzman · 1:18:30

number two is I want to maximize the love in my life whether it be my family my friends significant other number three is to…

Cliff Weitzman · 1:18:30
Takeaway2:00:30

Track protein and progressively overload to change body composition

most important is to progressively overload um so add the weight over time and track your workouts

Cliff Weitzman · 2:05:30

get an accountability buddy live with someone who is as motivated as you

Cliff Weitzman · 2:10:00