The Connection Newsletter 22 - Interview

The Connection Newsletter 22 - We’re off the record

August 27, 2018

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Someone asked me for advice before their interview for a role at Disney ABC Studios. I’ve landed some cool jobs by doing an insane amount of research and prep before the interview.

Other times, I did all that work… and nothing came from it. With that said, here’s my advice on acing interviews.

Next, onto this week’s articles:

. Shortly after they were married in 2001, Kellyanne and George moved into an apartment in Manhattan’s Trump World Tower. There, George made an impression on the future president at a condo board meeting where he argued against removing Trump’s name from the building. The speech earned George an offer to join the condo board, which he declined but passed on to his wife, who accepted.

“Knowing what I know now, I would have said no, and never mentioned it when I got home.”

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In 2016, John Schnatter, CEO of Papa Johns, published his autobiography.

“We see news story after news story of CEOs who run companies into the ground,”

Mr. Schnatter wrote.

In 1984, John Schnatter’s installed a pizza oven at his dad’s tavern, Mick’s Lounge, and started churning out pies. The pizza sold well, and he opened a stand-alone shop the following year. Eventually, they went from 23 stores to 900, and they continued to grow. It’s an amazing story… until he proceeded to run the company into the ground.

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The data shows that when it comes to online data, we consistently aim 25% above our own attractiveness “level.” The key to successfully date out of your league?

“Persistence pays off. Reply rates to the average message are between zero

percent and 10 percent

.”

People should note those extremely low reply rates and send out more greetings.

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They dominate business, investing, sports, politics, products, careers, everything. Rule of thumb: Anything that is huge, profitable, famous, or influential is the result of a tail event.

The takeaway: no matter what you’re doing, you should be comfortable with a lot of stuff not working. It’s normal. This is true for companies. It’s true for investors. It’s true for jobs and even entire careers -- it might take a few attempts before you find a winning groove. That’s how these things work.

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Chefs know the perfect Insta is a powerful marketing tool, but it begets beautiful sushi combinations with the taste profile of old shoes.

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Apparently Pokémon is the highest grossing media franchise of all time, bringing in more than $59B in total revenue.

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