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Interested and Interesting
Todd's two-job rule for staying sharp as a professional.
How it works
- 1Be interested: voracious curiosity, burrow into things, ask questions.
- 2Be interesting: go do stuff, collect stories, come back with them.
- 3Todd's proof: 13 AI-assisted songs across five genres, written for his wife, starting with zero musical ability.
Hear it on the podcast
He Buys Companies, Keeps Every Employee, Then Deploys Nobel-Nominated AIListen to the episodeMore from this episode
The CURA CompaniesTodd's filter for where AI creates the most value: Complex, Urgent, or Administrative businesses.Own the Restaurant, Don't Make the PastaAI Squared's operating philosophy for every company it acquires.Value Laddering and Behavioral PsychometricsHow AI Squared turns human decision-making into a competitive weapon.Disaggregate the EBITDA DriversThe playbook for where to deploy AI first inside a newly acquired business.The Infinite Elasticity of CapitalismTodd's 600-year rebuttal to the AI jobs panic.Default to UrgencyThe operating cadence behind AI Squared's speed.
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