Kevin Kwok

are you saying that you believe there's asymmetrical upside to a recruiter who can find all people about to close on a new job, and then message them in the last moment? and how did you learn this lesson other than reading about the times when last-minute-influence worked?

This isn't specific to recruiters. And no don't think that's particularly effective--only people already with sway have impact typically. But am saying that anyone with that (friends, boss, recruiter at company they're thinking of joining, family, etc) can have huge swing impact

I mainly learned from seeing this on both sides of recruiting and fundraising at work, friends, etc

Thanks, ok. Are you saying that, over the course of a making progress on big decision, the decider has fundamentally less influence "themselves" than those around them, and that this lack of influence over the decision grows the closer they come to it?

I guess you could frame that way. I don't know that being more sensitive to exogenous views is having less influence. It's just higher vol than people think

Liked, endorsed, cosigned, ==, the Internet has insufficient idioms to indicate the depth of my agreement here.

It's funny. I have emojis with some people we've adopted to mean this. Specifically and

The first one seems like "twins"... what's the second??

Haha, will probably hold off on explaining that one. I'd be very surprised if someone figures it out

... perfectly balanced?

this is the optimal use case for adderall

Wait why?

b/c it helps maximize cognitive control/makes willpower not deplete during those critical moments

Wouldn't sleeping and taking more time on decision solve for momentary lower willpower?

but you cropped out the preceding paragraphs about how Goldman had been courting him persistently for a long time

Best books on the topic?

Don't know any