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Everything Feels Important? It's a Ranking Problem | Daily Essay
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Napoleon's surgeon-in-chief had more wounded men than surgeons, so he threw rank out and sorted by injury instead. Alexander Kotov wrote the same move down for chess in 1971, and Henry Singleton ran Teledyne on it with no five-year plan. Featuring: Henry Singleton, Henry David Thoreau, Warren Buffett, Brent Beshore, Alexander Kotov, Dominique Jean Larrey Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. Chapters: (00:00) Thoreau on being busy (00:08) Larrey sorts the wounded by injury (00:47) Kotov's method for choosing a chess move (01:07) Ranking tasks against each other since 2018 (01:13) Trends.vc's playbook versus a one-line PS (01:40) Henry Singleton steers Teledyne day to day (02:29) Ranking each option against the rest Where to find Dru: I write an essay daily. Get them free Follow me on X Watch my video essays on YouTube Follow Dru's Notes on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day. Click here to view the episode transcript.
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Napoleon's surgeon-in-chief had more wounded men than surgeons, so he threw rank out and sorted by injury instead. Alexander Kotov wrote the same move down for chess in 1971, and Henry Singleton ran Teledyne on it with no five-year plan.
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