“Specific knowledge is knowledge you cannot be trained for. If | Productivity Hub

“Specific knowledge is knowledge you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else and replace you.
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Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.
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Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.

“When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools.
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Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.
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Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.”

“Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.”
—Archimedes
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Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).
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Capital means money. To raise money, apply your specific knowledge with accountability and show resulting good judgment.”

“Labor means people working for you. It’s the oldest and most fought-over form of leverage. Labor leverage will impress your parents, but don’t waste your life chasing it.
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Capital and labor are permissioned leverage. Everyone is chasing capital, but someone has to give it to you. Everyone is trying to lead, but someone has to follow you.”