Specific knowledge can't be trained, only found by following genuine curiosity — it feels like play to you and looks like work to others.
The test is the asymmetry: play to you, work to others. If it’s work to you too, it’s a skill you acquired rather than knowledge only you have.
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prerequisite-of →The new leverage is code and media — zero marginal cost of replication, works while you sleep, needs no one's permission.Leverage multiplies whatever you point it at. Without specific knowledge it multiplies something commoditized, which is how you get scale with no margin.
← supported byA few of your skills drive most of your value — balanced competence spreads you across the slots that do not pay.
A third independent route to the same conclusion as Naval and Munger: concentrate on an unusual combination rather than shoring up weaknesses. Three unrelated derivations is worth more than any one of them.
← extended byWhen producing code stops being scarce, the constraint moves to knowing what is worth building.Naval’s specific knowledge repriced sharply upward. If the technical barrier collapses, domain expertise and problem selection become the scarce inputs — and those are acquired slowly and cannot be prompted for.