Adam Robinson (@IAmAdamRobinson) first appeared on this podcast
in the "Becoming the Best Version of You" episode (#210)
alongside Josh Waitzkin (chess, jiu-jitsu, investing) and Ramit
Sethi (personal finance, entrepreneurship). By popular demand,
this is a dedicated episode of Adam's stories and life lessons.
Adam Robinson has made a lifelong study of outflanking and
outsmarting the competition. He is a rated chess master who was
awarded a Life Title by the United States Chess Federation. As a
teenager, he was personally mentored by Bobby Fischer in the 18
months leading up to his winning the world championship. Then, in
his first career, he developed a revolutionary approach to taking
standardized tests as one of the two original co-founders of The
Princeton Review. His paradigm-breaking -- or "category killing,"
as they say in publishing -- test-prep book, The SAT: Cracking
the System, is the only test-prep book ever to have become a New
York Times bestseller. After selling his interest in The
Princeton Review, Adam turned his attention in the early '90s to
the then-emerging field of artificial intelligence, developing a
program that could analyze text and provide human-like
commentary. He was later invited to join a well-known quant fund
to develop statistical trading models, and since, he has
established himself as an independent global macro advisor to the
chief investment officers of a select group of the world's most
successful hedge funds and family offices. In his spare time,
he's also become pen pals with Warren Buffett. This is a
wide-ranging conversation (aka conversational parkour) with lots
of takeaways. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I
enjoyed recording it! Show notes and links for this episode can
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