Geoff Woo

Is it something you've, you know, just sort of like been pushed off the deep end?

When people ask you, like, hey, are tools like therapy helpful or other sort of self-care tools, whether physical or emotional or mental, to help deal with, like, what do you tell them?

Jeff, why don't you also make sense of some of the, like when you're reflecting your career and looking back, you've taken some big swings in some different spaces.

Um, when you look back at the threads that have tied your career together, how do you make sense of it?

What are some of the big insights you've had that have led you to go deep on certain things?

There was a famous tweet of, if you're smart, pivot to being hot.

Or if you're focused on intelligence, pivot to being, you know, wielding attention.

You had this blog post of, you know, there's two jobs, AI maxing and looks maxing.

Why don't you talk about that?

If you were 22, like just getting out of college today, but in 2026, what would that look like in terms of how you'd want to spend your time?

Would you start a company?

Would you join Anthropic or OpenAI?

Go find that GitHub.

I want to wrap this with his commits.

Well, I was going to ask you, if you were 22 today in 2026, or 18 even, could you run the same playbook?

Or is there something about what you did

um you know on youtube or sort of these new platforms when you were younger that is like wouldn't work in the same way today and you'd have to find a new like to me to me it's obvious you know boxing you just gotta be the best in the world you gotta be the other person but in terms of what works on sort of the creator space it doesn't seem to be as an outsider as obvious and so i'm curious if the same kind of media playbook would have worked you know 10 15 years later or

We went to Mr. Beast's sort of place in North Carolina, or Jimmy's place rather, and he sort of gave us a tour and he was showing how just analytical the whole operation is.

Yeah.

It was much, you're as much more kind of artistic or creative or emergent in terms of like, oh, just fuck around and find out.