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Published · transcript-backedAvoids AI note taking.
15 Dec 2025 Acquired 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
“I don't use AI note taking. I write physical notes and hard copy books. If I am not doing that, I feel like it's not going to work.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- recommendation
- Recorded
- 15 Dec 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
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…Buy, sell, or hold. Yeah. It's bull and bear, grading, and blah, blah, blah. Once we shifted to like, hey, we're studying these great companies, these durable businesses, power felt like a really good part of that like, so what? Why? For me, a critical part of process, it goes back to writing a senior thesis at Princeton. Everything needs to pass through multiple cycles of source material through my brain, through my fingers, onto a keyboard, and recycle back through about three times. I don't use AI note taking. I write physical notes and hard copy books. If I am not doing that, I feel like it's not going to work. You haven't thought about it.…
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