The 90-Day System That Made Me a “Doctor” in 5 Industries - Malcolm Adams | 28

They told him he was just a kid who saw puzzles in everything. Now, the government is paying for his education, IBM is pushing him into their highest partner tiers, and researchers with PhDs are calling him "Doctor."What happened in between?A 90-day system. A radical obsession with patterns. A decision to treat his life like a series of focused, high-stakes experiments.In this episode, Dr. Malcolm Adams shares the unorthodox playbook he used to achieve post-doctoral expertise in five industries, from aerospace to AI, without a traditional path. He didn’t just read the books by Buffett and Hill; he lived them in 90-day sprints.

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🟢 The 90-Day Learning System.

🟢 How to win contracts by building your business around their requirements

🟢 The critical difference between being qualified and being eligible

🟢 Why treating your personal brand like a business is crucial for success

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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro

02:31 - The 90-Day Experiment That Changed Everything

04:02 - Using Warren Buffett's Playbook to Build My Empire

05:21 - How I Became a "Doctor" to PhDs Without a Degree

07:31 - The Government Is Paying Me to Go to School

09:35 - From Quietly Working to a U.S. Senate Commendation

12:08 - Using AI to Solve America's Food Crisis

14:52 - My Unfair Advantage: Co-Developing Products with IBM

20:18 - Why Society is Addicted to Escapism & Failure

22:08 - Politicians Aren't Running Simulations, And It's Costing You

26:24 - The Simple Heuristic That Exposes Incompetence

30:49 - How to Build a Future-Proof Career from Nothing

36:23 - A Moonshot Idea to End Food Insecurity

41:19 - The Tool I Can't Live Without

42:41 - The Book That Saved My Life