Interview with Ted Seides

Ted Seides is the founder of Capital Allocators and the host of the eponymous podcast. He is the author of three books and previously worked at the Yale University endowment.

Relationship Drip List

Max Raskin: You must have to maintain just a huge number of relationships. I imagine you have a high Dunbar number.

How do you keep track of all of your relationships? Do you take notes after conversations or make little reminders about people?

Ted Seides: I don't systematically keep track of people. I use Outlook; I don't take notes in it, but that's where I keep all contact information.

MR: Are you meticulous about keeping peoples’ contact information?

TS: I'm pretty organized generally. It's just one of my quirks. But there are ways that I try to make sure that I touch base with certain people.

MR: How do you do that?

TS: It’s a tool I learned from Randall Stutman, who runs Admired Leadership. He's one of the great leadership coaches in the business world. I use a tracking tool. I print out a list that includes everything that I want to track in life, and I review it for a few minutes three or four times a week.

MR: Can you share some of your list with me?

TS: Sure [takes out list].