By Larry Chiang
Writing about a complex issues is tough to tackle. As a rule, you do not explain a difficult concept (credit and financial literacy) with a more difficult concept (crossing the chasm).
Sin might be an overstatement. But, what the heck. Let’s call my financial literacy effort (in the confines of this Duck9 https://www.duck9.com/blog blog post), a sin.
Let’s lead off with a tweet:
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
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Financial literacy VS. “Second stage premiums” See how Shrek mentored Donkey over the scary bridge. Crossing the chasm. #CTCFTR
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Financial literacy. As co-founder and CEO, I was able to lead 37 million people to a higher FICO score. I saw 37 million social security numbers and did not think “Lets make them financially literate”. I thought, “What short term incentives can I use to help every mutha scratcher ‘hack the marshmallow test’
Second. stage. Premium.
Asse9. You are asinine if you have credit card debt.
2/ You = The Eddie Murphy character
Aka Donkey. You’re. The. Ass.
3/ Lava = certain death via fire and the fall
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Cross the chasm(from the right) #CTCFTR
See us doing financial literacy ABC, “News10” https://www.duck9.com/about/press/



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