Participation Inequality: The 90-9-1 Rule for Social Features
[Help counter participation inequality by making it easier to contribute; making participation a side effect of other things they did; offering templates to avoid intimidating blank pages; rewarding participation with badges or discounts; showcasing great contributions.]
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Joyce: Astronauta (Canções de Elis))
Jazz tributes to Brazilian singer Elis Regina. Solos by Joe Lovano, Mulgrew Miller, and Renne Rosnes.
[Create together. Build together.]
[Give people tools to create their own badges and self-expression.]
[Avoid meticulously specifying everything. Help along rituals that emerge. Help everyone reflect on what they accomplished.]
8 tips for converting free newsletter readers to paid
[Conversions don't happen on first contact. People need repeated exposure before taking action.]
From Right On (1970). Gospel vibes. Makes you snap your fingers, with both hands, on two and four.
From raiz (2020). Documents the artist’s search for his ancestry in Angola, featuring some indigenous music and percussion.
From Exuma, The Obeah Man (1970). Wild stompin’ folk groove with whistles, frogs, yelping.
From I’m Pissed (2021). Dramatic rock dance production, complete with timestamps for each section (of a four-minute video), and a… sort of website.
From Nassau’s Discos (1979). Fast and funky with cowbells and other African percussion.
Understanding Women: Female Rivalry
[Women try to select for the best male and keep them within their group.]
[Women tend to group themselves into similar levels of attractiveness.]
[Every baby has cried and been scared of being abandoned.]
[We're hard-wired to avoid rejection and abandonment because it's directly linked to our survival.]
[The tool obsession for women is more about specific techniques to accentuate attractiveness.]
[The beauty industry invents flaws to keep women spending money.]
Rivalry is pretty good for engagement (don’t tell zuck)
[Zoom self-view makes you tired faster because it's not normal for you to talk at length in front of a mirror with other people.]
[Zoom self-view affects women because they focus on where everyone's eyes might be focused.]
[Be loving and accepting, and undo any false sense of scarcity that has been created.]
In this world you don’t need 1,000 true fans to make a living; you need 1,786 — 536 fans to pay Apple, 253 fans to pay Twitter, and only then the 1,000 that make it possible to create something new. It is inevitable that some number of businesses never get started, because of this deadweight loss.
[Apple strategically launched on 2nd or 3rd tier carriers to maximize their control over the experience, and then used the leverage from market dominance to force larger carriers to accept.]
[Create opportunities for live-action role-playing by 1) presenting challenges and 2) maintaining a broader audience that witnesses it all.]
Making 5-figures a Month as an OnlyFans Creator with Aella and Savannah Solo
[I spread scheduled posts on a cascading series of subreddits over the course of a few months. Between 8-10 posts everymorning. Delayed/later for Reddit.]
[Seth Godin's strategy is to show up regularly, consistently, and generously for years.]
[Nothing can be better than something if it fosters the urge to do the real thing. Something fake can be harmful if it drains you of energy and space to do the real thing.]
AARRR Framework- Metrics That Let Your StartUp Sound Like A Pirate Ship
[Acquire leads by helping people find you; Activate customers by helping them succeed and repeat; Retain them by understanding why they're leaving or staying; give them incentives to Refer news leads; increase Revenue by reducing costs or raising prices.]
[Allow visitors to signal themselves as leads, qualified leads, and then customers.]
[Invest more in the channels that are successful.]
[Twitter helps you follow your first 30 accounts, Facebook helps you add you first 7 friends, Dropbox helps you upload your first file, because then you are more likely to come back.]
[Easier to retain or sell to an existing customer than acquire a new one.]
Let's talk about acceptance and reaching rural Americans....
[Your principles are right, they just need to be applied across the board.]
[Rural life exercises the right to be left alone.]
[I would never tell someone how to raise their kids.]
[What's more damaging: names and words or taking a kid deer hunting too early?]
