John Collison – Growing the Internet Economy
[Products that succeed in the United States are not the same as those that succeed in other countries. The local customs in Indonesia, or even in the UK, can necessitate a different approach.]
John Collison – Growing the Internet Economy
[Products that succeed in the United States are not the same as those that succeed in other countries. The local customs in Indonesia, or even in the UK, can necessitate a different approach.]
The Art of Productive Disagreement
[Being civil, skirting around difficult topics isn't enough.]
[Disagreement is rarely about facts, but about values.]
[Seeing what happens, making a prediction and then wait, implies there's nothing to argue about. Everyone learns something. It's a way of creating rituals.]
[Celebrate cognitive dissonance from being wrong because it's a sign of learning.]
[In new spaces, ask what is nobody allowed to talk about. The closer it is to the surface, the more taboo it might be.]
[Put the facts aside: what does each party want? what do they think is going to happen? How much is it going to change the future? Let's check back in a month, no rush to solve this, we'll still be friends, it's about our relationship.]
[Biases are functional and everyone needs them to survive.]
James Baldwin - The Struggle of The Artist (1969)
[If artists struggle while also having their work, it must be impossible for those who do not have the outlet.]
Building real bonds amongst diverse groups of strangers
[Get everyone to send a fun fact about themselves. Give everyone someone else's fact. Ask them to find their person.]
[Create a world that people want to come into and explore without you being there.]
[Worlds provide challenges for people and communicate what the next step is.]
[Challenges that you embrace and overcome can help create an identity.]
Sparks Between Us: Step Into The Comfort Inn
[Intimate when a performer is so absorbed in their own experience that they forget about their surroundings, the audience becomes observers.]
[I adore you.]
[I love everyone by default.]
Toastmasters: Still thriving 100 years into its history
[The first meeting is free.]
[Newer people helped by more seasoned people to create mentir relationships.]
[Toastmasters are interested in self-improvement while also carrying other people with them.]
[It's popular in Asia because people want to practice their English.]
[Making it fun is more important than the educational aspect.]
[There's always room in the front row, most people avoid it and lurk from the back.]
[Nobody gets paid, but they gain experience that creates dividends in other aspects.]
[People shy about lacking experience are prime candidates for growth by practicing leadership.]
Bring your own client with Geoffrey Litt
[Despite having invented an infinitely flexible medium, we've all settled on small groups of people making something and throwing it over a wall for the others to use.]
[The secondary market of module providers is often more important than end-user programming possibilities itself.]
Designing our way out of this mess
[People with this knowledge are not in front of computers most of the day, so what is available does not reflect the knowledge.]
Let's talk about baby bonds and generational wealth....
[Americans always do the right thing, after they've tried everything else.]
[When the moral argument fails, appeal to economics: it's generally cheaper to be a good person.]
[Twitter enables direct exchange between thoughts, independent of the people.]
[Twitter and TikTok enable content threads.]
[When me and the person I know are conversing on twitter, the third person that doesn't know is is watching. A performance for our shared mutuals.]
[We went from an oral culture where everything disappears, to a written culture, and now as text is less necessary we are moving toward an oral culture where everything is permanent.]
[People LARPing doing their day job in the real world to earn the money that enables them to participate in their imagined world, like Burning Man.]
[People pretending that they want things in public because they think other people want them is the source of many problems.]
[Lying is more cognitively demanding, you actually burn more sugar.]
[Every child is like a traveller arriving from somewhere else.]
[How to encourage a group to feel the camaraderie of 'we did it'?]
How to LEARN ANY LANGUAGE on Your Own (Fast!)
[Walk around with the target language playing and try to repeat back phrases that you hear.]
LOGIC SESSION BREAKDOWN: "Moon River"
[I like to have a chord planned and then add as many notes to it as possible until it's too much, and then take some away.]
[I used to listen to Take 6 and sing the note I wish was there, the 7th note.]
[Textbook voicings die specifically because they are 'correct'.]
Qui suis-je et Pourquoi la clarté est la base de l'entrepreneuriat
[Identifier trois mots qui décrivent la personne que tu veux être et régler une alarme trois fois par jour pour te rappeller que tu es cette personne.]
[Quelles sont les compétences que tu manques pour réussir dans ton business?]
[Comment est-ce que je peux ajouter plus de valeur?]
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.]
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.]
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?]
[Roast a popular company to target their audience.]
[Help visitors feel the pain associated with a problem, and point to your offering as a solution.]
[Show visitors what to focus on instead of expecting them to imagine everything.]
[Some calls to action can be de-emphasized to guide visitors to what you truly want.]
[Highlight longevity, by showing a timeline of how long you've been at it.]
You will never be alone anywhere in the world ever again because of the Interintellect
Let's talk about the top 25 animals and statistical comparisons....
[If comparisons are made without defining the criteria, it's probably propaganda.]