Rosano / Journal

262 entries under "talk"

Friday, July 9, 2021

Thursday, July 8, 2021

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'.]

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Thursday, June 17, 2021

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.]

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Sunday, June 13, 2021

Friday, June 11, 2021

Basecamp landing page roast 🍗

[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.]

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Monday, May 31, 2021

Sunday, May 30, 2021

Every Indie Hacker Has an Online Course in Them

[Shift your mindset towards 'allowing people to pay you'—as long as you are delivering the value promised, most people will be grateful for the offering and happy to support.]

[Ask 'so how did you get started?' so that people understand the guest's successes; this creates curiosity to know the details.]

[It's easier to sell one thing for $100 than a hundred things for $1.]

[The people who pay a lot of money need a lot less hand-holding than those who pay little because they invest themselves more.]

[What feels like work to everyone else but like play to you?]

[Frame in terms of outcomes instead of topics. What do they want to do? Who do they want to be?]

[Personal meaning for each student. Peer-to-peer learning. Prompts to action.]

[What's your memorable framework for summing up the medley of information?.]

[The 'birdsong technique' sounds more official than 'sit on the toilet and scroll through Twitter: naming and framing.]

[What would you teach to yourself three years ago?]

[Set input goals instead of outcome goals.]

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Let's talk about what I didn't talk about and a way to reach people....

[Presenting contradictory information to someone with a closely-held belief will trigger uncomfortable cognitive dissonance that makes them reject outright because it flies in the face of what they believe. Don't give them new information.]

[The truth cannot be told, it has to be realized.]

[Whataboutism is proof that people believe something is true across all systems.]

[Talking about the specifics of the situation will cause them to be rationalized by slogans and talking points. Talking about comparable situations in other places clarifies the principles so that they can come to the conclusion on their own.]

[Instead of talking about this conflict, talk about indigenous land disputes in the United States, about police excessive use of force in Black communities, about journalists being censored, talk about military action requiring concrete intelligence before pursuing a target in Afghanistan, talk about how South Africa was a strategically important region for imperialist powers, talk about how funds for military power are better directed towards schools and hospitals, talk about how security clampdowns only strengthen the resistance, talk a out how miners have made concessions while being on strike.]

[Those who are in power benefit from slogans, not from context.]

[I'm on the side of the civilians.]

Sunday, May 23, 2021

Documentary on Will Ruddick and Kenyan Community Currencies

[Allowing popular retailers to become banks creates a profit motive for debt, which reduces trading because people are not able to pay expensive loans. Introducing a secondary currency enables people to trade which deteriorates debt as a profit strategy.]

[Joining the network gives you 400, half of which is kept in a community pot for helping children, community lunches, waste collection…]

[The community knows what's best for them. They can back their own money.]

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Sunday, May 16, 2021

9 Passive Income Ideas

[There is no such thing as money for nothing. Passive income is just money earned independently of your time.]

[Money is medium for exchanging value. If you want to earn money, generate value.]

[If you can make it to a thousand subscribers then you probably have a formula that works.]

Saturday, May 8, 2021

How I Became More Confident

[People can't distinguish between fake and real confidence.]

[Most people have the spotlight on their own lives and are not judging other people constantly, so stop doing that and you might relax more.]

[Every one is friendly but you have to make the first move. Most people are afraid to go first.]

[Practice baby steps like asking the time, directions, asking a question at the end of a presentation. Normalize speaking up and talking to strangers.]

Friday, May 7, 2021

What Makes People Successful?

[Plug your unfair advantage in the video so that people know what cannot be replicates.]

My Top 10 Tips for Aspiring YouTubers

[How can I generate as many video ideas as possible? How can I refine them into thumbnails, titles, and hooks? How can I create them in parallel? How can film them in batches?]

How To Overcome Self-Doubt

[The spotlight effect is a term for the phenomenon of being overly concerned about your own performance in the presence of others, as if everyone is actually focused on you completely. The reality is that they are concerned with themselves and their own issues.]

[People don't know that you graduated from med school last week: they are looking for help with their problem, focus on how you can help them with your expertise, ask when you don't know.]

[Be a guide over guru: share what you have learned so far.]

How Writing Online Made me a Millionaire

[You wouldn't judge someone else for documenting their learning journey on a blog, so why judge yourself?]

[Put yourself out there on the internet to find other people interested in similar things.]

[Write every day not because you have lots to say but to figure out what you have to say.]

Let's talk about what we can learn about politics from medics....

[Infighting develops during lull periods because comrades have nothing to do. Train, get involved in other causes, do something fun.]

[Break up cliques by playing team sports mixed with people from each side to instill camaraderie.]