Ben Percifield
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Hey I'm Ben, brand strategist by day web3 experimentoooor by night. Not really a hat guy but metaphorically wears many hats
Ben Percifield
For example, if there were canisters labeled “gasoline drums,” no worker would ever smoke near them because they were explicitly dangerous.
However, when the canisters were labeled “ empty gasoline drums,” workers would be less vigilant and would smoke near them.
The word empty , in their minds, meant “ free of risk .” This perplexed Whorf as
... See moreMonica A. Winkler • This is how your language affects your thoughts
Cognitively speaking, sighted people can perceive all colors , regardless of language . It’s just that some languages make an association between a perception and a word.
Monica A. Winkler • This is how your language affects your thoughts
the thing about the bouba/kiki effect is that it shows us that maybe not all signs are arbitrary , which is pretty fucking cool. A lot of us have a pretty strong impulse to use back vowels (like “ou”) and voiced plosives (like “b”) or nasals (like “m”) to talk about curvy shapes. That is to say, we see a soft round thing and we point at it and go
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In just his second full month on the platform, he made $9,700. “I never knew that writing could make me $10,000 in a month,” Lahijani, now a 19-year-old sophomore at New York’s Baruch College, tells CNBC Make It.
Megan Sauer • 19-year-old who makes $10,000 a month from his video game side hustle: 'I never knew that writing could make me' so much money
Community-driven customer journey is short. The core assumption of the community-driven journey is not the progressive reduction of options, as is in the traditional e-commerce journey, but access to highly targeted and personally relevant options from a get-go.
Ana Andjelic • Intro to community commerce
From 2007 to 2018, social media was centralizing in platforms like Facebook, YouTube or Medium. Now, people are going back to owning their own social media, and de- centralizing it through self-hosted blogs, podcasts, forums, etc.