Ben Percifield
@benpercifield
Hey I'm Ben, brand strategist by day web3 experimentoooor by night. Not really a hat guy but metaphorically wears many hats
Ben Percifield
“We want the discussions to be more than just about our product; that would be self-serving. We want it to be more than that. We see people sharing life’s successes and tragedies, setting goals and holding one another accountable.” - Brad Olson, SVP of Member Experience Peloton
Future of Social Communities
not all languages have the same color terms. If you give speakers of different languages a color spectrum and ask them to label when one color becomes another, they will give different answers
Monica A. Winkler • This is how your language affects your thoughts
Base products are the same as the products at the top (example is the Shopping Bag a.k.a the Bushwick Birkin). Layers of the reverse pyramid are TELFAR products (bags, collaborations, accessories), TELFAR Industry (TV entertainment, conversations, shows, community showcasing), TELFAR brand (non-gender, vegan, accessible, inclusive) and, finally,... See more
Substack • Entertainment x Shopping
But then again, she said, few could have predicted the endurance of the slang word “cool” as a marker for all things generally good or fashionable. Researchers say it emerged nearly a century ago in the 1930s jazz scene, retreated from time to time over the decades, but kept coming back.
Melina Delkic • Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language
Impact DAOs are at the forefront of this trend towards a new culture of work that asks us to move towards aligning our values with our actions, and away from so-called bulls**t jobs (one that even the person doing it secretly believes need not, or should not, exist). In this sense, despite cries to the contrary, Web3 is an antidote to an... See more
Coindesk • DAOs Are the New Way of Impact Work
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
5. Apply *graduated* social sanctions for conflict resolution.