The Power of Anomaly
The low-hanging fruit has already been picked. You can’t beat a stronger competitor by copying them. But you can beat them by doing the opposite of what they’re doing. Instead of adopting a common best practice or the industry standard, reframe the question by asking, “What if I did the reverse?” Even if you don’t execute, the simple process of thi
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A great trend is a unique curated observation about the accelerating present.
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- Foresight has a trend problem — today’s trend hunting is largely a by-product of a linear, mechanistic, and extractive system that hopes to profit off of the “next big thing,” and is also mired in a hyper-masculine perspective of what’s important or what should be examined.
- Foresight has a time problem — “This or that will happen in the next 1, 3,