How Ideas Grow
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How Ideas Grow
Grand narratives can be considered large-scale formation flight paths through narrative space, modeled perhaps as a Hofstede space crossed with time. When thousands to millions of people are living out versions of aligned, small stories within a larger one, some stories will represent “drafting” off other stories. Stable societies can b
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Writing for Leverage, Teenage Billionaires, The Problem with Mainstream Media, and More - David Perell on Off the Chain, Hosted By Anthony Pompliano • Podcast Notes
podcastnotes.orgThe spectacle of “building" describes systems that optimize for whatever can be ritualized, narrated, and scaled. The argument isn’t that spectacle alone is negative. Quite the opposite. Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber, in their recent book Boom, make the persuasive case that bubbles aren't merely collective irrationality; they’re crucial for innovat... See more
The network effect powers every cultural change or business project.
Seth Godin • This Is Strategy: Make Better Plans (Create a Strategy to Elevate Your Career, Community & Life)
To understand why some ideas survive and prosper, we need to look at both how they are pushed and how they are pulled—pushed by advocates and evangelists, pulled by the needs of society. In other words, in order to spread, ideas need both what I call ‘effective supply’—a practical working model that can convince people to invest in the idea—and ‘ef
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