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Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations [The Knowledge Project Ep. #141]
- Since the cost to provide utility is dropping, business models are evolving from rent-seeking to skin-in-the-game. Instead of just providing a service (utility), companies need to invest in their customers (vanity)
from Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations [The Knowledge Project Ep. #141] by Kunal Shah
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- People give you time or money where their core motivations are mostly met, or when there is a hope for their motivations to be met.
from Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations [The Knowledge Project Ep. #141] by Kunal Shah
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- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is much different in Asian culture compared to Western society. Example: Many people in India have never worked for an hourly wage, so they don’t know the exact value of their time. So as a result, convenience products do not perform well as they do in Western culture. Saving people time does not resonate. Continue readi... See more
from Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations [The Knowledge Project Ep. #141] by Kunal Shah
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- Everything that feels soulful in life is inefficient. Standardized things are easier to scale, but non-standardized things are harder to destroy Standardizing is the enemy of soulfulness
from Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations [The Knowledge Project Ep. #141] by Kunal Shah
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- We always want to copy end states, but we never want to copy the journeyYou can’t behave like Steve Jobs without having gone through his journey
from Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations [The Knowledge Project Ep. #141] by Kunal Shah
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- We like surprises in our media consumption but not in our lives. We only get dopamine hits from surprises that don’t harm us
from Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations [The Knowledge Project Ep. #141] by Kunal Shah
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- There’s so much advantage in life that comes from being willing to look like an idiot in the short-term
from Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations [The Knowledge Project Ep. #141] by Kunal Shah
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- Vocabulary is a unique curse. We suffer from every word we know. If you didn’t know the definition of the word “ugly,” nobody could ever hurt you with it.
from Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations [The Knowledge Project Ep. #141] by Kunal Shah
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- Only free products work in India; subscription products fail miserably. They refuse to pay extra for convenience or entertainment. Anecdote: Kunal says that even wealthy people spend hours shifting around their phone storage as opposed to purchasing a couple of dollars worth of cloud storage. Business example: Netflix initially failed in India by a... See more
from Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations [The Knowledge Project Ep. #141] by Kunal Shah
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