Paul Staples on Substack
Culture just bends toward whoever shows up. This should empower and motivate us as much as terrify us.
Matt Klein • Lessons From My Grandma Inventing DoorDash
“We live in a world where we see ourselves as independent individuals. If you’re an independent individual, you don’t really think in terms of power. You think only in terms of your own influence on the world.
What you don’t see is what people in the past were more able to see: when you are in groups, you can be very powerful. You can change
Everything is a story, and people need to understand themselves as having a meaningful role within the story you, as an organizer, are telling. If their role in your story feels like “doom appreciator,” most people will recoil, retreat to their own smaller story, and keep the focus there.