Commercial Behaviours
A toolbox of inspiration and action.
Commercial Behaviours
There’s only one way to start building this kind of network, which is to act with generosity towards others before you know whether it will be reciprocated. Generosity can be in the form of attention, e.g. being an unusually responsive conversational partner. It can be in the form of time, e.g. going out of your way to meet somebody where it’s... See more
Many social goals are best accomplished indirectly; singles parties are never the best singles parties, dinners devoted to a discussion topic rarely produce good conversation; you’ve got to cultivate the conditions, not demand the behavior
Sasha Chapinx.comYou cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.
The idea that “fortune favors the bold” is not an observation about the nature of divine agency, it is an observation about the interaction of active human agency, luck, and unintended consequences. Fortune appears to favor the bold because the bold are making their own luck by acting in obvious ways in response to obvious imperatives. Failure of
... See moreVenkatesh Rao • The Art of Gig, Volume 1
“I don't wait for things to cross my desk. I go out and look for them. I made 250 calls a day."
Essentially, their professional lives are one giant positive-sum game, where everyone is eager to do favors for one another.
Students aren’t cheating because AI made it easier—they’re cheating because, for generations, we’ve taught them that the grade is more important than the knowledge — Terry Underwood