the goal is resonance, not scale
building and monetizing soulful businesses + brands where the goal is resonance, not scale
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the goal is resonance, not scale
“More” Is not Necessarily a Market Advantage
Here is a problem we do not currently have: There aren’t enough books getting published.
In fact, there’s far more books being published than there are people to buy and read them. Mr. 97 Books in 9 Months is working under the theory that more hooks in the water makes for the better chance at getting a
... See moreJohn Warner • Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values
Digital strategist Shelley Bernstein once said that one of the greatest challenges currently facing us is how to interact meaningfully with the people we serve. Interact meaningfully with the people we serve. Not eyeballs. Not users. But people.
Natasha Lampard • An Exist Strategy
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.” — Jorge Luis Borges
This begs the question: What might it mean to reimagine the form of these datasets in a world unconstrained by pressures like speed, scale, and universality? By looking to artists like Anna Ridler andothers for their rejection of “off-the-shelf” datasets, we can imagine what it would be like to curate datasets with much deeper intention and... See more
Lila Shroff • Datasets as Imagination
the magic of small data
Almost everything about growing the size and scale of your team has immediate and detrimental impacts to the thing that matters the most: building awesome products.
Unless you actively fight against these effects, you’ll wake up one day with a very effective bureaucracy machine and a very poor product (and a slow... See more
claire vo 🖤x.comA Blog Post Is a Very Long and Complex Search Query to Find Fascinating People and Make Them Route Interesting Stuff to Your Inbox
Henrik Karlssonescapingflatland.substack.com
“How many things which are good when small get better by becoming bigger? That local restaurant you love can’t scale to millions of users. Do you really want your favourite indie band to aspire to stadium-level fame? People get cheaper books, and an independent bookseller closes its doors to make way for a giant warehouse full of underpaid people
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