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
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.comBy contrast, consumer software tools that enhance human agency, that serve us when we are most creative and intentional, are often built by hobbyists and used by a handful of nerds. If such a tool ever gets too successful one of the Marl-serving companies, flush with cash from advertising or growth-hungry venture capital, will acquire it and kill... See more
Ivan Vendrov • The Tyranny of the Marginal User
note to self: do not let this happen
“Connection is not a transaction; it’s a vibrational field we can tap into on a daily basis in the most mundane of circumstances.”
– Esther Perel
For an idea to resonate, it needs to do the following:
Something in my subjective experience or previous insight connects to the idea in front of me and gives it potency. The connection between two ideas always carries the possibility of a third, new idea.
It moves me through language. I might find the phrasing particularly harmonious, the choice of... See more
Something in my subjective experience or previous insight connects to the idea in front of me and gives it potency. The connection between two ideas always carries the possibility of a third, new idea.
It moves me through language. I might find the phrasing particularly harmonious, the choice of... See more
One option a company with a useful network has (whether it’s an email platform or a social network) is to curate what they feature. They’ve built an asset and that asset goes up in value when it attracts thoughtful users.
The other option is to believe that ‘open’ is the answer, the more open the better. As we learned when we launched Squidoo a
... See moreSeth Godin • The inevitable decline of fully open platforms
“The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band."
-Brian Eno.
smallness
in defense of smallness, because we don't need to build an empire. we just want to live lives that are rich in meaning.
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