Gaia Soykok

Rather than viewing conflict as a threat, the transformative view sees conflict as a valuable opportunity to grow and increases our understanding of ourselves and others. Conflict helps us stop, assess and take notice.

Gokul thinks if you want to hire best-of-class PMs, go to best-of-class companies and hire from them rather than a person.

how customers buy:1- somebody VP of sales get a CRM it sucks. 2- John is tasked to do it. 3- then he googles 90K companies 4- they figure out to make a shortlist, and have a justification. 5- you have to help the customer with step 4, if they can not they will go back to the status quo, the thing that sucks stays. that excel sheet stays.

Free rider problem where most of the work in crafting and putting forward proposals is carried out by a minority of participants

Positioning and branding are different too. Positioning inputs into branding.

"Once one agent learns how to become more competitive by sacrificing a common value, all its competitors must also sacrifice that value or be outcompeted and replaced by the less scrupulous. Therefore, the system is likely to end up with everyone once again equally competitive, but the sacrificed value is gone forever. "

Omniscians was coined by Gabriel Harvey, other 17th century where this feature was important and coined by many terms ...are polymath , polyhistor, polygraph (deragotary). another term virtuoso refers to scholars collecting a variety of objects. in latin, scientia universalis, pansophia, polymathi. versatile in Italian.

The process of writing is about reminding, learning and figuring out. it is mostly for the writer first.