Ilana Ettinger
@ilanaettinger1
Ilana Ettinger
The bottom line is that 7 Rules of Power provides a clear roadmap for increasing your personal power and status over other people, if that’s what you’re looking to achieve. But it neglects to wrestle fully with the negative impacts of the tactics it espouses.
Charter • ‘7 Rules of Power’ by Jeffrey Pfeffer: How good people can accumulate power
Wethos | All-in-one Software for Freelancers and Small Studios
wethos.co
Peter Thiel has said that the best startups are like a cult that believes in something true.
sacks.substack.com • Your Startup Is a Movement
On being an early adopter of organic cotton in Patagonia's garments: “The constraints we place on ourselves require innovation that then sets us apart from other companies”
Rodney Evans • How Patagonia became Patagonia w/ Vincent Stanley
Greenwald proclaimed that competitive advantages fell into two distinct camps, customer captivity and resource captivity , and that the strength of these advantages were a function of scale.
Rick Zullo • Companies Build “Capabilities” Before They Build “Moats”
Grappa
grappa.xyz
Status Signaling and
Strategy and
Two centuries ago, 84% of Americans worked on (mainly) our own farms in order to feed ourselves (decentralized, inefficient). By a century ago, we worked for a boss in big factories (centralized, more efficient), and today, while many people still work inside of big companies, more and more of us are working for ourselves or in creative jobs while
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