Josh

What’s unique about product-led communities is that they orient around a product or service that helps people achieve a valuable future outcome. These future outcomes can be individual (better health, professional advancement, cultivation of skills or hobbies, or overcoming a struggle, such as an illness, divorce, loss of a loved one, etc.); team-c... See more

One of my biggest mental breakthroughs was when I changed my mindset from

"This system is stupid and I'm going to spend all my energy fighting it."

to

"Even though this system is stupid, I'm going to operate within it to my advantage."

Much better results, way less stress.

Even if you work inside the system, you don’t need to let the system work inside of you. And if you summon up the boldness to go in a different direction, others might even surprise you by following along.

In that earlier era, when we still drank from garden hoses, losing a job sucked, but it mostly didn’t take your community with it. In this new era, losing a job means getting gutted. Not only do you lose your paycheck, but you lose access to all the people and places where you used to have your non-work-but-actually-at-work fun.