Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
The binge eating and compulsive spending, the perfectionism and procrastination, the ways we habitually go into hiding.
The Source 🌊
A lot of this is rooted in societal pressures.
Generosity is not a loan to repay or a debt to settle. It's a gift to appreciate. Yes, you can reciprocate a favor by paying it back. But the best way to honor an act of kindness is by paying it forward.
No, you don't owe me a favor
Forward, not back
At large scales, average anything goes to zero.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future • Trust Economies - The Future of Social Networks
Damn, that’s a big truth.
The Pareto Chart demonstrates a power law relationship between the rank of a quality issue and that issue’s contribution to cost. This means one can find a linear relationship on a log-log plot.
Pareto chart
This is needed for some of the ideas I want to share
Creativity is not a process. creativity is not scripted.
One of the most salient traits of creative visionaries like Walt Disney and Steve jobs is the absence of process.
Process is an organized way of doing things. But they didn’t have a process. They just did the work. No strict adherence to budget or timelines. Just figure things out on the fly.
... See moreCreativity timelines aren’t predictable, so why do we try to put creative professions into timelines?
"All parts of our economy were previously based on scarcity. In almost every case, that scarcity has disappeared. The way you win on the internet is to be the starting place where people go - Google, Facebook, these aggregators - or you're highly differentiated and you leverage the fact that you have zero distribution to reach anyone."
Ben Thompson • Platforms, Ecosystems, and Aggregators
We’ve created abundant scarce systems that result in winner take all behavior.
In practice, a startup nonprofit has several important distinctions from traditional nonprofits: 1) it begins with a large goal and works backwards to identify incremental steps to achieve that goal, 2) it has an iterative, experimental mindset, and 3) it is an internet first organization.
marklutter.com • Startup Nonprofits
interesting framing. I’d been focused on the concept of eliminating the distinction between for-profit and non-profit, but this is an alternative way to examine the same problem, looking like it could have similar outcomes.
The greatest power of games is that you can explore this landscape of different agencies. The greatest danger of games is that you can get sucked into this experience of just craving and wanting to be in a clear, crisp and gentle universe where you know exactly what to do and exactly how well it’s measured.
New York Times • A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
A go-to-market (GTM) strategy is a plan that helps you define your ideal customers, coordinate your messaging, and position your product for launch. A GTM strategy also keeps key business units aligned on the same plan, allowing you to meet a market need and effectively iterate on your product.
6 steps to building a go-to-market strategy: Defining
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