Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
In GTM, you aim to find a winning intercept between the needs of the target audience (called a minimal viable segment, or MVS) and your solution (called a minimal viable product, or MVP). You have to solve your target customer’s problem better than anyone else. Sometimes, 10x more added value needs to be created by a GTM company.
Maja Voje • Go-To-Market Strategist: Everything You Need to Reach Product-Market Fit
They want your time , enough of it to make you theirs, even if they have no use for most of it. Otherwise why hasn’t the average work week gone down by more than a few minutes in the last sixty years?
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Unlike other products of consumption, creativity is not a scarcity market, and writers have two main upsides to shared creativity:It helps them come up with new ideas - Because creativity doesn't strike in a snap of a finger, writers can't rely solely on their imagination for consistent content creation. They can't perceive the world in new ways an... See more
Eliot Couvat • What Decentralized Media Means To The Future of Digital Writing
Finally, we must do away with far and away the largest occupation, the one with the longest hours, the lowest pay and some of the most tedious tasks around. I refer to housewives doing housework and child-rearing. By abolishing wage-labor and achieving full unemployment we undermine the sexual division of labor. The nuclear family as we know it is ... See more
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
We need to be able to trust in our institutions in order for them to work.
Kyla Scanlon • How Trump Won, What Happens Next, and How Disconnects Drove Democracy
None of us are saints, but we can all try to be better. Each time you do something generous, you're shaping yourself into someone who's more likely to be generous next time, and that matters.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
Generosity is self-perpetuating
However, if we truly aim at discussing the economy at a level where we can start to grasp it in its broadest sense we need to add the “invisible” economy, or what is more often called the non-monetary economy. This is a system of economies typically embedded in a monetary economy yet it undertakes tasks that benefit society by means that the moneta... See more
Jenny Grettve • economicspaces
Engineering Generosity and Economics of Human Energy
Money is a captured subset of human value created. For people with plenty, it’s the default, because it’s easy to use. But for people without, that value is captured in ways like status, privileges, perks, etc.
Curse of Knowledge : The inability to communicate your ideas because you wrongly assume others have the necessary background to understand what you’re talking about.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Learn to simplify if you want to connect.
the way I navigate the world right now is I’ve developed a fair amount of defensive suspicion about certain kinds of pleasure. A marker of design game-like systems is that they’re very pleasurable to operate in.